Paradoxes of Unintended Circumstance CB

Herausgeber: Dahrendorf, Ralf; Rév, István; Newton-Smith, William; Neier, Aryeh; Elkana, Yehuda

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By choosing the title The Paradoxes of Unintended Consequences, the editors wished to encourage the contributors to adopt a dialogue-oriented approach. This volume of essays by Geremek, Goncz, Plesu, Michnik, Kornai, Lepenies and other brilliant intellectuals, was dedicated to George Soros in honor of his seventieth birthday.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Central European University Press
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 163mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9789639241091
• ISBN-10: 9639241091
• Artikelnr.: 21881058

Autorenporträt

Yehuda Elkana (1934-2012) was historian and philosopher of science, former President and Rector of Central European University (1999-2009). Aryeh Neier is an American human rights activist. He was the president of the Open Society Institute and a founder of Human Rights Watch. William Newton-Smith is Fellow & Tutor in Philosophy, Balliol College, University of Oxford; Chairman at the Higher Education Support Program, Open Society Institute, Budapest. Istvan Rev is the Director of the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives and Professor at the Department of History.