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Kampfgeschwader 51 "EdelweiSS": The Complete History of KG 51 in World War II
by Wolfgang DierichRare unit history of a World War II Luftwaffe bomber unit
Kang Youwei Engages India: His Travel Narratives (1901–1902) and Predicaments of Civilization and Nation
by Kamal Sheel Ranjana SheelThis book is the first annotated translation of the travelogues of Kang Youwei, one of the most famous intellectuals and modernisers of late 19th-century China. These travelogues offer insights into Kang’s perceptions of India, which influenced modern intellectual discourse on India in China. These perceptions not only had a great impact on the thinking of other intellectuals but were also responsible for the larger construct that China developed about India during the republican and post-liberation period. The texts provide meaning to many dilemmas and predicaments that enshrouded the concept of civilisation and its linkages with the modern concepts of nationalism and modernity in Asian countries such as China and India. They are a valuable prism in gauging the early 20th-century intellectual and Chinese moderniser mind as it grappled with the challenges and uncertainties of those times. An important contribution to the study of Sino-Indian interactions, the book will be an indispensable resource for students and researchers of nation, nationalism, civilisation, empire, modern history, translation studies, Chinese Studies, and Asian studies.
Kanji Politics
by GottliebFirst Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Kann Wissenschaft witzig?: Wissenschaftskommunikation zwischen Kritik und Kabarett
by Marc-Denis Weitze Wolfgang M. Heckl Wolfgang Chr. Goede"Kann Wissenschaft witzig?“ nimmt ein ebenso innovatives wie zukunftsträchtiges Element moderner Wissenschaftskommunikation unter die Lupe: Die Komik!Leserinnen und Leser werden durch anschaulich gehaltene akademische Theorie sowie spannende Hands-on- und Best Practice-Beispiele renommierter Praktiker und Kabarettisten geführt:· Was haben Schafskäse und Autoreifen gemeinsam?· Kann Lachen Mauern einreißen lassen?· Wie funktioniert „Die Anstalt“· Wie schafft Zauberkunst Wissen?· Gibt es Humor im Museum?· Kommt ein Dalmatiner an die Kasse· Drei Schritte zum Humor· Serviervorschlag für den Heiligen Geist· Diktatur der Dummheit· Und viel mehr!Das ist aber nicht alles nur lustig. Komik kann auch Kritik etwas von ihrer beißenden Schärfe nehmen, die Kritik für die Adressaten verdaulich, ja sogar schmackhaft machen.„Kann Wissenschaft witzig?“ navigiert zwischen Kritik und Kabarett und setzt sich mit Komik in verschiedenen Spielarten aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven auseinander. 22 Beiträge zeigen, wie sich die Ergebnisse von Wissenschaft, Forschung, Technologie auf neuen Wegen in die breite Öffentlichkeit tragen lassen. Sie demonstrieren insbesondere auch, wie Humor sich als kritisch-fragende Kraft einsetzen lässt – wertvoll für sämtliche Kommunikationsarten und hilfreich, damit sie in Zukunft gewitzter daherkommen.
Kansas Facts and Symbols
by Kathleen W. DeadyThis book presents information about the state of Kansas, its nickname, motto, and emblems.
Kansas Tycoon Emerson Carey: Building an Empire from Coal, Ice and Salt
by Lynn Ledeboer"I've seen a fly make a bull switch his tail" is a homespun quip attributed to Emerson Carey, the powerful salt magnate of Hutchinson, Kansas. True or not, the quote epitomizes the fearless and tenacious character of the legend who became Reno County's benefactor. Young, awestruck Carey arrived in boomtown 1880s Hutchinson and went on to create an immense empire. Coal, ice, salt, strawboard, egg cases, bags, soda ash and streetcars--he presided over it all. From Carey's sleeping in a coal yard with a quarter in his pocket to the founding of the exclusive Willowbrook community and attaining a net worth of more than $15 million, authors Lynn Ledeboer and Myron Marcotte relate the epic story.
Kant and Social Policies
by Andrea Faggion Alessandro Pinzani Nuria Sanchez MadridThis book discusses the potential for Kant's political and juridical philosophy to shed light on current social challenges and policy. By considering Kant as a contemporary and not above moral responsibility, the authors explore his political theory as the philosophical foundation of human rights, discussing the right to citizenship, social dynamics and the scope of global justice. Focusing on topics such as society, Kant's position on human rights, domestic economic justice, public education and moral virtue, the authors analyse the shortcomings of Kant's modes of thought and help the reader to gain new perspective both on this classical thinker and on more contemporary issues.
Kant and the Politics of Racism: Towards Kant’s racialised form of cosmopolitan right
by Jimmy YabThis book proposes an account of the place of the theory of race in Kant’s thought as a central part of philosophical anthropology in his political system. Kant’s theory of race, this book argues, is integral to the analysis of the “Charakteristik” of the human species and determined by human natural predispositions. The understanding of his theory as such suggests not only an alternative reading to the orthodox narrative we have seen so far but also reveals the underlying centrality of the notion of human natural predispositions in a way that is consequential for Kant’s philosophy as a whole. What is the impact of Kant’s racial theory on his philosophy and political thought? Is Kant a consistent egalitarian or a partisan Universalist thinker? Is he the symbol of racist prejudices of his time? What is the influence of his racial hierarchy on his cosmopolitan right? Or more simply, is Kant racist? From a systematic examination of Kant relevant writings, this book provides answers to these questions and shed light on two fundamental problems of his theory of race for moral philosophy, namely: (1) the completeness of the character of the White race and (2) the dispossession of the character of the beauty and the dignity of human nature of the Negro race. These two issues, unperceived from the “orthodox” reading’s perspective, however, uncovered by the “heterodox” reading, not only shape Kant’s race thinking from the beginning to the end of his life, transform his cosmopolitan right into a non-universalist form of right, but merely define Kant as a fundamental racist thinker since he developed the anthropology, the philosophy, and the politics of racism in a systematic way.
Kant on Culture, Happiness and Civilization
by Ana Marta GonzálezThis book joins the contemporary recovery of Kant’s empirical works to highlight the relevance of his concept of culture for understanding the sources of various characteristic modern dilemmas, such as the tension between culture and happiness, the morally ambivalent nature of cultural progress, or the existing conflicts between a factual plurality of cultures and the historical forces pressing toward a universal civilization. The book will be of special interest for Kantian scholars, moral and political philosophers, as well as philosophers of culture.
Kant's Critical Religion: Volume Two of Kant's "System of Perspectives" (Routledge Revivals)
by Stephen R. PalmquistThis title was first published in 2000. Applying the new perspectival method of interpreting Kant he expounded in earlier works, Palmquist examines a broad range of Kant's philosophical writings to present a fresh view of his thought on theology, religion, and religious experience.
Kant's Lectures on Anthropology
by Alix CohenKant's lectures on anthropology, which formed the basis of his Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798), contain many observations on human nature, culture and psychology and illuminate his distinctive approach to the human sciences. The essays in the present volume, written by an international team of leading Kant scholars, offer the first comprehensive scholarly assessment of these lectures, their philosophical importance, their evolution and their relation to Kant's critical philosophy. They explore a wide range of topics, including Kant's account of cognition, the senses, self-knowledge, freedom, passion, desire, morality, culture, education and cosmopolitanism. The volume will enrich current debates within Kantian scholarship as well as beyond, and will be of great interest to upper-level students and scholars of Kant, the history of anthropology, the philosophy of psychology and the social sciences.
Kant: Anthropology Imagination Freedom (Morality, Society and Culture)
by John RundellIn a new reading of Immanuel Kant’s work, this book interrogates his notions of the imagination and anthropology, identifying these – rather than the problem of reason – as the two central pivoting orientations of his work. Such an approach allows a more complex understanding of his critical-philosophical program to emerge, which includes his accounts of reason, politics and freedom as well as subjectivity and intersubjectivity, or sociabilities. Examining Kant’s theorisation of the complexity of our phenomenological existence, the author explores his transcendental move that includes reason and understanding whilst emphasising the importance of the faculty of the imagination to undergird both, before moving to consider Kant’s pluralised, transcendental notion of freedom. This outstanding book will appeal to scholars with interests in philosophy, politics, anthropology and sociology, working on questions of imagination, reason, subjectivities and human freedom.
Kantianism, Liberalism, and Feminism
by Carol HayIn this book Hay argues that the moral and political frameworks of Kantianism and liberalism are indispensable for addressing the concerns of contemporary feminism. After defending the use of these frameworks for feminist purposes, Hay uses them to argue that people who are oppressed have an obligation to themselves to resist their own oppression.
Kants 4. Frage: Was ist der Mensch? (Colloquium Metaphysicum)
by Robert TheisIn seiner berühmten Logikvorlesung stellt Immanuel Kant die berühmten Leitfragen der Philosophie "Was kann ich wissen?", "Was soll ich tun?" und "Was darf ich hoffen?". Dem fügt er dann die Frage "Was ist der Mensch?" an und schreibt, all das, was in den ersten Fragen behandelt würde, könne man zur vierten zählen. Dieses Buch fragt demnach nach dem anthropologischen Subtext der drei ersten Fragen, also: Was erfahren wir über die vierte Frage, wenn Kant sich der Wissens-, Sollens- und Hoffensfrage zuwendet?
Kaplan TASC Strategies, Practice, and Review 2015-2016
by KaplanComprehensive content review, strategies, and practice for all sections of the TASC (Test Assessing Secondary Completion) from top test experts.
Kara Walker (October Files #28)
by Vanina GéréSelected texts that survey the full range of Kara Walker&’s artistic practice, emphasizing the work itself rather than the debates and controversies around it.Kara Walker&’s work and its borrowings from an iconography linked to the fantasized and travestied history of American chattel slavery has been theorized and critiqued in countless texts throughout her career. Exegeses of her work have been shaped by the numerous debates on the very debates it generated. How, then, do we approach a work that has been covered by such &“thick theoretical layers&”? This collection is unique in emphasizing Walker&’s work itself rather than the controversies surrounding it. These essays and interviews survey Walker&’s artistic practice from her early works in the 1990s through her most recent ones, from her famous silhouette projects to her lesser-known drawings and lantern shows. The texts, by art historians, curators, critics, scholars, and writers engage scrupulously with Walker&’s pieces as material works of art, putting them in the context of the sociopolitical and cultural environments that shape—but never determine—them. They include an interview of the artist by Thelma Golden of the Studio Museum in Harlem; an essay in the form of a lexicon, cataloguing key elements in Walker&’s art, by curator Yasmil Raymond; and an essay by volume editor Vanina Géré on Walker&’s use of historical archives. Finally, novelist Zadie Smith considers Walker&’s public art as counter-propositions to colonial monuments and as a reflection on colonial history. ContributorsLorraine Morales Cox, Vanina Géré, Thelma Golden, Tavia Nyong&’o, Yasmil Raymond, Jerry Saltz, Zadie Smith, Anne M. Wagner, Hamza Walker
Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Divided City
by Samira ShackleA fast-paced, hair-raising journey around Karachi in the company of those who know the city inside out - from an electrifying new voice in narrative non-fiction. Karachi. Pakistan&’s largest city is a sprawling metropolis of twenty million people, twice the size of New York City. It is a place of political turbulence in which those who have power wield it with brutal and partisan force. It takes an insider to know where is safe, who to trust, and what makes Karachi tick. In this powerful debut, Samira Shackle explores the city of her mother&’s birth in the company of a handful of Karachiites. Among them is Safdar the ambulance driver, who knows the city&’s streets and shortcuts intimately and will stop at nothing to help his fellow citizens. There is Parveen, the activist whose outspoken views on injustice repeatedly lead her towards danger. And there is Zille, the hardened journalist whose commitment to getting the best scoops puts him at increasing risk. Their individual experiences unfold and converge, as Shackle tells the bigger story of Karachi over the past decade as it endures a terrifying crime wave: a period in which the Taliban arrive in Pakistan, adding to the daily perils for its residents and pushing their city into the international spotlight. Writing with intimate local knowledge and a global perspective, Shackle paints a vivid portrait of one of the most complex and compelling cities in the world, a city where the borders blur between politicians and gangsters and between lawful and unlawful, as dangerous new forces of violent extremism are pitted against old networks of power.
Karahan Tepe: Civilization of the Anunnaki and the Cosmic Origins of the Serpent of Eden
by Andrew Collins• Examines the intricate carvings, chambers, and structures, revealing the site&’s acoustical properties, shamanic symbolism, and astronomical alignments• Reveals how Karahan Tepe was used by shamans to connect with the Milky Way&’s Galactic bulge in its role as the head of the cosmic serpent• Explains how the site&’s builders, who created the world&’s first post ice age civilization, are remembered in myth and legend as the Watchers and Nephilim of Jewish religious tradition and as the Anunnaki gods of Sumerian mythologyConsidered the most important archaeological discovery of the 21st century, Karahan Tepe is an enormous complex of stone structures in southeastern Turkey covering an estimated ten acres. Built more than 11,000 years ago, Karahan Tepe contains some of the oldest monumental architecture anywhere on Earth, including human and animal statues, ubiquitous snake carvings, T-shaped pillars, and interconnecting underground enclosures with stone columns carved directly from the bedrock.Chronicling his explorations of Karahan Tepe, Andrew Collins presents the first in-depth investigation of the discoveries at the site: who built it, its astronomical alignments, and its cosmological connections. He examines the intricate carvings and architectural features, including a newly discovered statue of a giant human figure. Explaining how the site functioned as a shamanic oracle center, Collins shows how its rock-cut structures were used to connect with the Milky Way&’s Galactic Bulge and stars of Scorpius in their role as the head and active spirit of a perceived cosmic serpent. He traces this serpent motif throughout history, identifying it with the biblical serpent of Eden, the kundalini of Vedic tradition, and the black snake of the Yezidis. He demonstrates how the belief in the existence of the Milky Way serpent among the inhabitants of Karahan Tepe went on to influence the foundation of the Gnostic Ophite mysteries suppressed by the Christian Church. He also shows how the founders of Karahan Tepe were recalled in Hebrew myth and legend as the Watchers and Nephilim and in Sumerian and Babylonian mythology as the Anunnaki.Sharing a wealth of evidence, Collins confirms that Karahan Tepe and its sister site of Göbekli Tepe belonged to the world&’s first post–Ice Age civilization, which today bears the enigmatic name of Taş Tepeler.
Karaoke Around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)
by Toru Mitsui Shuhei HosokawaThe karaoke machine is much more than an instrument which allows us to be a star for three minutes. The contributors to this lively collection address the importance of karaoke within Japanese culture and its spread to other parts of the world, exploring the influence of karaoke in such different societies as the United Kingdom, North America, Italy, Sweden, Korea and Brazil. They also consider the nature of the karaoke experience, which involves people as singers, co-singers and listeners.
Karawitan: Source Readings in Javanese Gamelan and Vocal Music, Volume 1 (Michigan Papers On South And Southeast Asia #23)
by Judith BeckerThe twentieth century has spawned a great interest in Indonesian music, and now books, articles, and manuscripts can be found that expound exclusively about karawitan (the combined vocal and instrumental music of the gamelan). Scholar Judith Becker has culled several key sources on karawitan into three volumes and has translated them for the benefit of the Western student of the gamelan tradition. The texts in her collection were written over a forty-five-year time period (ca 1930–1975) and include articles by Martopangrawit, Sumarsam, Sastrapustaka, Gitosaprodjo, Sindoesawarno, Poerbapangrawit, Probohardjono, Warsadiningrat, Purbodiningrat, Poerbatjaraka, and Paku Buwana X. The final volume also contains a glossary of technical terms, an appendix of the Javanese cipher notations (titilaras kepatihan), a biographical listing, and an index to the musical pieces (Gendhing).
Karawitan: Source Readings in Javanese Gamelan and Vocal Music, Volume 2 (Michigan Papers On South And Southeast Asia #30)
by Judith BeckerThe twentieth century has spawned a great interest in Indonesian music, and now books, articles, and manuscripts can be found that expound exclusively about karawitan (the combined vocal and instrumental music of the gamelan). Scholar Judith Becker has culled several key sources on karawitan into three volumes and has translated them for the benefit of the Western student of the gamelan tradition. The texts in her collection were written over a forty-five-year time period (ca 1930–1975) and include articles by Martopangrawit, Sumarsam, Sastrapustaka, Gitosaprodjo, Sindoesawarno, Poerbapangrawit, Probohardjono, Warsadiningrat, Purbodiningrat, Poerbatjaraka, and Paku Buwana X. The final volume also contains a glossary of technical terms, an appendix of the Javanese cipher notations (titilaras kepatihan), a biographical listing, and an index to the musical pieces (Gendhing).
Karawitan: Source Readings in Javanese Gamelan and Vocal Music, Volume 3 (Michigan Papers On South And Southeast Asia #31)
by Judith BeckerThe twentieth century has spawned a great interest in Indonesian music, and now books, articles, and manuscripts can be found that expound exclusively about karawitan (the combined vocal and instrumental music of the gamelan). Scholar Judith Becker has culled several key sources on karawitan into three volumes and has translated them for the benefit of the Western student of the gamelan tradition. The texts in her collection were written over a forty-five-year time period (ca 1930–1975) and include articles by Martopangrawit, Sumarsam, Sastrapustaka, Gitosaprodjo, Sindoesawarno, Poerbapangrawit, Probohardjono, Warsadiningrat, Purbodiningrat, Poerbatjaraka, and Paku Buwana X. The final volume also contains a glossary of technical terms, an appendix of the Javanese cipher notations (titilaras kepatihan), a biographical listing, and an index to the musical pieces (Gendhing).
Kardashians: A Critical Anthology
by Donna Lee Brien Meredith Jones Kath BurtonThis interdisciplinary volume introduces the field of Kardashian Studies through collections of essays based in sociology, media studies, cultural studies, critical race theory and fashion theory.The Kardashian empire and dynasty is intertwined with some of the most important movements of the early twenty-first century. Celebrity, cultural appropriation, new forms of feminism, social media, ideal bodies, evolving notions of physical beauty and the global fashion system have all been affected by the quintessential influencers in this family of matriarchs. The anthology is structured around core thematic parts. From Storytelling and Race, through Fashion and Celebrity, to Time and Embodiment, each part contains an accessible introduction followed by chapters that together take a unique approach to exploring the Kardashians from multiple viewpoints. The inclusion of discussion points suitable for classroom use enhances the utility of the anthology for both study and teaching purposes.The first of its kind, Kardashians: A Critical Anthology positions Kardashian Studies at the forefront of critical inquiry around notions of authenticity, contemporary feminisms, visuality and social media. It will be of interest to both scholars and students interested in popular culture, television, notions of authenticity, contemporary feminisms, visuality, race and social media.
Karl Marx on Socialist Theory and Practice: Rethinking Marx’s Theory of Human Emancipation
by Wei XiaopingThis book discusses Marx’s thinking on human emancipation based on his critique of capitalism and the prospect of socialism. It analyzes the double relations between persons and things, and persons and persons by tracking Marx’s writings, including MEGA2, and taking into consideration the socialist practice and socialist reform of the last century. It is a necessary study for social scientists, social andpolitical philosophers, and students for its deep and wide analysis from the perspective of Marxian theory in practice.
Karl Marx on Society and Social Change (The Heritage of Sociology)
by Karl MarxThis volume presents those writings of Marx that best reveal his contribution to sociology, particularly to the theory of society and social change. The editor, Neil J. Smelser, has divided these selections into three topical sections and has also included works by Friedrich Engels. The first section, "The Structure of Society," contains Marx's writings on the material basis of classes, the basis of the state, and the basis of the family. Among the writings included in this section are Marx's well-known summary from the Preface of A Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy and his equally famous observations on the functional significance of religion in relation to politics. The second section is titled "The Sweep of Historical Change." The first selection here contains Marx's first statement of the main precapitalist forms of production. The second selection focuses on capitalism, its contradictions, and its impending destruction. Two brief final selections treat the nature of communism, particularly its freedom from the kinds of contradictions that have plagued all earlier forms of societies. The last section, "The Mechanisms of Change," reproduces several parts of Marx's analysis of the mechanisms by which contradictions develop in capitalism and generate group conflicts. Included is an analysis of competition and its effects on the various classes, a discussion of economic crises and their effects on workers, and Marx's presentation of the historical specifics of the class struggle. In his comprehensive Introduction to the selections, Professor Smelser provides a biography of Marx, indentifies the various intellectual traditions which formed the background for Marx's writings, and discusses the selections which follow. The editor describes Marx's conception of society as a social system, the differences between functionalism and Marx's theories, and the dynamics of economic and political change as analyzed by Marx.