"In a few hundred pages Santayana endeavors to sum up the dominant intellectual currents of early twentieth-century thought and trace their implications for American culture, for ethics and religion, for arts and letters, and for philosophy"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"How contemporary artistic practice insists on and models coexistence in the face of the 21st century's monumental migration crises and its alienating and dehumanizing effects"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Uncommon Sense reinvigorates Herbert Marcuse and places his aesthetic theory into practice in relation to contemporary antiracist, environmental, and anti-capitalism activism"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Instead of arguing for a specific animal model, Striedter will review the history and philosophy of animal models in biomedical research, examining their various advantages and limitations"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Stiny extends his arguments around shape grammars outlined in his 2006 book Shape in order to provide insights into visual calculating with rules and grammar in art and design"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"The merging of the autobiographical with the philosophical or theoretical traced through feminist conceptual art, performance art, literature, philosophy, and activism"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A much-needed synthesis of active inference, a theory of mind that addresses cognition, behavior, intelligence, & mental disorders and which can be extended to explain behavior in all living systems"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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How the approaches and methods of think tanks--including systems theory, operational research, and cybernetics--paved the way for a peculiar genre of midcentury modernism. In Think Tank Aesthetics , Pamela Lee traces the complex encounters between Cold War think tanks and the art of that era. Lee shows how the approaches and methods of think tanks--including systems theory, operations research,…
Why we learn the wrong things from narrative history, and how our love for stories is hard-wired. To understand something, you need to know its history. Right? Wrong, says Alex Rosenberg in How History Gets Things Wrong . Feeling especially well-informed after reading a book of popular history on the best-seller list? Don't. Narrative history is always, always wrong. It not just incomplete or i…