1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782370903321

Autore

Kleinberg-Levin David Michael <1939->

Titolo

Before the voice of reason [[electronic resource] ] : echoes of responsibility in Merleau-Ponty's Ecology and Levinas's Ethics / / David Michael Kleinberg-Levin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, 2008

ISBN

0-7914-7782-7

1-4356-7509-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (308 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in contemporary French thought

Disciplina

194

Soggetti

Ecology - Philosophy

Ethics, Modern

Responsibility

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 (p. [247]-286) and index.

Nota di contenuto

A human voice -- The project -- The ethical root of the voice -- The voice of reason -- Reconciling voices : the political register -- Conversation -- Reading this book -- The singing of the world : the claim of nature in Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology -- The remembrance of nature in the voice of the subject -- Invocations of nature -- The song of the winds -- The song of the earth -- The question of origins -- Silence -- Song -- The voice of ecological attunement in a practice of caring for oneself -- Prologue -- The singing of language -- Caring for oneself : the three phase-dimensions of the voice -- Dying echoes : what must be remembered -- Levinas : on the claim of the ethical -- The saying and the said : giving time to the voice of the other -- Unavoidable violence -- Responsibility : claiming the voice -- Inspiration -- Heterology, heteronomy : the lyrical voice -- The ethical dimensions of the voice -- Ethical saying : the claim in dialogue -- The pre-originary dimension of saying -- Preliminary soundings -- The voice of reason -- The pre-originary voice -- Palimpsest : the trace of the other in the text of our flesh, or, the echo of the other in the trembling of the flesh -- Enigmatic echoes : retrieving the trace.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968439603321

Autore

Ang Cheng Guan

Titolo

Lee Kuan Yew's strategic thought / / Ang Cheng Guan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-135-12267-9

0-203-07589-7

1-283-89424-6

1-135-12268-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; ; 77

Disciplina

327.5957

Soggetti

Singapore Foreign relations

Singapore Politics and government

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

From the 1950s to the mid-70s -- 1975-1979 -- The 80s decade -- The 90s decade -- The new millennium.

Sommario/riassunto

"Lee Kuan Yew, as the founding father of independent Singapore, has had an enormous impact on the development of Singapore and of Southeast Asia more generally. Even in his 80s he is a key figure who continues to exert considerable influence from behind the scenes. This book presents a comprehensive overview of Lee Kuan Yew's strategic thought. It charts the development of Singapore over the last six decades, showing how Lee Kuan Yew has steered Singapore to prosperity and success through changing times."