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TWO ISRAELI ARCHITECTS CREATED AN EXHIBITION OF MAPS AND PHOTOS SHOWING THE LINK BETWEEN THE PHYSICAL DESIGN OF JEWISH SETTLEMENTS AND THE POLITICAL MOTIVES BEHIND THEIR CONSTRUCTION. ITS SPONSORS SHUT IT DOWN

This book explores contributions by some of the most influential women in the history of philosophy, science, and literature. Ranging from Sappho and Sophie Germain to Stebbing and Evelyn Fox Keller, this work ultimately demonstrates the impact these non-canonical, sometimes unknown or hidden, sources had, or may have had, on the recognized male leaders in their fields, from Aristotle to Pascal, Kant, Whitehead, and Russell. Chapters reflect philosophical pluralism, both analytic and continental themes, and cover figures reaching across the entire history of ideas in the West, from pre-historic times to the twentieth century. Anyone interested in coming to know or in preparing to teach women in the history of philosophy, science, and literature will appreciate this collection and its myriad insights into the still unrecognized voices of non-canonical sources across these disciplines

Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Phenomenology, Modernism and the Crisis of Modernity -- Braiding -- Phenomenology as Pre-theory: Reduction and Historicity -- Shifts of Attitude: Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty -- Epiphanic Modernism -- The Time When Everything Cracked -- Phenomenology, Language and Meaning-Giving -- Primordial Faith -- Apples -- Earthly Angels -- Intersubjectivity: Selves, Others, World -- Hyperdialectic -- Notes -- Chapter 2: On Apples, Broken Frames and Fallenness: Phenomenology and the Unfamiliar Gaze in Cézanne, Stein and Kafka -- Breaking the Frame: Cézanne's Secret Folds and Faithful Apples -- Gertrude Stein, Fringed Experience and an Apple -- Kafka's Metamorphosis: A Rotten Apple -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Earthly Angels and Winged Messengers: Experience and Expression in Hopkins, Stevens and Klee -- Catching Flight: Hopkins's Windhover -- Necessary Angels and Half-Way States: Wallace Stevens -- 'Still Imperfect': Paul Klee's Angelology -- Intuitive Appropriation -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Virginia Woolf's Interworld: Folds, Waves, Gazes -- Bracketing -- 'Gigantic Conversation' -- Doubling -- Bernard's 'Little Language' -- Exchanging Secrets: Woolf and Cézanne -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Hyperdialectic: A Modernist Adventure -- Stein's 'If I Told Him' and NDT's Shutters Shut -- Rhythms of Hyperdialectic: Woolf -- Stevens's Never-Ending Meditation -- Readiness for Questionability: Kafka -- 'Man is Half a Prisoner, Half Borne on Wings': Klee, Hopkins -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

In the networked age, we are living with changed parameters of time and space. Mobile networked communication fosters a form of virtual time and space, which is super-imposed onto territorial space. Time is increasingly composed of interruptions and distractions, as smartphone users are overwhelmed by messages.

In Indonesia, polymusic – juxtaposed music – is performed during major ceremonies. Several groups play simultaneously, in the same space, but different tunes. If many tunes are performed at the same time in the same space, who can listen to them ? Seven cases of Indonesian polymusic, from South Sulawesi, West Kalimantan, and Bali, recorded between 1991 and 2001 are described : a Sa'dan Toraja funeral (pasonglo), house ceremony (bua' sangrapu), and trance ritual (maro pabalikan), a Dayak Taman ritual for the ancestors (gawai mamandung), a Balinese temple ceremony (odalan). The seven examples are compared through an analysis of space and time, in order to disclose their common aspects and relevant meanings. Polymusic presents the musicologist with a paradox of temporal and spatial perception. While assembling groups of singers at the same time and in the same space, these rituals prescribe their separation and individualization. The analysis of space and time points to a double perception : that of a differentiated and an undifferentiated world. This is translated on the acoustic level by the simultaneous juxtaposition and synthesis of different repertoires and different groups, which reveals – both sensorily and intellectually – either the groups' differences or the achievement of a macro-unity expressing the ritual expenditure.