Recovering the Human Subject
Title | Recovering the Human Subject PDF eBook |
Author | James Laidlaw |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 207 |
Release | 2018-02-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1108639038 |
This volume responds to the often-proclaimed 'death of the subject' in post-structuralist theorizing, and to calls from across the social sciences for 'post-humanist' alternatives to liberal humanism in a distinctively anthropological manner. It asks: can we use the intellectual resources developed in those approaches and debates to reconstruct a new account of how individual human subjects are contingently put together in diverse historical and ethnographic contexts? Anthropologists know that the people they work with think in terms of particular, distinctive, individual human personalities, and that in times of change and crisis these individuals matter crucially to how things turn out. The volume features a classic essay by Caroline Humphrey, 'Reassembling individual subjects', that provides a focus for the debate, and it brings together a distinguished collection of essays, which exhibit a range of theoretical approaches and rich and varied ethnography.
Recovering the Human Subject
Title | Recovering the Human Subject PDF eBook |
Author | James Laidlaw |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | |
Release | 2019-02 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781108441056 |
This volume responds to the often-proclaimed 'death of the subject' in post-structuralist theorizing, and to calls from across the social sciences for 'post-humanist' alternatives to liberal humanism in a distinctively anthropological manner. It asks: can we use the intellectual resources developed in those approaches and debates to reconstruct a new account of how individual human subjects are contingently put together in diverse historical and ethnographic contexts? Anthropologists know that the people they work with think in terms of particular, distinctive, individual human personalities, and that in times of change and crisis these individuals matter crucially to how things turn out. The volume features a classic essay by Caroline Humphrey, 'Reassembling individual subjects', that provides a focus for the debate, and it brings together a distinguished collection of essays, which exhibit a range of theoretical approaches and rich and varied ethnography.
Recovering the Human Subject
Title | Recovering the Human Subject PDF eBook |
Author | James Laidlaw |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 207 |
Release | 2018-02-15 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1108424961 |
A focused debate on human subjectivity and post-humanism, with a range of theoretical and ethnographic responses to a classic article.
Images of History
Title | Images of History PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Eldridge |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2017-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190847360 |
Human subjects are both formed by historical inheritances and capable of active criticism. Insisting on this fact, Kant and Benjamin each develop powerful, systematic, but sharply opposed accounts of human powers and interests in freedom. A persistent constitutive tension between Kantian and Benjaminan ideals is woven through human life. By examining the two philosophers through this volume, Richard Eldridge attempts to make better sense of the commitment forming, commitment revising, anxious, reflective and acculturated human subjects we are.
Recovery of Wonder
Title | Recovery of Wonder PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth L. Schmitz |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780773528574 |
A reflection on the current thinking about our social, cultural, and natural environment and a significant advance towards a philosophy of the concrete.
The Recovery of Rhetoric
Title | The Recovery of Rhetoric PDF eBook |
Author | Richard H. Roberts |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780813914565 |
Human-Inspired Balancing and Recovery Stepping for Humanoid Robots
Title | Human-Inspired Balancing and Recovery Stepping for Humanoid Robots PDF eBook |
Author | Kaul, Lukas Sebastian |
Publisher | KIT Scientific Publishing |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2019-05-15 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 3731509032 |
Robustly maintaining balance on two legs is an important challenge for humanoid robots. The work presented in this book represents a contribution to this area. It investigates efficient methods for the decision-making from internal sensors about whether and where to step, several improvements to efficient whole-body postural balancing methods, and proposes and evaluates a novel method for efficient recovery step generation, leveraging human examples and simulation-based reinforcement learning.