1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464692003321

Titolo

Feelings of being alive [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Joerg Fingerhut and Sabine Marienberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter, 2012

ISBN

1-283-62763-9

3-11-024659-7

9786613940087

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (356 p.)

Collana

Humanprojekt, , 1868-8144

Altri autori (Persone)

FingerhutJörg

MarienbergSabine

Disciplina

128

Soggetti

Consciousness

Wakefulness

Awareness

Happiness

Human beings

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- How it Feels to Be Alive / Fingerhut, Joerg / Marienberg, Sabine -- I. Feelings of Being -- The Phenomenology of Existential Feeling / Ratcliffe, Matthew -- Emotional Rationality and Feelings of Being / Slaby, Jan -- An Externalist Approach to Existential Feelings: Different Feelings or Different objects? / Manzotti, Riccardo -- Existentielle Gefühle und Emotionen: Intentionalität und Regulierbarkeit / Stephan, Achim -- Lebendigsein. Existenzphilosophische Überlegungen zur Zweideutigkeit eines Grundgefühls / Holzhey-Kunz, Alice -- II. The Sentient Organism -- The Feeling of Being Alive / Fuchs, Thomas -- The Body and the Experience of Presence / Fingerhut, Joerg -- The Embodied Self and the Feeling of Being Alive / Battaglia, Fiorella -- 'Life Is (not Consciousness, but) an Immediate Act of the Intellect.' / Schmitt, Arbogast -- Das Gefühl des Lebendigseins als einfache Form phänomenalen Bewusstseins. Ein aristotelischer Theorieansatz / Engelen, Eva-Maria --



III. Pragmatics and Semiotics -- Corpus animatum - Imago animata. Shared Image Practices in the Florentine Church SS. Annunziata in the Renaissance / Klemm, Tanja -- Hintergrunderleben und semiotische Generalisierung / Jung, Matthias -- Bilder des Todes und Formen der Lebendigkeit / Marienberg, Sabine -- Author Index -- Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

The question of what characterizes feelings of being alive is a puzzling and controversial one. Are we dealing with a unique affective phenomenon or can it be integrated into existing classifications of emotions and moods? What might be the natural basis for such feelings? What could be considered their specifically human dimension? These issues are addressed by researchers from various disciplines, including philosophy of mind and emotions, psychology, and history of art.This volume contains original papers on the topic of feelings of being alive by Fiorella Battaglia, Eva-Maria Engelen, Joerg Fingerhut, Thomas Fuchs, Alice Holzhey-Kunz, Matthias Jung, Tanja Klemm, Riccardo Manzotti, Sabine Marienberg, Matthew Ratcliffe, Arbogast Schmitt, Jan Slaby, and Achim Stephan.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910798400703321

Autore

Purchase Bryne

Titolo

Navigating on the Titanic : economic growth, energy, and the failure of governance / / Bryne Purchase

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, [Quebećbec] : , : School of Policy Studies, Queen's University : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-55339-335-X

1-55339-507-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 p.)

Collana

Queen's Policy Studies Series

Disciplina

330.973

Soggetti

Economic development - United States

Economic development - Canada

Power resources - Environmental aspects - United States

Power resources - Environmental aspects - Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: The Brief History of Economic Growth -- Chapter 2: Energy Matters: Energy Price Shocks and the Global Economic Transformation -- Chapter 3: Global Energy Mega-Risks: Resource Depletion, Geopolitical Security, and Climate Change -- Chapter 4: Why Private Organizations and Markets Fail -- Chapter 5: Can Our Governments Act Pre-emptively? -- Chapter 6: Can Our Governments Forestall Climate Change? -- Chapter 7: Looking Forward.

Sommario/riassunto

Navigating the Titanic outlines the brief history of economic growth and the private and public institutions - markets, corporations, households, and governments - which underpin that growth. Bryne Purchase examines mega-risks related to our economy's use of fossil fuels and specifically looks at resource depletion, energy security, and climate change - all "mega-risks" because they are both global in scope and potentially existential in impact. Focusing on North America, with a particular emphasis on the United States, Purchase's central argument is that the institutions which have produced spectacular economic growth are not capable of acting with prudence to deal with these mega-risks before they become a real danger. He identifies certain institutional design flaws that, while underwriting economic growth, leave society open to potentially catastrophic failure and reveals how these design flaws have been compounded by the stresses of the growing income inequality in society.