03348 am 22004573u 450 991015651800332120200102164918.0(CKB)3710000000987261(OCoLC)982228861(OCoLC)1097019765(OCoLC)1183730412(MdBmJHUP)muse87194(EXLCZ)99371000000098726120200729e20202016 uy 0engur|n|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWhy the Center Can't Hold: A Diagnosis of Puritanized Americaby Tom O'NeillBaltimore, Maryland :Project Muse,2020Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE, 2020©20201 online resource (xv, 347 pages)Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-337) and index.Our accelerating disinvestment in education -- The growing ascendance of the rich -- Our tenaciously expanding belief in force -- The sense nature can take whatever we dish out -- How the signs of incoherence cohere in pointing toward disintegration -- Skepticism about history -- Skepticism about beauty -- Skepticism about morality -- Skepticism about anything being known absolutely (absolute skepticism) -- "Fundamentalism will save us!" -- "God will save us from ourselves!" -- "The next election (or the one after that) will save us!" -- "I've decided to be a survivor!.""Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold." These words from Yeats's poem "The Second Coming" provide Why the Center Can't Hold with its organizing theme. And although Yeats was describing the grim atmosphere of post-World War I Europe, O'Neill regards the poem's pronouncements as eerily predictive of the state of the world as we are currently observing it. O'Neill takes them as predictive of the agency in particular of the United States--the "Center"--in bringing about in the world the more general chaos we are now observing (relative to various refugee and migrant crises, the emergence of sophisticated and even postmodern forms of militant and cyber terrorism, banking and other monetary crises, environmental catastrophes under the aegis of climate change, the defunding of public higher education, the persistence of virulent forms of racism and other types of intolerance, the concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands, the marginalisation and even outright elimination of human labor forces, etc.). O'Neill provides historical analyses that illuminate why this is the case, and he also asks what changes in the United States -- in its politics, in its socio-cultural formations, and in its beliefs and (supposedly common) values -- might help us to avoid the seemingly inevitable (and lamentable) destruction that lies ahead.CapitalismReligion and sociologyUnited StatesIntellectual life21st centuryUnited StatesCivilizationElectronic books. Capitalism.Religion and sociology.973.932O'Neill Tom449860MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910156518003321Why the Center Can't Hold: A Diagnosis of Puritanized America2192308UNINA02401nam 2200625z- 450 9910372786203321202102123-03928-069-4(CKB)4100000010163764(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/59665(oapen)doab59665(EXLCZ)99410000001016376420202102d2020 |y 0engurmn|---annantxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSolar Energy Applications in Houses, Smart Cities and MicrogridsMDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute20201 online resource (96 p.)3-03928-068-6 Five papers were selected for this Special Issue, with three relating to solar energy applications in houses, smart cities, and microgrids; one studying the relationship between the smart city model and the concept of energy sustainability; and one addressing the following two topics: the lack of effectiveness of detection algorithms based on the voltage/frequency displacement concept under voltage-controlled inverters and the applicability limits of others based on the impedance measurement (IM).History of engineering and technologybicsscabsorption chilleranti-islandingcarbon-acetone nanofluidenergy securityenergy sustainabilityEnergy Trilemma Indexenvironmental sustainabilityevacuated tubefilling ratiographeneimpedance measurementisolated communitymicrogridsn-pentanePV self-consumptionrenewable energysmart citiessolar collectorsolar coolingthermal performanceThermal performancethermosyphontilt angleTRNSYSvoltage source convertersHistory of engineering and technologyHernández-Callejo Luisauth1278698BOOK9910372786203321Solar Energy Applications in Houses, Smart Cities and Microgrids3021953UNINA