CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CONTEMPORARY CHANGE

SERIES IVA, CENTRAL AND EASTER EUROPE, VOLUME 11

 

 

INTERESTS and VALUES:

The Spirit of Venture in a Time of Change

SLOVAK PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, II

 

edited by

Tibor Pichler

The Institute of Philosophy

Jana Gasparikova

The Institute of Social Forecasting of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

 

CONTENTS

 

INTRODUCTION

 

PART I. INTERESTS AND VALUES IN A TIME OF CHANGE

 

Chapter I. The Nature of Interests: Beyond Conflict, towards the Organization of a New Socio-economic System

-- Jana Gasparikova

 

Chapter II. Continuity and Change: the Role of Tradition

-- Tibor Pichler

 

PART II. ECONOMIC INTERESTS AND VALUES

 

Chapter III. Culture and Human Rights: Empirical Notes with A Metaphysical Conclusion

-- Jozef Pauer

 

Chapter IV. The Problems of Management Linked with the Privatization Process and Conflicts of Interests

-- Jana Gasparikova

 

Chapter V. Interests Which Have Influenced the Privatization Process in the Slovak Republic

-- Jaroslav Nemec

 

Chapter VI. Economic Interests in the Transition Period: The Case of the Czech Republic

-- Daneš Brzica

 

Chapter VII. The Place of Ethics in the Business World

-- Dagmar Smreková

PART III. NATIONAL IDENTITY AND CULTURE

 

Chapter VIII. Nation and Transformation

-- Karol Kollár

 

Chapter IX. Beyond Rationality

-- Tatiana Sedová

 

Chapter X. Difference, Identity and Politics

-- Egon Gál

 

Chapter XI. The Ambiguity of Nationalism

-- Jana Baláñová

 

Chapter XII. Towards a Culture of Uncertainty and Venture

-- František Novosád

 

PART IV. ENVIRONMENTAL INTERESTS AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

 

Chapter XIII. Environmental Thinking and Social Transformation

-- Eva Smolková

 

Chapter XIV. Environmental Decision Making in the Slovak Republic

-- Tatiana Kluvánková

 

Chapter XV. Environmental Ethics: Its Problem and Alternatives

Zuzana Palovitová

 

 



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