Victor Segesvary
Autore di From Illusion to Delusion: Globalization and the Contradictions of Late Modernity
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Fonte dell'immagine: Victor Segesvary
Opere di Victor Segesvary
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Segesvary, Victor
- Data di nascita
- 1929-02-20
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Hungary
- Luogo di nascita
- Miskolc, Hungary
- Luogo di residenza
- Lugano, Switzerland
- Istruzione
- University of Geneva
- Attività lavorative
- essayist
political scientist
sociologist
international relations scholar - Organizzazioni
- United Nations Development Programme
- Breve biografia
- Born in Hungary, he left the country after the 1956 Revolution. Victor Segesvary worked during twenty-five years with the United Nations in the field of economic and social development. His experiences in Asia and Africa familiarized him with the existence of different human worlds and taught him the necessity of understanding and tolerance in human relations.
He obtained a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the Graduate School for International Studies, and a D.D. from the Faculty of Protestant Theology, both at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). His vast knowledge covers such diverse fields as political science, sociology, economics, history, and philosophy as well as the "new" science of comparative analysis of civilizations.
--Source: The History of a Private Library in 18th Century Hungary, 2005, page 164.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 5
- Utenti
- 6
- Popolarità
- #1,227,255
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 6
- Lingue
- 2
As for the rest of the book, it's hard to find many positives. Chapters 1-5 discuss the modern state and civil society from the perspective of political theory. The author criticizes the western state concept from a cross-cultural perspective. But these chapters are very fragmented. They have been written almost like a literature review of recent research, with very frequent referencing of external sources. Many conceptual definitions are quoted, but they are just isolated ideas without any unifying connection. The author doesn't seem to have sufficiently planned his discussion. It is also curious that hardly any parts of the theories presented in chapters 1-5 are then mentioned in chapters 6 and 7.
The final chapters 8 and 9 go steep downhill. They discuss the information society and networking communities, but again the discussion loses its focus in excessive quotations and a barrage of acronyms. It's hard to find much of relevance here for the political vision outlined in chapter 7. Also, I have seldom seen a more confusing ending to a book. The author loses all sense of perspective and takes several pages to present minute technical details almost as if this was a course in information technology. For example, "The Fibre Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) network, operating with a token ring, can easily achieve a throughput of 100 Mbit/s." (p. 161).
To summarize, I can recommend chapters 6 and 7 of this book. The other parts will probably not interest you unless you are a political theorist or information technology enthusiast.… (altro)