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December 20, 2024

Sforza Pallavicino A Jesuit Life in Baroque Rome (Intersections Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture, 83)

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Free Download Sforza Pallavicino: A Jesuit Life in Baroque Rome (Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture, 83) by Maarten Delbeke
English | September 22, 2022 | ISBN: 9004462023 | 331 pages | PDF | 10 Mb
As a key figure in baroque Rome, Sforza Pallavicino embodies many of the apparent tensions and contradictions of his era: a man of the church deeply involved in the new science, a nobleman and courtier drawn to ascetism and theology, a controversial polemicist involved in poetry and the arts. This volume collects essays by specialists in the fields and disciplines that cover Pallavicino’s activities as a scholar, author and Jesuit, and situate him within the Roman cultural, political and social elite of his times. Through the figure of Pallavicino, an image of baroque Rome emerges that challenges historical periodisations and disciplinary boundaries.

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December 17, 2024

Embodiment and the Meaning of Life

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Free Download Jeff Noonan, "Embodiment and the Meaning of Life"
English | 2018 | pages: 278 | ISBN: 0773553495, 0773553487 | PDF | 4,8 mb
The long tradition of pessimism in philosophy and poetry notoriously laments suffering caused by vulnerabilities of the human body. The most familiar and contemporary version is antinatalism, the view that it is wrong to bring sentient life into existence because birth inevitably produces suffering. Technotopianism, which stems from a similarly negative view of embodied limitations, claims that we should escape sickness and death through radical human-enhancement technologies. In Embodiment and the Meaning of Life Jeff Noonan presents pessimism and technotopianism as two sides of the same coin, as both begin from the premise that the limitations of embodied life are inherently negative. He argues that rather than rendering life pointless, the tragic failures that mark life are fundamental to the good of human existence. The necessary limitations of embodied being are challenges for each person to live well, not only for their own sake, but for the sake of the future of the human project. Meaning is not a given, Noonan suggests, but rather the product of labour upon ourselves, others, and the world. Meaningful labour is threatened equally by unjust social systems and runaway technological development that aims to replace human action, rather than liberate it. Calling on us to draw conceptual connections between finitude, embodiment, and the meaning of life, this book shows that seeking the common good is our most viable and materially realistic source of optimism about the future.

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December 16, 2024

Twilight of the Renaissance The Life of Juan de Valdes

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Free Download Daniel A. Crews, "Twilight of the Renaissance: The Life of Juan de Valdes"
English | ISBN: 0802098673 | 2008 | 320 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Diplomat, courtier, and heretic, Juan de Valdés (c.1500-1541) was one of the most famous humanist writers in Renaissance Spain. In this biography, Daniel A. Crews paints a lively portrait of a complex and fascinating figure by focusing on Valdés’s service as an imperial courtier and how his employments in Italy – after brushes with the Spanish Inquisition – influenced both Spanish diplomacy and his own religious thought. Twilight of the Renaissance focuses on Valdés’s political activities in Charles V’s Italian alliance system and negotiations with the papacy, while painting a lively portrait of an intriguing and complex Renaissance figure.

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December 16, 2024

Transactions on Rough Sets VI Commemorating the Life and Work of Zdzisław Pawlak, Part I

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Free Download Transactions on Rough Sets VI: Commemorating the Life and Work of Zdzisław Pawlak, Part I By Mohua Banerjee, Md. Aquil Khan (auth.), James F. Peters, Andrzej Skowron, Ivo Düntsch, Jerzy Grzymała-Busse, Ewa Orłowska, Lech Polkowski (eds.)
2007 | 500 Pages | ISBN: 3540711988 | PDF | 7 MB
From the reviews:"It consists of 21 contributed papers, and a 90-plus-page monograph, ‘Lattice Theory for Rough Sets’. … would primarily be of interest to researchers and graduate students who are, or would like to be, in the area of rough sets." (Shrisha Rao, Computing Reviews, Vol. 50 (1), January, 2009)

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