1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910700921903321

Autore

Dodaro Gene L

Titolo

Fiscal year 2010 U.S. government financial statements [[electronic resource] ] : federal government continues to face financial management and long-term fiscal challenges : testimony before the Subcommittee on Government Organization, Efficiency and Financial Management, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives / / statement of Gene L. Dodaro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, , [2011]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (16 pages)

Collana

Testimony ; ; GAO-11-363T

Soggetti

Financial statements - United States

Monetary policy - United States

United States Appropriations and expenditures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from PDF title screen (viewed Sept. 12, 2011).

"For release ... March 9, 2011."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910810820303321

Autore

Ewegen S. Montgomery

Titolo

Plato's Cratylus : the comedy of language / / S. Montgomery Ewegen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-253-01051-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

Studies in Continental thought

Disciplina

184

Soggetti

Language and languages - Philosophy

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

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Note on Translation; List of Textual Abbreviation; Introduction; 1 First Words; 2 Marking the Limits; 3 A Question of Inheritance; 4 The Nature of Nature; 5 Technological Language; 6 A Homeric Inheritance; 7 What Words Will; 8 The Tragedy of Cratylus; Conclusion: The Comedy of the Cratylus; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Plato's dialogue Cratylus focuses on being and human dependence on words, or the essential truths about the human condition. Arguing that comedy is an essential part of Plato's concept of language, S. Montgomery Ewegen asserts that understanding the comedic is key to an understanding of Plato's deeper philosophical intentions. Ewegen shows how Plato's view of language is bound to comedy through words and how, for Plato, philosophy has much in common with playfulness and the ridiculous. By tying words, language, and our often uneasy relationship with them to comedy, Ewegen frames a new readi