[PDF] Theory And Practice Of Contrast eBook

Author : Mariusz Stanowski
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,92 MB
Release : 2021-06-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 100039364X

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The book Theory and Practice of Contrast completes, corrects and integrates the foundations of science and humanities, which include: theory of art, philosophy (aesthetics, epistemology, ontology, axiology), cognitive science, theory of information, theory of complexity and physics. Through the integration of these distant disciplines, many unresolved issues in contemporary science have been clarified or better understood, among others: defining impact (contrast) and using this definition in different fields of knowledge; understanding what beauty/art is and what our aesthetic preferences depend on; deeper understanding of what complexity and information are in essence, and providing their general definitions. Complexity means integration, value and goodness - concepts that seem to be neglected today. The book also has a high degree of integration/complexity, although each chapter introduces a new issue. The last chapter: "Binary Model of the Universe" draws attention to the need for including in physics the analysis of our mind and the resulting new possibilities, which include the mentioned (digital) model of the universe. Despite the difficult issues raised here, this study is written in accessible language and may be interesting not only for scientists and academics.

Author : José María Parramón
Publisher : Watson-Guptill Publications
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,37 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN :

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Everything artists need to know about an important and popular subject. Designed as a complete resource, this book considers every aspect of color: historical, physical, perceptual, aesthetic, and practical. With its numerous step-by-step sequences and illustrations of theory in practice, this guide has everything artists need to gain a mastery of the subject. 400 full-color illustrations.

Author : Jacques Derrida
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 29,84 MB
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 022657248X

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Now in paperback, nine lectures from Jacques Derrida that challenge the influential Marxist distinction between thinking and acting. Theory and Practice is a series of nine lectures that Jacques Derrida delivered at the École Normale Supérieure in 1976 and 1977. The topic of “theory and practice” was associated above all with Marxist discourse and particularly the influential interpretation of Marx by Louis Althusser. Derrida’s many questions to Althusser and other thinkers aim at unsettling the distinction between thinking and acting. Derrida’s investigations set out from Marx’s “Theses on Feuerbach,” in particular the eleventh thesis, which has often been taken as a mantra for the “end of philosophy,” to be brought about by Marxist practice. Derrida argues, however, that Althusser has no such end in view and that his discourse remains resolutely philosophical, even as it promotes the theory/practice pair as primary values. This seminar also draws fascinating connections between Marxist thought and Heidegger and features Derrida’s signature reconsideration of the dichotomy between doing and thinking. This text, available for the first time in English, shows that Derrida was doing important work on Marx long before Specters of Marx. As with the other volumes in this series, it gives readers an unparalleled glimpse into Derrida’s thinking at its best—spontaneous, unpredictable, and groundbreaking.

Author : Peter Westoby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 16,88 MB
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136272844

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This book proposes that community development has been increasingly influenced and co-opted by a modernist, soulless, rational philosophy - reducing it to a shallow technique for ‘solving community problems’. In contrast, this dialogical approach re-maps the ground of community development practice within a frame of ideas such as dialogue, hospitality and depth. For the first time community development practitioners are provided with an accessible understanding of dialogue and its relevance to their practice, exploring the contributions of internationally significant thinkers such as P. Freire, M. Buber, D. Bohm and H.G Gadamer, J. Derrida, G. Esteva and R. Sennett. What makes the book distinctive is that: first, it identifies a dialogical tradition of community development and considers how such a tradition shapes practice within contemporary contexts and concerns – economic, social, political, cultural and ecological. Second, the book contrasts such an approach with technical and instrumental approaches to development that fail to take complex systems seriously. Third, the approach links theory to practice through a combination of storytelling and theory-reflection – ensuring that readers are drawn into a practice-theory that they feel increasingly confident has been 'tried and tested' in the world over the past 25 years.

Author : Frank B. Cross
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 11,37 MB
Release : 2008-11-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 0804769818

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Today, statutes make up the bulk of the relevant law heard in federal courts and arguably represent the most important source of American law. The proper means of judicial interpretation of those statutes have been the subject of great attention and dispute over the years. This book provides new insights into the theory and practice of statutory interpretation by courts. Cross offers the first comprehensive analysis of statutory interpretation and includes extensive empirical evidence of Supreme Court practice. He offers a thorough review of the active disputes over the appropriate approaches to statutory interpretations, namely whether courts should rely exclusively on the text or also examine the legislative history. The book then considers the use of these approaches by the justices of the recent Rehnquist Court and the degree to which they were applied by the justices, either sincerely or in pursuit of an ideological agenda.

Author : J. Bacon
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 30,55 MB
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781334042676

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Excerpt from The Theory of Colouring: Being an Analysis of the Principles of Contrast and Harmony in the Arrangement of Colours, With Their Application to the Study of Nature, and Hints on the Composition of Pictures, Etc The Object of the present handbook is to place before the student, in a short and simple form, the theory Of artistic colouring. There are few who have not felt, in the earlier period of study, the want of general rules to guide them in the composition and arrangement of colour in a picture. Without entering into abstract and abstruse discussions on the nature of colour, a few Of its more practically-impor tant properties are pointed out, and general rules founded upon them. These are made so simple as to be easily understood, and so few as to be readily remembered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : José María Parramón
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 45,95 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Art
ISBN :

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Gives instruction on color in nature and how it can be used to make expressive paintings.