New Practices of Inquiry Series NPI – serie
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Narrating the Organization
Dramas of Institutional Identity
Häftad, 1997
352 kr
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Investigating the intricacy of the organization, this work argues that it is necessary to gather local information about organizational life and subject it to abstract and metaphorical interpretation. Using a narrative approach, the author employs literary devices to uncover the workings of …
Chaos and Order
Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science
Häftad, 1991
299 kr
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The scientific discovery that chaotic systems embody deep structures of order is one of such wide-ranging implications that it has attracted attention across a spectrum of disciplines, including the humanities. In this volume, fourteen theorists explore the significance for literary and cultural …
Crafting Equality
America's Anglo-African Word
Av Celeste Michelle Condit, John Louis Lucaites
Häftad, 1993
368 kr
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Philosophers and historians often treat fundamental concepts like equality as if they existed only as fixed ideas found solely in the canonical texts of civilization. In Crafting Equality, Celeste Michelle Condit and John Louis Lucaites argue that the meaning of at least one key word—equality—has …
Planning as Persuasive Storytelling
The Rhetorical Construction of Chicago's Electric Future
Inbunden, 1996
1152 kr
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This is a look at the world of political conflict surrounding the Commonwealth Edison Company's ambitious nuclear power plant construction programme in northern Illinois during the 1980s. Examining the clash between the utility, consumer groups, community-based groups, the Illinois Commerce …
Planning as Persuasive Storytelling
The Rhetorical Construction of Chicago's Electric Future
Häftad, 1996
377 kr
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This is a look at the world of political conflict surrounding the Commonwealth Edison Company's ambitious nuclear power plant construction programme in northern Illinois during the 1980s. Examining the clash between the utility, consumer groups, community-based groups, the Illinois Commerce …
Liberalism and the Problem of Knowledge
A New Rhetoric for Modern Democracy
Inbunden, 1996
1011 kr
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In this study of democracy and its critics, the author debunks liberalism, arguing that its exaggerated ideals of authenticity, unity and community have deflected attention from the pervasive incompetence of "the rule of experts". He proposes a ground of communication that emphasizes common …
Liberalism and the Problem of Knowledge
A New Rhetoric for Modern Democracy
Häftad, 1996
350 kr
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In this study of democracy and its critics, the author debunks liberalism, arguing that its exaggerated ideals of authenticity, unity and community have deflected attention from the pervasive incompetence of "the rule of experts". He proposes a ground of communication that emphasizes common …
Crafting Equality
America's Anglo-African Word
Av Celeste Michelle Condit, John Louis Lucaites
Inbunden, 1993
1037 kr
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Philosophers and historians often treat fundamental concepts like equality as if they existed only as fixed ideas found solely in the canonical texts of civilization. In Crafting Equality, Celeste Michelle Condit and John Louis Lucaites argue that the meaning of at least one key word--equality--has …
Law of the Other
The Mixed Jury and Changing Conceptions of Citizenship, Law, and Knowledge
Inbunden, 1994
786 kr
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This is an account of the English doctrine of the "mixed jury". Constable's excavation of the historical, rhetorical and theoretical foundations of modern law recasts our legal and sociological understandings of the American jury and our contemporary conceptions of law, citizenship and truth. The …
Law of the Other
The Mixed Jury and Changing Conceptions of Citizenship, Law, and Knowledge
Häftad, 1994
315 kr
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The "mixed jury" doctrine allowed resident foreigners to have law suits against English natives tried before juries composed half of natives and half of aliens like themselves. As she traces the transformations in this doctrine from the Middle Ages to its abolition in 1870, Constable also reveals …
Narrating the Organization
Dramas of Institutional Identity
Inbunden, 1997
883 kr
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Investigating the intricacy of the organization, this work argues that it is necessary to gather local information about organizational life and subject it to abstract and metaphorical interpretation. Using a narrative approach, the author employs literary devices to uncover the workings of …
