transcript verlag jun 2018 (2 résultats)

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -What does it mean to possess integrity In the late-modern era of capitalism it is becoming increasingly difficult to retain one's `integrity'. Growing social disintegration and alienation mean that personal attributes such as 'incorruptibility', `remaining truthful to oneself', 'honesty', integrity, and 'inviolability' have become increasingly important. To date, there has been no philosophical theory that has managed to comprehensively illuminate and convey these different dimensions of meaning related to the term integrity. With 'Integrity', we now have the first German-language monograph on the subject, which opens up a perspective on the threats and damage to integrity that are typical of our time.transcript Verlag, Hermannstraße 26, 33602 Bielefeld 408 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Since the introduction of photography by commercial studio photographers and the colonial state in Kenya, this global medium has been intensely debated and contested among Muslims on the cosmopolitan East African coast. This book does not only explore the making, circulation, and consumption of popular photographs, but also the other side, their rejection and obliteration, an essential aspect of a medium's history that should not be neglected. It deals with various »social spaces of refusal« in the local Muslim milieu and in that of »traditional« spirit mediums in which (gendered) visibility was (and is) contested in various and creative ways. It focuses on the »aesthetics of withdrawal«: the various ways and techniques that process the photographic act as well as the photographic image to theatricalize the surface of the image in new ways by veiling, masking, and concealing. In a fragmented historical perspective, Heike Behrend seeks to complement, decenter, and counter the history of photography as it has been told by the West and to narrate another history beginning with preceding local media such as textiles and spirit possession. 266 pp. Englisch.