Detour And Access
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Detour And Access
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Author : François Jullien
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2000-08
Detour And Access written by François Jullien and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-08 with History categories.
An exploration of the central role of indirect modes of expression in ancient China.In what way do we benefit from speaking of things indirectly? How does such a distancing allow us better to discover--and describe--people and objects? How does distancing produce an effect? What can we gain from approaching the world obliquely? In other words, how does detour grant access? Thus begins Francois Jullien's investigation into the strategy, subtlety, and production of meaning in ancient and modern Chinese aesthetic and political texts and events. Moving between the rhetorical traditions of ancient Greece and China, Jullien does not attempt a simple comparison of the two civilizations. Instead, he uses the perspective provided by each to gain access into a culture considered by many Westerners to be strange--"It's all Chinese to me"--and whose strangeness has been eclipsed through the assumption of its familiarity. He also uses the comparison to shed light on the role of Greek thinking in Western civilization. Jullien rereads the major texts of Chinese thought--The Book of Songs, Confucius's Analects, and the work of Mencius and Lao-Tse. He addresses the question of oblique, indirect, and allusive meaning in order to explore how the techniques of detour provide access to subtler meanings than are attainable through direct approaches. Indirect speech, Jullien concludes, yields a complex mode of indication, open to multiple perspectives and variations, infinitely adaptable to particular situations and contexts. Concentrating on that which is not said, or which is spoken only through other means, Jullien traces the benefits and costs of this rhetorical strategy in which absolute truth is absent.
Down Detour Road
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Author : Eric J. Cesal
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2010-08-06
Down Detour Road written by Eric J. Cesal and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-06 with Architecture categories.
A young architect's search for new architectural values in a time of economic crisis. I paused at the stoop and thought this could be the basis of a good book. The story of a young man who went deep into the bowels of the academy in order to understand architecture and found it had been on his doorstep all along. This had an air of hokeyness about it, but it had been a tough couple of days and I was feeling sentimental about the warm confines of the studio which had unceremoniously discharged me upon the world.—from Down Detour Road What does it say about the value of architecture that as the world faces economic and ecological crises, unprecedented numbers of architects are out of work? This is the question that confronted architect Eric Cesal as he finished graduate school at the onset of the worst financial meltdown in a generation. Down Detour Road is his journey: one that begins off-course, and ends in a hopeful new vision of architecture. Like many architects of his generation, Cesal confronts a cold reality. Architects may assure each other of their own importance, but society has come to view architecture as a luxury it can do without. For Cesal, this recognition becomes an occasion to rethink architecture and its value from the very core. He argues that the times demand a new architecture, an empowered architecture that is useful and relevant. New architectural values emerge as our cultural values shift: from high risks to safe bets, from strong portfolios to strong communities, and from clean lines to clean energy.This is not a book about how to run a firm or a profession; it doesn't predict the future of architectural form or aesthetics. It is a personal story—and in many ways a generational one: a story that follows its author on a winding detour across the country, around the profession, and into a new architectural reality.
Detour
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Author : Lizzie Simon
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2003-06-18
Detour written by Lizzie Simon and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the fall of 1999, 23-year-old Simon hit the road on a journey that took her across the United States. Her inspired interviews with other young men and women suffering from manic depression comprise the heart and soul of this remarkable memoir.
Detours
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Author : Tony Evans
language : en
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Release Date : 2017
Detours written by Tony Evans and has been published by B&H Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Religion categories.
Dr. Tony Evans walks readers through what it is like to recognize God's will and his plan for your life.
The Beauty Of Detours
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Author : Yoni Van Den Eede
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2019-12-01
The Beauty Of Detours written by Yoni Van Den Eede and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-01 with Philosophy categories.
Proposes an innovative, holistic understanding of technology. The Beauty of Detours proposes a new way of understanding and defining technology by reading systems thinker Gregory Bateson in the framework of contemporary philosophy of technology. Although “technology” was not an explicit focus of Bateson’s oeuvre, Yoni Van Den Eede shows that his thought is permeated with insights directly relevant to contemporary technological concerns. This book provides a systematic reading of Bateson that reveals these under-investigated elements of his thought. It also critiques the field of philosophy of technology for still reifying “technology” too much despite its attempt to de-reify it, arguing instead that it should incorporate Bateson’s insights and focus more on processes of human knowing. Sketching a Batesonian philosophy of technology, Van Den Eede calls for greater attentiveness to the purpose of technology and its role in our lives. “This book offers a thorough and well-researched dive into Bateson’s thinking on purpose, instrumentalism, technology, and epistemology. It is an important contribution to the discourse on AI and on the rapid development of the tech sector. Philosophically the book tackles difficult systemic questions about technology and addresses them at a much more sophisticated level than most books of its kind.” — Nora Bateson, The International Bateson Institute
Eastwards
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Author : Frank Kraushaar
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2010
Eastwards written by Frank Kraushaar and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Cross-cultural studies categories.
Eastwards is a collection of essays each of whom focuses on a special aspect or on an episode within the cross-cultural narrative that imposes on our minds the terms «West» and «East». The volume assembles seventeen essays by eighteen authors divided into three chapters. Being the outcome of the first international conference for East Asian studies that was held in the Baltic states in 2008 at the University of Latvia in Riga, the volume contains not only contributions by scholars from Vilnius, Tallinn and Riga but also rather rare topics like critiques of translation from Japanese and Classical Chinese into Latvian. The book contains also an essay on the life and personality of an almost neglected Baltic «pioneer» in Manchuria.
Diary Of A Detour
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Author : Lesley Stern
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2020-08-10
Diary Of A Detour written by Lesley Stern and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Diary of a Detour is film scholar and author Lesley Stern's memoir of living with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. She chronicles the fears and daily experience of coming to grips with an incurable form of cancer by describing the dramas and delving into the science. Stern also nudges cancer off center stage by turning to alternative obsessions and pleasures. In seductive writing she describes her life in the garden and kitchen, the hospital and the library, and her travels—down the street to her meditation center, across the border to Mexico, and across the world to Australia. Her immediate world is inhabited with books, movies, politics, and medical reports that provoke essayistic reflections. As her environment is shared with friends, chickens, a cat called Elvis, mountain goats, whales, lions, and microbes the book opens onto a larger than human world. Intimate and meditative, engrossing and singular, Diary of a Detour offers new ideas about what it might mean to live and think with cancer, and with chronic illness more broadly.
Destination Detour
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Author : Ithaka O.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-12-29
Destination Detour written by Ithaka O. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-29 with categories.
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The Art Of Economic Catch Up
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Author : Keun Lee
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-16
The Art Of Economic Catch Up written by Keun Lee and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-16 with Business & Economics categories.
A highly original book that provides policy solutions for development challenges, framing them with insightful and inventive allegories.
My Beautiful Detour
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Author : Amy Oestreicher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-09-16
My Beautiful Detour written by Amy Oestreicher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-16 with categories.
Amy had ambitious plans for college and a Broadway career, until her stomach exploded the week before her senior prom. Months later, she awoke from a coma to learn that she might never be able to eat or drink again. With determination, imagination, relentless resilience, and an inner "hunger" for life, Amy created a roadmap where none existed.