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The Emerson Effect: Individualism and Submission in America
ISBN: 9780226577005 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This book presents a revisionist account of Ralph Waldo Emerson's influential thought on individualism, in particular his political psychology.
Christopher Newfield analyzes the interplay of liberal and authoritarian impulses in Emerson's work in various domains: domestic life, the changing New England economy, theories of poetic language, homoerotic friendship, and racial hierarchy. Focusing on neglected later writings, Newfield shows how Emerson explored the tensions between autonomy and community and consistently resolved these tensions by "abandoning crucial elements of both" and... This book presents a revisionist account of Ralph Waldo Emerson's influential thought on individualism, in particular his political psychology.
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163,63 |
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Limits of the Numerical: The Abuses and Uses of Quantification
ISBN: 9780226817132 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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369,19 |
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Limits of the Numerical: The Abuses and Uses of Quantification
ISBN: 9780226817156 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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122,72 |
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Unmaking the Public University: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class
ISBN: 9780674060364 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) An essential American dream--equal access to higher education--was becoming a reality with the GI Bill and civil rights movements after World War II. But this vital American promise has been broken. Christopher Newfield argues that the financial and political crises of public universities are not the result of economic downturns or of ultimately valuable restructuring, but of a conservative campaign to end public education's democratizing influence on American society. Unmaking the Public University is the story of how conservatives have maligned and restructured public... An essential American dream--equal access to higher education--was becoming a reality with the GI Bill and civil rights movements after World War I... |
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136,23 |
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After Political Correctness: The Humanities and Society in the 1990s
ISBN: 9780367314408 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This book resituates the political correctness debates in the humanities branch of the academy. Contending that conservatives have tainted entire academic disciplines, causing university humanists to go from irrelevant to dangerous overnight, the contributors see the PC debates as a struggle over the very purposes of higher education in the United States. Ronald Strickland and Christopher Newfield have assembled the best and brightest from across the academic disciplines for disclosure on the future of higher education in light of PC.
This book resituates the political correctness debates in the humanities branch of the academy. Contending that conservatives have tainted entire acad...
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704,38 |
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The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them
ISBN: 9781421427034 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A powerful, hopeful critique of the unnecessary death spiral of higher education, The Great Mistake is essential reading for those who wonder why students have been paying more to get less and for everyone who cares about the role the higher education system plays in improving the lives of average Americans.
A powerful, hopeful critique of the unnecessary death spiral of higher education, The Great Mistake is essential reading for those who wonder why stud...
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161,77 |
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Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880-1980
ISBN: 9780822332015 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Emphasizing how profoundly the American research university has been shaped by business and the humanities alike, "Ivy and Industry" is a vital contribution to debates about the corporatization of higher education in the United States. Christopher Newfield traces major trends in the intellectual and institutional history of the research university from 1880 to 1980. He pays particular attention to the connections between the changing forms and demands of American business and the cultivation of a university-trained middle class. He contends that by imbuing its staff and students with...
Emphasizing how profoundly the American research university has been shaped by business and the humanities alike, "Ivy and Industry" is a vital contri...
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204,03 |
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Mapping Multiculturalism
ISBN: 9780816625475 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) What is multiculturalism? This collection offers critiques of the term and its uses. The contributors look at the current use of the rubric "multicultural" and offer analyses of complex relationships between popular culture, political events and intellectual trends.
What is multiculturalism? This collection offers critiques of the term and its uses. The contributors look at the current use of the rubric "multicult...
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106,83 |
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Metrics That Matter: Counting What's Really Important to College Students
ISBN: 9781421445731 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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107,38 |
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Cultural Critique and the Global Corporation
ISBN: 9780253221629 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This book examines the stories that corporations tell about themselves-and explores the powerful influence of corporations in the transformation of cultural and social life. Six case studies draw on CEO memoirs, annual reports, management manuals, advertising campaigns, and other sources to analyze the self-representations and rhetorical maneuvers that corporations use to obscure the full extent of their power. Images of corporate character and responsibility are intertwined with the changes in local economy, politics, and culture wrought by globalization and neoliberalism. The... This book examines the stories that corporations tell about themselves-and explores the powerful influence of corporations in the transformation of... |
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97,10 |
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After Political Correctness : The Humanities And Society In The 1990s
ISBN: 9780813323374 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This book resituates the political correctness debates in the humanities branch of the academy. Contending that conservatives have tainted entire academic disciplines, causing university humanists to go from irrelevant to dangerous overnight, the contributors see the PC debates as a struggle over the very purposes of higher education in the United States. Ronald Strickland and Christopher Newfield have assembled the best and brightest from across the academic disciplines for disclosure on the future of higher education in light of PC.
This book resituates the political correctness debates in the humanities branch of the academy. Contending that conservatives have tainted entire acad...
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223,41 |
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