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How are we to understand past political thinkers? Is it a matter simply of reading their texts again and again? Do we have to relate past texts of political thought to the contexts in which ideas were composed and in which the aims of past thinkers were formulated? Or...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-10-13
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This collection conceptualizes the question of rulership in past centuries, incorporating such diverse disciplines as archaeology, art history, history, literature and psychoanalysis to illustrate how kings and queens ruled in Europe from the antiquity to early modern...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-05
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The United States leads the world in incarceration, and the United Kingdom is persistently one of the European countries with the highest per capita rates of imprisonment. Yet despite its increasing visibility as a social issue, mass incarceration - and its...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-09-26
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Scholars working in or sympathetic to American political development (APD) share a commitment to accurately understanding the history of American politics - and thus they question stylized facts about America's political evolution. Like other approaches to American...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-09-15
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Lars von Trier's intense, disturbing, and sometimes funny films have led many to condemn him as misogynist or misanthropic. The same films inspire this collection's reflections on how our fears and desires regarding gender, power, race, finitude, family, and fate often...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-08-26
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Scholars working in or sympathetic to American political development (APD) share a commitment to accurately understanding the history of American politics - and thus they question stylized facts about America's political evolution. Like other approaches to American...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-08-25
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In recent decades, what is known as 'the subject' has been problematized by various old and new materialisms and today appears as decentered in and by language, split by the unconscious, deformed by social forces, governed by ideology and is either seen to have...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-20
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This is the second of five ambitious volumes theorizing the structure of governance above and below the central state.This book is written for those interested in the character, causes, and consequences of governance within the state.
The book argues that...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-08-18
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Das Buch entwirft mithilfe von Befragungen des Politischen eine radikale und kritische politische Theorie. Hierfür ist zum einen wichtig, die derzeit vorherrschende politische Theorie und Philosophie, die auf umfassende normative Begründungsprogramme setzt, einer...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2016-08-04
Collection :
Edition Theorie und Kritik
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Today, every continent retains elements of the legal code distributed by the British empire. The British empire created a legal footprint along with political, economic, cultural and racial ones. One of the central problems of political theory is the insurmountable gap...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-08-03
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Property remains the bedrock of the societies we all inhabit. It underpins our core institutions - including families, states and economies - and it is the medium through which the intensifying politics of inequality is played out. There is plenty of evidence that its...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-07-28
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Accounts of solidarity typically defend it in teleological or loyalty terms, justifying it by invoking its goal of promoting justice or its expression of support for a shared community. Such solidarity seems to be a moral option rather than an obligation. In contrast, A...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-07-01
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Accounts of solidarity typically defend it in teleological or loyalty terms, justifying it by invoking its goal of promoting justice or its expression of support for a shared community. Such solidarity seems to be a moral option rather than an obligation. In contrast, A...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-06-30
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Japan and China have been rivals for more than a millennium. In more recent times, China was the more powerful until the late nineteenth century, whileJapan took the upper hand in the twentieth. Now, China's resurgence has emboldened it even asJapan perceives itself...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-06-02
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This book is a study of overlooked themes in Iran’s contemporary political and intellectual history. It investigates the way Iranian Muslim intellectuals have discussed politics and democracy. As a history of Iranian Islamism and its transformation to post-Islamism,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-01
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This book examines early modern social contract theories within European representations of the Americas in the 16th and 17th century. Despite addressing the Americas only marginally, social contract theories transformed American social imaginaries prevalent at...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-05-31
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Una mappa indispensabile per orientarsi nelle trasformazioni in corso nella politica contemporanea. Questo libro di Rosanvallon (secondo di una trilogia di cui il primo e il terzo titolo sono già disponibili in lingua italiana) presenta una sintesi insieme storica e...
Editeur :
Rosenberg & Sellier
Parution :
2016-05-12
Collection :
La critica sociale
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Das essential erläutert zunächst die Begriffsgeschichte und Bedeutung der Souveränität für den Staat des 21. Jahrhunderts und beschreibt die drei Typen Parlamentssouveränität, Rechts- bzw. Verfassungssouveränität sowie (direkte) Volkssouveränität. Anschließend...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2016-05-06
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Some of our most fundamental moral rules are violated by the practices of torture and war. If one examines the concrete forms these practices take, can the exceptions to the rules necessary to either torture or war be justified? Fighting Hurt brings together key essays...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-03-24
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This uniquely composed textbook provides a cross-disciplinary introduction to the field of homeland and civil security. It unites U.S. and international scholars and practitioners in addressing both foundational topics and risk- informed priorities in fostering secure...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-02-18
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