Just Enough The History, Culture and Politics of Sufficiency /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Ingleby, Matthew (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Randalls, Samuel (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Economics.; Management science.; Social history.; Philology.; Linguistics.; British literature.; Economics, general.; Social History.; Language and Literature.; British and Irish Literature.

This book fosters a wide-ranging and nuanced discussion of the concept of 'enough'. Acknowledging the prominence of notions of sufficiency in debates about sustainability, it argues for a more complex, culturally and historically informed understanding of how these might be manifested acro...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part I
• 1. Introduction- Samuel Randalls and Matthew Ingleby
• 2. Enough: A Lexical-Semantic approach- Kathryn Allan
• Part II
• 3. Enough-ness in the later Middle Ages- Hannah Skoda
• 4. Daily Bread: Ideas of Sufficiency in Early Modern England- Ethan Shagan
• Part III
• 5. Sufficiency and Simplicity in the Life and Writings of Edward Carpenter- Wendy Parkins
• 6. 'These are the cases who call themselves "moderate drinkers," because they are never seen embracing a lamp-post.' The problem of moderate drinking in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain- James Kneale
• Part IV
• 7. Fashion acolytes or environmental saviours? When will young people have had 'enough'?- Rebecca Collins
• 8. What would a sufficiency economy look like?- Samuel Alexander.