Elusive Promises

Elusive PromisesPlanning in contemporary democratic states is often understood as a range of activities, from housing to urban design, regional development to economic planning. This volume sees planning differentlyas the negotiation of possibilities that time offers space. It explores what kind of promise planning offers, how such a promise is made, and what happens to it through time. The authors, all leading anthropologists, examine the time and space, creativity

Elaborates an ethic in which beneficence on a personal and communal level has moral force

Willibald Sauerländer

• What is the future for women's theatre in an international context increasingly united by new technologies but divided by new issues of cultural diversity

the two rescue a young Portuguese woman named Juanna Rodd and her nursemaid

Written in honor of the Egyptologist

activities (spinal cord research and fasting)

Written by an acknowledged expert in end-of-life education

By drawing on classical Confucianism to prioritize the situated

across all key settings

The Adventure of Weak Theology reads like a letter to Caputo

Other topics considered include the relationship between style and subjectivity

The work draws on diverse methodologies and approaches