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Generative Systems Art The Work of Ernest Edmonds

Generative Systems Art The Work of Ernest Edmonds

In this unique book the author explores the history of pioneering computer art and its contribution to art history by way of examining Ernest Edmonds’ art from the late 1960s to the present day. Edmonds’ inventions of new concepts tools and forms of art along with his close involvement with the communities of computer artists constructive artists and computer technologists provides the context for discussion of the origins and implications of the relationship between art and technology. Drawing on interviews with Edmonds and primary research in archives of his work the book offers a new contribution to the history of the development of digital art and places Edmonds’ work in the context of contemporary art history. | Generative Systems Art The Work of Ernest Edmonds

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Chartist Fiction Volume 2: Ernest Jones Woman's Wrongs

Chartist Fiction Volume 2: Ernest Jones Woman's Wrongs

This title was first published in 2001. When the Chartist leader Ernest Jones emerged from prison in 1850 he was determined to capture the public's attention with a controversial and topical novel. The result of his endeavours was the remarkable Woman's Wrongs a series of five tales exploring women's oppression at every level of society from the working class to the aristocracy. Each story presents a graphic often harrowing account of the social economic and emotional victimisation of women and taken together the tales comprise a devastating indictment of Victorian patriarchal attitudes and sexual inequalities. But Jones also shows women's refusal to accept this subjugated role and he creates some of Victorian literature's most subversive and unruly heroines. He draws on sensationalism reportage melodrama and political analysis in order to expose the wrongs done by and to women. | Chartist Fiction Volume 2: Ernest Jones Woman's Wrongs

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Community of Citizens On the Modern Idea of Nationality

Community of Citizens On the Modern Idea of Nationality

In this critically acclaimed work for which she was awarded the Prix de L'Assemblee Nationale in 1994 sociologist Dominique Schnapper offers a learned and concise antidote to contemporary assaults on the nation. Schnapper's arguments on behalf of the modern nation represent at once a learned history of the national ideal a powerful rejoinder to its contemporary critics and a masterful essay in the sociological tradition of Ernest Renan Alexis de Tocqueville Emile Durkheim and Raymond Aron. If Schnapper asserts the fate of liberal democracy is coterminous with that of the national ideal then the nation's fate and the answer to this question must be of pressing interest to us all. Reflecting deeply on both the nation's past and future Schnapper places her hopes in what she terms the community of citizens. No mere exercise in sociological abstraction Schnapper's case for the nation also entails a practical political objective. In a time of radical difference the national ideal may be the last great social unifier. This book deserves a place alongside the works of Elie Kedourie Ernest Gellner Anthony Smith and other classics in the study of nationalism and nationality. This work will be of interest to sociologists historians and political scientists alike. | Community of Citizens On the Modern Idea of Nationality

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Death Dying and Bereavement in a Changing World

Death Dying and Bereavement in a Changing World

In this introductory text on thanatology Alan Kemp continues to take on the central question of mortality: the centrality of death coupled with the denial of death in the human experience. Drawing from the work of Ernest Becker Death Dying and Bereavement in a Changing World provides a multidisciplinary and multidimensional approach to the study of death putting extra emphasis on the how death takes place in a rapidly changing world. This new second edition includes the most up-to-date research data and figures related to death and dying. New research on the alternative death movement natural disaster-related deaths and cannabis as a form of treatment for life-threatening illnesses and updated research on physician-assisted suicide as well as on grief as it relates to the DSM-5 have been added.

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Chartist Fiction Volume Two

Chartist Fiction Volume Two

First published in 2001. When the Chartist leader Ernest Jones emerged from prison in 1850 he was determined to capture the public’s attention with a controversial and topical novel. The result of his endeavours was the remarkable Woman’s Wrongs a series of five tales exploring women’s oppression at every level of society from the working class to the aristocracy. Each story presents a graphic often harrowing account of the social economic and emotional victimization of women and taken together the tales comprise a devastating indictment of Victorian patriarchal attitudes and sexual inequalities. In his substantial Introduction Ian Haywood places the novel in the context of Jones’s career as a Chartist author and editor and in the wider context of the ‘woman question’. Some of the topics covered by the Introduction include: the radical press and popular enlightenment Jones’s rivalry with George W. M. Reynolds and the needlewoman as radical icon. This title will be of interest to students of history. | Chartist Fiction Volume Two

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The Film Business A History of British Cinema 1896-1972

The Film Business A History of British Cinema 1896-1972

First published in 1973 The Film Business makes a factual survey of British films from their beginnings in 1896 to 1972. Ernest Betts offers character studies of men who have built the film industry and made it what it is. He examines the financial and political background and shows how while intending to encourage film production it has often had exactly the opposite effect and inhibited its free development. Betts also attacks the manner in which the American film industry has taken over the British film industry and points to the failure of successive governments to save it from repeated crises and losses. Through these fluctuations the author keeps a firm eye on the film itself and brings the judgement of film critics past and present to bear on British cinema as it moves uncertainly and not without its triumphs into the 1970s. This is an interesting read for students and scholars of film studies British film history and British cinema. | The Film Business A History of British Cinema 1896-1972

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Jewish Economies (Volume 2) Development and Migration in America and Beyond: Comparative Perspectives on Jewish Migration

Jewish Economies (Volume 2) Development and Migration in America and Beyond: Comparative Perspectives on Jewish Migration

Nobel Laureate Simon Kuznets famous as the founder of modern empirical economics pioneered the quantitative study of the economic history of the Jews. Yet until now his most important work on the subject was unpublished. This second collection of previously unavailable material issued by Transaction brings to the public for the first time the most important economic work written on Jewish migration since that of Werner Sombart a century ago. This volume of Kuznets' work includes three main essays. The first titled Immigration and the Foreign Born was Kuznets' first work on immigration and discusses the impact of the general foreign born on the U. S. Kuznets and his co-author Ernest Rubin offer the essay as a quantitative antidote to the misinformation that led many Jews to support the restrictions ending Jewish migration in the 1920s. The second Israel's Economic Development discusses the impact of mass immigration and other factors on Israeli productivity providing in English for the first time one of the first detailed studies of the economic development of the state of Israel. The final essay on Immigration of Russian Jews to the United States is the most famous of Kuznets' writings and provides a clear view backed by a seminal paper that launched the contemporary social scientific study of Jewry. It discusses the details of the labor force skills and general structure of Eastern European Jewish immigrants to the U. S. | Jewish Economies (Volume 2) Development and Migration in America and Beyond: Comparative Perspectives on Jewish Migration

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The Oedipus Complex Focus of the Psychoanalysis-Anthropology Debate

The Oedipus Complex Focus of the Psychoanalysis-Anthropology Debate

This book examines the contentious relationship between psychoanalysis and anthropology as it has played out in disputes surrounding the Oedipus complex. Here Éric Smadja explores the complicated historical and epistemological conditions leading up to the emergence of the conflict between the two disciplines. He considers the origins of each science the creation of the Oedipus complex and the place role and influence of Freud’s key and controversial work Totem and Taboo both in the history of psychoanalysis and as it connects with anthropology internationally. Focusing on such key figures as Bronislaw Malinowski Ernest Jones Franz Boas Georges Devereux Emile Durkheim Claude Levi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan Smadja charts the course of the debate as it unfolded during the twentieth century and tracks its contemporary status of the debate with a focus on figures in both France and the United States. Discussing the divergences and convergences between the two fields he compares and contrasts their historical epistemological and methodological features and reflects on the new acculturative disciplines emerging from their interaction. The book concludes with a look at what the conflictual history of these two human sciences can tell us about the history of ideas and their processes and modes of communication. Exploring a dispute which reaches back to the very beginnings of psychoanalysis and anthropology The Oedipus Complex will appeal to psychoanalysts in practice and in training psychotherapists and academics and students of psychoanalytic studies anthropology and the history of ideas. | The Oedipus Complex Focus of the Psychoanalysis-Anthropology Debate

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Psychoanalytic Thinking A Dialectical Critique of Contemporary Theory and Practice

Psychoanalytic Thinking A Dialectical Critique of Contemporary Theory and Practice

A video of Don Carveth discussing the book and its subject matter can be accessed using the following web URL: https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=yW7tGq0uEtU Since the classical Freudian and ego psychology paradigms lost their position of dominance in the late 1950s psychoanalysis became a multi-paradigm science with those working in the different frameworks increasingly engaging only with those in the same or related intellectual silos. Beginning with Freud’s theory of human nature and civilization Psychoanalytic Thinking: A Dialectical Critique of Contemporary Theory and Practice proceeds to review and critically evaluate a series of major post-Freudian contributions to psychoanalytic thought. In response to the defects blind spots and biases in Freud’s work Melanie Klein Wilfred Bion Jacques Lacan Erich Fromm Donald Winnicott Heinz Kohut Heinrich Racker Ernest Becker amongst others offered useful correctives and innovations that are nevertheless themselves in need of remediation for their own forms of one-sidedness. Through Carveth’s comparative exploration readers will acquire a sense of what is enduringly valuable in these diverse psychoanalytic contributions as well as exposure to the dialectically deconstructive method of critique that Carveth sees as central to psychoanalytic thinking at its best. Carveth violates the taboo against speaking of the Imaginary Symbolic and the Real unless one is a Lacanian or the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions unless one is a Kleinian or id ego superego ego-ideal and conscience unless one is a Freudian ego psychologist and so on. Out of dialogue and mutual critique psychoanalysis can over time separate the wheat from the chaff collect the wheat and approach an ever-evolving synthesis. Psychoanalytic Thinking: A Dialectical Critique of Contemporary Theory and Practice will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists and more broadly to readers in philosophy social science and critical social theory. | Psychoanalytic Thinking A Dialectical Critique of Contemporary Theory and Practice

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The Discovery of the Self A Study in Psychological Cure

The Discovery of the Self A Study in Psychological Cure

Elizabeth Severn known as R. N. in Sandor Ferenczi’s Clinical Diary was Ferenczi’s analysand for eight years the patient with whom he conducted his controversial experiment in mutual analysis and a psychoanalyst in her own right who had a transformative influence on his work. The Discovery of the Self is the distillation of that experience and allows us to hear the voice of one of the most important patients in the history of psychoanalysis. However Freud branded Severn Ferenczi’s evil genius and her name does not appear in Ernest Jones’s biography so she has remained largely unknown until now. This book is a reissue of Severn’s landmark work of 1933 together with an introduction by Peter L. Rudnytsky that sets out the unrecognized importance of her thinking both for the development of psychoanalysis and for contemporary theory. Inspired by the realization that Severn has embedded disguised case histories both of herself and of Ferenczi as well as of her daughter Margaret Rudnytsky shows how The Discovery of the Self contains the other side of the story of mutual analysis and is thus an indispensable companion volume to the Clinical Diary. A full partner in Ferenczi’s rehabilitation of trauma theory and champion of the view that the analyst must participate in the patient’s reliving of past experiences Severn emerges as the most profound conduit for Ferenczi’s legacy in the United States if not in the entire world. Lacking any institutional credentials and once completely marginalized Elizabeth Severn can at long last be given her due as a formidable psychoanalyst. Newly available for the first time in more than eighty years The Discovery of the Self is simultaneously an engaging introduction to psychotherapy that will appeal to general readers as well as a sophisticated text to be savored by psychoanalytic scholars and clinicians as a prequel to the works of Heinz Kohut and a neglected classic of relational psychoanalysis. | The Discovery of the Self A Study in Psychological Cure

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The Strategy of Desire

The Strategy of Desire

Ernest Dichter is famous as one of the founding fathers of motivational research. In applying the social sciences to a variety of problems Dichter emphasized new approaches to problem solving advertising politics and selling and issues of social significance such as urban renewal productivity and drug addiction. As an author and corporate adviser he used psychoanalytic theory and depth interviewing to uncover unconsciously held attitudes and beliefs. He goal was to help explain why people act the way they do and how positive behavioral change might be achieved. In The Strategy of Desire Dichter both counters the argument that motivational research amounts to manipulation and shows how the understanding and modification of human behavior is necessary for progress. Dichter's survey and analysis of behavior ranges widely. He examines everyday matters of product choice as well as such broad civic issues as voter participation religious toleration and racial understanding. He shows that in order to achieve socially constructive goals it is necessary to move beyond theological exhortation which takes an unrealistic view of human morality as well as beyond the limits of empirically oriented social science research which only deals in appearances. Dichter sees human action as rooted in irrational and often unconscious motivation which can usually be uncovered if the correct approach is used. In his consumer research he analyzes the nonutilitarian importance of objects in everyday life as well as how products and materials become bound with emotional resonance or acquire different meanings from different contexts or points of view. Dichter shows that success depends on the satisfaction of desires and a movement beyond the ethic of work and saving. Arguing that in an increasingly technological world progress and social harmony are materially based he advocates a morality of the good life in which prosperity and leisure lead to greater human self-assurance in the face of change. First published in 1960 The Strategy of Desire is especially timely in the age of the Internet and ever-increasing effect of sophisticated computer technology on consumer culture.

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Antioch A History

Antioch A History

Winner of ASOR's 2022 G. Ernest Wright Award for the most substantial volume dealing with archaeological material excavation reports and material culture from the ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean. This is a complete history of Antioch one of the most significant major cities of the eastern Mediterranean and a crossroads for the Silk Road from its foundation by the Seleucids through Roman rule the rise of Christianity Islamic and Byzantine conquests to the Crusades and beyond. Antioch has typically been treated as a city whose classical glory faded permanently amid a series of natural disasters and foreign invasions in the sixth and seventh centuries CE. Such studies have obstructed the view of Antioch’s fascinating urban transformations from classical to medieval to modern city and the processes behind these transformations. Through its comprehensive blend of textual sources and new archaeological data reanalyzed from Princeton’s 1930s excavations and recent discoveries this book offers unprecedented insights into the complete history of Antioch recreating the lives of the people who lived in it and focusing on the factors that affected them during the evolution of its remarkable cityscape. While Antioch’s built environment is central the book also utilizes landscape archaeological work to consider the city in relation to its hinterland and numismatic evidence to explore its economics. The outmoded portrait of Antioch as a sadly perished classical city par excellence gives way to one in which it shines as brightly in its medieval Islamic Byzantine and Crusader incarnations. Antioch: A History offers a new portal to researching this long-lasting city and is also suitable for a wide variety of teaching needs both undergraduate and graduate in the fields of classics history urban studies archaeology Silk Road studies and Near Eastern/Middle Eastern studies. Just as importantly its clarity makes it attractive for and accessible to a general readership outside the framework of formal instruction. | Antioch A History

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