1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996248206603316

Autore

Wyschogrod Edith

Titolo

Crossover queries [[electronic resource] ] : dwelling with negatives, embodying philosophy's others / / Edith Wyschogrod

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-8232-3514-9

0-8232-4764-3

1-4294-7898-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (588 p.)

Collana

Perspectives in continental philosophy ; ; no. 52

Disciplina

190

Soggetti

Philosophy, Modern

Theology

Ethics

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 (p. 505-561) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. God : desiring the infinite -- pt. 2. Training bodies : pedagogies of pain -- pt. 3. Bodies : subject or code -- pt. 4. Nihilation and the ethics of alterity -- pt. 5. Conversations -- pt. 6. The art in ethics -- pt. 7. Comparing philosophies.

Sommario/riassunto

Exploring the risks, ambiguities, and unstable conceptual worlds of contemporary thought, this book brings together the wide-ranging writings, across twenty years, of one of our most important philosophers - Wyschogrod.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910700745203321

Autore

Johnson Charles Michael, Jr.

Titolo

Afghanistan development [[electronic resource] ] : USAID continues to face challenges in managing and overseeing U.S. development assistance programs : testimony before the Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, Committee on Appropriations / / statement of Charles Michael Johnson Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, , [2010]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (14 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Testimony ; ; GAO-10-932T

Soggetti

Economic assistance, American - Afghanistan - Evaluation

Economic assistance - Afghanistan - Evaluation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from PDF title page (GAO, viewed July 19, 2010).

"For release ... July 15, 2010."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Summary -- The United States faces challenges in managing and overseeing programs in Afghanistan -- USAID did not consistently follow established performance management and evaluation procedures.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911008901303321

Autore

Clark Christopher

Titolo

The Communitarian Moment : The Radical Challenge of the Northampton Association / / Christopher Clark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2019]

©1995

ISBN

9781501733734

1501733737

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Disciplina

335/.974423

Soggetti

HISTORY / United States / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. "One Common Enterprise" -- 2. Founders, Origins, and Contexts -- 3. "They Will Soon Convince the World": Shelter, Base, and Mission -- 4. "To Live in the Common Cause": Life in Community -- 5. The Business of Utopia: Output, Silk, and Debt -- 6. "Too Despotic Power": Members and Leaders -- 7. From Community to Factory Village -- 8. The Communitarian Moment -- Abbreviations Used in the Notes -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In 1842 a group of radical abolitionists formed a community in Northampton, Massachusetts, in order to pioneer "a better and purer state of society." Calling themselves the Northampton Association of Education and Industry, they envisioned a world free of poverty and inequality, religious intolerance, slavery and racial injustice. In telling the fascinating and little-known history of the Association, Christopher Clark offers insights into the "communitarian moment" of the 1840s which saw the establishment of dozens of utopian communities by Americans determined to challenge the tenets of their society. One of the few places in mid-nineteenth-century America where white and black people could live as equals, the Northampton community was home to almost two hundred and fifty men, women, and children during its four and a half years of existence. The membership



comprised an unusual collection of individuals, among them small manufacturers, abolitionist lecturers, teachers, craftsmen, laborers, and former slaves, including Sojourner Truth. Offering biographical sketches of a variety of intriguing characters, Clark describes the inhabitants' daily routines, their struggle to support themselves through the production of silk, the roles of men and women, and tensions among members of different cultural backgrounds. Finally, he looks at the reasons for the closing of the community and follows the lives of its members, recounting the subsequent softening of their political convictions. Throughout his masterful narrative, Clark views the Northampton Association in its wider social and cultural context. He shows how, by attempting to initiate radical change, the Association and other utopian groups tested the ideological limits of antebellum society. Clark helps us understand both the significance of their vision and what was lost when that vision was abandoned.