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In political theory, the traditional model of state power was that elected officials make policy decisions which are then faithfully executed by a lower cadre of public servants. The complexity of the modern state, however, leaves this model outdated. The vast number of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-08-03
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Die vorliegende erste, auf zahlreichen Archivquellen basierende Monografie über Franz Fickers Ästhetik untersucht die Theorie des institutionell wichtigsten Universitätsästhetikers der österreichischen Monarchie des Vormärz aus zwei Gesichtspunkten: institutionell als...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-08-03
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Ob aus industrieller Haltung oder vom Biohof – Fleisch ist umstritten. Vieles spricht für eine Verringerung des Fleischkonsums: Tierschutz, Umwelt und Klima sowie die eigene Gesundheit. Aber werden wir unserer ethischen Verantwortung gerecht, indem wir etwas weniger...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-08-01
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We live in an age of growing dissatisfaction with the standard operations of representative democracy. The solution, according to a long radical democratic tradition, is the unmediated power of the people. Mass plebiscites and mass protest movements are celebrated as...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-08-01
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This book is a critical re-evaluation of Jean-Paul Sartre’s phenomenological ontology, in which a theory of egological complicity and self-deception informing his later better known theory of bad faith is developed.This novel reinterpretation offers a systematic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-31
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This book argues that Kant develops a theory of perception in the Critique of Judgment from which one can redefine his entire project, viewing and using aesthetics as its backbone, from the transcendental aesthetic of the First Critique to the Critique of...
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Springer
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2020-07-30
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French culture is unique in that philosophy has played a significant role from the early-modern period onwards, intimately associated with political, religious, and literary debates, as well as with epistemological and scientific ones. While Latin was the language of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-07-23
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French culture is unique in that philosophy has played a significant role from the early-modern period onwards, intimately associated with political, religious, and literary debates, as well as with epistemological and scientific ones. While Latin was the language of...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-23
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This book brings together philosophical approaches to explore the relation of recognition and poverty.This volume examines how critical theories of recognition can be utilized to enhance our understanding, evaluation and critique of poverty and social inequalities....
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Springer
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2020-07-20
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What is the source of logical and mathematical truth? This volume revitalizes conventionalism as an answer to this question. Conventionalism takes logical and mathematical truth to have their source in linguistic conventions. This was an extremely popular view in the...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-07-20
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The book offers the first comprehensive account of the debate on true courage as it was raging in ancient Greece, from the times when the immensely influential Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, were composed, to the period of the equally influential author,...
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Springer
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2020-07-20
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Interrogating Modernity returns to Hans Blumenberg's epochal The Legitimacy of the Modern Age as a springboard to interrogate questions of modernity, secularisation, technology and political legitimacy in the fields of political theology, history of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-17
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Political Philosophy and Public Purpose
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This book explores the problem of disagreement concerning the treatment of animals in a liberal society. Current laws include an unprecedented concern for animal welfare, yet disagreement remains pervasive. This issue has so far been neglected both in political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-17
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The major innovations which have occurred between the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century represent a fresh challenge to the responsibility of innovators. Innovators have disrupted, and continue to disrupt the world through the growth of technology,...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2020-07-17
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Karl Marx is the most historically foundational and systematic critic of capitalism to date, and the years since the 2008 financial crisis have witnessed a rebirth of his popular appeal. In a world of rising income inequality, right-wing nationalisms, and global climate...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-07-17
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The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (341-270 BCE), though often despised for his materialism, hedonism, and denial of the immortality of the soul during many periods of history, has at the same time been a source of inspiration to figures as diverse as Vergil,...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-07-17
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Every year nine million people are diagnosed with tuberculosis, every day over 13,400 people are infected with AIDs, and every thirty seconds malaria kills a child. For most of the world, critical medications that treat these deadly diseases are scarce, costly, and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-07-17
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Suppose you're offered an opportunity to experience something that is unlike anything you have ever encountered, but that's all you know--aside from the fact that the experience is physically safe and morally acceptable. How do you decide whether to take up the offer?...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-07-17
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Suppose you're offered an opportunity to experience something that is unlike anything you have ever encountered, but that's all you know--aside from the fact that the experience is physically safe and morally acceptable. How do you decide whether to take up the offer?...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-07-17
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Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field. Its broad purview includes work being done...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-07-16
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