Download or read book Tao and Trinity Notes on Self Reference and the Unity of Opposites in Philosophy written by S. Austin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese Tao and the Western Trinity have a fundamental unity of theme: the unity of opposites. Both are connected with problems as broad and diverse as how to describe the entire universe, how a system can talk about itself, the relationship between symbols and realities, and the nature of signs and sacraments.
Download or read book Marx and Laozi written by James Chambers and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work the theories of Marx and Laozi are dialectically combined. The resulting synthesis is a positive materialist negation of Hegel’s idealist dialectics. Syntheses are presented for Marx and Laozi in ontology, metaphysics, epistemology, scientific method, ethics and politics: the full spectrum of their foundational principles. The book is an attempt to reconstruct a materialist interpretation of Laozi, which can be put to work for Marxist theory.
Download or read book Paul Tillich s Philosophical Theology written by George Pattison and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-19 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Tillich's Philosophical Theology takes up the challenge as to whether his thought remains relevant fifty years after his death. In opposition to those who believe that his writings have little to say to us today, this book argues that his thought is largely exemplary of open theological engagement with the contemporary intellectual situation.
Download or read book State Voting Laws in America Historical Statutes and Their Modern Implications written by M. Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-05 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State Voting Laws in America documents changing views on voting rights, emphasizing court rulings which shaped our understanding of what constitutes a legitimate right to vote.
Download or read book The Politics of Europeanization and Post Socialist Transformations written by N. Lindstrom and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines conflicts arising from the dual processes of Europeanization and post-socialist transformations, from gaining independence in 1991 to facing the current economic crisis. Through an in-depth comparison of Estonia and Slovenia over time, it shows how elite actors within these two very different welfare capitalist states resisted EU pressures to change their cohesive and successful national models.
Download or read book Competing against Multinationals in Emerging Markets written by D. Williams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Competing against Multinationals in Emerging Markets provides a comprehensive set of lessons which successful small firms have adopted in order to survive and prosper in an increasingly hostile competitive manufacturing sector where large firms are mostly dominant.
Download or read book The Impact of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games written by K. Dixon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics were seen as a success and the hosts were praised for the promotion of equality, tolerance and unity as well as inspiring a legacy to continue these values. This volume contains a collection of sociological case studies which critically assess the diverse impacts of London 2012 and its key controversies.
Download or read book Green Innovation and Future Technology written by F. Kelliher and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores green innovation and future technology skill development within regional small to medium sized enterprises. Notwithstanding the goals of a greener Europe, there has been little debate as to how the skills required to fulfil the goals of sustainable development can be imparted within regions and within rural business communities.
Download or read book Democracy Civil Society and Health in India written by Madhavi Gupta and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India's health failures remain visible and pronounced despite high rates of economic growth since the 1980s and more than six decades of democratic rule. The authors address the key issues that emerge from the country's health situation, speculating on what it will take for low-income groups to begin claiming for better social services
Download or read book The Architecture of Russian Markets written by B. Grancelli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyses enterprise development and entrepreneurship and their relationship with the state and market building in Russia. It focuses on continuities and changes in the factory regime, drawing on existing literature and the author's own research and evaluation.
Download or read book Eco Cities and the Transition to Low Carbon Economies written by Federico Caprotti and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author examines the two most advanced eco-city projects: the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City in China, and Masdar City in Abu Dhabi. These are the most notable attempts at building new eco-cities to both face up to the 'crises' of the modern world and to use the city as an engine for transition to a low-carbon economy.
Download or read book Deterring Cyber Warfare written by Brian M. Mazanec and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the deterrence of cyber attacks is one of the most important issues facing the United States and other nations, the application of deterrence theory to the cyber realm is problematic. This study introduces cyber warfare and reviews the challenges associated with deterring cyber attacks, offering key recommendations to aid the deterrence of major cyber attacks.
Download or read book The Singular Politics of Derrida and Baudrillard written by Mihail Evans and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-14 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have seen the rise of anti-politics as a political phenomenon. Beyond this new rejection of the political class there has long existed a deeper challenge to the political itself. Identifying the work of Derrida as 'a politics' and that of Baudrillard as 'transpolitics' this book charts convergences and divergences in their approaches.
Download or read book Devolution and Governance written by Alistair Cole and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the development of Welsh devolution in the context of great economic and political uncertainty. Drawing on research carried out over more than a decade, it explores whether Welsh devolution has developed the capacity to resist internal and external pressures and to continue to pursue a distinctive political and policy agenda.
Download or read book Global Politics of Health Reform in Africa written by Amy Barnes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on qualitative research with African actors and global health institutions, the authors explore the politics of how performance funding modalities and participation are used to shape health reform in African countries as well as the role of African actors, global policy elites and international donors within these processes.
Download or read book Hogarth s Art of Animal Cruelty written by P. Beirne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the animal images used in William Hogarth's art, demonstrating how animals were variously depicted as hybrids, edibles, companions, emblems of satire and objects of cruelty. Beirne offers an important assessment of how Hogarth's various audiences reacted to his gruesome images and ultimately what was meant by 'cruelty'.
Download or read book Passion of the Western Mind written by Richard Tarnas and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike....Allows readers to grasp the big picture of Western culture for the first time." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Here are the great minds of Western civilization and their pivotal ideas, from Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud. Richard Tarnas performs the near-miracle of describing profound philosophical concepts simply but without simplifying them. Ten years in the making and already hailed as a classic, THE PASSION OF THE WESERN MIND is truly a complete liberal education in a single volume.
