This book demonstrates the relevance, rigor, and creativity of interpretive research methodologies for the social and human sciences. The book situates methods questions within the context of broader methodological questions--specifically, the character of social realities and their "know-ability." Exceptionally clear and well-written chapters provide engaging discussions of the methods of accessing, generating, and analyzing social science data, using methods ranging from reflexive historical analysis to critical ethnography. Reflecting on their own research experiences, the contributors offer an inside, applied perspective on how research topics, evidence, and methods intertwine to produce knowledge in the social sciences.

Interpretation and Method : Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn

Wittgenstein's work remains, undeniably, now, that off one of those few philosophers who will be read by all future generations.

Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics. By L. Wittgenstein. Edited by G. H. Von Wright, R. Rhees and G. E. M. Anscombe. Translated by G. E. M. Anscombe. Pp. 400. 37s. 6d. 1956. (Basil Blackwell, Oxford)

A rediscovery of the long-forgotten republican version of liberal political theory has arresting implications for the theory and practice of international relations. Republican liberalism has a theory of security that is superior to realism, because it addresses not only threats of war from other states but also the threat of despotism at home. In this view, a Hobson's choice between anarchy and hierarchy is not necessary because an intermediary structure, here dubbed “negarchy,” is also available. The American Union from 1787 until 1861 is a historical example. This Philadelphian system was not a real state since, for example, the union did not enjoy a monopoly of legitimate violence. Yet neither was it a state system, since the American states lacked sufficient autonomy. While it shared some features with the Westphalian system such as balance of power, it differed fundamentally. Its origins owed something to particular conditions of time and place, and the American Civil War ended this system. Yet close analysis indicates that it may have surprising relevance for the future of contemporary issues such as the European Union and nuclear governance.

The Philadelphian system: sovereignty, arms control, and balance of power in the American states-union, circa 1787–1861

This chapter explores public mobile communication technology as frontstage and back-stage phenomena. We explore the design aesthetics of the mobile phone from the standpoint of its commercial origins and public re-interpretation, emphasizing fashion and identity in the co-creation and consumption of mobile communication technology. The mobile phone in this context is analyzed as both a physical icon and an item of decorative display related to fashion and design. We begin by noting how the early telephone, because it enabled people to communicate efficiently over distance, served as a status symbol. We then highlight the role of fashion and display to show how the symbolic meaning of telecommunication has been evolving. In terms of fashion, we look at the way in which fashion and style have been used to promote the mobile phone by industry. In terms of display, we look at the collateral promotion of other products by reference to the mobile phone and body–technology relationship. Finally, we examine co-constructions that extend beyond the narrow, utilitarian purposes for which the mobile phone was originally designed to show how novel links are forged to deeper psychological and existential processes. That is, the mobile phone is strongly connected with ingrained human perceptions of distance, power, status and identity. A few words concerning formal theory may be in order. Among the most prominent and influential sub-perspectives of the functionalist school are the “domestication” and “uses and gratifications” perspectives. They have been frequently employed by earlier researchers on mobile

Mobile Phones as Fashion Statements: The Co-creation of Mobile Communication’s Public Meaning

The theory of large deviations: from Boltzmann's 1877 calculation to equilibrium macrostates in 2D turbulence

Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: What Modernism Is and What It Probably Isn't 2. The Century Ends in Vienna: Modernism's Time Lost, 1899 3. Georg Cantor, Richard Dedekind, and Gottlob Frege: What Is a Number, 1872-1883 4. Ludwig Boltzmann: Statistical Gases, Entropy, and the Direction of Time, 1872-1877 5. Georges Seurat: Divisionism, Cloisonnism, and Chronophotography, 1885 6. Whitman, Rimbaud, and Jules Laforgue: Poems without Meter, 1886 7. Santiago Ramon y Cajal: The Atoms of Brain, 1889 8. Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau: Inventing the Concentration Camp, 1896 9. Sigmund Freud: Time Repressed and Ever-Present, 1899 10. The Century Begins in Paris: Modernism on the Verge, 1900 11. Hugo de Vries and Max Planck: The Gene and the Quantum, 1900 12. Bertrand Russell and Edmund Husserl: Phenomenology, Number, and the Fall of Logic, 1901 13. Edwin S. Porter: Parts at Sixteen per Second, 1903 14. Meet Me in Saint Louis: Modernism Comes to Middle America, 1904 15. Albert Einstein: The Space-Time Interval and the Quantum of Light, 1905 16. Pablo Picasso: Seeing All Sides, 1906-1907 17. August Strindberg: Staging a Broken Dream, 1907 18. Arnold Schoenberg: Music in No Key, 1908 19. James Joyce: The Novel Goes to Pieces, 1909-1910 20. Vassily Kandisky: Art with No Object, 1911-1912 21. Annus Mirabilis: Vienna, Paris, and St. Petersburg, 1913 22. Discontinuous Epilogues: Heisenberg and Bohr, Godel and Turing, Merce Cunningham and Michael Foucault Notes Select Bibliography Index

The first moderns : profiles in the origins of twentieth-century thought

The first moderns

Written in clear, lively prose, "The End of Kings" traces the history of republican governments and the key figures that are united by the simple republican maxim: "No man shall rule alone." Breathtaking in its scope, Everdell's book moves from the Hebrew Bible, Solon's Athens and Brutus's Rome to the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson and the Watergate proceedings during which Nixon resigned. Along the way, he carefully builds a definition of "republic" which distinguishes democratic republics from aristocratic ones for both history and political science. In a new foreword, Everdell addresses the impeachment trial of President Clinton and argues that impeachment was never meant to punish private crimes. Ultimately, Everdell's brilliant analysis helps us understand how examining the past can shed light on the present. "[An] energetic, aphoristic, wide-ranging book."-Marcus Cunliffe, "Washington Post Book World" "Ambitious in conception and presented in a clear and sprightly prose. . . . [This] excellent study . . . is the best statement of the republican faith since Alphonse Aulard's essays almost a century ago." -"Choice" "A book which ought to be in the hand of every American who agrees with Benjamin Franklin that the Founding Fathers gave us a Republic and hoped that we would be able to keep it."-Sam J. Ervin, Jr.

The End of Kings: A History of Republics and Republicans

This text seeks to show why and how the anti-religious attitude of Enlightenment writers gave way to the acceptance and even revival of religious sentiment in the early 19th century.

William R. Everdell

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The first moderns : profiles in the origins of twentieth-century thought

The first moderns

The End of Kings: A History of Republics and Republicans

Christian Apologetics in France, 1730-1790: The Roots of Romantic Religion

Monologues of the Mad: Paris Cabaret and Modernist Narrative from Twain to Eliot