TY - BOOK
T1 - The Whole Breadth of Reason. Rethinking Economics and Politics
A2 - Beretta, Simona
A2 - Maggioni, Mario Agostino
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The financial and economic crisis and the rapid geo-political
transformations we are experiencing, including the recent developments
in Middle East and north-Africa, urgently call for their
broad and realistic understanding.The 2011 ASSET summer School was a small but significant
step in re-planning our journey, starting from the very beginning:
from re-thinking the notions of human reason, especially
economic and political “reason”. The inadequacy of the dominant paradigms – reducing economic reason to rational calculation
on one side, and politics to mere realpolitik on the other –
is all too evident and has crucial ethical implications. To adopt a
realistic attitude when facing economic and political crises requires
other than mechanistic and disciplinary approaches.The aim of the ASSET Summer School 2011 was focussing on
human reason in ways that are “sensitive to the truth”, examining
the complex links between rationality and freedom, economics
and politics, exploring how best to develop and foster reasonable
practices in the economy and in politics in a “wider” interdisciplinary
perspective. Academics, researchers, professionals,
journalists were called to reflect upon the full breadth of human
experience, mind and heart, courageously overcoming narrow
disciplinary perspectives. Contributors include: Angelo Scola, Alva Noë, David Schmeidler, David J. Storey, Antoine Nasri Messarra, Edward Hadas, Adrian Pabst, Mathias Nebel, and others
AB - The financial and economic crisis and the rapid geo-political
transformations we are experiencing, including the recent developments
in Middle East and north-Africa, urgently call for their
broad and realistic understanding.The 2011 ASSET summer School was a small but significant
step in re-planning our journey, starting from the very beginning:
from re-thinking the notions of human reason, especially
economic and political “reason”. The inadequacy of the dominant paradigms – reducing economic reason to rational calculation
on one side, and politics to mere realpolitik on the other –
is all too evident and has crucial ethical implications. To adopt a
realistic attitude when facing economic and political crises requires
other than mechanistic and disciplinary approaches.The aim of the ASSET Summer School 2011 was focussing on
human reason in ways that are “sensitive to the truth”, examining
the complex links between rationality and freedom, economics
and politics, exploring how best to develop and foster reasonable
practices in the economy and in politics in a “wider” interdisciplinary
perspective. Academics, researchers, professionals,
journalists were called to reflect upon the full breadth of human
experience, mind and heart, courageously overcoming narrow
disciplinary perspectives. Contributors include: Angelo Scola, Alva Noë, David Schmeidler, David J. Storey, Antoine Nasri Messarra, Edward Hadas, Adrian Pabst, Mathias Nebel, and others
KW - economics
KW - politics
KW - rationality
KW - economics
KW - politics
KW - rationality
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/31689
M3 - Other report
SN - 978-88-6512-116-0
BT - The Whole Breadth of Reason. Rethinking Economics and Politics
PB - Marcianum
ER -