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Eros and Inwardness in Vienna

Weininger, Musil, Doderer

By: David S. Luft

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Eros and Inwardness in Vienna

Weininger, Musil, Doderer

By: David S. Luft

Although we usually think of the intellectual legacy of twentieth-century Vienna as synonymous with Sigmund Freud and his psychoanalytic theories, other prominent writers from Vienna were also radically reconceiving sexuality and gender. In this probing new study, David Luft recovers the work of three such writers: Otto Weininger, Robert Musil, and Heimito von Doderer. His account emphasizes the distinctive intellectual world of liberal Vienna, especially the impact of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche in this highly scientific intellectual world. According to Luft, Otto Weininger viewed human beings as bisexual and applied this theme to issues of creativity and morality. Robert Musil developed a creative ethics that was closely related to his open, flexible view of sexuality and gender. And Heimito von Doderer portrayed his own sexual obsessions as a way of understanding the power of total ideologies, including his own attraction to National Socialism. For Luft, the significance of these three writers lies in their understandings of eros and inwardness and in the roles that both play in ethical experience and the formation of meaningful relations to the world-a process that continues to engage artists, writers, and thinkers today. Eros and Inwardness in Vienna will profoundly reshape our understanding of Vienna's intellectual history. It will be important for anyone interested in Austrian or German history, literature, or philosophy.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226496481

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Broken Hearts

The Tangled History of Cardiac Care

By: David S. Jones

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Broken Hearts

The Tangled History of Cardiac Care

By: David S. Jones

Based on extensive reviews of medical literature and archives, this historical perspective on medical decision making and risk highlights personal, professional, and community outcomes.

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Johns Hopkins University Press

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1421415755

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9781421415758

Policy Analysis

Concepts and Practice

By: David L. Weimer,Aidan R. Vining

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Policy Analysis

Concepts and Practice

By: David L. Weimer,Aidan R. Vining

Updated in a new 5th edition, this book lays a strong conceptual foundation to understanding the rationales of and limitations to public policy. It gives practical advice about how to do policy analysis while demonstrating the application of advanced analytical techniques through case study examples. Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practices is a comprehensive, accessible, and rich introduction to policy analysis for readers in public policy, public administration, and business programs.

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Routledge

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1317345649

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9781317345640

Clinton's Specialist Quota

Shaky Premises, Questionable Consequences

By: David Dranove,William D. White

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Shaky Premises, Questionable Consequences

By: David Dranove,William D. White

This text outlines the history of attempts to supervise the supply of specialist providers, revealing the false premises of the Clinton health plan and the likely hazards of its consequences.

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American Enterprise Institute

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0844770248

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9780844770246

Service Productivity Management

Improving Service Performance using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)

By: H. David Sherman,Joe Zhu

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Service Productivity Management

Improving Service Performance using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)

By: H. David Sherman,Joe Zhu

Here is an in-depth guide to the most powerful available benchmarking technique for improving service organization performance — Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The book outlines DEA as a benchmarking technique, identifies high cost service units, isolates specific changes for elevating performance to the best practice services level providing high quality service at low cost and most important, it guides the improvement process.

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344

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387332316

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9780387332314

The Austrian Dimension in German Intellectual History

From the Enlightenment to Anschluss

By: David S. Luft

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The Austrian Dimension in German Intellectual History

From the Enlightenment to Anschluss

By: David S. Luft

Tracing Austrian intellectual life from Maria Theresa to Hitler's annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia, this innovative book offers a precise and engaging account of Austrian intellectual history since the Enlightenment. Here, David S. Luft begins by locating his narrative in the region known as Cisleithanian Austria, the area to the west of the Leitha River that was the basis for the modern Austrian state after 1740. Chapter 2 provides a history of the German-speaking intellectual life of these central lands of the Habsburg Monarchy (Austria and Bohemia) from the Enlightenment to annexation by Nazi Germany. Chapters 3 to 5 identify the most important philosophers, writers, and social thinkers who contributed to Austrian intellectual life in the period between 1740 and 1938/1939 and address the intellectual significance of their work. Elegantly written and meticulously researched, Luft's book brings out the contributions of major figures such as Wittgenstein, Hofmannsthal, Musil, Kafka, Rilke, and Freud, but also draws attention to less well-known figures such as Bolzano, Brentano, Grillparzer, Stifter, Broch, and Hayek.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350202215

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Life Takes Place

Phenomenology, Lifeworlds, and Place Making

By: David Seamon

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Life Takes Place

Phenomenology, Lifeworlds, and Place Making

By: David Seamon

Life Takes Place argues that, even in our mobile, hypermodern world, human life is impossible without place. Seamon asks the question: why does life take place? He draws on examples of specific places and place experiences to understand place more broadly. Advocating for a holistic way of understanding that he calls "synergistic relationality," Seamon defines places as spatial fields that gather, activate, sustain, identify, and interconnect things, human beings, experiences, meanings, and events. Throughout his phenomenological explication, Seamon recognizes that places are multivalent in their constitution and sophisticated in their dynamics. Drawing on British philosopher J. G. Bennett’s method of progressive approximation, he considers place and place experience in terms of their holistic, dialectical, and processual dimensions. Recognizing that places always change over time, Seamon examines their processual dimension by identifying six generative processes that he labels interaction, identity, release, realization, intensification, and creation. Drawing on practical examples from architecture, planning, and urban design, he argues that an understanding of these six place processes might contribute to a more rigorous place making that produces robust places and propels vibrant environmental experiences. This book is a significant contribution to the growing research literature in "place and place making studies.

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Routledge

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1351212494

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9781351212496

An Introduction to the US Health Care Industry

Balancing Care, Cost, and Access

By: David S. Guzick

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An Introduction to the US Health Care Industry

Balancing Care, Cost, and Access

By: David S. Guzick

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Johns Hopkins University Press

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1421438828

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9781421438825

Occupational Safety and Health for Public Safety Employees

Assessing the Evidence and the Implications for Public Policy

By: Tom LaTourrette,David S. Loughran,Seth A. Seabury

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Occupational Safety and Health for Public Safety Employees

Assessing the Evidence and the Implications for Public Policy

By: Tom LaTourrette,David S. Loughran,Seth A. Seabury

Police officers, firefighters, and other public safety workers face exceptionally high rates of injury and fatality relative to the general workforce. This document provides an analysis of the risk factors associated with different aspects of public safety occupations, to help policymakers in their efforts to improve the health and safety of these employees.

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Rand Corporation

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0833046217

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9780833046215

Eros and Inwardness in Vienna

Weininger, Musil, Doderer

By: David S. Luft

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Eros and Inwardness in Vienna

Weininger, Musil, Doderer

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University of Chicago Press

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0226496481

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The Austrian Dimension in German Intellectual History

From the Enlightenment to Anschluss

By: David S. Luft

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From the Enlightenment to Anschluss

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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Eros and Inwardness in Vienna

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Broken Hearts

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Policy Analysis

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Service Productivity Management

Service Productivity Management

The Austrian Dimension in German Intellectual History

The Austrian Dimension in German Intellectual History

Life Takes Place

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An Introduction to the US Health Care Industry

An Introduction to the US Health Care Industry

Occupational Safety and Health for Public Safety Employees

Occupational Safety and Health for Public Safety Employees

Eros and Inwardness in Vienna

Eros and Inwardness in Vienna

The Austrian Dimension in German Intellectual History

The Austrian Dimension in German Intellectual History

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