This title explores the seemingly unorthodox alliance of the arts, management and marketing. Using case studies of successful art managers, the author illustrates the creative role - so central to value-making in contemporary economies - performed by aesthetic play in art firms.
This text explores the complex relations among the hegemonic triad of territory, nation and national literature that has characterized the modern European nation-state. In the case of Hebrew literature, this triad was unattainable and its components fiercely contested.
This is a history of Taoism from approximately the 3rd century BC to the 14th century AD. Its aim is to trace the lines of its doctrinal evolution, the wide varieties of... Læs mere
WTF?! is an interactive tour of the world's weirdest social practices that uses economic thinking to reveal the solid logic behind their seeming senselessness.
At the intersection of metaphysics and social theory, this book presents and examines Adorno's unusual concept of possibility and aims to answer how we are to articulate the possibility of a redeemed life without lapsing into a vague and naive utopianism.
One of Italy's most original philosophers aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and power with the problem of political and social ethics in a context where the latter has lost its previous religious, metaphysical, and cultural grounding.
Examines the relationship between hope and knowledge by investigating how hope is produced in various forms of knowledge - Fijian,... Læs mere
Simple Habits for Complex Times teaches leaders three transformational practices that will enable them to thrive in the face of... Læs mere