Small Comforts for Hard Times : : Humanists on Public Policy / / Florian Stuber, Michael Mooney.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• TeilnehmendeR: Gutmann, James.; Mooney, Michael,; Stuber, Florian,; Stuber, Florian.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1977]; ©1977
• Year of Publication: 1977
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword /; Foreword --; Introduction /; Justice and Human Equality --; 1. Justice-Compensatory and Distributive /; 2. Equality, Race, and Preferential Treatment /; 3. The Costs of Equality /; 4. The Costs of Inequality: In Response to Robert A. Nisbet /; 5. Justice, Equality, and the Economic System /; 6. Equality and Fraternity: A Note on Subjective Realities /; Private Rights and the Public Good --; 7. Private Rights and the Public Good /; 8. Public Rights and Private Interests: In Response to Charles Frankel /; 9. On Privacy and Community /; 10. Do Rocks Have Rights? Thoughts on Environmental Ethics /; Technology and the Ideal of Human Progress --; 11. Living with Scarcity /; 12. The Technology of Life and Death /; 13. Biomedical Progress and the Limits of Human Health /; 14. Technology and the Structuring of Cities /; 15. The Aesthetics of Technology: In Response to David P. Billington /; War and the Social Order --; 16. On National Frontiers: Ethnic Homogeneity and Pluralism /; 17. The Lower Middle Class as Historical Problem /; 18. Reflections on War, Utopias, and Temporary Systems /; Education and the Good Society --; 19. The University and American Society /; 20. The University, Society, and the Critical Temper: In Response to George W. Pierson /; 21. Some Questions in General Education Today /; 22. Some Inconsistent Educational Aims /; 23. The Disestablished Humanities /; 24. A View from the Ivory Tower: In Response to Rosemary Park /; The Humanities and Public Policy --; 25. A Philosophic Perspective /; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231890656; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/moon92826
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Florian Stuber, Michael Mooney.

Presents twenty-five papers written by different professionals from historians, philosophers, legal experts, political scientists, civil engineers to examine the aesthetics of technology and science.