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Derrida And Disinterest (Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy)
'Glibly dismissed by postmodernists as an illusion, the idea of disinterestedness has been patiently awaiting its philosophical saviour. Sean Gaston has now ridden triumphantly to the rescue, with a subtlety and originality of insight which positively leap from the page'. Terry Eagleton Disinterest has been a major concept in Western philosophy since Descartes. Its desirability and importance have been disputed, and its definition reworked by such pivotal figures as Nietzsche, Shaftesbury, Locke and Kant. In this groundbreaking book, Sean Gaston looks at the treatment of disinterest in the work of two major modern Continental philosophers: Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas. He identifies both as part of a tradition, obscured since the eighteenth-century, that takes disinterest to be the opposite of self-interest, rather than the absence of all interest. Such a tradition locates disinterest at the centre of thinking about ethics. The book argues that disinterest plays a significant role in the philosophy of both thinkers and in the dialogue between their work. In so doing it sheds new light on their respective contributions to moral and political philosophy. Moreover, it traces the history of disinterest in Western philosophy from Descartes to Derrida, taking in the contributions from major philosophers in both the analytic, Anglo-American and Continental traditions: Locke; Shaftesbury; Hume; Smith; Nietzsche; Kant; Hegel; Heidegger. Derrida and Disinterest offers a new reading of Derrida, a stimulating account of the role and importance of disinterest in the history of Western philosophy and a provocative and original contribution to Continental ethics..
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Novel Professions: Interested Disinterest and the Making of the Professional in the Victorian Novel (Victorian Critical Interventions)
Between 1840 and 1860, the emergent professional developed a sturdy and compelling identity and saw explosive growth in its ranks over the next two decades Novel Professions showcases the Victorian novel’s central and critically misunderstood role in this development. Taking a revisionary turn on influential sociological analyses of the profession, Novel Professions offers a new way of reading the last twenty years in Victorian studies. Jennifer Ruth argues that a shrinking academic market has confronted critics with an unprecedented pressure to professionalize, generating an ironized climate in which the Foucauldian outing of the expert class (and of its idealized "disinterest") has become an irresistible and now stubbornly entrenched ritual. In this atmosphere, scholars have seen the novel as disingenuously reinforcing the complacent opposition between professional disinterest and market values. Ruth finds instead that the mid-century novel figured the professional as negotiating a less mystified, more intimate relationship to the market, one that acknowledged the material conditions making professional service at once more possible and more plausible. In readings of novels by Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, and Anthony Trollope, Ruth not only demonstrates how the novel professionalized its protagonists but how, in doing so, it advanced modern conceptions of aesthetic value and intellectual labor. Novel Professions proposes that when scholars stop loathing themselves for being professionals, they may better interpret the Victorian novel and more productively reconceive their own precarious place on the brink of deprofessionalization..
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Education, Identity and the Heiress in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel: Heroines of Disinterest
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The business relevance of academic research: SMEs are showing a regrettable disinterest in sustainable business practices and are clearly out-of-step with ... companies): An article from: NZ Business
This digital document is an article from NZ Business, published by Profile Publishing Ltd. on December 1, 2004. The length of the article is 702 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: The business relevance of academic research: SMEs are showing a regrettable disinterest in sustainable business practices and are clearly out-of-step with academic research, writes Ralph Penning.(independent business foundation)(Small and medium sized companies) Author: Ralph Penning Publication:NZ Business (Magazine/Journal) Date: December 1, 2004 Publisher: Profile Publishing Ltd. Volume: 18 Issue: 11 Page: 61(1) Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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Sanders disinterest raises questions over Downtown Rail Link's future.: An article from: Real Estate Weekly
This digital document is an article from Real Estate Weekly, published by Thomson Gale on April 4, 2007. The length of the article is 532 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: Sanders disinterest raises questions over Downtown Rail Link's future. Author: Daniel Geiger Publication:Real Estate Weekly (Magazine/Journal) Date: April 4, 2007 Publisher: Thomson Gale Volume: 53 Issue: 34 Page: 1(2) Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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