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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785545403321

Autore

Beistegui Miguel de <1966-, >

Titolo

Aesthetics after metaphysics : from mimesis to metaphor / / Miguel de Beistegui

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-24143-4

1-283-58626-6

9786613898715

0-203-10272-X

1-136-24144-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy ; ; 40

Disciplina

111/.85

Soggetti

Aesthetics

Metaphysics

Metaphor

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 (p. [175]-195) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Aesthetics and metaphysics I: the mimetic schema -- Aesthetics and metaphysics II: from Kant to Adorno -- Aesthetics at the limit of metaphysics: intimations of the hypersensible -- Metaphor beyond metaphysics? -- Literature: Proust, Hölderlin -- Sculpture: Chillida.

Sommario/riassunto

This book focuses on a dimension of art which the philosophical tradition (from Plato to Hegel and even Adorno) has consistently overlooked, such was its commitment - explicit or implicit - to mimesis and the metaphysics of truth it presupposes. De Beistegui refers to this dimension, which unfolds outside the space that stretches between the sensible and the supersensible - the space of metaphysics itself - as the hypersensible and show how the operation of art to which it corresponds is best described as metaphorical. The movement of the book, then, is from the c



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910953773803321

Autore

Fanghanel Joëlle

Titolo

Being an academic / / Joelle Fanghanel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2012

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-73472-4

1-283-46095-5

9786613460950

1-136-73473-2

0-203-81823-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 p.)

Classificazione

EDU000000EDU002000EDU015000

Disciplina

378.1/25

Soggetti

College teaching

College teachers - Professional relationships

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 (p. [120]-135) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Being an Academic; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: turbulent moments of practice; Chapter 1 The managed academic; Chapter 2 Learning to teach in higher education; Chapter 3 Conceptions of students and learning; Chapter 4 The discipline; Chapter 5 Being a researcher in higher education; Chapter 6 Academic globalism and worldly becoming; Conclusion; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"The role of academics in universities worldwide has undergone unprecedented change over the past decade. In this book Fanghanel discusses the effect on academics of modes of governance that have fostered the application of market principles to higher education and promoted flexibility and choice as levers for competition across the sector. She explores what it means to be an academic in the 21st century with reference to six 'moments of practice' through which she analyses the main facets of academic work and the responses of academics to this neoliberal drive. Being an Academic effectively examines the frameworks that govern academic work and academic lives, and the personal beliefs and ideals that academics bring with them as educators and researchers in higher education. It argues that



there is a rich, critical, empowering potential within the academy that can be harnessed to counter-balance the neoliberal stance and shape a meaningful contribution to modes of enquiry that deal with complexity and uncertainty in a global world. Drawing on empirical research collected from a global range of academics, this book examines how academics respond to structural challenges. It offers a re-appraisal of the main dynamics underpinning the professional and intellectual engagement of academics in today's universities to feed a reflection on possible responses to the complex contemporary world with which the academic endeavour is engaged. The themes explored include academics' positioning towards: - Performativity and managerialism - Regulation and professionalisation of practice - The relation to learning and students - The discipline - Research - Globalisation"-- Provided by publisher.