Ο Αυστριακός κοινωνιολόγος, πολιτικός στοχαστής, ιστορικός και δημοσιογράφος Φραντς Μπόρκεναου (1900-1957), ζώντας μέσα από τις ίδιες τις γραμμές της Κομιντέρν, στην οποία υπήρξε ενεργό μέλος μέχρι το 1929, τις δράσεις και τις τακτικές του παγκόσμιου κομμουνιστικού κινήματος, αντιλήφθηκε από νωρίς και είχε το θάρρος να μιλήσει για τον ολοκληρωτικό χαρακτήρα του κομμουνισμού σε μια εποχή, όπου κάτι τέτοιο για τους περισσότερους αριστερούς διανοούμενους θεωρούταν αιρετικό καθώς και προδοσία του κοινού αγώνα κατά του φασισμού. Ο ίδιος υπήρξε ένας από τους πρώτους πολιτικούς στοχαστές που χρησιμοποίησαν τον όρο ολοκληρωτισμός, προκειμένου να περιγράψει και να αναλύσει τον εθνικοσοσιαλισμό και τον μπολσεβικισμό. Το προκείμενο βιβλίο γράφτηκε το 1951, την περίοδο του Ψυχρού Πολέμου κι ενόσω ζούσε ακόμα ο Στάλιν, και αποτελεί μια διεξοδική, πρωτότυπη και τολμηρή για την εποχή της ανάλυση και ιστορία του ευρωπαϊκού κομμουνιστικού κινήματος. Ο Μπόρκεναου ξεκινά την ιστορία του από το 1917, όταν ο Λένιν και το κόμμα του κατέλαβαν την εξουσία στη Ρωσία και δημιούργησαν τις βάσεις της μετέπειτα σταλινικής δικτατορίας. Άλλωστε για τον Μπόρκεναου ο δικτατορικός χαρακτήρας του σοβιετικού καθεστώτος ανάγεται στον ίδιο τον Λένιν και όπως είχε γράψει ήδη το 1938: "Το κράτος που δημιούργησε ο Λένιν δεν ήταν ούτε δημοκρατικό ούτε σοβιετικό, αλλά απλώς ένα κράτος ολοκληρωτικής γραφειοκρατίας" .

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In this book, the author provides an account of three central ideas in the philosophy of action: trying to act, acting or doing, and one’s action causing further consequences. In all three cases, novel theories of these phenomena are offered: trying to act is not a particular mental or physical act but can be explained using conditionals; that action is not the same as causing something to happen; and in the case of a special but important subset of actions, for example the opening of a window, the action is identical to the event of the window’s opening. A result of this last account is that it places actions out in the world, sometimes far removed in time and space from the actor’s body. The world is full of action; actions do not just exist in the many little islands of space and time that all of our bodies inhabit. In the final chapter, Ruben describes and discusses a skeptical challenge to the idea that we can ever know whether or not someone else has acted, rather than just passive events having happened to that person.

"Nietzsche's pre-Dionysian Apollo and the Limits of Contemporary Thought is the first study to place Nietzsche's Dionysian philosophy in the context of Nietzsche's overall thought. It interprets Nietzsche's Dionysian philosophy as a development of Nietzsche's earliest thinking as it is laid out in his school dissertation on Theognis of Megara. As author Carlos A. Segovia contends, the key figure in this early thinking is not Dionysus but Apollo, an earthly Apollo who, despite his partial erasure after The Birth of Tragedy, haunts Nietzsche in his later writings, including his unpublished fragments and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The author also shows that retrieving Nietzsche's pre-Dionysian Apollo can help us move beyond the theoretical limits assumed by today's two major philosophical trends, speculative realism and new materialism, thus stressing Nietzsche's untimeliness from a strictly contemporary standpoint. This book will be essential reading for all interested in Nietzsche and the birth of contemporary philosophy, including graduate students and researchers"--

"Like most of his theatrical pieces, Felix Guattari's Parmenides is a brief but extremely suggestive dialogue that brings life to his concerns about psychoanalysis, semiotics, the history of philosophy, and contemporary post-theatre. Edited by Gary Genosko and Carlos A. Segovia, this volume includes the facsimile edition of the original manuscript followed by its transcription and its annotated translations into English, German, Spanish, Japanese, Polish and Russian. Accompanying commentaries, diagrams, and studies of the text give an incredibly in-depth analysis of Guattari's theatrical work and its significance to his wider body of thought. Among these, Gary Genosko highlights Guattari's engagement with dialogue and language; Carlos A. Segovia examines his elaboration on Greek mythology; and Flore Gacin-Marrou looks at Guattari's role as a playwright among his other literary work, which ranged from screenplays to novels. This volume also includes another of Guattari's short theatrical pieces, Socrates, which was the only one of his plays to reach the stage, and which expands on one of the book's central themes in his dialogue with classical philosophy." -- OCLC.

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Papers presented at the Adolph Lowe symposia held at the New School for Social Research in Feb. and Mar. 1968. Bibliographical footnotes.

A penetrating analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing the Soviet Union during the era of de-Stalinization. The book offers an insightful look into the political and social dynamics of the Soviet Union during a critical time in its history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This is a unique book for parents, educators, and policymakers. It is alone in setting forth a clear presentation of the learning stages through which children must pass in order to become fluent, independently literate readers and writers. It explains the developmental dangers unique to each child that parents and teachers may have to confront, as well as the educational confusions and pathways to success that may determine the educational fate of each child. It illustrates the learning process clearly and nontechnically, and does not hesitate to point to the educational errors as well as successes in the teaching of children to read. It will be controversial because of its clarity and scientific accuracy. This volume brings together the sciences of psycholinguistics and developmental psychology with the practical knowledge of classroom practice in literacy education to create a unique, but accessible explanation of how children learn to read. It explains the necessary educational and pedagogical steps that parents and teachers both can take in assisting the child to make a smooth transition from infant babbler to eight-year-old fluent reader. It also points to the possible developmental as well as educational danger signals that tell us when things are not going as they should and suggests what we can do to overcome the problems, slowdowns, and seeming failures to learn to read and write. This volume discusses such important issues as emergent literacy or reading readiness; phonics and slow reading; fluent reading and the reading system; the dangers of the first-grade Rubicon; reading problems of unique children; the dangers and benefits of Whole Language reading rograms; Reading Recovery for endangered young readers; the role of writing; parents, TV, and the school program. The book is clearly written, uses nontechnical terminology, and should provide teachers and parents a guide to evaluating the progress of youngsters from the time they approach child-care and pre-school stages of socialization to that point where they should be reading independently for pleasure as well as searching for information and subject-matter competency.

Scientific papers which originally appeared in "The Nineteenth Century" and the "British Medical Journal" became more widely available when collected in this volume originally published in 1896. In the preface, the author expresses his hope that these papers "will serve a useful purpose in dissipating some popular errors and a good deal of pseudo-scientific superstition, superimposed on a slender basis of physiological and pathological phenomena. They may be of some use. also, in unmasking a prevalent system of imposture...." Hart's view of the emergence of hypnotism and mesmerism as alternative sciences, includes chapters on "Hypnotism, Animal Magnetism and Hysteria" and "Confessions of a Professional Medium." The appendix to this second edition includes sections on automatic writing, the "eternal gullible," as well as the hypnotism of Trilby. Illustrated throughout with black& white photographs and line-drawings.

Intended for students about to teach elementary school science.

First published in 1949, The Freedom of Necessity explores various aspects of the transformation of human society in the mid-20th century. It deals with themes like man and the world; relevance of science; science and the humanities; science and the arts; organised research for peace; science in economics and politics; the atomic age; Engels and science; Engels' dialectics of nature; and a century of Marxism. This is an important historical reference verb for students of political philosophy, political theory and philosophy.

Whereas science, technology, and medicine have all called forth dedicated philosophical investigations, a fourth major contributor to the technoscientific world in which we all live - that is, engineering - has been accorded almost none of the philosophical attention it deserves. This volume thus offers a first characterisation of this important new field, by some of the primary philosophers and ethicists interested in engineering and leading engineers interested in philosophical reflections. The volume deals with such questions as: What is engineering? In what respect does engineering differ from science? What ethical problems does engineering raise? By what ethical principles are engineers guided? How do engineers themselves conceive of their profession? What do they see as the main philosophical challenges confronting them in the 21st century? The authors respond to these and other questions from philosophical and engineering view points and so illustrate how together they can meet the challenges and realize the opportunities present in the necessary encounters between philosophy and engineering - encounters that are ever more important in an increasingly engineered world and its problematic futures.

The Bion Experiments on the Origin of Life-first published as Die Bione in 1938 in a limited German edition-represents a cornerstone in Reich's scientific development. This work documents a series of experiments conducted in Oslo in 1936-37 in which Reich applied the formula of tension¿charge¿ discharge¿relaxation, derived from his research on the function of the orgasm, to the microscopic biological world, thereby opening a route to the understanding of the origin of life. This work is divided into two parts: the first, a detailed report on the experiments; the second, Reich's conclusions and an exposition of his research method.The Bion Experiments provides a unique insight into Reich's scientific method, and makes available the experimental material essential to understanding his later work with cancer and orgone biophysics.

Book by Singer, S. Fred