02925nam 2200397za 450 991045896670332120210208114753.01-283-33876-997866133387610-335-24069-0(MiAaPQ)EBC487791(EXLCZ)99267000000000967020130923d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||The question of morale[electronic resource] managing happiness and unhappiness in university life /David WatsonMaidenhead McGraw-Hill/Open Univ. P.20091 online resource (xv, 165 p.) ill0-335-23560-3 1 INTRODUCTION: WHY MORALE?; 2 HIGHER EDUCATION AND OUR PRESENT CONDITION; 3 UNHAPPY STUDENTS; 4 UNHAPPY STAFF; 5 UNHAPPY STAKEHOLDERS; 6 MANAGING MORALE; CODA; LIST OF WEBSITES; REFERENCES; INDEX.There is a comforting tale that heads of higher education institutions (HEIs) like to tell each other. "Go around your university or college," they say, "and ask the first ten people who you meet how their morale is. The response will always be 'rock-bottom.' Then ask them what they are working on. The responses will be full of life, of optimism and of enthusiasm for the task in hand." The moral of the story is that the two sets of responses don't compute; that the first is somehow unthinking and ideological, and the second unguarded and sincere. The thesis of this book is that the contradictory answers may well compute more effectively than is acknowledged: that the culture of higher education and the mesh of psychological contracts, or "deals," that make it up make much of the current discourse about happiness and unhappiness in contemporary life look simplistic and banal. In particular, the much-vaunted "science of happiness" may not have much to say to us. There is also a potential link between the Manichean discourse about morale and our wider culture's approach to happiness. Both normally deal in extremes, and much more rarely in graduations. Why is so much discourse about contemporary higher education structured around (real and imagined) unhappiness? How does this connect with the realities of life within (and just outside) the institutions? Does it matter, and, if so, what should we be doing about it? Based on historical, sociological and philosophical analysis, this book offers some answers to these questions.Education, HigherPhilosophyEducation, HigherGreat BritainMoraleCollege studentsElectronic books.Education, HigherPhilosophy.Education, HigherMorale.College students.378.198Watson David1939-860540BOOK9910458966703321The question of morale2204906UNINA01055nam a2200277 i 450099100289608970753620020509104709.0940204s1990 it ||| | ita 8810404661b1107727x-39ule_instPARLA171095ExLIstituto di FilosofiaitaVendrame, Giorgio539380Etica economica e sociale :la persona al centro /Giorgio VendrameBologna :Edizioni Dehoniane,1990166 p. ;19 cm.Etica Teologica OggiEtica e economiaEtica e societa.b1107727x23-02-1728-06-02991002896089707536LE005 Ist.Fil. XLVI G 712005000223440le005-E0.00-l- 00000.i1120707328-06-02LE005 MF C.B. 49 H 371LE005-CB-82le005-E0.00-l- 00000.i1120708528-06-02Etica economica e sociale860729UNISALENTOle00501-01-94ma -itait 0202717nam 2200649Ia 450 991079201580332120230119183311.00-253-00945-6(CKB)2560000000102381(EBL)1211187(SSID)ssj0000891042(PQKBManifestationID)11493973(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000891042(PQKBWorkID)10888382(PQKB)10174277(MiAaPQ)EBC1211187(OCoLC)847951450(MdBmJHUP)muse29186(Au-PeEL)EBL1211187(CaPaEBR)ebr10718812(CaONFJC)MIL496472(EXLCZ)99256000000010238120130401d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDerrida and our animal others[electronic resource] Derrida's final seminar, "The beast and the sovereign" /David Farrell KrellBloomington, Indiana Indiana University Press20131 online resource (196 p.)Studies in Continental thoughtIncludes index.0-253-00933-2 0-253-00924-3 Beast and the sovereign I -- Beast and the sovereign II -- How follow the animal ... that I am? -- Is there a touchstone for all philosophy? -- Is apophantic discourse the touchstone? -- Conclusions and directions for future research.Jacques Derrida's final seminars were devoted to animal life and political sovereignty--the connection being that animals slavishly adhere to the law while kings and gods tower above it and that this relationship reveals much about humanity in the West. David Farrell Krell offers a detailed account of these seminars, placing them in the context of Derrida's late work and his critique of Heidegger. Krell focuses his discussion on questions such as death, language, and animality. He concludes that Heidegger and Derrida share a commitment to finding new ways of speaking and thinking about humaStudies in Continental ThoughtPhilosophy, French20th centuryPower (Philosophy)SovereigntyResponsibilityAnimals (Philosophy)Philosophy, FrenchPower (Philosophy)Sovereignty.Responsibility.Animals (Philosophy)194Krell David Farrell158583MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792015803321Derrida and our animal others3789575UNINA