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Die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes widmen sich vergleichend der Entwicklung des Konservatismus in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und den USA von 1945 bis heute. Sie gehen dabei auf die unterschiedlichen Rahmenbedingungen und wechselseitigen Beziehungen ebenso ein wie...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-23
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The Viennese Socrates: Karl Popper and the Reconstruction of Progressive Politics examines Karl Popper’s attempt to develop a political theory that draws upon Socratic fallibilism and commitment to ethical autonomy while preserving progressive sociological insights and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-03-19
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Kok-Chor Tan addresses three key questions in egalitarian distributive justice: Where does distributive equality matter?; Why does it matter?; And among whom does it matter? He argues for an institutional site for egalitarian justice, and suggests that the mitigation of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-02-23
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Die normativen Fragen und Probleme um die Aufnahme und Weiterführung von lebenserhaltenden medizinischen Maßnahmen begegnen uns immer wieder. Zu den wohl prominentesten Beispielen zählt der Fall der Eluana Englaro. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit kommen vor allem drei normative...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-02-22
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Ein moderner Idealismus stützt sich auf den transzendentalen Charakter der wissenschaftlichen Axiomatik wie auf die indeterministischen Ergebnisse der modernen Naturwissenschaften. Die Flucht in die Ideologie, Utopie oder Dogmatik hat nur derjenige nötig, welcher zur...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-02-22
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To what extent is philosophy reliant on translation and how does this practice impact on philosophy itself? How should philosophical texts be translated? Is translation inherently philosophical? Can philosophy be described as a ‘type of translation’? The essays in this...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-02-15
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Can the government stick us with privacy we don't want? It can, it does, and according to Anita L. Allen, it may need to do more of it. Privacy is a foundational good, Allen argues, a necessary tool in the liberty-lover's kit for a successful life. A nation committed to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-11-01
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SUNDAY TIMES, NEW STATESMAN and TLS BOOKS OF THE YEARAt the heart of all human experience lies our obsession with death. For many years we turned to religion for answers, but with the twentieth century came ideas from evolution and politics to suggest that our lives -...
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Penguin
Parution :
2011-10-27
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«Es gibt keine UNESCO ohne Philosophie» – so die programmatische Erklärung dieser 1945 mit dem Ziel dauerhaften Friedens entstandenen Weltorganisation. Ohne sich auf eine bestimmte Philosophie festzulegen, versteht sie sich als eine ‘philosophische Institution’: Sie...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-30
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The Enlightenment shaped modernity. Western values of representative democracy and basic human rights, gender and racial equality, individual liberty, and freedom of expression and the press, form an interlocking system that derives directly from the Enlightenment's...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-08-12
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The Enlightenment shaped modernity. Western values of representative democracy and basic human rights, gender and racial equality, individual liberty, and freedom of expression and the press, form an interlocking system that derives directly from the Enlightenment's...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-08-11
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'These hours of solitude and meditation are the only time of the day when I am completely myself'
Reveries of the Solitary Walker is Rousseau's last great work, the product of his final years of exile from the society that condemned his political and religious views....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-07-14
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'These hours of solitude and meditation are the only time of the day when I am completely myself'
Reveries of the Solitary Walker is Rousseau's last great work, the product of his final years of exile from the society that condemned his political and religious views....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-07-14
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« Raison mystérieuse inventée par les politiques pour autoriser tout ce qu’ils font sans raison » (Saint Evremond) ? Ou mise en œuvre de mesures de« salut public » dictées par une impérieuse nécessité ? La raison d’Etat est associée dans l’imaginaire politique européen...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2011-07-08
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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy presents fifty original essays, each specially written by a leading figure in the field, covering the entire subject of the history of political philosophy. They provide not only surveys of the state of research...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-05-26
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The newest entry in our popular “Bold-faced” series offers an innovative reading of Thomas Paines two most influential essays. Readers will find inspiration in this unique edition, which features the authoritative text of Paines works, highlighted important...
Editeur :
Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2011-04-05
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Bold-Faced Wisdom
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This volume is devoted to a critical discussion and re-appraisal of the work of Anglo-American Idealists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Idealism was the dominant philosophy in Britain and the entire English-speaking world during the last decades of the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-07
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This book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on working with young people, focusing on education, health and social work, and draws on projects and perspectives from the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Australia. The volume highlights the ethical...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-03
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When the noted political philosopher Iris Marion Young died in 2006, her death was mourned as the passing of "one of the most important political philosophers of the past quarter-century" (Cass Sunstein) and as an important and innovative thinker working at the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-01-19
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L’Uomo senza qualità di Robert Musil si muove in modo costante tra i due poli di crisi e possibilità. Questo studio analizza tre categorie, assi portanti della modernità, che nel romanzo illustrano questo movimento dialettico: il Soggetto, lo Stato, la Storia. Con...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-01-14
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