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Across the frontiers : Ireland in the 1990s : cultural, political, economic / edited by Richard Kearney.

Contributor(s): Kearney, Richard.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Dublin : Wolfhound Press, 1988Description: 280 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0863272096 .Subject(s): Ireland -- Civilization -- 20th century | Ireland -- ForecastingDDC classification: 941.50824
Contents:
Introduction: Thinking Otherwise / Richard Kearney -- Part I: Political Perspectives -- Part II: Social and Economic Perspectives -- Part III: Cultural Perspectives -- Part IV: International Perspectives.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 941.50824 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00018591
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: Thinking Otherwise / Richard Kearney -- Part I: Political Perspectives -- Part II: Social and Economic Perspectives -- Part III: Cultural Perspectives -- Part IV: International Perspectives.

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Kearney (philosophy, University College, Dublin) has edited a collection of 26 essays designed to ask where Ireland, and the Irish mind, stand as the country faces Europe in the 1990s. "Ourselves Alone' is a catch-cry of the past. But how do we decide our future?" Chapters range from public administration and economics, to art and communications theory, from the highly technical to the highly abstract. There are too many contributors; Ireland gradually gets lost as philosophical speculations on identity and postmodernism take over. The book closes with continental Europeans writing about the European mind. Until then, the most powerful theme, repeated by at least four contributors, in eccentric form by Desmond Fennell and more functionally by T.J. Barrington, is that although Ireland should not fear the wider world, it will only flourish in a decentralized, regionalized, or "granular" (Ivor Browne) Europe where respect for community replaces the dominance of the nation (or European) state. Graduate students and general readers. A. J. Ward College of William and Mary

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