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<channel><generator>iloblog 1.0</generator><title>Tore&#039;s blog Feed</title><link>http://blog.torenordenstam.se/</link><description>I took the picture above some years ago: the Nile somewhere between Luxor and Aswan.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;In Swedish: &lt;a href=&quot;http://toreblogg.torenordenstam.se/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://toreblogg.torenordenstam.se/&lt;/a&gt;</description><item><title>ETHICS AND PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE</title><link>http://iloapp.torenordenstam.se/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=36</link><description><![CDATA[            My new book on ethics and practical knowledge, ETIK OCH PRAKTISK KUNSKAP, has just been published, nicely produced by Författares Bokmaskin in Stockholm.    201 pages in A5 (114 x 185 mm).    The book costs 200 Norwegian Crowns (including postage) and can be ordered directly from the publisher:    Tore Nordenstam, Hjalmar Brantings vei 63, N-5143 Fyllingsdalen, Norway.    E-mail: tore@nordenstam.org    SMS: +47 48 26 51 50.       
 ]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 13:45:34 +0200</pubDate><category>MY BOOKS</category></item><item><title>THE DIFFICULTY</title><link>http://iloapp.torenordenstam.se/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=35</link><description><![CDATA[         The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.             J. M. Keynes,   General
Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money   , Preface .   
 ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:51:06 +0100</pubDate><category>VARIOUS</category></item><item><title>EGON SCHIELE - ART AND ETHICS</title><link>http://iloapp.torenordenstam.se/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=34</link><description><![CDATA[   
     
     
  Carla Carmona Escalera (philosophy), Eva Werth (literary studies) and Johann Thomas Ambrózy (art history) have launched a new project called the  EGON SCHIELE JAHRBUCH (ESJB).   
       
  In the introduction to the first volume of the  Jahrbuch  which was published in December 2011, the editors explain their purposes:  
       
   It is unfortunate that the research on Egon Schiele (1890-1918) has been particularly   scattered and divided. It is also in part too biased towards an expressionistic approach which uses the concept of genius to the detriment of the analysis of the representational logic of Schiele's oeuvre. It is high time that those working worldwide on Schiele cooperate on an international level so that different methods and approaches can benefit from each other in aid of both scholarship and artistic practice.   
   EGON SCHIELE JAHRBUCH (ESJB) is the first journal dedicated to the study of Schiele's oeuvre. It publishes current research articles, symposia, relevant interviews, timely reviews of books and exhibitions as well as special issues on the artistic practice of Egon Schiele. Following the path pioneered by Allan Janik and Stephen Toulmin's Wittgenstein's Vienna, ESJB also features those aspects of the arts, philosophies and culture of the fin de siècle Vienna which could advance the understanding of Schiele's work. ... ... ...   
       
   The editors would like the ESJB to promote the clarification of the dynamic relationships between ethics and aesthetics inherent to Schiele's oeuvre, something so precious in a time like ours.   
       
  The first volume of the  Egon Schiele Jahrbuch  is a substantial volume with long papers by the three editors themselves and contributions by both art historians like Gertrud Held and Helena Pereña and philosophers like Allan Janik and Tore Nordenstam.   
     
  The volume also includes some lively interviews and sections on museums, exhibitions and research institutions concerned with Schiele and ends with the announcement of the first Egon Schiele Research Symposium which will take place in June this year.  
     
  More on  ESJB  here:     http://www.egon-schiele-jahrbuch.at/      http://arthist.net/archive/2650/view=pdf  
 
       
       
 ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:09:26 +0100</pubDate><category>ETHICS</category></item><item><title>BO GÖRANZON IS SEVENTY</title><link>http://iloapp.torenordenstam.se/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=33</link><description><![CDATA[  
     
  When I met him for the first time, I was surprised. The context was a seminar series organised by Albert Danielsson, professor of Industrial Economy and Organisation at the Royal Technical Institute KTH in Stockholm, and Håkan Törnebohm, professor of Theory of Science at the University of Gothenburg. The general theme was values and evaluations, and I was invited to talk about values and evaluations of an élite in an underdeveloped country. A Ph.D. student in Albert Danielsson’s department had been selected to comment on my contribution. In the ensuing discussion he tried to clarify what he was after with the help of references to Shakespeare’s  The Tempest  and Strindberg’s  Miss Julie ..   .     It turned out that the Ph.D. student in question had started his academic career with an unusual combination of subjects – mathematics and theatre studies. That span has characterised his whole career. With one foot in the world of formal rules and the other foot in the world of theatre, music and art, he was one of the first to observe the limits and dangers of computerisation. The tension between the exact language of formal rules and the practical knowledge which is to be found in the various professions was the leitmotif of  Yrkeskunnande och teknologi  (Professional Knowledge and Technology), the new subject which he created at KTH in the eighties and nineties. The meeting between art and science was the main theme in the other great innovative enterprise of his, the Dialogue Seminar, crossing the borders between Academia, in casu KTH, and the world of theatre, represented by the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm.  
  A dynamic and creative person of this calibre won’t by stopped by such hazards as becoming a retiree. As visiting professor he takes a very active part in the establishment of Professional Knowledge and Technology at Linnæus University in Southern Sweden, including co-operation with the Centre for Practical Knowledge at the University of Nordland in Bodø, Norway. The time for surprise is not over yet … 
      
  On October 4, he will be seventy.  
   
   A fanfare for Bo!   
     
     http://lnu.se/amnen/yrkeskunnande-och-teknologi     
     http://www.hibo.no/index.php?ID=17528     
     http://www.polyteknisk.no/Referater-videoer/node_341     
   http://www.kth.se/polopoly_fs/1.176289!/Menu/general/column-content/attachment/CV-Bosse.pdf   
       
 
 
 ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:35:20 +0200</pubDate><category>OF BOOKS AND PEOPLE</category></item><item><title>THE AUSTRIAN CROSS OF HONOUR</title><link>http://iloapp.torenordenstam.se/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=32</link><description><![CDATA[   I and my colleague Kjell S. Johannessen have been awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, First Class. The award will be presented to us by the Austrian Ambassador to Norway in his residence in Oslo on September 8, 2011.   (More on that  here  and  there .)  
 
  
   The Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art was established to honour scientific or artistic achievements and is awarded as "Cross of Honour, First Class" and "Cross of Honour" by the Federal President of Austria on the recommendation of the Austrian Government.  



     
 ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 19:23:43 +0200</pubDate><category>VARIOUS</category></item><item><title>A NEW BOOK ON SUDANESE ETHICS</title><link>http://iloapp.torenordenstam.se/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=30</link><description><![CDATA[    I wrote the
book  Sudanese Ethics  back in the 1960s. About 40 years
later, it was subjected to a critical examination in a workshop organized by
the Epistemological Enlightenment Centre in Khartoum. The workshop resulted in
a book which came out a couple of years ago. (Cf. an earlier entry on this -  here .)  

   

  Now that
book has been translated into English:  

   Sudanese
Ethics. Critical Revisions on Nordenstam's Model ,   Epistemological Enlightenment Centre, Khartoum 2010, 261 pages.   ISBN: 978-99942-957-2-2.  

   

  The
contributors come from different fields. Professor Mohamed Abdalla Alnagarabi
is a sociologist; Dr. Idris Salim Elhassan got his Ph.D. in the sociology of
religion; Dr. Abdalla Ibrahim El Shukri is a philosopher, now associate professor
at Omdurman Islamic University; Dr. Khalid Almubarak Mustafa got his Ph.D. in
theatre studies and now works as information attaché at the Sudan Embassy in
London: Dr. Hydar Ibrahim Ali got his Ph.D. in the philosophy of social sciences;
Dr. Suliman Yahya Mohamed has a Ph.D. in folklore and is now a lecturer in
folklore at Sudan University for Science and Technology; Dr. Sabri Mohamed
Khaliel is a lecturer of philosophy at the University of Khartoum; Dr.
Shamseldeen Younos Najmeldeen is a lecturer of criticism and theatre at   Sudan University for Science and Technology  and and
currently the director of the Sudanese National Theatre.  

  I do look
forward to reading this!            
 ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:17:20 +0100</pubDate><category>ETHICS</category></item><item><title>SCHIELE&#039;S ART -- A LUCID PRESENTATION</title><link>http://iloapp.torenordenstam.se/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=29</link><description><![CDATA[            The young Spanish painter and philosopher Carla Carmona Escalera
defended her doctoral dissertation  Egon Schiele: Análysis ético-formal de su obra pictórica  at the University of Seville on June 11, 2010. The
committee consisted of Isidoro Reguera Pérez (University of Extramadura), César
Augusto Moreno (University of Seville), Jean-Pierre Commetti (University of
Provence), Inmaculada Murcia Serrano (University of Seville) and myself. The
verdict of the committee was unanimous – Outstanding (Sobresaliente   cum laude por unanimidad). 

   

 The bulk of the dissertation consists of a detailed analysis of the art
of the Austrian painter Egon Schiele. With her background in both painting and
philosophy, Carla is a marvellous guide through Schiele’s pictorial universe.
Her study is a model of art criticism at its best. It is also an exceptionally
good contribution to the philosophy of understanding. To bring that out, one
could turn to the passage in  Philosophical
Investigations  where Ludwig Wittgenstein emphasizes the importance of how things
are presented in philosophy. A lucid presentation ( eine übersichtliche
Darstellung ) conveys that kind of understanding which consists in seeing
connections with the help of intermediate cases (§ 122). This is precisely what
Carla Carmona Escalera does in her analysis of Schiele’s oeuvre. She is
concerned with understanding, and the method she uses throughout is making
comparisons, making us see connections, similarities and differences. The
Schiele study is a beautiful example of what a lucid presentation in
Wittgenstein’s sense might amount to. 

   

 The section on Schiele’s treatment of chairs is brilliant, to mention
one example only. I do hope that the
dissertation will soon lead to a book.     More  here .       
 ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:20:08 +0200</pubDate><category>OF BOOKS AND PEOPLE</category></item><item><title>CRETE</title><link>http://iloapp.torenordenstam.se/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=28</link><description><![CDATA[        Minos Beach, Agios Nikolaos, Crete, May 2010.     Photo: T.N.                 
 ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:24:19 +0200</pubDate><category>VARIOUS</category></item><item><title>A PERFECT DAY</title><link>http://iloapp.torenordenstam.se/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=27</link><description><![CDATA[           The
artist’s gallerist Massimo De Carlo, taped to the wall in his own gallery in
Milan.          

  Maurizio
Cattelan, adhesive tape installation, 1999.                 
 ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:17:10 +0200</pubDate><category>VARIOUS</category></item><item><title>HÅKAN TÖRNEBOHM IS 90!</title><link>http://iloapp.torenordenstam.se/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=26</link><description><![CDATA[          Håkan Törnebohm, the grand old man    in Swedish philosophy of science,    celebrated his 90th birthday a few days ago.    Congratulations and all the best!               http://blog.torenordenstam.se/#post6              
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