Human rights vetting : Nigeria and beyond : hearing before the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, second session, July 10, 2014

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910702800003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington : , : U.S. Government Printing Office, , 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (iii, 73 pages)
• Soggetti: Human rights - Nigeria - International cooperation; Humanitarian assistance, American - Nigeria; Legislative hearings.; United States Foreign relations Nigeria; Nigeria Foreign relations United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Paper version available for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office.; "Serial No. 113-196."; Title from title screen (viewed on Nov. 3, 2014).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.

Published essays, 1940-1952 / / Eric Voegelin ; edited with an introduction by Ellis Sandoz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910958603103321
• Autore: Voegelin Eric <1901-1985.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Columbia, Mo. ; ; London, : University of Missouri Press, c2000
• ISBN: 0-8262-6397-6
• Descrizione fisica: ix, 255 p
• Collana: Collected works of Eric Voegelin ; ; v.10
• Altri autori (Persone): SandozEllis <1931-2023.>
• Disciplina: 320
• Soggetti: Political science; Social sciences
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Introduction -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Published Essays, 1940-1952, includes some of Eric Voegelin's most provocative and interesting essays. Containing his first publications after he fled Vienna and settled in the United States following Hitler's annexation of Austria, this volume provides eyewitness commentary on the rise of National Socialism from the first days of World War II onward. A major study entitled "Growth of the Race Idea" presents a masterful summary of the two volumes on that subject Voegelin first published in 1933. A related essay of wide interest is entitled "Nietzsche, the Crisis, and the War." Another facet of Voegelin's thought incorporated within this volume of the Essays is his extraordinary analysis of the diplomatic correspondence conducted between the Western powers, the papacy, and the Great Khans, whose breathtaking expansion of the Mongol Empire for a time threatened to extinguish Western civilization itself and resulted in a two-century domination of Russia. Another major study is "The Origins of Scientism," an illuminating analysis of the grounds of much of modern philosophy and of all modern political ideologies. There are also surveys of the state of political theory in the late forties, penetrating studies of utopian thought with essays on Thomas More and Goethe, and a concluding essay that explores the intricacies of "Gnostic Politics"-a familiar theme from Voegelin's contemporaneous New Science of ; Politics. This volume of published essays shows Eric Voegelin at his most accessible best.

The university in dissent : scholarship in the corporate university / / Gary Rolfe

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910959924103321
• Autore: Rolfe Gary
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-136-19064-3; 0-415-68114-6; 0-203-08428-4; 1-283-86112-7; 1-136-19065-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 150 p.)
• Collana: Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) series
• Classificazione: EDU000000EDU015000EDU034000
• Disciplina: 378.010941
• Soggetti: Education, Higher - Aims and objectives - Great Britain; Higher education and state - Great Britain; Business and education - Great Britain
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Formerly CIP.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. The ruined university -- pt. 2. Building the paraversity -- pt. 3. Adventures in the paraversity.
• Sommario/riassunto: "The rise of corporatism in the North American University was charted by Bill Readings in the mid nineteen-nineties book The University in Ruins. The intervening years have seen the corporate university grow and extend to the point where its evolution into a large business corporation is seemingly complete. This book examines the factors contributing to the transformation of the university from a site of culture and knowledge to what might be termed an 'information factory', and explores strategies for how, in Readings' words, members of the academic community might continue to 'dwell in the ruins of the university' in a productive and authentic way. Drawing on the work of critics and philosophers such as, amongst others, Barthes, Derrida, ; Lyotard and Deleuze, The University in Dissent suggests that this can only be achieved subversively through the development of a community of philosophers who are prepared to challenge and critique the mission statement of the 'university of excellence' from within, focusing on how scholarly and academic writing will develop in this new era Summarising, contextualising and extending previous understandings of the rise of corporatism and the subsequent demise of the traditional aims and values of the university, Rolfe assesses the situation in contemporary UK and international settings. He recognises that change is at the core of current university education and explores some of the challenges and consequences of this shift in the academic world, showing how academics can work with, and against, change. This timely and thought provoking book is a must read for all academics at University level, as well as education policy makers"--