Complete guide to the Heritage Sites of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area. Traveling down the Hudson River, named by Native Americans the river that flows both ways, you discover people, places, and events that made American history. The cultural, historic, and scenic resources of the Hudson Valley are so numerous, so varied, and so compelling that it’s no wonder Congress recognized the Hudson River Valley as a National Heritage Area in 1996. National Park Service called the region the “landscape that defined America” and characterized the valley as “an exceptionally scenic landscape that has provided the setting and inspiration for new currents of American thought, art, and history.” Its political importance was demonstrated early in our history when the river played a critical role in the Revolutionary War. The many streams and waterfalls of the tributaries of the Hudson River powered early sawmills and gristmills. The river and its landscapes inspired the Hudson River school painters. Sublime and picturesque paintings by Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, and Asher Durand depicted this unique American landscape for the world to witness. Industrialists and commercial leaders like William and John D. Rockefeller, Frederick Vanderbilt, J. P. Morgan, and Ogden Mills built their great estates along the Hudson River. The guide is a user-friendly, must-have companion to the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area, and the Heritage Sites within are places where you can still see the people, experience the landscape, and hear the stories that shaped our national story. Affiliated Heritage Sites are organized by region and proximity to one another. To help you better plan your visit, sites are categorized as “absolutely must see,” “highly recommended,” or “special interest” based on significance, attendance, and amenities. Each Heritage Site profile page includes a full-color picture, a succinct description of the site and its significance, contact information, address, and GPS coordinates to make it easy to explore these resources. You can also explore sites by themes, including architecture; Revolutionary War; art, artists, and the Hudson River school; freedom and dignity; landscapes and gardens; and environment. Many sites within this book also participate in the National Park Service Passport Stamp Program.

Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area: Heritage Site Guidebook

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Pedagogy, Printing, and Protestantism: The Discourse on Childhood (Suny Series in the Philosophy of Education)

Politics & Social Sciences

Luke, Carmen

Social Sciences

From Descartes to the present, there has been a call for a new beginning in philosophy. Contemporary continental philosophy and American pragmatism continue to proclaim the end of one philosophic tradition and the beginning of another. The basis for many of these developments is the repudiation of metaphysics. The purpose of this book is to rethink the metaphysical traditions in terms of the continental and pragmatist critiques, rejecting a single view. The major works in the tradition are viewed as heretical. Philosophy has recurrently acknowledged aporia: "moments in the movement of thought in which it finds itself faced with unconquerable obstacles resulting from conflicts in its understanding of its own intelligibility." A chapter is devoted to each of the eight major philosophers and movements in the Western canonical tradition: the pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, Leibniz, empiricism, Kant, and Hegel. The last three chapters are devoted to contemporary discussions of the end of metaphysics, including the development of a "local" metaphysics that is able to express its own locality and aporia.

Metaphysical Aporia and Philosophical Heresy (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

ROSS, Stephen David

Philosophy

Dialogue and Deconstruction: The Gadamer-Derrida Encounter (Contemporary Contin Philosophy)

Text of and reflection on the 1981 encounter between Hans-Georg Gadamer and Jacques Derrida, which featured a dialogue between hermeneutics in Germany and post-structuralism in France.Before the encounter in 1981 between Hans-Georg Gadamer and Jacques Derrida, there had been virtually no confrontation or dialogue between hermeneutics in Germany and post-structuralism in France, nor has there been since then. Part I of this book makes available for the first time in English the complete texts of the encounter at the Goethe Institute in Paris. This exchange raised such issues as Gadamer’s relation to psychoanalytic interpretation, the questionability of texts, Heidegger’s reading of Nietzsche, and the dialogical aspect of language.Part II offers further reflections by Gadamer on the encounter itself and its relation of hermeneutics to deconstruction. Among the issues covered are Derrida’s interpretation of “Destruktion” in Heidegger, Derrida’s attack on logocentrism in Heidegger’s interpretation of Nietzsche, and the relation of Heidegger, hermeneutics, and deconstruction to dialectic.Part III offers commentaries on the encounter from a variety of perspectives. The authors assess the original encounter as well as Gadamer’s subsequent reflections on it.

Dialogue and Deconstruction: The Gadamer-Derrida Encounter (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

History

The High Status Track: Studies of Elite Schools and Stratification (Frontiers in Education)

The essays in this groundbreaking volume significantly advance our understanding of the process by which an elite school education provides graduates with distinctly favorable life chances. The authors examine the contemporary issue and controversy in the field of education (and society) which focuses on both the advantages and disadvantages of public versus private schooling. Those interested in issues of social stratification and its impact in the educational context will find this a useful and important contribution to the literature in the field.

The High Status Track: Studies of Elite Schools and Stratification (Suny Series, Frontiers in Education)

Education & Teaching

Kingston, Paul W.

Schools & Teaching

This book provides the fullest philosophical examination of theories of evolutionary epistemology now available. Here for the first time are found major statements of new theories, new applications, and many new critical explorations. The book is divided into four parts: Part I introduces several new approaches to evolutionary epistemology; Part II attempts to widen the scope of evolutionary epistemology, either by tackling more traditional epistemological issues, or by applying evolutionary models to new areas of inquiry such as the evolution of culture or of intentionality; Part III critically discusses specific problems in evolutionary epistemology; and Part IV deals with the relationship of evolutionary epistemology to the philosophy of mind. Because of its intellectual depth and its breadth of coverage, Issues in Evolutionary Epistemology will be an important text in the field for many years to come.

Issues in Evolutionary Epistemology (Suny Series in Philosophy and Biology)

Hahlweg, Kai

Entering the Circle: Hermeneutic Investigation in Psychology

Entering the Circle addresses the practical and methodological aspects of research within the interpretive or hermeneutic perspective. It contains descriptions of exemplary interpretive research projects in psychology and closely allied fields. Offering insight into the range and subtleties of the methods of interpretive inquiry, this collection challenges the reader to question the assumptions behind more traditional research that aims, instead, to objectify human phenomena.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Packer, Martin J.

Psychology & Counseling

In this book, Richardson crosses disciplinary boundaries to examine mental hygiene issues of contemporary concern in both the United States and Canada. The work juxtaposes a social history of the child in the twentieth century to shifts in private and public power as influenced by the mental hygiene movements in both countries. The author shows how the historical record sheds light on current policy concerned with mentally, emotionally, and educationally handicapped children. As a sociology of mental illness, the book examines the relationship between mental hygiene as a form of knowledge and the social institutions that fostered the use of psychiatric perspectives concerning child and family life. Significant topics covered in this regard include the history of early childhood and parent education, the origins of child psychiatry in treating juvenile delinquency, and the evolution of contemporary concepts of normal development.

The Century of the Child: The Mental Hygiene Movement and Social Policy in the United States and Canada

Richadson, Theresa R.

Sociology

Lewis draws on both humor theories and research, arguing for the development of interdisciplinary methodologies in the study of literary humor. He demonstrates that the sociologist of humor and the comic playwright approach the same subject--humor in and between groups--with different tools, that writers of Bildungsromane and developmental psychologists share a common interest in the role of humor in maturation, and that the monsters that haunt the psyches of professional comedians can be useful in understanding the odd minglings of humor and fear in Gothic fiction. His treatment of writers who differ widely in their use of humor suggests that the complexity and diversity of humor make it a richly variable determinant of character, genre, and writer.

Comic Effects: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Humor in Literature

Biographies & Memoirs

Lewis, Paul

Leaders & Notable People

This book examines Freud’s changing views of human instincts, exploring the moral and social implications. Part One investigates Freud’s concept of instinct and discusses the phases of his ongoing attempt to classify the instincts. In Part Two the author argues that Freud’s instinct theory leads to a moral philosophy, and he relates this philosophy to Freud’s views on group psychology. The notion of instinct is central to psychoanalytic theory, but never before has it been treated so comprehensively, with such close attention to the text. Nor has anyone previously examined in detail the moral and social implications of Freud’s instinct theory. In examining these implications, Abel bridges the fields of psychology and philosophy.

Freud: On Instinct and Morality

Abel, Donald C.

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