Preface

A preface to the inaugural issue of Collaborate: Libraries in Learning Innovatio

Preface

This article serves as the preface to a special issue of the Victoria University of Wellington Law Review including the papers presented at the inaugural New Zealand Private Law Scholars' Roundtable in February 2016. The author, Justice Christine French of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand, praises the papers for their quality of work, the broad range of topics, and the collaborative nature of the work and its New Zealand setting.&nbsp

On Kant's first insight into the problem of space dimensionality and its physical foundations

In this article it is shown that a careful analysis of Kant's "Thoughts on the True Estimation of Living Forces" leads to a conclusion that does not match the usually accepted interpretation of Kant's reasoning in 1747, according to which the Young Kant supposedly establishes a relationship between the tridimensionality of space and Newton's law of universal gravitation. Indeed, it is argued that this text does not yield a satisfactory explanation of space dimensionality, actually restricting itself to justify the tridimensionality of extension.Comment: 14 page

Welcome to Parks Stewardship Forum: An Introduction to the Journal from the Editors

An overview of Parks Stewardship Forum from the managing editors, published in the inaugural issue of the journal, whose theme is "Climate Change and Protected Places: Adapting to New Realities.

How Abe Lincoln Lost the Black Vote: Lincoln and Emancipation in the African American Mind

No other American president has wielded the power of words with greater skill than Abraham Lincoln. No one can read Mr. Lincoln\u27s state papers without perceiving in them a most remarkable facility of \u27putting things\u27 so as to command the attention and assent of the people, wrote Henry J. Raymond, editor of the New York Times in 1864, and Raymond had an editor\u27s unerring eye for this sort of thing. Massachusetts congressman George Boutwell, reminiscing for Allen Thorndike Rice twenty years after Lincoln\u27s death, thought that Lincoln\u27s fame would be carried along the ages by his writings, and especially the three great papers ... the proclamation of emancipation, his oration at Gettysburg, and his second inaugural address. [excerpt

Finnegans Wake as proving ground for theory and agent provocateur in literary studies

"Finnegans Wake" has struck many of its exegetes as the epitome of the postmodern text. The oddity of James Joyce's last work has been and still is a provocation not only for literary criticism and theory but for every reader of the work. It provokes us to reflect on our preconceptions concerning such fundamental issues as reading, meaning and understanding. Due to this very quality, the work has been a fertile intellectual stimulus for an illustrious band of thinkers of the ―post-projects. Its singularity has provoked and facilitated the further development of theoretical frameworks beyond the confines of literary theory proper. This essay will trace the elaborate theoretical responses of Umberto Eco and Jacques Lacan to Joyce's grand literary arcanum. Eco's concept of the openness of modern works of art and Lacan's elaboration of his psychoanalytic concepts of the symptom and of the Borromean knot were inspired by their study of Joyce. As an extreme instance of literariness, Finnegans Wake thus constitutes an ideal opportunity to consider the scope and boundaries of the scholarly study of literary texts more generally

Live Music vs Audio Tourism

Inaugural professorial lecture given on 11 November 2008 at SOAS. Concepts attached to 'world music', commodification, the challenges of the changing music industry, distinctions between the commercial side of world music and academic courses/degrees, and strategies for sustaining traditional music and the livelihood of musicians specialising in it