Author: Patrick Baert File Type: pdf Social scientists often refer to contemporary advanced societies as knowledge societies, which indicates the extent to which science, knowledge and knowledge production have become fundamental phenomena in Western societies and central concerns for the social sciences. This book aims to investigate the political dimension of this production and validation of knowledge. In studying the relationship between knowledge and politics, this book provides a novel perspective on current debates about knowledge societies, and offers an interdisciplinary agenda for future research. It addresses four fundamental aspects of the relation between knowledge and politics the ways in which the nature of the knowledge we produce affects the nature of political activity how the production of knowledge calls into question fundamental political categories how the production of knowledge is governed and managed how the new technologies of knowledge produce new forms of political action. This book will be of interest to students of sociology, political science, cultural studies and science and technology studies. **

Author: Tyron Goldschmidt File Type: pdf Idealism is a family of metaphysical views each of which gives priority to the mental. The best-known forms of idealism in Western philosophy are Berkeleyan idealism, which gives ontological priority to the mental (minds and ideas) over the physical (bodies), and Kantian idealism, which gives a kind of explanatory priority to the mental (the structure of the understanding) over the physical (the structure of the empirical world). Although idealism was once a dominant view in Western philosophy, it has suffered almost total neglect over the last several decades. This book rectifies this situation by bringing together seventeen essays by leading philosophers on the topic of metaphysical idealism. The various essays explain, attack, or defend a variety of idealistic theories, including not only Berkeleyan and Kantian idealisms but also those developed in traditions less familiar to analytic philosophers, including Buddhism and Hassidic Judaism. Although a number of the articles draw on historical sources, all will be of interest to philosophers working in contemporary metaphysics. This volume aims to spark a revival of serious philosophical interest in metaphysical idealism. *

Author: Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra File Type: pdf Over the past two decades, emerging market multinationals have become an important force in international business. This book provides a better understanding of the actions and strategies used by firms from mid-sized emerging markets to upgrade their capabilities and become successful multinationals. It is the first book to provide an in-depth look at Mexican multinationals, or Multimexicans. These include some of the leading firms in the world, such as the construction materials producer Cemex and the tortilla maker Grumasa, as well as smaller but innovative firms such as the theme park Kidzania and the cinema multicomplex Cinepolis. This comprehensive analysis contains case studies written by local industry experts on these and other firms, across twenty-two industries. The lessons drawn will be of interest to researchers, students, and consultants, as well as managers and executives of firms in other emerging markets looking to upgrade capabilities and expand abroad. **Review This book offers a deep dive into an important topic in an important emerging economy, Mexico. Its case studies cover the broadest range of industries of any book on the topic - from agriculture and mining to manufacturing and education and everything in between. It is a treasure house of insights on Mexican multinationals. A must-read for international business scholars and managers everywhere. Ravi Ramamurti, Director, Center for Emerging Markets, Northeastern University, Massachusetts Book Description A guide for executives, consultants, researchers, and students to a better understanding of the actions taken by firms from mid-sized emerging markets to upgrade their capabilities and become successful multinationals. The insights are based on forty-one detailed comparative case studies of Mexican multinationals written by local industry experts.

Author: Thomas Nail File Type: pdf More than at any other time in human history, we live in an age defined by movement and mobility and yet, we lack a unifying theory which takes this seriously as a starting point for philosophy. The history of philosophy has systematically explained movement as derived from something else that does not move space, eternity, force, and time. Why, when movement has always been central to human societies, did a philosophy based on movement never take hold? This book finally overturns this long-standing metaphysical tradition by placing movement at the heart of philosophy. In doing so, Being and Motion provides a completely new understanding of the most fundamental categories of ontology from a movement-oriented perspective quality, quantity, relation, modality, and others. It also provides the first history of the philosophy of motion, from early prehistoric mythologies up to contemporary ontologies. Through its systematic ontology of movement, Being and Motion provides a path-breaking historical ontology of our present.**ReviewThis bold and imaginative book outlines an ontology of being as motion and a materialist conception of the ontological practices that underlay previous Western ontologies of space, eternity, force, and time. Its extraordinary ambition to create a new domain of kinetic philosophy is matched by its scope and wide-ranging erudition. Being and Motion is a book for our time.-Paul Patton, Professor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales, Sydney This is a remarkable project, comparable in scope and ambition to Martin Heideggers Being and Time. In his earlier books on kinopolitics, Nail showed that we have entered a new kinetic paradigm in politics in which the migrant is the primary figure, and states, borders, and citizenship are all secondary phenomena derived from this regime of people-in-movement. Being and Motion takes this project to a broader ontological level, arguing not only that movement must now be seen as the fundamental category of being, but that ontology itself must become mobile. This is philosophy on a grand scale bold, innovative, and wide-ranging.-Daniel W. Smith, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University About the Author Thomas Nail is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver. He is the author of Returning to Revolution Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo, The Figure of the Migrant, Theory of the Border, Lucretius I An Ontology of Motion.