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For decades, the relationship between Czechs & Germans has been poisoned by the handling of the historical expulsion of Germans, though two years after admittance of the Czech Republic to the EU, this phase seems to have passed & the Collegium Bohemicum in Usti nad Labem/Aussig will soon cast a thorough look at the complex history of Germans in Bohemia. Today the past is no longer threatening, as both Germany & the Czech Republic face the common threat of globalization, & the Czechs have found inner peace through historical context & a focus on humanity, sympathy, & cultural service rather than war, valuing the services of a very industrious & cultured minority without denying their support of the NS regime. The museum seeks a picture language that will mediate this content believably to the Czech public. L. Reed

Main description: Diagrams are an essential part of the most diverse processes of communication and cognition. Indeed, today the production of all kinds of text (including this one) is mediated by diagrammatic tools to be found on computer desktops. Not surprisingly, then, diagrams have become the object of much historical and theoretical work. This book--volume 2 of the Proceedings of the 33rd International Wittgenstein Symposium--is dedicated to this quickly growing field of interdisciplinary research. It includes contributions from philosophy, sociology (space syntax), art history, and history of science. Historically, there is a focus on Otto Neurath and his famous visual language (ISOTYPE), while the new attempts at theorizing diagrams presented here are mainly inspired by Charles Sanders Peirce and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Main description: What is an image? How can we describe the experience of looking at images, and how do they become meaningful to us? In what sense are images like or unlike propositions? Participants of the 33rd International Wittgenstein Symposium--philosophers as well as historians of art, science, and literature--provide many stimulating answers. Some of the contributions are dedicated to Wittgenstein's thoughts on images while others testify to the important role notions coined or inspired by Wittgenstein--"seeing as", "picture games" and the dichotomy of "saying and showing"--play in the field of picture theory today. This first volume of the Proceedings of the 2010 conference addresses readers interested in the history and theory of images, and in the philosophy of Wittgenstein.