The anti-enlightenment tradition [[electronic resource] /] / Zeev Sternhell; translated by David Maisel

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456183003321
• Autore: Sternhell Zeev
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2010
• ISBN: 1-282-43745-3; 9786612437458; 0-300-15633-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (544 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.52094
• Soggetti: Conservatism - Europe - History; Enlightenment; Right and left (Political science); Political science - Europe - History - 18th century; Political science - Europe - History - 19th century; Political science - Europe - History - 20th century; 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: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Clash of Traditions -- 2. The Foundations of a Different Modernity -- 3. The Revolt against Reason and Natural Rights -- 4. The Political Culture of Prejudice -- 5. The Law of Inequality and the War on Democracy -- 6. The Intellectual Foundations of Nationalism -- 7. The Crisis of Civilization, Relativism, and the Death of Universal Values at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century -- 8. The Anti-Enlightenment of the Cold War -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In this masterful work of historical scholarship, Zeev Sternhell, an internationally renowned Israeli political scientist and historian, presents a controversial new view of the fall of democracy and the rise of radical nationalism in the twentieth century. Sternhell locates their origins in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Anti-Enlightenment, far earlier than most historians. The thinkers belonging ; to the Anti-Enlightenment (a movement originally identified by Friederich Nietzsche) represent a perspective that is antirational and that rejects the principles of natural law and the rights of man. Sternhell asserts that the Anti-Enlightenment was a development separate from the Enlightenment and sees the two traditions as evolving parallel to one another over time. He contends that J. G. Herder and Edmund Burke are among the real founders of the Anti-Enlightenment and shows how that school undermined the very foundations of modern liberalism, finally contributing to the development of fascism that culminated in the European catastrophes of the twentieth century.

Wittenberg meets the world : reimagining the reformation at the margins / / Alberto L. Garcia & John A. Nunes

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910828888703321
• Autore: García Alberto L.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Grand Rapids, Michigan : , : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, , 2017; ©2017
• ISBN: 1-4674-4691-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (134 pages)
• Disciplina: 284.1
• Soggetti: Reformation; Lutheran Church - History; Justification (Christian theology); Martyrdom - Christianity; Witness bearing (Christianity); Service (Theology); Fellowship - Religious aspects - Christianity
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Density Functional Theory : An Approach to the Quantum Many-Body Problem / / by Reiner M. Dreizler, Eberhard K.U. Gross

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910813436103321
• Autore: Dreizler Reiner M
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1990
• ISBN: 3-642-86105-9
• Edizione: [1st ed. 1990.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XI, 304 p.)
• Disciplina: 530.1
• Soggetti: Mathematical physics; Chemistry, Physical and theoretical; Condensed matter; Atoms; Physics; Quantum physics; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics; Theoretical and Computational Chemistry; Condensed Matter Physics; Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics; Quantum Physics
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- 2. Basic Formalism for Stationary Non-Relativistic Systems -- 2.1 The Hohenberg-Kohn Theorem -- 2.2 Degenerate Groundstates -- 2.3 v-Representability and Related Questions -- 2.4 Fractional Particle Number, Chemical Potential, and Derivative Discontinuities -- 3. Extensions -- 3.1 Spin-Polarised Systems -- 3.2 Finite Temperature Ensembles -- 3.3 Multicomponent Systems -- 3.4 Hartree-Fock Limit -- 3.5 Excited States -- 3.6 Density Matrix Functionals -- 3.7 Momentum Space -- 3.8 Bose Systems -- 3.9 Superconducting Systems -- 4. The Kohn-Sham Scheme -- 4.1 The Basic Kohn-Sham Equations -- 4.2 Degenerate Kohn-Sham Groundstates and the Question of v-Representability -- 4.3 Spin-Polarised Systems -- 4.4 Fractional Occupation, Janak’s Theorem, and ; the Slater Transition State -- 4.5 Excited States: The Kohn-Sham Scheme for Ensembles -- 4.6 Schrödinger Equation for the Square Root of the Groundstate Density -- 4.7 Hellmann-Feynman, Virial, and Scaling Properties of Density Functionals -- 4.8 Single-Particle Equations for Superconductors: A Generalized Bogoliubov-deGennes Scheme -- 5. Explicit Functionals I: Kinetic and Exchange Energy Functionals Derived from the One-Particle Density Matrix -- 5.1 Density-Gradient Expansions from Semiclassical Expansions: A Survey -- 5.2 The Kirzhnits Method -- 5.3 The Wigner-Kirkwood Approach and Partial Resummation of the Gradient Expansion -- 5.4 Empirical Convergence Studies of the Gradient Expansion -- 5.5 Original von Weizsäcker Functional Versus Gradient Expansion -- 5.6 Padé Approximants and Other Parametrisations -- 5.7 Phase-Space Approach Based on Local Thermodynamics -- 5.8 The Classical Density Functional Models of Thomas, Fermi, Dirac, and von Weizsäcker -- 6. Many-Body Perturbation Theory -- 6.1 Diagrammatic Approach to the Inhomogeneous Electron Gas -- 6.2 The Exchange-Correlation Functional Expressed in Terms of the Irreducible Self-Energy -- 6.3 The Band Gap in Insulators and Semiconductors -- 6.4 The Fermi Surface in Metals -- 6.5 The Homogeneous Electron Gas -- 7. Explicit Functionals II: The Local Density Approximation and Beyond -- 7.1 The Local Density Approximation -- 7.2 Discussion of the Local Density Approximation -- 7.3 Nonlocal Density Schemes -- 7.4 Self-Interaction Corrections -- 7.5 Wave Vector Analysis -- 7.6 Gradient Corrections -- 7.7 Kohn-Sham Results for Atoms and Molecules -- 8. Density Functional Theory of Relativistic Systems -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Existence Theorems -- 8.3 Explicit Functionals I: The Relativistic Kirzhnits Expansion -- 8.4 The Homogeneous Relativistic Electron Gas -- 8.5 Explicit Functionals II: The Local Density Approximation -- 8.6 Remarks and Applications -- A. Definition of Density Matrices, Green’s Functions, and Correlation Functions -- B. Compilation of Literature on Atomic and Molecular Kohn-Sham Results -- References.
• Sommario/riassunto: Density Functional Theory is a rapidly developing branch of many-particle physics that has found applications in atomic, molecular, solid-state and nuclear physics. This book describes the conceptual framework of density functional theory and discusses in detail the derivation of explicit functionals from first principles as well as their application to Coulomb systems. Both non-relativistic and relativistic systems are treated. The connection of density functional theory with other many-body methods is highlighted. The presentation is self-contained; the book is, thus, well suited for a graduate course on density functional theory.