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The Worldmakers
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Author : Ayesha Ramachandran
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015-10-13
The Worldmakers written by Ayesha Ramachandran and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, exciting, and frightening concept, “the world” was transformed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But how could one envision something that no one had ever seen in its totality? The Worldmakers moves beyond histories of globalization to explore how “the world” itself—variously understood as an object of inquiry, a comprehensive category, and a system of order—was self-consciously shaped by human agents. Gathering an international cast of characters, from Dutch cartographers and French philosophers to Portuguese and English poets, Ramachandran describes a history of firsts: the first world atlas, the first global epic, the first modern attempt to develop a systematic natural philosophy—all part of an effort by early modern thinkers to capture “the world” on the page.
The Worldmakers
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Author : Ayesha Ramachandran
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015-10-13
The Worldmakers written by Ayesha Ramachandran and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-13 with History categories.
Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. 'The Worldmakers' moves beyond histories of globalisation to explore how 'the world' itself - variously understood as an object of inquiry, a comprehensive category, and a system of order - was self-consciously shaped by human agents.
Worldmakers
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Author : Gardner Dozois
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2011-04-01
Worldmakers written by Gardner Dozois and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-01 with Fiction categories.
When mankind moves out to the stars, the colonists of the future will remake the worlds they inhabit in their image. Included here are twenty stories from the most imaginative writers in the field: Poul Anderson Cordwainer Smith Arthur C. Clarke Richard McKenna Roger Zelazny John Varley Gregory Benford Ian McDonald Bruce Sterling Charles Sheffield Robert Reed G. David Nordley Joe Haldeman Phillip C. Jennings Geoffrey A. Landis Stephen Baxter William H. Keith, Jr. Kim Stanley Robinson Pamela Sargent Laura J. Mixon These are the stories of the explorers and pioneers who transform their destinations in the image of their distant home--exciting tales of alien landscapes and the struggle to make them suit human desires.
The World Makers
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Author : William Poole
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2010
The World Makers written by William Poole 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 Earth categories.
Examines how the emerging discipline of experimental philosophy reacted to the Biblical Genesis to interpret the physical origin, present status, and final destination of Earth. Looks at the role of the Royal Society of London and men such as Isaac Newton, Robert Hooke, Edmond Halley, and Thomas Burnet in the developing separation of religion and science.
Profiling Society Worldmakers And Their Worlds
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Author : Zdenka Chloubova
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Profiling Society Worldmakers And Their Worlds written by Zdenka Chloubova and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with College attendance categories.
Finally, this study found 'gender (male)', 'epistemological relativism', 'social dominance', 'emotional stability', 'extraversion', 'disagreeableness' and 'conscientiousness' to be the major predictors of worldmaking capital. Students scoring high on worldmaking capital in turn were found to be more academically successful and satisfied with Canadian society, least academically alienated and lower on anomie than students with a low volume of worldmaking capital. These findings are suggestive of a personality and economic class based filtration process within academia, which not only conditions who the worldmakers will be, but the type of world formed.
The World Makers
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Author : John Glasby
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-06-30
The World Makers written by John Glasby and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-30 with Fiction categories.
Earth had been destroyed, but man had built his colonies on Mars and Venus and the far-flung moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Mutation and forced breeding had changed these people so they were no longer human. Clyde Lester, the last man on Earth, had a special problem. From somewhere in space there originated strange radio signals which could only come from beyond the orbit of Pluto, the outermost planet.
Worldmaking After Empire
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Author : Adom Getachew
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-04-28
Worldmaking After Empire written by Adom Getachew 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 2020-04-28 with History categories.
Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable transition from a world of empires to one of nations—a world in which self-determination was synonymous with nation-building—obscure just how radical this change was. Drawing on the political thought of anticolonial intellectuals and statesmen such as Nnamdi Azikiwe, W.E.B Du Bois, George Padmore, Kwame Nkrumah, Eric Williams, Michael Manley, and Julius Nyerere, this important new account of decolonization reveals the full extent of their unprecedented ambition to remake not only nations but the world. Adom Getachew shows that African, African American, and Caribbean anticolonial nationalists were not solely or even primarily nation-builders. Responding to the experience of racialized sovereign inequality, dramatized by interwar Ethiopia and Liberia, Black Atlantic thinkers and politicians challenged international racial hierarchy and articulated alternative visions of worldmaking. Seeking to create an egalitarian postimperial world, they attempted to transcend legal, political, and economic hierarchies by securing a right to self-determination within the newly founded United Nations, constituting regional federations in Africa and the Caribbean, and creating the New International Economic Order. Using archival sources from Barbados, Trinidad, Ghana, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, Worldmaking after Empire recasts the history of decolonization, reconsiders the failure of anticolonial nationalism, and offers a new perspective on debates about today’s international order.
Cultural Ways Of Worldmaking
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Author : Vera Nünning
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2010-06-29
Cultural Ways Of Worldmaking written by Vera Nünning and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Taking as its point of departure Nelson Goodman’s theory of symbol systems as delineated in his seminal book “Ways of Worldmaking”, this volume gauges the possibilities and perspectives offered by the worldmaking approach as a model for the study of culture. Its main objectives are to explore the usefulness and scope of the approach for the study of culture and to supplement Goodman’s philosophy of worldmaking with a number of complementary disciplinary perspectives, literary and cultural approaches, and new questions and applications. It focuses on three key issues or concepts which illuminate ways of worldmaking and their interdisciplinary relevance and ramifications, viz. (1) theoretical approaches to ways of worldmaking, (2) the impact of media on ways of worldmaking, and (3) narratives as ways of worldmaking. The volume serves to demonstrate how specific media and narratives affect the worlds that are created, and shows how these worlds are established as socially relevant. It also illustrates the extent to which ways of worldmaking are imbued with cultural values, and thus inevitably implicated in power relations.
Tense Reference And Worldmaking
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Author : James Alasdair McGilvray
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 1991
Tense Reference And Worldmaking written by James Alasdair McGilvray and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The tenses of natural languages are intimately connected with the abilities we have to relate real or fictional stories that take place outside our immediate temporal or spacial context. While philosophers and cognitive scientists have had difficulty coming to terms with these abilities, James McGilvray maintains that they must be understood before an adequate view of what a tense is can be constructed.
Ways Of Worldmaking
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Author : Nelson Goodman
language : en
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Release Date : 1978-01-01
Ways Of Worldmaking written by Nelson Goodman and has been published by Hackett Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
Provides a workable notion of the kinds of skills and capacities that are central for those who work in the arts.
