Bureaucratic Fanatics

Author : Benjamin Lewis Robinson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110606041

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Bureaucratic Fanatics by Benjamin Lewis Robinson Pdf

Is justice only achievable by means of bureaucratization or might it first arrive with the end of bureaucracy? Bureaucratic Fanatics shows how this ever more contentious question in contemporary politics belongs to the political-theological underpinnings of bureaucratization itself. At the end of the 18th century, a new and paradoxical kind of fanaticism emerged - rational fanaticism - that propelled the intensive biopolitical management of everyday life in Europe and North America as well as the extensive colonial exploitation of the earth and its peoples. These excesses of bureaucratization incited in turn increasingly fanatical forms of resistance. And they inspired literary production that provocatively presented the outrageous contours of rationalization. Combining political theory with readings of Kleist, Melville, Conrad, and Kafka, this genealogy of bureaucratic fanaticism relates two extreme figures: fanatical bureaucrats driven to the ends of the earth and to the limits of humanity by the rationality of the apparatuses they serve; and peculiar fanatics who passionately, albeit seemingly passively, resist the encroachments of bureaucratization.

Author : E. Mark Hanson
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Education
ISBN : 0817982639

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Educational Reform and Administrative Development: The Cases of Colombia and Venezuela by E. Mark Hanson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023330686

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The Westminster Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : sir John Bowring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555023786

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The Westminster review [afterw.] The London and Westminster review [afterw.] The Westminster review [afterw.] The Westminster and foreign quarterly review [afterw.] The Westminster review [ed. by sir J. Bowring and other]. by sir John Bowring Pdf

Author : Masaomi Kobayashi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031126888

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The Multiverse of Office Fiction by Masaomi Kobayashi Pdf

The Multiverse of Office Fiction liberates Herman Melville’s 1853 classic, “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” from a microcosm of Melville studies, namely the so-called Bartleby Industry. This book aims to illuminate office fiction—fiction featuring office workers such as clerks, civil servants, and company employees—as an underexplored genre of fiction, by addressing relevant issues such as evolution of office work, integration of work and life, exploitation of women office workers, and representation of the Post Office. In achieving this goal, Bartleby plays an essential role not as one of the most eccentric characters in literary fiction, but rather as one of the most generic characters in office fiction. Overall, this book demonstrates that Bartleby is a generative figure, by incorporating a wide diversity of his cousins as Bartlebys. It offers fresh contexts in which to place these characters so that it can ultimately contribute to an ever-evolving poetics of the office.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z18196500X

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The Foreign Quarterly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015057097316

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Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Arthur Feiler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351618946

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The Experiment of Bolshevism by Arthur Feiler Pdf

This book, originally published in English in 1930 is a vivid account of the life and problems of Russia in the first decades of the twentieth century. The typical features of existence in the proletarian state are discussed in connection with an exhaustive analysis of the whole experiment of Bolshevism and the developments of economic policy are clearly explained and discussed.

Author : Leo Townsend,Ruth Rebecca Tietjen,Hans Bernhard Schmid,Michael Staudigl
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000614251

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The Philosophy of Fanaticism by Leo Townsend,Ruth Rebecca Tietjen,Hans Bernhard Schmid,Michael Staudigl Pdf

The essays in this volume explore some of the disconcerting realities of fanaticism, by analyzing its unique dynamics, and considering how it can be productively confronted. The book features both analytic and continental philosophical approaches to fanaticism. Working at the intersections of epistemology, philosophy of emotions, political philosophy, and philosophy of religion, the contributors address a range of questions related to this increasingly relevant, yet widely neglected topic. What are the distinctive features of fanaticism? What are its causes, motivations, and reasons? In what ways, if at all, is fanaticism epistemically, ethically, and politically problematic? And how can fanaticism be combatted or curtailed? The Philosophy of Fanaticism will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in epistemology, philosophy of religion, philosophy of emotions, moral psychology, and political philosophy.

Author : James Bovill
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781035823871

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Old Crow by James Bovill Pdf

Your father, an obnoxious vagabond, who left you thirty years ago for the free life of a sailor with no responsibilities, comes back into your life unannounced, saying he wants a chance to make amends and achieve reconciliation, both with you and with your younger brother who is now living in New York. But your father begins to settle in with you, and he shows no sign of leaving. A terrible truth emerges: he has returned to torment you. If he does not leave forever, you will be destroyed. What do you do?

Author : Francesco Giusti,Benjamin Lewis Robinson
Publisher : ICI Berlin Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783965580114

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The Work of World Literature by Francesco Giusti,Benjamin Lewis Robinson Pdf

The contentious discourse around world literature tends to stress the ‘world’ in the phrase. This volume, in contrast, asks what it means to approach world literature by inflecting the question of the literary. Debates for, against, and around ‘world literature’ have brought renewed attention to the worldly aspects of the literary enterprise. Literature is studied with regard to its sociopolitical and cultural references, contexts and conditions of production, circulation, distribution, and translation. But what becomes of the literary when one speaks of world literature? Responding to Derek Attridge’s theory of how literature ‘works’, the contributions in this volume explore in diverse ways and with attention to a variety of literary practices what it might mean to speak of ‘the work of world literature’. The volume shows how attention to literariness complicates the ethical and political conundrums at the centre of debates about world literature.

Author : Stefan Berger
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781405152327

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A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Europe, 1789 - 1914 by Stefan Berger Pdf

This Companion provides an overview of European history during the 'long' nineteenth century, from 1789 to 1914. Consists of 32 chapters written by leading international scholars Balances coverage of political, diplomatic and international history with discussion of economic, social and cultural concerns Covers both Eastern and Western European states, including Britain Pays considerable attention to smaller countries as well as to the great powers Compares particular phenomena and developments across Europe

Author : Nathanaël Wallenhorst,Christoph Wulf
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1595 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031259104

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Handbook of the Anthropocene by Nathanaël Wallenhorst,Christoph Wulf Pdf

This Handbook is a collection of contributions of more than 300 researchers who have worked to grasp the Anthropocene, this new geological epoch characterised by a modification of the conditions of habitability of the Earth for all living things, in its biogeophysical and socio-political reality. These researchers also sought to define a historical and prospective anthropology that integrates social, economic, cultural and political issues as well as, of course, environmental ones. What are the anthropological changes needed to ensure that our human adventure will be able to continue in the Anthropocene? And what are the educational and political issues involved? Anthropocene is fast becoming a widely-used term, but thus far, there been no reference work explaining the thoughts of the greatest experts of the present day on this subject (at the intersection of biogeophysical and socio-political knowledge). A scientific and political concept (but which is also the conceptual vehicle for conveying the scientific community's sense of concern), this complex term is explained by international experts as they reflect on scientific arguments taking place in earth system science, the social sciences and the humanities. What these researchers from different disciplines have in common is a healthy concern for the future and how to prepare for it in the Anthropocene and also the identification of possible anthropological changes. This Handbook encourages readers to immerse themselves in reflections on the human adventure through descriptions of our differing heritages and the future that is in the process of being written.

Author : J S Chandan
Publisher : Vikas Publishing House
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8125916091

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Organizational Behaviour - Third Edition by J S Chandan Pdf

The Book Is Addressed To A Wide Readership. It Is Useful For The Students Of Management, Human Resource Management, Organizational Behaviour, And For Those In The Field Of Behavioural Sciences. It Is Equally Useful For The Management Practitioners Who Wan

Author : Vassili Schedrin
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814340431

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Jewish Souls, Bureaucratic Minds by Vassili Schedrin Pdf

Jewish Souls, Bureaucratic Minds examines the phenomenon of Jewish bureaucracy in the Russian empire—its institutions, personnel, and policies—from 1850 to 1917. In particular, it focuses on the institution of expert Jews, mid-level Jewish bureaucrats who served the Russian state both in the Pale of Settlement and in the central offices of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg. The main contribution of expert Jews was in the sphere of policymaking and implementation. Unlike the traditional intercession of shtadlanim (Jewish lobbyists) in the high courts of power, expert Jews employed highly routinized bureaucratic procedures, including daily communications with both provincial and central bureaucracies. Vassili Schedrin illustrates how, at the local level, expert Jews advised the state, negotiated power, influenced decisionmaking, and shaped Russian state policy toward the Jews. Schedrin sheds light on the complex interactions between the Russian state, modern Jewish elites, and Jewish communities. Based on extensive new archival data from the former Soviet archives, this book opens a window into the secluded world of Russian bureaucracy where Jews shared policymaking and administrative tasks with their Russian colleagues. The new sources show these Russian Jewish bureaucrats to be full and competent participants in official Russian politics. This book builds upon the work of the original Russian Jewish historians and recent historiographical developments, and seeks to expose and analyze the broader motivations behind official Jewish policy, which were based on the political vision and policymaking contributions of Russian Jewish bureaucrats. Scholars and advanced students of Russian and Jewish history will find Jewish Souls, Bureaucratic Minds to be an important tool in their research.