Daniel Heller: 12 books
Daniel Heller-Roazen
Die Geheimnisse des al-Jahiz (dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 052)
Language: German
Release Date: March 1, 2012
In seinem Notizbuch wirft der Philosoph und Schriftsteller Daniel Heller-Roazen die Frage auf, »ob [...] die Sprache etwas ihr Eigenes, in allem Gesagten Verstecktes birgt«. Mit meisterhafter Beherrschung der Sprache und ihrer rätselhaft verschlüsselten Natur taucht er in fundamentale Fragen und...
Der innere Sinn
Archäologie eines Gefühls
Language: German
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Es war vermutlich Aristoteles, der als Erster einen dem Menschen eigentümlichen Sinn entdeckte: den Sinn wahrzunehmen, dass man wahrnimmt. Daniel Heller-Roazen unternimmt in seinem Buch nun dessen Archäologie: In 25 Kapiteln zeichnet er die verschlungenen Wege dieses besonderen Sinns bei Denkern...
Fortune's Faces
The Roman de la Rose and the Poetics of Contingency
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Arguably the single most influential literary work of the European Middle Ages, the Roman de la Rose of Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun has traditionally posed a number of difficulties to modern critics, who have viewed its many interruptions and philosophical discussions as signs of a lack of...
Dunkle Zungen
Geheimsprachen: Die Kunst der Gauner und Rätselfreunde
Language: German
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Sprache dient der Verständigung. Doch immer wieder hat es Menschen gegeben, die nicht wollten, dass alle sie verstehen. Deshalb haben sie Geheimsprachen entwickelt. Daniel Heller-Roazen unternimmt in seinem Buch einen Streifzug durch die Geschichte der künstlichen und geheimen Sprachen. Von den...
Der fünfte Hammer
Pythagoras und die Disharmonie der Welt
Language: German
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Was sich der Harmonie der Welt nicht fügen magEs heißt, dass Pythagoras die Harmonielehre erfand, als er bei einem Schmied den Klang von fünf Hämmern hörte. Vier Hammerschläge konnte er in ein wohlgeordnetes Verhältnis setzen. Der fünfte Hammer jedoch klang dissonant. Pythagoras musste ihn...
Der Feind aller
Der Pirat und das Recht
Language: German
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Lange bevor es eine Charta der Menschenrechte und humanitäre Organisationen gab, definierten die Römer den Piraten als "Feind aller", da ihm nicht mit dem üblichen Recht beizukommen war: Er ist kein Bürger eines Staates, er bewegt sich auf offener See, die niemandem gehört und wo keine Gesetze...
Curriculum on the Edge of Survival
How Schools Fail to Prepare Students for Membership in a Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Typically, school curriculum has been viewed through the lens of preparation for the workplace or higher education, both worthy objectives. However, this is not the only lens, and perhaps not even the most powerful one to use, if the goal is to optimize the educational system. Curriculum on the Edge...
Political Will and Improving Public Schools
Seven Reflections for Americans to Consider
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
The essays in this book deal with situations or issues in public education which we need to address. While some of these situations seem clear and almost obvious, making the necessary changes and admitting the truth to ourselves is not necessarily going to happen easily.
The suggestions for...
Taoist Lessons for Educational Leaders
Gentle Pathways to Resolving Conflicts
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
This book explores ways in which educational leaders can apply the wisdom of the Tao in their day-to-day work in schools. It offers an alternative to the standard ways of western thinking to give the leader more possibilities when confronting a situation. We tend to value immediate and decisive action,...
by Nancy S. Heller, Daniel G. Heller
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2007
1ST FLAP COPY
Several years ago, while I was rounding at one of the Brigham and Women's Hospital nurseries, a new father shared a funny story with me.
Early the previous morning, this new father went to the hospital lobby in search of coffee and bagels. While waiting in line at the coffee...
Misfit Children
An Inquiry into Childhood Belongings
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Misfits are often confused with outcasts. Yet misfits rather find themselves in-between that which fits and that which does not. This volume is interested in this slipperiness of misfits and explores the blockages and the promises of such movements, as well as the processes and conditions that produce...
Jabotinsky's Children
Polish Jews and the Rise of Right-Wing Zionism
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
How interwar Poland and its Jewish youth were instrumental in shaping the ideology of right-wing Zionism
By the late 1930s, as many as fifty thousand Polish Jews belonged to Betar, a youth movement known for its support of Vladimir Jabotinsky, the founder of right-wing Zionism. Poland was not...