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Reading the Islamic City
Discursive Practices and Legal Judgment
Inbunden, 2011
1242 kr
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Reading the Islamic City offers insights into the implications the practices of the Maliki school of Islamic law have for the inhabitants of the Islamic city, the madinah. The problematic term madinah fundamentally indicates a phenomenon of building, dwelling, and urban settlement patterns that …
Mysticism and Architecture
Wittgenstein and the Meanings of the Palais Stonborough
Av Roger Paden
Häftad, 2007
735 kr
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Mysticism and Architecture: Wittgenstein and the Palais Stonborough is a multi-disciplinary study of the Viennese palais that the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein helped design and build for his sister shortly after he abandoned philosophy for more practical activities and during the period that …
When France Was King of Cartography
The Patronage and Production of Maps in Early Modern France
Häftad, 2007
735 kr
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Geographical works, as socially constructed texts, provide a rich source for historians and historians of science investigating patronage, the governmental initiatives and support for science, and the governmental involvement in early modern commerce. Over the course of nearly two centuries …
Environmental Dilemmas
Ethical Decision Making
Av Robert Mugerauer, Lynne Manzo
Häftad, 2008
855 kr
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Because many people and ecosystems share—or constitute—any given place, they all have a stake in the outcome of what any of us do in regard to environmental problems. It is not surprising that issues are hotly contested given the many divergent interests, needs, and preferences of a community's …
Timespace of Human Activity
On Performance, Society, and History as Indeterminate Teleological Events
Inbunden, 2010
1562 kr
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This book shows that a concept of activity timespace drawn from the work of Martin Heidegger provides new insights into the nature of activity, society, and history. Although the book is a work of theory, it has significant implications for the determination and course, not just of activity, but of …
Spoil Island
Reading the Makeshift Archipelago
Inbunden, 2013
1703 kr
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Is there an allure of spoiled places? Spoil islands are overlooked places that combine dirt with paradise, waste-land with “brave new world,” and wildness with human intervention. Although they are mundane products of dredging, these islands form an uninvestigated archipelago that demonstrates the …
Timespace of Human Activity
On Performance, Society, and History as Indeterminate Teleological Events
Häftad, 2012
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643 kr
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This book shows that a concept of activity timespace drawn from the work of Martin Heidegger provides new insights into the nature of activity, society, and history. Although the book is a work of theory, it has significant implications for the determination and course, not just of activity, but of …
Remembering Places
A Phenomenological Study of the Relationship between Memory and Place
Inbunden, 2014
1350 kr
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This book is a phenomenological investigation of the interrelations of tradition, memory, place and the body. Drawing upon philosophers such as Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, and Ricoeur, Janet Donohoe uses the idea of a palimpsest to argue that layers of the past are carried along as …
Remembering Places
A Phenomenological Study of the Relationship between Memory and Place
Häftad, 2016
615 kr
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This book is a phenomenological investigation of the interrelations of tradition, memory, place and the body. Drawing upon philosophers such as Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, and Ricoeur, Janet Donohoe uses the idea of a palimpsest to argue that layers of the past are carried along as …
Urbanizing Carescapes of Hong Kong
Two Systems, One City
Häftad, 2019
574 kr
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Drawing upon the massive redevelopment catalyzed by the government-led urban renewal in Hong Kong in the past two decades, Shu-Mei Huang recharges the story of post-colonial Hong Kong through care, displacement, and how care is displaced in urban governance. Theorizing “carescapes” as a heuristic …
Toward a Directionalist Theory of Space
On Going Nowhere
Häftad, 2022
517 kr
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In Toward a Directionalist Theory of Space: On Going Nowhere, H. Scott Hestevold formulates a new relationalist theory of space by appealing to the view that the universe is directioned in the sense that there exist directional relations—a class of spatial relations that Leibniz overlooked. …
American Camino
Walking as Spiritual Practice on the Appalachian Trail
Av Kip Redick
Inbunden, 2023
1353 kr
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Hikers have been walking the Appalachian Trail since 1948, when Earl Shaffer completed the first hike. Some hike just to enjoy the scenery, while others experience the trek as a spiritual journey. In American Camino: Walking as Spiritual Practice on the Appalachian Trail, Kip Redick engages in a …
On Dwelling
Poetry, Place, and Politics
Inbunden, 2023
1311 kr
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On Dwelling: Poetry, Place, and Politics unfolds the meaning of dwelling as both being in the world, and being on the earth with others. Dennis E. Skocz traces a path from the places we call home, through the global market place (said to foster a “world without borders”), to the planet we …
Lines to Place
Topo-Analytical Writing
Av Klaske Havik
Inbunden, 2027
1200 kr
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Offers an investigation into the use of literary language for its potential to dwell on the ambiguities and complexities of architectural experience.At the edge of academic research, where impressions can be verbalized in language, where the experience of architecture meets the capacity to reflect …
Place of the Mosque
Genealogies of Space, Knowledge, and Power
Inbunden, 2022
1282 kr
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The Place of the Mosque: Genealogies of Space, Knowledge, and Power extends Foucault’s analysis, Of Other Spaces, and the “ideological conflicts which underlie the controversies of our day [and] take place between pious descendants of time and tenacious inhabitants of space.” This book uses …
Place of the Mosque
Genealogies of Space, Knowledge, and Power
Häftad, 2024
460 kr
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The Place of the Mosque: Genealogies of Space, Knowledge, and Power extends Foucault’s analysis, Of Other Spaces, and the “ideological conflicts which underlie the controversies of our day [and] take place between pious descendants of time and tenacious inhabitants of space.” This book uses …
Architecture after Arendt
The New Spaces of Appearance
Inbunden, 2027
1200 kr
Kommande
This book brings an Arendtian lens to architectural inquiry, as the discipline confronts the legacies of material extraction, indigenous dispossession, and energy intensive design ideals. Hannah Arendt was an imminently spatial theorist. Her reflections on the space of appearance, a radical …
