stanford university press apr 1996 (6 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This collection of fifteen essays presents the views of some of the world's most distinguished economists on what is emerging as the central topic of the twenty-first century: long-term economic growth.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book reexamines the historical thinking of Liang Qichao (1873-1929), one of the few modern Chinese thinkers and cultural critics whose appreciation of the question of modernity was based on first-hand experience of the world space in which China had to function as a nation-state. It seeks to demonstrate that Liang was not only a profoundly paradigmatic modern Chinese intellectual but also an imaginative thinker of worldwide significance. By tracing the changes in Liang's conception of history, the author shows that global space inspired both Liang's longing for modernity and his critical reconceptualization of modern history. Spatiality, or the mode of determining spatial organization and relationships, offers a new interpretive category for understanding the stages in Liang's historical thinking.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This innovative work provides both a historical account of the crazy-quilt of legislation dealing with immigration that Congress has passed over the years and a theoretical explanation, building on the 'new institutionalism,' of how these laws came to be passed. The author shows why immigration is a uniquely revealing policy arena in which a polity chooses what it will be, a collective decision that shapes a nation's identity and defines itself. The book focuses on three aspects of immigration policy: the regulation of admission to the United States for permanent residency, the regulation of admission of people fleeing political repression, and the efforts to cope with the flow of unsanctioned migrants across the U.S.-Mexico border. It identifies the most puzzling features of contemporary immigration policy, asking, Where do these policies come from Why do they have their special characteristics The author seeks the answers in modern theories of public policy formation, especially the currently popular new institutionalism. He offers an enhanced version of this approach, which he calls 'improvisational institutionalism,' and applies it to the paradoxes of immigration policy.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume brings together the work of leading American, British, and Dutch scholars who present a series of interpretive case studies on a wide variety of political, economic, religious, and cultural issues surrounding the 'Glorious Revolution'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The title of this work derives from Costa-Lima's reading of what is probably the most famous passage in Kant's Third Critique. In Kant's thesis that the results of aesthetic judgment are 'generally communicable but without the mediation of a concept', Costa-Lima discovers the necessity to identify and underscore a silence. This silence - these 'limits of voice' - becomes the complex metonymy for the central theme of this book, literary experience as a case of aesthetic experience. In pursuing this theme, Costa-Lima views aesthetic and literary experience as a historically limited potentiality and examines the limits of aesthetic experience, which comes from its dependence on contextual requirements. The concern about 'limits of voice' is developed on three different levels. First, Costa-Lima focuses, as a historical and systematic condition for aesthetic and literary experience, on subjectivity as the subject's right to speak in his/her own name. Second, he argues that, although historical modes of speaking and experiencing were inscribed into and legitimized by cosmological constructions, subjectivity requires the existence of a context no longer grounded in cosmology, which he refers to as 'the Law'. Third, he postulates the double dependence of literary and aesthetic experience on the emergence of subjectivity and the existence of 'the Law' as its enabling and limiting frame condition. This book answers a challenge that has persisted in literary theory and literary history for almost two decades - how to historicize the concept of literature.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This collection of fifteen essays presents the views of some of the world's most distinguished economists on what is emerging as the central topic of the twenty-first century: long-term economic growth.