Thinking in an emergency

Type Book

Rate 0.0 /5

Discusses the global ethics of increased executive power by invoking the idea of an emergency and cites philosophers, neuroscientists, and artists to prove that thinking and taking fast action are compatible.

Details

Files

Reviews

Download

Title Statements

Full title :Thinking in an emergency / Elaine Scarry.

Summary

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2011.
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):W.W. Norton & Co
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2011.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xv, 157 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780393081046, 0393081044
oclc:ocn916057701
LC Classification:JF256
Dewey Decimal:363.34/561

The seduction to stop thinking -- Four models of emergency thinking. CPR ; Mutual aid contracts ; The Swiss shelter system ; The constitutional brake on war -- The place of habit in acts of thinking.

Subjects

Abuse of administrative power democracy Emergency management -- Government poli… Excès de pouvoir (Droit administratif) Executive power Machtmissbrauch Politische Krise Politische Theorie Pouvoirs exceptionnels Regierung War and emergency powers