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UNINA9910455451903321 |
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Lear Jonathan |
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Radical hope [[electronic resource] ] : ethics in the face of cultural devastation / / Jonathan Lear |
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Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 2006 |
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1 online resource (208 p. ) : 4 halftones |
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Crow Indians - Social life and customs |
Ethics |
Social change |
Social sciences and ethics |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- I. After this , nothing happened A Peculiar Vulnerability • Protecting a Way of Life • Gambling with Necessity • Was There a Last Coup? • Witness to Death • Subject to Death • The Possibility of Crow Poetry -- II. Ethics at the horizon The End of Practical Reason • Reasoning at the Abyss • A Problem for Moral Psychology • The Interpretation of Dreams • Crow Anxiety • The Virtue of the Chickadee • The Transformation of Psychological Structure • Radical Hope -- III. Critique of abysmal reasoning The Legitimacy of Radical Hope • Aristotle’s Method • Radical Hope versus Mere Optimism • Courage and Hope • Virtue and Imagination • Historical Vindication • Personal Vindication • Response to Sitting Bull -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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Presents the story of Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation. This title contains a philosophical and ethical inquiry into a people faced with the end of their way of life. |
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UNINA9910783976303321 |
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Gallagher Tom <1954, > |
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The Balkans in the new millennium : in the shadow of war and peace / / Tom Gallagher |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005 |
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1-134-27303-7 |
1-134-27304-5 |
1-280-17116-2 |
0-203-02361-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (253 p.) |
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Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 |
Kosovo War, 1998-1999 - Peace |
Balkan Peninsula Politics and government 1989- |
Former Yugoslav republics History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-222) and index. |
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Greece: a peace-making role lost and re-found -- The road to war in Kosovo -- Milosević and NATO collide over Kosovo -- Macedonia: internal dangers supplant external ones -- Serbia from 2000: Milosević's poisonous legacy -- Bosnia: redesigning a flawed peace process -- Still a danger-point: Kosovo under international rule -- The European Union in search of Balkan answers. |
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Can the Balkans ever become a peaceful peninsula like that of Scandinavia? With enlightened backing, can it ever make common cause with the rest of Europe rather than being an arena of periodic conflicts, political misrule, and economic misery?In the last years of the twentieth century, Western states watched with alarm as a wave of conflicts swept over much of the Balkans. Ethno-nationalist disputes, often stoked by unprincipled leaders, plunged Yugoslavia into bloody warfare. Romania, Bulgaria and Albania struggled to find stability as they reeled from the collapse of the communist |
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