1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787763503321

Titolo

On Pythagoreanism / / edited by Gabriele Cornelli, Richard McKirahan and Constantinos Macris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

3-11-031850-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (552 p.)

Collana

Studia praesocratica ; ; Band 5

Altri autori (Persone)

CornelliGabriele

MacrisConstantinos

McKirahanRichard D

Disciplina

182/.2

Soggetti

Philosophy, Ancient

Pythagoras and Pythagorean school

Pythagorean theorem

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers from a conference held in 2011 in Brazil.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Pythagoreanism as an historiographical category: historical and methodological notes -- Approaching Pythagoras of Samos: Ritual, Natural Philosophy and Politics -- When Pythagoras was still Living in Samos (Heraclitus, frg. 129) -- The Pythagorean Akousmata and Early Pythagoreanism -- Pythagoras Homericus: Performance as Hermeneutic Horizon to Interpret Pythagorean Tradition -- Orphics and Pythagoreans: the Greek perspective -- On the origin of the Orphic-Pythagorean notion of the immortality of the soul -- Philolaus on Number -- Archytas and the duplication of the cube -- Plato and the Pythagoreans -- Philolaus and Plato on method, measure and pleasure -- Epicharmus and the plagiarism of Plato -- Pythagorean Number Doctrine in the Academy -- Early Pythagoreans in Aristotle’s account -- The Pythagorean Hypomnemata reported by Alexander Polyhistor in Diogenes Laertius (8.25–33): a proposal for reading -- Eudorus of Alexandria and the ‘Pythagorean’ pseudepigrapha -- Pythagoreanism in late antique Philosophy, after Proclus -- Ficino’s Pythagoras -- A modern approximation to Pythagoreanism: Boscovich’s “point atomism” --



Curricula -- Index of Topics -- Index locorum -- Index nominum

Sommario/riassunto

The purpose of the conference “On Pythagoreanism”, held in Brasilia in 2011, was to bring together leading scholars from all over the world to define the status quaestionis for the ever-increasing interest and research on Pythagoreanism in the 21st century. The papers included in this volume exemplify the variety of topics and approaches now being used to understand the polyhedral image of one of the most fascinating and long-lasting intellectual phenomena in Western history. Cornelli’s paper opens the volume by charting the course of Pythagorean studies over the past two centuries. The remaining contributions range chronologically from Pythagoras and the early Pythagoreans of the archaic period (6th-5th centuries BCE) through the classical, hellenistic and late antique periods, to the eighteenth century. Thematically they treat the connections of Pythagoreanism with Orphism and religion, with mathematics, metaphysics and epistemology and with politics and the Pythagorean way of life.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910818928203321

Titolo

Black power in the Caribbean / / edited by Kate Quinn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville : , : University Press of Florida, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-8130-4669-6

0-8130-4861-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

QuinnKate <1975->

Disciplina

305.896/0729

Soggetti

Black power - West Indies - History

Black people - West Indies - History

West Indies Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: New perspectives on black power in the Caribbean / Kate Quinn -- Part I: Black power in Caribbean context / Kate Quinn -- Black



power in the postindependence Anglophone Caribbean -- Jamaican black power in the 1960s / Rupert Lewis -- The Abeng newspaper and the radical politics of postcolonial blackness / Anthony Bogues -- The February Revolution as a catalyst for change in Trinidad and Tobago / Brinsley Samaroor -- Secondary decolonization: the black power moment in Barbados, c. 1970 / Richard Drayton -- "Sitting on a volcano": black power in Burnham's Guyana / Kate Quinn -- An organic activist: Eusi Kwayana, Guyana, and global Pan-Africanism / Nigel Westmaas -- Part II: Black power in colonial contexts -- Black power in the political thought of Antigua and Barbuda / Paget Henry -- I & I shot the sheriff: black power and decolonization in Bermuda (1968-1977) / Quito Swan -- Youth responses to discriminatory practices: the free beach movement, 1970-1975 / Derick Hendricks -- Black power, popular revolt, and decolonization in the Dutch Caribbean / Gert Oostindie -- Conclusion: Black power forty years on: an introspection / Brian Meeks.

Sommario/riassunto

The first collection to explore the Black Power movement in its various manifestations across the Caribbean.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910298310503321

Titolo

Forests and Rural Development / / edited by Jürgen Pretzsch, Dietrich Darr, Holm Uibrig, Eckhard Auch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-642-41404-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (405 p.)

Collana

Tropical Forestry, , 1614-9785

Classificazione

630

FOR 200f

LAN 008f

ZC 73800

ZC 88210

Disciplina

634.9

Soggetti

Forest management

Agriculture

Forests and forestry

Forestry Management

Forestry

Aufsatzsammlung

Subtropen

Tropen



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Paradigms -- The Challenges Facing Forest-Based Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics -- Land Management Systems at the Interface Between Forestry and Agriculture -- Organizational Changes in Forest Management -- Creating Rural Employment and Generating Income in Forest-Based Value Chains -- At the Interface of Culture, Development and Forests: Insights from Bolivia and Kenya -- Extension Services for Rural Development -- Payment Schemes for Environmental Services – Challenges and Pitfalls with Respect to Effectiveness, Efficiency and Equity -- Financing Forests for Rural Development -- Land Use Planning for Sustainable Forestry -- Forest Governance and Sustainable Rural Development -- Prospects for Forest-Based Rural Development.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides an overview of the complex challenges and opportunities related to forest-based rural development in the tropics and subtropics. Applying a socio-ecological perspective, the book traces the changing paradigms of forestry in rural development throughout history, summarizes the major aspects of the rural development challenge in forest areas, and documents innovative approaches in fields such as land utilization, technology and organizational development, rural advisory services, financing mechanisms, participative planning, and forest governance. It brings together scholars and practitioners dealing with the topics from various theoretical and practical angles. Calling for an approach that carefully balances market forces with government intervention, the book shows that forests in rural areas have the potential to provide a solid foundation for a green global economy.