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Is Democracy overrated? Does power corrupt? Or do corrupt people seek power? Do corporate puppet masters pull politicians’ strings? Why does Frank talk to the camera? Can politics deliver on the promise of justice? House of Cards depicts our worst fears about politics...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-10-06
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The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
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This book explores and critically evaluates conceptual and justificatory models related to paternalism in the context of moral philosophy. Paternalistic interventions promoting someone’s good or protecting the person from self-harming actions raise controversial...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-09-18
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One of the great polemics and the key founding anarchist text, Godwin's Enquiry is his major work of political philosophy.Enquiry Concerning Political Justice established William Godwin as the chief exponent of British radicalism, in the tradition of the French...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2015-07-02
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Rich people stash away trillions of dollars in tax havens like Switzerland, the Cayman Islands, or Singapore. Multinational corporations shift their profits to low-tax jurisdictions like Ireland or Panama to avoid paying tax. Recent stories in the media about Apple,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-07-01
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The emerging development of genetic enhancement technologies has recently become the focus of a public and philosophical debate between proponents and opponents of a liberal eugenics – that is, the use of these technologies without any overall direction or governmental...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2015-06-30
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The political history of the twentieth century can be viewed as the history of democracy’s struggle against its external enemies: fascism and communism. This struggle ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet regime. Some people think that...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-06-01
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Global Democratic Theory is the first comprehensive introduction to the changing contours of democracy in today’s hyperconnected world. Accessibly written for readers new to the topic, it considers the impact of globalization and global forms of governance and activism...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-05-22
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?This book uses Chinese version of dialectics to present interpretations of ocean governance, international regimes, issues in the South China Sea in general and the Chinese U-shaped line in particular, through the one-dot theory. It especially serves as a tool for...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-05-05
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Das Buch, einem modernen Islam verpflichtet, ist von aktueller Brisanz: Gegen die voreilige Identifizierung von Islam, Islamismus und Terrorismus ist Aufklärung über die islamisch-arabischen religiösen und politischen Kulturen notwendig. Der Autor fragt nach der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-03-16
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Four men in a cell in Rebibbia prison, Rome, awaiting trial on serious charges of subversion. One of them, the political thinker Antonio Negri, spends his days writing. Among his writings are twenty letters addressed to a young friend in France letters in which Negri...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-02-24
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In thirteen specially written essays, leading philosophers explore Kantian themes in moral and political philosophy that are prominent in the work of Thomas E. Hill, Jr. The first three essays focus on respect and self-respect.; the second three on practical reason and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-02-19
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In 1944 Horkheimer and Adorno warned that industrial society turns reason into rationalization, and Polanyi warned of the dangers of the self-regulating market, but today, argues Stiegler, this regression of reason has led to societies dominated by unreason, stupidity...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-02-18
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Robin Douglass presents the first comprehensive study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's engagement with Thomas Hobbes. He reconstructs the intellectual context of this engagement to reveal the deeply polemical character of Rousseau's critique of Hobbes and to show how Rousseau...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-02-12
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Robin Douglass presents the first comprehensive study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's engagement with Thomas Hobbes. He reconstructs the intellectual context of this engagement to reveal the deeply polemical character of Rousseau's critique of Hobbes and to show how Rousseau...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-02-12
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Not exercising as much as you should? Counting your calories in your sleep? Feeling ashamed for not being happier? You may be a victim of the wellness syndrome. In this ground-breaking new book, Carl Cederström and André Spicer argue that the ever-present pressure to...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-02-04
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What do we know about war crimes and justice?What are the discursive practices through which the dominant images of war crimes, atrocity and justice are understood? In this wide ranging text, Michael J. Shapiro contrasts the justice-related imagery of the war crimes...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-12-08
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Is equality valuable? This question dominates many discussions of social justice, which tend to center on whether certain forms of distributive equality are valuable, such as the equal distribution of primary social goods. But these discussions often neglect what is...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-12-03
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In Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj Žižek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how by drawing on the ideas of communism, we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism.There is obviously trouble in the global capitalist paradise. But why do we...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-11-27
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Dieses Buch thematisiert, auf zentrale Fragestellungen Hegels bezogen, die beiden grundlegendsten Kritiken seines absoluten Idealismus. Hegels Dialektik ist der Versuch, den Geist als das Übergreifende über sich als Denken und sein Anderes, das Sein, zu begreifen. Doch...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-11-25
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China is in the midst of the fastest and most intense process of urbanization the world has ever known, and Shanghai -- its biggest, richest and most cosmopolitan city00 is positioned for acceleration into the twenty-first century.
Yet, in its embrace of a hopeful --...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-11-15
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