Rethinking Infrastructure Across the Humanities / / ed. by Aaron Pinnix, Axel Volmar, Fernando Esposito, Nora Binder

• Record Nr.: UNISA996556968703316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , [2023]; ©2023
• ISBN: 3-8394-6983-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 p.)
• Collana: Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; ; 290
• Disciplina: 305.8
• Soggetti: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Section I: Setting Out Some Definitions -- Introduction -- From Structure to Infrastructure: Some Glimpses on a Theoretical Movement in the Social Sciences and Humanities -- From Systems to “Infrastructuring”: Infrastructure Theory and Its Impact on Writing the History of Media -- Section II: Infrastructures and Communication -- Language as Infrastructure -- Conceptual Infrastructure and Conceptual Engineering -- Practices of Classification: The Hashtag as Infrastructure for Interaction -- On the Symbolic Infrastructure of Face-to-face Communication in Early Modern Society: Simple Success Media -- Section III: Infrastructures and Sociality -- Command and Consilium: On Infrastructures of Decision-Making in Roman Culture -- Couple Apps as Relationship Infrastructures -- Infrastructures of Democracy: Lewinian Group Dynamics and the Management of Social Change (1930s-1940s) -- Conflicting Infrastructures: Ideological vs Social Infrastructures in Transmediterranean Communications of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries -- Section IV: Infrastructures and Religion -- Spiritual Infrastructures -- Infrastructure of Faith: Some Considerations on Correspondence in Late Antique Christianity -- Religious Infrastructure: The Parish Church -- Section V: Infrastructures and Genre -- Infrastructural Poetics -- Queering Infrastructures of Romance -- Counting the Impacts in the Solar Off Grid Sector -- Section VI: Infrastructures and the Environment -- Water for a Good Government: ; Andean Infrastructures in Guaman Poma de Ayala’s Chronicle (1615) -- The Dangers of Infrastructure Byproducts and What We Can Learn From Muriel Rukeyser’s “The Book of the Dead” -- Afrofuturist Infrastructure as Allegory: Picturing Sustainability in Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi (2009) -- Section VII: Infrastructures and Colonialism -- Canals & Clans: Mediterranean Infrastructures -- Imagined Infrastructures: Eurafrica and Worldmaking in the Mid-Twentieth Century -- Imperial Roads and the Fascist Culture of Total Mobilization -- Authors
• Sommario/riassunto: Infrastructure comprises a combination of sociotechnical, political, and cultural arrangements that provide resources and services. The contributors to this volume show, in their respective fields, how infrastructures are both generative forces and the materialized products of "idian practices that affect and guide people's lives. Organized via shared conceptual foci, this volume demonstrates infrastructuralist perspectives as an important transdisciplinary approach within the humanities.

Freedom and limits / / John Lachs ; edited by Patrick Shade

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789374403321
• Autore: Lachs John
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-8232-5675-8; 0-8232-5793-2; 0-8232-6096-8; 0-8232-5676-6
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (520 p.)
• Collana: American Philosophy
• Disciplina: 128
• Soggetti: Philosophy; Life
• 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 (pages 485-494) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments ; -- Introduction -- Prologue -- 1 The Impotent Mind -- 2 Santayana’s Philosophy of Mind -- 3 Fichte’s Idealism -- 4 Peirce, Santayana, and the Large Facts -- 5 The Transcendence of Materialism and Idealism in American Thought -- 6 Primitive Naturalism -- 7 Two Views of Happiness in Mill -- 8 Questions of Life and Death -- 9 On Selling Organs -- 10 A Community of Psyches -- 11 The Cost of Community -- 12 Public Benefit, Private Cost -- 13 Leaving Others Alone -- 14 Relativism and Its Benefits -- 15 The Element of Choice in Criteria of Death -- 16 Human Natures -- 17 Persons and Different Kinds of Persons -- 18 Grand Dreams of Perfect People -- 19 Philosophical Pluralism -- 20 To Have and to Be -- 21 Drugs: The Fallacy of Avoidable Consequences -- 22 Loving Life -- 23 Aristotle and Dewey on the Rat Race -- 24 Improving Life -- 25 Stoic Pragmatism -- 26 Pragmatism and Death -- 27 The Relevance of Philosophy to Life -- 28 Both Better Off and Better -- 29 Education in the Twenty- First Century (with Shirley M. Lachs) -- 30 Learning About Possibility -- 31 Moral Holidays -- 32 Good Enough -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Freedom and Limits is a defense of the value of freedom in the context of human finitude. A contribution to the American tradition of philosophy, it focuses attention on moral problems as we encounter them in daily life, where the search for perfection and the incessant drive to meet obligations make it difficult to attain satisfaction. The book argues that uniformity is unproductive: Human natures are varied and changeable, making the effort to impose a unitary good on everyone futile. Moreover, we don’t need to strive for more than what is good enough: Finite achievements should be adequate to satisfy finite people. The ultimate aim of the book is to reclaim the role of philosophy as a guide to life. In doing so, it presents discussions of such important philosophers as Fichte, Hegel, Peirce, Dewey, James, and, above all, Santayana.