Search Results - "Will Self"

Economic analysis of institutions : a practical guide / by Santhakumar, V

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Why institutional economics -- What is "wrong" with self-financing colleges? -- Should city governments administer public water supply? …”

Consequentialism and its critics /

Table of Contents: “…Scanlon -- Alienation, consequentialism, and the demands of morality / by Peter Railton -- Side constraints / by Robert Nozick -- Autonomy and deontology / by Thomas Nagel -- Is common-sense morality self-defeating? / by Derek Parfit -- Rights and agency / by Amartya Sen -- Utilitarianism and the virtues / by Philippa Foot -- Agency-centred restrictions, rationality, and the virtues / by Samuel Scheffler --The authority of the moral agent / by Conrad D. …”

Essays on modernism, democracy and well-being : a Gandhian perspective / by Roy, Ramashray, Ranjan, Ravi

Table of Contents: “…Transformation of Order : Two Examples -- Modernism and Democracy : Twin Props of the Autonomous Self -- Democracy : The Case of Moral Deficit -- Democracy : Myth and Reality -- Fault Line of Democracy -- Making Sense of Social Justice -- The Elusive Search for Community -- Back to the Roots -- Philosophical Background of Gandhi's Thinking -- Gandhi's Critique of Democracy -- Local Democracy : Jefferson and Gandhi -- Sarvata : Modern Man in Search of Wholeness.…”

In the beginning was the deed : realism and moralism in political argument / by Williams, Bernard, 1929-2003

Table of Contents: “…Humanitarianism and the right to intervene -- 13. Truth, politics, and self-deception.…”

The rise of the network society / by Castells, Manuel, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: the net and the self -- The information technology revolution -- The new economy: informationalism, globalization, networking -- The network enterprise: the culture, institutions, and organizations of the informational economy -- The transformation of work and employment: networkers, jobless, and flex-timers -- The culture of real virtuality: the integration of electronic communication, the end of the mass audience, and the rise of interactive networks -- The space of flows -- The egde of forever: timeless time -- Conclusion: the network society.…”
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India's founding moment : the constitution of a most surprising democracy / by Khosla, Madhav

Bangladesh and Pakistan : flirting with failure in South Asia / by Milam, William B.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The turning points -- The legacy of two bloody partitions -- Flawed leaders and failed democracies -- From military to civilian rule in Bangladesh -- From military to semi-military rule in Pakistan -- The Ershad military intervention -- Electoral democracy is not enough -- Electoral democracy revisits Pakistan, 1988-99 -- Pakistan's self-fulling prophecy: The military back in power -- Economic and social development and the NGOs -- Still on the brink after thirty-seven years -- Epilogue.…”

Crooked stalks : cultivating virtue in South India / by Pandian, Anand

Table of Contents: “…: on the proper violence of agrarian citizenship -- "The life of the thief leaves the belly always boiling" : on the nature and restraint of the criminal animal -- "Millets sown yield millets, evil sown yields evil" : on the moral returns of agrarian toil -- "Let the water for the paddy also irrigate the grass" : on the sympathies of an aqueous self.…”

Antiquity to modernity in tribal India.

Table of Contents: “…Dube (358 p.) -- v. 2. Tribal self-management in north-east India / edited by Bhupinder Singh (348 p.) -- v. 3. …”

Crown, church and constitution : popular conservatism in England, 1815-1867 / by Neuheiser, Jörg

Table of Contents: “…: paternalistic populism, self-improvement and gender.…”

The Indian family in transition : reading literary and cultural texts /

Table of Contents: “…Venugopal Rao -- Globalization and diasporic family dynamics : reconciling the old and the new / Mary Mathew -- Food, family, widowhood in Ashapurna Devi's short fiction / Naina Dey -- The self and the family in Telugu women's poetry / M. …”
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Consciousness quest : where East meets West : on mind, meditation, and neural correlates / by Das, J. P. (Jagannath Prasad)

Table of Contents: “…Ramakrishna Rao -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Concept of consciousness and Indian theories of mind -- Cognition, neuropsychology, and consciousness -- Experience of consciousness : eastern phenomenology -- Explanations from neuroscience -- Consciousness and meditation : at the intersection of eastern traditions -- And neuroscience -- Foundations of mindfulness -- Interpretations of mindfulness -- A comparison of two cognitive processing models : the Abhidhamma and PASS -- Contemporary western research : from Julian Jaynes to Eckhart Tolle -- Talking about consciousness, self-knowledge, access, and sentience -- Materialism and behaviorism in eastern philosophy and western psychology -- Material basis of consciousness -- Origin and uses of consciousness : in the beginning is its end -- Hard problems : legacy of ancient times -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author.…”

Cultural theory : an introduction / by Smith, Philip (Philip Daniel), 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Culture in classical social theory -- Culture and social integration in the work of Talcott Parsons -- Culture as ideology in western marxism -- Culture as action in symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, and ethnomethodology -- The Durkheimians : ritual, classification, and the sacred -- Structuralism and the semiotic analysis of culture -- The poststructural turn -- Culture, structure, and agency : three attempts at synthesis -- British cultural studies -- The production and reception of culture -- Culture as text : narrative and hermeneutics -- Psychoanalytic approaches to culture and the self -- The cultural analysis of postmodernism and postmodernity -- Postmodern and poststructural critical theory -- Cultural theories of race and gender -- The body in cultural theory.…”
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The voyage out / by Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941

Democracy in a global world : human rights and political participation in the 21st century /

Table of Contents: “…Gould -- Human rights, capabilities, and democratic accommodation -- Relativism, self-determination, and human rights / James Nickel and David Reidy -- Constitutions and capabilities / Martha C. …”
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India : political ideas and the making of a democratic discourse / by Mahajan, Gurpreet

Dalit studies /

Table of Contents: “…Sanal Mohan -- Dilemmas of Dalit agendas: political subjugation and self-emancipation in Telugu Country, 1910-50 / Chinnaiah Jangam -- Making sense of Dalit sikh history / Raj Kumar Hans -- Probing the present -- The Dalit reconfiguration of modernity: citizens and castes in the Telugu public sphere / K. …”

Autonomy : beyond Kant and hermeneutics /

Table of Contents: “…Editorial introduction / by Paula Banerjee and Samir Kumar Das -- Section I: Positions -- Culture and contrasting views on the individual, autonomy and mortality with special reference to India / Jan Brouwer -- Property of the self, individual autonomy, and the modern european discourse of citizenship / Sandro Mezzadra -- Beyond the hermeneutics of autonomy / Ranabir Samaddar -- The slow emergence of British women as autonomous subjects / Martine Spensky -- Autonomy or deliberative governance? …”

Malarial subjects : empire, medicine and nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909 / by Deb Roy, Rohan

Table of Contents: “…And yet, it was not a self-contained category. The reconsolidation of malaria as a diagnostic category during this period happened within a wider context in which cinchona plants and their most valuable extract, quinine, were reinforced as objects of natural knowledge and social control. …”

Feminist interpretations of Benedict Spinoza /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Through Spinoza's "looking glass" / Moira Gatens -- Dominance and difference : a Spinozistic alternative to the distinction between "sex" and "gender" / Genevieve Lloyd -- Autonomy and the relational individual : Spinoza and feminism / Aurelia Armstrong -- Spinoza on the pathos of idolatrous love and the hilarity of true love / Amelie Rorty -- Spinoza and sexuality / Alexandre Matheron -- Reason, sexuality, and the self in Spinoza / David West -- What Spinoza can teach us about embodying and naturalizing ethics / Heidi Morrison Ravven -- Adam and the serpent : everyman and the imagination / Paola Grassi -- The envelope : a reading of Spinoza's ethics, "of God" / Luce Irigaray -- Re-reading Irigaray's Spinoza / Sarah Donovan -- The politics of the imagination / Moira Gatens -- Law and sovereignty in Spinoza's politics / Susan James.…”