From Vienna to Chicago and back [[electronic resource] ] : essays on intellectual history and political thought in Europe and America / / Gerald Stourzh

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456834103321
• Autore: Stourzh Gerald
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007
• ISBN: 1-282-53745-8; 9786612537455; 0-226-77638-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (412 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.092
• Soggetti: Political science - Europe; Political science - United States; Electronic books.
• 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 (p. 375-379) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Introduction: Traces of an Intellectual Journey -- 1. Reason and Power in Benjamin Franklin's Political Thought (1953) -- 2. William Blackstone: Teacher of Revolution (1970) -- 3. Constitution: Changing Meanings of the Term from the Early Seventeenth to the Late Eighteenth Century (1988) -- 4. Charles A. Beard's Interpretations of American Foreign Policy (1957) -- 5. The Multinational Empire Revisited: Reflections on Late Imperial Austria (1992) -- 6. Ethnic Attribution in Late Imperial Austria: Good Intentions, Evil Consequences (1994) -- 7. The National Compromise in the Bukovina (1996) -- 8. Max Diamant and Jewish Diaspora Nationalism in the Bukovina (2002) -- 9. The Age of Emancipation and Assimilation: Liberalism and Its Heritage (2001) -- 10. An Apogee of Conversions: Gustav Mahler, Karl Kraus, and fin de siècle Vienna (2004) -- 11. The Origins of Austrian Neutrality (1988) -- 12. Equal Rights: Equalizing the Individual's Status and the Breakthrough of the Modern Liberal State (1996) -- 13. Liberal Democracy as a Culture of Rights: England, the United States, and Continental Europe (2000) -- 14. Tocqueville's Understanding of "Conditions of Equality" and "Conditions ; of Inequality" (2006) -- 15. The Unforgivable Sin: An Interpretation of Albert Camus' The Fall (1961) -- Appendix: Bibliographical Information -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects
• Sommario/riassunto: Spanning both the history of the modern West and his own five-decade journey as a historian, Gerald Stourzh's sweeping new essay collection covers the same breadth of topics that has characterized his career-from Benjamin Franklin to Gustav Mahler, from Alexis de Tocqueville to Charles Beard, from the notion of constitution in seventeenth-century England to the concept of neutrality in twentieth-century Austria.This storied career brought him in the 1950's from the University of Vienna to the University of Chicago-of which he draws a brilliant picture-and later took him to

The Iraq War and Democratic Governance : Britain and Australia go to War / / by Judith Betts, Mark Phythian

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910411947603321
• Autore: Betts Judith
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020
• ISBN: 9783030503192; 3030503194
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2020.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (244 pages)
• Disciplina: 956.70443341; 320
• Soggetti: International relations; Comparative government; Political planning; Politics and war; Foreign Policy; Comparative Politics; International Relations; Public Policy; Military and Defence Studies
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The US Alliance -- Chapter 3. Prime Ministerial Dominance: Cabinet, Party, Parliament and the Bureaucracy -- Chapter 4. Managing the media and pro-war spin -- Chapter 5. Managing the Consequences of War: Post-war Inquiries -- Chapter 6. The Chilcot Inquiry -- Chapter 7. Never again? Lessons and Consequences for Australia and the UK.
• Sommario/riassunto: 'Drawing on an array of primary sources and interviews, The Iraq War and Democratic Governance makes a profound contribution to the field. The book's authoritative account of the post-war inquiries and political consequences in Britain and Australia is essential reading for academics and practitioners interested in matters of international security.' -Patrick A. Mello, Visiting Scholar, Willy Brandt School of Public, University of Erfurt, Germany This book examines the decisions by Tony Blair and John Howard to take their nations into the 2003 Iraq War, and the questions these decisions raise about democratic governance. It also explores the significance of the US alliance in UK and Australian decision-making, and the process for taking a nation to war. Relying on primary government documents and interviews, and bringing together various strands of literature that have so far been discussed in isolation (including historical accounts, party politics, prime ministerial leadership and intelligence studies), the authors provide a comprehensive and original view on the various post-war inquiries conducted in the UK, Australia. Judith Betts teaches government and political communication at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She has worked in the Australian Public Service, served as a ministerial adviser and as a speechwriter, and currently works as an academic. Mark Phythian is Professor of Politics in the School of History, Politics and International Relations at the University of Leicester, UK. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books, editor of the journal Intelligence and National Security, and a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences.

Plutarco. Sobre comer carne

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910404219503321
• Autore: Joaquim Pinheiro
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Coimbra University Press, 2019
• ISBN: 989-26-1691-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (54 p.)
• Collana: Classica Digitalia: Diaita: Scripta & Realia - Estudos Monográficos
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Portoghese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: The treatise De esu carnium (On eating of flesh) came to us in the form of two logoi, with multiple lacunae, especially in the second logos. By recovering themes already developed by the Pythagorean doctrine, by Xenocrates, by Theophrastus or by the Stoics, Plutarch argues about the nature of living beings, within the scope of the relationship between man and animal. Like other treatises of the corpus plutarcheum, such as Bruta animalia ratione uti (The animals are rational), better known as Gryllus, or De sollertia animalium (On the intelligence of animals), the narrative is developed around questions related to the nature and psychology of animals, such as the possibility that virtue and reason exist in them. Plutarch defends the philanthropy and the generosity with which all living beings should be treated, thus opposing simple utilitarianism or the problematic principle of necessity. Being one of the zoological treatises, De esu carnium is also a rhetorical text, because Plutarch constructs, in opposition to the Stoics, an argumentative theory that supports the idea that eating meat is παρὰ φύσιν ('against nature').