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Prescriptions
The Dissemination of Medical Authority
Av Gayle Ormiston, Raphael Sassower m. fl.
Inbunden, 1990
880 kr
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The essays brought together in this volume are the product of a University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colloquium on Science, Technology, and Society devoted to foundations of health care practices. Prescriptions contributes to the philosophy of medicine by redefining, redrawing, and resetting …
Religion and Sports in American Culture
Av Jeffrey Scholes, Raphael Sassower
Inbunden, 2013
2512 kr
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Religion and Sports in American Culture explores the relationship between religion and modern sports in America. Whether found in the religious purpose of ancient Olympic Games, in curses believed to plague the Chicago Cubs, or in the figure of Tim Tebow, religion and sports have been and are still …
Religion and Sports in American Culture
Av Jeffrey Scholes, Raphael Sassower
Häftad, 2013
764 kr
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Religion and Sports in American Culture explores the relationship between religion and modern sports in America. Whether found in the religious purpose of ancient Olympic Games, in curses believed to plague the Chicago Cubs, or in the figure of Tim Tebow, religion and sports have been and are still …
Cultural Collisions
Postmodern Technoscience
Häftad, 1995
803 kr
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In Cultural Collisions Raphael Sassower brings postmodernism face to face with technoscience and considers the viability of public works, such as the Superconducting Supercollider, in a postmodern age. Contending that technoscientific projects are contingent upon economic and political support, and …
Confronting Disaster
An Existential Approach to Technoscience
Häftad, 2004
530 kr
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Contemporary society is rife with instability. Our active and invasive study of genetics has given life to one of the great specters of biological science: the clone. The scarcity of natural energy sources has led to an increased manipulation of atomic or nuclear energy and regressive environmental …
Political Blind Spots
Reading the Ideology of Images
Av Raphael Sassower, Louis Cicotello
Häftad, 2006
558 kr
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In order to better understand the conditions of the twenty-first century Raphael Sassower and Louis Cicotello revisit the twentieth century in Political Blind Spots: Reading the Ideology of Images. Sassower and Cicotello revisit some of the most significant periods in art and politics in the …
War Images
Fabricating Reality
Av Raphael Sassower, Louis Cicotello
Häftad, 2010
600 kr
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In this book, the authors explore images of war and their effect on society. The authors keep in mind that the experience of being at war is much different from the experience of viewing a war image. Thus it is our responsibility to engage war images critically and personally, because lives are at …
Solo
Postmodern Explorations
Häftad, 2011
735 kr
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Solo: Postmodern Explorations provides a postmodern approach to technoscience and economics. Sassower pulls together postmodern motifs and attitudes with his own experience to provide a unique perspective on political history and economics. Solo raises the question of whether it is possible to be …
Knowledge Without Expertise
On the Status of Scientists
Inbunden, 1993
1515 kr
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This book critically examines the reliance of society on experts, specifically attacking the notion of the privilege of scientific expertise and defining the politics of this intellectual discourse. The extensive case material illustrates the consequences of claims of expert knowledge. Sassower …
Golden Avant-garde
Idolatry, Commercialism and Art
Av Raphael Sassower, Louis Cicotello
Inbunden, 2000
807 kr
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Since the 18th century, artists have played a conflicting role in society. Part of the reason for this, argues this analysis, is the survival of the culture of idolatry in the modern age. They can either paint scenes of worship of the golden calf or they can fabricate the idol themselves.
Golden Avant-garde
Idolatry, Commercialism and Art
Av Raphael Sassower, Louis Cicotello
Häftad, 2000
502 kr
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Since the 18th century, artists have played a conflicting role in society. Part of the reason for this, argues this analysis, is the survival of the culture of idolatry in the modern age. They can either paint scenes of worship of the golden calf or they can fabricate the idol themselves.
Narrative Experiments
The Discursive Authority of Science and Technology
Av Gayle L. Ormiston, Raphael Sassower
Häftad, 1989
445 kr
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Narrative Experiments was first published in 1989. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.In Narrative Experiments, Gayle Ormiston and Ralph …
Sanctuary of Their Own
Intellectual Refugees in the Academy
Häftad, 2000
528 kr
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What is at stake in compromising the Enlightenment ideals of a liberal education with new educational policies engendered by a neo-liberalized, global marketplace? Richly grounding his arguments in the social philosophy of European and American intellectuals, Raphael Sassower explores Western …
Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation
Inbunden, 2025
2586 kr
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Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation proffers three perspectives on the plantation slave economy of the Antebellum South. The first explores the paternal function as exemplified in the structural authority of the lord of the manor both symbolically and operationally. This …
Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation
Häftad, 2026
706 kr
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Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation proffers three perspectives on the plantation slave economy of the Antebellum South. The first explores the paternal function as exemplified in the structural authority of the lord of the manor both symbolically and operationally. This …
Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation
E-bok, 2025
856 kr
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Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation proffers three perspectives on the plantation slave economy of the Antebellum South. The first explores the paternal function as exemplified in the structural authority of the lord of the manor both symbolically and operationally. This …
Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation
E-bok, 2025
838 kr
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Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation proffers three perspectives on the plantation slave economy of the Antebellum South. The first explores the paternal function as exemplified in the structural authority of the lord of the manor both symbolically and operationally. This …
Religion and Sports in American Culture
Av Raphael Sassower, Jeffrey Scholes
E-bok, 2014
901 kr
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Religion and Sports in American Culture explores the relationship between religion and modern sports in America. Whether found in the religious purpose of ancient Olympic Games, in curses believed to plague the Chicago Cubs, or in the figure of Tim Tebow, religion and sports have been and are still …
Religion and Sports in American Culture
Av Raphael Sassower, Jeffrey Scholes
E-bok, 2014
901 kr
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Religion and Sports in American Culture explores the relationship between religion and modern sports in America. Whether found in the religious purpose of ancient Olympic Games, in curses believed to plague the Chicago Cubs, or in the figure of Tim Tebow, religion and sports have been and are still …
Cultural Collisions
Postmodern Technoscience
E-bok, 2013
745 kr
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In Cultural Collisions Raphael Sassower brings postmodernism face to face with technoscience and considers the viability of public works, such as the Superconducting Supercollider, in a postmodern age. Contending that technoscientific projects are contingent upon economic and political support, and …
Cultural Collisions
Postmodern Technoscience
E-bok, 2013
729 kr
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In Cultural Collisions Raphael Sassower brings postmodernism face to face with technoscience and considers the viability of public works, such as the Superconducting Supercollider, in a postmodern age. Contending that technoscientific projects are contingent upon economic and political support, and …
Postcapitalism
Moving Beyond Ideology in America''s Economic Crisis
E-bok, 2015
814 kr
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Debates over the role of government have intensified in the wake of America''s deepest financial crisis since the Depression. This book suggests new ways of moving forward based on the policies and principles that have worked in the past. Sassower shows how American pragmatism has guided the more …
Postcapitalism
Moving Beyond Ideology in America''s Economic Crisis
E-bok, 2015
814 kr
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Debates over the role of government have intensified in the wake of America''s deepest financial crisis since the Depression. This book suggests new ways of moving forward based on the policies and principles that have worked in the past. Sassower shows how American pragmatism has guided the more …
Ethical Choices in Contemporary Medicine
Integrative Bioethics
Av Raphael Sassower, Mary Ann Gardell Cutter
E-bok, 2014
745 kr
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"Ethical Choices in Contemporary Medicine" jettisons the standard medical ethics models of "rights" language and shows how the bioethical problems that receive attention from the media and the public are related to and are explicable in terms of the epistemological foundations of science and …
Ethical Choices in Contemporary Medicine
Integrative Bioethics
Av Raphael Sassower, Mary Ann Gardell Cutter
E-bok, 2014
745 kr
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"Ethical Choices in Contemporary Medicine" jettisons the standard medical ethics models of "rights" language and shows how the bioethical problems that receive attention from the media and the public are related to and are explicable in terms of the epistemological foundations of science and …
Popper's Legacy
Rethinking Politics, Economics and Science
E-bok, 2014
901 kr
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The work of Karl Popper has had extraordinary influence across the fields of scientific and social thought. Widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the twentieth century, he was also a highly influential social and political philosopher, a proponent and defender of the …
Popper's Legacy
Rethinking Politics, Economics and Science
E-bok, 2014
901 kr
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The work of Karl Popper has had extraordinary influence across the fields of scientific and social thought. Widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the twentieth century, he was also a highly influential social and political philosopher, a proponent and defender of the …
Postcapitalism
Moving Beyond Ideology in America's Economic Crisis
Inbunden, 2009
3919 kr
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Debates over the role of government have intensified in the wake of America's deepest financial crisis since the Depression. This book suggests new ways of moving forward based on the policies and principles that have worked in the past. Sassower shows how American pragmatism has guided the more …
Postcapitalism
Moving Beyond Ideology in America's Economic Crisis
Häftad, 2009
714 kr
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Debates over the role of government have intensified in the wake of America's deepest financial crisis since the Depression. This book suggests new ways of moving forward based on the policies and principles that have worked in the past. Sassower shows how American pragmatism has guided the more …
Quest for Prosperity
Reframing Political Economy
Inbunden, 2017
1905 kr
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Envisioning a different mode of economic relations requires a rethinking of the classical frames of references we commonly take for granted. The implicit assumptions that we carry into critical debates are the stumbling blocks for finding useful solutions to age-old economic problems. And these …
