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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
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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
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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
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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
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2016-08-04
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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
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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
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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
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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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Qualifying post-Westphalian sovereign statehood as a ‘power’ as argued for in Hendrik Berkhoff’s political theology, this book addresses the decades-long theological-spiritual debate between Christian realism and Christian pacifism in U.S. foreign policy and global...
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Springer
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2016-02-17
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Based on a careful reading of Lenin's Collected Works, Roland Boer pursues the implications for linking Lenin with religion and theology and seeks to bring Lenin into recent debates over the intersections between theology and the Left, between the Bible and political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-11
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Historically speaking, our vices, like our virtues, have come in two basic forms: intellectual and moral. One of the main purposes of this book is to analyze a set of specifically political vices that have not been given sufficient attention within political theory but...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-12-01
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From its founding 65 years ago, the People's Republic of China has evolved from an important yet chaotic and impoverished state whose power was more latent than real into a great power on the cusp of possessing the largest economy in the world. Its path from the 1949...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-12-01
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