Search Results - "dialectical"

Systems concepts in action a practitioner's toolkit / by Williams, Bob, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : about systems, thinking systemically, and being systemic -- Causal loop diagrams -- System dynamics -- Social network analysis -- Outcome mapping -- Process monitoring of impacts -- Strategic assumption surfacing and testing -- Strategic area assessment -- The CDE model -- Assumption-based planning -- Cynefin -- Solution focus -- Viable system model -- Cultural historical activity theory -- Soft systems methodology -- Dialectical methods of inquiry -- Scenario technique -- Systemic questioning -- Circular dialogues -- Critical systems heuristics.…”
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The parallax view by Žižek, Slavoj

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Contemporary southern identity community through controversy / by Watts, Rebecca Bridges, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: looking toward a new rhetoric of southern identity -- Uniforms, walls, and doors: social mystery and gender integration at the Virginia Military Institute -- When Richmond gained perspective by incongruity: Old South tradition and New South change in the confederate capitol -- Stories of the war: the confederate flag in South Carolina -- Senator Trent Lott: southern sinner, scapegoat, and sacrifice -- Conclusion: dialectical rhetoric as the new rhetoric of southern identity -- Notes -- References -- Index.…”
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Middle and modern English corpus linguistics a multi-dimensional approach /

Table of Contents: “…Middle and Modern English case studies -- pt. 4. Wright's English Dialect Dictionary and thereafter.…”
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Middle and modern English corpus linguistics a multi-dimensional approach /

Table of Contents: “…Middle and Modern English case studies -- pt. 4. Wright's English Dialect Dictionary and thereafter.…”
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Aporetics : rational deliberation in the face of inconsistency / by Rescher, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…The nature of apories -- Coherentism : an aporetic approach to empirical inquiry -- Counterfactual conditionals -- Variant analyses of counterfactuals and problems of probability -- The aporetics of counterfactual history -- Paradoxes -- Philosophical aporetics -- The dialectics of philosophical development -- The rationale of aporetic variation.…”
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Aporetics : rational deliberation in the face of inconsistency / by Rescher, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…The nature of apories -- Coherentism : an aporetic approach to empirical inquiry -- Counterfactual conditionals -- Variant analyses of counterfactuals and problems of probability -- The aporetics of counterfactual history -- Paradoxes -- Philosophical aporetics -- The dialectics of philosophical development -- The rationale of aporetic variation.…”
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No Spiritual Investment in the World : Gnosticism and Postwar German Philosophy / by Styfhals, Willem, 1988-

Table of Contents: “…Crisis : gnostic dualism in late modernity -- Eschaton : gnostic evil in history -- Subversion : heresy and its modern afterlives -- Nothingness : dialectics of religious nihilism -- Epoch : the gnostic age -- Theodicy : overcoming gnosticism, embracing the world…”
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No Spiritual Investment in the World : Gnosticism and Postwar German Philosophy / by Styfhals, Willem, 1988-

Table of Contents: “…Crisis : gnostic dualism in late modernity -- Eschaton : gnostic evil in history -- Subversion : heresy and its modern afterlives -- Nothingness : dialectics of religious nihilism -- Epoch : the gnostic age -- Theodicy : overcoming gnosticism, embracing the world…”
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Forró and redemptive regionalism from the Brazilian northeast popular music in a culture of migration / by Draper, Jack Alden, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…From symbol to allegory -- Saudade as diasporic affect -- The rural-urban negative dialectic -- Framing forró's perceptiveness -- The synthetic urge -- The synthetic urge and forró -- The "changing same" and redemptive regionalism in the evolving popular musical form of forró.…”
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Forró and redemptive regionalism from the Brazilian northeast popular music in a culture of migration / by Draper, Jack Alden, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…From symbol to allegory -- Saudade as diasporic affect -- The rural-urban negative dialectic -- Framing forró's perceptiveness -- The synthetic urge -- The synthetic urge and forró -- The "changing same" and redemptive regionalism in the evolving popular musical form of forró.…”
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In the shadow of phenomenology writings after Merleau-Ponty I / by Watson, Stephen H., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Pre-texts : language, perception and the cogito -- Merleau-Ponty/Sausssure -- The de-aestheticization of the work of art : on painting as a "secret science" -- Cancellations : a phenomenology between Hegel and Husserl and the remainder of the dialectic -- The possibility of a figured philosophy : on rehabilitating the sensible.…”
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In the shadow of phenomenology writings after Merleau-Ponty I / by Watson, Stephen H., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Pre-texts : language, perception and the cogito -- Merleau-Ponty/Sausssure -- The de-aestheticization of the work of art : on painting as a "secret science" -- Cancellations : a phenomenology between Hegel and Husserl and the remainder of the dialectic -- The possibility of a figured philosophy : on rehabilitating the sensible.…”
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Political theory methods and approaches /

Table of Contents: “…/ Iwao Hirose -- Recognition as fact and norm : the method of critique / Lois McNay -- Dialectical approaches / David Leopold -- Political theory and history / Mark Philp -- Using archival sources to theorize about politics / Sudhir Hazareesingh and Karma Nabulsi -- Political theory and the boundaries of politics / Elizabeth Frazer -- Thinking politically and thinking about politics : language, interpretation, and ideology / Michael Freeden.…”
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Reagan at Westminster foreshadowing the end of the Cold War / by Rowland, Robert C., 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Ronald Reagan's address to members of the British Parliament, June 8, 1982 -- Introduction -- Ronald Reagan and the evolution of Cold War rhetoric and policies -- The drafting of the Westminster address -- Democracy is not a fragile flower: ultimate definition and dialectical engagement at Westminster -- Reaction to the address -- The importance of Reagan at Westminster: democracy still needs cultivating.…”
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The flirt's tragedy desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction / by Kaye, Richard A., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Dialectical desires: the eighteenth-century coquette and the invention of nineteenth-century fictional character -- The flirtation of species: Darwinian sexual selection and Victorian narrative -- George Eliot and Thomas Hardy: flirtation, female choice and the revision of Darwinian belief -- Deadly deferrals: Henry James, Edith Wharton, Gustave Flaubert, and the exhaustion of flirtatious desire -- "Acceptable hints of infinity": dissident desires and the erotics of countermodernism.…”
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An inquiry into the philosophical foundations of the human sciences by Claassen, Alfred

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Sectoralism and the basic dimensions of the human -- The consummatory and instrumental -- Levels of reflexivity -- Id, ego, superid, and superego -- Community, association, supercommunity, and superassociation -- The ideal and real -- Individualism and collectivism -- Consciousness, character, space, and time -- The impasse of sectoralism -- Part II: Universalism and the complex dimensions of the human -- The rational universal -- Religion -- Ethics -- Individualism and collectivism in the universal -- Balancing the balancing mechanism -- Harmony and conflict -- Part III: The epistemics of the human sciences -- Dialectical historicism -- Phenomenology and method in the human sciences -- Aesthetics -- Overcoming skepticism and radical relativism -- Reunifying the human sciences under philosophy.…”
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Shouting, embracing, and dancing with ecstasy the growth of Methodism in Newfoundland, 1774-1874 / by Hollett, Calvin, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Newfoundland Methodism as social history -- Methodism and Newfoundland religion in the nineteenth century -- Dialectical tensions within Methodism -- Newfoundland Methodism and the question of distinctiveness -- Early Methodism in Conception Bay, St. …”
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Reagan at Westminster foreshadowing the end of the Cold War / by Rowland, Robert C., 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Ronald Reagan's address to members of the British Parliament, June 8, 1982 -- Introduction -- Ronald Reagan and the evolution of Cold War rhetoric and policies -- The drafting of the Westminster address -- Democracy is not a fragile flower: ultimate definition and dialectical engagement at Westminster -- Reaction to the address -- The importance of Reagan at Westminster: democracy still needs cultivating.…”
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The flirt's tragedy desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction / by Kaye, Richard A., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Dialectical desires: the eighteenth-century coquette and the invention of nineteenth-century fictional character -- The flirtation of species: Darwinian sexual selection and Victorian narrative -- George Eliot and Thomas Hardy: flirtation, female choice and the revision of Darwinian belief -- Deadly deferrals: Henry James, Edith Wharton, Gustave Flaubert, and the exhaustion of flirtatious desire -- "Acceptable hints of infinity": dissident desires and the erotics of countermodernism.…”
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