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UNINA9910799600703321 |
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Lowe Victor |
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Alfred North Whitehead : The Man and His Work |
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Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 1990 |
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©1985 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (386 p.) : ill |
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Mathematicians |
Philosophers |
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Cover -- Copyright -- Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- I. Introduction -- II. The Whiteheads -- III. Childhood -- IV. Sherborne -- V. Student at Cambridge -- VI. Mathematics at Cambridge -- VII. The Cambridge Apostles -- VIII. The Young Mathematician -- IX. Whitehead's Thirtieth Year -- X. The Married Mathematician -- XI. Bertrand Russell -- XII. Principia Mathematica -- XIII. Principia Mathematica (Continued) -- XIV. "On Mathematical Concepts of the Material World -- XV. Last Years in Cambridge -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Originally published in 1985. The second volume of Victor Lowe's definitive work on Alfred North Whitehead completes the biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential yet least understood philosophers. In 1910 Whitehead abruptly ended his thirty-year association with Trinity College of Cambridge and moved to London. The intellectual and personal restlessness that precipitated this move ultimately led Whitehead--at the age of sixty-three--to settle in America and change the focus of his work from mathematics to philosophy. Volume 2 of Alfred North Whitehead: The Man and His Workfollows Whitehead's journey to the United States and analyzes his expanding intellectual life. Although Whitehead wrote philosophy based on natural science while still in London, he began his most important work shortly after moving to Harvard in 1924. Science and the Modern |
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World appeared in 1925, Religion in the Making in 1926, Symbolismin 1927, and Process and Realityin 1929. Discussing these and other important works, Lowe combines scholarly analysis with valuable insights gathered from Whitehead's friends and colleagues. Although Whitehead ordered that all his private papers be destroyed, Lowe was given access to letters the philosopher wrote to his son, North, and others. Never before published, the letters add a new personal dimension to Whitehead's life and thought. Photographs of the philosopher, his family, and associates provide an intimate look at a private and self-effacing man whose work has had a lasting impact on twentieth-century thought. |
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UNINA9910563098703321 |
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Language and Nation : Crossroads and Connections / / Guri Ellen Barstad, Arnstein Hjelde, Sigmund Kvam, Anastasia Parianou, John Todd |
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[1st, New ed.] |
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1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Language |
nation |
migration |
literature |
Europe |
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Scandinavia |
GDR |
Front National |
Canada |
Brexit |
Eloy Alfaro |
Eurolect |
Norway |
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Linguistik |
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fremd |
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Europa |
translation |
Germanistik |
Vergleichende und interkulturelle Sprachwissenschaft |
Kultursoziologie |
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Studies on the relation between language, identity and nation (building) represent a long tradition in linguistic, cultural and political research. In this interdisciplinary anthology, we focus on different aspects of how language is used to shape a nation; by retaining a national identity in the context of emigration, by measures taken to change an existing nation into a new one, by introducing a discourse designed to re-establish a putatively lost nation. Finally, we discuss how nation and identity are shaped in a modern multi-ethnic, multi-lingual and multi-cultural society. The anthology contains articles in English, French and German from political science, history, linguistics, literature and translatology and is written by researchers based in Finland, Greece, Norway and the United Kingdom. |
Overall, I found the volume very interesting for various reasons. First, each contribution gives access to a complex context, being accessible without being simplistic. This facilitates international comparisons among the contexts described by contributors, as between these and readers’ research context background. Second, through its international scope, Language and Nation. Crossroads and Connections covers the various dimensions of how language may be linked to nation. Third, the detailed historical and national backgrounds enable to situate contemporary national identity issues. Fourth, the written attention to readers makes this volume accessible to a wide audience, from undergraduate students to senior scholars, and including the experts interesting in understanding nation and identity building in the concerned contexts. – Stéphanie Cassilde in: Language, Discourse & Society, 2(8)/2016 |
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