The Tokyo Trial: International Conciliation, No. 465, November, 1950, Horwitz Solis
Автор: Horwitz, Betty Название: Transformation of the organization of american states ISBN: 1843318768 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781843318767 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 15863.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This book assesses the extent of the authority that the Organisation of American States holds over the key issues confronting its member states. It explores the extent and significance of the transformation of the OAS since 1991: its roots, the reasons for and extent of its emergence, and the role that the organisation currently plays in the promotion of regional governance in the two key issue-areas of security and the defense and promotion of democratic norms and principles of good governance. By assessing where the OAS has succeeded and failed, Horwitz provides an in-depth explanation of how cooperation and consensus works in the Inter-American system.
This study reports on indications that the OAS is looking for ways to act multilaterally in certain security issues, for instance trying to develop a drug regime. The OAS is also actively defending and promoting democratic norms and rules. Presently, the Western Hemisphere is at a crossroads and it is too soon to tell whether the OAS will adapt and succeed or whether the efforts to integrate OAS member states through specific common security policies and the democracy paradigm will add to the list of previous regional integration failures.
This book is an important contribution to the debate on the role of International Organisations in shaping the Inter-American system. By looking at specific cases such as the defence of democracy, where the OAS is working through specific agencies and promoting cooperation and consensus, we are able to discern the successes and failures of the OAS.
Автор: Horwitz Allan V. PhD Название: Anxiety: A Short History ISBN: 142141080X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781421410807 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 6552.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: As Horwitz explores the history and multiple identities of anxiety-melancholia, nerves, neuroses, phobias, and so on-it becomes clear that every age has had its own anxieties and that culture plays a role in shaping how anxiety is expressed.
Описание: If the old existentialism said that existence precedes essence, the new existentialism articulated by The Syntax of the Real says that syntax precedes semantics. As opposed to the history of philosophy, which has been dominated semantico-centric ontologies, The Syntax of Real endeavors to articulate (perhaps the first) syntactic ontology. One of the most important theses of our time was articulated by the late John Haugeland. This thesis states that if you take care of the syntax, the semantics come for free. While Haugeland understood this thesis as one intervening in philosophy of mind and relating to the nature of artificial intelligence, The Syntax of Real both critiques of Haugeland's understand of his own thesis and articulates its actual ontological implications beyond its relevance to the nature of the mental. Our understanding of syntax must be broadened beyond the linguistic determination of this term if we are to grasp the nature of the real. After detailing the inherent problems of semantic ontologies, this manuscript deduces the very nature of the real from the point of departure of all post-Cartesian thought-the cogito. Semantic nihilism is not advocated. Rather as opposed to other theories of the semantic, a theory of operational semantics is elucidated. The Syntax of the Real articulates its vision both via engagement with well-known philosophers (for instance, the neo-Meinongian theories of the wunderkinder of contemporary European Philosophy, Markus Gabriel and Tristan Garcia, are subjected to critique) as well as pop culture (for example, an episode of the original Star Trek is analyzed and an engagement with the recent film Arrival makes up the conclusion). Warning: This text is not an attempt to articulate or analyze the obscurantist onto-babble of Francois Laruelle. Its orientation, if anything, is Lacanian. Table of Contents 1. Beyond the Semantico-centrism of Philosophy: Towards a Syntactic Ontology 2. If You Get the Syntax Right, the Semantics Come for Free 3. Syntax from the Perspective of Linguistics 4. Semantico-centrism in Linguistics 5. The Primacy of the Syntactic 6. Semanticist Ontology 7. The Problems with Semanticism 8. The Computational Theory of Mind 9. Fodor's Mistaken Guide to the Mind 10. The Actuality of Thought: From Criticisms of the Computational Theory of Mind to Existence in Itself 11. Where It Thinks, I Am Not: Deducing the Syntax of the Real 12. The Syntax of the Real 13. The Misadventures of Captain Obvious: John Searle, the Current Balding King of Semanticism 14. Deconstruction is the Deconstruction of Semantics 15. Structural Semantics 16. Operational Semantics 17. The Implications of Hegelian Anti-Platonism: Dialectical Semanticism 18. The Failure of Hegelian Anti-Pythagoreanism 19. Tzimtzum 20. Bidding Adieu to Badiou: A Critique of the Ontology of the Event 21. Fields of Semantic Sense: The Wunderkind Returns Us to Semanticism 22. Neo-Meinongianism 23. The Return of the Bishop: Berkeleyianism Today 24. Not Even Nietzscheanism is Dead 25. Nominalism 26. The Truth of Saussure 27. On the Origins of Language 28. The Arrival of the Brain Code
Автор: Horwitz Allan V. Название: Ptsd: A Short History ISBN: 1421426390 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781421426396 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 5049.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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A comprehensive history of PTSD.
Post-traumatic stress disorder--and its predecessor diagnoses, including soldier's heart, railroad spine, and shell shock--was recognized as a psychiatric disorder in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The psychic impacts of train crashes, wars, and sexual shocks among children first drew psychiatric attention. Later, enormous numbers of soldiers suffering from battlefield traumas returned from the world wars. It was not until the 1980s that PTSD became a formal diagnosis, in part to recognize the intense psychic suffering of Vietnam War veterans and women with trauma-related personality disorders. PTSD now occupies a dominant place in not only the mental health professions but also major social institutions and mainstream culture, making it the signature mental disorder of the early twenty-first century.
In PTSD, Allan V. Horwitz traces the fluctuations in definitions of and responses to traumatic psychic conditions. Arguing that PTSD, perhaps more than any other diagnostic category, is a lens for showing major historical changes in conceptions of mental illness, he surveys the conditions most likely to produce traumas, the results of those traumas, and how to evaluate the claims of trauma victims.
Illuminating a number of central issues about psychic disturbances more generally--including the relative importance of external stressors and internal vulnerabilities in causing mental illness, the benefits and costs of mental illness labels, and the influence of gender on expressions of mental disturbance--PTSD is a compact yet comprehensive survey. The book will appeal to diverse audiences, including the educated public, students across the psychological and social sciences, and trauma victims who are interested in socio-historical approaches to their condition.
Praise for Allan V. Horwitz's Anxiety: A Short History
"The definitive overview of the history of anxiety."--Bulletin of the History of Medicine
"A lucid, erudite and brisk intellectual history driven by a clear and persuasive central argument."--Social History of Medicine
"An enlightening tour of anxiety, set at a sensible pace, with an exceptional scholar and writer leading the way."--Library Journal
Автор: Daniel M. Horwitz Название: A Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism Reader ISBN: 0827612567 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780827612563 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5643.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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An unprecedented annotated anthology of the most important Jewish mystical works, A Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism Reader is designed to facilitate teaching these works to all levels of learners in adult education and college classroom settings. Daniel M. Horwitz’s insightful introductions and commentary accompany readings in the Talmud and Zohar and writings by Ba'al Shem Tov, Rav Kook, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and others.
Horwitz’s introduction describes five major types of Jewish mysticism and includes a brief chronology of their development, with a timeline. He begins with biblical prophecy and proceeds through the early mystical movements up through current beliefs. Chapters on key subjects characterize mystical expression through the ages, such as Creation and deveikut (“cleaving to God”); the role of Torah; the erotic; inclinations toward good and evil; magic; prayer and ritual; and more. Later chapters deal with Hasidism, the great mystical revival, and twentieth-century mystics, including Abraham Isaac Kook, Kalonymous Kalman Shapira, and Abraham Joshua Heschel. A final chapter addresses today’s controversies concerning mysticism’s place within Judaism and its potential for enriching the Jewish religion.
Автор: Horwitz Stuart Название: Finish Your Book In Three Drafts ISBN: 0986420425 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780986420429 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3449.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
