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Poetry. Friedman has a great deal to say about myth, history, and the dance of the protozoa, not to mention the invention of a new perfume, Michael Friedman's Night of Magic ... Members of a royal family, king, queen, princess, join monsters, gods, beatniks, and Jesus to live the kinds of lives we'd like for ouselves, if we could but escape this damned restrictive prison of self ... This work is drenched in wit and brio, its narrative mysteriously tangled with anxiety and alterity. A natural melancholia attaches itself to the underside of the text, like Kate Winslet going back onto the Titanic after Leo's made sure she's safe in the lifeboat -- Kevin Killian. Michael Friedman is the author of ARTS & LETTERS, CAMEO and SPECIAL CAPACITY (all available from SPD). Since 1986 he has edited the award-winning literary journal SHINY.

A reinterpretation of the enduring significance of logical positivism.

Finally, a multi-disciplinary approach that covers both the surgical and non-surgical interventions for sleep apnea and snoring. From the editor of Operative Techniques in Otolaryngology, this new reference will quickly become the standard in surgery for this key area within otolaryngology. ., Full-color line drawings illustrate key concepts and create a comprehensive way of learning surgical techniques. Provides consistent, templated chapters and a contemporary, full-color format for quick, easy access to the most up-to-date surgical and non surgical interventions for sleep apnea and snoring. Includes contributions from leaders in neurology, pulmonology, psychiatry, otolaryngology, and oral & maxillofacial surgery. to create a truly multi-disciplinary approach. Covers new and innovative procedures including ZPP (Zeta palatopharyngoplasty), Transpalatal Advancement Pharyngoplasty and Minimally invasive submucosal glossectomy Details when and why surgery is necessary, and how to perform a successful operation for snoring and sleep apnea.

Kant sought throughout his life to provide a philosophy adequate to the sciences of his time--especially Euclidean geometry and Newtonian physics. In this new book, Michael Friedman argues that Kant's continuing efforts to find a metaphysics that could provide a foundation for the sciences is of the utmost importance in understanding the development of his philosophical thought from its earliest beginnings in the thesis of 1747, through the Critique of Pure Reason, to his last unpublished writings in the Opus postumum. Previous commentators on Kant have typically minimized these efforts because the sciences in question have since been outmoded. Friedman argues that, on the contrary, Kant's philosophy is shaped by extraordinarily deep insight into the foundations of the exact sciences as he found them, and that this represents one of the greatest strengths of his philosophy. Friedman examines Kant's engagement with geometry, arithmetic and algebra, the foundations of mechanics, and the law of gravitation in Part One. He then devotes Part Two to the Opus postumum, showing how Kant's need to come to terms with developments in the physics of heat and in chemistry formed a primary motive for his projected Transition from the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science to Physics. Kant and the Exact Sciences is a book of high scholarly achievement, argued with impressive power. It represents a great advance in our understanding of Kant's philosophy of science.

Although the book gives a general overview of the philosophical issues of the period, the author pays special attention to the relationships among three key twentieth-century philosophers: Rudolf Carnap, Ernst Cassirer, and Martin Heidegger."--BOOK JACKET.

Historians of philosophy, science, and mathematics explore the influence of Kant's philosophy on the evolution of modern scientific thought.

Michael D. Friedman’s second edition of this stage history of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus adds an examination of twelve major theatrical productions and one film that appeared in the years 1989–2009. Friedman identifies four lines of descent in the recent performance history of the play: the stylised, realistic, darkly comic, and political approaches, which culminate in Julie Taymor’s harrowing film Titus (1999). Aspects of Taymor’s eclectic vision of ancient Rome under the grip of modern fascism were copied by several subsequent productions, making Titus the most characteristic, as well as the most influential, contemporary performance of the play. Friedman’s work extends Alan Dessen’s original study to include Taymor’s film, along with chapters devoted to the efforts of international directors including Gregory Doran, Silviu Purcarete, and Yukio Ninagawa. This expanded volume will prove essential to students of Shakespeare’s play, along with scholars interested in the tragedy’s gruesome yet occasionally comical performance history.

Professor Michael Friedman of Stanford University is famous for his interpretation of Kant's writings on space, time mathematics and physics, but his philosophical aims are wider, as indicated by the title of a recent book dedicated to his work: Discourse on a New Method: Reinvigorating the Marriage of History and Philosophy of Science (Open Court, 2010). The two Spinoza Lectures presented here belong to Friedman's ongoing project of articulating a post-Kuhnian philosophy of science. Friedman's approach, like Kuhn's, is essentially historical, and builds on a careful depiction of the development of the mathematical and physical sciences in the Western tradition. By embedding these developments within a wider narrative depicting their complex relations to a parallel set of developments in what he calls scientifi c philosophy, however, Friedman aims to provide a more adequate philosophical response to the conceptual incommensurability between succeeding Kuhnian paradigms that arises in the great scientifi c revolutions that have defi ned this tradition. Encouraged by Kuhn's own description of his approach as Kantianism with movable categories, moreover, Friedman endeavors to develop a neo-Kantian approach to the problems concerning scientifi c rationality that have affl icted the history, philosophy, and sociology of science since Kuhn; in particular, by constructing a narrative depicting how our present situation results, among other things, from successive conceptual transformations of Kant's original approach. In the course of these two lectures, Professor Friedman expands the scope of his original project by proceeding temporally backwards into the scientifi c revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that preceded Kant, and by proceeding culturally outwards so as to include social, institutional, and technological developments along with purely intellectual developments.--