Plays and Fragments: Antigone, Film, Modernity

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

Antigone: Policy-based Secure Group Communication System and AMirD: Antigone-based Secure File Mirroring System

This demonstration gives examples of how the Antigone policy-based secure group communication system supports applications. The concept behind Antigone came from the applications whose security needs may vary, depending on operating environment, principals in a group, or the data being exchanged. For example, some applications may handle proprietary data that requires confidentiality, others ma...

Interpreted Modernity Weber and Taylor on Values and Modernity

The writings of Weber and Taylor have some strong affinities. Both start from the anthropological idea that man evaluates his position in the world and constitutes the social world by values. Their analyses of values aim at an understanding of those intersubjective meanings that have constituted western modernity. But, at the same time, their anthropological starting point leads to different in...

War, medicine and modernity

This collection, the editors believe, is the first volume to bring together the themes of war, medicine and modernity. By contrast to cultural historians for whom "modernityand modernism becomes little more than a prelude to the invention of post-modernity", theirs is the modernity of Max Weber rather than of Igor Stravinsky-a nexus of government, bureaucracy, the military, and the professions....