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Thinking in an emergency Elaine Scarry

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Amnesty International global ethics seriesPublisher: New York London W.W. Norton 2011Edition: 1. edDescription: XV, 157 S. 22 cmContent type:
  • Text
Media type:
  • ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen
Carrier type:
  • Band
ISBN:
  • 9780393078985
  • 0393078981
  • 9780393340587
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.34/561 22
  • 363.34561
LOC classification:
  • JF256
Other classification:
  • 3,6
  • 89.50
  • 89.76
  • 88.19
Online resources:
Contents:
Summary: Discusses the global ethics of increased executive power by invoking the idea of an emergency and cites philosophers, neuroscientists, and artists to prove that thinking and taking fast action are compatible
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
single unit book single unit book HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – 1st floor – Library Room – Open Stacks R (Reference collection) R:JF256.S33 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 2023-1574

Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-141) and index. - The seduction to stop thinking -- Four models of emergency thinking. CPR ; Mutual aid contracts ; The Swiss shelter system ; The constitutional brake on war -- The place of habit in acts of thinking

The seduction to stop thinking -- Four models of emergency thinking. CPR ; Mutual aid contracts ; The Swiss shelter system ; The constitutional brake on war -- The place of habit in acts of thinking.

Discusses the global ethics of increased executive power by invoking the idea of an emergency and cites philosophers, neuroscientists, and artists to prove that thinking and taking fast action are compatible

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