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Transparency and Dissimulation

Author : Verena Lobsien
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110228858
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Transparency and Dissimulation written by Verena Lobsien and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transparency and Dissimulation analyses the configurations of ancient neoplatonism in early modern English texts. In looking closely at poems and prose writings by authors as diverse as Thomas Wyatt, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, John Donne, Edward Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Thomas Traherne, Thomas Browne and, last not least, Aphra Behn, this study attempts to map the outlines of a neoplatonic aesthetics in literary practice as well as to chart its transformative potential in the shifting contexts of cultural turbulency and denominational conflict in 16th- and 17th-century England. As part of a “new”, contextually aware, aesthetics, it seeks to determine some of the functions neoplatonic structures – such as forms of recursivity or certain modes of apophatic speech – are capable of fulfilling in combination and interaction with other, heterogeneous or even ideologically incompatible elements. What emerges is a surprisingly versatile poetics of excess and enigma, with strong Plotinian and Erigenist accents. This appears to need the traditional ingredients of petrarchism or courtliness only as material for the formation of new and dynamic wholes, revealing its radical metaphysical potential above all in the way it helps to resist the easy answers – in religion, science, or the fashions of libertine love.

Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe

Author : Jon R. Snyder
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520274636
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe written by Jon R. Snyder and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A major scholarly achievement, which speaks to multiple disciplines and national traditions...Snyder offers an elegant introduction to the discourse of dissimulation in the courtly world of sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe, then moves beyond to make an important, original intervention on a topic that stands at the center of current debates about modernity."—Albert Ascoli, author of Dante and the Making of a Modern Author "The Baroque is the time of 'Machiavellianism' in politics, ethics, and religion. It is the time of esthetics of ostentation, chiaroscuros, and monumental theatricality. Paradoxically, it is also the time when freedom of thought, the value of dissidence, questions of authenticity, debates about virtues, and practices of confessions come to the fore. Snyder brings all these issues to new life in this deft and powerful book."—Giuseppe Mazzotta, author of The New Map of the World: the Poetic Philosophy of Giambattista Vico

The Ashgate Research Companion to Corporate Social Responsibility

Author : David Crowther
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754647775
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to Corporate Social Responsibility written by David Crowther and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term corporate social responsibility (CSR) has gained prominence both in business and in the media and has become one of the most debated management issues. Yet there is still a lack of consensus on what the concept means, what it entails, why it should be embraced and how. This companion offers scholars and graduate students a valuable guide to current thinking and a comprehensive reference to this increasingly important field.

Equality and Transparency

Author : D. Sabbagh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023060739X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Equality and Transparency written by D. Sabbagh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-08-20 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can affirmative action policies be convincingly justified? And how have they been legitimized over time? In a pluridisciplinary perspective at the intersection of political theory and the sociology of law, Daniel Sabbagh criticizes the two prevailing justifications put forward in favor of affirmative action: the corrective justice argument and the diversity argument.He defends the policy instead as an instrument designed to bring about the deracialization of American society. In this respect, however, affirmative action requires a measure of dissimulation in order to succeed.Equality and Transparency explains why this is so and provides a new interpretation of the strategic component in the Supreme Court's case law while identifying some of its most remarkable side effects.

The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits

Author : Ines G. Zupanov
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190924985
Total Pages : 1153 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits written by Ines G. Zupanov and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 1153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through its missionary, pedagogical, and scientific accomplishments, the Society of Jesus-known as the Jesuits-became one of the first institutions with a truly "global" reach, in practice and intention. The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits offers a critical assessment of the Order, helping to chart new directions for research at a time when there is renewed interest in Jesuit studies. In particular, the Handbook examines their resilient dynamism and innovative spirit, grounded in Catholic theology and Christian spirituality, but also profoundly rooted in society and cultural institutions. It also explores Jesuit contributions to education, the arts, politics, and theology, among others. The volume is organized in seven major sections, totaling forty articles, on the Order's foundation and administration, the theological underpinnings of its activities, the Jesuit involvement with secular culture, missiology, the Order's contributions to the arts and sciences, the suppression the Order endured in the 18th century, and finally, the restoration. The volume also looks at the way the Jesuit Order is changing, including becoming more non-European and ethnically diverse, with its members increasingly interested in engaging society in addition to traditional pastoral duties.

The Transparency Paradox

Author : Ida Koivisto
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192667904
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book The Transparency Paradox written by Ida Koivisto and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transparency has become a new norm. States, international organizations, and even private businesses have sought to bolster their legitimacy by invoking transparency in their activities. This growth in popularity was made possible through two interconnected trends: the idea that transparency is inherently good, and that the actual meaning of the term is becoming harder and harder to pin down. Thus far, this has remained undertheorized. The Transparency Paradox is an insightful account of the hidden logic of the ideal of transparency and its legal manifestations. It shows how transparency is a covertly conflicted ideal. The book argues that counter to popular understanding, truth and legitimacy cannot but form a problematic trade-off in transparency practices.

Transparency in Postwar France

Author : Stefanos Geroulanos
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503603415
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Transparency in Postwar France written by Stefanos Geroulanos and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book returns to a time and place when the concept of transparency was met with deep suspicion. It offers a panorama of postwar French thought where attempts to show the perils of transparency in politics, ethics, and knowledge led to major conceptual inventions, many of which we now take for granted. Between 1945 and 1985, academics, artists, revolutionaries, and state functionaries spoke of transparency in pejorative terms. Associating it with the prying eyes of totalitarian governments, they undertook a critical project against it—in education, policing, social psychology, economic policy, and the management of information. Focusing on Sartre, Lacan, Canguilhem, Lévi-Strauss, Leroi-Gourhan, Foucault, Derrida, and others, Transparency in Postwar France explores the work of ethicists, who proposed that individuals are transparent neither to each other nor to themselves, and philosophers, who clamored for new epistemological foundations. These decades saw the emergence of the colonial and phenomenological "other," the transformation of ideas of normality, and the effort to overcome Enlightenment-era humanisms and violence in the name of freedom. These thinkers' innovations remain centerpieces for any resistance to contemporary illusions that tolerate or enable power and social coercion.

Marie Antoinette

Author : Dena Goodman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136704892
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Marie Antoinette written by Dena Goodman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie-Antoinette is one of the most fascinating and controversial figures in all of French history. This volume explores the many struggles by various individuals and groups to put right Marie's identity, and it simultaneously links these struggles to larger destabilizations in social, political and gender systems in France. Looking at how Marie was represented in politics, art, literature and journalism, the contributors to this volume reveal how crucial political and cultural contexts were enacted "on the body of the queen" and on the complex identity of Marie. Taken together, these essays suggest that it is precisely because she came to represent the contradictions in the social, political and gender systems of her era, that Marie remains such an important historical figure.

Women and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England

Author : Soile Ylivuori
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429845693
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Women and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England written by Soile Ylivuori and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first in-depth study of women’s politeness examines the complex relationship individuals had with the discursive ideals of polite femininity. Contextualising women’s autobiographical writings (journals and letters) with a wide range of eighteenth-century printed didactic material, it analyses the tensions between politeness discourse which aimed to regulate acceptable feminine identities and women’s possibilities to resist this disciplinary regime. Ylivuori focuses on the central role the female body played as both the means through which individuals actively fashioned themselves as polite and feminine, and the supposedly truthful expression of their inner status of polite femininity.

Troubling Confessions

Author : Peter Brooks
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226075853
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Troubling Confessions written by Peter Brooks and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-05-22 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature has often understood the problematic nature of confession better than the law, as Brooks demonstrates in perceptive readings of legal cases set against works by Roussean, Dostoevsky, Joyce, and Camus, among others."--BOOK JACKET.

Profanity, Obscenity and the Media

Author : Melvin J. Lasky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351480278
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Profanity, Obscenity and the Media written by Melvin J. Lasky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume of Melvin J. Lasky's The Language of Journalism series, praised as a "brilliant" and "original" study in communications and contemporary language, and as "a joy to read." When it was first published, it broke ground in focusing on the comparative styles and prejudices of mainstream American and British newspapers, and in its trenchant analysis of their systematic debasement of language in the face of obligatory platitudes and compulsory euphemisms. Lasky documents the growing crisis affecting honest, thoughtful, and independent journalism in the Western world. He extends the scope of his first volume in the trilogy and deepens the interpretation. He also adds a personal touch of wit and anecdote, as one might expect from an experienced international journalist and historian. Lasky's examination of the use of formerly forbidden language is a triumph of sinuous semantics. In his incisive analysis, we see the tortuous struggle of a once Puritanized literary culture writhing to break free of censorship and self-censorship. This volume on the phenomenon of profanity adds another dimension to Lasky's thesis on mass culture's trivialization of real social and political phenomena. It also underscores our society's embrace of banality, in standardizing politically correct jargon and slang. Readers of the first volume will find here a new range of references to illuminate the detail of what our newspapers have been publishing.

The World of Pope's Satires

Author : Peter Dixon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100053149X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The World of Pope's Satires written by Peter Dixon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-01-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1968, The World of Pope’s Satires is a stimulating and challenging book showing how the satires written by Pope during the 1730s were not only expressions of his own .poetic personality but were also responsive to the habits and attitudes of the age. The author considers Pope’s uses of some current conversational technique (especially that of ‘raillery’) and of the closely related social ideal of the cultivated gentleman. Pope’s regard for certain personal attributes and moral values – notably hospitality, integrity, friendship, charity and self-knowledge – is examined in two ways; as it expresses itself positively in the satires, and as it is defined negatively by his antipathy towards courtly self-seeking and hypocrisy, contemporary manifestations of acquisitiveness, and the pride associated with neo-stoicism. The final chapter is wide ranging and shows that although Pope is at times representative, and therefore limited, in his response to the pressures and uncertainties of the age, his satires live because of the subtlety of his treatment of such Augustan commonplaces as Order and Balance and the passion and spirit of his writing. This will be an interesting read for students of English literature.

Documents of Life Revisited

Author : Liz Stanley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317148754
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Documents of Life Revisited written by Liz Stanley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural and narrative turn has had a considerable impact upon research in the social sciences as well as in the arts and humanities, with Ken Plummer's Documents of Life constituting a central text in the turn towards to narrative, biographical and qualitative methodologies, challenging and changing the nature of research in sociology and further afield. Bringing together the latest research on auto/biographical and narrative methods, Documents of Life Revisited offers a sympathetic yet critical engagement with Plummer's work, exploring a range of different kinds of life documents and delineating a critical humanist methodology for researching and writing about these. A rich examination of the methods and methodologies associated with contemporary research in the social sciences and humanities, this book will be of interest to those concerned with the use and importance of biographical and narrative sources and documents of life investigations. As such, it will appeal to sociologists, social anthropologists and geographers, as well as scholars of cultural studies and cultural history, literary studies and library, archive and cultural management, social policy and medical studies.

600 Life Changing Lessons from the Wisdom of Francis Bacon

Author : UDAYA KUMAR ALAJANGI
Publisher : Shashwat Publication
ISBN 13 : 9360873470
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book 600 Life Changing Lessons from the Wisdom of Francis Bacon written by UDAYA KUMAR ALAJANGI and published by Shashwat Publication. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis Bacon (1561–1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, and essayist, widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of Western thought. Born in London to a prominent family, Bacon received an excellent education and showed remarkable intellectual promise from a young age. Bacon's literary legacy is perhaps best represented by his essays, a collection of short, thought-provoking reflections on a wide range of subjects, including truth, friendship, marriage, and ambition. Written in clear, concise prose, Bacon's essays offer timeless insights into the human condition and continue to be studied and admired for their wisdom and wit. The transformative wisdom of Francis Bacon concised as "Life Changing Lessons from Francis Bacon's Essays," where each essay is distilled into ten concise, powerful insights. Through clear and accessible language, readers are guided on a journey of self-discovery, enlightenment, and personal growth. From reflections on truth and virtue to contemplations on adversity and ambition, Bacon's timeless wisdom offers practical guidance for navigating life's complexities with integrity and purpose. Authored by Udaya Kumar Alajangi, this book serves as a beacon of light, illuminating paths to fulfillment and inspiring readers to embody the timeless virtues espoused by Bacon.

The Art of Freedom

Author : Juliane Rebentisch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745693148
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Freedom written by Juliane Rebentisch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of democratic freedom refers to more than the kind of freedom embodied by political institutions and procedures. Democratic freedom can only be properly understood if it is grasped as the expression of a culture of freedom that encompasses an entire form of life. Juliane Rebentisch’s systematic and historical approach demonstrates that we can learn a great deal about the democratic culture of freedom from its philosophical critics. From Plato to Carl Schmitt, the critique of democratic culture has always been articulated as a critique of its ãaestheticization“. Rebentisch defends various phenomena of aestheticization Ð from the irony typical of democratic citizens to the theatricality of the political Ð as constitutive elements of democratic culture and the notion of freedom at the heart of its ethical and political self-conception. This work will be of particular interest to students of Political Theory, Philosophy and Aesthetics.

Iran's Nuclear Ambitions

Author : Shahram Chubin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Iran's Nuclear Ambitions written by Shahram Chubin and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iran is aggressively seeking nuclear technology that could be used for making weapons —and its quest has set off alarms throughout the world. This widespread concern stems in part from Iran's uncertain intentions and recent history. Will it remain a revolutionary power determined to subvert its Sunni Arab neighbors, destroy Israel, and spread theocratic government to other lands? Or would an Iran with nuclear weapons merely defend its territory from foreign aggression and live in peace with its neighbors? Are the country's leaders and society willing to negotiate limits on nuclear capability and normalize relations with the West, or will they resist accommodation?Iran's Nuclear Ambitions provides a rare, balanced look into the motivations, perceptions, and domestic politics swirling around Iran. Shahram Chubin, an Iranian-born security expert, details the recent history of Iran's nuclear program and diplomacy. He argues that the central problem is not nuclear technology, but rather Iran's behavior as a revolutionary state, with ambitions that collide with the interests of its neighbors and the West. Topics include:The view from TehranIran's nuclear energy rationale, domestic politics, and decisionmakingSources of concern, including the nature of Iran's regime, its nuclear infrastructure, missile development, and terrorismIran's negotiating strategyThe international responseIran and regional security, including the U.S. as a threat and rival, Iran's regional ambitions, and IsraelPolicy options

Rhetorical and Critical Approaches to Public Relations II

Author : Robert L. Heath
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135220875
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Rhetorical and Critical Approaches to Public Relations II written by Robert L. Heath and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-03-04 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume illustrates the application of rhetorical theory and critical perspectives to explain public relations practices. It provides a systematic and coherent statement of the crucial guidelines and philosophical underpinnings of public relations, and it uses a rhetorical lens to give practitioners a clear sense of how their PR campaigns make a contribution to the organizational bottom line.