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Philosophy for a Better World

By: Floris Van Den Berg

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You won’t see the world in the same light after reading this urgent and inspiring call to action. In this thought-provoking book, Dutch philosopher Floris van den Berg proposes a new perspective, called universal subjectivism, which can be adopted by anyone regardless of religious or philosophical orientation. It takes into consideration the universal capacity for suffering and, through raising awareness, seeks to diminish that suffering and increase happiness. With consistent and compelling moral reasoning, van den Berg shows that the world can be organized to ensure more pleasure, beauty, justice, happiness, health, freedom, animal welfare, and sustainability. The author emphasizes that today the near-term future is our greatest challenge: our affluent western lifestyle will soon exceed the limits of the earth’s sustainable capacity and must soon change drastically to ward off a worldwide environmental collapse. Knowing this, we should all reevaluate the daily routines we take for granted: taking the car to work, boarding a plane to a business or vacation destination, eating meat, or using plastic bags in stores. There are ethical and ecological objections to each of these examples. In fact, if we applied a strict ethical analysis to our lifestyle, almost nothing we do would pass muster. A lot of avoidable suffering attaches to our way of life. After reading this book, the world won’t look the same. Concluding with an eco-humanist manifesto, this book not only offers much food for thought but, more importantly, an urgent and inspiring call to action.

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Prometheus Books

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1616145048

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9781616145040

The Instant Composers Pool and Improvisation Beyond Jazz

By: Floris Schuiling

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The Instant Composers Pool and Improvisation Beyond Jazz

By: Floris Schuiling

The Instant Composers Pool and Improvisation Beyond Jazz contributes to the expansion and diversification of our understanding of the jazz tradition by describing the history and practice of one of the most important non-American jazz groups: The Instant Composers Pool, founded in Amsterdam in 1967. The Instant Composers Pool describes the meaning of "instant composition" from both a historical and ethnographic perspective. Historically, it details instant composition’s emergence from the encounter between various overlapping transnational avant-gardes, including free jazz, serialism, experimental music, electronic music, and Fluxus. The author shows how the improvising musicians not only engaged with the cultural politics of ethnicity and race involved in the negotiation of the boundaries of jazz as a cultural practice, but transformed the meaning of music in society—particularly the nature of improvisation and performance. Ethnographically, The Instant Composers Pool encourages readers to reconsider the conceptual tools we use to describe music performance, improvisation, and creativity. It takes the practice of "instant composition" as an opportunity to reflect on music performance as a social practice, which is crucial not only for jazz studies, but for general music scholarship.

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Routledge

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1351254367

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9781351254366

Classical Learning in Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic, 1690-1750

Beyond the Ancients and the Moderns

By: Floris Verhaart

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Classical Learning in Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic, 1690-1750

Beyond the Ancients and the Moderns

By: Floris Verhaart

Floris Verhaart examines how scholars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries defended the relevance of classical learning after the emergence of rationalism and empiricism called the authority of the ancients into question.

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243

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0198861699

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9780198861690

Transforming for Europe

The Reshaping of National Bureaucracies in a System of Multi-level Governance

By: Caspar Floris Berg,Caspar van den Berg

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Transforming for Europe

The Reshaping of National Bureaucracies in a System of Multi-level Governance

By: Caspar Floris Berg,Caspar van den Berg

In Transforming for Europe. The reshaping of national bureaucracies in a system of multi-level governance, Caspar van den Berg explores the implications of the increasingly multi-level nature of governance for the French, British and Dutch national bureaucracies. Power and competencies in Western Europe are shared by various layers of government as well as multiple types of state and nonstate actors. What does this mean for the organisation and functioning of national bureaucracies? While the civil service has become less bureaucratic (in the Weberian sense) in some respects, it is more bureaucratic in others: task-separation and record-keeping for oversight have increased, while permanence of office and political neutrality in various places have decreased. The EU is not a single direct source to any of these developments yet its presence is certainly felt and cross-national distinction is less stark. Nevertheless, deeply ingrained national structures and cultures have thus far prevented the convergence of national bureaucracies into a single European administrative model.

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9087281218

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9789087281212

Book's by Floris Van Den Berg

Philosophy for a Better World

Philosophy for a Better World

The Instant Composers Pool and Improvisation Beyond Jazz

The Instant Composers Pool and Improvisation Beyond Jazz

Classical Learning in Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic, 1690-1750

Classical Learning in Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic, 1690-1750

Transforming for Europe

Transforming for Europe

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