1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910809988503321

Autore

Levitt Paul M.

Titolo

Bogus U. / / Paul M. Levitt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Taylor Trade Publishing, , 2015

[Place of distribution not identified] : , : National Book Network, , [date of distribution not identified]

©2015

ISBN

1-63076-065-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

813.54

Soggetti

Universities and colleges - Administration

Universities and colleges - Employees

Universities and colleges - Corrupt practices

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; DISCLAIMER; A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; HOW PHINEAS ORT MISSED HIS PLANE; BROOKLYN BENNY EXPLAINS HIS PHILOSOPHY OF MONEY; HOW CHRISTY THE CHUMP HEARD ABOUT BOGUS U.; A DAY IN THE LIFE OF BOGUS U.; BENNY'S PLAN TAKES SHAPE; CHRISTY FINDS A JOB; HOW CHRISTY CAME TO EAVESDROP; OF THINGS PAST AND PRESENT; MR. HASTY-PASTY RECEIVES A DISQUIETING TELEPHONE CALL; MR. HASTY-PASTY EXPLAINS; WHAT CHRISTY LEARNED FROM EAVESDROPPING; HOW CHRISTY BECAME PRESIDENT OF BOGUS U.; WHY LAURA FAVOLOSO ADMIRED CHRISTY THE CHOP; THE FULL BOARD OF TRUSTEES VOTES

CHRISTY MEETS THE GRAND VIZIERTHE PLOTTERS; THE VIZIERS EXPRESS AN OPINION; CHRISTY AND MR. HASTY-PASTY COME FACE TO FACE; IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD; BROOKLYN BENNY PUTS OUT A CONTRACT ON CHRISTY; PHINEAS ORT EXPLICATES ANTIGONE; CHRISTY SURVEYS HIS DOMAIN; NIGHT SCHOOL; CHRISTY LOOKS IN THE MIRROR; THE FIRST DAY; MEETINGS, MEETINGS, ALWAYS MEETINGS; SHAKEDOWN (AN EXTORTION OF MONEY BY DEVIOUS MEANS); THE MONROE LARSON CASE; DOUBTS, DISCRIMINATION, AND DECEITS; CHRISTY'S RECURRING NIGHTMARE; LAURA INTERROGATES SHAWN;



WORD SPREADS: CHRISTY'S A MARKED MAN

CHRISTY TRIES TO DISCOVER THE HIT MANCREON'S DEFENSE; CHRISTY WINES AND DINES TROXY; SHAWN KEEPS A CLANDESTINE DATE; GRETCHEN EDSEL TAKES A LOVER; LAURA AND CHRISTY DISCUSS MONEY; DEEDEE LITE'S NOVEL BEGINS; CHRISTY MAKES A TENURE DECISION; CHRISTY GOES TO THE GRIDIRON; CHRISTY AND OTHERS DISCUSS MONROE LARSON; BANG, BING, BAM: A DETONATION, NOT A CHINESE DISH; A BREAK IN THE CASE; DETECTIVE CRANKSHAW QUESTIONS THE SUSPECTS; AUTUMN LEAVES AND MOUNTAIN WALKS; SHAWN AND MILLICENT GO SHOPPING; CHRISTY HOSTS A DINNER FOR THE NEW FACULTY; LAURA REPORTS ON HER FINDINGS; A HOME AWAY FROM HOME

THE HEART'S A STATE OF MINDDEEDEE LITE'S NOVEL TAKES SHAPE; JACKIE BROWN TELEPHONES HIS GIRLFRIEND; PHINEAS LEARNS A FEW SCAMS; THE BEST LAID PLANS; PHINEAS AND DEEDEE HAVE A TALK; CHRISTY AND LAURA WATCH A VIDEO; BROOKLYN BENNY HUDDLES WITH THE HIT PERSON; DEEDEE RELATES BRENT'S SAD TALE; THE POLICE ISSUE A REPORT; IN FLAGRANTE DELICTO; BRENT'S ESCAPE FROM HANOI; ONE HAPPY FAMILY; THE SPRING IS SPRUNG; ON EASTER DAY. THE EXPOSÉ; CHRISTY AND LAURA FORGE AN AGREEMENT; CHRISTY INKS HIS NAME TO A CONTRACT; DEEDEE CONCLUDES HER NOVEL; CHRISTY REFORMS BOGUS U.; COMMERCIAL VENTURES, INC.; EPILOGUE



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910816808803321

Autore

O'Brien John E

Titolo

Critical practice from voltaire to foucault, eagleton and beyond : contested perspectives / / by John E. O'Brien

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-04-26065-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (519 p.)

Collana

Studies in critical social sciences, , 1573-4234 ; ; Volume 61

Disciplina

301.092/2

Soggetti

Critical theory

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

Preliminary Material / John E. O’Brien -- Overview / John E. O’Brien -- What is Critical Practice? / John E. O’Brien -- Voltaire: Setting the Role of Public Intellectual / John E. O’Brien -- Schiller: Reform Consciousness to Change the World / John E. O’Brien -- Foucault: The End of Evasion / John E. O’Brien -- Jean Baudrillard: Critical Practice as Core Extraction / John E. O’Brien -- Eagleton: Literary Critic – Literature or Criticism? / John E. O’Brien -- Hayden White: Historic Truth as Story Telling / John E. O’Brien -- Liberation: Project, Method, Object / John E. O’Brien -- Technical Note / John E. O’Brien -- Bibliography / John E. O’Brien -- Index / John E. O’Brien.

Sommario/riassunto

Using the historical-materialist method to unravel the promise and limits of critical practice since the Revolutionary Age, John E. O’Brien investigates the problems and prospects of cultural criticism for the 21st century through absorbing studies of the contested perspectives of Voltaire, Friedrich Schiller, Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault, Terry Eagleton and Hayden White. In spite of recurrent crises due to a flawed Western political-economy, why is there so much critical intellectual activity with so little effect? Framing his study with the early work by Max Horkheimer, Luc Boltanski and Teresa Ebert, O’Brien's investigation of resistance in America and Europe challenges the bourgeois philosophy of history, pointing to the urgency of critique as mode of analysis and intervention.