Social and political philosophy Books
Edinburgh University Press The Lesser Evil
Book SynopsisIn the age of terrorism Michael Ignatieff argues that we must not shrink from the use of violence. But its use - in a liberal democracy - must be measured.Trade ReviewIgnatieff is a rarity among modern thinkers and ethicists for his ability to communicate to a wide audience with lucidity, intellectual clarity and power. All these were to the fore in his 2000 analysis Virtual War, focussed on the Balkan conflicts, and they are present to the highest degree in The Lesser Evil ... Profound and powerful and a book that no thinking person should fail to read. Michael Ignatieff has written a sober yet chilling account of the issues facing liberal democracies in the face of modern international terrorism. In a surgical analysis he describes the challenges facing their leaders and citizens. His warning of the critical dangers of under- and over-reaction in combating terrorism could not be more timely. -- Justice Richard Goldstone, Constitutional Court of South Africa The strength of Igniatieff's thoughtful book is that it avoids reflexive answers and ideological certainties and insists on weighing choices carefully with respect to concrete human consequences.Table of Contents1. Political Ethics in an Age of Terror; 2. The Strength of the Weak; 3. The Weakness of the Strong; 4. The Ethics of Emergency; 5. The Temptations of Nihilism; 6. The Usefulness of Ethics.
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Edinburgh University Press The Ethics of Peace and War
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Edinburgh University Press Womens Rights as Multicultural Claims
Book SynopsisThis book attempts to reconfigure feminism in a way that responds to cultural diversity. The author contends that a discourse of rights can be formulated and that this task is crucial to negotiating a balance between women's interests and multicultural claims.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Exclusion, Internalisation, Harm: Contesting Human Rights from Feminist and Multicultural Perspectives; 2. Decolonizing the Other's Rights: Feminism, Multiculturalism and the Right to Mediation; 3. Consent by Right: Protecting the Rights of Women Cross-Culturally; 4. Learning Right Reason: Religious Exemptions and Gender Inequality in Education; 5. Rights, Reason, Affectivity? Feminist Multiculturalism and the case of the Hijab; Conclusion.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Deleuze and Politics
Book SynopsisDeleuze and Politics brings together some of the most important Deleuze scholars in the field today to explore and explain Deleuze's political philosophy.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Ian Buchanan and Nicholas Thoburn 1. Power, Theory and Praxis, Ian Buchanan 2. Deleuze and the Political Ontology of 'The Friend' (philos), Gregg Lambert 3. Molecular Revolutions: the Paradox of Politics in the Work of Gilles Deleuze, Isabelle Garo 4. Schizoanalysis, Nomadology, Fascism, Eugene W. Holland 5. What is a Militant?, Nicholas Thoburn 6. Bourgeois Thermodynamics, Claire Colebrook 7. The Age of Cynicism: Deleuze and Guattari on the Production of Subjectivity in Capitalism, Jason Read 8. Deleuze, Materialism and Politics, Manuel DeLanda 9. Becoming-Democratic, Paul Patton 10. Theorising European Ethnic Politics with Deleuze and Guattari, Janell Watson 11. People and Fabulation, Philippe Mengue 12. Micropolitical Associations, Ralf Krause and Marc Rolli
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Edinburgh University Press Deleuze and History
Book SynopsisDespite the fact that time, evolution, becoming and genealogy are central concepts in Deleuze''s work, there has been no sustained study of his philosophy in relation to the question of history. This book aims to open up Deleuze''s relevance to those working in history, the history of ideas, science studies, evolutionary psychology, history of philosophy and interdisciplinary projects inflected by historical problems.The essays in this volume (all by internationally recognised Deleuze scholars) cover all aspects of Deleuze''s philosophy and its relation to history, ranging from the application of Deleuze''s philosophy to historical method, Deleuze''s own use of the history of philosophy, his interpretations of other historical thinkers (such as Hume and Nietzsche) and the complex theories of time and evolution in his work.Contributors include: Paul Patton, Manuel DeLanda, John Protevi, Ian Buchanan, Tim Flanagan, James Williams, Eve Bischoff, Jay Lampert.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Claire Colebrook; 1. Events, Becoming and History, Paul Patton; 2. Of the Rise and Progress of Philosophical Concepts, Deleuze's Humean Historiography, Jeff Bell; 3. Theory of Delay in Balibar, Freud, and Deleuze, Decalage, Nachtraglichkeit, Retard, Jay Lampert; 4. Geohistory and hydro-bio-politics, John Protevi; 5. The Thought of History in Benjamin & Deleuze, Tim Flanagan; 6. The Cannibal Within, White Men and the Embodiment of Evolutionary Time, Eve Bischoff; 7. Ageing, Pperpetual Perishing and the Event as Pure novelty, Peguy, Whitehead and Deleuze on time and history, James Williams; 8. Cinema, chronos/cronos, becoming an accomplice to the impasse of history, David Deamer; 9. Deleuze's Untimely, Uses and Abuses in the Appropriation of Nietzsche, Craig Lundy; 10. Is Anti-Oedipus a May '68 book?, Ian Buchanan; 11. Molar Entities and Molecular Populations in Human History, Manuel DeLanda; Notes on Contributors; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Variations The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze
Book SynopsisAn insightful reading of Deleuze, from the point of view of a student, a reader and a fellow philosopher with whom Deleuze himself corresponded about his workTrade ReviewBoundas and Dyrkton have rendered an invaluable service by opening access to Jean-Clet Martin's important response to the work of Deleuze, a response that combines both philosophical rigor and poetic elegance with an insistence on demonstrating and relaying the conceptual multiplicity at the heart of Deleuzian philosophy, rather than merely commenting on it. -- Eugene W. Holland, Ohio State University Boundas and Dyrkton have rendered an invaluable service by opening access to Jean-Clet Martin's important response to the work of Deleuze, a response that combines both philosophical rigor and poetic elegance with an insistence on demonstrating and relaying the conceptual multiplicity at the heart of Deleuzian philosophy, rather than merely commenting on it.Table of ContentsLetter-Preface by Gilles Deleuze; Preamble; First Variation: Ethics and Aesthetics; 1. Battlefield; 2. Transcendental Empiricism; 3. Nomadology; Second Variation: Three Poetic Formulas for Nomadic Distribution; 4. Time out of Joint; 5. The Dicethrow; 6. 'The Garden of Forking Paths'; Third Variation: Multiplicities; 7. The Image of Thought; 8. Variations; 9. Poetics of Multiplicities; Fourth Variation: Malcolm Lowry or the Manifesto of Things; 10. The March toward Death; 11. Mannerisms; 12. For a Microphysics of Multiplicities; Postface to the Anglo-American Edition; Notes; Works by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari; Works Quoted in the Book; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Contemporary Political Movements and the Thought
Book SynopsisIn this book, Todd May shows how democratic progressive politics can happen and how it is happening in very different arenas. He takes an intensive look at a range of contemporary political movements and shows how, to one degree or another, they exemplify the political thought of Jacques Rancière. May''s easy, clear writing style means that no philosophical background is required.Following an essential overview of Rancière''s thought he considers the following groups: the Algerian refugee movement in Montreal for citizenship, the first Palestinian intifada, the politics of equality and identity politics in relation to the Zapatista movement, a local food co-op in South Carolina and an anarchist press in Oakland.Essentially this book shows how political theory and practice can enlighten one another and in an age of cynicism, fear and despair, Todd May suggests there is hope for the possibility of progressive democratic action. It will appeal to Rancière students, scholars and political activists alike.Trade ReviewThis is a timely, accessible and inspiring study of democracy in action. As a critic and as an activist Todd May has always insisted on the unity of theory and practice, but with this pathbreaking new book he has taken a crucial and unprecedented step both in the interpretation of Ranciere's philosophy and in the analysis of contemporary egalitarian projects. -- Peter Hallward, Kingston University This is a timely, accessible and inspiring study of democracy in action. As a critic and as an activist Todd May has always insisted on the unity of theory and practice, but with this pathbreaking new book he has taken a crucial and unprecedented step both in the interpretation of Ranciere's philosophy and in the analysis of contemporary egalitarian projects.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Thinking Politics With Jacques Ranciere; 2. Equality Among the Refugees: Montreal's Sans-Status Algerian Movement; 3. Subjectification in the First Palestinian Intifada; 4. The Zapatistas: From Identity to Equality; 5. Institutions of Equality; 6. Democratic Politics Now; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Global Solidarity
Book Synopsis'Solidarity' has been a mobilising word since the mid-19th century, conjuring images of united action in pursuit of social justice. This title explores this concept and raises the question of whether solidarity among strangers is a meaningful aspiration in our globalising age.Table of Contents1. The Evolution of a Concept; 2. Theories of Solidarity; 3. A Radical Humanist Approach to Human Solidarity; 4. Superseding the Nation; 5. A Gendered Solidarity; 6. Post-Secular Solidarity; 7. A Culture of Global Solidarity; 8. A Politics of Global Solidarity.
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Edinburgh University Press Global Solidarity
Book Synopsis'Solidarity' has been a mobilising word since the mid-19th century, conjuring images of united action in pursuit of social justice. This title explores this concept and raises the question of whether solidarity among strangers is a meaningful aspiration in our globalising age.Table of Contents1. The Evolution of a Concept; 2. Theories of Solidarity; 3. A Radical Humanist Approach to Human Solidarity; 4. Superseding the Nation; 5. A Gendered Solidarity; 6. Post-Secular Solidarity; 7. A Culture of Global Solidarity; 8. A Politics of Global Solidarity.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Julia Kristeva and Feminist Thought
Book SynopsisThis book appraises the relationship between contemporary feminism and Julia Kristeva, a major figure in Continental thought. It addresses the conflicting range of feminist responses to Kristeva''s key ideas and Kristeva''s equally conflicting as well as ambiguous position vis-à-vis feminism.Schippers argues that this complex relationship can only be understood by positioning Kristeva along the fissures and fault lines which run through feminism. By attending to feminism''s internal debates and disputes, and addressing the philosophical commitments and attachments held by Kristeva''s critics, the book clarifies the diverse Kristeva reception within feminism and illuminates how her ideas trouble contemporary feminist thought.And despite Kristeva''s fundamental ambiguity towards all matters feminist, Schippers makes a case for Kristeva''s important contribution to a feminist project which is sympathetic towards her account of fluid subjectivity and her critique of identity politics. In doing so, the author advances the scholarly understanding of Kristeva and of contemporary feminist thought.Trade ReviewSchippers provides a very readable and balanced account of the complex relations between Kristeva's thought and contemporary feminism. While making some telling criticisms of Kristeva, Schippers reads her recent philosophy of freedom and revolt - against the grain - as a feminist philosophy and succeeds in making Kristeva's ideas productive for feminist political thinking. -- Alison Stone, Reader in European Philosophy, Lancaster University Schippers provides a very readable and balanced account of the complex relations between Kristeva's thought and contemporary feminism. While making some telling criticisms of Kristeva, Schippers reads her recent philosophy of freedom and revolt - against the grain - as a feminist philosophy and succeeds in making Kristeva's ideas productive for feminist political thinking.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Kristeva and Feminism: A Critical Encounter; 2. Crisis, Revolt, Intimacy; 3. Corporeal Ethics: Between Violence and Forgiveness; 4. The Singularity of Genius; 5. Towards a Philosophy of Freedom?; Bibliography; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism
Book SynopsisWritten by experts in their field, this Companion surveys the challenges and provocations raised by the major voices of poststructuralism: Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Cixous, Lyotard, Guattari, Kristeva, Irigaray, Barthes and Baudrillard. Thematically organised and clearly written, it will guide students and researchers in philosophy, literature, art, geography, politics, sociology, law, film, and cultural studies around the nature and contemporary relevance of poststructuralism.Table of ContentsPoststructuralism and Modern European Philosophy; From Marxism to Poststructuralism; From Structuralism to Poststructuralism; On Language and Text; On Structure and Subject; On Image and Form; On Economy and Institution; On Resistance and Limit; Archaeology and Genealogy; Deconstruction; Schizoanalysis; Ecriture feminine; Poststructuralism and its Critics; From Poststructuralism to Postcolonialism; Poststructuralism and Discourse Analysis; Receptions (Cultural Theory); Receptions (Film Theory); Poststructuralism as French Theory; Poststructuralism: The Geography of its Dispersal.
£126.00
Edinburgh University Press Evil in Contemporary Political Theory
Book SynopsisExplores the actual and possible roles of evil in contemporary political theoryTable of ContentsNotes on the Contributors; 1. Introduction, Bruce Haddock, Peri Roberts, Peter Sutch; 2. Darkness and Silence: Evil in the Western Legacy, John Milbank; 3. Constructivism and Evil, Peri Roberts; 4. Systemic Evil and the Limits of Pluralism, Bruce Haddock; 5. Unreasonable or Evil?, Kerstin Budde; 6. Evil in Contemporary International Political Theory: Acts that Shock the Conscience of Mankind, Peter Sutch; 7. Doing Evil Justly? The Morality of Justifiable Abomination, Mark Evans; 8. Evil and the Left, Eve Garrard; 9. The Glamour of Evil: Dostoyesvsky and the Politics of Transgression, John Horton; 10. The Rhetoric of Moral Equivalence, Richard Shorten; 11. Banal but not Benign: Arendt on Evil, David Boucher; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Womens Rights as Multicultural Claims
Book SynopsisThis book attempts to reconfigure feminism in a way that responds to cultural diversity. The author contends that a discourse of rights can be formulated and that this task is crucial to negotiating a balance between women's interests and multicultural claims.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Exclusion, Internalisation, Harm: Contesting Human Rights from Feminist and Multicultural Perspectives; 2. Decolonizing the Other's Rights: Feminism, Multiculturalism and the Right to Mediation; 3. Consent by Right: Protecting the Rights of Women Cross-Culturally; 4. Learning Right Reason: Religious Exemptions and Gender Inequality in Education; 5. Rights, Reason, Affectivity? Feminist Multiculturalism and the case of the Hijab; Conclusion.
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Edinburgh University Press Wittgenstein and Political Theory
Book SynopsisThis book, newly available in paperback, relates Wittgenstein's philosophy to a range of problems and trends in contemporary political theory.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Wittgenstein and the Scene of Contemporary Political Theory; 1. Theorizing as a Lived Experience: A Wittgensteinian Investigation; 2. Wittgenstein's Philosophy After the Disaster; 3. Wittgenstein and Citizenship: Reading Socrates in Tehran; 4. Why Wittgenstein Is Not Conservative: Conventions and Critique; 5. Aspect Blindness in Religion, Philosophy, and Law: The Force of Wittgenstein Reading; 6. Seeing As It Happens: Theorizing Politics Through The Eyes of Wittgenstein; 7. Bare Life: Comedy, Trust, and Language in Wittgenstein and Beckett; Conclusion: The Personal Is The Theoretical; Bibliography.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Agamben and Colonialism
Book Synopsis12 new essays evaluating Agamben''s work from a postcolonial perspective. Svirsky and Bignall assemble leading figures to explore the rich philosophical linkages and the political concerns shared by Agamben and postcolonial theory.Agamben''s theories of the ''state of exception'' and ''bare life'' are situated in critical relation to the existence of these phenomena in the colonial/postcolonial world.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction: Agamben and Colonialism, Simone Bignall and Marcelo Svirsky; I. Colonial States of Exception; Imperialism, Exceptionalism and the Contemporary World, Yehouda Shenhav; 1. The Management of Anomie: The State of Exception in Post-communist Russia, Sergei Prozorov; 2. The Cultural Politics of Exception, Marcelo Svirsky; II. Colonial Sovereignty; 4. Indigenising Agamben: Rethinking Sovereignty in Light of the 'Peculiar' Status of Native Peoples, Mark Rifkin; 5. Reading Kenya's Colonial State of Emergency after Agamben, Stephen Morton; 6. Colonial Sovereignty, Forms of Life and Liminal Beings in South Africa, Stewart Motha; III. Bare Life and Bio-Politics; 7. Encountering Bare Life in Italian Libya and Colonial Amnesia in Agamben, David Atkinson; 8. Abandoning Gaza, Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir; 9. Colonial Histories: Biopolitics and Shantytowns in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area, Silvia Grinberg; IV. Method, History and Potentiality; 10. Metropolis and Colonisation, Leland de la Durantaye; 11. 'The Work of Men is Not Durable': History, Haiti and the Rights of Man, Jessica Whyte; 12. Potential Postcoloniality: Sacred Life, Profanation and the Coming Community, Simone Bignall; Notes on Contributors; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Agamben and Colonialism
Book Synopsis12 new essays evaluating Agamben''s work from a postcolonial perspective. Svirsky and Bignall assemble leading figures to explore the rich philosophical linkages and the political concerns shared by Agamben and postcolonial theory.Agamben''s theories of the ''state of exception'' and ''bare life'' are situated in critical relation to the existence of these phenomena in the colonial/postcolonial world.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction: Agamben and Colonialism, Simone Bignall and Marcelo Svirsky; I. Colonial States of Exception; Imperialism, Exceptionalism and the Contemporary World, Yehouda Shenhav; 1. The Management of Anomie: The State of Exception in Post-communist Russia, Sergei Prozorov; 2. The Cultural Politics of Exception, Marcelo Svirsky; II. Colonial Sovereignty; 4. Indigenising Agamben: Rethinking Sovereignty in Light of the 'Peculiar' Status of Native Peoples, Mark Rifkin; 5. Reading Kenya's Colonial State of Emergency after Agamben, Stephen Morton; 6. Colonial Sovereignty, Forms of Life and Liminal Beings in South Africa, Stewart Motha; III. Bare Life and Bio-Politics; 7. Encountering Bare Life in Italian Libya and Colonial Amnesia in Agamben, David Atkinson; 8. Abandoning Gaza, Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir; 9. Colonial Histories: Biopolitics and Shantytowns in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area, Silvia Grinberg; IV. Method, History and Potentiality; 10. Metropolis and Colonisation, Leland de la Durantaye; 11. 'The Work of Men is Not Durable': History, Haiti and the Rights of Man, Jessica Whyte; 12. Potential Postcoloniality: Sacred Life, Profanation and the Coming Community, Simone Bignall; Notes on Contributors; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press History and Becoming
Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates how Deleuze's philosophy provides us with a novel and important notion of historical creativity - that is, a way of thinking about history as an ontological force of creativity.Trade ReviewWhat is the relation between history and becoming? How is the creativity of becoming entangled with the history it either modifies or transforms? Lundy responds to such questions in this rich and lucid book. A must read for anyone who appreciates Deleuze and/or addresses the enigma of creativity. -- William E. Connolly, Krieger-Esienhower Professor, Johns Hopkins University What is the relation between history and becoming? How is the creativity of becoming entangled with the history it either modifies or transforms? Lundy responds to such questions in this rich and lucid book. A must read for anyone who appreciates Deleuze and/or addresses the enigma of creativity.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The Depths of History; Historical Intensities; Historical Depth; Towards the Future; 2. The Surfaces of History; The Logic of Surface Becoming; The History of Developmental Becoming; The Herculean Surface 3. Nomadic History; The Nomad and the State; The Phylum and the Smith; Pluralism=Monism; 4. From Prehistory to Universal History; The Prehistory of the State Apparatus; The Universalism of Capitalism; The Contingency of Universal History; The Creativity of Universal History; 5. What is History in What Is Philosophy?; Historical Concepts; Historical Planes; Historical Personae; Historiophilosophy; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Immanence Deleuze and Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis book identifies the original impetus and the driving force behind Deleuze's philosophy as a whole and the many concepts it creates.
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Edinburgh University Press The Ethics of the Global Environment
Book SynopsisGiving you new reflections on global environmental issues, this title looks at issues such as climate change, sustainable development and biodiversity preservation, and sensitively addresses global developments such as the Summits at Durban on climate and at Nagoya on biodiversity.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: Concepts, Theories and Values; 1. Nature and the Global Environment; 2. Global Ethics and Environmental Ethics; 3. Trustees of the Planet; 4. The Ethics of Extinction; Part II: Applications and Issues; 5. Global Resources and Climate Change; 6. Sustainable Development; 7. Population and Poverty; 8. Biodiversity and Preservation; Part III: Global Justice and Global Citizenship; 9. Environmental Justice and World Order; 10. Sustainability: Perspectives and Principles; 11. The Ethics of Climate Change; 12. World Citizenship in a Precarious World; Bibliography; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press What Is Education
Book SynopsisThis volume collects some of the foremost voices in contemporary thought to think through this question from their unique perspectives. Revealing the contentions and possibilities of a new engagement with the question of education, it provides fresh insights into education: what it is, what it is not, and what is to be done about it.
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Edinburgh University Press Agamben and Politics
Book SynopsisTracing how the logic of inoperativity works in the domains of language, law, history and humanity, Agamben and Politics systematically introduces the fundamental concepts of Agamben''s political thought and a critically interprets his insights in the wider context of contemporary philosophy.Agamben''s commentators and critics tend to focus on his powerful critique of the Western political tradition in the Homo Sacer series. But this narrow focus serves to obscure the overall structure of Agamben''s political thought, which is neither negative nor critical but affirmative. Sergei Prozorov brings out the affirmative mood of Agamben''s political thought, focusing on the concept of inoperativity, which has been central to Agamben''s work from his earliest writings.Trade Review'Prozorov has provided us with a wide-ranging study of Agamben's work that is both useful and engaging, a study that will surely meet its goal of enticing and emboldening its readers to return to Agamben's own texts with renewed interest and understanding.' Adam Kotsko, Shimer College - Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. All's Well That Ends Well: Agamben's Comic Politics; 2. The Sabbatical Animal: The Politics of Inoperativity; 3. Speaking the Unspeakable: Inoperative Language; 4. How to Play with the Law: Inoperative Statehood; 5. The Time of the End: Inoperative History; 6. Outside of Being: Inoperative Humanity; Conclusion: An Optimist Against All Odds; Bibliography; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Lord Kames
Book SynopsisRe-establishes the importance of the ideas and legal philosophy of Scottish jurist and philosopher Lord Kames. This book explains Kames' conceptions of legal philosophy, including black letter law, legal science, legal theory, legal sociology and anthropology in its early stages, setting them in the context of the Scottish Enlightenment.
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Edinburgh University Press Grounding Cosmopolitanism
Book SynopsisThis book explores Kant''s cosmopolitanism and the normative requirements consistent with a Kantian based cosmopolitan constitution. Topics such as cosmopolitan law, cosmopolitan right, the laws of hospitality, a Kantian federation of states, a cosmopolitan epistemology of culture and a possible normative basis for a Kantian form of global distributive justice are explored and defended.Contrary to many contemporary interpretations, Brown considers Kant''s cosmopolitan thought as a form of international constitutional jurisprudence that requires minimal legal demands versus the extreme condition of establishing a world state. Viewing Kant''s cosmopolitan theory as a minimal form of global jurisprudence allows it to satisfy communitarian, realist and pluralist concerns without surrendering cosmopolitan principles of human worth and cosmopolitan law. In this regard, it provides a more comprehensive understanding of Kantian cosmopolitanism and what normative implications this vision has for contemporary international political theory.Table of ContentsA Note on the Texts and Kant Referencing; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One; 1. Kant's Cosmopolitanism; 2. Kant's Cosmopolitan Law and the Idea of a Cosmopolitan Constitution; Part Two; 3. State Sovereignty, Federation and Kant's Cosmopolitanism; 4. Cultural Difference and Kant's Cosmopolitan Law; 5. Distributive Justice and the Capability for Effective Autonomy; 6. Conclusion: Applied Theory and a Continued Cosmopolitan Enthusiasm; Bibliography; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Butler and Ethics
Book Synopsis10 essays give the first sustained evaluation of Judith Butler''s alleged ethical turnJudith Butler is best known for Gender Trouble (1990), the book that introduced the idea of gender performativity. However, with the publication of Giving an Account of Oneself in 2005, it appeared that her work had taken a different turn: away from considerations of sex, gender, sexuality and politics, and towards ethics.Bringing together a group of internationally renowned theorists, the volume asks: has there been an ethical turn in Butlers work or is the increasing emphasis on ethics the culmination of ideas in her earlier work? How do ethics relate to politics in her work, and how do they connect to her increasing concern with violence, war and conflict?Butler and Ethics will break new ground in scholarship on Butler and will also advance on-going debates about materiality and the body, biopolitics, affect theory, precariousness and subjectification.
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Edinburgh University Press Butler and Ethics
Book SynopsisBringing together a group of internationally renowned theorists, the volume asks: has there been an ethical turn in Judith Butlers work or is the increasing emphasis on ethics the culmination of ideas in her earlier work? How do ethics relate to politics in her work, and how do they connect to her increasing concern with violence, war and conflict?
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Edinburgh University Press Nancy and the Political
Book SynopsisFocussed around three core themes - capitalism, the metaphysics of democracy and aesthetics - these 13 essays emphasise the potential of Nancy's political thought and situate it within a broader intellectual context.
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Edinburgh University Press Europe After Derrida
Book SynopsisTackling issues ranging from Europe's legal, institutional and cultural identity to its border, citizenship and integration policies, and looking forward to its legacy for the future, this book features contributors who interrogate the various dimensions and contours of the European crisis.
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Edinburgh University Press Philosophy OutsideIn
Book SynopsisChristopher Norris raises some basic questions about the way that analytic philosophy has been conducted over the past 25 years. In doing so, he offers an alternative to what he sees as an over-specialisation of a lot of recent academic work. Arguing that analytic philosophy has led to a narrowing of sights to the point where other approaches that might be more productive are blocked from view, he goes against the grain to claim that Continental philosophy holds the resources for a creative renewal of analytic thought.
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Edinburgh University Press Just Enough
Book SynopsisLiam Shields systematically clarifies and defends the political philosophy of Sufficientarianism, which insists that securing enough of some things, such as food, healthcare and education, is a crucial demand of justice. He engages in practical debates about critical issues such as child-rearing and global justice.
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Edinburgh University Press Taylor and Politics
Book SynopsisTaylor and Politics 'assesses Taylor's thought and its relevance to contemporary political challenges, especially religion and secularity, multicultural diversity, political alienation and demands for greater democracy. Craig Browne and Andrew Lynch outline Taylor's key concepts and highlight the substantive applications of his ideas.
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Edinburgh University Press At the Edges of Thought
Book SynopsisIllustrates and addresses the breadth of Deleuze's post Kantian influences and engagements. This volume explores under developed encounters in Deleuzian thought and advances novel readings of established problematics. It focuses on philosophical encounters in Deleuze's texts.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction - Deleuze and Post Kantian Thought: Method, Ideas and Aesthetics; Daniela Voss and Craig Lundy; Part I. Deleuze, Kant and Maimon; 1. Deleuze, Kant and the Transcendental Field Daniel W. Smith; 2. The Problematic Idea, Neo Kantianism and Maimon's Role in Deleuze's Thought Anne Sauvagnargues; 3. Maimon, Kant, Deleuze: The Concepts of Difference and Intensive Magnitude Daniela Voss; 4. Deleuze and Kant's Critique of Judgment Beth Lord; Part II. Deleuze, Romanticism and Idealism; 5. What is a Literature of War?: Kleist, Kant, and Nomadology Brent Adkins; 6. The Calculable Law of Tragic Representation and the Unthinkable: Rhythm, Caesura, and Time, from Holderlin to Deleuze Arkady Plotnitsky; 7. Ground, Transcendence, and Method in Deleuze's Fichte Joe Hughes; 8. 'The magic formula we all seek': Spinoza + Fichte = x Frederick Amrine; 9. State Philosophy and the War Machine Nathan Widder; 10. Tragedy and Agency in Hegel and Deleuze Sean Bowden; Part III. Deleuzian Lines of Post Kantian Thought; 11. Schopenhauer and Deleuze Alistair Welchman; 12. Feuerbach and the Image of Thought Henry Somers Hall; 13. Deleuze's 'Power of Decision', Kant's = X, and Husserl's Noema Jay Lampert; 14. Kant's Bastards: Deleuze and Lyotard Gregg Lambert; 15. Chronos is Sick: Deleuze, Antonioni, and the Kantian Lineage of Modern Cinema; Gregory Flaxman; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Deleuze and Derrida
Book SynopsisFor the first time, Vernon W. Cisney brings you a scholarly analysis of Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze's contrasting concepts of difference. He distinguishes their responses to Hegel and Nietzsche. He finds that Deleuze formulates an affirmative conception of difference, while Derrida's 'differance' amounts to an irresolvable negativity.
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Edinburgh University Press A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together a team of international specialists on Deleuze and Guattari to provide in-depth critical studies of each plateau of their major work, 'A Thousand Plateaus'. It combines an overview of the text with deep scholarship and brings a renewed focus on the philosophical significance of their project.
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Edinburgh University Press Creative Involution
Book SynopsisThe book focuses on a philosophical trajectory that not only had a profound impact on critical thought of the 20th and now 21th centuries, but on cosmopolitan, contemporary culture more broadly and on artistic experiment and expression in particular.
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Edinburgh University Press Political Theology
Book SynopsisThis book provides a genealogical mapping of the universalisation/secularisation thesis that is both widely saluted and mistrusted as master narrative of modern political and normative history.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Premises and Arguments; Part 1: Religions R Us; 1. From Sovereignty to Negeschatology; 2. Social Systems on the Cross; 3. The Religion of Progress; 4. Political Theology beyond Schmitt; Part 2: Historicised Political Theology; 5. From Jerusalem to Rome via Constantinople; 6. The Transition from Secularism to Post-Secularism; 7. Deeds Without Words; Notes, Index.
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Edinburgh University Press LaTour and the Passage of Law
Book SynopsisThis exciting new vision for legal theory combines analytical tools drawn from Latour's actor-network theory developed in Science in Action, Reassembling the Social and The Making of Law with the philosophical anthropology of the Moderns in An Inquiry into Modes of Existence to blaze a new trail in legal epistemology.
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Edinburgh University Press Returning to Revolution
Book SynopsisPresents an account of the concept of revolution in the work of Deleuze and Guattari. This title provides the full length account of Deleuze and Guattari's relationship to a concrete revolutionary struggle. It also outlines the theoretical and practical origins of the return to political revolution.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd 1848 The Year of Revolutions The International
Book SynopsisEurope was swept by a wave of revolution in 1848 that had repercussions stretching well beyond the Continent. Governments fell in quick succession or conceded significant reforms, before being rolled back by conservative reaction. Though widely perceived as a failure, the revolution ended the vestiges of feudalism, broadened civil society and strengthened the state prior to the rapid industrialisation and urbanisation of the latter part of the nineteenth century. This volume brings together essays from leading specialists on the international dimension, national experiences, political mobilisation, reaction and legacy.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction. Part I International Dimension: A balancing act: domestic pressure and international systemic constraints in the foreign policies of the great powers 1848-51, M. Schulze; The 1848 revolutions and the British empire, M. Taylor. Part II National Experiences: Chartism in 1848: reflections on a non-revolution, H. Weisser; Spain and the revolutions of 1848, D.R. Headrick; The making of the Roman republic, H. Hearder; Revolutionary organisation in the context of backwardness: Hungary's 1848, G. Handlery; Liberal constitutionalism in the Frankfurt Parliament of 1848: an inquiry based on roll-call analysis, D.J. Mattheisen. Part III Political Mobilisation: The insurrectionary tradition in France 1835-48, P. Pilbeam; Peasants and revolutionaries in Venice and Veneto, 1848, P. Ginsborg; Petitions and the social context of political mobilisation in the revolution of 1848/49, C. Lipp/L. Krempel; Violence between civilian and state authorities in the Prussian Rhineland 1830-48, J.M. Brophy; Festivals of national unity in the German revolution of 1848-49, J. Sperber; German women and the revolution of 1848-49: Kathinka Zitz-Halein and the Humania Association, S. Zucker. Part IV Counter Revolution and the State: The role of state violence in the period of transition to industrial capitalism: the example of Prussia from 1815 to 1848, A. Lüdtke; Contention with civility: the state and social control on the German southwest 1760-1850, K. Wegert; The failure of popular counter-revolution in Risorgimento Italy: the case of the centurions, 1831-47, A.J. Reinermann; The techniques of repression. The control of popular protest in mid-19th-century France, R. Price; An army divided: the loyalty crisis of the Habsburg officer corps in 1848-49, I. Deak. Part V Legacy: Garibaldi and the legacy of the revolution of 1848 in southern Spain, G. Thomson; Commemorations of the revolution of 1848 and the Second Republic, T. Baycroft. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Nazi Germany The International Library of Essays
Book SynopsisThe volume reproduces a set of recently-published articles demonstrating the embeddedness of Nazi genocide and other crimes against humanity in a German society that was haunted by practices of denunciation. Far from being an inexplicable invasion of evil into otherwise sound German society, the genocide and other crimes against humanity were committed not merely by members of SS organizations but by common people, civilians and military men alike, within Germany as well as in occupied territories, during the late 1930s and World War II. Although analyzing the past, the book also seeks contribute to current debates on the causes of genocide and other crimes against humanity.Table of ContentsContents: Series preface; Introduction; Part I The SS-State: 'Working towards the Führer'. Reflections on the nature of the Hitler dictatorship, Ian Kershaw; The anatomy of a volkspartei, Jürgen W. Falter and Detlef Mühlberger. Part II Elimination of Privacy: The 'private' became the 'public'. Wives as denouncers in the 3rd Reich, Vandana Joshi; Social penetration and police action: collaboration structures in the repertory of Gestapo activities, Klaus-Michael Mallmann. Part III Moulding Future Generations Through Sports and Youth Organizations: 34 gold medallists: Nazi women remember the 'kampfzeit', Herbert D. Andrews; Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia. A documentary film as instrument of propaganda?, Guido Rings; Creating conformity. The training of girls in the Bund Deutscher Mädel, Lisa Pine. Part IV Economic Organization and the War: Plundering Jewish Property and Enforcing Slave Labour: Big business and the persecution of the Jews; the Flick concern and the 'Aryanization' of Jewish property before the war, L.M. Stallbaumer; Labour and extermination: economic interest and the primacy of weltanschauung in National Socialism, Ulrich Herbert; Triangle: foreign workers, German civilians and the Nazi regime. War and society in Württemberg, 1939-45, Jill Stephenson. Part V Abuse of Science: Medicine, male bonding and homosexuality in Nazi Germany, Harry Oosterhuis; Assessing neuropathological research carried out on victims of the 'euthanasia' programme, Jürgen Pfeiffer. Part VI Preparing the Holocaust: The Nazi party and its violence against the Jews, 1933-1939: violence as a historiographical concept, Armin Nolzen; Big business and 'Aryanization' in Germany, 1933-1939, Peter Hayes. Part VII Implementing the Holocaust: Were the perpetrators of genocide 'ordinary men' or 'real Nazis'? Results from 1500 biographies, Michael Mann; Struggle and survival. Jewish women in the anti-Fascist resistance in Germany, Simone Erpel. Part VIII Knowing and Remembering the Hol
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Jacobite Prisoners of the 1715 Rebellion
Book SynopsisThe Jacobite rebellion of 1715 was a dramatic but ultimately unsuccessful challenge to the new Hanoverian regime in Great Britain. It did, however, reveal serious fault lines in the political foundations of the new regime which enormously restricted the government''s freedom of action in the suppression of the rebellion, and effectively made the treatment of the rebels in its aftermath the true test of the new dynasty''s legitimacy and stability. Whilst the rulers of England had traditionally dealt harshly with internal rebellion, monarchs and their ministers had to find a delicate balance between showing the power of the regime through the candid exercise of force while maintaining their own reputation for justice and clemency. As such George I and his government had to tailor their reaction to the 1715 rebellion in such a way that it effectively discouraged further participation in Jacobite insurgency, undercut the rebels'' ability to challenge the state, and made clear the regime''Trade Review'Sankey's book will prove useful to postgraduates and academics, particularly if they possess a background in the period. The book explains the general quiescence of Scottish Jacobites for a generation (being honour bound for good behavior to their Whig patrons who had saved their lives and estates), despite their retention of economic and social aspects lost by their northern English comrades.' The Journal of Military History ’...in eight balanced, soundly researched chapters which collectively fill a critical historiographical gap since [...] the rebellion's aftermath has never been analyzed in detail.' 18th Century Scottish Studies ’... Margaret Sankey's Jacobite Prisoners of the 1715 Rebellion is a vital study that takes an important historiographical position. Sankey offers an informed narrative and analysis of the various Jacobite ranks that submitted to Hanoverian forces and the mercy of George I and of the mechanisms and pressures that dictated their subsequent treatment.’ Journal of British Studies ’This book is an important contribution to the reassessment of the first Hanoverian reign and administration.’ English Historical Review ’Sankey’s Jacobite Prisoners offers a comprehensive and analytically penetrating account of government policy towards those captured as having borne arms or materially assisted the rebels in 1715-16.’ Royal Stuart ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Prelude to rebellion in England and Scotland; The Preston gentlemen; Half-pay officers and commoners after Preston; Transporting treason; The summer of 1716; Scotland 1715-16; The Carlisle trials and the 1718 grand juries; The Forfeited Estates Commission in England and Scotland; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Strategic Defence Initiative US Policy and
Book SynopsisCentral to US foreign policy, the Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI) was launched by Ronald Reagan in 1983. While the Reagan administration failed to deploy the SDI system, it featured prominently in the relationship between the US and the Soviet Union. This insightful book examines SDI and the Reagan administration through an evaluation of the role of the SDI in the end of the Cold War. Presenting an extensive range of primary and secondary material together with interviews, the book will be welcomed by academics and upper level students interested in politics and history.Trade Review'Mira Duric presents an excellent analysis of the role of SDI in US-Soviet relations in the Reagan era. Her book is an important contribution to the historiography on the Cold War and the Reagan presidency.' Dr Peter Boyle, University of Nottingham, UK 'This is a detailed and well-researched book...Not only does it shed light on how the Cold War ended but it also helps to illuminate the on-going debate about missile defence in the United States. This latter debate, with important implications for both America's allies and adversaries, will remain a key issue in international relations for the foreseeable future.' Dr Wyn Rees, University of Nottingham, UK 'Dr Duric has written one of the most comprehensive explorations of the Reagan administration's efforts to develop SDI and the impact of such policies on the Cold War. This book is a fine addition to the scholarship of the Cold War and US national defense policy. The author's exploration of SDI and the Reagan administration is especially important in light of the continuing debate about national missile defense in the United States and the broader efforts to promote homeland security.' Professor Tom Lansford, The University of Southern Mississippi, USA '...offers a competent survey of the issues and...is clear and based on a thorough study of an extensive literature supplemented by interviews with the key figures in the Reagan administration.' SeerTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; The strategic defence initiative; The Soviet reaction to the SDI; The Reykjavik Summit: October 11-12 1986; US-Soviet relations after the Reykjavik Summit; Strategic defence: the post-Cold War and post-September 11 world; Conclusion; Selective bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Comparative Studies in Modern European History
Book SynopsisThe two main themes of this selection of articles by Professor Hroch are the process of nation formation during the 19th century, especially in the case of 'smaller' European nations, i.e. those without statehood, and the social and political aspects of the transition from a pre-modern, feudal and traditional society to a modern capitalist one and the uneven pace of this change in the West and East of Europe. The author argues that we cannot study the process of nation-formation as a mere product of some nebulous 'nationalism'; we have to understand it as a part of social and cultural transformation, as a component of modernization of European societies, even though this modernization did not occur synchronically and had its regional specificities. Many of the papers focus specifically on the Czech case, but throughout there is an emphasis on comparative history.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction. Part 1 National movements: The social composition of the Czech patriots in Bohemia 1827-1848; From ethnic group toward the modern nation: the Czech case; Zionism as a European national movement; De l'ethnicité à la nation: un chemin oublié vers la modernité; The social interpretation of linguistic demands in European national movements; Social and territorial characteristics in the composition of leading groups of national movements; Real and constructed: the nature of the nation; National minority movements and their aims. Part 2 Nationalism: How much does a nation depend on nationalism?; Nationalism and national movements: comparing the past and present of Central and Eastern Europe; An unwelcome national identity or what to do about 'nationalism' in post-Communist countries; Eugen Lemberg's 'nationalismustheorie'. Part 3 Historical Heritage: Historical belles-lettres as a vehicle of the image of national history; Historical heritage: continuity and discontinuity in the construction of national histories (with J Malecková); The Czech discourse on Europe, 1848-1948. Part 4 Social Change: Die rolle des Zentraleuropäischen Handels im Ausgleich der Handelsbilanz zwischen Ost- und Westeuropa 1550-1650; Die rezeption der Französischen Revolution als Indikator des Fortschritts?; Zur Typologie der europäischen Revolutionen. Einige Ãœberlegungen zur nicht bestehenden Diskussion; Criteria and indicators of uneven development; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd War and Religion after Westphalia 16481713
Book SynopsisMany historians consider the Peace of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years'' War in 1648, to mark a watershed in European international relations. It is generally agreed that Westphalia brought to an end more than a century of religious conflicts and marked the beginning of a new era in which secular power politics was the prime motivating factor in international relations and warfare. The purpose of this volume is to question this assumption and reconceptualise the relationship between war, foreign policy and religion during the period 1648 to 1713. Some of the contributions to the volume directly challenge the idea that religion ceased to play a role in war and foreign policy. Others confirm the traditional view that religion did not play a dominant role after 1648, but seek to re-evaluate its significance and thereby redefine religious influences on policy in this period. By exploring this issue from various perspectives, the volume offers a unique opportunity to reassess the iTrade Review'This volume of essays [...] contains much that is of interest, and showcases a wide range of methodological, thematic, and geographical approaches. It suggests the formation of a new historiographical consensus, and provides a springboard for further discussion.' War in HistoryTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: the 'dark alliance' between religion and war, David Onnekink; Plus royaliste que le pape: Louis XIV's religious policy and his Guerre de Holland, Paul Sonnino; The role of religion in Spanish foreign policy in the reign of Carlos II (1665-1700), Christopher Storrs; After Westphalia: remodelling a religious foreign policy, Andrew C. Thompson; The last war of religion? The Dutch and the 9 Years War, David Onnekink; Diplomacy, religion and political stability: the views of 3 English diplomats, Stéphane Jettot; The blessed Trinity: the army, the navy and providence in the conduct of warfare, 1688-1713, K.A.J. McLay; Schomberg, Miremont and Huguenot invasions of France, Matthew Glozier; The States General on religion and war: manifestos, policy documents and prayer days in the Dutch republic, 1672-1713, Donald Haks; An English dissenter and the crisis of European Protestantism: Roger Morrice's perception of European politics in the 1680s, Stephen Taylor; A righteous war and a Papist peace: war, peace and religion in the political rhetoric of the United Provinces, 1648-1672, Jill Stern; Defending the true faith: religious themes in Dutch pamphlets on England, 1688-1689, Emma Bergin; Conclusion, Benjamin J. Kaplan; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Theory
Book SynopsisDeliberately eschewing disciplinary and temporal boundaries, this volume makes a major contribution to the de-traditionalization of political thinking within the discourses of international relations. Collecting the works of twenty-five theorists, this Ashgate Research Companion engages some of the most pressing aspects of political thinking in world politics today. The authors explore theoretical constitutions, critiques, and affirmations of uniquely modern forms of power, past and present. Among the themes and dynamics examined are textual appropriation and representation, materiality and capital formation, geopolitical dimensions of ecological crises, connections between representations of violence and securitization, subjectivity and genderization, counter-globalization politics, constructivism, biopolitics, post-colonial politics and theory, as well as the political prospects of emerging civic and cosmopolitan orders in a time of national, religious, and secular polarization. RaTrade Review’This collection of essays deploys political theory as a tool of political interrogation, asking the important question of what rules of truth and truths of rule now govern the times in which we live. There is no more valuable or comprehensive pedagogical device than The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Theory, Modern Power, World Politics for exploring it.’ Michael Dillon, Lancaster University, UK ’A rich challenge to IR as usual. Read this. Think this through. Teach this.’ Cynthia Weber, University of Sussex, UKTable of Contents1: Introduction: The Measure of Modern Theory in World Politics; I: Theoretical Interventions; 2: Ever Since the Days of Thucydides: On the Textual Origins of IR Theory; 3: Appropriating Adam Smith: Affirmation and Contestation in Discourses of Political Economy 1; 4: Marx and Materiality: “International Relations” as Embedded Efficiencies and Emergencies 1; 5: No International Theory, but What about Transformation? A Critical Reading of Martin Wight and Raya Dunayevskaya; 6: Hannah Arendt and the Geopolitics of Ecology; 7: Critical Spirits/Realist Specters: Some Hypotheses on the Spectro-Poetics of International Relations; II: Security, Representation, and Subjectivity; 8: The Centrality of Tabloid Geopolitics: Western Discourses of Terror and the Defacing of the Other; 9: Writing from the Edge; 10: The Presence of War: “Here and Elsewhere” 1; 11: Territorializing the Soul: The Geopolitics of Subjectivity 1; 12: Return of the Oppressed: Recognition, Violence, and the Mediation of Estrangement; 13: The Achievements of Feminism in IR; III: The Analytics of World Politics; 14: Between U.S. Imperialism and “Empire”: World Politics and the Globalization of Late Capitalist Subjectivity 1; 15: “Beyond” the International: The Immanence of the Global; 16: Interdisciplining Global Thinking; 17: The (Human) Subject of Security: Beyond the Biopolitics of Resilience; 18: Melancholia, Realism, and International Relations; 19: Beyond Dualism: Expanded Understandings of Religion and Global Justice 1; 20: The Paradox of Crisis and the Importance of Being Disinterested; 21: Constructivism, Archaeology, and Humanitarian Intervention: A Reflection on Method; IV: Virtual Communities; 22: What Would a Global Civic Order Look Like? A Perspective from Islamic History 1; 23: Cosmopolitan Theory and World Politics: An Argument for Cosmopolitan Realism; 24: The Last Frontier: Contemporary Peregrinations over the Borders of International Relations; 25: Nationalism, Violence, and Globalization: Reflections on Gandhi's Political Thought; Epilogue: Political Judgment in International Relations Theory
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Standing G Precariat
Book SynopsisGuy Standing is Professorial Research Associate at SOAS University of London, a Fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences, and co-founder and now honorary co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), an international NGO that promotes basic income. His latest book is Battling Eights Giants: Basic Income Now (2020). .Trade ReviewA very important book. * Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA *Buy Guy Standing's book, The Precariat! Or nick/borrow it! * John Harris, The Guardian *Guy Standing provides an incisive account of how precariousness is becoming the new normality in globalised labour markets, and offers important guidelines for all concerned to build a more just society. * Richard Hyman, London School of Economics, UK *This is an important book. * Citizen's Income Newsletter *This important and original book brings out the political dangers, so clear in contemporary America, of failing to address the insecurities of the Precariat. It also suggests the way forward: a reconstruction of the concept of work. * Eileen Applebaum, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington DC, USA *Over 90% of workers in India are informal, poorly paid, without any economic security. Guy Standing combines vision with practicality in outlining policies that are urgently needed to provide security to workers such as these around the world. * Renana Jhabvala, Self-Employed Women’s Association of India *Standing has produced a well-informed and important book investigating, for the first time in a comprehensive way, the direction in which global economic security is moving in the 21st century. The book is packed with statistics presented in a very readable form and drawing on extensive published research. It is a compelling account of economic insecurity... * Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation *[T]here is much in The Precariat to recommend it to labor educators, labor studies scholars, and activists of all sorts...a book that provides a clear and detailed understanding of how the situation of precarious employment affects the lives of the “precariat” individually, collectively, day to day, and over the longer term. This is the book’s greatest value. Standing does this with many international examples, even though his main intellectual base is in Britain. His analysis of the impact of precarity, along with the diversity of examples from around the world, makes this the primary book on the topic to date. * Labor Studies Journal *In summary, the analysis and arguments are compelling, for The Precariat brings together and develops many current strands of thought within the (social science) literature, and builds on the materialist tradition which ultimately leads to a rejection of 'neoliberalism'. Standing captures some of the collectivist social policy tradition established by Richard Titmuss, but with more attention to all forms of work and notions of occupational citizenship...The social policy community needs to engage more with issues at stake here, making The Precariat essential reading * Journal of Social Policy *The most challenging proposal here is probably the one urging states to grant all citizens individually a modest basic income, without conditions or behavioural rules, but Standing provides the most brilliant, succinct and clear-eyed exposition of its economic and social advantages available so far. * E-International Relations *Table of ContentsCovid – 19 Preface Abbreviations 1 The Precariat 2 Why the Precariat is Growing 3 Who Enters the Precariat 4 Migrants: Victims, Villains or Heroes? 5 Labour, Work and the Time Squeeze 6 A Politics of inferno 7 A Politics of Paradise Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Frantz Fanon
Book SynopsisFrantz Fanon was one of the twentieth-century''s most influential theorists and activists, whose work fighting against colonialism and imperialism has been an inspiration to today''s decolonization and anti-racism movements. As the author of essential texts such as The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks, his impact on today''s activists - from Rhodes Must Fall to Black Lives Matter - is indelible. Leo Zeilig here details the fascinating life of Fanon - from his upbringing in Martinique to his wartime experiences and work in Europe and North Africa - and frames his ideas and activism within the greater context of his career as a practising psychiatrist and his politically tumultuous surroundings. The book covers the period of the Algerian War of Independence, national liberation and what Fanon described as ''the curse of independence''. Highlighting Fanon''s role as the most influential theorist of anti-colonialism and racial liberation, this book is an esseTrade ReviewNo revolutionary is born ready," Leo Zeilig states in his introduction to Frantz Fanon: The Militant Philosopher of Third World Revolution, and in this smoothly written biography, he proceeds to provide an insight into the complexities that made up this remarkable thinker... In today's world, where the Black Lives Matter movement highlights the disillusionment of a people who were once so excited about a black president, and where the endless war on terrorism can resemble the kind of self-serving and arbitrary exercising of power conducted by colonising states, his ideas are as relevant as ever. -- Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi * The Independent *The work of Fanon is of extreme relevance today – with regard to racism, classism, terrorism and on social revolutionary movements... A must read! * Brownbrainyandbeautiful.com *Essential reading for those interested in the roots of modern anti-racism and decolonization movements, as the author highlights Fanon's role as the most influential theorist in the struggle against colonialism and for freedom from racism. * Al Akhbar (Bloomsbury Translation) *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. War and Psychiatry 3. Towards the Revolution 4. The Wretched of the Earth 5. Death 6. Legacy
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl The Body Productive
Book SynopsisSteffan Blayney works for a trade union in London and is an honorary research fellow at the University of Sheffield, UK.Joey Hornsby completed her PhD in 2021. Her work was recently published in Nottingham French Studies.Savannah Whaley is a lecturer in theory and performance at King's College London, UK.Trade ReviewIf Marx taught us that capitalist labour ‘mortifies’ the body of the worker, this book is an urgent and critical analysis of that process of mortification. The book refocuses our attention to how the body is both produced and becomes productive under capital’s strident demands upon it. But the authors urge us to consider not the passive trope of bodily resilience when it comes to the global working class, but the constant running script of bodily resistance as workers hide from, defy, or in some moments, dismantle capitalist logic. * Tithi Bhattacharya, Purdue University, USA *This book is a bold intervention into ways of thinking about “the productive body” from Marx to twenty-first century digital capitalism. By encouraging us to reflect on bodies and the future of resistance, it is an essential text for anyone interested in contemporary regimes of power. * Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck, University of London, UK *Taking François Guéry and Didier Deleule’s The Productive Body as a starting point, the chapters collected in this wide-ranging and critical volume show how the dynamics of capitalist social form have shaped (and continue to shape) the practical and discursive treatment of bodies. As the editors and contributors insist, bodies are not transhistorical givens, the ‘real’ or ‘natural’ counterparts to capital’s abstract forms. Rather, their varied uses and meanings appear in the course of those forms’ historical elaboration. * Seb Franklin, King’s College London, UK *Table of Contents1. Introduction: Rethinking Capitalism, Work, and the Body Steffan Blayney, Joey Hornsby & Savannah Whaley 2. The Productive Body Revisited François Guéry 2. The Productive Body Revisited Dan Taylor 4. Corporeal and Abstract: Is There a 'Left Biopolitics' of Bodies? Marina Vishmidt 5. Empty Promises: The Financialization of Labour Phil Jones 6. The Dialectical Body: Bringing Science Back into Socialism Graham Jones 7. Neither Appropriated nor Expropriated: Notes Towards an Autonomist Cripistemology of the Productive Body Arianna Introna 8. The Quantified Self, the Ideology of Health, and Fat Dawn Woolley 9. The Artefact of Losing: The (Bio)poetics of Miscarriage Helen Charman & Christopher Law 10. Reproductive Data-Bodies: Privacy, Inequality and Anti-Abortion Politics in the Age of Platform Capitalism Grace Tillyard 11. Algorithmic Capitalism, the New Machinofacture and the Productive Body Stephen Shapiro & Philip Barnard
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Random House USA Inc Ethics
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