Author: Simon Serfaty
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442215887
Category : Civilization, Western
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
In this powerful and provocative book, distinguished scholar Simon Serfaty vigorously argues that while it is possible, and even desirable, to acknowledge the passing of the Western era, it is exaggerated to present it as an irreversible decline of the United States and the rest of the West, relative to China and the rest of the Rest. Rather, he shows that the unfolding post-Western moment of zero-polarity will be messy, involving a dozen or more other countries. But Serfaty convincingly contends that even during this moment of geopolitical transition, American power remains superior, and thus.
A World Recast
Author: Simon Serfaty
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442215887
Category : Civilization, Western
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
In this powerful and provocative book, distinguished scholar Simon Serfaty vigorously argues that while it is possible, and even desirable, to acknowledge the passing of the Western era, it is exaggerated to present it as an irreversible decline of the United States and the rest of the West, relative to China and the rest of the Rest. Rather, he shows that the unfolding post-Western moment of zero-polarity will be messy, involving a dozen or more other countries. But Serfaty convincingly contends that even during this moment of geopolitical transition, American power remains superior, and thus.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442215887
Category : Civilization, Western
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
In this powerful and provocative book, distinguished scholar Simon Serfaty vigorously argues that while it is possible, and even desirable, to acknowledge the passing of the Western era, it is exaggerated to present it as an irreversible decline of the United States and the rest of the West, relative to China and the rest of the Rest. Rather, he shows that the unfolding post-Western moment of zero-polarity will be messy, involving a dozen or more other countries. But Serfaty convincingly contends that even during this moment of geopolitical transition, American power remains superior, and thus.
Recast Your City
Author: Ilana Preuss
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1642831921
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Community development expert Ilana Preuss explains how local leaders can revitalize their downtowns or neighborhood main streets by bringing in and supporting small-scale manufacturing. Small-scale manufacturing businesses help create thriving places, with local business ownership opportunities and well-paying jobs that other business types can't fulfill.
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1642831921
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Community development expert Ilana Preuss explains how local leaders can revitalize their downtowns or neighborhood main streets by bringing in and supporting small-scale manufacturing. Small-scale manufacturing businesses help create thriving places, with local business ownership opportunities and well-paying jobs that other business types can't fulfill.
Recasting American and Persian Literatures
Author: Amirhossein Vafa
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319404695
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Reading literary and cinematic events between and beyond American and Persian literatures, this book questions the dominant geography of the East-West divide, which charts the global circulation of texts as World Literature. Beyond the limits of national literary historiography, and neocolonial cartography of world literary discourse, the minor character Parsee Fedallah in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851) is a messenger who travels from the margins of the American literature canon to his Persian literary counterparts in contemporary Iranian fiction and film, above all, the rural woman Mergan in Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s novel Missing Soluch (1980). In contention with Eurocentric treatments of world literatures, and in recognition of efforts to recast the worldliness of American and Persian literatures, this book maintains that aesthetic properties are embedded in their local histories and formative geographies.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319404695
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Reading literary and cinematic events between and beyond American and Persian literatures, this book questions the dominant geography of the East-West divide, which charts the global circulation of texts as World Literature. Beyond the limits of national literary historiography, and neocolonial cartography of world literary discourse, the minor character Parsee Fedallah in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851) is a messenger who travels from the margins of the American literature canon to his Persian literary counterparts in contemporary Iranian fiction and film, above all, the rural woman Mergan in Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s novel Missing Soluch (1980). In contention with Eurocentric treatments of world literatures, and in recognition of efforts to recast the worldliness of American and Persian literatures, this book maintains that aesthetic properties are embedded in their local histories and formative geographies.
Global Justice
Author: James Christensen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350311669
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Do we have moral duties to people in distant parts of the world? If so, how demanding are these duties? And how can they be reconciled with our obligations to fellow citizens? Every year, millions of people die from poverty-related causes while countless others are forced to flee their homes to escape from war and oppression. At the same time, many of us live comfortably in safe and prosperous democracies. Yet our lives are bound up with those of the poor and dispossessed in multiple ways: our clothes are manufactured in Asian sweatshops; the oil that fuels our cars is purchased from African and Middle Eastern dictators; and our consumer lifestyles generate environmental changes that threaten Bangladeshi peasants with drought and famine. These facts force us to re-evaluate our conduct and to ask whether we must do more for those who have less. Helping students to grapple with big questions surrounding justice, human rights, and equality, this comprehensive yet accessible textbook features chapters on a variety of pressing issues such as Immigration, International Trade, War, and Climate Change. Suitable for undergraduate and graduate students alike, the book also serves as a philosophical primer for politicians, activists, and anyone else who cares about justice.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350311669
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Do we have moral duties to people in distant parts of the world? If so, how demanding are these duties? And how can they be reconciled with our obligations to fellow citizens? Every year, millions of people die from poverty-related causes while countless others are forced to flee their homes to escape from war and oppression. At the same time, many of us live comfortably in safe and prosperous democracies. Yet our lives are bound up with those of the poor and dispossessed in multiple ways: our clothes are manufactured in Asian sweatshops; the oil that fuels our cars is purchased from African and Middle Eastern dictators; and our consumer lifestyles generate environmental changes that threaten Bangladeshi peasants with drought and famine. These facts force us to re-evaluate our conduct and to ask whether we must do more for those who have less. Helping students to grapple with big questions surrounding justice, human rights, and equality, this comprehensive yet accessible textbook features chapters on a variety of pressing issues such as Immigration, International Trade, War, and Climate Change. Suitable for undergraduate and graduate students alike, the book also serves as a philosophical primer for politicians, activists, and anyone else who cares about justice.
Recast
Author: Case Lane
Publisher: Clane Media Books
ISBN: 1735650722
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Recast: The Aspiring Entrepreneur's Practical Guide to Getting Started With An Online Business Start Your Online Business, Live With Purpose and Achieve Your Dreams! You can start an online business from where you are right now. You just need the right guide to take you along an actionable path. You can become an entrepreneur. You do not need a secret sauce, magic formula or sparkly dust...you only need your ability to implement these TOTALLY ACTIONABLE actions. For this incredibly insightful book, global writer, traveler and entrepreneur Case Lane has read, researched, studied, interacted and worked with aspiring entrepreneurs to unlock the REAL REASON they do not get started, and HOW they can get the momentum to move forward. Now this information is yours... In this unprecedented book, Case reveals the SIMPLE rarely discussed actions, and overlooked activities that have taken aspiring entrepreneurs from hesitation to action in their quest to take control of their own lives. You will learn: · Your Opportunity of a Lifetime: Use technology and access to the global marketplace to deliver value through a product or service, to a customer community that is waiting for what you have to offer! · The First 10 Actions to Take: You begin your entrepreneurial journey by seeing the road ahead · The Foundational Actions: Set-up your ultimate comfort and stocked zone for getting started and moving forward · Your Creative Actions: Where will your actual business come from? You'll get the inside secrets to know. · Create Your Dream Lifestyle: Your continuous motivation for creating your business is the vision of the life you really want, and the reality you can create through your own effort At the heart of Recast lies your quest for the life you really want. A life focused on achieving your definition of: professional satisfaction, financial security and lifestyle freedom...forever. This book is your real guide - practical, simple, possible. By the time you get through Action #10, you will know what to do, and how to do it...to reach the life of your dreams! #recastbook
Publisher: Clane Media Books
ISBN: 1735650722
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Recast: The Aspiring Entrepreneur's Practical Guide to Getting Started With An Online Business Start Your Online Business, Live With Purpose and Achieve Your Dreams! You can start an online business from where you are right now. You just need the right guide to take you along an actionable path. You can become an entrepreneur. You do not need a secret sauce, magic formula or sparkly dust...you only need your ability to implement these TOTALLY ACTIONABLE actions. For this incredibly insightful book, global writer, traveler and entrepreneur Case Lane has read, researched, studied, interacted and worked with aspiring entrepreneurs to unlock the REAL REASON they do not get started, and HOW they can get the momentum to move forward. Now this information is yours... In this unprecedented book, Case reveals the SIMPLE rarely discussed actions, and overlooked activities that have taken aspiring entrepreneurs from hesitation to action in their quest to take control of their own lives. You will learn: · Your Opportunity of a Lifetime: Use technology and access to the global marketplace to deliver value through a product or service, to a customer community that is waiting for what you have to offer! · The First 10 Actions to Take: You begin your entrepreneurial journey by seeing the road ahead · The Foundational Actions: Set-up your ultimate comfort and stocked zone for getting started and moving forward · Your Creative Actions: Where will your actual business come from? You'll get the inside secrets to know. · Create Your Dream Lifestyle: Your continuous motivation for creating your business is the vision of the life you really want, and the reality you can create through your own effort At the heart of Recast lies your quest for the life you really want. A life focused on achieving your definition of: professional satisfaction, financial security and lifestyle freedom...forever. This book is your real guide - practical, simple, possible. By the time you get through Action #10, you will know what to do, and how to do it...to reach the life of your dreams! #recastbook
Civilisation Recast
Author: Stephan Feuchtwang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108484344
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Shows what humanity has borrowed and shared as a common heritage.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108484344
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Shows what humanity has borrowed and shared as a common heritage.
Recasting the Social in Citizenship
Author: Engin Fahri Isin
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 080209757X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Engin F. Isin and the volume's contributors explore the social sites that have become objects of government, and considers how these subjects are sites of contestation, resistance, differentiation and identification.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 080209757X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Engin F. Isin and the volume's contributors explore the social sites that have become objects of government, and considers how these subjects are sites of contestation, resistance, differentiation and identification.
Jean-Luc Nancy and Plural Thinking
Author: Peter Gratton
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438442289
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Jean-Luc Nancy is one of the leading voices in European philosophy of the last thirty years, and he has influenced a range of fields, including theology, aesthetics, and political theory. This volume offers the widest and most up-to-date responses to his work, oriented by the themes of world, finitude, and sense, with attention also given to his recent project on the "deconstruction of Christianity." Focusing on Nancy's writings on globalization, Christianity, the plurality of art forms, his materialist ontology, as well as a range of contemporary issues, an international group of scholars provides not just inventive interpretations of Nancy's work but also essays taking on the most pressing issues of today. The collection brings to the fore the originality of his thinking and points to the future of continental philosophy. A previously unpublished interview with Nancy concludes the volume.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438442289
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Jean-Luc Nancy is one of the leading voices in European philosophy of the last thirty years, and he has influenced a range of fields, including theology, aesthetics, and political theory. This volume offers the widest and most up-to-date responses to his work, oriented by the themes of world, finitude, and sense, with attention also given to his recent project on the "deconstruction of Christianity." Focusing on Nancy's writings on globalization, Christianity, the plurality of art forms, his materialist ontology, as well as a range of contemporary issues, an international group of scholars provides not just inventive interpretations of Nancy's work but also essays taking on the most pressing issues of today. The collection brings to the fore the originality of his thinking and points to the future of continental philosophy. A previously unpublished interview with Nancy concludes the volume.
Global War, Global Catastrophe
Author: Maartje Abbenhuis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474275877
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Winner of the World War One Historical Association's 2021 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize Global War, Global Catastrophe presents a history of the First World War as an all-consuming industrial war that forcibly reshaped the international environment and, with it, impacted the futures of all the world's people. Narrated chronologically, and available open access, the authors identify key themes and moments that radicalized the war's conduct and globalized its impact, affecting neutral and belligerent societies alike. These include Germany's invasion of Belgium and Britain's declaration of war in 1914, the expansion of economic warfare in 1915, anti-imperial resistance, the Russian revolutions of 1917 and the United States' entry into the war. Each chapter explains how individuals, communities, nation-states and empires experienced, considered and behaved in relationship to the conflict as it evolved into a total global war. Above all, the book argues that only by integrating the history of neutral and subject communities can we fully understand what made the First World War such a globally transformative event. This book offers an accessible and readable overview of the major trajectories of the global history of the conflict. It offers an innovative history of the First World War and an important alternative to existing belligerent-centric studies. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474275877
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Winner of the World War One Historical Association's 2021 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize Global War, Global Catastrophe presents a history of the First World War as an all-consuming industrial war that forcibly reshaped the international environment and, with it, impacted the futures of all the world's people. Narrated chronologically, and available open access, the authors identify key themes and moments that radicalized the war's conduct and globalized its impact, affecting neutral and belligerent societies alike. These include Germany's invasion of Belgium and Britain's declaration of war in 1914, the expansion of economic warfare in 1915, anti-imperial resistance, the Russian revolutions of 1917 and the United States' entry into the war. Each chapter explains how individuals, communities, nation-states and empires experienced, considered and behaved in relationship to the conflict as it evolved into a total global war. Above all, the book argues that only by integrating the history of neutral and subject communities can we fully understand what made the First World War such a globally transformative event. This book offers an accessible and readable overview of the major trajectories of the global history of the conflict. It offers an innovative history of the First World War and an important alternative to existing belligerent-centric studies. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
Rethinking World History
Author: Marshall G. S. Hodgson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521438445
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Is the history of the modern world the history of Europe writ large? Or is it possible to situate the history of modernity as a world historical process apart from its origins in Western Europe? In this posthumous collection of essays, Marshall G. S. Hodgson challenges adherents of both Eurocentrism and multiculturalism to rethink the place of Europe in world history. He argues that the line that connects Ancient Greeks to the Renaissance to modern times is an optical illusion, and that a global and Asia-centred history can better locate the European experience in the shared histories of humanity. Hodgson then shifts the historical focus and in a parallel move seeks to locate the history of Islamic civilisation in a world historical framework. In so doing he concludes that there is but one history - global history - and that all partial or privileged accounts must necessarily be resituated in a world historical context. The book also includes an introduction by the editor, Edmund Burke, contextualising Hodgson's work in world history and Islamic history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521438445
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Is the history of the modern world the history of Europe writ large? Or is it possible to situate the history of modernity as a world historical process apart from its origins in Western Europe? In this posthumous collection of essays, Marshall G. S. Hodgson challenges adherents of both Eurocentrism and multiculturalism to rethink the place of Europe in world history. He argues that the line that connects Ancient Greeks to the Renaissance to modern times is an optical illusion, and that a global and Asia-centred history can better locate the European experience in the shared histories of humanity. Hodgson then shifts the historical focus and in a parallel move seeks to locate the history of Islamic civilisation in a world historical framework. In so doing he concludes that there is but one history - global history - and that all partial or privileged accounts must necessarily be resituated in a world historical context. The book also includes an introduction by the editor, Edmund Burke, contextualising Hodgson's work in world history and Islamic history.