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This book was the first full-scale study of Simone de Beauvoir, surveying the whole range of her activity.
Author : Anne Whitmarsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 26,79 MB
Release : 1981-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052123669X
This book was the first full-scale study of Simone de Beauvoir, surveying the whole range of her activity.
Author : Jacopo Bizzotto
Publisher :
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 49,52 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Competition
ISBN :
We parameterize commitment in leader-follower games by letting the leader publicly choose her action set from a menu of options. We fully characterize for a large class of settings the set of equilibrium outcomes obtained when varying the degree of commitment that the leader has. We identify conditions under which giving more commitment power to the leader could end up making her worse off. Moreover, with partial commitment, the follower might obtain a larger payoff than the leader even in settings where the latter possesses a first-mover advantage under full commitment. We explore the implications of our analysis for oligopolies.
Author : Robert J. McMahon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 24,1 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231108805
The most complete picture to date of how U.S. strategies of containment and empire-building spiraled out of control in Southeast Asia, investigating also how the demoralizing experience of Vietnam radically undermined U.S. enthusiasm for the region in a strategic sense.
Author : K. Featherstone
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 38,17 MB
Release : 2008-09-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230582370
An innovative case study of one of the most recalcitrant member states of the EU: Greece. Based on extensive empirical research, the book relates its evidence to two major conceptual frames: 'Europeanization' and 'varieties of capitalism'. These are complementary and one compensates for the limitations of the other.
Author : Gary Chartier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 37,53 MB
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1351401653
This book develops and defends a conception of commitment and explores its limits. Gary Chartier shows how commitment serves to resolve conflicts between ordinary moral intuitions and the reality that the basic aspects of human well-being are incommensurable. He outlines a variety of overlapping and mutually reinforcing rationales for making commitments, explores the relationship between commitment and vocation and the relevance of commitment to love, and notes some reasons why it might make sense to disregard one’s commitments. The Logic of Commitment will appeal to ethicists interested in the connection between commitment and personal well-being, and to anyone who wonders why and when it might make sense to make or keep commitments.
Author : William Davies
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 21,89 MB
Release : 2016-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 152641161X
Brilliant...explains how the rhetoric of competition has invaded almost every domain of our existence." —Evgeny Morozov, author of To Save Everything, Click Here" "In this fascinating book Davies inverts the conventional neoliberal practice of treating politics as if it were mere epiphenomenon of market theory, demonstrating that their version of economics is far better understood as the pursuit of politics by other means." —Professor Philip Mirowski, University of Notre Dame "A sparkling, original, and provocative analysis of neoliberalism. It offers a distinctive account of the diverse, sometimes contradictory, conventions and justifications that lend authority to the extension of the spirit of competitiveness to all spheres of social life...This book breaks new ground, offers new modes of critique, and points to post-neoliberal futures." —Professor Bob Jessop, University of Lancaster Since its intellectual inception in the 1930s and its political emergence in the 1970s, neo-liberalism has sought to disenchant politics by replacing it with economics. This agenda-setting text examines the efforts and failures of economic experts to make government and public life amenable to measurement, and to re-model society and state in terms of competition. In particular, it explores the practical use of economic techniques and conventions by policy-makers, politicians, regulators and judges and how these practices are being adapted to the perceived failings of the neoliberal model. By picking apart the defining contradiction that arises from the conflation of economics and politics, this book asks: to what extent can economics provide government legitimacy? Now with a new preface from the author and a foreword by Aditya Chakrabortty.
Author : Mike Calhoun
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 39,3 MB
Release : 2006-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1418552755
What would you give to sit down with some of the most influential youth workers in the country? Not just the big names but those individuals who have proven time after time that they have a passion for reaching teens today that is pushing the limits of traditional youth ministry? In Pushing the Limits, veteran youth workers Mike Calhoun and Mel Walker have collected some of the best writing from youth pastors and leaders in churches big and small around the country who are doing what it takes to tap into the true potential of youth ministry. They give you the opportunity to find out what these youth leaders are doing that is making an impact and put it to work in your own ministry.
Author : Constantin Fasolt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 14,21 MB
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 022611564X
History casts a spell on our minds more powerful than science or religion. It does not root us in the past at all. It rather flatters us with the belief in our ability to recreate the world in our image. It is a form of self-assertion that brooks no opposition or dissent and shelters us from the experience of time. So argues Constantin Fasolt in The Limits of History, an ambitious and pathbreaking study that conquers history's power by carrying the fight into the center of its domain. Fasolt considers the work of Hermann Conring (1606-81) and Bartolus of Sassoferrato (1313/14-57), two antipodes in early modern battles over the principles of European thought and action that ended with the triumph of historical consciousness. Proceeding according to the rules of normal historical analysis—gathering evidence, putting it in context, and analyzing its meaning—Fasolt uncovers limits that no kind of history can cross. He concludes that history is a ritual designed to maintain the modern faith in the autonomy of states and individuals. God wants it, the old crusaders would have said. The truth, Fasolt insists, only begins where that illusion ends. With its probing look at the ideological underpinnings of historical practice, The Limits of History demonstrates that history presupposes highly political assumptions about free will, responsibility, and the relationship between the past and the present. A work of both intellectual history and historiography, it will prove invaluable to students of historical method, philosophy, political theory, and early modern European culture.
Author : Mark T. Mitchell
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 21,56 MB
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0268104328
In The Limits of Liberalism, Mark T. Mitchell argues that a rejection of tradition is both philosophically incoherent and politically harmful. This false conception of tradition helps to facilitate both liberal cosmopolitanism and identity politics. The incoherencies are revealed through an investigation of the works of Michael Oakeshott, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Michael Polanyi. Mitchell demonstrates that the rejection of tradition as an epistemic necessity has produced a false conception of the human person—the liberal self—which in turn has produced a false conception of freedom. This book identifies why most modern thinkers have denied the essential role of tradition and explains how tradition can be restored to its proper place. Oakeshott, MacIntyre, and Polanyi all, in various ways, emphasize the necessity of tradition, and although these thinkers approach tradition in different ways, Mitchell finds useful elements within each to build an argument for a reconstructed view of tradition and, as a result, a reconstructed view of freedom. Mitchell argues that only by finding an alternative to the liberal self can we escape the incoherencies and pathologies inherent therein. This book will appeal to undergraduates, graduate students, professional scholars, and educated laypersons in the history of ideas and late modern culture.
Author : Christine Meisner Rosen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 31,97 MB
Release : 2003-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521545709
This book examines the rebuildings of Chicago, Boston, and Baltimore following great fires.