History of water supply and governance in Kenya (1895-2005) : lessons and futures / / Ezekiel Nyangeri Nyanchaga

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910137017703321
• Autore: Nyanchaga Ezekiel Nyangeri
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tampere, : Tampere University Press, 2016; Tampere : , : Tampere University Press, , 2016
• ISBN: 9789520300609 (PDF ebook); 9789520300593 (ebook)
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (618 pages) : illustrations, maps; digital, PDF file(s)
• Soggetti: History; The environment; Water supply & treatment
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book on the History of Water Development in Kenya transverses through a matrix of infrastructural development, administration, policy, legal and legislation framework, and evolution of various water supply technologies in an inimitably comprehensive approach. The book has carefully constructed the development over one century timeline of water supply and provided the future prediction of the services. The book is a quest to track and understand the origin, the development and sustainability of water supplies within 100 years of its 1st water supply constructed by the railways as the pioneer of water supply in Kenya. It interrogates how the water legislations, policies and administration came to be and what the drivers of water supplies were, when the 1st water reforms mounted and the status of the reform implementation. It elucidates on the role of development partners in influencing the choice of technology, policy and legislative framework.Preparation of this book took fifteen years of passionate research from Kenya National Archives; Kenya Railways; Ministry of Water Development; Colonial archival materials at Rhodes House, Oxford, UK; and the British Institute in Eastern Africa. The research findings have ; been disseminated in several peer reviewed journals; and several presentations in local, regional and international conferences.Eng Ezekiel Nyangeri Nyanchaga is an Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Construction Engineering, University of Nairobi, Doctor of Technology holder in Civil Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Finland.Professor Nyangeri is a licensed and practicing consulting engineer with over 35 years of professional experience and over 28 years of academic teaching experience at the University of Nairobi, Kenya.

Aesthetics today : contemporary approaches to the aesthetics of nature and arts : proceedings of the 39th International Wittgenstein Symposium / / edited by Stefan Majetschak and Anja Weiberg

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910795931403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2017; ©2017
• ISBN: 3-11-053961-6; 3-11-054041-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (476 pages)
• Collana: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. New Series, , 2191-8449 ; ; Volume 25
• Disciplina: 111.85
• Soggetti: Aesthetics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- On Natural Resonance -- “Be Free as I Am” Schiller’s Aesthetics as a Challenge to the Modern Way of Thinking -- ‘Atmosphere’ as a Core Concept of Eco-aesthetics -- Singing (in Several Voices) in the (Same) Rain. Cultural Symbols and Cognition in the Aesthetics of Weather -- Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Art-Philosophy So Boring and Art-Criticism So Different, So Much More Appealing -- On Judging Art -- Artist versus Aesthete -- What Is the Philosophy of Poetry? -- On the Very Idea of Understanding ; Music -- The Limit as Aesthetic Demonstration -- Difficulties in Reading Images: Diversity and Internationality in Image Reception -- Frame and Framing. On the Parergonal Constitution of Artistic Representation -- Focusing the Blind Spot. On the Inventive Use of Signs in Art -- Trust in the World. Going to the Movies with Cavell, Wittgenstein, and Some Prior Philosophers -- Walton’s “Vivacity” and Cinematic Realism -- Anpassungsprobleme. Die Kunst und das Lehramt -- Wittgenstein und die Methodik der Kunstwissenschaft – Am Beispiel der Ikonik Max Imdahls -- Wittgenstein und Weltdesign -- Zum Umgang mit dem Werk Wittgensteins in der Kunst -- Wittgenstein and the Avant-garde -- What Makes Brahms Kellerian? -- Rechnen und Zeichnen – Klee und Wittgenstein -- “Wahlverwandtschaft”: Literary and Philosophical Imagination in Wittgenstein and Sterne -- Wittgenstein’s Comparison between Philosophy, Aesthetics and Ethics -- Absolute and Relative Value in Aesthetics -- Bemerkungen zum Begriff der „Wende“. Ethische und ästhetische Aspekte der Schriften des philosophischen Nachlasses Ludwig Wittgensteins -- Die Ethik des frühen Wittgenstein – Eine Annäherung aus kantischer Perspektive -- Ästhetischer Diskurs und ethische Urteile -- Wittgenstein’s Performance Philosophy -- The Idea of Compositionality -- Wittgenstein and Hegel on Bodies, Souls and Works of Art -- Index of Authors -- Index of Subjects
• Sommario/riassunto: Aesthetics is no longer merely the philosophy of perception and the arts. Nelson Goodman, Arthur Danto and others have contributed to develop aesthetics from a field at the margins of philosophy to one permeating substantial areas of theoretical and practical philosophy. New approaches like environmental and ecological aesthetics widened the understanding of the aesthetics of nature. The contributions in this volume address the most important issues in contemporary aesthetics, many of them from a Wittgensteinian perspective. The 39th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium, organized by the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, was held at Kirchberg am Wechsel, Lower Austria, from August 7th to 13th 2016 and aimed at taking an inventory of important tendencies and positions in contemporary aesthetics. The volume includes a selection of the invited papers.