Hubris
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The Construction Of Tragedy
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Author : Mary Anneeta Mann
language : en
Publisher: Mary A. Mann
Release Date : 2004
The Construction Of Tragedy written by Mary Anneeta Mann and has been published by Mary A. Mann this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Mimesis in literature categories.
This book contains a true story of a woman who, from childhood, learned the value of money, hustled, and went into adulthood through an abundance of trials, tribulations, and even a tragedy to have money. Only to discover that the path she chose to get what she wanted was a path of destruction and trouble, with high stakes and everything to lose, including her life. An action-packed novel that is educational, provocative, and inspirational, offering knowledge to all its readers.
The Icarus Syndrome
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Author : Peter Beinart
language : en
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Release Date : 2010
The Icarus Syndrome written by Peter Beinart and has been published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Ambition categories.
In The Icarus Syndrome, Peter Beinart tells a tale as old as the Greeks - a story about the seductions of success. Beinart describes Washington on the eve of three wars - World War I, Vietnam and Iraq - three moments when American leaders decided they could remake the world in their image. Each time, leading intellectuals declared that history was over, and the spread of democracy was inevitable. Each time, a president held the nation in the palm of his hand. And each time, a war conceived in arrogance brought untold tragedy. In dazzling colour, Beinart portrays three extraordinary generations: the progressives who took America into World War I, led by Woodrow Wilson, the lonely preacher's son who became the closest thing to a political messiah the world had ever seen. The Camelot intellectuals who took America into Vietnam, led by Lyndon Johnson, who lay awake night after night shaking with fear that his countrymen considered him weak. And George W. Bush and the post-cold war neoconservatives, the romantic bullies who believed they could bludgeon the Middle East and liberate it at the same time. Like Icarus, each of these generations crafted 'wings' - a theory about America's relationship to the world. They flapped carefully at first, but gradually lost their inhibitions until, giddy with success, they flew into the sun. But every era also brought new leaders and thinkers who found wisdom in pain. They reconciled American optimism - our belief that anything is possible - with the realities of a world that will never fully bend to our will. In their struggles lie the seeds of American renewal today. Based on years of research, The Icarus Syndrome is a provocative and strikingly original account of hubris in the American century - and how we learn from the tragedies that result.
Hubris
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Author : Michael Isikoff
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2006-09-08
Hubris written by Michael Isikoff and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-08 with Political Science categories.
The real story behind the investigation of Iraq, and the basis for the MSNBC documentary of the same name hosted by Rachel Maddow Filled with news-making revelations that made it a New York Times bestseller, Hubris takes us behind the scenes at the White House, CIA, Pentagon, State Department, and Congress to show how George W. Bush came to invade Iraq--and how his administration struggled with the devastating fallout. Hubris connects the dots between Bush's expletive-laden outbursts at Saddam Hussein, the bitter battles between the CIA and the White House, the fights within the intelligence community over Saddam's supposed weapons of mass destruction, the outing of an undercover CIA officer, and the Bush administration's misleading sales campaign for war. Written by veteran reporters Michael Isikoff and David Corn, this is an inside look at how a president took the nation to war using faulty and fraudulent intelligence. It's a dramatic page-turner and an intriguing account of conspiracy, backstabbing, bureaucratic ineptitude, journalistic malfeasance, and arrogance.
The Leadership Hubris Epidemic
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Author : Peter Garrard
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-10-03
The Leadership Hubris Epidemic written by Peter Garrard and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-03 with Business & Economics categories.
This edited collection surveys and analyses the multidimensional problem of Hubris syndrome, and its deleterious effect on leadership within organisations. The study develops an extended metaphor of the social and political ill of Hubris as a virulent, communicable disease of dysfunctional leadership, illustrating its ubiquity and potential for serious harm. Taking a biological perspective to understand the possible underlying mechanisms as well as the environments in which hubris has been found to thrive, contributors emphasise the notion of prevention over cure. Divided into three sections, The Leadership Hubris Epidemic examines psychological, neuroendocrinological and neuropsychological approaches to the biology of Hubris, explores factors that encourage or inhibit its growth, and finally provides methods for preventing or retarding its development. This book has huge interdisciplinary appeal and scholars of biology, psychology, sociology, management, and politics will find the topic extremely useful, as well as anyone who is interested in the structure and governance of organisations.
Hubris And Progress
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Author : Carlo Bordoni
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-03-14
Hubris And Progress written by Carlo Bordoni and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-14 with Social Science categories.
This book explores the ancient question of why man seeks to go beyond his limits. A presumptuous tendency known by the ancient Greeks as hubris and believed to be punished by the gods, it developed from a need for our survival to a habit, as humanity has subdued animals, dominated nature, increased knowledge and sought even to overcome death. It also lies behind the crisis of our time, as the values of democracy, freedom, equality and progress have been weakened – sacrificed to excess, as we live in an eternal present, dominated by greed and indifference regarding the future. Addressing this crisis of our interregnum period, in which faith has been lost in the former certainties of modernity, such as science, progress and the idea of a better world, the author considers whether redemption for humanity might lie in our hubristic tendencies, as these give us scope to deviate from the existing path and find new ways forward.
Imperial Hubris
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Author : Michael Scheuer
language : en
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Release Date : 2004-06-30
Imperial Hubris written by Michael Scheuer and has been published by Potomac Books, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-30 with Political Science categories.
Though U.S. leaders try to convince the world of their success in fighting al Qaeda, one anonymous member of the U.S. intelligence community would like to inform the public that we are, in fact, losing the war on terror. Further, until U.S. leaders recognize the errant path they have irresponsibly chosen, he says, our enemies will only grow stronger. According to the author, the greatest danger for Americans confronting the Islamist threat is to believe-at the urging of U.S. leaders-that Muslims attack us for what we are and what we think rather than for what we do. Blustering political rhetor.
Hubris I Meant To Do That
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Author : Greg Cravens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-08-04
Hubris I Meant To Do That written by Greg Cravens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-04 with categories.
Leave it to us to turn our Leisure Time into Big Business. It's all Utter Hubris
Hitler 1889 1936
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Author : Ian Kershaw
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 1999
Hitler 1889 1936 written by Ian Kershaw and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Traces Hitler's rise from a shelter for needy children in Austria to dictatorship over Germany and the beginning of his persecution of the Jews.
Hubris The Road To Donald Trump
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Author : David Owen
language : en
Publisher: Methuen
Release Date : 2020-04-16
Hubris The Road To Donald Trump written by David Owen and has been published by Methuen this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In Hubris: The Road to Donald Trump, David Owen analyses and describes the mental and physical condition of US Presidents and UK Prime Ministers with a particular view that what went before paved the way to President Trump. Of recent leaders there have been alcoholics, depressives, narcissists, populists and those affected by hubris syndrome and driven by their religious beliefs.
Zero Point Hubris
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Author : Santiago Castro-Gómez
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-12-16
Zero Point Hubris written by Santiago Castro-Gómez and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-16 with Philosophy categories.
Operating within the framework of postcolonial studies and decolonial theory, this important work starts from the assumption that the violence exercised by European colonialism was not only physical and economic, but also ‘epistemic’. Santiago Castro-Gómez argues that toward the end of the eighteenth century, this epistemic violence of the Spanish Empire assumed a specific form: zero-point hubris. The ‘many forms of knowing’ were integrated into a chronological hierarchy in which scientific-enlightened knowledge appears at the highest point on the cognitive scale, while all other epistemes are seen as constituting its past. Enlightened criollo thinkers did not hesitate to situate the Black, Indigenous, and mestizo peoples of New Granada in the lowest position on this cognitive scale. Castro-Gómez argues that in the colonial periphery of the Spanish Americas, Enlightenment constituted not only the position of epistemic distance separating science from all other knowledges, but also the position of ethnic distance separating the criollos from the ‘castes’. Epistemic violence—and not only physical violence—is thereby found at the very origin of Colombian nationality.