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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Secular Outlook
Book SynopsisThe Secular Outlook: In Defense of Moral and Political Secularism shows how people can live together and overcome the challenge of religious terrorism by adopting a secular outlook on life and politics. Shows how secularism can answer the problem of religious terrorism Provides new perspectives on how religious minorities can be integrated into liberal democracies Reveals how secularism has gained a new political and moral significance. Also examines such topics as atheism, religious criticism and free speech Trade Review"This book would be ideal for an upper-level undergraduate or graduate religious studies or philosophy seminar. Highly educated lay readers and academics interested in religion and secularism will also likely find the book of interest." (Journal of Contemporary Religion, 1 January 2012) "The book is a balanced account of what went wrong in defending liberal democracy in the past two decades and what is to be done to revigorate the foundations for liberal democracy ." (Acta Politica, 2011) "It is a level-headed contribution to an important debate about how best to address religious fundamentalism and political fanaticism." (The Christian Century, 8 March 2011) "Cliteur's book is timely and well written. It covers some very recent events, and offers coherent - if sometime impatient - perspectives on religion from the secular standpoint. Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty." (Choice , 1 April 2011) "You actually have to focus on the paragraphs. That doesn't mean that the style is inaccessible or difficult - not at all, it's very readable - but this is a meaty book that asks for (and rewards) a certain amount of concentration." (Metamagician and the Hellfire Club, 7 April 2011) "The primary goal of this book, its author says, is ‘to show how religious believers and unbelievers can live peacefully together and what principles the state should try to stimulate in its citizenry to achieve social harmony and social cohesion.' He recommends a moral and political vision which he calls ""a 'secular outlook' on life."" Its four main components are atheism, criticism of religion, free speech, and ‘moral autonomy.' Cliteur wants us to be freethinkers and to expose the ways in which sacred texts actually endorse or even encourage violence, terrorism, and injustice. Cliteur is right, of course, that free inquiry and criticism should be protected." (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 6 March 2011) "Accessible, engaging and convincing, it is the perfect tome for those who wish to learn about the ethical and logical case for a secular moral and political framework." (Tribune, 4 March 2011) "A robust defence of the Enlightenment tradition and a must-read for those concerned by the corrosive aspects of religion on society." (Times Higher Education, 10 February 2011) "But Cliteur challenges this interpretation, charging Armstrong with seeking to dismiss fundamentalism as a ‘perversion' of religion when in fact the fundamentalists can claim to be adopting the very attitude their sacred texts demand". (Church of England Newspaper, 7 January 2011) "The book has an interesting discussion of the philosophical justifications of free expression. Free thought, combining religious criticism and freedom of speech, is necessary for emancipating humankind." (Open Parachute, 18 November 2010) "The Secular Outlook is a thought-provoking discussion of how liberal, secular democracies can and should respond to extremism and a much-needed exposition of the vital importance, in that response, of rationality and an emphasis on common humanity". (New Internationalist, 1 December 2010) "Secularism is one of those concepts that is widely used without a clear notion of what it is. Dutch humanist philosopher Paul Cliteur's The Secular Out - look: In Defense of Moral and Political Secularism supplies a theoretical clarification of what secularism is and what it is not. However, the book is more than a helpful analytical exercise-it is also an urgent plea for political and moral secularism." (Free Inquiry, October 2010)Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Secular Outlook. 1. Atheism, Agnosticism, and Theism. The Alpha Privative. Atheism and Liberal Concepts of God. Atheism as an Unpopular Position. A Definition of Atheism. Motives for Atheism. Atheist Values. Spiritual Excellences and the Liberal Decalogue. Agnosticism. The History of Agnosticism. Huxley and Russell. Pascal’s Wager. Pascal’s Insight. Atheism or Non-Theism? 2. Freethought I: Criticism of Religion. “Écrasez l’Infâme”. Religion and Evil. Religious Violence. Father and Daughter. How to Discover a Relationship between Religion and Violence. Ramadan v. Hirsi Ali. Religion “per se”. Textual Relativism. Can Translation Mitigate All Immoral Passages in Scripture? Can Interpretation Mitigate All Immoral Passages in Scripture? Why Are “Moderates” so Reluctant to Criticize Religion? The Bible on Apostasy. Biblical Terrorism: The Story of Phinehas. Biblical Violence and Modern Legal Practice. The Book of History. Some Objections. 3. Freethought II: Freedom of Expression. Mill on Liberty. Khomeini v. Rushdie. Fukuyama Giving Up on the Arab World. The Limits of Free Speech. The Deontological and Utilitarian Justifications for Free Speech. Clifford on the Duty to Critique. Freedom of Speech and Philosophers on the Index. Intolerance not Restricted to Islam. Giniewski v. France. Freethought under Fire. People Are not Being Insulted for Having a Religion. Racism without Race. Social Criticism not Identical with the Urge to Provoke. Flemming Rose on Why He Published the Danish Cartoons. The Theory of Evolution: Too Controversial to Defend? Is There Another Way to Discover the Truth than by Free Discussion? 4. Moral and Political Secularism. Pope Benedict XVI on the Apostles’ Creed. “Who Are You to Tell Believers What to Believe?” What Judaism, Christendom, and Islam Have in Common: Theism. Divine Command Theories. Abraham and Isaac. The Story of Abraham in the Qur’an. The Story of Jephtha. Adherents of Divine Command Theory. Command Ethics or Divine Command Ethics? An Assessment of Divine Command Ethics. Kierkegaard and Mill. Kohlberg and Moral Education. Religious and Secular Ethics. Worship. Kant’s Struggle with Moral Autonomy and Free Speech. Kant’s Legacy in Nineteenth-Century German Theology. Schleiermacher as the Father of Modern Hermeneutics. Armstrong’s Plea for Liberal Interpretation. A New Way to Look at the “Sacredness” of Scripture? Classic Books and Sacred Books. Violating the Integrity of the Text. Is Hermeneutics the Only Way to Modernize Traditions? Is Islam “Secularization-Resistant”? Two Kinds of Reformers: Liberal Islam and Secular Islam. Selected Reading. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis new edition of A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy has been extended significantly to include 55 chapters across two volumes written by some of today''s most distinguished scholars. New contributors include some of today's most distinguished scholars, among them Thomas Pogge, Charles Beitz, and Michael Doyle Provides in-depth coverage of contemporary philosophical debate in all major related disciplines, such as economics, history, law, political science, international relations and sociology Presents analysis of key political ideologies, including new chapters on Cosmopolitanism and Fundamentalism Includes detailed discussions of major concepts in political philosophy, including virtue, power, human rights, and just war Table of ContentsPreface to the First Edition ix Preface to the Second Edition xi Contributors xii Introduction xvi Part I: Disciplinary Contributions 3 1 Analytical Philosophy 5 Philip Pettit 2 Continental Philosophy 36 David West 3 History 69 Richard Tuck 4 Sociology 88 Kieran Healy 5 Economics 118 Geoffrey Brennan 6 International Political Economy 153 Richard Higgott 7 Political Science 183 Robert E. Goodin 8 International Relations 214 Helen V. Milner 9 Legal Studies 226 Tom Campbell Part II: Major Ideologies 255 10 Anarchism 257 Richard Sylvan with Robert Sparrow 11 Conservatism 285 Anthony Quinton with Anne Norton 12 Cosmopolitanism 312 Thomas Pogge 13 Feminism 332 Jane Mansbridge and Susan Moller Okin 14 Liberalism 360 Alan Ryan 15 Marxism 383 Barry Hindess 16 Fundamentalisms 403 R. Scott Appleby 17 Socialism 414 Peter Self with Michael Freeden Part III: Special Topics 441 18 Autonomy 443 Gerald Dworkin 19 Civil Society 452 Rainer Forst 20 Community and Multiculturalism 463 Will Kymlicka 21 Contract and Consent 478 Jean Hampton 22 Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law 493 C. L. Ten 23 Corporatism and Syndicalism 503 Bob Jessop 24 Criminal Justice 511 Nicola Lacey 25 Democracy 521 Amy Gutmann 26 Dirty Hands 532 C. A. J. Coady 27 Discourse 541 Ernesto Laclau 28 Distributive Justice 548 Peter Vallentyne 29 Efficiency 563 Russell Hardin 30 Environmentalism 572 John Passmore with Stephen Gardiner 31 Equality 593 Richard J. Arneson 32 Federalism 612 William H. Riker with Andreas Føllesdal 33 Historical Justice 621 Martha Minow 34 Human Rights 628 Charles R. Beitz 35 International Distributive Justice 638 Philippe Van Parijs 36 Intellectual Property 653 Seana Valentine Shiffrin 37 Just War 669 Jeff Mcmahan 38 Legitimacy 678 Richard E. Flathman 39 Liberty 685 Chandran Kukathas 40 Personhood 699 Timothy Mulgan 41 Power 709 Frank Lovett 42 Property 719 Andrew Reeve 43 Republicanism 729 Knud Haakonssen 44 Responsibility: Personal, Collective, Corporate 736 Christopher Heath Wellman 45 Rights 745 Jeremy Waldron 46 Secession and Nationalism 755 Allen Buchanan 47 Sociobiology 767 Allan Gibbard 48 Sovereignty and Humanitarian Military Intervention 781 Michael Doyle 49 The State 793 Patrick Dunleavy 50 States of Emergency 804 David Dyzenhaus 51 Toleration 813 Stephen Macedo 52 Totalitarianism 821 Eugene Kamenka 53 Trust and Social Capital 830 Bo Rothstein 54 Virtue 842 William A. Galston 55 Welfare 852 Alan Hamlin Index 865
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Bristol University Press Knowledge in Policy
Book SynopsisThe novel theoretical framework offered in this book presents a radical reconception of the place of knowledge in contemporary policy making in Europe.Trade Review"A very thought-provoking book for anyone involved in policymaking, and in trying to understand how and why policy is, or is not, made and implemented in different contexts." SRA Research Matters.Table of ContentsIntroduction: knowledge in policy - embodied, inscribed, enacted ~ Richard Freeman and Steve Sturdy; Part One: Policy knowledge in space and time; Seeing knowledge in mental health in Scotland ~ Jennifer Smith-Merry; Knowledge moves: regulation and the evaluation of Portuguese schools ~ Natércio Afonso and Estela Costa; Knowledge, policy and coordinated action: mental health in Europe ~ Richard Freeman and Steve Sturdy; Part Two: Embodied, inscribed and enacted knowledges; 'We know who to talk to': embodied knowledge in England's Department of Health ~ Jo Maybin; Reconstructing school inspectorates in Europe: the role of inscribed knowledge ~ Sotiria Grek; Enacting knowledge in a European project ~ Maria José dos Santos Freitas; Part Three: Knowledge interests, knowledge conflict and knowledge work; Knowledge interests: promoting and resisting change in mental health in Hungary ~ Bori Fernezelyi and Gábor Eröss; Knowledge conflicts: embodiment, inscription and the education of children with learning disabilities in Germany ~ Alma Demszky; Knowledge work: organising mental health care networks in Belgium ~ Sophie Thunus, Gaëtan Cerfontaine and Frédéric Schoenaers; Knowledge and policy in research and practice ~ Richard Freeman and Steve Sturdy.
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Bristol University Press Philosophical Criminology
Book SynopsisThis accessible book is structured around six philosophical ideas concerning our relations with others: values, morality, aesthetics, order, rules and respect. Using examples from a range of countries, it provides a platform for engaging with important topical issues.Trade Review"A real tour de force that lays the groundwork for what Millie calls an empathetic criminology, this little gem of a book deserves to be read very widely." Ronnie Lippens, Keele University"This is an adventurous and exciting book looking at some old concepts but with fresh thinking. Philosophical Criminology asks big questions about how we get on with one another and what happens when we do not, taking a route which crosses disciplinary boundaries. Well-informed, hugely accessible, and memorable." Loraine Gelsthorpe, University of Cambridge"Philosophical Criminology explores its topic from the most basic of premises: it is impossible to discuss criminology without philosophy." David Polizzi, Indiana State University, USA"This book is the new primer for philosophical criminology. It borrows both knowledge and wisdom from the analytic and continental traditions, and it explains why criminology has always been (and must always be) a decidedly philosophical endeavor, sui generis." Bruce Arrigo, UNC Charlotte“Opens the philosophical toolbox to criminology helping us to comprehend what questions need asking and how best to answer them.” Don Crewe, Leeds Beckett UniversityTable of ContentsA philosophical criminology; Value judgements; Morality; Aesthetics and crime; Order and disorder; Rules; Respect; Conclusions.
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Bristol University Press Philosophical Criminology
Book SynopsisThis accessible book is structured around six philosophical ideas concerning our relations with others: values, morality, aesthetics, order, rules and respect. Using examples from a range of countries, it provides a platform for engaging with important topical issues.Trade Review"A real tour de force that lays the groundwork for what Millie calls an empathetic criminology, this little gem of a book deserves to be read very widely." Ronnie Lippens, Keele University"This is an adventurous and exciting book looking at some old concepts but with fresh thinking. Philosophical Criminology asks big questions about how we get on with one another and what happens when we do not, taking a route which crosses disciplinary boundaries. Well-informed, hugely accessible, and memorable." Loraine Gelsthorpe, University of Cambridge"Philosophical Criminology explores its topic from the most basic of premises: it is impossible to discuss criminology without philosophy." David Polizzi, Indiana State University, USA"This book is the new primer for philosophical criminology. It borrows both knowledge and wisdom from the analytic and continental traditions, and it explains why criminology has always been (and must always be) a decidedly philosophical endeavor, sui generis." Bruce Arrigo, UNC Charlotte“Opens the philosophical toolbox to criminology helping us to comprehend what questions need asking and how best to answer them.” Don Crewe, Leeds Beckett UniversityTable of ContentsA philosophical criminology; Value judgements; Morality; Aesthetics and crime; Order and disorder; Rules; Respect; Conclusions.
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Bristol University Press Communitybased Learning and Social Movements
Book SynopsisMayo demonstrates how, through popular education and participatory action research, communities can develop their own understandings of their problems. Using case studies that illustrate popular education approaches in practice, she offers pedagogies of hope and shows how communities can engineer impactful and democratic forms of social change.Trade Review"Marjorie Mayo is a legend in the field of community and popular education and in this book she draws on her wealth of experience to illustrate how urgent and necessary such work is in today’s populist age." Jim Crowther, University of EdinburghTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Popular Education in a Populist Age 3. Popular Education and its Roots 4. Spaces and Places for Popular Education and Participatory Action Research 5. Principles and Practice 6. Sharing Understandings of Varying Histories and Cultures 7. Making Connections: Linking Issues and Struggles Across Space and Time 8. Power and Power Analysis 9. Community–University Partnerships 10. Taking Emotions into Account 11. Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards.
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Bristol University Press Communitybased Learning and Social Movements
Book SynopsisMayo demonstrates how, through popular education and participatory action research, communities can develop their own understandings of their problems. Using case studies that illustrate popular education approaches in practice, she offers pedagogies of hope and shows how communities can engineer impactful and democratic forms of social change.Trade Review"Marjorie Mayo is a legend in the field of community and popular education and in this book she draws on her wealth of experience to illustrate how urgent and necessary such work is in today’s populist age." Jim Crowther, University of EdinburghTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Popular Education in a Populist Age 3. Popular Education and its Roots 4. Spaces and Places for Popular Education and Participatory Action Research 5. Principles and Practice 6. Sharing Understandings of Varying Histories and Cultures 7. Making Connections: Linking Issues and Struggles Across Space and Time 8. Power and Power Analysis 9. Community–University Partnerships 10. Taking Emotions into Account 11. Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards.
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Duke University Press Can Politics Be Thought
Book SynopsisIn Can Politics Be Thought?—published in French in 1985 and appearing here in English for the first time—Alain Badiou offers his most forceful and systematic analysis of the crisis of Marxism in which he argues for the continuation of Marxist politics.
£67.15
Duke University Press Can Politics Be Thought
Book SynopsisIn Can Politics Be Thought?—published in French in 1985 and appearing here in English for the first time—Alain Badiou offers his most forceful and systematic analysis of the crisis of Marxism in which he argues for the continuation of Marxist politics.
£17.99
Duke University Press The Authoritarian Personality
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Duke University Press Climate Machines Fascist Drives and Truth
Book SynopsisWilliam E. Connolly links climate change, fascism, and the nature of truth to demonstrate the profound implications of the deep imbrication between planetary nonhuman processes and cultural developments.Trade Review“As ever, William E. Connolly writes prophetically timely work. Even for those of us who read most everything he writes, this book installs fresh strategies, thematics, and illustrations in the vibrant assemblage of his oeuvre. It oscillates between a clarion call to all who have ears to hear as a manifesto for today and a philosophically nuanced, attractive meditation for an open plenary of moments. It shouldn't work. But it does.” -- Catherine Keller, author of * Political Theology of the Earth: Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public *"This is one of William E. Connolly's most exhilarating books to date. In a riveting exploration of planetary volatility and complex entanglements of human and nonhuman agencies and forces, he moves beyond the 'sociocentrism' of the humanities, human sciences, and contemporary politics in ways that are distinctive and urgent. A searching and brilliant contribution." -- Romand Coles, author of * Visionary Pragmatism: Radical and Ecological Democracy in Neoliberal Times *"These essays are interventions designed to disrupt our affective confidence in the notion that the world offers us some distinctive and privileged place within it. Moreover, the essays present the world and its climate as given not to simple stability, but rather brimming with a host of amplifiers and triggers, forces and agents, irruptions and disturbances that create immediate and irrevocable change." -- Chadwick Jenkins * Popmatters *"Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. General readers." -- E. J. Eisenach * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Climate, Fascism, Truth 1 1. Sophocles, Mary Shelley, and the Planetary 17 2. The Anthropocene as Abstract Machine 46 3. The Lure of Truth 72 Notes 99 Bibliography 115 Index 121
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Duke University Press Climate Machines Fascist Drives and Truth
Book SynopsisWilliam E. Connolly links climate change, fascism, and the nature of truth to demonstrate the profound implications of the deep imbrication between planetary nonhuman processes and cultural developments.Trade Review“As ever, William E. Connolly writes prophetically timely work. Even for those of us who read most everything he writes, this book installs fresh strategies, thematics, and illustrations in the vibrant assemblage of his oeuvre. It oscillates between a clarion call to all who have ears to hear as a manifesto for today and a philosophically nuanced, attractive meditation for an open plenary of moments. It shouldn't work. But it does.” -- Catherine Keller, author of * Political Theology of the Earth: Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public *"This is one of William E. Connolly's most exhilarating books to date. In a riveting exploration of planetary volatility and complex entanglements of human and nonhuman agencies and forces, he moves beyond the 'sociocentrism' of the humanities, human sciences, and contemporary politics in ways that are distinctive and urgent. A searching and brilliant contribution." -- Romand Coles, author of * Visionary Pragmatism: Radical and Ecological Democracy in Neoliberal Times *"These essays are interventions designed to disrupt our affective confidence in the notion that the world offers us some distinctive and privileged place within it. Moreover, the essays present the world and its climate as given not to simple stability, but rather brimming with a host of amplifiers and triggers, forces and agents, irruptions and disturbances that create immediate and irrevocable change." -- Chadwick Jenkins * Popmatters *"Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. General readers." -- E. J. Eisenach * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Climate, Fascism, Truth 1 1. Sophocles, Mary Shelley, and the Planetary 17 2. The Anthropocene as Abstract Machine 46 3. The Lure of Truth 72 Notes 99 Bibliography 115 Index 121
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Duke University Press Gramsci in the World
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Gramsci in the World examine the varying receptions and uses of Antonio Gramsci's thought in diverse geographical, historical, and political contexts, highlighting its possibilities and limits for understanding and changing the social world.Trade Review“Practically from the first to the last page, this is a fabulous book. Not only does it attest to the productive interdisciplinary use of Gramsci's conceptual instruments in the analysis of contemporary sociocultural and political developments across many global regions; it also underscores the fact that the critico-philological reconstructions of Gramsci's theoretical frameworks are far from complete. Newcomers to Gramscian studies—as well as experienced scholars—will profit from this extraordinary collection of essays. It reflects a most capacious editorial spirit anchored in creative autonomy, historical integrity, and transnational sensitivities.” -- Renate Holub, author of * Antonio Gramsci: Beyond Marxism and Postmodernism *“Comprehensive in its geographical and historical range, and impressive in its intellectual rigor, theoretical sophistication, and historical sensitivity, Gramsci in the World locates questions surrounding Gramsci's ideas within debates that are central to much of contemporary theoretical, moral, intellectual, and political writing. A significant and necessary contribution to Gramsci scholarship, this volume demonstrates that his ideas and writing will continue to exert a deep influence in the twenty-first century.” -- Benedetto Fontana, author of * Hegemony and Power: On the Relation between Gramsci and Machiavelli *“This collection of essays, edited by Roberto M. Dainotto and Fredric Jameson, is a timely and valuable contribution to cultural studies, political and social theory, postcolonial studies, as well as generally to the history of the Left and particularly to the history of Marxism.” -- Mihaela Czobor-Lupp * Perspectives on Politics *“Taken together, the essays in [Gramsci in the World] highlight the numerous complexities and dimensions to Gramsci’s writings, and the various reasons why his unique approach to Marxist analysis and revolutionary praxis influenced, or in many cases did not influence, leftist intellectuals and militants....” -- Brian Griffith * H-Italy, H-Net Reviews *“The goal of Gramsci in the World is to put forward ‘different pragmatics’ of how scholars accept or reject Gramscian thinking for their interests.... It does not simply add non-Western case studies into analysis, but changes how we think about a range of periods and geographies.” -- Thomas Furse * Global Intellectual History *"[Gramsci in the World] will interest Gramsci scholars, theorists of social change and revolution, and political activists." -- J. C. Berg * Choice *Table of ContentsNote on Sources ix Preface; Gramsci in the World / Fredric Jameson xi Introduction / Roberto Dainotto 1 1. Toward the Modern Prince / Peter D. Thomas 17 2. Gramsci, Historian of Modernity / Alberto Burgio 38 3. Adam Smith: A Bourgeois Organic Intellectual? ? Kate Crehan 60 4. Gramsci's Bergson / Cesare Casarino 77 5. Scattered Ashes: The Reception of the Gramscian Legacy in Postwar Italy / Andrea Scapoio 93 6. Subalterns in the World: Typologies and Nexus with Different Forms of Religious Experience / Cosimo Zene 113 7. Some Reflections on Gramsci: The Southern Question in the Deprovincializing of Marx / Harry Harootunian 140 8. Why No Gramsci in the United States? / Michael Denning 158 9. Gramsci on la questione del negri: Gli intellettuali and the Poesis of Americanization / R. A. Judy 165 10. Reverse Hegemony? / Maria Elisa Cevasco 179 11. Thinking Andean Abya Yala with and against Gramsci: Notes on State, Nature, and Buen Vivir / Catherine E. Walsh 190 12. Gramsci and the Chinese Left: Reappraising a Missed Encounter / Pu Wang 204 13. Antonio Gramsci in the Arab World: The Ongoing Debate / Patrizia Manduchi 224 Works Cited 241 Contributors 259 Index 263
£98.60
Duke University Press Gramsci in the World
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Gramsci in the World examine the varying receptions and uses of Antonio Gramsci's thought in diverse geographical, historical, and political contexts, highlighting its possibilities and limits for understanding and changing the social world.Trade Review“Practically from the first to the last page, this is a fabulous book. Not only does it attest to the productive interdisciplinary use of Gramsci's conceptual instruments in the analysis of contemporary sociocultural and political developments across many global regions; it also underscores the fact that the critico-philological reconstructions of Gramsci's theoretical frameworks are far from complete. Newcomers to Gramscian studies—as well as experienced scholars—will profit from this extraordinary collection of essays. It reflects a most capacious editorial spirit anchored in creative autonomy, historical integrity, and transnational sensitivities.” -- Renate Holub, author of * Antonio Gramsci: Beyond Marxism and Postmodernism *“Comprehensive in its geographical and historical range, and impressive in its intellectual rigor, theoretical sophistication, and historical sensitivity, Gramsci in the World locates questions surrounding Gramsci's ideas within debates that are central to much of contemporary theoretical, moral, intellectual, and political writing. A significant and necessary contribution to Gramsci scholarship, this volume demonstrates that his ideas and writing will continue to exert a deep influence in the twenty-first century.” -- Benedetto Fontana, author of * Hegemony and Power: On the Relation between Gramsci and Machiavelli *“This collection of essays, edited by Roberto M. Dainotto and Fredric Jameson, is a timely and valuable contribution to cultural studies, political and social theory, postcolonial studies, as well as generally to the history of the Left and particularly to the history of Marxism.” -- Mihaela Czobor-Lupp * Perspectives on Politics *“Taken together, the essays in [Gramsci in the World] highlight the numerous complexities and dimensions to Gramsci’s writings, and the various reasons why his unique approach to Marxist analysis and revolutionary praxis influenced, or in many cases did not influence, leftist intellectuals and militants....” -- Brian Griffith * H-Italy, H-Net Reviews *“The goal of Gramsci in the World is to put forward ‘different pragmatics’ of how scholars accept or reject Gramscian thinking for their interests.... It does not simply add non-Western case studies into analysis, but changes how we think about a range of periods and geographies.” -- Thomas Furse * Global Intellectual History *"[Gramsci in the World] will interest Gramsci scholars, theorists of social change and revolution, and political activists." -- J. C. Berg * Choice *Table of ContentsNote on Sources ix Preface; Gramsci in the World / Fredric Jameson xi Introduction / Roberto Dainotto 1 1. Toward the Modern Prince / Peter D. Thomas 17 2. Gramsci, Historian of Modernity / Alberto Burgio 38 3. Adam Smith: A Bourgeois Organic Intellectual? ? Kate Crehan 60 4. Gramsci's Bergson / Cesare Casarino 77 5. Scattered Ashes: The Reception of the Gramscian Legacy in Postwar Italy / Andrea Scapoio 93 6. Subalterns in the World: Typologies and Nexus with Different Forms of Religious Experience / Cosimo Zene 113 7. Some Reflections on Gramsci: The Southern Question in the Deprovincializing of Marx / Harry Harootunian 140 8. Why No Gramsci in the United States? / Michael Denning 158 9. Gramsci on la questione del negri: Gli intellettuali and the Poesis of Americanization / R. A. Judy 165 10. Reverse Hegemony? / Maria Elisa Cevasco 179 11. Thinking Andean Abya Yala with and against Gramsci: Notes on State, Nature, and Buen Vivir / Catherine E. Walsh 190 12. Gramsci and the Chinese Left: Reappraising a Missed Encounter / Pu Wang 204 13. Antonio Gramsci in the Arab World: The Ongoing Debate / Patrizia Manduchi 224 Works Cited 241 Contributors 259 Index 263
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Duke University Press The World Computer
Book SynopsisIn The World Computer Jonathan Beller forcefully demonstrates that the history of commodification generates information itself. Out of the omnipresent calculus imposed by commodification, information emerges historically as a new money form. Investigating its subsequent financialization of daily life and colonization of semiotics, Beller situates the development of myriad systems for quantifying the value of people, objects, and affects as endemic to racial capitalism and computation. Built on oppression and genocide, capital and its technical result as computation manifest as racial formations, as do the machines and software of social mediation that feed racial capitalism and run on social difference. Algorithms, derived from for-profit management strategies, conscript all forms of expression—language, image, music, communication—into the calculus of capital such that even protest may turn a profit. Computational media function for the purpose of extraction rather Trade Review“Tackling one of the most important issues in media and technology theory today—the intimate and ancient involvement between information and power—Jonathan Beller has written a bold book with intellectual originality, sociopolitical relevance, and evocative power.” -- Alexander R. Galloway, author of * Laruelle: Against the Digital *“In The World Computer, Jonathan Beller charts the lineage and lineaments of ‘computational racial capital.’ In the code-based mode of capitalist production now consolidating itself with hegemonic reach, the image replaces the commodity as the fundamental value form, and as it does the meaning of labor mutates. Racism, Beller argues, is not just an incidental effect of ambient bias contaminating this new machinery of extraction. It is written into its DNA. The World Computer is a passionate analysis of how the phase-shift of contemporary capitalism we are currently experiencing carries forward from its colonial past a coefficient of exploitation that intensifies apace with capital's exponentially increasing powers of abstraction. Beller's provocative genealogy of contemporary capitalism is an essential contribution to understanding the evolving economy as a formation of power, in symbiosis with systemic racism.” -- Brian Massumi, author of * 99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value: A Postcapitalist Manifesto *“The World Computer has been published at an opportune moment, a moment that calls for further theoretical explanation of the social horrors that ‘computational racial capital’ mediates and produces. Its greatest strength lies in its provocative and synthetic reading of research across fields.” -- Cengiz Salman * The Communication Review *“A must read for those across multiple fields, including digital culture and sociology, software and media studies, as well as science and technology studies. . . . TheWorld Computer demonstrate[s] that digital technologies, algorithms, and AI cannot be deracialized without an undoing — and overcoming — of the social relations that they are part of.” -- Josh Bowsher * Cultural Politics *"A must read. . . wide ranging and historically far reaching. . . ." -- David H. Fleming * Film-Philosophy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi I. Computational Racial Capitalism Introduction: The Social Difference Engine and the World Computer 3 1. The Computational Unconscious: Technology as a Racial Formation 63 II. The Computational Mode of Production 2. M-I-C-I'-M': The Programmable Image of Photo-Capital 101 3. M-I-M': Informatic Labor and Data-Visual Interruptions in Capital's "Concise Style" 139 III. Derivative Conditions 4. Advertisarial Relations and Aesthetics of Survival 175 5. An Engine and a Camera 206 6. Derivative Living and Subaltern Futures: Film as Derivative, Cryptocurrency as Film 222 Appendix 1. The Derivative Machine: Life Cut, Bundled and Sold—Notes on the Cinema 255 Appendix 2. The Derivative Image: Interview by Susana Nascimento Duarte 267 Notes 285 References 301 Index 315
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Duke University Press The World Computer
Book SynopsisIn The World Computer Jonathan Beller forcefully demonstrates that the history of commodification generates information itself. Out of the omnipresent calculus imposed by commodification, information emerges historically as a new money form. Investigating its subsequent financialization of daily life and colonization of semiotics, Beller situates the development of myriad systems for quantifying the value of people, objects, and affects as endemic to racial capitalism and computation. Built on oppression and genocide, capital and its technical result as computation manifest as racial formations, as do the machines and software of social mediation that feed racial capitalism and run on social difference. Algorithms, derived from for-profit management strategies, conscript all forms of expression—language, image, music, communication—into the calculus of capital such that even protest may turn a profit. Computational media function for the purpose of extraction rather Trade Review“Tackling one of the most important issues in media and technology theory today—the intimate and ancient involvement between information and power—Jonathan Beller has written a bold book with intellectual originality, sociopolitical relevance, and evocative power.” -- Alexander R. Galloway, author of * Laruelle: Against the Digital *“In The World Computer, Jonathan Beller charts the lineage and lineaments of ‘computational racial capital.’ In the code-based mode of capitalist production now consolidating itself with hegemonic reach, the image replaces the commodity as the fundamental value form, and as it does the meaning of labor mutates. Racism, Beller argues, is not just an incidental effect of ambient bias contaminating this new machinery of extraction. It is written into its DNA. The World Computer is a passionate analysis of how the phase-shift of contemporary capitalism we are currently experiencing carries forward from its colonial past a coefficient of exploitation that intensifies apace with capital's exponentially increasing powers of abstraction. Beller's provocative genealogy of contemporary capitalism is an essential contribution to understanding the evolving economy as a formation of power, in symbiosis with systemic racism.” -- Brian Massumi, author of * 99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value: A Postcapitalist Manifesto *“The World Computer has been published at an opportune moment, a moment that calls for further theoretical explanation of the social horrors that ‘computational racial capital’ mediates and produces. Its greatest strength lies in its provocative and synthetic reading of research across fields.” -- Cengiz Salman * The Communication Review *“A must read for those across multiple fields, including digital culture and sociology, software and media studies, as well as science and technology studies. . . . TheWorld Computer demonstrate[s] that digital technologies, algorithms, and AI cannot be deracialized without an undoing — and overcoming — of the social relations that they are part of.” -- Josh Bowsher * Cultural Politics *"A must read. . . wide ranging and historically far reaching. . . ." -- David H. Fleming * Film-Philosophy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi I. Computational Racial Capitalism Introduction: The Social Difference Engine and the World Computer 3 1. The Computational Unconscious: Technology as a Racial Formation 63 II. The Computational Mode of Production 2. M-I-C-I'-M': The Programmable Image of Photo-Capital 101 3. M-I-M': Informatic Labor and Data-Visual Interruptions in Capital's "Concise Style" 139 III. Derivative Conditions 4. Advertisarial Relations and Aesthetics of Survival 175 5. An Engine and a Camera 206 6. Derivative Living and Subaltern Futures: Film as Derivative, Cryptocurrency as Film 222 Appendix 1. The Derivative Machine: Life Cut, Bundled and Sold—Notes on the Cinema 255 Appendix 2. The Derivative Image: Interview by Susana Nascimento Duarte 267 Notes 285 References 301 Index 315
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Duke University Press Narratives of Debt
Book SynopsisAs the problem of debt grows more and more urgent in light of the central role it plays in neoliberal capitalism, scholars have analyzed debt using numerous approaches: historical analysis, legal arguments, psychoanalytic readings, claims for reparations in postcolonial debates, and more. Contributors to this special issue of differences argue that these diverse approaches presuppose a fundamental connection between indebtedness and narrative. They see debt as a promise that refers to the futuredeferred repayment that purports to make good on a past deficitwhich implies a narrative in a way that other forms of exchange may not. The authors approach this intertwining of debt and narration from the perspectives of continental philosophy, international law, the history of slavery, comparative literature, feminist critique, and more. Contributors. Arjun Appadurai, Anthony Bogues, Emmanuel Bouju, Silvia Federici, Mikkel Krause Frantzen, Raphaelle Guidée, Odette Lienau, Catherine Malabou,
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Duke University Press Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
Book SynopsisIn Around the Day in Eighty Worlds Martin Savransky calls for a radical politics of the pluriverse amid the ongoing devastation of the present. Responding to an epoch marked by the history of colonialism and ecological devastation, Savransky draws on the pragmatic pluralism of William James to develop what Savransky calls a “pluralistic realism”—an understanding of the world as simultaneously one and many, ongoing and unfinished, underway and yet to be made. Savransky explores the radical multifariousness of reality by weaving key aspects of James''s thought together with divergent worlds and stories: of Magellan''s circumnavigation, sorcery in Mozambique, God''s felt presence among a group of evangelicals in California, visible spirits in Zambia, and ghosts in the wake of the 2011 tsunami in Japan. Throughout, he experiments with these storied worlds to dramatize new ways of approaching the politics of radical difference and the possibility of transforming reaTrade Review“Martin Savransky's generative and intense book powerfully relays the living, burning demand at the heart of William James's pragmatism—that we learn to feel and think with a reality in the making of which we participate, whether we will it or not. Experimenting with this risky but transformative demand, Savransky reactivates a William James, calling contemporary thinkers to hold out a trusting hand to the manifold, adventurous commitments of today's activism.” -- Isabelle Stengers, author of * In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism *“With superior scholarship and clarity, Martin Savransky joins recent efforts to displace realist epistemologies and offer alternative analytical practices of the real. This succinct book moves conversations about the so-called ontological turn (and ontological openings) to a thought-ground that philosophically inclined scholars in all disciplines will find attractive to play in.” -- Marisol de la Cadena, author of * Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds *"A succinct book, captivatingly structured, and thoughtfully written, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds is a generative contribution to the study and practice of pluriversal politics." -- David McKeown * European Journal of Social Theory *"Overall, this book offers scholars across disciplines a reconceptualized approach to analyzing social worlds. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- R. P. Lorenzo * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii 1. Ongoing and Unfinished 1 2. Runaway Metaphysics 25 3. Trust of a Held-out Hand 49 4. Worldquakes 70 5. Pragmatism in the Wake 91 6. The Insistence of the Pluriverse 113 Notes 133 Bibliography 163 Index 177
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Duke University Press Ugly Freedoms
Book SynopsisElisabeth R. Anker reckons with the complex legacy of freedom offered by liberal American democracy, identifying modes of ugly freedom that can lead to domination or provide a source of emancipatory potential.Trade Review“Ugly Freedoms argues that the history of freedom as ‘a majestic practice’ erases ‘the appalling violence that traffics under its name’ and refuses to dignify as freedom the small but inventive actions whereby courageous people resist domination. Elisabeth R. Anker rectifies both these wrongs. Beginning with Locke’s liberal individual, read through the lens of the Barbadian ‘planters’ who likely inspired it, Anker brilliantly finds in the creases of our history and culture a more just freedom for our own not very beautiful world.” -- Bonnie Honig, author of * Shell-Shocked: Feminist Criticism After Trump *“Elisabeth R. Anker takes us into unnerving, disconcerting, even disgusting territory to find the hidden treasures in this revelatory new book. Approaching the impasses and confusions of our political present, she draws on the best contemporary political theorists to go significantly beyond them, seeing ‘freedom’ as ugly and ‘ugliness’ as a resource for practices of the free. Read it, teach it, sit with it. Let Ugly Freedoms change the way you think about political possibility.” -- Lisa Duggan, author of * Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed *"Anker's interventions offer a lively, energetic rethinking of the foundations and future of liberalism. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty." -- S. M. Barndt * Choice *“Building on scholarship in Black studies, queer theory, and Indigenous studies, Anker explores the flip side of ugly freedom’s brutality in affirming wayward practices, unrefined affective orientations, opaque gestures, and interstitial acts that are usually obscured and undervalued as instances of lauded freedom. . . . Ugly Freedoms is an exciting and persuasive study that challenges contemporary political theorists to rethink their approaches to the historical problem spaces of freedom.” -- Jason Frank * Perspectives on Politics *"Ugly Freedoms stands as a fine demonstration of how objects can be valuable and important sites of analysis. ... [It] provides a good introductory text for those looking to understand the formation of modern American freedom, while serving as an invitation for others to explore additional alternative freedoms." -- Sarah-Nicole Aghassi-Isfahani * Cultural Critique *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Ugly Freedoms 1 1. White and Deadly: Sugar and the Sweet Taste of Freedom 37 2. Tragedies of Emancipation: Freedom, Sex, and Theft after Slavery 77 3. Thwarting Neoliberalism: Boredom, Dysfunction, and Other Visionless Challenges 113 4. Freedom as Climate Destruction: Guts, Dust, and Toxins in an Era of Consumptive Sovereignty 148 Notes 181 Bibliography 207 Index 231
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Duke University Press Anarchist Prophets
Book SynopsisJames R. Martel juxtaposes anarchism with what he calls archisma centralized and hierarchical political form based in ancient Greek and Hebrew prophetic traditionsin order to theorize the potential for a radical democratic politics.Trade Review"Anarchist Prophets [is] a work that deserves a place in the pantheon of anarchist writings, for it incisively and inventively expresses the central critique of the domineering, dominant, and often self-obscure sovereign aspiration at the heart of the vast majority of Western political thought." -- Loren Goldman * Perspectives on Politics *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Disappointing Vision 1 Part I 1. Appointing Prophets 29 2. Hobbes and the Holy Spirit 58 3. A Most Disappointing Prophet: Nietzsche's Zarathustra 95 4. A Prophet Who Can't See the Future: Benjamin's Angel of History 125 Part II 5. Navigating (and Fighting) Archism 167 6. Can Archism Ever Die? 212 Conclusion: Beyond Anarchist Prophets 257 Notes 299 Bibliography 329 Index 339
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Duke University Press On Paradox
Book SynopsisElizabeth S. Anker contends that the faith in the logic of paradox has been the watermark of left intellectualism since the second half of the twentieth century, showing how paradox generates the very exclusions it critiques and undercuts theory's commitment to social justice.Trade Review“The novelty of [Anker’s] approach is to identify theory’s style of thought with a fatal attraction to paradox, to something that appears absurd or contradictory but is actually true. . . . Anker illuminates both why theory has migrated so effectively beyond the academy and also how its self-replicating endlessness gives a startling large-scale intellectual uniformity to the pronouncements of elite institutions and right-wing conspiracists alike.” -- Michael W. Clune * Los Angeles Review of Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: On Paradox 1 1. All That Is Solid Melts into Paradox: The Idea of Modernity 29 2. Ontologizing the Paradoxes of Rights, or the Anti-legalism of Theory 73 Interlude. Anatomy of Paradox, or a Brief History of Aesthetic Theory 112 3. Redeeming Rights, or the Ethics and Politics of Paradox 138 4. The Politics of Exclusion 181 5. The Pedagogy of Paradox 221 Interlude. A Different Kind of Theory 261 6. What Holds Things Together: Toward an Integrative Criticism 266 Notes 313 Bibliography 335 Index
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Duke University Press Anarchist Prophets
Book SynopsisJames R. Martel juxtaposes anarchism with what he calls archisma centralized and hierarchical political form based in ancient Greek and Hebrew prophetic traditionsin order to theorize the potential for a radical democratic politics.Trade Review"Anarchist Prophets [is] a work that deserves a place in the pantheon of anarchist writings, for it incisively and inventively expresses the central critique of the domineering, dominant, and often self-obscure sovereign aspiration at the heart of the vast majority of Western political thought." -- Loren Goldman * Perspectives on Politics *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Disappointing Vision 1 Part I 1. Appointing Prophets 29 2. Hobbes and the Holy Spirit 58 3. A Most Disappointing Prophet: Nietzsche's Zarathustra 95 4. A Prophet Who Can't See the Future: Benjamin's Angel of History 125 Part II 5. Navigating (and Fighting) Archism 167 6. Can Archism Ever Die? 212 Conclusion: Beyond Anarchist Prophets 257 Notes 299 Bibliography 329 Index 339
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Duke University Press On Paradox
Book SynopsisIn On Paradox literary and legal scholar Elizabeth S. Anker contends that faith in the logic of paradox has been the cornerstone of left intellectualism since the second half of the twentieth century. She attributes the ubiquity of paradox in the humanities to its appeal as an incisive tool for exposing and dismantling hierarchies. Tracing the ascent of paradox in theories of modernity, in rights discourse, in the history of literary criticism and the linguistic turn, and in the transformation of the liberal arts in higher education, Anker suggests that paradox not only generates the very exclusions it critiques but also creates a disempowering haze of indecision. She shows that reasoning through paradox has become deeply problematic: it engrains a startling homogeneity of thought while undercutting the commitment to social justice that remains a guiding imperative of theory. Rather than calling for a wholesale abandonment of such reasoning, Anker argues for an expanded, diversiTrade Review“The novelty of [Anker’s] approach is to identify theory’s style of thought with a fatal attraction to paradox, to something that appears absurd or contradictory but is actually true. . . . Anker illuminates both why theory has migrated so effectively beyond the academy and also how its self-replicating endlessness gives a startling large-scale intellectual uniformity to the pronouncements of elite institutions and right-wing conspiracists alike.” -- Michael W. Clune * Los Angeles Review of Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: On Paradox 1 1. All That Is Solid Melts into Paradox: The Idea of Modernity 29 2. Ontologizing the Paradoxes of Rights, or the Anti-legalism of Theory 73 Interlude. Anatomy of Paradox, or a Brief History of Aesthetic Theory 112 3. Redeeming Rights, or the Ethics and Politics of Paradox 138 4. The Politics of Exclusion 181 5. The Pedagogy of Paradox 221 Interlude. A Different Kind of Theory 261 6. What Holds Things Together: Toward an Integrative Criticism 266 Notes 313 Bibliography 335 Index
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Duke University Press Aníbal Quijano
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Duke University Press The Possible Form of an Interlocution
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New York University Press The Imagined Juror
Book SynopsisExamines the outsized influence of jurors on prosecutorial discretion Thanks to television and popular media, the jury is deeply embedded in the American public's imagination of the legal system. For the country's federal prosecutors, however, jurors have become an increasingly rare sight. Today, in fact, less than 2% of their cases will proceed to an actual jury trial. And yet, when federal prosecutors describe their jobs and what the profession means to them, the jury is a central theme. Anna Offit's The Imagined Juror examines the counterintuitive importance of jurors in federal prosecutors' work at a moment when jury trials are statistically in decline. Drawing on extensive field research among federal prosecutors, the book represents the first ethnographic study of US attorneys, according to legal scholar Annelise Riles. It describes a world of legal practice in which jurors are frequently summonedas make-believe audiences for proposed arguments, hypothetical evaluators of evidencTrade Review"A must-read for anyone concerned about the state of the US justice system. The Imagined Juror makes a compelling case for the continued importance of juries, even in the age of the disappearing trial." -- William Garriott, Drake University"Offit’s extraordinary access to the workings of federal prosecutors as well as to public proceedings reveals the pervasive influence of juries on criminal cases, both direct and indirect. This book argues convincingly that the infrequency of trials is not a valid indicator of the impact of the jury on our criminal justice system." -- David Engel, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University at Buffalo School of Law"Provides an original and indispensable vantage point from which to view criminal procedure in the US, with implications for questions of power and the origins of mass incarceration." -- Ronald Niezen, author of #HumanRights: The Technologies and Politics of Justice Claims in Practice"...an unquestionably valuable contribution to the literature on prosecutors. Offit opens a window into the inner workings of a federal prosecutor’s office at a time when interest in prosecutors is at its height. The Imagined Juror answers the important question of what prosecutors do and why." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"Drawing on extensive field research, Offit (law, Southern Methodist Univ.) performs an ethnographic study of US attorneys to reveal an a priori truth about how federal prosecutors use hypothetical juries to navigate the many conflicts they encounter within criminal proceedings…As a criminal defense attorney, this reviewer sees her personal experiences reflected in Offit's writings, authenticating how hypothetical juries influence prosecutors and, ultimately, impact the criminal justice system writ large." -- A. A. Walden, Elmira College * CHOICE *"Drawing on extensive field research among US federal prosecutors, Offit describes a world in which even the question of moving forward with a prosecution often hinges on how federal prosecutors assume a jury will react—an exercise where the perspectives of the public are imagined and incorporated into every stage of trial preparation. " * Law & Social Inquiry *
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New York University Press Reconciliation and Repair
Book SynopsisFeatures contributions that respond to deep challenges to social cohesion from racial injusticeIn the latest installment of the NOMOS series, a distinguished group of interdisciplinary scholars explore the erosionand potential rebuildingof civic bonds in response to injustice, wrongdoing, and betrayal. Contributors address the possibility of reconciliation and repair, drawing on cutting-edge insights from the fields of political science, philosophy, and law. Nine timely essays explore our pivotal moment in history, from the question of reparations for slavery to the from the artand impactof the public apology.The editors of this volume encourage us to not only examine the roots of mistrust, but also to imagine a collective way forward, particularly as we face the continuing threat of the COVID-19 pandemic. Reconciliation and Repair provides thought-provoking perspectives in an age where they are desperately needed.
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New York University Press Restorative Justice and Lived Religion
Book SynopsisFrames restorative justice as a form of moral and spiritual practice with the capacity to transform injustice In the United States "restorative justice" typically refers to small-scale measures that divert alleged wrongdoers from a standard path through the criminal justice system by funneling them into alternative justice programs. These aim not to punish the offender, but to constructively address the harm that wrongdoing may have caused to individuals or to the community, engaging with the wrongdoer to come to a response that might heal and repair the harm. Yet restorative justice initiatives generally fail to challenge and transform the racist system of mass incarceration. This book argues that these initiatives have the potential to do so, but that we need to better understand what restorative justice is, and how it should be implemented. It claims that restorative justice can achieve its desired effect only insofar as it provides a mode of association between people that is, at its core, moral and spiritual. The book explores the ways in which restorative justice ethics and practices exhibit moral and spiritual dynamics, and what difference such "lived religious" dynamics can make for purposes of transforming structural violence. Looking to Chicago's restorative justice network as a model for developing these transformational and sustainable social changes, the volume showcases real-life examples of the kinds of practices and initiatives needed to shift the entrenched dynamics that fuel the prison-industrial complex across the United States.
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New York University Press Compromise
Book SynopsisA distinguished group of scholars explores compromise in contemporary affairs Do lawmakers have a greater ethical responsibility to compromise than ordinary citizens? How does one rectify what is at stake when lawmakers concede to compromise for the sake of reaching resolution? Is compromise necessarily equalizing and is it a reasonable mode of problem solving and dispute resolution? In this latest installment from the NOMOS series, distinguished scholars across the fields of political science, law, and philosophy tackle the complex set of questions that relate to the practice of compromise and its implications for social and political life in modern societies. The volume, edited by Jack Knight, brings together a range of perspectives in both disciplinary and substantive terms on representation, political morality, disagreement, negotiation, and various forms of compromise. The ten essays reflect a variety of considerations across interdisciplinary lines, and pr
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University of Toronto Press Writing Conscience and the Nation in
Book SynopsisExamining works by well-known figures of the English Revolution, including John Milton, Oliver Cromwell, Margaret Fell Fox, Lucy Hutchinson, Thomas Hobbes, and King Charles I, Giuseppina Iacono Lobo presents the first comprehensive study of conscience during this crucial and turbulent period.Trade Review"This is an important and perceptive book which sheds new light on individual authors’ engagements with these issues through close textual analysis…" -- G. Mahlberg, Berlin * The English Historical Review, vol 134 no 568 *Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Revolutions of Conscience Chapter 1: Charles I, Eikon Basilike, and the Pulpit-Work of the King's Conscience Chapter 2: Oliver Cromwell and the Duties of Conscience Chapter 3: Early Quaker Writing and the Unifying Light of Conscience Chapter 4: Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan and the Civilizing Force of Conscience Chapter 5: Lucy Hutchinson's Revisions of Conscience Chapter 6: Milton's Nation of Conscience Afterword Notes Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press Value Change in the Supreme Court of Canada
Book SynopsisValue Change in the Supreme Court of Canada is a groundbreaking analysis of the degree to which Supreme Court decisions reflect the changing values of society over the past four decades.Trade Review‘There is something here for everyone, and public scholars of all backgrounds will benefit from considering the theoretical explanation of value change in courts over time as a function of both judicial attitudes and societal shifts.’ -- Susan W. Johnson * Law and Politics Book Review, vol 27:08:2017 *"Value Change in the Supreme Court of Canada provides a thought-provoking account of how the decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada have changed over time in reference to the rise of post-materialism in Canadian society, and it will surely be of interest to scholars working in a variety of fields, such as Canadian politics and history, social movements, and judicial politics." -- Kate Puddister * The Canadian Historical Review Vol 99:2: June 2018 *"Wetstein and Ostberg offer a fairly interesting study of post-materialist value change in Canada’s highest court." -- Rob Emes * Saskatchewan Law Review *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Tables List of Figures Chapters 1 Value Change in the Supreme Court of Canada 2 Postmaterialist Outcomes in Environmental Disputes 3 Qualitative Analysis of Pollution, Energy and Fishing Rights Disputes 4 Postmaterialist Outcomes in Free Expression Disputes 5 Qualitative Analysis of Political Speech and Commercial Advertising Disputes 6 Postmaterialist Outcomes in Equality Disputes 7 Qualitative Analysis of Gay Rights and Sex Discrimination Disputes 8 The Impact of Value Change in the Supreme Court of Canada 9 Tables and Figures 10 Appendix of Cases and References Index
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University of Toronto Press Lectures on the Philosophy of Right 18191820
Book SynopsisThis new English translation of Hegel’s 1819/20 lectures on the philosophy of Right presents an accessible and engaging version of Hegel’s mature legal and political thought.
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University of Toronto Press Distributed Democracy
Book SynopsisThis is the first book-length work to analyse Ontario's Local Health Integration NetworksTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Acronyms 1. Introduction 2. The Democratic Arenas Framework 3. The Evolution of Health Care Governance in Ontario 4. Procedural Decision-Making Bodies that Enable and Constrain LHINs 5. LHINs as Mandated Decision-Making Sites 6. LHIN Advisory Committees and Public Engagement 7. A Democratic Arenas Analysis of LHINs References End Notes
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University of Toronto Press Pluralist Politics Relational Worlds
Book SynopsisThis book aims to overcome the disconnect between human and ecological concerns in political theory and political philosophy.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Towards a Relational Ethics with Nature 1. Bound by Reasonableness 2. Vulnerability and the Need for Care 3. To Think and Act Ecologically: The Environment, Human Animality, Nature 4. What Vulnerability Entails: Sustainability and the Limits of Political Pluralism 5. Nature’s Relations: Ontology, Vulnerability, Agency 6. The Democracy of the Neglected: Mutual Understanding and Sustainability in a World of Many Worlds Conclusion: Retrieving Nature Bibliography Index
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MY - University of Toronto Press Wittgenstein and the Study of Politics
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University of Toronto Press Pluralist Politics Relational Worlds
Book SynopsisIn Pluralist Politics, Relational Worlds, Didier Zúñiga examines the possibility for dialogue and mutual understanding in human and more-than-human worlds. The book responds to the need to find more democratic ways of listening to, giving voice to, and caring for the variety of beings that inhabit the earth. Drawing on ecology and sustainability in democratic theory, Zúñiga demonstrates the transformative potential of a relational ethics that is not only concerned with human animals, but also with the multiplicity of beings on earth, and the relationships in which they are enmeshed. The book offers ways of cultivating and fostering the kinds of relations that are needed to maintain human and more-than-human diversity in order for life to persist. It also calls attention to the quality of the relationships that are needed for life to flourish, advancing our understanding of the diversity of pluralism. Pluralist Politics, Relational Worlds ultimately presses us toTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Towards a Relational Ethics with Nature 1. Bound by Reasonableness 2. Vulnerability and the Need for Care 3. To Think and Act Ecologically: The Environment, Human Animality, Nature 4. What Vulnerability Entails: Sustainability and the Limits of Political Pluralism 5. Nature’s Relations: Ontology, Vulnerability, Agency 6. The Democracy of the Neglected: Mutual Understanding and Sustainability in a World of Many Worlds Conclusion: Retrieving Nature Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press An Intense Calling
Book SynopsisPositing that education is a movement from one way of being to another, more desirable one, An Intense Calling argues that ethics should be the prime focus for the field of education. The book locates ethics, education, and justice in human subjectivity and describes education as a necessary practice for ethical reflexivity, change, and becoming (ethically) different. It also situates ethics as something that exceeds subjectivity, thereby engaging ethics as a material phenomenon through topics such as aesthetics and solidarity with non-humans. Jesse Bazzul explores various concepts in the book including power, biopolitics, the commons, subjectivity, and materiality, and draws from over twenty years of experience teaching in different countries including Canada, Ireland, the United States, China, and Ukraine. Taking a wide-ranging philosophical approach, the book entangles ethics, urgent political issues, and pressing educational contexts of the twenty-first centTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Part 1: Ethics and Subjectivity Preface: A Mapping of Education and Ethics 1. (Un)disciplined: Education as an Open Work 2. Multiplicity and the Commons 3. Education Needs Politics and Imagination 4. Ethics and Subjectivity: The Vital Terrain of Education Part 2: Ethics as Ontological Exploration 5. Outside the Subject of Ethics 6. Assemblages and the Emergence of Difference 7. Aesthetics and Environmentality 8. Solidarity with Nonhumans Notes Index
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University of Toronto Press Varieties of Affect
Book SynopsisIn this new and original book, Claire Armon-Jones examines the concept of affect and various philosophical positions which attempt to define and characterize it: the standard view, the neo-cognitivist view, and the objectual thesis. She contends that these views radically distort our understanding of affect by disregarding modes of affect which fail to conform to the accounts they each employ. Against the standard and neo-cognitivist views she argues that the notions they use to characterize affect are neither necessary nor sufficient; and against the objectual thesis she further argues that affective states exhibit degrees of independence from the concept of an object. She develops a new theory of the varieties of affect that explains their cognitive nature, their felt aspect, their special logic and the relationship between their objectless and object-directed forms. Armon-Jones concludes by suggesting that her arguments call into question certain assumptions about t
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University of Toronto Press Patriarchal Desire and Victorian Discourse
Book SynopsisWhile there have been studies examining Trollope from a feminist perspective, very little work has taken into consideration the questions raised by contemporary critical theory. Patriarchal Desire and Victorian Discourse is unique in that it links feminist analysis with psychoanalytic theory, and brings both to bear on an examination of Trollope’s writings. The feminist Lacanian analysis employed by Priscilla L. Walton offers a new perspective on the dominant Victorian cultural dynamic. She explains how the works serve as complex and ultimately double-edged exemplars of patriarchal desire and masculinist discourse.For most of his life Trollope sought to gain acceptance to a privileged social group, from which he was initially excluded as a result of his class. Walton begins with his situation as presents it in An Autobiography in order to place the author historically, as a man whose social position granted him a useful vantage point from which to comment on the implic
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Cornell University Press Philosophers in the Republic
Book SynopsisIn Plato''s Republic, Socrates contends that philosophers make the best rulers because only they behold with their mind''s eye the eternal and purely intelligible Forms of the Just, the Noble, and the Good. When, in addition, these men and women are endowed with a vast array of moral, intellectual, and personal virtues and are appropriately educated, surely no one could doubt the wisdom of entrusting to them the governance of cities. Although it is widelyand reasonablyassumed that all the Republic's philosophers are the same, Roslyn Weiss argues in this boldly original book that the Republic actually contains two distinct and irreconcilable portrayals of the philosopher.According to Weiss, Plato's two paradigms of the philosopher are the philosopher by nature and the philosopher by design. Philosophers by design, as the allegory of the Cave vividly shows, must be forcibly dragged from the material world of pleasure to the sublime realm of the intellect, and fromTrade ReviewThis important book takes Plato at his word. Delicately attuned to nuances and alterations in Plato's language, Roslyn Weiss painstakingly—but never uninterestingly—accumulates convincing textual evidence in support of three main thesis: (1) The Republic contains two distinct and irreconcilable portrayals of the philosopher: the philosophers by nature of books five and six and the philosophers by design of book seven (chapters one through three); (2) Socrates is superior to both of these philosophical types because he displays the virtue, deliberately suppressed in the Republic, of piety (chapter four); (3) Socrates intentionally blurs the difference between the other-regarding virtue of justice and the self-regarding virtue of moderation (chapter five). These theses are internally connected by Weiss's guiding intuition that the example of Socrates, who puts himself in harm's way in the course of caring for the souls of others, furnishes the proper measure of philosophy and justice in the Republic. * The Review of Metaphysics *Weiss develops her bold and refreshing alternative to standard interperetations of the Republic by way of close readings of the dialogue that attend with nuance to its language and arguments and also its dramatic structure. Weiss's exceptionally rich footnotes supplement the careful arguments of her text, while also offering, over the course of the book, a sustained set of insightful gestures to undernoted proximities between Plato and Aristotle. -- Jill Frank * The Review of Politics *What we expect from Roslyn Weiss is close textual argument and unusual readings. Her book on philosophers in the Republic does not disappoint.... The audacity of this close reading of the dialogue is a welcomed challenge to settled habits. Whether you agree with the conclusion or not, you will learn a lot about the text. -- Richard D. Parry * The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition *In Philosophers in the 'Republic,' Roslyn Weiss argues that Plato’s Republic contains two ‘distinct and irreconcilable’ portrayals of the philosopher: what Weiss calls the ‘philosopher by nature’ and the ‘philosopher by design.’ Through close reading of the arguments and the dramatic action of the Republic, Weiss convincingly shows the distinctness of these two types while also educing a third: that of Socrates himself. Weiss illuminates the multifaceted arguments of the Republic anew with deft intelligence, calling attention to conspicuous absences as well as important inconsistencies that ought to shift conventional readings of the dialogue from any approach. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Two Paradigms 1. Philosophers by Nature 2. Philosophers by Design I: The Making of a Philosopher 3. Philosophers by Design II: The Making of a Ruler 4. Socratic Piety: The Fifth Cardinal Virtue 5. Justice as Moderation Conclusion: "In a Healthy Way"Works Cited Index
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Cornell University Press Black Vienna
Book SynopsisJanek Wasserman traces intellectual, social, and political developments in the Austrian First Republic while highlighting intellectuals' participation in the growing worldwide conflict between socialism, conservatism, and fascism.Trade ReviewJanek Wasserman introduces us to Black Vienna, a parallel city where disappointed monarchists, frustrated Catholic radicals, and racist German nationalists worked in consort to destroy the First Republic.... Wasserman challenges the conventionalLager model of interwar Austrian politics in which there were three distinct camps: Social Democrats, Christian radicals and German nationalists. Instead he finds a 'two-part division of interwar Austrian life' in which the lines between Catholic conservatives and German nationalists were blurred. He is not the first to propose this revision... but Wasserman adds rich detail on how the camps' personalities, publications and organizations converged. -- Maureen Healy * Austrian Studies Newsmagazine *The book has been extremely well researched and for those with an interest in the detailed background to Austria's political history between the wars, it provides a complex and thorough exposé of the radical right in Vienna between the wars, this being interwoven with an account of the left-wing intellectuals who were less active in promoting the ideals of Social Democracy. -- John Warren * Austrian Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reconsidering "Red Vienna"1. The Emergence of Black Vienna2. The Austro-Marxist Struggle for "Intellectual Workers"3. The Spannkreis and the Battle for Hegemony in Central Europe4. The Verein Ernst Mach and the Politicization of Viennese Progressive Thought5. Österreichische Aktion and the New Conservatism6. The Rise and Fall of Politically Engaged Scholarship in Red Vienna, 1927–19347. The Triumph of Radical Conservatism in the Austrofascist State, 1933–1938ConclusionBibliography Index
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Cornell University Press The Shorter Writings
Book SynopsisThis book contains new, annotated, and literal yet accessible translations of Xenophon's eight shorter writings, accompanied by interpretive essays that reveal these works to be masterful achievements by a serious thinker of the first rank who raises important moral, political, and philosophical questions. Five of these shorter writings are unmistakably devoted to political matters. The Agesilaos is a eulogy of a Spartan king, and the Hiero, or the Skilled Tyrant recounts a searching dialogue between a poet and a tyrant. The Regime of the Lacedaemonians presents itself as a laudatory examination of what turns out to be an oligarchic regime of a certain type, while The Regime of the Athenians offers an unflattering picture of a democratic regime. Ways and Means, or On Revenues offers suggestions on how to improve the political economy of Athens' troubled democracy.The other three works included hereThe Skilled Cavalry Commander, On Trade ReviewMagnificent.... The translators and commentators assembled by McBrayer approach Xenophon with a prudence and care that would have made the Athenian smile. * The Weekly Standard *Plaudits to Gregory McBrayer, who has edited a new collection of the shorter works of the ancient Greek philosopher Xenophon, complete with fresh literal translations and interpretative essays by distinguished scholars. The Shorter Writings features Xenophon's reflections on subjects ranging from tyranny, political economy, hunting with dogs, and the ways of life of Athens and Sparta, the two most interesting Greek cities. By writing on topics that can at first glance sometimes appear quite mundane, Xenophon shows how the greatest philosophical puzzles can be seen through the practical problems of life out in the world. * Mosaic Magazine *On the surface, the Ways and Means is an attempt by a native son of Athens to restore the laurel to that great city through economic reforms. On a deeper level, it is the recognition of national existence as a strenuous act of renewal; and, more importantly, the affirmation and exposition of a certain kind of knowledge, or "science," of political economy. -- Pedro L. Gonzalez, American Greatness * KirkCenter.org *
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Cornell University Press Without Foundations
Book SynopsisCan political theorists justify their ideas? Do sound political theories need foundations? What constitutes a well-justified argument in political discourse? Don Herzog attempts to answer these questions by investigating the ways in which major theorists in the Anglo-American political tradition have justified their views. Making use of a wide range of primary texts, Herzog examines the work of such important theorists as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, the utilitarians (Jeremy Bentham, J. S. Mill. Henry Sidgwick, J. C. Harsanyi, R. M. Hare, and R. B. Brandt), David Hume, and Adam Smith. Herzog argues that Hobbes, Locke, and the utilitarians fail to justify their theories because they try to ground the volatile world of politics in immutable aspects of human nature, language, theology, or rationality. Herzog concludes that the works of Adam Smith and David Hume offer illuminating examples of successful justifications. Basing their political conclusions on social contexts, not on abstract
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Cornell University Press Perilous Futures
Book SynopsisSince his death, the writings of Carl Schmitt (18881985) have been debated, cited, and adopted by political and legal thinkers on both the left and right with increasing frequency, though not without controversy given Schmitt''s unwavering support for National Socialism before and during World War II. In Perilous Futures, Peter Uwe Hohendahl calls for critical scrutiny of Schmitt''s later writings, the work in which Schmitt wrestles with concerns that retain present-day relevance: globalization, asymmetrical warfare, and the shifting international order. Hohendahl argues that Schmitt''s work seems to offer solutions to these present-day issues, although the ambiguity of his beliefs means that Schmitt''s later work is a problematic guide.Focusing on works Schmitt published after the warincluding The Nomos of the Earth, Theory of the Partisan and Political Theology IIas well as his posthumously published diaries, Hohendahl reads these works crTrade ReviewIt is on the whole a careful discussion of these works that neither ignores Schmitt's shortcomings and his close connection to the Nazis, nor treats his works as motivated merely by self-justification. For those who seek to understand Schmitt's postwar writings this is a useful companion. * Choice *"Is There a Usable Schmitt?"—the subtitle of Peter Hohendahl's conclusion encapsulates the thematic thrust of Perilous Futures. It is also one of the most pressing and contentious questions in political and legal theory around the globe. * The Germanic Review *An important book. * Monatshefte *Hohendahl expresses a refreshing skepticism towards the enthusiastic appropriation of Schmittian ideas by many scholars on the left in the Anglophone world, especially in the field of international relations.... The volume is organized around insightful readings of key texts from Schmitt's career... Partisans and foes of Schmitt alike will benefit from his scrupulous exploration and fair-minded judgment of the work. * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Outlaw: Carl Schmitt's Postwar Notebooks and Small Essays 2. Transition: The Concept of Großraum and Global Politics 3. The Fate of European Colonialism and Carl Schmitt's New World Order 4. Revolutionary War and Absolute Enemy: Rereading Theory of the Partisan 5. The Return of Political Theology 6. Final Reflections: Is There a Usable Schmitt? Notes Index
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Cornell University Press The Political Writings
Book SynopsisButterworth richly deserves to be congratulated for providing advanced students and scholars with authoritative, reliable, and readable translations of Alfarabi''s important political writings. ? ChoiceAlfarabi (ca. 870–950) founded the great tradition of Aristotelian/Platonic political philosophy in medieval Islamic and Arabic culture. In this second volume of political writings, Charles E. Butterworth presents translations of Alfarabi''s Political Regime and Summary of Plato''s Laws, accompanied by introductions that discuss the background for each work and explore its teaching.In addition, the texts are carefully annotated to aid the reader in following Alfarabi''s argument. An Arabic-English/English-Arabic glossary allows interested readers to verify the way particular words are translated. Throughout, Butterworth''s method is to translate consistently the same Arabic word by the same English word, rendering Alfarabi''s style Trade ReviewAccurate and very readable.... [Butterworth] was a student of Muhsin Mahdi, the leading scholar of Alfarabi of our time (and perhaps of all time), whose many editions, translations, and studies of Alfarabi's writings have enriched our understanding of this most influential philosopher. Butterworth is Mahdi's intellectual heir.... We are much indebted to Butterworth, who has undertaken this mission with admirable responsibility. * Speculum *Butterworth brilliantly combines in one volume the theoretical agenda of the Political Regime and the practical concerns of the Summary. This volume is an excellent contribution to Alfarabi scholarship and should be most welcome to anyone interested in Islamic philosophy. * The Review of Politics *Butterworth here offers... a commendable, skilled rendition of the Summary of Plato's Laws. * Journal of the History of Philosophy *Butterworth richly deserves to be congratulated for providing advanced students and scholars with authoritative, reliable, and readable translations of Alfarabi's important political writings. * Choice *Butterworth's splendid introduction to the first of these two texts provides the best introduction to Alfarabi's metaphysics that one is likely to find. In briefly sketching the life of Alfarabi, he also draws attention to the often forgotten major centers of learning in the ancient world. * The Review of Metaphysics *The translation on the whole is clear and very readable.... Readers with neither knowledge of Arabic nor familiarity with al-Farabi's writings will find the text easy to understand and follow, and the book will be useful for students. * Journal of Islamic Studies *Table of ContentsPrefacePolitical RegimeIntroductionThe TextSummary of Plato's LawsIntroductionThe TextAppendix A: Alfarabi, Enumeration of the SciencesAppendix B: Averroes's Defense of the Philosophers as Believing in Happiness and Misery in the HereafterGlossary A: Arabic–EnglishGlossary B: English–ArabicBibliographyIndex
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Cornell University Press Thucydides Hobbes and the Interpretation of
Book SynopsisThis original book has been consistently cited by scholars of international relations who explore the roots of realism in Thucydides''s history and the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. While acknowledging that neither thinker fits perfectly within the confines of international relations realism, Laurie M. Johnson proposes Hobbes''s philosophy is more closely aligned with it than Thucydides''s.Trade ReviewJohnson's book has much to offer that is useful and instructive. She raises numerous intelligent questions of interest to polticial theorists, students of international relations, and polticial scientists generally. * The Review of Politics *Johnson's book... sets out to break the link between Hobbes and Thucydides by orchestrating a debate between them on the topics of nature, justice and regimes. * The English Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Human Nature Hobbes Thucydides A Comparison of Hobbes and Thucydides on Human Nature 2. Justice Hobbes Thucydides A Comparison of Hobbes and Thucydides on Justice 3. Leadership and Regimes Hobbes Thucydides A Comparison of Hobbes and Thucydides on Leadership and Regimes Conclusion The Philosophic Roots of Realism and Neorealism The Use and Abuse of Thucydides An Alternative View of Thucydides The Thucydidean Scholar Notes Works Cited Index
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Cornell University Press Ideal Minds
Book SynopsisFollowing the 1960s, that decade''s focus on consciousness-raising transformed into an array of intellectual projects far afield of movement politics. The mind''s powers came to preoccupy a range of thinkers and writers: ethicists pursuing contractual theories of justice, radical ecologists interested in the paleolithic brain, seventies cultists, and the devout of both evangelical and New Age persuasions. In Ideal Minds, Michael Trask presents a boldly revisionist argument about the revival of subjectivity in postmodern American culture, connecting familiar figures within the seventies intellectual landscape who share a commitment to what he calls neo-idealism as a weapon in the struggle against discredited materialist and behaviorist worldviews.In a heterodox intellectual and literary history of the 1970s, Ideal Minds mixes ideas from cognitive science, philosophy of mind, moral philosophy, deep ecology, political theory, science fiction, neoclassical ecTrade Review[H]is reevaluation of the 1970s' intellectual and cultural currents is remarkable. * Choice *A convincing portrait of the zeitgeist. Trask's reevaluation of the 1970's intellectual and cultural currents is remarkable—Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: From Consciousness-Raising to Neo-idealism 1. Artificial Intelligence and the Rise of the Meritocracy 2. Radical Ecology's Mindfulness 3. That Seventies Cult 4. Millennial America and the World to Come Afterword: The Marketization of Everything
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Cornell University Press Solzhenitsyn The HistoricalSpiritual Destinies
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLee Congdon's [book] offers the best guide in print to Solzhenitsyn's views, including their evolution, largely because Congdon accepts the writer for what he was: a Russian and Eastern Orthodox conservative – one and the same in Solzhenitsyn's mind. * Times Literary Supplement *Congdon's sociohistorical and political focus is formidable, and he brilliantly supports his premise that Solzhenitsyn's writings expose the nature of totalitarian power and its corruptive effects on human lives in Russia. Highly recommended. * Choice *Lee Congdon's book comprises a short introduction to the historical and cultural context important for understanding the Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's life and writings.[T]he book's lucid style and choice of illustrative examples make for easy and pleasant reading. * The Russian Review *One must applaud Lee Congdon, emeritus professor of history, James Madison University, for this timely volume. * The Wanderer *
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