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UNISA996279580803316 |
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American National Standard for Metric Practice / / IEEE |
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New York, N.Y. : , : IEEE, , 2011 |
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[(Revision of IEEE/ASTM SI 10-2002).] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix, 78 pages). : illustrations |
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IEEE/ ASTM ; ; SI 10-2010 |
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Metric system - United States |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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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. |
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UNINA9910552990803321 |
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Autore |
Mrovlje Maša |
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Rethinking political judgement : Arendt and existentialism / / Maša Mrovlje [[electronic resource]] |
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Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2019 |
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1-4744-3716-8 |
1-4744-3715-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (vii, 263 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Political science - Philosophy |
Existentialism |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Dec 2019). |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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