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Frenzy
?Frenzy (1972) was Alfred Hitchcock's penultimate film, and arguably one of his most misunderstood and neglected. Whereas even Psycho (1960) did eventually become respectable - indeed, it's a good contender for the most admired of the Master's films - Frenzy still remains problematic for many. While Raymond De Foery makes his feelings clear in the title of his book, Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece, Hitchcock's controversial biographer Donald Spoto calls the film "repulsive" and "a closed and coldly negative vision of human possibility". Frenzy is perhaps Hitchcock's most nakedly autobiographical film and one which represented both a comeback and farewell to the city of his birth. But it started out as a very different kind of project. This Devil's Advocate discusses the evolution of the film, its production, reception, and place in Hitchcock's oeuvre, as well as its status as, the author argues, a key film of 'sleazy Seventies' British cinema.
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Meandering Around Fuzziness
The present book, showing the meandering of the authors within the intricate grove of aspects of different nature (technical, mathematical and epistemological) of fuzziness, offers to the reader a chance for easily focusing the main questions of an interdisciplinary debate. The reader can, in fact, inspect nooks and crannies of this forest more hidden than those of a casual visitor even of the authors themselves, under the guide of this book which is both a Baedeker of an unknown territory and a preliminary map. The reader is allowed, then, to form a personal idea of the questions involved and possibly to afford the questions in a new way, when looking for a personal investigation on them. The meandering touches upon, in fact, very general questions at the interplay of epistemology, logic and applications. Think about, for instance, the connection between fuzziness and vagueness. Are they only different names used by different communities of scholars or they represent truly different ways of looking at what happens in our representations when we depart from the reassuring (but limiting) picture of a black and white world without any shade? More, is the theory of fuzziness measures only a sort of extension of the notion of information in a fuzzy world or is (also) something more? Enric Trillas strongly argues in favor of a radical thesis: “this theory is what definitely certifies that fuzziness is a scientific notion, since measurabilility is one of the essential requirements to be scientific.” This import of this point of view is wider that it can seem, since it also paves the way, indicating general conditions to be fulfilled, for accepting as “scientific” also any other different formal explicatum of the informal explicandum of vagueness. By moving around the woods under the guide of the authors, the reader will also discover that all the meaningful results have been found since a useful and apt conceptual environment did exist. The one of information sciences under the changing of different labels and characterizing names, Cybernetics, System theory before names that are still in the arena. The presence of this favorable context is what allowed to pose “meaningful questions” which, subsequently, helped the discovery of innovative results. The book presents a mixture of unpublished essays and already published ones which had been presented, along the time, to difference audiences. The former stress the joint relevance of the latter ones which would have not appeared by seeing the single items in isolation. The book offers an original view on the intricacy of the relationships among conceptual questions and technical developments which certainly will help the reader to move with much easy in the intricacy and the darkness of the forest where the authors dared, first, to move.
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Ferenczi on Freud’s Couch
This fascinating book assesses Sándor Ferenczi’s role in the history of psychoanalysis, examining his personal analysis with Freud, the father of the discipline.The book delves into archival material to shed light on issues around transference between Freud and Ferenczi, as well as Ferenczi’s own development as "the first analyst." It offers a unique deciphering of the transmission of psychoanalysis, distinguishing between self-analysis, personal analysis and training analysis, including a discussion on the duration and end of treatment, subjects rarely discussed in contemporary circles.This book is an important read for practising clinicians and scholars alike.
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Ferenczi on Freud’s Couch
This fascinating book assesses Sándor Ferenczi’s role in the history of psychoanalysis, examining his personal analysis with Freud, the father of the discipline.The book delves into archival material to shed light on issues around transference between Freud and Ferenczi, as well as Ferenczi’s own development as "the first analyst." It offers a unique deciphering of the transmission of psychoanalysis, distinguishing between self-analysis, personal analysis and training analysis, including a discussion on the duration and end of treatment, subjects rarely discussed in contemporary circles.This book is an important read for practising clinicians and scholars alike.
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French Beans and Food Scares
From mad cows to McDonaldization to genetically modified maize, European food scares and controversies at the turn of the millennium provoked anxieties about the perils hidden in an increasingly industrialized, internationalized food supply. These food fears have cast a shadow as long as Africa, where farmers struggle to meet European demand for the certifiably clean green bean. But the trade in fresh foods between Africa and Europe is hardly uniform. Britain andFrance still do business mostly with their former colonies, in ways that differ as dramatically as their national cuisines. The British buy their "baby veg" from industrial-scale farms, pre-packaged and pre-trimmed; the French, meanwhile, prefer their green beans naked, and produced by peasants.Managers and technologists coordinate the baby veg trade between Anglophone Africa and Britain, whereas an assortment of commercants and self-styled agro-entrepreneurs run the French bean trade. Globalization, then, has not erased cultural difference in the world of food and trade, but instead has stretched it to a transnational scale. French Beans and Food Scares explores the cultural economies of two "non-traditional" commodity trades between Africa and Europe—one anglophone, the other francophone—in order to show not only why they differ but also how both have felt the fall-out of the wealthy world's food scares. In a voyage that begins in the mid-19th century and ends in the early 21st, passing by way of Paris, London, Burkina Faso and Zambia, French Beans and Food Scares illuminates the daily work ofexporters, importers and other invisible intermediaries in the global fresh food economy. These intermediaries' accounts provide a unique perspective on the practical and ethical challenges of globalized food trading in an anxious age. They also show how postcolonial ties shape not only different societies'geographies of food supply, but also their very ideas about what makes food good.
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Freire's Key Terms
This book brings together clear and concise definitions of 33 key terms used by the great educational thinker, Paulo Freire. From ‘critical consciousness’ to ‘concientization’ and from ‘oppressed’ to the ‘banking model of education’, Freire’s concepts and ways of understanding education are as relevant today as they ever were. The critical definitions attend to the theoretical and practical implications of each term, allowing readers to appreciate the philosophical and emancipatory nature of Freire’s work and learn how these ideas can be applied in educational, social, and political setting to drive social change. Each term is explained in relation to Freire’s wider body of work, noting the nuances and meanings that developed through his career as pedagogue. The book shows the significance of Freire’s legacy, and offers an opportunity to put into practice, rethink, and remake his proposal for a radical model of education.
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Epistemic Foundations of Fuzziness
It is necessary to practice methodological doubt, like Descartes, in - der to loosen the hold of mental habits; and it is necessary to cultivate logical imagination, in order to have a number of hypotheses at c- mand, and not to be the slave of the one which common sense has r- dered easy to imagine. These two processes, of doubting the familiar and imagining the unfamiliar, are corrective, and form the chief part of the mental training required for a philosopher. Bertrand Russell At every stage and in all circumstances knowledge is incomplete and provisional, conditioned and limited by the historical circumstances under which it was acquired, including the means and methods used for gaining it and the historically conditioned assumptions and categories used in the formulation of ideas and conclusions. Maurice Cornforth This monograph is the second in the series of meta-theoretic analysis of fuzzy paradigm and its contribution and possible contribution to formal reasoning in order to free the knowledge production process from the ridge frame of the classical paradigm that makes its application to soft and inexact sciences d- ficult or irrelevant. The work in the previous monograph was strictly devoted to problems of theory of knowledge and critique of classical, bounded and other rationalities in decision-choice processes regarding the principles of verification, falsification or corroboration in knowledge production. This monograph deals mostly with epistemic decision-choice models and theories and how they are related to both the classical and fuzzy paradigms.
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Frenzy in Early Modern England
Today, frenzy is the stuff of newspaper headlines. Five hundred years ago, it described a disease which could kill its sufferers within days. This book offers the first full-length study of frenzy, providing a fresh perspective on early modern understandings of mental illness, mind-body relations, and personhood. Frenzy was frightening not just because it killed its sufferers, but because it changed them beyond recognition. It gave the impression that what was then the most precious part of the person – the soul – was as easy to damage as the body. Frenzy in Early Modern England deepens and complicates our sense of what madness meant in this period, both to those who assigned the label, and to those who lived with it. This is an important intervention in the often-fragmented historiography of early modern madness, combining intellectual, social, and cultural history with the history of medicine.
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