The opening of vision : nihilism and the postmodern situation
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The opening of vision : nihilism and the postmodern situation
Routledge, 1988
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Bibliography: p. 537-550
Includes index
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: pbk ISBN 9780415001731
Description
Nietzsche and Heidegger saw in modernity a time endangered by nihilism. Starting out from this interpretation, David Levin links the nihilism raging today in Western society and culture to our concrete historical experience with vision.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. The origins of contemporary humanitarian action: From the early beginnings to World War II. 2. Humanitarian action in the Cold War and its aftermath 3. Humanitarian action in the twenty-first century 4. Contemporary humanitarian actors 5. Contemporary humanitarian architecture and action 6. Changes in policy and practice 7. Unresolved (and unresolvable?): Understanding the humanitarian world in the twenty-first century
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ISBN 9780415004121
Description
First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Table of Contents
Part One: Network Motifs
Chapter 1. Transcription Networks basic concepts
Chapter 2. Autoregulation
Chapter 3. The Feed Forward Loop
Chapter 4. Temporal Programs and the Global Structure of Transcription Networks
Chapter 5. Positive Feedback, Bistability and Memory
Chapter 6. How to Build a Biological Oscillator
Part Two: Robustness
Chapter 7. Kinetic Proofreading and Conformational Proofreading
Chapter 8. Robust Signalling
Chapter 9. Chemotaxis
Chapter 10. Fold-change Detection
Chapter 11. Dynamical Compensation and Mutal Resistance in Tissues
Chapter 12. Robust Spatial Patterning in Development.
Part Three: Optimality
Chapter 13. Optimal Gene Circuit Design
Chapter14. Multi-objective Optimality in Biology
Chapter 15. Modularity
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