The Touch of the Past
Title | The Touch of the Past PDF eBook |
Author | R. Simon |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2016-04-30 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1137115246 |
In Roger Simon's new collection based on ten years of research, the respected scholar reminds us that historically traumatic events simultaneously summon forgetting and remembrance in unique ways. The Touch of the Past explores the ways in which remembrance, consciousness, and history affect how students learn and educators teach. Simon examines how testimonies of historic events influence learning and how communities deal with collective memory. A serious contribution to the research in education and memory and trauma studies from a top philosopher in the field.
Things
Title | Things PDF eBook |
Author | Carolyn Korsmeyer |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0190904879 |
Things: In Touch with the Past explores the value of artifacts that have survived from the past and that can be said to embody their histories. Such genuine or real things afford a particular kind of aesthetic experience-an encounter with the past-despite the fact that genuineness is not a perceptually detectable property. Although it often goes unnoticed, the sense of touch underlies such encounters, even though one is often not permitted literal touch. Carolyn Korsmeyer begins her account with the claim that wonder or marvel at old things fits within an experiential account of the aesthetic. She then presents her main argument regarding the role of touch-both when literal contact is made and when proximity suffices, for touch is a fundamental sense that registers bodily position and location. Correct understanding of the identity of objects is presumed when one values things just because of what they are, and with discovery that a mistake has been made, admiration is often withdrawn. Far from undermining the importance of the genuine, these errors of identification confirm it. Korsmeyer elaborates this position with a comparison between valuing artifacts and valuing persons. She also considers the ethical issues of genuineness, for artifacts can be harmed in various ways ranging from vandalism to botched restoration. She examines the differences between a real thing and a replica in detail, making it clear that genuineness comes in degrees. Her final chapter reviews the ontology that best suits an account of persistence over time of things that are valued for being the real thing.
A Touch of the Past
Title | A Touch of the Past PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 10 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.) |
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Forum
Title | Forum PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 830 |
Release | 1915 |
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A Book of Angels
Title | A Book of Angels PDF eBook |
Author | Sophy Burnham |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2011-03-31 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 1101486473 |
A BOOK OF ANGELS tells not only the extraordinary true stories of present-day encounters with angels, but also traces the understanding and study of angels through history and in different cultures. Discover what angels look like, whom they chose to visit, how they enter our lives, and so much more.
The Forum
Title | The Forum PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 458 |
Release | 1915 |
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Hunting the Wolfe
Title | Hunting the Wolfe PDF eBook |
Author | Kay Hooper |
Publisher | Loveswept |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780553443745 |
As leader of the security team guarding the Bannister collection of priceless gems, Wolfe Nickerson isn't used to being challenged. So when Storm Tremaine dares him to go out on a date, he can't say no. Little does he realize that Storm has a dangerous ulterior motive, one that will jeopardize their chance for love.