Author: Philippe DrakidisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 14
Book Description
Les vicissitudes de la faillite de fait
Author: Philippe DrakidisSocialism
Author: John Stuart MillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Socialism
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Dalīl Al-ṭabaqah Al-rāqiyah Bi-Miṣr Wa-al-Sharq Al-Adná
Author: The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets
Author: Benoit B. MandelbrotPublisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1847651550
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This international bestseller, which foreshadowed a market crash, explains why it could happen again if we don't act now. Fractal geometry is the mathematics of roughness: how to reduce the outline of a jagged leaf or static in a computer connection to a few simple mathematical properties. With his fractal tools, Mandelbrot has got to the bottom of how financial markets really work. He finds they have a shifting sense of time and wild behaviour that makes them volatile, dangerous - and beautiful. In his models, the complex gyrations of the FTSE 100 and exchange rates can be reduced to straightforward formulae that yield a much more accurate description of the risks involved.
Who's who in Egypt and the Middle East
Author: Elwyn James BlattnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Who's who in U.A.R. and the Near East
Author: OEuvres Complètes de H. de Balzac
Author: Honoré de BalzacNotebooks
Author: Paul ValéryPublisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
The Cahiers/Notebooks of Paul Valéry are a unique form of writing. They reveal Valéry as one of the most radical and creative minds of the twentieth century, encompassing a wide range of investigation into all spheres of human activity. His work explores the arts, the sciences, philosophy, history and politics, investigating linguistic, psychological and social issues, all linked to the central questions, relentlessly posed: 'what is the human mind and how does it work?', 'what is the potential of thought and what are its limits?' But we encounter here too, Valéry the writer: exploratory, fragmentary texts undermine the boundaries between analysis and creativity, between theory and practice. Neither journal nor diary, eluding the traditional genres of writing, the Notebooks offer lyrical passages, writing of extreme beauty, prose poems of extraordinary descriptive power alongside theoretical considerations of poetics, ironic aphorisms and the most abstract kind of analysis. The concerns and the insights that occupied Valéry's inner voyages over more than 50 years remain as relevant as ever for the contemporary reader: for the Self that is his principal subject is at once singular and universal.
Toward Liberty
Author: Friedrich August HayekPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Rogues
Author: Jacques DerridaPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804749510
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Rogues, published in France under the title Voyous, comprises two major lectures that Derrida delivered in 2002 investigating the foundations of the sovereignty of the nation-state. The term "État voyou" is the French equivalent of "rogue state," and it is this outlaw designation of certain countries by the leading global powers that Derrida rigorously and exhaustively examines. Derrida examines the history of the concept of sovereignty, engaging with the work of Bodin, Hobbes, Rousseau, Schmitt, and others. Against this background, he delineates his understanding of "democracy to come," which he distinguishes clearly from any kind of regulating ideal or teleological horizon. The idea that democracy will always remain in the future is not a temporal notion. Rather, the phrase would name the coming of the unforeseeable other, the structure of an event beyond calculation and program. Derrida thus aligns this understanding of democracy with the logic he has worked out elsewhere. But it is not just political philosophy that is brought under deconstructive scrutiny here: Derrida provides unflinching and hard-hitting assessments of current political realities, and these essays are highly engaged with events of the post-9/11 world.