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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785016303321

Titolo

Engineering, social justice and sustainable community development [[electronic resource] ] : summary of a workshop / / Rachelle Hollander, editor ; Nathan Kahl, co-editor ; Advisory group for the center for engineering, ethics and society

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, 2010

ISBN

0-309-15694-7

1-282-66041-1

9786612660412

0-309-15261-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (78 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HollanderRachelle

KahlNathan

Disciplina

174.962

Soggetti

Engineering

Social justice

Sustainable development

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

""Front Matter""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""1 Introduction and Opening Remarks""; ""2 Session I: Engineering and Special Vulnerabilities""; ""3 Session II: Engineering, Ethics, and Society""; ""4 Panel on Early-Career Engineers""; ""5 Session III: Implications for Engineering Education""; ""6 Small Group Meetings""; ""7 Roundtable Discussion: The Intersection of Humanitarian Action, Social Justice, and Sustainable Community Development""; ""Appendixes""; ""Appendix A: Workshop Agenda""; ""Appendix B: Workshop Attendees""

Sommario/riassunto

"Engineering, Social Justice, and Sustainable Community Development is the first in a series of biennial workshops on the theme of engineering ethics and engineering leadership. This workshop addresses conflicting positive goals for engineering projects in impoverished areas and areas in crisis. These conflicts arise domestically as well as in international arenas. The goals of project sponsors and participants, which are often implicit, include protecting



human welfare, ensuring social justice, and striving for environmental sustainability alongside the more often explicit goal of economic development or progress. The workshop, summarized in this volume, discussed how to achieve the following: improve research in engineering ethics; improve engineering practice in situations of crisis and conflict; improve engineering education in ethics and social issues; and involve professional societies in these efforts."--Publisher's description.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910962057903321

Titolo

The work of Giorgio Agamben : law, literature, life / / edited by Justin Clemens, Nicholas Heron, and Alex Murray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2008

ISBN

9786611947774

9780748689019

074868901X

9780748652440

0748652442

9781281947772

1281947776

9780748634637

0748634630

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 214 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

CI 7116

Altri autori (Persone)

HeronNicholas

ClemensJustin

MurrayAlex <1980->

Disciplina

195

Soggetti

Philosophy, Italian

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The enigma of Giorgio Agamben / Justin Clemens, Nicholas Heron and Alex Murray -- K / Giorgio Agamben -- Integral actuality : on Giorgio



Agamben's Idea of prose / Alexander García Düttmann -- the role of the shifter and the problem of reference in Giorgio Agamben / Justin Clemens -- 'Its silent working was a delusion' / Jessica Whyte -- Politics and poetics of divine violence : on a figure in Giorgio Agamben and Walter Benjamin / Arne De Boever -- Idea of poetry, idea of prose / Nicholas Heron -- The fading memory of Homo non sacer / Anton Schütz -- Soulblind, or On profanation / Thanos Zartaloudis -- Face to face with Agamben : or, the other in love / Julian Wolfreys -- Beyond spectacle and the image : the poetics of Guy Debord and Agamben / Alex Murray -- Dismantling theatricality : aesthetics of bare life / Barbara Formis -- Notes on media and biopolitics : 'Notes on gesture' / Deborah Levitt.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays seeks to explore Agamben's work from philosophical and literary perspectives  thereby underpinning its place within larger debates in continental philosophy.