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UNINA9910968613903321 |
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Autore |
Rescher Nicholas |
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Philosophical episodes / / Nicholas Rescher |
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Frankfurt ; ; New Brunswick, : Ontos Verlag, 2011 |
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3-86838-123-6 |
3-11-031993-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (222 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter One: EROTETIC NEOPLATONISM -- Chapter Two: NEO-PLATONIC RUMINATIONS ON OPTIMALISM AND THEISM -- Chapter Three: ELEMENTS OF CLASSICAL ONTOLOGY -- Chapter Four: AQUINAS AND WORLD IMPROVEMENT -- Chapter Five: LEIBNIZ ON INFINITE ANALYTICITY -- Chapter Six: LEIBNIZ AND ISSUES OF ETERNAL RECURRENCE -- Chapter Seven: LEIBNIZ CROSSES THE ATLANTIC -- Chapter Eight: KANT'S NEOPLATONISM (Kant and Plato on mathematical and Philosophical Method) -- Chapter Nine: ON PEIRCE AND UNANSWERABLE QUESTIONS -- Chapter Ten: HEDWIG CONRAD-MARTIUS AND THE SELF TRANSCENDENCE OF PHENOMENOLOGY -- Chapter Eleven: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS -- Chapter Twelve: WHAT EINSTEIN WANTED -- Chapter Thirteen: GÖDEL'S LEIBNIZ CONSPIRACY -- Chapter Fourteen: THE BERLIN GROUP AND THE RAND COOPERATION (A Narrative of Personal Interactions) -- Chapter Fifteen: ON INFERENCE FROM INCONSISTENT PREMISSES -- Chapter Sixteen: PHILOSOPHY IN THE WORLD OF LEARNING (Aspects of a Two-Percent Solution) -- REFERENCES -- Backmatter |
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Philosophical work comes in different sizes: there are systemic treatises, monographic surveys, philosopher-expanding texts. But there is also room for smaller studies that focus on highly particularized ideas and issues: studies that deal not with entire continents but with mere reefs and estuaries. The present essays are of this limited nature. Their aim is less to give a view of the overall lay of |
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the land than to give a tranistic view of the diversity of the landscape. The present book continues Rescher's longstanding practice of publishing groups of philosophical essays that originated in occasional lecture and conference presentations. Notwithstanding their topical diversity the essays exhibit a uniformity of method in a common attempt to view historically significant philosophical issues in the light of modern perspectives opened up thorough conceptual clarification. |
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UNINA9910974883003321 |
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Political regimes in the Arab world : society and the exercise of power / / edited by Ferran Izquierdo Brichs |
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Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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1-283-71004-8 |
0-203-10262-2 |
1-136-24088-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (337 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics ; ; 45 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Comparative government |
Arab countries Politics and government 1945- |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: sociology of power in today's Arab world -- Algeria: post-colonial power structure and reproduction of elites without renewal -- Algeria: whither Algeria? two normalizations, three unresolved crises and two crucial unknowns -- Morocco: the reinvention of an authoritarian system --Morocco: regime and fuses -- Logics of power and the process of transition in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania -- Mauritania's challenges -- Contemporary Egypt: between reform and continuity -- Egypt: from yesterday to the present -- Saudi Arabia: family, religion, army and oil -- The futures of Saudi Arabia -- The Syrian ruling elite and the failure of the repressive trend -- What does the future hold? -- Elites, power and political change in post-war Lebanon -- Lebanon: temporary or lasting peace? -- Jordan: the |
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survival of the monarchy -- Jordan: a delicate domestic and regional equilibrium. |
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One of the implications of Orientalism is that the Arab world, as a homogenous entity, is often analysed as an anomaly within the international system. This book argues that, despite their differences, societies across the globe ultimately construct their own history according to very similar dynamics and tensions. The methodological approach of this book, using different countries within the Arab world as models, offers the reader an analysis of relations between the elites and their opposition in a variety of settings. A definition of the political structure of each country is draw |
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