1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460134003321

Autore

Haffner John

Titolo

Japan's open future : an agenda for global citizenship / / John Haffner, Tomas Casas I Klett, and Jean-Pierre Lehmann [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Anthem Press, , 2009

ISBN

1-283-37863-9

9786613378637

0-85728-812-1

0-85728-685-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 320 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Anthem Studies in Development and Globalization

Disciplina

330.951

Soggetti

National characteristics, Japanese

Globalization - Japan

Japan Economic conditions 1989-

Japan Commerce

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di contenuto

Facing history : getting past the nation-state -- Global communication : a matter of heart -- Escaping mercantilism : from free-rider to driver -- Embracing business risk : entrepreneurs and kaisha reborn -- Open politics : unleashing civil society -- Geopolitics : a global citizen.

Sommario/riassunto

Where does Japan fit in a rapidly changing world, and how should it relate to the United States and China? Three foreign commentators make a provocative and persuasive argument that the time has come for Japan to help build a stronger Asian community, and to become an engaged and conscientious global citizen.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463578003321

Autore

Limon John

Titolo

Death's following [[electronic resource] ] : mediocrity, dirtiness, adulthood, literature / / John Limon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8232-4283-8

0-8232-4631-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 p.) : ill

Disciplina

128/.5

Soggetti

Civilization, Western - 20th century

Civilization, Western - 21st century

Death

Mediocrity

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary expectoration -- Alas a dirty third: the logic of death --  Thomas Bernhard's rant -- Following Sebald -- Tickling the corpse: Tom Stoppard's memento mori -- Don Rickles's rant -- Too late, my brothers -- Re: Barth.

Sommario/riassunto

Almost all 20th century philosophy stresses the immanence of death - as drive, as the context of Being, as the essence of humanity's defining ethics or language. Limon makes use of literary analysis (Sebald, Bernhard, Stoppard), cultural analysis, and autobiography to argue that death is best conceived as always unfathomably beyond ourselves, neither immanent nor (in principle) imminent. Thus he rejects the courage of 20th century death philosophy - bravely facing death within life - as an evasion of the real inhuman facelessness of death.