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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Lars A. Cramer
Although boredom is something that we have all suffered from at some point in our lives, and has become one of the central preoccupations of our age, very few of us can explain precisely what it is. In this book Lars Svendsen examines the nature of boredom, how it originated, its history, how and why it afflicts us, and why we cannot seem to overcome it by any act of will.A diverse and vague phenomenon, described as anything from 'tame longing without any particular object’ (Schopenhauer), ‘a bestial and indefinable affliction’ (Dostoevsky), to ‘time’s invasion of your world system’ (Joseph Brodsky), boredom allows many interpretations. In exploring these, Lars Svendsen brings together observations from philosophy, literature, psychology, theology and popular culture, examining boredom’s pre-Romantic manifestations in medieval torpor, philosophies of the subject from Pascal to Nietzsche, and modern related concepts of alienation and transgression, taking in texts by Samuel Beckett, J. G. Ballard, Andy Warhol and many others.A witty and entertaining account that considers a serious issue, it will appeal to anyone who has ever felt bored, and wanted to know why.
Surveillance cameras. Airport security lines. Barred shop windows. We see manifestations of societal fears every day, and daily news reports on the latest household danger or raised terror threat level continually stoke our sense of impending doom. In A Philosophy of Fear, Lars Svendsen explores the underlying ideas and issues behind this powerful emotion, as he investigates how and why fear has insinuated itself into every aspect of modern life.Svendsen delves into science, politics, sociology and literature to explore the nature of fear. He discusses the biology behind the emotion, from the neuroscience underlying our ‘fight or flight’ instinct to how fear induces us to take irrational actions in our attempts to minimize risk. The book then turns to the political and social realms, investigating the role of fear in the philosophies of Machiavelli and Hobbes, the rise of the modern ‘risk society’, and how fear has eroded social trust. The political use of fear in the ongoing ‘War on Terror’ also comes under Svendsen's probing gaze, as he investigates whether we can ever disentangle ourselves from the continual state of alarm that defines our age.Svendsen ultimately argues for the possibility of a brighter, less fearful future that is marked by a triumph of humanist optimism. An incisive and thought-provoking meditation, A Philosophy of Fear pulls back the curtain that shrouds dangers both imagined and real, forcing us to confront our fears and why we hold to them.
In the beginning the page was blank and without form, and the scribe sat in front of it, a world forming inside his head. The world grew large, spilling out of him and on to the page. The scribe shaped the world into an island. He named it Fagero, and populated it with an assortment of likely and plausibly unlikely characters, and saw that it was good for his purposes.The people of Fagero were often divided against each other but united in their appreciation of their happy little island. Then the dead bodies began to arrive: hordes of them, washing ashore with no identification and no one to claim them.The island was changing, and the small-town quirkiness becoming less restrained. And the bodies kept arriving, forcing Fagero's inhabitants to confront the unhappy truth that, even on their remote island, the world's horrors and injustices could not be ignored. This was prescient at the time of writing and is sadly relevant in 2016, the year of this English translation.A Happy Little Island is an elaborate tale told with style and intelligence.The number and variety of Sund's Dramatis Personae make Fagero the perfect stage for an encounter between common humanity and the insularity and fear of change that affect all cultures.
One grey November morning a friend rang Torsten Bergman and told him of a job on a house-conversion. Torsten arrived at the empty house in his decrepit car and got to work retiling the bathroom – the tiles were there already – while he waited for someone to turn up and make it all official.So begins this story of one day in an old man’s life: a day of work, of day-dreaming, of memories, of chance encounters (for men and women, not to mention children, burst in on his solitary tiling). And as he put away his tools that evening, there came also a discovery that might, after all, hold a clue to the elusive Meaning of Life.In A Tiler’s Afternoon, Lars Gustafsson has written an enchanting tale, full of insight, wisdom and gentle irony, sensitively conveyed in the childlike simplicity of its telling, as the tiler’s life-story is gradually filled in from his memories. Here is a book that in short compass embraces a whole rich microcosm.
Caldwell lives by the lakeside at Austin, Texas, with his wife of thirty years. He is a judge in the Federal Bankruptcy Court. And the dog? A mongrel that kept upsetting his dustbins as it rooted about in them, until the judge went after it and secretly beat its brains out with the edge-trimmers.
The book works out new perspectives for a philosophy of religion that aims beyond the internal questions of rationality within a theological tradition, on the one hand, and the outer criticism of religion from naturalistic quaters, on the other. Instead it places itself within a wider philosophical view in line with groundbreaking thoughts about culture and a basic human 'conditionality' among interwar philosophers such as Ernst Cassirer, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Walter Benjamin, and Martin Heidegger. The book also offers a concrete interpretation of examples of religious phenomena displaying a human world-relation that centers on issues of 'truth', 'name', and 'habitation'. Finally, lines are drawn to Jean-Luc Nancy's current rethinking of Christianity.
A Manual of Lake Morphometry
Lars Hakanson
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH Co. K
1981
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In this context morphology means the study of lake fonns and fonn elements, their genesis (from geographical and geological viewpoints) and their role in a broad physical lirnnological perspective. Lake morphometry deals with the quantification and measurement of these forms and fonn elements. MOrphometric data are of fundamental importance in most limnological and hydrological projects. This is obvious to most scientists in the field, but it is just as evident that lake morphology and lake morphometry are compara- tively neglected topics of scientific endeavour. One can take the classical work of Welch - "Limnological methods" - as an example. This book was pub- lished in 1948 and it is still used as the main reference (see e. g. Wetzel, 1975), in spite of the fact that the source of most morphometric data, the bathymetric map, today is practically always constructed from hydrographic surveys conducted with echosounding equipment, a technique that became widely used and accepted only after 1948. Echosounding is not even mentioned in Welch~s book. One can also point out that all scale-dependent morphometric parameters, like the shoreline length, the shore development and the lake bottom roughness, up till quite recently, have had limited quantitative re- levance, since these parameters could not be defined unambiguously.
Guerre Perdue A L'Onu ? Internationale Interessen Und Ihr Einfluss Auf Die Franzosische Algerienpolitik 1954-1962
Lars Degen
GRIN Verlag
2013
Tuntematon sidosasu
E.T.A. Hoffmanns Doppelgänger-Motiv aus psychoanalytischer Perspektive
Lars Johannes Nowack
Grin Publishing
2015
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Hva er didaktikk? Og hva innebærer det å tenke didaktisk? Når du skal bli lærer, er det mye du må ta hensyn til samtidig. For eksempel skal du ha et mål for hva elevene skal lære og deretter velge ut et innhold som støtter opp om dette målet. Du må også tenke gjennom hvordan elevene skal lære det, og du må finne ut om de faktisk har lært det de skal. I tillegg må du ha i bakhodet at ingen elever er like, og at ingen av dem lærer helt likt. Å ta disse hensynene, og flere til, innebærer å tenke didaktisk. Det er det denne boka handler om. På en oversiktlig og inspirerende måte viser boka ulike hensyn en lærer må ta. Nok en gang har forfatteren skrevet en lett forståelig bok om temmelig kompliserte forhold knyttet til lærerrollen. Boka er skrevet for studenter i lærerutdanningene. Lars Helle er førstelektor ved Institutt for grunnskolelærerutdanning, idrett og spesialpedagogikk ved Universitetet i Stavanger. Han har utgitt en rekke bøker om pedagogikk og lærerutdanning.
Ville du forstått hunden din om den kunne snakke? De fleste av oss er ikke i tvil om at en hund er glad når den logrer med halen og svinser rundt beina dine. Eller at katten er fornøyd når den maler og stryker seg inntil deg. Men hvordan tenker dyrene vi omgir oss med? Og kan vi forstå dem? Lars Fr. H. Svendsen har skrevet en bok om å forstå dyr med eksempler og drøftinger fra filosofiens verden. Fra det mer kuriøse møtet med en fransk filosof som føler skam når han står naken på badet og katten ser på ham, til filosofiske spørsmål om dyr kan være ensomme eller om vi kan forstå en løve hvis den kunne snakke. «en tankevekkende og lærerik filosofibok.» MORGENBLADET «Klokkeklart tenkt og klokkeklart skrevet om våre gåtefulle firbeinte venner» CATHRINE KRØGER «Et funn for dyreelskere» DAGBLADET
Konfirmantopplegg. Dette er konfirmantlærens bok med skisser til undervisningsopplegg for de seks temaene i boka. Konfirmantboka er arbeidsbok og lærebok i ett, med stoff til å arbeide med og plass til å skrive ned egne refleksjoner. Den røde tråden i opplegget er erfaringsskapende undervisning, refleksjon og prosjektarbeid.
Cruelty has a human heart
Lars Elton; Lars Fr. H. Svendsen; Lise Bjørne Linnert
Grapefrukt forlag
2014
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22 juli 2011 begikk en ung norsk mann de grusomste handlinger. Vi responderte med rosetog, og ord om mer kjærlighet, mer åpenhet. Men etter hvert syntes kunstner Lise Bjørne Linnert det virket som vi ble mest opptatt av egen snillhet og gode reaksjoner. Hvor ble det av aggresjonen, frustrasjonen, urettferdigheten? De andre følelsene? For er ikke vi som alle andre? Hun klippet ut avisartikler, søkte i historisk materiale og fant stoff som utfordret selvbildet vårt - i massevis. Det ledet henne til Lars Fr Svendsens bok "Ondskapens filosofi" og en forespørsel om han ville samarbeide med meg om et kunstprosjekt: Cruelty Has a Human Heart. Kjernen for Cruelty Has a Human Heart er 83 sitater samlet inn med stor bredde og lang tidsramme, en kakofoni av stemmer, kjente og ukjente - politikere, historikere, filosofer, mordere og torturister så vel som vanlige folk, setter ulike ord og refleksjoner på ondskap. I workshops har vi invitert til diskusjon om temaet og 83 ulike hender - unge, eldre, kvinner og menn - har deretter skrevet og sydd sitatene på fargede lerretsbiter. De broderte lappene fyller en 3 x 6 m konstruksjon når de vises, som sist i grunnlovsjubileumsutstillingen "1814 Revisited - The Past is Still Present". Boka Cruelty Has a Human Heart er fylt av sitater, refleksjoner, samtaler, foto, deltagere. Kritiker og journalist Lars Elton bidrar med intervjuteksten: "Om menneskeligheten i det onde". Lars Fr Svendsen har skrevet essayet : "Ondskapens filosofi". Det onde er ubehagelig å forsøke å forstå, det er lettere å holde det på avstand, tenke at tilhører "andre", og ikke oss. Boka inviterer til å fortsette samtalen og oppmerksomheten på også denne delen i oss mennesker - det onde.
Niveau: tre flag (6./7. klasse) "A gun? You have a gun?" "Yes, Timmy! I have a gun. Otherwise they won't put money in my bag ..." English Dingo er en frilæsningsserie til engelsk på første og andet forløb.Bøgerne er oversatte titler fra den danske Dingo-serie. Genkendelsen giver usikre elever mulighed for nemmere at få en mening ud af indholdet, da de 'kun' skal koncentrere sig om det nye sprog. Bøgerne er gloserede.