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This obscure thing called transparency
politics and aesthetics of a contemporary metaphor
Transparency is the metaphor of our time. Whether in government or corporate governance, finance, technology, health or the media - it is ubiquitous today, and there is hardly a current debate that does not call for more transparency. But what does this word actually stand for and what are the consequences for the life of individuals? Can knowledge from the arts, and its play of visibility and invisibility, tell us something about the paradoxical logics of transparency and mediation? This Obscure...
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Engels | 280 pagina's (PDF, 21 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
E-book
The concept of love in 17th and 18th century philosophy
"Love is joy with the accompanying idea of an external cause." Spinoza's definition of love (Ethics Book 3, Prop. LIX) manifests a major paradigm shift achieved by seventeenth century Europe in which the emotions, formerly seen as normative "forces of nature," were embraced by the new science of the mind. We are determined to volition by causes. This shift has often been seen as a transition from a philosophy laden with implicit values and assumptions to a more scientific and value-free way of understanding...
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Engels | Frans | Duits | 270 pagina's (PDF, 1,3 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Joop van Hezik Reconsidering Utopia
i have simply asked for permission
Joop van Hezik brings philosophy to life, in more ways than one. He shows that the ideology of `economic growth is the basis of our modern societies and economies, and even of our sustainable development policies. In this ideology people and nature seem to be merely instruments for economic growth. This results in destruction and the failure of sustainable development policies at all geographical levels. As Van Hezik clearly demonstrates, we need utopian thinking to reflect on the real values of...
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Engels | 221 pagina's (ePub, 0,9 MB) | Studio nonfiXe, Vught | 2014
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George Steiner Universitas?
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Engels | Nederlands | 39 pagina's | Nexus Instituut, Tilburg | 2013
Gedrukt boek
Mario Vargas Llosa De verdwenen cultuur
Nexus-lezing 2013
Bespreking verschenen in de Volkskrant, 31-8-2013. With a report of the conversation of Mario Vargas Llosa with the sociologist Gilles Lipovetsky, novelist and Nobel laureate held at the Cervantes Institute, Madrid on 24 April 2012, published in Eurozine.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 75 pagina's | Nexus Instituut, Tilburg | 2013
Gedrukt boek
Pietsie Feenstra | Wapke Feenstra A photographic portrait of a landscape
new dimensions on landscape philosophy
Non-fictie
Engels | 269 pagina's | Jap Sam Books, Heijningen | 2012
Gedrukt boek
Inside the politics of technology
agency and normativity in the co-production of technology and society
Non-fictie
Engels | 308 pagina's | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2005
Gedrukt boek
Arjen Mulder The world according to plants
Non-fictie
Engels | 63 pagina's | Uitgeverij Duizend & Een, Amsterdam | 2020
Gedrukt boek
F. Heule Linguet, Walpole and Vondel
Enlightenment paradoxes and Chinese thought in letters, plays and pamphlets
Non-fictie
Engels | 249 pagina's | School of Philosophy, Erasmus University, Rotterdam | 2018
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Bruno Latour Facing Gaia
eight lectures on the new climatic regime
Fundamentele kritiek op het moderne westerse denken in relatie met het klimaatprobleem.
Non-fictie
Engels | 327 pagina's | Polity Press, Cambridge, UK, Medford, MA | 2017
Gedrukt boek
The war of appearances
Non-fictie
Engels | 212 pagina's | V2_Publishing, Rotterdam | 2016
Gedrukt boek
André Platteel Our world
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Engels | 327 pagina's | post editions, [Rotterdam] | 2010
Gedrukt boek
Jan van Eyck Akademie New public spaces
dissensual political and artistic practices in the post-Yugoslav context
Non-fictie
Engels | 194 pagina's | Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht | 2009
Gedrukt boek
Justin Clemens | Dominic Pettman Avoiding the subject
media, culture and the object
Non-fictie
Engels | 216 pagina's | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2004
Gedrukt boek
George Steiner The idea of Europe
Non-fictie
Engels | 37 pagina's | Nexus Institute, Tilburg | 2004
Gedrukt boek