1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996279580803316

Titolo

American National Standard for Metric Practice / / IEEE

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y. : , : IEEE, , 2011

ISBN

0-7381-6533-6

Edizione

[(Revision of IEEE/ASTM SI 10-2002).]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 78 pages). : illustrations

Collana

IEEE/ ASTM ; ; SI 10-2010

Disciplina

343.7

Soggetti

Metric system - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Guidance for the use of the modern metric system is given. Known as the International System of Units (abbreviated SI), the system is the basis for worldwide standardization of measurement units. Information is included on SI, a list of units recognized for use with SI, and a list of conversion factors, together with general guidance on proper style and usage.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910552990803321

Autore

Mrovlje Maša

Titolo

Rethinking political judgement : Arendt and existentialism / / Maša Mrovlje [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2019

ISBN

1-4744-3716-8

1-4744-3715-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 263 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

CI 6373

Disciplina

191

Soggetti

Political science - Philosophy

Existentialism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Dec 2019).

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Political Judgement in the History of Political Thought and the Modern Crisis -- 2. Sartre and Beauvoir: The Ambiguity of Political Judgement and the Challenge of Freedom and Responsibility -- 3. Camus and Arendt: Confronting the Ambiguity of Political Judgement and Illuminating the Limits of the World -- 4. Political Judgement and Narrativity -- 5. Facing Up to the Tragedy of Political Action: The Problem of Dirty Hands -- 6. Times of Transition: Reconciling with the Tragic Nature of Political Affairs -- Conclusion: Reclaiming Wonder at the World of Political Affairs -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Uses 20th century existentialism to confront the challenge of political judgement after moral absolutism. How can we reinvigorate the human capacity for political judgement as a practical activity capable of addressing the uncertainties of our postfoundational world? The book takes up this challenge by drawing on the historically attuned perspective of 20th-century philosophies of existence - in particular the work of Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus and Hannah Arendt. Displacing the lingering rationalist temptations, Maša Mrovlje engages these thinkers' aesthetic sensibility to delve into the experiential reality of political judgement and revivify it as a worldly, ambiguous practice. The purpose is to illustrate the prescient political significance of existentialists' narrative imagination on two



contemporary perplexities of political judgement: the problem of dirty hands and the challenge of transitional justice. This engagement reveals the distinctly resistant potential of worldly judgement in its ability to stimulate our capacities of coming to terms with and creatively confronting the tragedies of political action, rather than simply yielding to them as a necessary course of political life.