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The first book length study of property-owning democracy, Republic of Equals argues that a society in which capital is universally accessible to all citizens is uniquely placed to meet the demands of justice. Arguing from a basis in liberal-republican principles, this...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-04
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Was ist gerecht? Ist gerecht, was dem Gesetz entspricht? Wie sind gesellschaftliche Güter gerecht zu verteilen? Wie ist globale Gerechtigkeit zu erreichen? Und wie die Gerechtigkeit gegenüber zukünftigen Generationen? Das Handbuch stellt die Geschichte des...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-10-18
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Social scientists have long resisted the radical ideas known as postcolonial thought, while postcolonial scholars have critiqued the social sciences for their Euro-centric focus. However, in Postcolonial Thought andSocial Theory, Julian Go attempts to reconcile the two...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-09-23
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This book presents and defends a novel theory of distributive justice, according to which political economic distributive justice reigns in a state if the government of that state ensures that citizens receive the benefits and burdens they deserve from it. The book...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-22
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This book interprets Hannah Arendt’s work as a “wandering” type of political theory. Focusing on the sub-text of Arendt’s writings which questions “how to think” adequately in political theory whilst categorically refraining from explicitly investigating...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-09-15
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Every day the news shows us provoking stories about what's going on in the world, about events which raise moral questions and problems. In Philosophers Take On the World a team of philosophers get to grips with a variety of these controversial issues, from the amusing...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-15
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Every day the news shows us provoking stories about what's going on in the world, about events which raise moral questions and problems. In Philosophers Take On the World a team of philosophers get to grips with a variety of these controversial issues, from the amusing...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-14
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This edited collection testifies to the fact that the animal liberation movement is now entering its political phase, after a period dominated by ethical approaches that undermined the paradigm of human supremacy and demanded justice for nonhuman beings. The...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-13
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Catastrophic events like the bombing of Hiroshima, Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans, and drone strikes periodically achieve renewed political significance as subsequent developments summon them back to public awareness. But why and how do different...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-09-06
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Der Souveränitätsbegriff Immanuel Kants wird in diesem Sammelband aus drei unterschiedlichen Perspektiven beleuchtet. Zu Beginn werden seine rechtlichen Bedingungen untersucht: im Allgemeinen die Kantische Rechtsauffassung und im Besonderen der Prozess des Übergangs vom...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-09-02
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Staat – Souveränität – Nation
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"Philosophie und Gesetz" markiert den Beginn eines umwälzenden Neuverständnisses von Maimonides und seiner arabischen Vorgänger im Horizont der platonischen Politischen Philosophie. Dem Buch von 1935 sind 5 thematisch zugehörige Aufsätze beigegeben. Die "Frühen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-08-27
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This book articulates a cosmopolitan theory of the principles which ought to regulate belligerents' conduct in the aftermath of war. Throughout, it relies on the fundamental principle that all human beings, wherever they reside, have rights to the freedoms and resources...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-08-18
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This book articulates a cosmopolitan theory of the principles which ought to regulate belligerents' conduct in the aftermath of war. Throughout, it relies on the fundamental principle that all human beings, wherever they reside, have rights to the freedoms and resources...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-08-18
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Politisches Denken von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Die Beiträge des Bandes zeigen, wie verschiedene Darstellungsformen Aufschluss über das politische Denken einer Epoche geben können. Dabei spannt sich der Bogen von mittelalterlichen Aristoteles-Kommentaren über...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-08-15
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This book explores Cicero’s moral and political philosophy with great attention to his life and thought as a whole. The author “thinks through” Cicero with a close reading of his most important philosophical writings. Nicgorski often resolves apparent tensions in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-11
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Gustave Hervé (1871–1944) seemed to have traditional Breton roots and a typical republican education. As a young socialist journalist and professor, he gained notoriety following a 1901 article which appeared to plant the tricolor in a dung pile. When French socialists...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-08-05
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This book presents and defends a novel theory of distributive justice, according to which political economic distributive justice reigns in a state if the government of that state ensures that citizens receive the benefits and burdens they deserve from it. The book...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-07-07
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Notwithstanding his contributions to religion, nonviolence, civil rights, and civil disobedience, among other areas, Gandhi's most significant contribution is that as a political philosopher. While he is not often treated as such, Gandhi was, as Anthony J. Parel argues,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-07-01
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In this sequel to his prize-winning book, The Eyes of the People, Jeffrey Edward Green draws on philosophy, history, social science, and literature to ask what democracy can mean in a world where it is understood that socioeconomic status to some degree will always...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-06-14
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'Man being born...to perfect freedom...hath by nature a power...to preserve his property, that is, his life, liberty and estate.'
Locke's Second Treatise of Government (1689) is one of the great classics of political philosophy, widely regarded as the foundational text...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-06-02
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