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This timely Handbook provides a conceptual discussion and a wide
empirical presentation of new disruptive forms of innovation
producing appropriate technologies, addressing the needs of
low-income populations, and providing alternative solutions for
sustainable development. The Handbook of Innovation &
Appropriate Technologies for International Development expertly
analyses and compares contributions of appropriate technologies in
developing, emerging and industrialized economies, including China
and India, and their global development impacts. Additionally, it
covers the transversal role of new international communication
technologies, open access, digital tools as well as
entrepreneurship and innovation from within emerging economies and
in industrialized nations. Using empirical analyses of cases and
experiences in manufacturing sectors and services, it covers both
the formal and informal economy, and provides an insightful focus
on differences and similarities across borders and sectors. NGO and
private sector practitioners, public sector officers as well as
academics specialized in development economics, entrepreneurship
and engineering or management studies will find this Handbook to be
illuminating and very informative. Science and technology producers
and entrepreneurs will appreciate the global look into more
sustainable development as related to appropriate technologies, and
how they can be used across all economic backgrounds.
The Symbolism of Evil is the final book in Ricoeur's early trilogy
on the will. While Freedom and Nature sets aside normative
questions altogether and Fallible Man examines the question of what
makes the bad will possible, here Ricoeur takes up the question of
evil in its actuality. What is the nature of the will that has
succumbed to evil? The question of evil resists reflection and
remains inscrutable. This leads Ricoeur to proceed indirectly
through a study of the abundant resources contained in symbols and
myths. Symbols, as Ricoeur famously says, "give rise to thought"
and thereby open up a field of meanings which help to inform a
philosophical reflection on evil. This hermeneutics of symbols
signals an important shift in Ricoeur's philosophical trajectory
which increasingly shifts to language and the various forms of
discourse which harbor multiple meanings. The contributors to this
volume highlight a wide range of important themes in Ricoeur's
treatment of the symbolics of evil that resonate with current
topics in contemporary philosophy and religion.
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