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This is a much-needed new introduction to a field that has been transformed in recent years by exciting new subjects, ideas, and methods. It is designed both for students with central interests in philosophy and those planning to concentrate on the social sciences, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-11-06
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This is a much-needed new introduction to a field that has been transformed in recent years by exciting new subjects, ideas, and methods. It is designed both for students with central interests in philosophy and those planning to concentrate on the social sciences, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-11-06
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The future of Europe and the role it will play in the 21st century are among the most important political questions of our time.The optimism of a decade ago has now faded but the stakes are higher than ever.The way these questions are answered will have enormous...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-11-05
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There are certain moments, such as the American founding or the Civil Rights Movement, that we revisit again and again as instances of democratic triumph, and there are other moments that haunt us as instances of democratic failure. How should we view moments of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-11-03
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Kant's Politics in Context is the first comprehensive contextual study ofKant's legal and political philosophy. It gives an account of the development of his thought before, during, and after the French revolution. Reidar Maliks argues that Kant provided a philosophical...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-09-11
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The chief concern of this book is to discuss a democratic legitimation for modern law. Investigation is therefore steered towards current debates on processes of Europeanisation and the issue of self-constitutionalisation of a democratic polity. This turns out to be a...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-09
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The deep economic crisis that Europe has been facing for several years can be seen as both a cause and a consequence of the political indecision with which the European Community or European Union has been living for so long now.The end-goal of this unique political...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2014-08-20
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This book provides new insights into the negotiation and management of diversity in complex democratic settings. Much debate has been generated recently over questions of human rights and dignity with the aim of empowering and improving the recognition of smaller...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2014-07-25
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Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights collects thirteen new essays that analyze how human agency relates to poverty and human rights respectively as well as how agency mediates issues concerning poverty and social and economic human rights. No other collection of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-07-22
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This collection of new essays examines philosophical issues at the intersection of feminism and autonomy studies. Are autonomy and independence useful goals for women and subordinate persons? Is autonomy possible in contexts of social subordination? Is the pursuit of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-07-14
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Since the Enlightenment, the definition of terms such as humanity, citizenship and rights has fluctuated and these ideas continue to have relevance for contemporary discussions of globalization from a «cosmopolitan» perspective. This volume goes back to the conception...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-07-07
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Hannah Arendt beschäftigt sich in ihren Schriften mit konkreten Erfahrungen in der Welt. Ihr Verständnis von Politik definiert sich durch Phänomenalität und entsteht durch Handeln zwischen den Menschen. Arendt zeigt eine Idee des Politischen, die daran erinnert, dass...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-07-07
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This volume brings together essays -- three of them previously unpublished -- on the epistemology, ethics, and politics of memory by the late feminist philosopher Sue Campbell. The essays in Part I diagnose contemporary skepticism about personal memory, and develop an...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-07-01
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In all groups -- from couples to nation-states -- people influence one another. Much of this influence is benign, for example giving advice to friends or serving as role models for our children and students. Some forms of influence, however, are clearly morally suspect,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-07-01
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Zu den politischen revolutionären Bewegungen in Europa vor 1848 gehörte zum einem auch die Gärung von «umstürzenden» Ideen gegen überkommene Gedankensysteme. Dabei konnten zum anderen aber auch die Gedanken «umstürzen», «auf der Strecke bleiben». Für beide Aspekte sind...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-23
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Since 2008's financial crisis, we have heard much about the failures of bankers, regulators and politicians. David Marquand sees a wider issue: the fall of the public realm. The crisis, he argues, is one of our moral economy as much as of our political economy. Already,...
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Penguin
Parution :
2014-05-29
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Should public opinion determine--or even influence--sentencing policy and practice?Should the punishment of criminal offenders reflect what the public regards as appropriate? These deceptively simple questions conceal complex theoretical and methodological challenges to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-05-15
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Flexibility is usually seen as a virtue in today's world. Even the dictionary seems to dislike those who stick too hard to their own positions. The thesaurus links "intransigence" to a whole host of words signifying a distaste for loyalty to fixed positions:...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-05-05
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Forgiveness and Remembrance examines the complex moral psychology of forgiving, remembering, and forgetting in personal and political contexts. It challenges a number of entrenched ideas that pervade standard philosophical approaches to interpersonal forgiveness and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-05-01
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Throughout history, war seems to have had an iron grip on humanity. In this short book, internationally renowned philosopher of war, Christopher Coker, challenges the view that war is an idea that we can cash in for an even better one - peace. War, he argues, is central...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-01-14
Collection :
Global Futures
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