Описание: Based around a number of illustrative case studies, this book charts the development of our modern-day reliance on statistics. Topics covered include scientific innovations, administrative issues and the use of numbers in politics. By looking at these aspects of statistics together, the authors are able to present a truly original work.
Автор: Wade Ira O. Название: The Intellectual Origins of the French Enlightenment ISBN: 0691647011 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691647012 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 39600.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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With the same sense of historical responsibility and veracity he has exemplified in his studies on Voltaire, Ira O. Wade turns now to Voltaire's milieu and begins an account of the French Enlightenment which will explain its genesis, its nature and coherence, and its diffusion in the modern world. To understand the movement of ideas that produced the spirit of the Enlightenment, Mr. Wade identifies and examines the people, events, and rich development of philosophy in the Renaissance and seventeenth century. He considers, in turn, the challenges of the Renaissance and the responses of its leading writers (Rabelais, Bacon, and Montaigne); Baroque thought (Descartes, Hobbes, Pascal, the Freethinkers); and Classicism (Moliere, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, Newton). Mr. Wade begins his discussion by examining the critical literature on the Enlightenment and concludes with a theoretical chapter, The Making of a Spirit. As the history of an intellectual culture, his study makes vivid the power of thought in the making of a civilization.
Originally published in 1971.
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Автор: Wade Ira O. Название: The Intellectual Origins of the French Enlightenment ISBN: 0691620180 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691620183 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 16218.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: With the same sense of historical responsibility and veracity he has exemplified in his studies on Voltaire, Ira O. Wade turns now to Voltaire`s milieu and begins an account of the French Enlightenment which will explain its genesis, its nature and coherence, and its diffusion in the modern world. To understand the movement of ideas that produced t
Описание: This imaginative and unusual book analyses the moral sensibilities and assumptions that were at the heart of political debate in Victorian and early twentieth-century Britain, focusing on the role as public moralists of intellectuals from John Stuart Mill and Matthew Arnold to J. M. Keynes and F. R. Leavis.
Описание: Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers--that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades, scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics, economics, or culture--almost anything but abstract
Автор: Jeffrey R. Di Leo; Peter Hitchcock Название: The New Public Intellectual ISBN: 1137585757 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137585752 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11179.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: What are the theoretical parameters that produce the category public intellectual? With essays from a range of humanities scholars, this collection responds to this question, complicating the notion of the public intellectual while arguing for its continued urgency in communities formal and informal, institutional and abstract.
Автор: Blanchot Maurice, Holland Michael Название: A World in Ruins: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1943 ISBN: 0823267253 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780823267255 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 15675.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In certain key respects, 1943 marked a turning point in the war. Increasingly, victory seemed assured. However, the backdrop to this gradually improving situation was one of widespread and unremitting destruction. In the essays from that year, Blanchot writes from a position of almost total detachment from day-to-day events, now that all of his projects and involvements have come to naught. As he explores and promotes works of literature and ideas, he privileges those with the capacity to sustain a human perspective that does not merely contemplate ruin and disaster but sees them as the occasion for a radical revision of what “human” is capable of signifying. Consigning all that the name “France” has hitherto meant to him to a past that is now in ruins, Blanchot begins to sketch out a counter-history that is international in nature, and whose human field is literature.
Автор: Blanchot Maurice, Holland Michael Название: A World in Ruins: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1943 ISBN: 0823267261 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780823267262 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5392.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание:
In certain key respects, 1943 marked a turning point in the war. Increasingly, victory seemed assured. However, the backdrop to this gradually improving situation was one of widespread and unremitting destruction. In the essays from that year, Blanchot writes from a position of almost total detachment from day-to-day events, now that all of his projects and involvements have come to naught. As he explores and promotes works of literature and ideas, he privileges those with the capacity to sustain a human perspective that does not merely contemplate ruin and disaster but sees them as the occasion for a radical revision of what “human” is capable of signifying. Consigning all that the name “France” has hitherto meant to him to a past that is now in ruins, Blanchot begins to sketch out a counter-history that is international in nature, and whose human field is literature.
'The Museum of Bioprospecting, Intellectual Property, and the Public Domain' addresses one of the most heated policy debates of our day: access to genetic resources and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits. Seven scholars - an anthropologist, an economist, a sociologist, and four lawyers - discuss how a museum can flesh out the relevant ethical issues that frustrate any purely technical solution. The visitors to the proposed museum become a source of considered judgments. Commercial movies are screened and discussion follows about some aspect of bioprospecting, intellectual property, and the public domain, suggested in the films. Both the screenings and discussions occur in small amphitheatres named according to the uneven chronology in the management of information: 100,00 BC to 16 September 1787 (public domain); 17 September 1787 to today's date (intellectual property); and today's date to (?) (legislation sui generis). The three amphitheatres surround a courtyard caf which is a metaphor for the mission of the museum: conversation. The scholars vet the blueprint before an imaginary octogenarian who is not at all impressed and will "say the damnedest things." As this 21st century Don Quixote moseys across the chapters and pokes fun at the scholarly ruminations, the reader begins to understand how the proposed museum is indeed a forum for the nuanced ethics over bioprospecting, intellectual property, and the public domain. The dialogue-within-a-dialogue is highly original and entertaining.
Описание: Divided into three sections, covering women`s intimate, intellectual and public lives, this interdisciplinary volume offers articles on women`s work, criminal activity, clothing, family, education, writing, travel and more. Applying tools from history, art anthropology, cultural studies, and English literature.
Автор: Emerson Название: Health Inequalities and People with Intellectual Disabilities ISBN: 0521133149 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521133142 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6019.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: People with intellectual disabilities die younger and have poorer health than their peers. This book provides an authoritative, evidence-based overview of why this happens and what needs to be done. It is an invaluable resource for practitioners, advocates, policymakers and researchers concerned with the health and wellbeing of disabled people.
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