1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465619703321

Autore

Cannon Barry

Titolo

Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian revolution [[electronic resource] ] : populism and democracy in a globalised age / / Barry Cannon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-84779-719-9

1-78170-195-4

1-84779-276-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Disciplina

320.484

320.987

Soggetti

Presidents - Venezuela

Populism - Latin America

Electronic books.

Venezuela Politics and government 1999-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 Populism and Latin America:context, causes, characteristics and consequences; 2 Structural fractures, crises, the state and the emergence of Chávez; 3 The leader and the led: hegemonic strategies in the leadership of Hugo Chávez; 4 Populism, globalisation and the socioeconomic policies of the Chávez government; 5 Democrat or authoritarian?  Democracy in Bolivarian Venezuela in comparative perspective; 6 The consequences and impact of populism: institutionalisation and democractisation in Chávez's Venezuela7 Venezuelan international relations in the age of globalisation; Conclusion: populism and democracy in a globalised age; Bibliography; Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The emergence of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela has revived analysis of one of Latin America’s most enduring political traditions – populism. Yet Latin America has changed since the heyday of Perón and Evita. Globalisation, implemented through harsh IMF inspired Structural Adjustment Programmes, has taken hold throughout the region and democracy is supposedly the ‘only game in town’. This book examines



the phenomenon that is Hugo Chávez within these contexts, assessing to what extent his government fits into established ideas on populism in Latin America. The book also provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of Chávez’s emergence, his government’s social and economic policies, its foreign policy, as well as assessing the charges of authoritarianism brought against him. Written in clear, accessible prose, the book carries debate beyond current polarised views on the Venezuelan president, to consider the prospects of the new Bolivarian model surviving beyond its leader and progenitor, Hugo Chávez.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910151928603321

Autore

Girard Jean-Yves

Titolo

The Blind Spot [[electronic resource] ] : Lectures on Logic / / Jean-Yves Girard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Zuerich, Switzerland, : European Mathematical Society Publishing House, 2011

ISBN

3-03719-588-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (550 pages)

Classificazione

03-xx18-xx68-xx

Soggetti

Mathematical logic

Mathematical logic and foundations

Category theory; homological algebra

Computer science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

These lectures on logic, more specifically proof theory, are basically intended for postgraduate students and researchers in logic.   The question at stake is the nature of mathematical knowledge and the difference between a question and an answer, i.e., the implicit and the explicit. The problem is delicate mathematically and philosophically as well: the relation between a question and its answer is a sort of equality where one side is "more equal than the other": one thus discovers



essentialist blind spots.  Starting with Gödel's paradox (1931) - so to speak, the incompleteness of answers with respect to questions - the book proceeds with paradigms inherited from Gentzen's cut-elimination (1935). Various settings are studied: sequent calculus, natural deduction, lambda calculi, category-theoretic composition, up to geometry of interaction (GoI), all devoted to explicitation, which eventually amounts to inverting an operator in a von Neumann algebra.  Mathematical language is usually described as referring to a preexisting reality. Logical operations can be given an alternative procedural meaning: typically, the operators involved in GoI are invertible, not because they are constructed according to the book, but because logical rules are those ensuring invertibility. Similarly, the durability of truth should not be taken for granted: one should distinguish between imperfect (perennial) and perfect modes. The procedural explanation of the infinite thus identifies it with the unfinished, i.e., the perennial. But is perenniality perennial? This questioning yields a possible logical explanation for algorithmic complexity.  This highly original course on logic by one of the world's leading proof theorists challenges mathematicians, computer scientists, physicists and philosophers to rethink their views and concepts on the nature of mathematical knowledge in an exceptionally profound way.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910809974603321

Autore

Lamonarca F.

Titolo

Los árboles frutales / / F. Lamonarca

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified] : , : Editorial De Vecchi, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-68325-388-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

634

Soggetti

Fruit-culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Spagnolo

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia