Visions of council democracy: Castoriadis, Lefort, Arendt

Democracy and Dissent: Strauss, Arendt, and Voegelin in America

Gynecologic Malignancies Post-LeFort Colpocleisis

Introduction. LeFort colpocleisis (LFC) is a safe and effective obliterative surgical option for older women with advanced pelvic organ prolapse who no longer desire coital activity. A major disadvantage is the limited ability to evaluate for post-LFC gynecologic malignancies. Methods. We present the first case of endometrioid ovarian cancer diagnosed after LFC and review all reported gynecolog...

E-Democracy and Community Networks: Political Visions, Technological Opportunities, and Social Reality

Political systems and technology are interdependent and influence each other. On the one hand, political systems and political leaders aim at influencing the technological development and benefiting from technological progress; on the other, technological development has a considerable proportion of its own dynamics and potential to influence society and political systems. This chapter particul...

Obituary: Castoriadis and the democratic tradition

The death of Castoriadis gave rise to the expression of very diverse comments on a significant but also controversial intellectual output. Thus, on the one side, the intellectual establishment in France and his native Greece expressed an uncritical admiration for his work, without any deeper understanding of its radical anti-establishment meaning, usually on the basis of the anti-Marxist and an...

Analysis of a Problem Using Various Visions

 In this paper an applied problem, where the response of interest is the number of success in a specific experiment, is considered and by various visions is studied. The effects of outlier values of response on results of a regression analysis are so important to be studied. For this reason, using diagnostic methods, outlier response values are recognized. It is shown that use of arc-sine ...