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- Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management
- Dialectical theory is applied to the examination of how institutional and organizational level changes are leading to a new HRM paradigm in Cuba. The paper starts with a general overview of economy and enterprise in Cuba, to expose the nature of the pressures and contradictions facing managers and organisations in...
- White papers 2003-06-06
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- The political theory of Darwinism; Zoon politikon and the evolutionary case for social democracy
- The political theory of Darwinism; Zoon politikon and the evolutionary case for social democracy. King, Ian T. Edwin Mellen Pr. 2008 537 pages $139.95 Hardcover HM631 Some elements of Marxism, re-articulated as a form...
- Articles 2008-05-01
- Exploring the networked worlds of popular music; milieu cultures
- Exploring the networked worlds of popular music; milieu cultures. Webb, Peter. Routledge 2007 277 pages $95.00 Hardcover Routledge advances in sociology; 38 ML3918 Webb, not further identified, develops a theory of milieu...
- Articles 2008-05-01
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- The health of cities relies on us viewing them as bodies with organs and skeletons, writes Patrick Lynch Aldo Rossi developed a theory of typology in The Architecture of the City that enabled him to go beyond what he called 'the naïve functionalism' of the Modern period to see how...
- Articles 2008-02-21
- Dialectics of the self; transcending Charles Taylor
- Dialectics of the self; transcending Charles Taylor. Fraser, Ian. Imprint Academic 2007 205 pages $34.90 Paperback B995 Fraser (political theory, Nottingham Trent U. UK) evaluates Charles Taylor's concept of the self and its moral...
- Articles 2008-02-01
- Realism, Philosophy and Social Science
- Kathryn Dean, Jonathan Joseph, John Michael Roberts and Colin Wight Realism, Philosophy and Social Science Palgrave, 2006, 199 pp. ISBN: 1-4039-4673-6 hbk £50 Realism, Philosophy and Social Science is an advanced text, focusing in depth on a narrow range of topics and assuming a solid understanding of critical realism...
- Articles 2007-10-01
- Sentimental posthumanism: David Foster Wallace
- If, as Edward W. Soja argued in 1989, postmodernism involved "the reassertion of a critical spatial perspective in contemporary social theory" (2), then the post-postmodern era might be said to have moved beyond the spatial dialectics that implicitly structured twentieth-century culture. The contribution of geographers such as Soja and David...
- Articles 2007-09-22
- News directors and consultants: RTNDA's endorsement of TV journalism's "greatest tool"
- As scholars consider the commercial values modern newscasts exude, business theories are widely cited in studies of television news. With this trend, however, comes a problem: how to treat historical literature that champions news directors' rejection of business? Empirical researchers have reacted by reconsidering the historiography and its story of...
- Articles 2007-09-01
- Fredric Jameson; live theory
- Fredric Jameson; live theory. Buchanan, Ian. Continuum Publishing Group 2006 140 pages $19.95 Paperback PN75 Buchanan (critical and cultural theory, Cardiff U., UK) provides an introductory overview of the theoretical corpus of Marxist political...
- Articles 2007-08-01
- In search of 'Kynde Knowynge'; Piers Plowman and the origin of allegory
- In search of 'Kynde Knowynge'; Piers Plowman and the origin of allegory. Kasten, Madeleine. Editions Rodopi 2007 257 pages $70.00 Paperback Costerus New Series; 168 PR2015 Kasten (literary studies, Leiden U.) has...
- Articles 2007-08-01
- My Cocaine Museum
- Taussig, Michael. My Cocaine Museum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Rarely in the course of history has human desire been driven to the extremes invoked by gold and cocaine. It is significant historically that nature found a home for both gold and cocaine, two commodities exempt from the...
- Articles 2007-04-01
- Suffering of the Impassible God: The Dialectics of Patristic Thought, The
- Paul Gavrilyuk. The Suffering of the Impassible God: The Dialectics of Patristic Thought. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. xii + 210 pp. $99.00 cloth; $35.00 paper. In this entry to the promising series Oxford Early Christian Studies Paul Gavrilyuk sets out to "debunk the Fall...
- Articles 2007-04-01
- Thomson, Keith. Before Darwin. Reconciling God and Nature.(Book review)
- THOMSON, Keith. Before Darwin. Reconciling God and Nature. Yale University Press, New Haven, 2005. xiv + 314 pp. Cloth, $ 25.00--The focus of Thomson's book is to trace out for the reader the dialectical debate in England on the question of our knowledge of nature and...
- Articles 2007-03-01
- The "Brecht effect": politics and American postwar art
- In the mid-to late-1960s, the New Left grew increasingly critical of the passive consumerism and individualist complacency that defined the liberalist climate of postwar America. Activists and intellectuals aimed to bring about a culture of participation and direct action. As the artists of the New Left sought to politicize art...
- Articles 2006-11-01
- The Unconditional.(Book review)
- Simon Jarvis, The Unconditional. London: Barque Press, 2005. 242pp. $35 It would defeat rhetoric to overstate the peculiarity of Simon Jarvis's book, The Unconditional: A Lyric; this must be among the most peculiar books ever published, up there with Raymond Roussel's...
- Articles 2006-09-22
- The relation of culture to history: a review of Marshall Sahlins's Apologies to Thucydides and William Sewell's Logics of History (1).(Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa)(Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation)(Book review)
- Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa. By Marshall Sahlins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 320 pages. Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation. Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning. By William H. Sewell, Jr. Chicago: University...
- Articles 2006-09-22
- Types of worlds: on relations between the Prague School and the theory of fictional worlds
- Any investigation into the ontological status of a literary work can result in two different ways of interpreting the work: on the one hand, it can be described as an imitation, as a spiritual reproduction of reality, as a fictional representation of the real world, or as a complexly hierarchized...
- Articles 2006-09-22
- Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century, The
- The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century, by James Howard Kunstler. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. 2005. Cloth, ISBN 0871138883, $23.00. 320 pages. Before writing this review I paused for a moment to reread the 1962 foreword to Clarence Ayres' The Theory of Economic Progress....
- Articles 2006-09-01
- Marx, Critical Theory, and Religion: A Critique of Rational Choice
- Marx, critical theory, and religion; a critique of rational choice. Ed. by Warren Goldstein. Brill Academic Publishers 2006 407 pages $134.00 Hardcover Studies in critical social sciences, v.6 BL60 Conceptually borrowing from...
- Articles 2006-08-01
- Idealism and Early-American Rhetoric
- 17th- and 18th-century philosophical separation of the reflecting mind from reality often resulted in a hostility towards rhetoric. However, this article demonstrates that American idealism yielded a rich conversation about rhetoric's place in the search for divine knowledge. Using Kenneth Burke's theory of attitudes' linguistic dialectical constitution, this article closely...
- Articles 2006-07-01
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