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Format: 1 online resource (xiii, 154 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 9780511484315 (ebook)

Series Statement: Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 34

Content: This ambitious study, first published in 1999, argues that our conception of the aesthetic sphere emerged during the era of British and German Romanticism from conflicts between competing models of the liberal state and the cultural nation. The aesthetic sphere is thus centrally connected to 'aesthetic statism', which is the theoretical project of reconciling conflicts in the political sphere by appealing to the unity of the symbol. David Kaiser traces the trajectory of aesthetic statism from Schiller and Coleridge, through Arnold, Mill and Ruskin, to Adorno and Habermas. He analyses how the concept of aesthetic autonomy shifts from being a supplement to the political sphere to an end in itself; this shift lies behind the problems that contemporary literary theory has faced in its attempts to connect the aesthetic and political spheres. Finally, he suggests that we rethink the aesthetic sphere in order to regain that connection.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). , Modernity, subjectivity, liberalism, and nationalism -- The symbol and the aesthetic sphere -- Schiller's aesthetic state -- Symbol, state, and Clerisy: the aesthetic politics of Coleridge -- The best self and the private self: Matthew Arnold on culture and the state -- Aesthetic kingship and queenship: Ruskin on the state and the home -- The aesthetic and political spheres in contemporary theory: Adorno and Habermas.

Additional Edition: Print version: ISBN 9780521630009

Language: English

URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511484315

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Format: 1 online resource (xix, 469 p.) : , ill.

ISBN: 9780226422657 (ebook) :

Content: Focusing on the dispersal of Feynman diagrams in postwar physics, David Kaiser explores how the discipline developed in the United States & how Feynman Diagrams evolved in the physics vernacular.

Additional Edition: Print version ISBN 9780226422664

Language: English

Subjects: History , Physics

URL: Chicago scholarship online

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Format: 1 online resource (vi, 426 p. ) , ill. ;

ISBN: 0-262-27668-2 , 1-4237-2997-8

Series Statement: Inside technology

Content: "Pedagogy and the Practice of Science provides the first sustained examination of how scientists and engineers training shapes their research and careers. The wide-ranging essays move pedagogy to the center of science, studies, asking where questions of scientists' training should fit into our studies of the history, sociology, and anthropology of science. Chapter authors examine the deep interrelations among training, learning, and research and consider how the form of scientific training affects the content of science. They investigate types of training - in cultural and political settings as varied as Victorian Britain, interwar Japan, Stalinist Russia, and Cold War America - and the resulting scientific practices.

Content: The fields they examine span the modern physical sciences, ranging from theoretical physics to electrical engineering and from nuclear weapons science to quantum chemistry."--Jacket.

Note: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , Moving pedagogy from the periphery to the center / , Beilstein unbound : the pedagogical unraveling of a man and his Handbuch / , Making tools travel : pedagogy and the transfer of skills in postwar theoretical physics / , Pedagogy of diminishing returns : scientific involution across three generations of nuclear weapons science / , Fear, shunning, and valuelessness : controversy over the use of "Cambridge" mathematics in late Victorian electro-technology / , Geist in the institute : the production of quantum physicists in 1930s Japan / , Instruments in training : the growth of American probe microscopy in the 1980s / , Power of didactic writings : French chemistry textbooks of the nineteenth century / , "Think less about foundations" : a short course on Landau and Lifshitz's Course of Theoretical Physics / , In the "context of pedagogy" : teaching strategy and theory change in quantum chemistry / , Foundations of a canon : Kohlrausch's Practical Physics / , Generating high-energy physics in Japan : moral imperatives of a future pluperfect / , Kuhn, Foucault, and the power of pedagogy / , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-262-11288-4

Language: English

Keywords: History.

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Format: 1 online resource (536 pages)

ISBN: 9780674039285

Content: Intro -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- PART I: CRIMINALS, CUBANS, KENNEDYS, AND THE CIA -- 1. Organized Crime in the 1950s -- 2. Castro Takes Power -- 3. The CIA Enlists the Mob -- 4. The Kennedys Take Over -- 5. Operation Mongoose -- 6. Crusaders and Gangsters -- 7. The Mob Enlists the CIA -- PART II: LEE HARVEY OSWALD -- 8. A Defector Returns -- 9. The Big Easy -- 10. Oswald Exposed -- 11. The Odio Incident -- 12. Journey to Mexico -- PART III: CONVERGING PATHS -- 13. Making Everyone Unhappy about Cuba -- 14. Turning Up the Heat -- 15. Countdown to Catastrophe -- 16. Three Days in November -- 17. Keeping Secrets -- Conclusion -- Note on Sources -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

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Additional Edition: ISBN 9780674034723

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780674034723

Language: English

URL: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=3300172

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Format: 509 p., [16] p. : , ill., maps.

Edition: Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

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Format: 1 online resource (268 pages)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 0-262-37139-1 , 0-262-37140-5

Content: "A comprehensive and engaging book about renowned mathematical physicist Freeman Dyson, curated and edited by MIT physicist and historian of science David Kaiser, and with contributions from notable science communicators, including Dyson's children"--

Note: Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. That Secret Club of Heretics and Rebels -- 2. Calculation and Reckoning: Navigating Science, War, and Guilt -- 3. The First Apprentice -- 4. A Frog among Birds: Dyson as a Mathematical Physicist -- 5. Single Stage to Saturn: Project Orion, 1957-1965 -- 6. Dyson, Warfare, and the Jasons -- 7. A Warm Little Pond: Dyson and the Origins of Life -- 8. The Cosmic Seer -- 9. A Bouquet of Dyson -- Coda: Not the End -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Index.

Additional Edition: Print version: Kaiser, David Well, Doc, You're In : MIT Press,c2022 ISBN 9780262047340

Language: English

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Format: vi, 207 p. : , ill.

Edition: Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

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Format: xiii, 154 p.

Edition: Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Series Statement: Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 34

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource(V, 108 p. 13 illus., 8 illus. in color.)

Edition: 1st ed. 2024.

ISBN: 9783031529627

Series Statement: PoliMI SpringerBriefs

Content: Introduction: What Improving Technology through Ethics Means -- An Ethnographer Among the Engineers: Doing STS at a Technical University -- Future Medicine: Towards a More Conscious and Ethical Communication -- Data Quality, Data Diversity and Data Provenance: An Ethical Perspective -- Ethics-aware Application of Digital Technologies in the Construction Industry -- Drawing Together: Technology Development for Public Service -- Addressing Big Data Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa for Responsible AI Development -- Social and Technological Innovation: Cross-Fertilization Needed.

Content: This book deals with the ethics of technology and addresses specific ethical problems related to some emerging technologies, mainly in the field of computer science (from machine learning models to extracting value from data to human–robot interaction). The contributions are authored mainly by scholars in ICT and other engineering fields who reflect on ethical and societal issues emerging from their own research activity. Thus, rather uniquely, the work overcomes the traditional divide between pure ethical theory that disregards what practitioners do and mere R&D practice that ignores what theorists conceptualize. Conversely, the reader is enabled to understand what ethics means when it is actually put into work by engineering researchers. The book arises from a joint program between MIT and Politecnico di Milano aimed at training early career researchers in addressing the ethical issues of technology and critically reflecting on the social impacts of the emerging, and even disruptive, technologies they are currently developing through their novel research. Overall, it aims at spreading the task of developing technologies that, from the beginning, are designed to be responsible for human life, society, and nature.

Additional Edition: ISBN 9783031529610

Additional Edition: ISBN 9783031529634

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783031529610

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783031529634

Language: English

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-52962-7

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Format: 1 online resource (157 pages)

ISBN: 0-262-35330-X , 0-262-35329-6

Series Statement: The MIT Press

Content: A physicist's efforts to understand the enigma that is quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics is one of the glories of our age. The theory lies at the heart of modern society. Quantum mechanics is one of our most valuable forecasters--a "great predictor." It has immeasurably altered our conception of the natural world. Its philosophical implications are earthshaking. But quantum mechanics steadfastly refuses to speak of many things; it deals in probabilities rather than giving explicit descriptions. It never explains. Einstein, one of its creators, considered the theory incomplete. Even now, many years after the creation of quantum mechanics, physicists continue to argue about it. Astrophysicist George Greenstein has been both fascinated and confused by quantum mechanics for his entire career. In this book, he describes, engagingly and accessibly, his efforts to understand the enigma that is quantum mechanics. The fastest route to the insight into the ultimate nature of reality revealed by quantum mechanics, Greenstein writes, is through Bell's Theorem, which concerns reality at the quantum level; and Bell's 1964 discovery drives Greenstein's quest. Greenstein recounts a scientific odyssey that begins with Einstein, continues with Bell, and culminates with today's push to develop an industry of quantum machines. Along the way, he discusses spin, entanglement, experimental metaphysics, and quantum teleportation, often with easy-to-grasp analogies. We have known for decades that the world of the quantum was strange, but, Greenstein says, not until John Bell came along did we know just how strange.

Note: The great predictor – Silence – Half a theory? – The Solvay Battles – Spin – An impoverished language? – The EPR paradox – Hidden variables – A hidden variable theory – Bell’s theorem – Stigma –Experimental -- …Metaphysics – Nonlocality – Quantum machines – A new universe. , Also available in print.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-262-03993-1

Language: English