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Since the 1960's, artistic practice has been increasingly focused on interventions in social reality and life-environment: the way in which everyday life is formed, designed or stylized. Faced with artistic activities that challenge traditional ideas of art and its relationship to aesthetics, critical paradigms and language must be recalibrated to correspond to these shifts. In this groundbreaking essay, Ina Blom, art historian at the University of Oslo, uses the work of the artists Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Philippe Parreno, Olafur Eliasson, Tobias Rehberger, Carsten Höller, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Liam Gillick and Jorge Pardo, to reassess the relationship between art and (life)style. Consequently, "Style site" should be seen as an extension of what is generally known as site-specific art. "Style site" also works to radically challenge the notion of the political in art and may be best used as a device to reinterpret the life-art practices of the avant-garde..
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This book is the most detailed commentary on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit available and develops an independent philosophical account of the general theory of knowledge, culture, and history contained in it. Written in a clear and straightforward style, the book reconstructs Hegel's theoretical philosophy and shows its connection to the ethical and political theory. Terry Pinkard sets the work in a historical context and reveals the contemporary relevance of Hegel's thought to European and Anglo-American philosophers..
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This path-breaking book addresses the nature of human sociality By bringing together experimental and ethnographic data from fifteen different tribal societies, the contributors are able to explore the universality of human motives in economic decision-making, and the importance of social, institutional and cultural factors, in a manner that has been extremely rare in the social sciences. Its findings have far-reaching implications across the social sciences..
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Scientific developments have increasingly been transforming our understanding of the place of human beings in nature. The contributors to this book focus on the current status of research on sociality and the evolution of cooperative and altruistic behaviour in non-human and human primates. They examine questions related to the evolution, cultural viability, and hormonal underpinnings of human sociality in specific detail, and describe patterns of sociality that shed light on human social behaviour..
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Concepts based on full-blown collective intentionality (aboutness), viz., we-mode intentionality, are central for understanding and explaining the social world. The book systematically studies social groups, acting in them as a group member, collective commitment, group intentions, beliefs, and actions, especially authority-based group attitudes and actions. There are also chapters on cooperation, social institutions, cultural evolution, and group responsibility..
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This book attempts a broad theoretical synthesis within the field of sociology and its closely allied sister discipline of anthropology It draws together what the author considers the best of these disciplines' theoretical approaches into a synthesized theory called Darwinian conflict theory. This theory, in the most general sense, is a synthesis of the tradition of economic and ecological materialism and conflict theory stemming from Marx, Marvin Harris, and the tradition of biological materialism deriving from Darwin..
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