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Born out of a major international dialogue held at the Fondazione
Giorgio Cini in Venice, Italy, this collection of essays presents
innovative and provocative arguments about the claims of universal
knowledge schemes and the different aesthetic and material forms in
which such claims have been made and executed. Contributors take a
close look at everything from religious pilgrimages, museums, and
maps of the world, to search engines and automated GPS. Current
obsessions in information technology, communications theory, and
digital culture often concern the value and possibility of a grand
accumulation of universally accessible forms of knowledge: total
libraries, open data bases, ubiquitous computing, and 'smart'
technologies. These obsessions have important social and
philosophical origins, and they raise profound questions about the
very nature of knowledge and its organization. This volume's
contributors draw on the histories of maps and of encyclopedias,
worldviews and visionary collections, to make sense of the crucial
relation between the way the world is known and how it might be
displayed and transformed.
This book is drawn out of a 'Dialogue', held in Venice at the Cini
Foundation in September 2010, aimed at exploring the relationship
between ecology and theology. The meeting involved experts from
different disciplines (theologians, anthropologists, ecologists,
economists, philosophers, and historians), sharing the awareness
that the gamut of passions mobilized by ecology so far has not
reached the level or intensity required for the huge task facing
humanity today concerning the fate of the Earth. Can religions help
us tackle the ecological crisis we are now facing? Can we redefine
our relationship with the Earth, giving spiritual depth to
ecological issues? How to mobilize the notions, cosmologies and
rituals characterizing some religious traditions without
overlooking the conflicts underlying the ecological debate and the
essential role of politics?
This book contains papers, presented at an international conference
organized by the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism in
Milan, that provide details on how corporate artifacts are invested
with meaning, are related to control, and can be used as cultural
indicators in research.
This book contains papers, presented at an international conference
organized by the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism in
Milan, that provide details on how corporate artifacts are invested
with meaning, are related to control, and can be used as cultural
indicators in research.
Management Education and Humanities argues that management teachers
and researchers seem to be increasingly dissatisfied with the way
managers are usually educated in western countries. It claims that
educational practices and methods would greatly benefit from
reflection on the implicit assumptions and paradigms behind those
practices, and debates the role that humanism and humanities might
play in the formation of new managerial elites. The book examines
three themes that have emerged as central to the contemporary
debate on management education: the profession of management;
humanism as a philosophy and worldview; and the humanities as an
academic field where management schools could find new inspirations
for curricula. All three themes are scrutinized in a frame of
reference extended between two different points of view: the
traditional view, with its tendency to idealize (and even sometimes
romanticize) humanism, the humanities and management as a social
function; and the 'past-modern' view, which is inclined to
skepticism and to the deconstruction of social and cultural
phenomena. Providing a lively account of this ongoing debate and
exploring new trends and experiences in management education, this
book will be invaluable reading for teachers, students and
researchers of management, management strategy, and organizational
behaviour.
Born out of a major international dialogue held at the Fondazione
Giorgio Cini in Venice, Italy, this collection of essays presents
innovative and provocative arguments about the claims of universal
knowledge schemes and the different aesthetic and material forms in
which such claims have been made and executed. Contributors take a
close look at everything from religious pilgrimages, museums, and
maps of the world, to search engines and automated GPS. Current
obsessions in information technology, communications theory, and
digital culture often concern the value and possibility of a grand
accumulation of universally accessible forms of knowledge: total
libraries, open data bases, ubiquitous computing, and 'smart'
technologies. These obsessions have important social and
philosophical origins, and they raise profound questions about the
very nature of knowledge and its organization. This volume's
contributors draw on the histories of maps and of encyclopedias,
worldviews and visionary collections, to make sense of the crucial
relation between the way the world is known and how it might be
displayed and transformed.
Can religions help us tackle the ecological crisis we are now
facing? Can we redefine our relationship with the Earth, giving
spiritual depth to ecological issues? This book attempts to answer
these questions by exploring the relationship between ecology and
theology.
Management Education and Humanities argues that management teachers
and researchers seem to be increasingly dissatisfied with the way
managers are usually educated in western countries. It claims that
educational practices and methods would greatly benefit from
reflection on the implicit assumptions and paradigms behind those
practices, and debates the role that humanism and humanities might
play in the formation of new managerial elites. The book examines
three themes that have emerged as central to the contemporary
debate on management education: the profession of management;
humanism as a philosophy and worldview; and the humanities as an
academic field where management schools could find new inspirations
for curricula. All three themes are scrutinized in a frame of
reference extended between two different points of view: the
traditional view, with its tendency to idealize (and even sometimes
romanticize) humanism, the humanities and management as a social
function; and the 'past-modern' view, which is inclined to
skepticism and to the deconstruction of social and cultural
phenomena. Providing a lively account of this ongoing debate and
exploring new trends and experiences in management education, this
book will be invaluable reading for teachers, students and
researchers of management, management strategy, and organizational
behaviour.
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