Author: James Couch
Publisher: IUniverse
Keywords: contingency, chrysanthemum
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2003-06-25
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 059528048X
ISBN-13: 9780595280483

The Chrysanthemum Contingency As the U.S. expends its major international efforts on its war against worldwide terrorism, the United States’ apparent interest regarding East Asia is at an historic low ebb. Into this power vacuum come China and Japan, each quietly and relentlessly pursuing their own individual goals aimed at controlling the region. Several American foreign correspondents stationed in Tokyo become entangled in a critical revelation of secret negotiations between the two Asian powers that would, if successful, result in the exit of U.S. influence in the area and a danger

Author: Richard Rorty
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: solidarity, irony, contingency
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1989-02-24
List price: $30.99
ISBN-10: 0521367816
ISBN-13: 9780521367813

In this book, major American philosopher Richard Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as expressions of underlying, ahistorical human nature, or as realizations of suprahistorical goals. This ironic perspective on the human condition is valuable but it cannot advance Liberalism’s social and political goals. In fact, Rorty believes that it is literature and not philosophy that can do this, by promoting a genuine sense of human solidarity. Specifically, it is novelists such as

Author: Dr. Lex Donaldson
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: organizational, science, foundations, organizations, theory, contingency
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2001-02-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0761915745
ISBN-13: 9780761915744

Written by one of the foremost scholars in the field, this volume presents a comprehensive, in-depth analysis of the theories, evidence and methodological issues of contingency theory - one of the major theoretical lenses used to view organizations. It includes both an appreciation of the coherency of contingency theory overall and a frank recognition of some of the deficiencies in contingency theory research. The coherent underlying model provides the platform from which to make good some of the deficiencies through a series of improvements in theory and method that chart the course for fu

Author: Jeremy Robinson
Publisher: Breakneck Books
Keywords: thriller, travel, time, contingency, didymus
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2007-02-12
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0978655168
ISBN-13: 9780978655167

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, AND WITNESS ANY EVENT, WHERE WOULD YOU GO? When Dr. Tom Greenbaum faces that question after successfully discovering the secret to time travel, he knows the time, place and event he will witness: the death and failed resurrection of Jesus Christ. Dr. David Goodman, Tom’s colleague and closest friend follows Tom into the past, attempting to avert a time-space catastrophe, but forces beyond their control toss them into a dangerous end game where they are tempted by evil characters, betrayed by friends, pursued by an assassin from the future and haunted by a de

Authors:Quentin Meillassoux,  Ray Brassier,
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: contingency, necessity, essay, finitude
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 2010-01-05
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1441173838
ISBN-13: 9781441173836

This book is now available for the first time in paperback, the remarkable debut of a former student of Alain Badiou. Quentin Meillassoux, a former student of Alain Badiou, is considered to be one of the most talented and exciting new voices in contemporary French philosophy. Quentin Meillassoux’s remarkable debut makes a strikingly original contribution to contemporary French philosophy and is set to have a significant impact on the future of Continental philosophy. Written in a style that marries great clarity of expression with argumentative rigour, "After Finitude" provides bold read

Author: Mary Ann Doane
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: contingency, archive, modernity, time, cinematic, emergence
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-12-27
List price: $80.50
ISBN-10: 0674007298
ISBN-13: 9780674007291

Hailed as the permanent record of fleeting moments, the cinema emerged at the turn of the nineteenth century as an unprecedented means of capturing time--and this at a moment when disciplines from physics to philosophy, and historical trends from industrialization to the expansion of capitalism, were transforming the very idea of time. In a work that itself captures and reconfigures the passing moments of art, history, and philosophy, Mary Ann Doane shows how the cinema, representing the singular instant of chance and ephemerality in the face of the increasing rationalization and standardizati

Author: Gerd-Rainer Hor
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: activism, contingency, 1930s, ideology, fascism, socialists, respond, european
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1996-11-21
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0195093747
ISBN-13: 9780195093742

Triggered into action by the shock effect of the Nazi rise to power in Germany, socialists throughout Western Europe entered an unusually active period of reorientation and debate over political strategy which helped determine the contours of European politics up to the outbreak of World War II and beyond. Stressing the transnational dimension of this process while simultaneously integrating local, regional, and national factors and focusses, this work finds that it was social democracy, rather than communism, that acted as the primary vehicle for radical change among European socialists durin