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Disclosing the World: On the Phenomenology of Language
by Andrew InkpinA phenomenological conception of language, drawing on Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Wittgenstein, with implications for both the philosophy of language and current cognitive science.In this book, Andrew Inkpin considers the disclosive function of language—what language does in revealing or disclosing the world. His approach to this question is a phenomenological one, centering on the need to accord with the various experiences speakers can have of language. With this aim in mind, he develops a phenomenological conception of language with important implications for both the philosophy of language and recent work in the embodied-embedded-enactive-extended (4e) tradition of cognitive science. Inkpin draws extensively on the work of Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, showing how their respective conceptions of language can be combined to complement each other within a unified view. From the early Heidegger, Inkpin extracts a basic framework for a phenomenological conception of language, comprising both a general picture of the role of language and a specific model of the function of words. Merleau-Ponty's views are used to explicate the generic “pointing out”—or presentational—function of linguistic signs in more detail, while the late Wittgenstein is interpreted as providing versatile means to describe their many pragmatic uses. Having developed this unified phenomenological view, Inkpin explores its broader significance. He argues that it goes beyond the conventional realism/idealism opposition, that it challenges standard assumptions in mainstream post-Fregean philosophy of language, and that it makes a significant contribution not only to the philosophical understanding of language but also to 4e cognitive science.
Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race (Chicago Studies in American Politics)
by Joe Soss Richard C. Fording Sanford F. SchramDisciplining the Poor explains the transformation of poverty governance over the past forty years—why it happened, how it works today, and how it affects people. In the process, it clarifies the central role of race in this transformation and develops a more precise account of how race shapes poverty governance in the post–civil rights era. Connecting welfare reform to other policy developments, the authors analyze diverse forms of data to explicate the racialized origins, operations, and consequences of a new mode of poverty governance that is simultaneously neoliberal—grounded in market principles—and paternalist—focused on telling the poor what is best for them. The study traces the process of rolling out the new regime from the federal level, to the state and county level, down to the differences in ways frontline case workers take disciplinary actions in individual cases. The result is a compelling account of how a neoliberal paternalist regime of poverty governance is disciplining the poor today.
Disciplining Foucault: Feminism, Power, and the Body (Thinking Gender)
by Jana SawickiIn this book, the author attempts to integrate previous work on Foucault with feminist theory. She expands discussion of feminism and sexual liberation, charts the impact of Foucault on humanistic studies, and picks up an aspect of the mothering theme, the question of new reproductive technologies.
Disciplines of Modernity: Archives, Histories, Anthropologies (Routledge Focus on Modern Subjects)
by Saurabh DubeScrupulously based in anthropology and history – and drawing on social theory and critical thought – this book revisits the disciplines, archives, and subjects of modernity. There are at least three interleaving emphases here. To begin with, the work rethinks institutionalized formations of anthropology and history – together with "archives" at large – as themselves intimating disciplines of modernity. Understood in the widest senses of the terms, these disciplines are constitutively contradictory. Moreover, the study interrupts familiar projections of modern subjects as molded a priori by a disenchanted calculus of interest and reason. It tracks instead the affective, embodied, and immanent attributes of our varied worlds as formative of subjects of modernity, sown into their substance and spirit. Finally, running through the book is a querying of entitlement and privilege that underlie social terrains and their scholarly apprehensions – articulating at once distinct elites, pervasive plutocracies, and modern "scholasticisms."
The Disciplined Mind: Beyond Facts Standardized Tests K 12 Educ That Every Child Deserves
by Howard Gardner<P>Howard Gardner's concept of multiple intelligences has been hailed as perhaps the most profound insight into education since the work of Jerome Bruner, Jean Piaget, and, even earlier, John Dewey.<P> Now in The Disciplined Mind, Gardner pulls together the threads of his previous works in a major new synthesis aimed at parents, educators, and the general public alike.<P> The Disciplined Mind looks beyond such parochial issues as charters, vouchers, unions, and affirmative action in order to explore the larger questions of what an educated person should be and how such an education can be achieved for all students.<P> Gardner eloquently argues that the purpose of K-12 education should be to enhance students' deep understanding of truth (and falsity), beauty (and ugliness), and goodness (and evil) as defined by their various cultures. With this stance, Gardner transforms the tired debate between "traditionalists" and "progressives.".
Disciplined Mind: What All Students Should Understand
by Howard GardnerThis brilliant and revolutionary theory of multiple intelligences reexamines the goals of education to support a more educated society for future generations.Howard Gardner&’s concept of multiple intelligences has been hailed as perhaps the most profound insight into education since the work of Jerome Bruner, Jean Piaget, and even John Dewey. Here, in The Disciplined Mind, Garner pulls together the threads of his previous works and looks beyond such issues as charters, vouchers, unions, and affirmative action in order to explore the larger questions of what constitutes an educated person and how this can be achieved for all students. Gardner eloquently argues that the purpose of K–12 education should be to enhance students&’ deep understanding of the truth (and falsity), beauty (and ugliness), and goodness (and evil) as defined by their various cultures. By exploring the theory of evolution, the music of Mozart, and the lessons of the Holocaust as a set of examples that illuminates the nature of truth, beauty, and morality, The Disciplined Mind envisions how younger generations will rise to the challenges of the future—while preserving the traditional goals of a &“humane&” education. Gardner&’s ultimate goal is the creation of an educated generation that understands the physical, biological, and societal world in their own personal context as well as in a broader world view. But even as Gardner persuasively argues the merits of his approach, he recognizes the difficulty of developing one universal, ideal form of education. In an effort to reconcile conflicting educational viewpoints, he proposes the creation of six different educational pathways that, when taken together, can satisfy people&’s concern for student learning and their widely divergent views about knowledge and understanding overall.
The Discipline of the Cave (Routledge Revivals)
by John Niemeyer FindlayFirst published in 1966, The Discipline of the Cave is the first series of a course of Gifford lectures on philosophical issues.. J N Findlay’s lectures use the image of the Cave to show how familiarity is full of restrictions, and involves puzzles and discrepancies unable to be resolved or removed. Such philosophical perplexities may be a result of the misunderstanding and abuse of ordinary ways of thinking and speaking. They may also be a way of ‘drawing us towards being’, providing proof of the absurdity of ordinary thought, speech and experience unless modified and added to in ways which may point beyond it. What may be called a mystical and otherworldly element may need to be introduced into or rendered explicit in all our experience in order to give a viable sense to the most commonplace human utterances and activities.
The Discipline of Philosophy and the Invention of Modern Jewish Thought
by Willi GoetschelExploring the subject of Jewish philosophy as a controversial construction site of the project of modernity, this book examines the implications of the different and often conflicting notions that drive the debate on the question of what Jewish philosophy is or could be. The idea of Jewish philosophy begs the question of philosophy as such. But “Jewish philosophy” does not just reflect what “philosophy” lacks. Rather, it challenges the project of philosophy itself. Examining the thought of Spinoza, Moses Mendelssohn, Heinrich Heine, Hermann Cohen Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, Margarete Susman, Hermann Levin Goldschmidt, and others, the book highlights how the most philosophic moments of their works are those in which specific concerns of their “Jewish questions” inform the rethinking of philosophy’s disciplinarity in principal terms. The long overdue recognition of the modernity that informs the critical trajectories of Jewish philosophers from Spinoza and Mendelssohn to the present emancipates not just “Jewish philosophy” from an infelicitous pigeonhole these philosophers so pointedly sought to reject but, more important, emancipates philosophy from its false claims to universalism.
Discipline is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control
by Ryan HolidayAn inspiring anthem to the power, promise and challenges of self-control, the second in a series examining the timeless Stoic virtues from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ryan HolidayThe inscription on the Oracle of Delphi says: 'Nothing in excess.' C.S. Lewis described temperance as going to the 'right length but no further.' Easy to say, hard to practice - and if it was tough in 300 BCE, or in the 1940s, it feels all but impossible today. Yet it's the most empowering and important virtue any of us can learn.Drawing on ancient Stoic wisdom and examples across history and around the world, Ryan Holiday shows why self-control is so vital, and how to cultivate it in our own lives. Moderation is not about abstinence: it is about creativity, self-respect, focus and balance. Without it, even the most positive traits become vices. But with it, happiness and success are assured: it is the only way to live an extraordinary, fulfilled and effective life.
Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control (The Stoic Virtues Series)
by Ryan HolidayThe instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller!In his New York Times bestselling book Courage is Calling, author Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for a bold and brave life. In this much-anticipated second book of his Stoic Virtue series, Holiday celebrates the awesome power of self-discipline and those who have seized it.To master anything, one must first master themselves–one&’s emotions, one&’s thoughts, one&’s actions. Eisenhower famously said that freedom is really the opportunity to practice self-discipline. Cicero called the virtue of temperance the polish of life. Without boundaries and restraint, we risk not only failing to meet our full potential and jeopardizing what we have achieved, but we ensure misery and shame. In a world of temptation and excess, this ancient idea is more urgent than ever.In Discipline is Destiny, Holiday draws on the stories of historical figures we can emulate as pillars of self-discipline, including Lou Gehrig, Queen Elizabeth II, boxer Floyd Patterson, Marcus Aurelius and writer Toni Morrison, as well as the cautionary tales of Napoleon, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Babe Ruth. Through these engaging examples, Holiday teaches readers the power of self-discipline and balance, and cautions against the perils of extravagance and hedonism.At the heart of Stoicism are four simple virtues: courage, temperance, justice, and wisdom. Everything else, the Stoics believed, flows from them. Discipline is Destiny will guide readers down the path to self-mastery, upon which all the other virtues depend. Discipline is predictive. You cannot succeed without it. And if you lose it, you cannot help but bring yourself failure and unhappiness.
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
by Michel FoucaultIn this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
Disciplinary Intuitions and the Design of Learning Environments
by Kenneth Y. T. LimMany of the chapters within draw frequent and explicit linkages to curriculum design, from the premise of the need to go beyond addressing the conceptions of learners, to seeking to understand the substrate upon which these conceptions are founded. The argument is made that this substrate comprises the particular set of lived experiences of each learner, and how - because these lived experiences are as tacit as they are diverse - designing curriculum around misconceptions and preconceptions alone would not lead to enduring understanding from first principles. From this perspective, Disciplinary Intuitions constitute an exciting field at the nexus of learning theories and curriculum design.
Disciplina : El Poder Que Necesita Para Lograr Cualquier Cosa En La Vida Y El Éxito A Largo Plazo.
by Brian NelsonEl poder que necesitas para lograr cualquier cosa en la vida y el éxito a largo plazo La confianza en uno mismo es un aspecto interesante del carácter humano - es una definición de cómo nos vemos a nosotros mismos y al lugar al que pertenecemos en este mundo. Tener confianza en uno mismo es confiar en uno mismo para hacer y ser lo mejor que uno puede ser, independientemente de todas las circunstancias que encontremos en la vida. Me di cuenta de que muchos fracasaron en su intento de seguir adelante a largo plazo. Es muy evidente para mí que la motivación inicial se desvanece rápidamente a medida que la gente sigue con su vida cotidiana. Este libro es mi intento de que empieces con el pie derecho a medida que te embarcas en cambiar tus hábitos de manejo de dinero. Descubra los poderosos hacks mentales de autodisciplina que le permitirán duplicar su productividad y vencer la dilación. Las personas con una gran fuerza de voluntad y autodisciplina se distinguen del resto, siempre se les ve como los mejores ejecutores y siempre producen resultados. Con este libro, usted podrá dominar estas estrategias efectivas y tomar el control total de su vida. Si está listo para tomar acción y cambiar su vida para mejor, este libro definitivamente te guiará en la dirección correcta!
La disciplina marcará tu destino: El poder del autocontrol (Las 4 virtudes estoicas #Volumen 2)
by Ryan Holiday«Ryan Holiday ha traído las antiguas enseñanzas del estoicismo a millones de lectores, desde atletas y políticos hasta directores ejecutivos».Good Morning America Un inspirador tributo al poder y la promesa de la autodisciplina; este es el segundo libro de la serie «Las 4 virtudes estoicas»Ryan Holiday, autor superventas de The New York Times. Para conquistar el mundo, uno debe conquistarse primero a sí mismo: las emociones, las acciones y los pensamientos. Eisenhower dijo que la libertad es la práctica de la autodisciplina. Cicerón definió la virtud de la templanza como el esplendor de la vida. Sin límites ni autocontrol, no solo nos arriesgamos a no alcanzar nuestro potencial y a perder lo que hemos logrado, sino que, además, nos aseguramos una vida de humillación y miseria. En este nuevo libro, Ryan Holiday defiende la templanza como la virtud más importante. A lo largo de la historia ha recibido distintos nombres —autocontrol, disciplina…— pero todos hacen referencia a lo mismo: a gobernar en lugar de ser gobernado; a establecer tus propios límites; a marcar tus propios hábitos. Todos los grandes de la historia han practicado esta forma de autodominio, desde la leyenda del béisbol Lou Gehrig, hasta la reina Isabel II, la escritora Joyce Carol Oates, el emperador Marco Aurelio y Martin Luther King Jr., ministro y líder del movimiento por los derechos civiles. En una época de excesos y desorden, la autodisciplina es ahora más necesaria que nunca. ¿Te atreves a cavar hondo para encontrarla? Y, más importante, ¿la usarás? Solo con autodisciplina podrás dirigir tu vida rumbo a la verdadera realización. La crítica ha dicho:«Una lectura ágil y absorbente».Annie Duke, autora del best seller Thinking In Bets «Un poderoso argumento a favor de las virtudes y los valores por los quedeben regirse los líderes de hoy».Almirante James Stavridis, excomandante supremo de las Fuerzas Aliadas de la OTAN
Disciplina, autocontrol y fuerza de voluntad: Todo lo que necesitas para cumplir tus sueños
by Malcolm Griffin.Este libro te guiará en el uso de herramientas sencillas y altamente efectivas que te permitirán desarrollar la actitud y diversos hábitos necesarios para convertirte en una persona más centrada, de modo que puedas cumplir cualquier meta que te propongas en el menor tiempo posible. Gracias a este libro aprenderás lo que significa realmente el autocontrol. Descubrirás cómo abordar y suprimir aquellos hábitos negativos que afectan tu disciplina. Con la ayuda de este libro desarrollarás el nivel de autocontrol necesario para cumplir con las metas que te propongas a través del empleo de las técnicas más efectivas. La mayoría de las personas quieren lograr la confianza, hábitos y mentalidad necesaria que conduzcan al éxito. Para muchos puede ser una tarea imposible. Sin embargo, hemos escrito este libro para que cuentes con su ayuda. En el audiolibro "Éxito, principios y hábitos" descubrirás a su vez los secretos que condujeron al mejoramiento de las vidas de otras personas. ¡Deslízate hacia el margen superior y hazte con tu copia ya!
Disciplina: Auto Disciplina, Confiança, Autoestima e Desenvolvimento Pessoal
by Jane HollinsEste manual irá ensiná-lo a ter alegria em cultivar a autodisciplina. Aprenda o que é, como obtê-lo, por que precisamos, como mantê-lo e por que queremos. Ele também cobre os principais obstáculos em nosso caminho, tanto interna quanto externamente. Se você deseja um impulso para autodisciplina com uma dose saudável de autoconfiança, pegue este manual hoje mesmo. Você não pode se dar ao luxo de não fazer isso. E se pudesse superar os desafios da vida e atingir qualquer meta que definisse em sua mente? E se pudesse desenvolver um foco tão poderoso que pudesse aumentar sua produtividade em dez vezes? Tudo isso pode ser alcançado através do desenvolvimento da auto-disciplina poderosa e este livro irá ensiná-lo exatamente como um guia passo a passo. Este é o único guia que você precisa sobre como formar e manter bons hábitos que irão mantê-lo feliz e realizado para o resto de sua vida. Pessoas de sucesso são a inveja de muitos. Eles são nossos modelos. Nós admiramos o sucesso deles, perguntamos como eles fizeram isso, e desejamos que pudéssemos ser iguais a eles ou replicar sucessos semelhantes em nossas vidas. Se você está pronto para agir e mudar sua vida para melhor, este livro definitivamente irá guiá-lo na direção certa!
The Discerning Narrator: Conrad, Aristotle, and Modernity
by Alexia HannisThe Discerning Narrator sheds new light on Joseph Conrad’s controversial critique of modernity and modernization by reading his work through an Aristotelian lens. The book proposes that we need Aristotle – a key figure in Conrad’s education – to recognize the profound significance of Conrad’s artistic vision. Offering Aristotelian analyses of Conrad’s letters, essays, and four works of fiction, Alexia Hannis illuminates the philosophical roots and literary implications of Conrad’s critique of modernity. Hannis turns to Aristotle’s ethical formulations to trace what she calls "the discerning narrator" in Conrad’s oeuvre: a compassionate yet sceptical guide to appraising character and conduct. The book engages with past and current Conrad scholarship while drawing from Aristotle’s Poetics, Politics, and Nicomachean Ethics to offer original philosophical analyses of Conrad’s works. Drawing on Aristotle, Hannis provides a fresh context for making sense of Conrad’s self-differentiation from modernity. As a result, The Discerning Narrator provides an affirmation of literature’s invitation to wonder about the possibilities inherent in human nature, including the potential for painful depravity, heroic excellence, and ordinary human happiness.
Discerning Ethics: Diverse Christian Responses to Divisive Moral Issues
by Tim Dearborn Hak Joon LeeRacism. Immigration. Gun violence. Sexuality. Health care.
Discerning Critical Hope in Educational Practices (Foundations and Futures of Education)
by Vivienne Bozalek Brenda Leibowitz Ronelle Carolissen Megan BolerHow can discerning critical hope enable us to develop innovative forms of teaching, learning and social practices that begin to address issues of marginalization, privilege and access across different contexts? At this millennial point in history, questions of cynicism, despair and hope arise at every turn, especially within areas of research into social justice and the struggle for transformation in education. While a sense of fatalism and despair is easily recognizable, establishing compelling bases for hope is more difficult. This book addresses the absence of sustained analyses of hope that simultaneously recognize the hard edges of why we despair. The volume posits the notion of critical hope not only as conceptual and theoretical, but also as an action-oriented response to despair. Our notion of critical hope is used in two ways: it is used firstly as a unitary concept which cannot be disaggregated into either hopefulness or criticality, and secondly, as an analytical concept, where critical hope is engaged and diversely theorized in ways that recognize aspects of individual and collective directions of critical hope. The book is divided into four sub-sections: Critical Hope in Education Critical Hope and a Critique of Neoliberalism Critical Race Theory/Postcolonial Perspectives on Critical Hope Philosophical Overviews of Critical Hope. Education can be a purveyor of critical hope, but it also requires critical hope so that it, as a sector itself, can be transformative. With contributions from international experts in the field, the book will be of value to all academics and practitioners working in the field of education.
Disbelief 101: A Young Person's Guide to Atheism
by Tom Flynn S. C. HitchcockFilled with wit, humor, and clear metaphor, this exploration into atheism is written specifically for young adults, though any adult interested in learning more about atheism will find value within. Not just focused on atheism, this crash course in logical thinking addresses the issues of indoctrination, whether it be religious, political, or commercial, and makes the case that morality is created through reasoning and logic, not through divine communication. Many hot topics are touched upon, such as traditional arguments for God’s existence, the relationship of evolution and religious belief, the incompatible nature of science and religion, and the harmfulness of both Christianity and Islam.
Disavowed Knowledge: Psychoanalysis, Education, and Teaching (Studies in Curriculum Theory Series)
by Peter Maas TaubmanThis is the first and only book to detail the history of the century-long relationship between education and psychoanalysis. Relying on primary and secondary sources, it provides not only a historical context but also a psychoanalytically informed analysis. In considering what it means to think about teaching from a psychoanalytic perspective and in reviewing the various approaches to and theories about teaching and curriculum that have been informed by psychoanalysis in the twentieth century, Taubman uses the concept of disavowal and focuses on the effects of disavowed knowledge within both psychoanalysis and education and on the relationship between them. Tracing three historical periods of the waxing and waning of the medical/therapeutic and emancipatory projects of psychoanalysis and education, the thrust of the book is for psychoanalysis and education to come together as an emancipatory project. Supplementing the recent work of educational scholars using psychoanalytic concepts to understand teaching, education, and schooling, it works to articulate the stranded histories ─ the history of what could have been and might still be in the relationship between psychoanalysis and education.
The Disavowed Community
by Philip Armstrong Jean-Luc NancyOver thirty years after Maurice Blanchot writes The Unavowable Community (1983)—a book that offered a critical response to an early essay by Jean-Luc Nancy on “the inoperative community”—Nancy responds in turn with The Disavowed Community. Stemming from Jean-Christophe Bailly’s initial proposal to think community in terms of “number” or the “numerous,” and unfolding as a close reading of Blanchot’s text, Nancy’s new book addresses a range of themes and motifs that mark both his proximity to and distance from Blanchot’s thinking, from Bataille’s “community of lovers” to the relation between community, communitarianism, and being-in-common; to Marguerite Duras, to the Eucharist. A key rethinking of politics and the political, this exchange opens up a new understanding of community played out as a question of avowal.
Disasters and Dilemmas: Strategies for Real-Life Decision Making
by Adam MortonThe author presents a number of strategies for making decisions based on desires or values which are incompatible or which conflict with one another in various ways. Cases discussed include conflicts of first and second order desires, conflicts between desires for present and for future ends, problems deriving from anticipated changes of desire, risk-taking problems, and coordination problems. One central claim of the book is that the same dilemma-managing strategies can be applied to all of these. The book also argues that many of the characteristics of moral dilemmas appear in non-moral decision-making. The relations between these strategies and utility-maximizing decision rules are subtle, and are explored throughout the book. To some extent the strategies apply to cases which are too complicated for utility-maximization to apply. Some of them also apply to the early stages of decision-making where utility-maximization does not enter, for example, in selecting a list of options for serious consideration. In some tidy cases, though, the strategies give different recommendations. This book is meant to have both a theoretical and a practical appeal, deriving from our need for ways of making decisions that do not force us to find trade-offs between goods or values which are hard to compare. The strategies presented in the book are meant to be usable in situations which seem to force decision-makers to balance very different quantities, and the discussion of them is meant as a contribution to debates about incomparable values, moral dilemmas and rational decision.
Disasters: Core Concepts and Ethical Theories (Advancing Global Bioethics #11)
by Dónal P. O’Mathúna Vilius Dranseika Bert GordijnThis Open Access Book is the first to examine disasters from a multidisciplinary perspective. Justification of actions in the face of disasters requires recourse both to conceptual analysis and ethical traditions. Part 1 of the book contains chapters on how disasters are conceptualized in different academic disciplines relevant to disasters. Part 2 has chapters on how ethical issues that arise in relation to disasters can be addressed from a number of fundamental normative approaches in moral and political philosophy. This book sets the stage for more focused normative debates given that no one book can be completely comprehensive. Providing analysis of core concepts, and with real-world relevance, this book should be of interest to disaster scholars and researchers, those working in ethics and political philosophy, as well as policy makers, humanitarian actors and intergovernmental organizations..
Disaster Risk Reduction and the Global System
by Michael GordyThis short manuscript is both a distillation of some of the latest work on disaster risk reduction and an interpretation of this distillation from the author's political economic perspective. It is based on information found in the flagship reports on disaster risk reduction of the United Nations. The book sums up and interprets issues of disaster risk reduction and makes them accessible to professional and non-professional readers alike, including governmental policy makers.