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Maturity and Stagnation in American Capitalism

By: Josef Steindl

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Maturity and Stagnation in American Capitalism

By: Josef Steindl

Details a pattern of development and investment in the American economy that produces diminished growth and increased stagnation.

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NYU Press

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0853453187

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The Aesthetic State

A Quest in Modern German Thought

By: Josef Chytry

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The Aesthetic State

A Quest in Modern German Thought

By: Josef Chytry

Shortly after the middle of the eighteenth century a number of thinkers from the German-speaking lands began to create a paradigm drawn from their impressions of a distant historical reality, ancient Athens; added to it a new mode of thought, modern dialectics; and at times even paid homage to the ancient Greek deity Dionysos, to materialize their longing for an ideal. The influence of these forces came to permeate modern German consciousness, deifying the concept and activity of art, reviving the Platonic (and Sanskrit) vision of the cosmos as play and aesthetic creation, and projecting a way of life and labor that would honor not the commodity but the aesthetic product. With rigorous commitment to primary sources and an unflagging critical engagement with the ideas and concrete situations they raise, Josef Chytry provides a comprehensive and extensive study of this central motif in German thought from Winckelmann to Marcuse. Chytry takes "aesthetic state" to signify the concentrated modern intellectual movement to revitalize the radical Hellenic tradition of the polis as the site of a beautiful or good life. The movement begins with the classicism of Winckelmann, Wiemar aesthetic humanism (Wieland, Herder, Goethe), and Schiller's formal theory of the aesthetic state and continues through the idealism of the Swabian dialecticians Holderlin, Hegel, and Schelling and the realism of Marx, Wagner, and Nietzsche. It culminates in the postrealism of Heiddegger, Marcuse, and the aesthetic modernist artist Walter Spies, who initiated a dialogue with the non-Western "theatre state" of the isle of Bali. Josef Chytry concludes that the future speculation on the ideal of an aesthetic state must come to terms with the postrealist themes of ontological anarchy, aesthetic ethos, and theatre state. In a bold effort to stimulate such speculation, Chytry indicates how proponents of the aesthetic state might join forces with Rawlsian political theory to promote further the organon of persuasion that, in his view, serves as the common fount for the ancient, dialectical, and contractarian quests for the polis. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

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0520413822

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Cytherica

Aesthetic-political Essays in an Aphrodisian Key

By: Josef Chytry

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Cytherica

Aesthetic-political Essays in an Aphrodisian Key

By: Josef Chytry

Cytherica boldly introduces a new faculty of thought called cytherics to contemporary academic discursivities. It defines cytherics as the sighting and siting of an aesthetic-erotic, or «aphrodisian», environment. Building on the furthest extensions of aesthetics since the eighteenth century, cytherics develops both the aesthetic-political and aesthetic-erotic dimensions of the aesthetic tradition to formulate exciting new responses to the pressing issues of contemporary societies. While drawing richly on the background of German and European Hellenism, this book provides valuable new insights for those working in the areas of the aesthetic-political, critical theory, postmodernist discursivities, and dialectical speculation.

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Peter Lang

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0820474169

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9780820474168

The Techno-Apparatus of Bodily Production

A New Materialist Theory of Technology and the Body

By: Josef Barla

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The Techno-Apparatus of Bodily Production

A New Materialist Theory of Technology and the Body

By: Josef Barla

What if the terms "technology" and "the body" did not refer to distinct phenomena interacting in one way or another? What if we understood their relationship as far more intimate - technologies as always already embodied, material bodies as always already technologized? What would it mean, then, to understand the relationship between technology and the body as a relation of indeterminacy? Expanding on the concept of the apparatus of bodily production in the work of Donna Haraway and Karen Barad, Josef Barla explores how material bodies along with their boundaries, properties, and meanings performatively materialize at sites where technological, biological, technoscientific, (bio-)political, and economic forces intra-act.

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transcript Verlag

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3839447445

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9783839447444

Relational Economics

A Political Economy

By: Josef Wieland

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Relational Economics

A Political Economy

By: Josef Wieland

This book introduces the research agenda of relational economics as a political economy for the governance of local and global economic transactions in modern societies. It analyses the mechanisms of global value creation and production networks by studying cooperation in intra- and inter-firm networks, intersectoral stakeholder management, and transcultural leadership. The author develops a categorical taxonomy for private and public value creation based on the effective and efficient interlinking of, and interaction between, a range of resources and abilities. In contrast to mainstream economics, which largely focuses on the laws of discrete and dyadic exchange transactions, this book assesses the polyvalent characteristics of relational transactions. The chief categories involved in an economic theory of the relations between events are the relational transactions and their various forms of governance; the polycontextual cooperation between economic, political and civil society agents; and the factor incomes and relational rents that relational transactions produce. Today, relational transactions are the rule, not the exception, in modern economies and their global value creation networks. Given its scope and focus, this book will appeal to scholars of economics, economic sociology, organisational studies and related fields.

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Springer Nature

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3030451127

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9783030451127

Freedom of the Human Person

In the Thought of Karol Wojty?a and Immanuel Kant

By: Zbigniew Josef Waleszczuk

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Freedom of the Human Person

In the Thought of Karol Wojty?a and Immanuel Kant

By: Zbigniew Josef Waleszczuk

Freedom is the key issue for both Karol Wojtyla and Immanuel Kant that connects the Polish with the German philosopher. This analysis aims to show the importance of Kant's ethics in the work of Karol Wojtyla. Kant's paradigm shift in the anthropological thought was revolutionary. The categorical imperative obliges each person to act morally and thus elevates them. It is the foundation of human dignity, not only for Kant but also for Wojtyla. Who is man? Is man free? Or is materialistic man determined and arrested in immanence? What should man do? Man is gifted with freedom. He is a person because he has the capacity to act. Wojtyla and Kant put special emphasis on a person's power of selfdetermination that reveals itself through the experience as a freely acting person. The realisation of the personal norm - the categorical imperative - was defined by both thinkers as a fulfilment of freedom. Freedom shall be fulfilled in the responsible act, which reveals the person's power of love.

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BWV Verlag

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3830537220

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European Environmental Policy

East and West

By: Josef Füllenbach

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European Environmental Policy

East and West

By: Josef Füllenbach

European Environmental Policy: East and West focuses on areas of cooperation between Eastern and Western Europe in the field of environmental protection. This text explores the various economic and political circumstances in East and West within which the environmental problem arises, and which will determine the possibilities of reaching a solution. This book also examines results and opportunities still open for East-West environmental cooperation. This text has 10 chapters and begins with a brief presentation of the problem areas, followed by a survey of existing legislative and organizational arrangements. The next chapters analyze the forms of environmental cooperation practiced in Comecon countries; the influence of the structural characteristics of socialist economic integration on collaboration in the environmental field; and the causes of environmental problems that are specific to East and West. The limitations and possibilities of cooperation between East and West are then discussed, with emphasis on sub-regional cooperation between those countries faced with a specific transnational pollution problem, namely, the countries bordering the Baltic and the river Danube. This book will be of interest to planners and decision makers involved in environmental policy and protection, especially in Europe.

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Elsevier

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1483162060

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9781483162065

Spirit in the Dark

A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics

By: Josef Sorett

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Spirit in the Dark

A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics

By: Josef Sorett

Most of the major black literary and cultural movements of the twentieth century have been understood and interpreted as secular, secularizing and, at times, profane. In this book, Josef Sorett demonstrates that religion was actually a formidable force within these movements, animating and organizing African American literary visions throughout the years between the New Negro Renaissance of the 1920s and the Black Arts movement of the 1960s. Sorett unveils the contours of a literary history that remained preoccupied with religion even as it was typically understood by authors, readers, and critics alike to be modern and, therefore, secular. Spirit in the Dark offers an account of the ways in which religion, especially Afro-Protestantism, remained pivotal to the ideas and aspirations of African American literature across much of the twentieth century. From the dawn of the New Negro Renaissance until the ascendance of the Black Arts movement, black writers developed a spiritual grammar for discussing race and art by drawing on terms such as "church" and "spirit" that were part of the landscape and lexicon of American religious history. Sorett demonstrates that religion and spirituality have been key categories for identifying and interpreting what was (or was not) perceived to constitute or contribute to black literature and culture. By examining figures and movements that have typically been cast as "secular," he offers theoretical insights that trouble the boundaries of what counts as "sacred" in scholarship on African American religion and culture. Ultimately, Spirit in the Dark reveals religion to be an essential ingredient, albeit one that was always questioned and contested, in the forging of an African American literary tradition.

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Oxford University Press

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0190606827

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9780190606824

Economic Growth in Czechoslovakia

By: Josef Goldmann,Karel Kouba

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Economic Growth in Czechoslovakia

By: Josef Goldmann,Karel Kouba

This title was first published in 1969. An introduction to the theory of economic growth under socialism, including an experimental application of Kalecki's model to czechoslovak statistical data.

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Routledge

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1351710680

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9781351710688

Contemporary Hermeneutics

Hermeneutics as Method, Philosophy and Critique

By: Josef Bleicher

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Contemporary Hermeneutics

Hermeneutics as Method, Philosophy and Critique

By: Josef Bleicher

Hermeneutics can loosely be defined as the theory or philosophy of the interpretation of menaing. It is a central topic in the philosophy of the social sciences, the philosophy of art and language and in literary criticism. This book, first published in 1980, gives a detailed overview and analysis of the main strands of contemporary hermeneutical thought. It includes a number of readings in order to give the reader a first-hand acquaintance with the subjects and the debates within it.

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1351622374

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Aristocrats and the Crowd in the Revolutionary Year 1848

A Contribution to the History of Revolution and Counter-Revolution

By: Josef V. Polisensky

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Aristocrats and the Crowd in the Revolutionary Year 1848

A Contribution to the History of Revolution and Counter-Revolution

By: Josef V. Polisensky

The Prague Uprising of 1848 was part of the powerful series of revolutions that shook practically the entire European Continent as the middle classes and urban and rural workers pressed against the rule of aristocrats and monarchs. Czech Marxist historian Josef Polisensky analyzes the general turmoil of revolutionary thought and action in Europe and then focuses on the specific case of the Prague Uprising. By using previously untouched sources—the records of hundreds of noble houses that came under the control of the Czech Archival Administration after World War II—Polisensky is able to show how those of the old social establishment fought the participants in the Uprising and temporarily restored the rule of the aristocracy. With an excellent sense for the dramatic and a thorough knowledge of place, Polisensky tells us who fought and died on the streets of Prague. With the conceptual framework of class conflict and a broad perspective on European events, he proposes reasons for the failure of the Prague Uprising in contrast to other successful revolutions. Aristocrats and the Crowd is the last of Polisensky's trilogy of studies on Czech society and revolution. In The Thirty Years' War and the European Crisis of the Seventeenth Century and Napoleon and the Heart of Europe, Polisensky explored the effects of other European conflicts on Czech society. Aristocrats and the Crowd describes, in his words, "the revolutionary springtime which eventually arrived, full of twists, in Bohemia itself.

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State University of New York Press

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1438416261

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9781438416267

The Hermeneutic Imagination (RLE Social Theory)

Outline of a Positive Critique of Scientism and Sociology

By: Josef Bleicher

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The Hermeneutic Imagination (RLE Social Theory)

Outline of a Positive Critique of Scientism and Sociology

By: Josef Bleicher

In his previous book, Contemporary Hermeneutics, Josef Bleicher offered an introduction to the subject, locating it mainly within the philosophy of social science, and looking at the profound impact it is having on a wide range of intellectual pursuits. This book follows on from this and expounds the author's view that the development of the hermeneutic imagination is an indispensable condition for reflexive sociological work and emancipatory social practice. Dr Bleicher examines the various approaches to sociology – empiricist, functionalist, structuralist, interpretive, critical – by reference to a hermeneutic paradigm, and shows how the hermeneutic imagination leads to a redirection in sociology, away from scientistic presuppositions and towards an awareness of the dialogue which links the subject and object in the study of social phenomena. He argues that by allowing the hermeneutic imagination to develop, it is possible to counter the steering of social processes on the basis of technocratic imperatives, and to provide a rational anticipation of a better future.

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Routledge

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1317651812

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9781317651819

Governance Ethics: Global value creation, economic organization and normativity

By: Josef Wieland

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Governance Ethics: Global value creation, economic organization and normativity

By: Josef Wieland

This book investigates the functioning and effects of moral rules and values as endogenous elements of governance structures when applied to economic and social transactions. The point of departure and framework of this book is Josef Wieland's theory of Ethics of Governance. Its focal point is the governance of the normative aspects of corporations. The Ethics of Governance is a comparative research project on business and economic ethics which started 15 years ago. Divided into five chapters, the book provides a comprehensive insight into the theoretical foundation and application-oriented results of the research project. It covers theoretical, conceptual and practical challenges in the global economy with regard to a sustainable economy, the social responsibility of corporations, and their transcultural and normative management. By offering comprehensive insight into the research results of the Ethics of Governance project, this book provides a unique scientific work on business and economic ethics.

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Springer

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3319079239

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Cities, Citizenship and Jews in France and the United States, 1905–2022 (Volume 2)

By: Josef W. Konvitz

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Cities, Citizenship and Jews in France and the United States, 1905–2022 (Volume 2)

By: Josef W. Konvitz

This comparative, transatlantic two-volume work covers nearly 120 years of the history of the rights, integration, and security of the Jewish people in both the United States and France, the countries with the largest and third-largest Jewish populations. Religious freedom and secularism have evolved differently in France and the United States, reinforcing their separate national identities. Yet there are parallels to their Jewish history, and in how the security of Jews has repeatedly defined and tested the national interests of France and the United States in world affairs. Drawing on the author’s personal experience as an international civil servant, these volumes explore topics such as tensions and common interests between France and the United States, the memory of the Shoah, social mobility, the tepid commitment of the United States to the rights of French Jews during World War II, trends in antisemitism and tolerance, and global climate change as a threat to largely coastal Jewish communities. They highlight what makes insecurity different in the 21st century and why a paradigm shift in policy is needed. This title is intended both for a general audience and advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in Jewish history, urban history, and international relations.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000998983

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9781000998986

The Miracle Game

By: Josef Škvorecký

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The Miracle Game

By: Josef Škvorecký

This energetic and hilarious novel is made even more important by the current final thawing of the long, Communist winter in Czechoslovakia. Moving between 1948, when our hero Danny Smiricky falls asleep in church while a miraculous event occurs, and 1968, when he observes the miracle of Prague Spring, The Miracle Game is a sharp look at the strange, sad, and silly things people do to survive.

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0393308499

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9780393308495

Book's by Josef Marx

Maturity and Stagnation in American Capitalism

Maturity and Stagnation in American Capitalism

The Aesthetic State

The Aesthetic State

Cytherica

Cytherica

The Techno-Apparatus of Bodily Production

The Techno-Apparatus of Bodily Production

Relational Economics

Relational Economics

Freedom of the Human Person

Freedom of the Human Person

European Environmental Policy

European Environmental Policy

Spirit in the Dark

Spirit in the Dark

Economic Growth in Czechoslovakia

Economic Growth in Czechoslovakia

Contemporary Hermeneutics

Contemporary Hermeneutics

Aristocrats and the Crowd in the Revolutionary Year 1848

Aristocrats and the Crowd in the Revolutionary Year 1848

The Hermeneutic Imagination (RLE Social Theory)

The Hermeneutic Imagination (RLE Social Theory)

Governance Ethics: Global value creation, economic organization and normativity

Governance Ethics: Global value creation, economic organization and normativity

Cities, Citizenship and Jews in France and the United States, 1905–2022 (Volume 2)

Cities, Citizenship and Jews in France and the United States, 1905–2022 (Volume 2)

The Miracle Game

The Miracle Game

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