This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and ...impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.
Nathaniel Barron contributes to a Marxist philosophy of language by deploying Ernst Bloch's 'warm stream' critique of social existence for understanding the essence and production of an utterance.
Placing the concept of reification at the centre of Marx's thought, Hiromatsu demonstrates across a number of areas -- history, the understanding of society, and the understanding of philosophy -- ...the philosophical and practical change in worldview which this concept brings about.
Aided by personal documents and institutional archives that were closed for decades, this book recounts the development of physics—or, more aptly, science under stress—in Soviet Russia up to World ...War II. Focusing on Leningrad, center of Soviet physics until the late 1930s, Josephson discusses the impact of scientific, cultural, and political revolution on physicists' research and professional aspirations.
Political and social revolution in Russia threatened to confound the scientific revolution. Physicists eager to investigate new concepts of space, energy, light, and motion were forced to accommodate dialectical materialism and subordinate their interests to those of the state. They ultimately faced Stalinist purges and the shift of physics leadership to Moscow. This account of scientists cut off from their Western colleagues reveals a little-known part of the history of modern physics.
Durante muchos años desde la academia y otros ámbitos de Cuba se ha venido asumiendo y operando con la llamada economía política del socialismo, considerándola por lo general, como una ciencia ...constituida per se,que se explica en salas de clases con categorías y conceptos, muchos de ellos no corroborados por la práctica social. Por otro lado, la práctica y el desarrollo de la teoría socioeconómica, sugieren, en todo caso, que resulta de mayor pertinencia hablar de una economía política de la transición extraordinaria al socialismo, para las condiciones de los llamados países subdesarrollados que han emprendido ese camino en el mundo. El estudio realizado toma como base analítica el materialismo dialéctico y su herramental teórico y metodológico, en proporción a las demandas de la investigación.
Practice-/policy-oriented abstract:
Understanding why employees do or do not comply with information systems security (ISS) procedures is an imperative in today’s organizations whose futures often ...depend on how well they protect and harness information assets. We use a predominantly inductive approach to develop a theoretical understanding of how employees’ reasons for engaging to ISS behaviors (ISSBs) change over time, using ideas from dialectics as our scaffolding. Our dialectical view of this process suggests that explanations for engaging in different ISSBs change over time as individuals seek to balance contradictory demands. Furthermore, our view suggests that new experiences and external events initiate a process of reevaluating tensions that can in turn lead to behavioral changes. Based on our observations and interpretation, we conclude that it is beneficial for ISS practitioners not only to be aware of factors that seem to promote compliance with ISSPs, but also to pay attention to the importance of opposing values and pressures, triggers, and ways to resolve the existing tensions related to an individual’s ISSBs. This will likely enable awareness about the dilemmas that individuals confront in ISS-related situations and potentially contribute to the design of better controls and procedures for ensuring compliant ISSBs.
The various guidelines, procedures, and policies referred to as information systems security procedures (ISSPs) underlie information systems security behaviors (ISSBs) of many employees in organizations. Understanding the reasons for ISSBs—that is, why employees do or do not comply with ISSPs—is an imperative in today’s organizations, given that information is a valuable asset. In our study, we observed that employees’ reasons for engaging in ISSBs, such as selecting a password, locking a computer, and using a USB memory device, changed over time. Noting that the dynamic nature of ISSBs has not yet received sufficient consideration in information systems security (ISS) research, we use a predominantly inductive approach to develop a theoretical understanding of the ISSB change process, sensitized by ideas from dialectics. Our dialectical process view suggests that explanations for engaging in different ISSBs are not static but change over time as individuals seek to deal with, or balance, tensions or contradictory demands. Furthermore, our view suggests that “change triggers” (e.g., new experiences and external events) initiate a process of reevaluating tensions that can, in turn, lead to changes in ISSBs. A number of implications for future research and practice emerge from this dialectical understanding of the ISSB change process.
The online appendix is available at
https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.2018.0827
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During the century from the 1890 publication of Ehrenfels's proposition on
Gestaltqualitäten
to the 1989 dissolution of the European states governed by Marxist orthodoxy, Gestalt theory was drawn ...into the political fray in several ways. It was grotesquely misappropriated during the Nazi regime in support of race, territorial expansion, and war aims. On the other side, because it was seen as having a subjectivist taint, the Gestalt approach was anathema where dialectical materialist dogma reigned. In contrast, close reading of the seminal 1912 Wertheimer paper and the 1920 Köhler book reveals that the Gestalt founders’ views accord well with current Gestalt research.
