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A Rhetorical Analysis of the NAFTA Debate
This book criticizes NAFTA rhetoric on the grounds that much of the support or opposition to the treaty was pointless; it rested on the belief that men are powerless before the global trends of economy. Arturo Zárate-Ruiz analyzes the opinions of more than 100 organizations and politicians from Canada, U.S., and Mexico, and covers the issues of free trade, labor, education, environment, and democracy.
The Fragment
This monograph is an interdisciplinary study of the concept of 'fragment' in literature and in critical and literary theory. It discusses the fragment's performativity and function within a historical perspective, stretching from Heraclitus, via the German Romantics and European writers of the Modernist period, to American postmodern manifestations of the fragment. This is the first history of the fragment to appear in English, and it is also the first attempt at producing a consistent taxonomy of literary and critical fragments. The fragments are categorised according to function, not author intention, and the study addresses a number of questions: What constitutes the fragment, when the fr...
The Criminalization of States
This volume examines the relationship between states and organized crime. It seeks to add to the theoretical literature for analyzing the criminalization of the state. The volume also explores the nature of organized crime in countries throughout the Americas from Central America to the Southern Cone.
Putting On Virtue
This work reveals how a distrust of learned and habituated virtue shaped both early modern Christian moral reflection and secular forms of ethical thought. The author's broad historical sweep takes in the Aristotelian tradition as taken up by Thomas Aquinas and has chapters on Luther, Bunyan, the Jansenists, Hume, and others.
The Autos Sacramentales of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695) was the most significant literary figure of the colonial period in Spanish America.The autos sacramentales, or Eucharistic plays are some of her least studied, and most perplexing works. While one of them, El divino Narciso, has received substantial scholarly attention, the other two, El cetro de Jose and El martir del Sacramento, San Hermenegildo, have been critically neglected in Sor Juana studies. This study presents a full-length analysis of all three plays, along with their loas, or the introductory pieces alongside which they were intended to be performed. Furthermore, the study seeks to place these works in their philosophical and cultural context...
Global Backlash
Global Backlash is the first book to move beyond the monolithic portrayal of the globalization protests that have escalated since Seattle and are not likely to abate soon. With trenchant analysis and dozens of primary documents from a variety of popular and uncommon sources, Robin Broad explores proposals and initiatives coming from the backlash to answer the question, 'But what do they want?' A range of sophisticated propositions and a vibrant debate among segments of the backlash emerge. Highly readable and analytically powerful, this book is vital to understanding the most potent protest movement of our times.
Gracián, Wit, and the Baroque Age
Gracián, Wit, and the Baroque Age offers a long-awaited thorough and systematic understanding of Baltasar Gracián's thought. Emphasizing Gracián's theories on wit, this book shows that these theories are meant to explain and give method to every apprehension of ideas; it orderly unveils Gracián's art of invention. It also places this art within Gracián's whole comprehensive doctrine of séñorío, that is, mastery. This book is grounded on an exhaustive analysis of Gracián's complete works, direct reviews of classical and baroque theories of wit, and of baroque exemplars of eloquence. This book provides a fair and close view of the baroque rhetoric, at last.
The Historian's Eye
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Transparencia y combate a la corrupción: binomio estratégico para la administración pública
La transparencia y el combate a la corrupción juegan un rol fundamental dentro la administración pública de los gobiernos federal, estatal y municipal, tanto en el establecimiento de objetivos, estrategias y acciones, así como en la formulación de políticas públicas; esta relación estratégica entre ambas, se da en la medida que la transparencia de la información pública permite el acceso a una cantidad inmensurable de datos que empodera al ciudadano para exigir a las instituciones públicas o privadas la información, explicación y justificación de su actos, lo que por ende, se convierte en un inhibidor de la corrupción.
