Tag: Dialogues

April 26, 2024

The Practice of Musical Improvisation Dialogues with Contemporary Musical Improvisers

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Free Download Bertrand Denzler, "The Practice of Musical Improvisation: Dialogues with Contemporary Musical Improvisers"
English | ISBN: 1501349767 | 2020 | 224 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Over several years, Bertrand Denzler and Jean-Luc Guionnet have interviewed approximately 50 musicians from various backgrounds about their practice of musical improvisation. Musicians include both the very experienced such as Sophie Agnel, Burkhard Beins, John Butcher, Rhodri Davies, Bill Dixon, Phil Durrant, Axel Dörner, Annette Krebs, Daunik Lazro, Mattin, Seijiro Murayama, Andrea Neumann, Jérôme Noetinger, Evan Parker, Eddie Prévost and Taku Unami, as well as those newer to the field. Asked questions on topics such as the mental processes behind a collective improvisation, the importance of the human factor in improvisation, the strategies used and the way musical decisions are made, the interviewees highlight the habits and customs of a practice, as experienced by those who invent it on a daily basis. The interviews were carefully edited in order to produce a sort of grand discussion that draws an incomplete map of the blurred territory of contemporary improvised music.

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April 25, 2024

Dostoevsky and Kant Dialogues on Ethics

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Free Download Dostoevsky and Kant: Dialogues on Ethics By Evgenia Cherkasova
2009 | 128 Pages | ISBN: 9042026103 | PDF | 3 MB
In this book, Evgenia Cherkasova brings the philosopher Kant and the novelist Dostoevsky together in conversations that probe why duty is central to our moral life. She shows that just as Dostoevsky is indebted to Kant, so Kant would profit from the deeply philosophical narratives of Dostoevsky, which engage the problem of evil and the claims of human community. She not only produces a novel reading of Dostoevsky, but also guides us to later, often neglected Kantian texts. This study is written with scholarly care, penetrating analysis, elegance of style, and moral urgency: Cherkasova writes with both mind and heart. Emily Grosholz, Professor of Philosophy, The Pennsylvania State University Social Philosophy (SP), in conjunction with the Center for Ethics, Peace and Social Justice, SUNY Cortland, explores theoretical and applied issues in contemporary social philosophy, drawing on a variety of philosophical traditions

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February 4, 2024

Dialogues in Middle Level Education Research Volume 3

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Free Download David C. Virtue, "Dialogues in Middle Level Education Research Volume 3 "
English | ISBN: 1032590637 | 2024 | 248 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 5 MB
This insightful book presents and discusses the dialogues that took place in the New Directions in Middle Level Education Research session at the 2022 Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE) conference.

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January 26, 2024

Philosophy in a Time of Terror Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida

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Free Download Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida By Giovanna Borradori, Jurgen Habermas, Jacques Derrida
2003 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0226066649 | PDF | 3 MB
The idea for Philosophy in a Time of Terror was born hours after the attacks on 9/11 and was realized just weeks later when Giovanna Borradori sat down with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida in New York City, in separate interviews, to evaluate the significance of the most destructive terrorist act ever perpetrated. This book marks an unprecedented encounter between two of the most influential thinkers of our age as here, for the first time, Habermas and Derrida overcome their mutual antagonism and agree to appear side by side. As the two philosophers disassemble and reassemble what we think we know about terrorism, they break from the familiar social and political rhetoric increasingly polarized between good and evil. In this process, we watch two of the greatest intellects of the century at work.

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