1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459175903321

Autore

Aboulafia Mitchell

Titolo

Transcendence [[electronic resource] ] : On Self-Determination and Cosmopolitanism

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Palo Alto, : Stanford University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-8047-7510-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Disciplina

128

170

Soggetti

Autonomy (Philosophy)

Self (Philosophy)

Transcendence (Philosophy)

Autonomy (Philosophy) - Philosophy

Cosmopolitanism

Philosophy, Modern

Philosophy & Religion

Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Transcendence and Self-determination; 1. Don't Fence Me In: Rorty and Sartre; 2. On Freedom and Action: Dewey and Sartre; 3. A (neo) American in Paris: Bourdieu and Mead; Part II: Cosmopolitanism and Transcendence; 4. Mead on Cosmopolitanism, Sympathy, and War; 5. W. E. B. Du Bois: Double-Consciousness, Jamesian Sympathy, and the Cosmopolitan; Part III: Sociological and Psychological Challenges to Transcendence; 6. Self-Concept in the New Sociology of Ideas: Reflections on Neil Gross's Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher

7. Eros and Self-Determination8. What If Hegel's Master and Slave Were Women?; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Transcendence offers an original theory of self and society that reconciles philosophical and political commitments to self-



determination, cultural pluralism, and cosmopolitanism.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910953172503321

Titolo

Circulation in Third World countries / / edited by R. Mansell Prothero and Murray Chapman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-280-87463-5

9786613715944

1-136-86591-8

1-136-86590-X

0-203-83678-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (495 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Development ; ; v. 73

Altri autori (Persone)

ChapmanMurray

ProtheroR. Mansell

Disciplina

304.8/09172/4

304.8091724

307.14091724

Soggetti

Migration, Internal - Developing countries

Technology transfer - Developing countries

Culture diffusion - Developing countries

Developing countries Commerce

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1985 by Routledge & K. Paul.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-469) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; CIRCULATION IN THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1 Themes on circulation in the Third World; Part I Holistic perspectives; 2 Towards a situational sociology of wage-labour circulation; 3 The Hausa wanderer and structural outsiderhood: an emic and etic analysis; 4 Circulation in West Java, Indonesia; 5 Circulation: a transition in mobility in Peru; Part ll Ecological perspectives; 6 Hunter mobility, family organization and change; 7 Traditional and modern patterns of circulation of pastoral nomads: the Duru' of south-east Arabia



8 Vertical circulation in southern Ecuador9 Seasonal agricultural circulation: the Strange Farmers of The Gambia; Part Ill Social perspectives; 10 The Avatime family and circulation 1900-1977; 11 International migration as circulation: Haitian movement to the Bahamas; 12 Religion and circulation: Hindu pilgrimage; 13 Circulation and schooling in East Africa; 14 The syndrome of poverty and wage labour circulation: the Indian scene; Part IV Economic perspectives; 15 Settlement and circulation in a frontier region: Illubabor Province, south-west Ethiopia

16 Circulation within systems of periodic and daily markets: the case of Central Highland Ecuador17 Town-city circulation among young Yucatec shoemakers; 18 Is a proletariat emerging in Nairobi?; 19 Differentials in repeat and return migration in Thailand, 1965-1970; 20 New Polynesian voyagers: visitors workers and migrants in New Zealand; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Circulation is common in Third World countries and involves reciprocal flows of people, goods and ideas. The essays in this volume, first published in1985, discuss concepts associated with circulation in its various forms, and they present empirical evidence based on field work from holistic, ecological, social, and economic points of view. Contributions from Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and the Pacific come from an international group of authors representing a variety of disciplines in the social sciences. All who are concerned with social and economic developme