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This book provides a counter argument against simplistic interpretations of the anti-Hegelianism that marks Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault’s works in the 1960s. Probing into the early works of these philosophers, it unearths Hegel’s fundamental influence on the development of their philosophical approaches. Through a meticulous examination of Althusser and Foucault’s intellectual journeys, supported by numerous archival materials, Vuillerod seeks to show how the basis of their philosophies was formed through an immanent critique of Hegelianism. This provides a whole new angle on the change that occurred in French philosophy during the 1960s, with its slew of new outlooks on reason, subject, and history. The book argues that, far from being unilaterally against Hegel, this great reinvention of philosophy was, in fact, steeped in conflictive yet fruitful dialogue with Hegel’s work. This radically transforms our idea of French philosophy as a whole over the latter half of the twentieth century. Jean-Baptiste Vuillerod is an associate professor and doctor of philosophy. His published work includes Hegel féministe. Les aventures d’Antigone (Vrin, 2020), Adorno et la domination de la nature (Amsterdam, 2021) and the article “Spinoza as a revolutionary? A reading based on Gilles Deleuze” in Archives de Philosophie (2021). He also edited Jacques Martin’s text, L’individu chez Hegel (ENS Éditions, 2020).

Since first AC current high-power hydropower plant was put in operation, built by Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse in 1895 on Niagara Falls, electrification of the world has dramatically changed. The growing power demand and energy consumption in the last decades require fundamental changes in the process, power production, and services. These requirements tend to use both conventional and nonconventional energy generation in order to have power plants economically useful and environmentally friendly to the society. The goal of this textbook is to provide an up-to-date review of this important topic with specific emphasis on the current guidelines for improving overall efficiency, lowering emissions, and using large share of renewable energy.

Dieses Open Access Buch adressiert den Regulierungsbedarf im rasant wachsenden Bereich der digitalen Geschäftsmodelle. Der Trend zur Digitalisierung bringt rasche Veränderungen in Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft mit sich. Digitale Geschäftsmodelle bergen neben außerordentlichen Chancen auch nicht vernachlässigbare Risiken. In diesem Spannungsfeld zwischen wirtschaftlichem Nutzen und gesellschaftlicher Verantwortung besteht ein zunehmendes Bedürfnis nach gesetzgeberischer Regulierung der Digitalwirtschaft, die gleichwohl Innovation und Fortschritt im digitalen Sektor nicht unterbinden sollte. In diesem Open Access Band widmen sich ausgewiesene Expertinnen und Experten dem angerissenen Themenkreis aus den verschiedensten Blickwinkeln. Ausgangspunkt für das Buch bildete der vom Internationalen Forum für Wirtschaftsrecht getragene 3. Bozner Wirtschaftsrechtstag, bei dem besonderes Augenmerk auf die Berührung des deutschsprachigen Rechts- und Wirtschaftsraumes mit dem italienischen gelegt wird.

"Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/ 9780295748733 Dominica, a place once described as “Nature’s Island,” was rich in biodiversity and seemingly abundant water, but in the eighteenth century a brief, failed attempt by colonial administrators to replace cultivation of varied plant species with sugarcane caused widespread ecological and social disruption. Illustrating how deeply intertwined plantation slavery was with the environmental devastation it caused, Mapping Water in Dominica situates the social lives of eighteenth-century enslaved laborers in the natural history of two Dominican enclaves. Mark Hauser draws on archaeological and archival history from Dominica to reconstruct the changing ways that enslaved people interacted with water and exposes crucial pieces of Dominica’s colonial history that have been omitted from official documents. The archaeological record—which preserves traces of slave households, waterways, boiling houses, mills, and vessels for storing water—reveals changes in political authority and in how social relations were mediated through the environment. Plantation monoculture, which depended on both slavery and an abundant supply of water, worked through the environment to create predicaments around scarcity, mobility, and belonging whose resolution was a matter of life and death. In following the vestiges of these struggles, this investigation documents a valuable example of an environmental challenge centered around insufficient water. Mapping Water in Dominica is available in an open access edition through the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot, thanks to the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Northwestern University Libraries."

Issu d'un colloque de la Société francophone de philosophie de l’éducation, cet ouvrage étudie les frontières qui travaillent les institutions, les pratiques et les discours éducatifs, leur normativité et la manière dont elles s’affirment ou se déplacent dans l’idée d’un cosmopolitisme éducatif ou dans le processus de formation de soi. Politiquement, la question des frontières s'inscrit dans un monde marqué à la fois par les migrations et les replis protectionnistes. Elle intervient également dans la détermination plus ou moins problématique des régions ou des étapes, réelles ou symboliques de l’espace-temps éducatif.La frontière ordonne le chaos, délimite des territoires géographiques ou symboliques. Loin d’être un mur, c’est plutôt une porte ou une peau qui régule les passages et les échanges d’informations, de marchandises, de populations. Du point de vue éducatif, les frontières définissent des seuils, des paliers, voire des points de non-retour. Enfin, instaurer une frontière suppose d’articuler l’horizontalité d’un tracé, sur la carte ou le territoire, et la verticalité d’un fondement, politique, religieux, scientifique, culturel. Il n’est de frontière qu’instituée, voire sacralisée.Issu d’un colloque de la Société francophone de la philosophie de l’éducation (SOFPHIED) le présent ouvrage revient sur les lignes de partage qui travaillent les institutions, les pratiques et les discours éducatifs et sur la manière dont celles-ci s’affirment, se déplacent ou se défont. Il explore le cosmopolitisme éducatif, ses attendus et ses conditions de possibilité. Il questionne la normativité inhérente au schème de la frontière en éducation. Il étudie le dynamisme de la frontière comme moment de rupture, de crise, de dépassement, dans le processus de formation de soi.

In this volume originally published in 1955, Zeydel provides English translations of one hundred of Goethe's poems divided into nine periods. The biographical introduction traces Goethe's development as seen in his poems and an appendix gives information on musical settings to the poems.

The factors behind the pre-crisis growth model of the Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European EU countries (CESEE) region – skilled yet affordable labour force, foreign direct investment, imports of productivity-enhancing technology – are having less effect, but are yet to be substituted. This paper proposes a new growth model centred around a shift towards more home-grown innovation, digitalisation, climate change mitigation and a strong focus on skills, labour and social inclusion, to leave the middle-income trap behind for good and to boost economies’ growth prospects in a post-COVID world. Based on analysis of firm-level data, it highlights the prerequisites of making this transition happen.

Linguistische Grenzübergänge eröffnen die neue Reihe Interkulturelle Linguistik und bieten innovative Einblicke in aktuelle Forschungsfelder der Sprachkommunikation. Die Beiträge vereinen unterschiedliche Ansätze und interdisziplinäre Methoden, die weit über die Grenzen der konventionellen Sprachwissenschaft hinausgehen. Im Fokus stehen Diskursanalyse, Medienkommunikation, Sprachgebrauch im Unterricht und Berufsleben sowie die Untersuchung von Kurztexten im öffentlichen Raum aus lexikalischer, interkultureller und multimodaler Perspektive. Besonderes Augenmerk gilt dabei dem Spannungsfeld lokaler, translokaler und globaler Verknüpfungen von Zeichen, Texten und Diskursen. Das Werk ist ein wertvoller Begleiter für Forschende und Studierende der Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaften und lädt dazu ein, die Vielfalt sprachlicher Grenzüberschreitungen in modernen gesellschaftlichen und professionellen Kontexten zu erkunden.

The main characteristic of the social workers is that we are professionals in help relationships, focused on the work we do with people, where jointly planning the intervention, is our main work tool. We pursue the objective in achieving the self -help of our users/as/as customers, as change facilitators, giving them the necessary potential so that, with the use of their own abilities and skills, they obtain the best results to the situations/problems/problems they raise us. With this, we enhance the understanding of technology and society, with new citizen strategies oriented to participation, promotion of well -being and open access to public information.Development of a gradual process of reflection to identify emotional technology as a generator of various processes of social and cultural change. New technologies have transformed and reoriented our way of relating, sometimes expanding the range of contacts with active subjects in the networks with which we had a previous link;and, on other occasions, opening us to the discovery of knowing new spaces and people.This leads us to rethinking interaction, between beings and emotional technology, in relation to new social problems such as loneliness between the group of older people and/or among the people affected with disabilities that hinder them or prevent them from maintaining aindependent life. And, in these scenarios, it is where emotional technology helps improve people's quality of life. We can start thinking about the experience in the use of emotional technology as technological communities, using technical means to increase participation.Create to share. Throughout this report, we will try to identify the applications of emotional technology to social work, as well as, define the contributions of social work to emotional technology, exposing this new initiative promoted by the Integra Foundation corresponding to a new line of action thatThe Government of the Region of Murcia starts.

The study addresses the question of how the biographies of people whose families remain in poverty for generations are structured. In addition, it provides detailed insights into the life of families in relation to ALG II and reconstructively traces the individual context of social reproduction of poverty. It turns out that the way the families interviewed deal with poverty depends on a multitude of interwoven biographical structural aspects.

This book examines the fundamental research and application of droplet dynamics. It includes six chapters in four sections. Section 1 introduces the concepts of droplet dynamics in powertrain systems. Section 2 reviews the optical methods for investigations in droplet dynamics. Section 3 examines the fundamental research on liquid droplet behaviors, such as droplet impact in internal combustion engines and the movement of liquid droplets in atmospheric pressure plasmas. Finally, Section 4 deals with the application of droplet behaviors not only in spray and combustion but also in bioinspired smart surfaces. The information contained herein is useful for engineers and students looking to broaden their knowledge of droplet behaviors and dynamics, especially for their development and application in low-carbon engines.

This book has been written to present major and efficient applications in landscape ecology, as well as to propose a solid action for this category of topics. The book aims to illustrate various treatment methods of the land-use models impact on landscape ecology creation. The book is divided into three parts: Part I: Ecological interpretation of land-use act - in this part, ecosystem and land use turn out to be a significant factor in the process of creating an ecological landscape. Part II: Landscape district in applied ecological analysis - this part attempts to illustrate the best possible model of analysis integrated with landscape in practical case studies. Part III: The anthropogenic impacts on landscape creation - this part discusses the human impact on landscape creation.

Le propos de ce livre repose sur une conviction, qui vaut comme méthode lorsqu’il s’agit d’aborder la critique d’art de Baudelaire : on ne peut penser la bonne peinture qu’au miroir de la mauvaise. On ne comprend pas complètement la valeur propre qu’une œuvre réussie prend aux yeux du poète si l’on ne possède pas de contre-exemple auquel l’adosser ou la confronter. Ce qui est moqué, ce qui est tourné en dérision, tout ce qui se trouve relégué dans ce que Baudelaire nomme « l’hôpital de la peinture » offre une diversité lexicale bien plus riche que l’appréciation, si complexe fût-elle, d’un idéal propre au critique.

Explore a decade of groundbreaking research in "10th Anniversary of Cells—Advances in Plant, Algae, and Fungi Cell Biology." This reprint offers a comprehensive journey into the realms of plant, algae, and fungi cell biology. Delve into the world of genomics, cellular defense mechanisms, mycorrhizal fungi, and the physiology of extremophile algae. A celebration of scientific excellence, this reprint is a valuable resource for researchers, educators, and enthusiasts passionate about these fascinating domains. Join us in commemorating a decade of discovery and advancement in cellular biology.

Du xiiie à la fin du xixe siècle, de la mouline médiévale à la forge à la catalane, les Pyrénées sont restées fidèles au procé­dé de réduction directe du minerai de fer. Comprendre pour­quoi les Pyrénées ont conservé ce procédé tout en choisissant au xviie siècle une méthode sidérurgique et une forge inno­vantes qualifiées de « à la catalane » constitue l’objet de ce livre. La réponse traditionnelle, convoquant archaïsme et routine, n’est pas satisfaisante. La sidérurgie des Pyrénées ariégeoises, industrie à la montagne, constitue un « système productif local » obéissant à des logiques techniques, sociales et économiques dans un écosystème ingrat. Pour relever le défi de la nature, les communautés des hautes vallées ont développé des mécanismes d’exploitation pastorale, forestière et minière. Autour de la forge à la catalane, dans un monde agro-pastoral, chacune d’elles a engendré des dyna­miques particulières, recherchant le meilleur développement possible, y ajoutant les migrations professionnelles des forgeurs, mineurs et charbonniers dans une aire technique élargie, alors que le déséquilibre entre les hommes et les ressources s’accentue. Le savoir-faire singulier des forgeurs joue le premier rôle dans la pratique quotidienne de cette industrie (sensations, observations et gestes), bel exemple de « culture technique d’un territoire ». Il était donc impératif de donner une définition précise de la forge à la catalane, techniquement assurée et historiquement documentée, bref de traiter cette très célèbre forge en objet historique. Les résultats de cette étude ont fixé le cadre chronologique, la période à la catalane du xviie au xixe siècle. Finalement, la démarche historique a permis de mettre en lumière la complexité de la sidérurgie directe des Pyrénées. Pour mener à bien ce travail, l’historiographie des deux versants des Pyrénées a été mise à contribution.