Peter Kemp – författare

This Companion is part of the Oxford Reference Collection: using sustainable print-on-demand technology to make the acclaimed backlist of the Oxford Reference programme perennially available in hardback format.The most comprehensive and authoritative reference book of its kind, The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea was first published in 1976 to huge acclaim, hailed as 'a beguiling book' (Daily Telegraph), 'marvellous' (The Times), and 'totally absorbing' (Financial Times). This second edition was published in 2006 and brought together more than 2,600 entries on every imaginable aspect of the seas and the vessels that sail on them, from shipbuilding, yachting, diving, and marine mammals, to tidal power, piracy, and the literature and language of the sea.This edition provides significant material on topics that have come to prominence in recent times, such as oceanography and marine archaeology: key contributions on these subjects from marine expert Dr Martin Angel at Southampton Oceanography Centre include climate change, environmental issues, marine pollution, and marine wildlife. Entries added to this edition are underwater vehicles, tsunamis, warfare at sea, marine pollution, the Economic Exclustion Zone, and ship preservation.This Companion also includes authoritative and fascinating entries on maritime history: its naval battles, its great ships, from Noah's Ark and the Bounty to the Titanic and the Mary Rose; and its most famous individuals, both real and fictional, including Christopher Columbus, Horatio Nelson, and Robinson Crusoe.Entries are fully cross-referenced, and the text is illustrated with over 260 detailed drawings.

The essential companion for lovers of the contemporary novel  Over the past fifty years, fiction in English has never looked more various. Books bulkier than Victorian three-deckers appear alongside works of minimalist brevity, and experiments with form have produced everything from verse novels to Twitter-thread narratives. This is truly a golden age. But what unites this kaleidoscopic array of genres and styles? Celebrated writer and critic Peter Kemp shows how modern writers are obsessed with the past. In a series of engaging and illuminating chapters, Retroland traces this novelistic preoccupation with history, from the imperial and the political to the personal and the literary. Featuring famous names from across the United Kingdom, United States, and the wider Anglophone world, ranging from Salman Rushdie to Sarah Waters, Toni Morrison to Hilary Mantel, this is a work of remarkable synthesis and clarity—a wonderfully readable and enjoyably opinionated guide to our current literary landscape.

'...an admirable exposition of the Wellsian ambiguities...' - Anthony Burgess, Observer H.G. Wells's view of the world - and hence his writing - was strongly influenced by the biologist's training he received during his three years as a student as the Normal School of Science, South Kensington (now Imperial College, London). Those things which a creature needs in order for it and its species to thrive get particular attention in Wells's books. Tracing biological themes through Wells's work, as Peter Kemp does here, shows the pattern of his thought and brings to light the bizarre workings of a fascinating imagination. For the book's reissue in paperback, an afterword has been added.

In this book philosophers try to answer the following question: What is globalization and what does "globe" or "world" (monde) signify? Rémi Brague returns to the Greek idea of the cosmos in order to track the worldhood (mondanéité) of the world, that is, the process by which the idea of the world is formed. Don Ihde shows how a world has developed, in which technologies are no longer considered neutral means serving the ends of human action, but become the very means by which people exist in the world. Vittorio Mathieu describes the economical world at two levels – that of the individual and that of society. Tomonobu Imamichi analyses the capacity of aesthetic experience to disclose a world other than the world of technological efficiency. Francisco Miró Quesada C. emphasises that the great political questions are not solvable without worldviews that express value systems. David Rasmussen describes sensus communis as a cosmopolitan concept, which founds a political globalization of the world. And Peter Kemp attempts to grasp the meaning of that globalization upon which the destiny of our planet depends.

In this book philosophers try to answer the following question: What is globalization and what does "globe" or "world" (monde) signify? Remi Brague returns to the Greek idea of the cosmos in order to track the worldhood (mondaneite) of the world, that is, the process by which the idea of the world is formed. Don Ihde shows how a world has developed, in which technologies are no longer considered neutral means serving the ends of human action, but become the very means by which people exist in the world. Vittorio Mathieu describes the economical world at two levels -- that of the individual and that of society. Tomonobu Imamichi analyses the capacity of aesthetic experience to disclose a world other than the world of technological efficiency. Francisco Miro Quesada C. emphasises that the great political questions are not solvable without worldviews that express value systems. David Rasmussen describes sensus communis as a cosmopolitan concept, which founds a political globalization of the world. And Peter Kemp attempts to grasp the meaning of that globalization upon which the destiny of our planet depends.

Idén om världsmedborgaren framspringer ur drömmen om en mänsklig gemenskap i en och samma värld. Peter Kemp skildrar idéns utveckling från antiken till upplysningen, från stoikerna till Kant, och hur den förs vidare av samtida politiska tänkare. Men han nöjer sig inte med att skriva idéns historia utan försöker konkretisera den i förhållande till dagens globala problem: den transnationella ekonomin, sammanstötningarna mellan nationer och kulturer, hoten mot en hållbar utveckling. För Kant var världsmedborgaren ett pedagogiskt ideal. I föreläsningar om pedagogik, som hans elever utgav 1803, heter det: »Föräldrarna sörjer för hemmet, furstarna för staten. Ingen av dem har som överordnat mål det som är bäst för världen eller den fulländning som mänskligheten är bestämd till och har anlag för. Utkastet till en plan för uppfostran måste därför bli kosmopolitiskt.» Med andra ord kan idealet för bildning och utbildning inte bara gälla hemmet och staten, utan måste vara det som är bäst för världen och mänskligheten, och därför kan det endast bestå i att barnet och eleven blir till världsmedborgare. Kemp tar upp den här tråden från Kant. Mot bakgrund av världsmedborgar-idéns historia och de utmaningar som tvingar vår tids människor att tänka kosmopolitiskt, vänder han sig till den pedagogiska frågan om vad det betyder att fostra till världsmedborgarskap. Med utgångspunkt i hermeneutiken och särskilt Paul Ric?urs tänkande skisserar Kemp grunddragen i en pedagogisk filosofi som har bildandet av världsmedborgare som ideal.

Peter Kemps bok om Lévinas är en mycket tät, men klargörande genomgång av hans tankar, deras rötter och vidare liv hos andra tänkare. Den franske filosofen Emmanuel Lévinas intresse är relationen mellan människor - ett etiskt förhållande som är ansiktenas möte, ett möte mellan fyra ögon. Det är en välkommen introduktion. Lévinas prosa är, som en del andra filosofers (inte minst de franska), ganska svårtillgänglig. Men hans tankar känns angelägna i tider av växande främlingsfientlighet och etniska konflikter. Göran Dahlberg, Bohusläningen