Small Comforts for Hard Times : : Humanists on Public Policy /

Small Comforts for Hard Times : : Humanists on Public Policy / / 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.

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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
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword / Gutmann, James
  • Foreword
  • Introduction / Stuber, Florian
  • Justice and Human Equality
  • 1. Justice-Compensatory and Distributive / Dearie, Herbert A.
  • 2. Equality, Race, and Preferential Treatment / Freund, Paul A.
  • 3. The Costs of Equality / Nisbet, Robert A.
  • 4. The Costs of Inequality: In Response to Robert A. Nisbet / Gans, Herbert J.
  • 5. Justice, Equality, and the Economic System / Vickrey, William S.
  • 6. Equality and Fraternity: A Note on Subjective Realities / DeMott, Benjamin
  • Private Rights and the Public Good
  • 7. Private Rights and the Public Good / Frankel, Charles
  • 8. Public Rights and Private Interests: In Response to Charles Frankel / Arendt, Hannah
  • 9. On Privacy and Community / Capouya, Emilie
  • 10. Do Rocks Have Rights? Thoughts on Environmental Ethics / Nash, Roderick
  • Technology and the Ideal of Human Progress
  • 11. Living with Scarcity / Shinn, Roger L.
  • 12. The Technology of Life and Death / Gaylin, Willard
  • 13. Biomedical Progress and the Limits of Human Health / Callahan, Daniel
  • 14. Technology and the Structuring of Cities / Billington, Dauid P.
  • 15. The Aesthetics of Technology: In Response to David P. Billington / Salvadori, Mario G.
  • War and the Social Order
  • 16. On National Frontiers: Ethnic Homogeneity and Pluralism / McNeill, William H.
  • 17. The Lower Middle Class as Historical Problem / Mayer, Arno J.
  • 18. Reflections on War, Utopias, and Temporary Systems / Hansot, Elisabeth
  • Education and the Good Society
  • 19. The University and American Society / Pierson, George W.
  • 20. The University, Society, and the Critical Temper: In Response to George W. Pierson / Bary, Wm. Theodore de
  • 21. Some Questions in General Education Today / Marcus, Steven
  • 22. Some Inconsistent Educational Aims / O'Neill, Onora
  • 23. The Disestablished Humanities / Park, Rosemary
  • 24. A View from the Ivory Tower: In Response to Rosemary Park / Hanning, Robert W.
  • The Humanities and Public Policy
  • 25. A Philosophic Perspective / Edel, Abraham
  • Notes
  • Index

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