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Book SynopsisWe regard genocidal violence as worse than other sorts of violence—perhaps the worst there is. But what does this say about what we value about the genos on which nations are said to be founded? This is an urgent question for democracies. We value the mode of being in time that anchors us in the past and in the future, that is, among those who have been and those who might yet be. If the genos is a group constituted by this generational time, the demos was invented as the anti-genos, with no criterion of inheritance and instead only occurring according to the interruption of revolutionary time. Insofar as the demos persists, we experience it as a sort of genos, for example, the democratic nation state. As a result, democracies are caught is a bind, disavowing genos-thinking while cherishing the temporal forms of genos-life; they abhor genocidal violence but perpetuate and disguise it. This is the genocide paradox. O’Byrne traces the problem through our commitment to existential categories from Aristotle to the life taxonomies of Linneaus and Darwin, through anthropologies of kinship that tether us to the social world, the shortfalls of ethical theory, into the history of democratic theory and the defensive tactics used by real existing democracies when it came to defining genocide for the U.N. Genocide Convention. She argues that, although models of democracy all make room for contestation, they fail to grasp its generational structure or acknowledge the generational content of our lives. They cultivate ignorance of the contingency and precarity of the relations that create and sustain us. The danger of doing so is immense. It leaves us unprepared for confronting democracy’s deficits and its struggle to entertain multiple temporalities. In addition, it leaves us unprepared for understanding the relation between demos and violence, and the ability of good enough citizens to tolerate the slow-burning destruction of marginalized peoples. What will it take to envision an anti-genocidal democracy?Table of ContentsIntroduction: Democracy and Genos | 1 Generational Being, 10 • Genocidal Violence, 18 • Ontology and Judgment—On Method, 23 • A Note on Genos, 31 1 Genos | 33 Introduction, 33 • The Tree of Porphyry: The Pleasure of Order, 36 • Linnaeus: The Sane Systematizer, 40 • Darwin: Heredity and the Temporal Order, 48 • The Unstable Clade and the Naturalization of Generational Being, 57 2 How Much Kin Does a Person Need? | 64 Introduction, 64 • Absolute Belonging: Atavus and Beyond, 64 • The Life of Blood, 73 • The Evidence of DNA, 77 • Genealogical Th inking, 81 • Creating Kin, 93 • Genocide as Aenocide, 98 3 What’s Wrong with Genocide? | 103 Introduction, 103 • Genocide and the End of Ethics, 107 • Genocide beyond the End of Ethics, 114 • Genocidal Life: The Case of Sexual Violence, 117 • Ontology and Politics, 119 4 Democracy of Generational Beings | 126 The Democratic Paradox and the Genocide Paradox, 126 • Genos and Cosmos, 131 • Genos and Demos, 136 • The Problem of Time for Democracies, 141 Conclusion: The Antigenocidal Democracy | 151 Acknowledgments | 165 Notes | 167 Bibliography | 203 Index | 221

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Book SynopsisWe regard genocidal violence as worse than other sorts of violence—perhaps the worst there is. But what does this say about what we value about the genos on which nations are said to be founded? This is an urgent question for democracies. We value the mode of being in time that anchors us in the past and in the future, that is, among those who have been and those who might yet be. If the genos is a group constituted by this generational time, the demos was invented as the anti-genos, with no criterion of inheritance and instead only occurring according to the interruption of revolutionary time. Insofar as the demos persists, we experience it as a sort of genos, for example, the democratic nation state. As a result, democracies are caught is a bind, disavowing genos-thinking while cherishing the temporal forms of genos-life; they abhor genocidal violence but perpetuate and disguise it. This is the genocide paradox. O’Byrne traces the problem through our commitment to existential categories from Aristotle to the life taxonomies of Linneaus and Darwin, through anthropologies of kinship that tether us to the social world, the shortfalls of ethical theory, into the history of democratic theory and the defensive tactics used by real existing democracies when it came to defining genocide for the U.N. Genocide Convention. She argues that, although models of democracy all make room for contestation, they fail to grasp its generational structure or acknowledge the generational content of our lives. They cultivate ignorance of the contingency and precarity of the relations that create and sustain us. The danger of doing so is immense. It leaves us unprepared for confronting democracy’s deficits and its struggle to entertain multiple temporalities. In addition, it leaves us unprepared for understanding the relation between demos and violence, and the ability of good enough citizens to tolerate the slow-burning destruction of marginalized peoples. What will it take to envision an anti-genocidal democracy?Table of ContentsIntroduction: Democracy and Genos | 1 Generational Being, 10 • Genocidal Violence, 18 • Ontology and Judgment—On Method, 23 • A Note on Genos, 31 1 Genos | 33 Introduction, 33 • The Tree of Porphyry: The Pleasure of Order, 36 • Linnaeus: The Sane Systematizer, 40 • Darwin: Heredity and the Temporal Order, 48 • The Unstable Clade and the Naturalization of Generational Being, 57 2 How Much Kin Does a Person Need? | 64 Introduction, 64 • Absolute Belonging: Atavus and Beyond, 64 • The Life of Blood, 73 • The Evidence of DNA, 77 • Genealogical Th inking, 81 • Creating Kin, 93 • Genocide as Aenocide, 98 3 What’s Wrong with Genocide? | 103 Introduction, 103 • Genocide and the End of Ethics, 107 • Genocide beyond the End of Ethics, 114 • Genocidal Life: The Case of Sexual Violence, 117 • Ontology and Politics, 119 4 Democracy of Generational Beings | 126 The Democratic Paradox and the Genocide Paradox, 126 • Genos and Cosmos, 131 • Genos and Demos, 136 • The Problem of Time for Democracies, 141 Conclusion: The Antigenocidal Democracy | 151 Acknowledgments | 165 Notes | 167 Bibliography | 203 Index | 221

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Book SynopsisThe wide range of disciplines represented here enables the volume to stand as a contextualizing work in Fanon studies. It contains new original essays on Africana philosophy, the human sciences, dialectical humanism, women of color studies, neocolonial and postcolonial studies, violence, and tragedy.Table of ContentsForeword: Leonard Harris (Purdue University) & Carolyn Johnson. Introduction. Part I: Oppression:. 1. Fanon, Oppression and Resentment: The Black Experience in the United States: Floyd W. Hayes III (Purdue University). 2. Perspectives of Du Bois and Fanon on the Psychology of Oppression: Stanley O. Gaines, Jr. 3. Racism and Objectification: Reflections on Themes from Fanon: Richard Schitt (Brown University). Part II: Questioning the Human Sciences:. 4. Fanon's Body of Black Experience: Ronald A. T. Judy (University of Pittsburgh). 5. The Black and the Body Politic: Fanon's Existential Phenomenological Critique of Psychoanalysis: Lewis R. Gordon. 6. To Cure and to Free: The Fanonian Project of Decolonized Psychiatry: Francoise Verges (UC Berkeley). 7. Revolutionizing Theory: Sociological Dimensions in Fanon's Sociologie D'Une Revolution: Renee T. White (Purdue University). Part III: Identity and the Dialectics of Recognition: . 8. Casting the Slough: Fanons New Humanism for a New Humanity: Robert Bernasconi (University of Memphis). 9. Fanon, Sartre and Identity Politics: Sonia Kruks (Oberlin College). 10. The Difference Between the Hegelian and Fanonian Dialectic of Lordship and Bondage: Lou Turner. Part IV: Fanon and the Emancipation of Women of Color: . 11. Antiblack Femininity - Mixed-Race Identity: Engaging Fanon to Reread Capecia: T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting (Purdue University). 12. Violent Women: Surging into Forbidden Quarter: Nada Elia (Western Illinois University-Macomb). 13. To Conquer the Veil: Fanon's Continued Relevance to Algeria: Eddy Souffrant (Marquette University). 14. Invisibility and Super/Vision: Fanon on Race, Veils, and Discourses of Resistance: David Theo Goldberg (Arizona State University). Part V: Postcolonial Dreams, Neocolonial Realities: . 15. Public (Re)Memory, Vindicating Narratives, and Troubling Beginnings: Towards a Postcolonial Psychoanalytical Theory: Maurice Stevens (Santa Cruz). 16. Fanon, African and Afro-Caribbean Philosophy: Paget Henry (Brown University). 17. Fanon and the Contemporary Discourse of African Philosophy: Tsenay Serequeberhan (Simmons College). 18. On the Misadvertures of National Consciousness: A Retrospect on Frantz Fanon's Gift of Prophecy: Olufemi Taiwo (Loyola University, Chicago). Part VI: Resistance and Revolutionary Violence:. 19. Jammin' the Airwaves and Tuning Into the Revolution: The Dialectics of the Radio in L'An Cinq du la Revolution Algerienne: Nigel Gibson (Columbia University). 20. Fanon on the Role of Violence in Liberation: A Comparison to Gandhi and Mandela: Gail M. Presby (Marist College). 21. Fanon's Tragic Revolutionary Violence: Lewis R. Gordon (Purdue University). Afterword: Joy Ann James (University of Massachusetts & University of Colorado). Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThis title presents an innovative approach to Dewey's view of rhetoric as art, revealing an 'ontology of becoming'. In ""Democracy and Rhetoric"", Nathan Crick articulates from John Dewey's body of work a philosophy of rhetoric that reveals the necessity for bringing forth a democratic life infused with the spirit of ethics, a method of inquiry, and a sense of beauty. Crick relies on rhetorical theory as well interdisciplinary insights from philosophy, history, sociology, aesthetics, and political science as he demonstrates that significant engagement with issues of rhetoric and communication are central to Dewey's political philosophy. In his rhetorical reading of Dewey, Crick examines the sophistical underpinnings of Dewey's philosophy and finds it much informed by notions of radical individuality, aesthetic experience, creative intelligence, and persuasive advocacy as essential to the formation of communities of judgment. Crick illustrates that for Dewey rhetoric is an art situated within a complex and challenging social and natural environment, wielding influence and authority for those well versed in its methods and capable of experimenting with its practice. From this standpoint the unique and necessary function of rhetoric in a democracy is to advance minority views in such a way that they might have the opportunity to transform overarching public opinion through persuasion in an egalitarian public arena. The truest power of rhetoric in a democracy then is the liberty for one to influence the many through free, full, and fluid communication. Ultimately Crick argues that Dewey's sophistical rhetorical values and techniques form a naturalistic 'ontology of becoming' in which discourse is valued for its capacity to guide a self, a public, and a world in flux toward some improved incarnation. Appreciation of this ontology of becoming - of democracy as a communication-driven work in progress - gives greater social breadth and historical scope to Dewey's philosophy while solidifying his lasting contributions to rhetoric in an active and democratic public sphere.

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Book SynopsisA new reading of The Prince, arguing that the classic text is neither a scientific treatise on politics nor a patriotic tract but rather an artful, elaborated critique of the dominant religion of his time The leading interpretations of The Prince focus on Machiavelli's historical context, but they give little attention to the source on which the moral and political thought of Machiavelli's sixteenth century was based, the Christian Bible. In this study of The Prince, William Parsons plumbs Machiavelli's allusions to the Bible, along with his statements on the Church, and shows that Machiavelli was a careful reader of the Bible and an astute observer of the Church. On this basis Parsons contends that Machiavelli's teaching in The Prince is instructively compared with that of the Church's teacher, Jesus Christ. Parsons thus undertakes what recent interpreters of The Prince have not done: contrast Machiavelli's advice with the teaching of Christ. The result is a new reading of The Prince, revealing in Machiavelli's political thought a systematic critique of the NewTestament and its model for human life, Christ. In this commentary on one of the greatest works on politics ever written, Parsons not only challenges the most recent interpretations of The Prince but also sheds new light onthe classic interpretation that Machiavelli was a teacher of immorality. William Parsons is associate professor of political science at Carroll College.Trade ReviewThis book is a well-written, well-organized effort to uncover the textual sources of Machiavelli's understanding of Christianity. It offers a close and nuanced reading of the relevant texts. Whether or not one agrees with its perspective or with its conclusions, it is an excellent piece of scholarship. * RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY *This is the work of a lifetime. Parsons gives exhaustive commentaries on all the important texts, but chiefly The Prince and the Discourses, to substantiate his deliberately shocking thesis. He has produced a work that every serious student of Machiavelli will henceforth have to engage. * HEYTHROPE JOURNAL *Machiavelli's Gospel provocatively delineates and deciphers biblical allegories in Machiavelli's political writings, especially The Prince. [. . .] Parsons provides exciting new interpretive twists on figures such as Savonarola and Cesare Borgia, whom Machiavelli clearly meant to serve as symbolic proxies for Christ. Parsons also sheds fresh light on the Christological (or anti-Christological) elements of Machiavelli's depictions of other figures such as Philip V of Macedon, Philopoemen of the Achaean league, and Piero Soderini, Machiavelli's patron and the gonfalonier of justice in the Florentine Republic. * REVIEW OF POLITICS *Parsons offers in great detail a Machiavelli to which careful readers have always had access. * PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS *Machiavelli's Gospel makes a unique and substantial contribution to the scholarly literature on Machiavelli. William Parsons's mastery of both Machiavelli's texts and the New Testament is impressive, and he executes the confrontation between Machiavelli and Christianity with remarkable thoroughness and subtlety. -- -- Nathan Tarcov, University of ChicagoIn this provocative book, William Parsons makes a strong case for reading Machiavelli's Prince as a radical -- and often audacious -- critique of Christianity. No previous study has so thoroughly examined Machiavelli's complex engagements with the Bible, especially the New Testament. By comparing lessons from the Gospels with passages from the Prince and Discourses that seem to subvert the teaching of Christ, Machiavelli's Gospel introduces readers to a fascinating and underexplored terrain. -- -- Erica Benner, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Christianity, Christ, and Machiavelli's The Prince Christianity's Siren Song Christ's Defective Political Foundations Hope Is Not Enough The Prince of War Machiavelli's Unchristian Virtue Christ's Ruinous Political Legacy The Harrowing Redemption of Italy Conclusion: Machiavelli's Gospel Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisA thorough examination of Benjamin Franklin's works on philosophy and politics, arguing that Franklin was a philosopher of natural right Benjamin Franklin's writings on politics are voluminous, and his own politics are well known, yet scholars debate -- often fiercely -- whether he had a political philosophy and, if so, what it was. Benjamin Franklin, Natural Right, and the Art of Virtue is a study of Franklin's political and philosophical writings, tracing the development of his political thought and elucidating the political philosophy he came to embrace and put into practice. Kevin Slack argues that Franklin, despite his reputation as a wit and clever politician, examined the nature of politics, virtue, and morality more deeply than any scholar has given him credit for. Franklin, as Slack demonstrates, rejected metaphysics during a period of youthful skepticism, adopting radical skepticism, but later abandoned that view for a third alternative, Shaftesbury's common-sense philosophy. Engaging in a rigorous critique of religious and political authorities, Franklin rejected all authoritative claims but that of reason, which he used to investigate the nature of justice, or natural right. Slack shows here that Franklin was a thinker in the traditionof Socrates, and thus a political philosopher in the truest and highest sense. Kevin Slack is assistant professor of politics at Hillsdale College.Trade ReviewA valuable book for all scholars interested in Franklin, the Enlightenment, and republican culture in colonial British North America. * AMERIKASTUDIEN *Kevin Slack's Benjamin Franklin, Natural Right, and the Art of Virtue makes an impressive contribution to the quest for the real . -- Benjamin Franklin * REVIEW OF POLITICS *The author's thoroughly researched and cogently argued thesis adds a new dimension to our understanding of one of America's most influential founding fathers. * CERCLES *Kevin Slack offers here a learned commentary on the ethical dilemma faced in the eighteenth century by Mandeville's dictum 'private vice, public good.' Slack shows how Franklin's political philosophy arises naturally from his creative efforts to resolve Mandeville's apparent ethical revolution. --Maxwell Professor Emeritus of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University -- Ralph KetchamKevin Slack executes a tour de force through the oeuvre of Benjamin Franklin, uncovering some new attributions along the way. The Franklin he gives us is thoroughly modern, thoroughly Enlightenment, and thoroughly philosophical. At the same time, Slack shows how Franklin's life and thought were leavened with the common-sense humanism of Shaftesbury, creating a kinship with classical thought. Slack's is a stimulating and provocative take on Franklin. --professor of political science, University of North Texas. -- Steven FordeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Liberty and Necessity Truth and Usefulness Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion On the Providence of God in the Government of the World The Science of Virtue Self-Examination The Virtues of a Free People Political Principles Political Theory Statesmanship Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisConsiders how political language has changed through time, looking at concrete examples from English and other languages. Conal Condren's fifth and final volume in a decades-long examination of political language, Political Vocabularies: Word Change and the Nature of Politics is a study of the mechanisms of change in political vocabularies over time. Though the main focus of the study is on English political vocabulary, Condren also compares political terms in other languages, such as French, German, Latin, Greek, Italian, and Japanese, and discusses how some of theseterms are imported into English. Considering concrete examples of extension and intension of meaning, neologism, euphemism, translation, loan words, and metaphor as used in political discourse, Condren constructs a theoretical model of the political that describes what precisely goes on when political words are used or when words are used politically. Thus Condren's analysis in this study is not merely linguistic but it bears on perennial questions about the nature of politics.The book will thus appeal not only to linguists and political scientists but to a broad readership of those interested in history, politics, and philosophy. Conal Condren is Emeritus Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales and honorary professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland, Australia.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments The Scope of the Political A Changing System of Words The Idea of a Conceptual Model Extension and Salience Neologism Euphemism: Symptom and Taboo Euphemism: Accusation and Redescription Loan Words and Translation Metaphorical Incursion and Migration Metaphorical Imposition and Entanglement Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisConsciousness and Politics deals with some of the same texts discussed in two earlier books on Voegelin, Eric Voegelin and the Foundations of Modern Political Science (1999) and Beginning the Quest: Law and Politics in the Early Work of Eric Voegelin (2009). Given the appearance of so many useful discussions, especially by scholars who wrote the introductions to the several volumes of the Collected Works of Eric Voegelin that have appeared over the past decade or so, certain revisions in detail should come as no surprise. That is how science, even political science, improves. Consciousness and Politics begins with an analysis of the problem of the historicity of truth as it was formulated shortly before Voegelin abandoned his eight-volume History of Political Ideas. The analysis then follows a more or less chronological path, discussing the arguments developed in The New Science of Politics, Voegelin’s most famous book, the differentiation of consciousness and the problems of myth and nature as presented in the early volumes of Order and History. Starting in the 1960s, Voegelin began a lengthy argument in several volumes that resumed his concern with the philosophy of consciousness, which he had outlined in his early writings, and its connection to what we conventionally call philosophy of history. Voegelin’s late and often difficult essays, lectures, and the final volume of Order and History, many scholars have noticed, emphasize the meditative origins of his political science and, more broadly, of philosophy. The concluding chapters analyze this subject-matter and a perennial question that so many of Voegelin’s readers have raised: what is the relation of his political science or philosophy to Christianity?Table of ContentsCHAPTER ONE Introduction ( CHAPTER TWO Method: From Political Ideas to the Historicity of Truth CHAPTER THREE Genealogy of the “Gnosticism Thesis” CHAPTER FOUR The Differentiation of Consciousness CHAPTER FIVE Myth and Nature CHAPTER SIX The Problem of Political Reality CHAPTER SEVEN History CHAPTER EIGHT Meditation Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisThe Liberty for which Patriot Patrick Henry was willing to die was more than a rhetorical flourish. The American Patriots and Founders based their ideas about Liberty upon almost 200 years of experience on their own as well as the heritage of English Common Law and even back to the natural order of Thomas Aquinas, not to mention the philosophy of Aristotle and the Biblical Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. In over 50-years of scholarship Ellis Sandoz has researched, documented and contemplated the governance of man throughout the ages. The erudition brought to bear in this compact tome reflects a depth and breadth of learning that illuminates the subject with dazzling insight. Yet, he always reminds us that principles of Liberty are readily comprehensible to the common man. Sandoz worries that the present day adherence to political correctness limits our response to obviously murderous terroristic movements. He attacks academia for ignoring the spiritual nature of existence and events. He even chastens “social dogoodism” when it is provided instead of, rather than as a reflection of, spiritual nourishment. The book revolves around the motivation and context of the American Founding and drives home its relevance to contemporary living. The Founders fought against tyranny that attempted to control their physical and spiritual lives. Unjust governance was deemed to be without authority. Aristocrats and commoners ultimately must answer to the Final Authority. These concepts are reflected in the Declaration of Independence: “all men are created equal and they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights — that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Sandoz is not only a scholar, but a grandfather; his words will engender Liberty for future generations.

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Book SynopsisEric Voegelin was a German-born political theorist who fled Nazi persecution and immigrated to the United States in 1938, where he had a long and productive academic career. He is widely considered one of the most insightful political scientists of the twentieth century, but is sadly not as well known as other contemporaries like Leo Strauss or Hannah Arendt. This is in large part due to the difficulty of the topics he chose to study and the complex nature of the material produced. While there are other books that discuss his biography and academic/philosophical ideas, none combine these ideas with a practical means of actually utilizing Voegelin’s philosophy to define and analyze political reality. This book uniquely applys Voegelin’s ideas to real-world political problems and in its utilization of common language, making Voegelin’s extraordinary achievements much more accessible to a broader audience than any other previous work. Voegelin’s highly original thinking was heavily influenced by the violent and tumultuous times in which he lived. Because the events of his life are so influential, a brief but thorough biography is presented in the first chapter. The “Western Crisis” he recognized in modern Western culture is revealed as the motivation of Voegelin’s quest for truth and the resistance he thought vital to the strains of Gnosticism he felt rejected reality and the symbols needed to articulate it. Because Gnosticism is such a central theme in understanding Voegelin’s work, an extensive exploration is conducted on Gnostic origins, history, some complications in the use of this term, and how Voegelin’s concept of it evolved over the course of his career. The first chapter concludes with and examination of Voegelin’s use of symbol and language indices. Chapter two begins with an introduction to Voegelin’s views of how science, theology, and philosophy were used in the ancient world to reveal truth, the basis of order, and how humanity can move away from order by disregarding what the ancients revealed. This is followed by an examination of one of Voegelin’s most important contributions, his theory of consciousness and use of anamnesis. Chapter two concludes with a description of noesis’ relationship to political reality and how Voegelin’s quest to know truth and reality led him to question the state of political science and modernity’s willingness to seek truth. Chapter three, on Voegelin’s mature political theory, is best described as Principia Noetic, so labeled by Ellis Sandoz. Voegelin asserts that political reality is revealed when the basis of order is found in the ground of being. When man separates himself from God, order is lost, and violence and tyranny are guaranteed as man makes himself the sole arbiter of moral and political order, unrestricted by notions of the divine. The reader of this book should come away with a deep understanding of Voegelin’s philosophical insights found in the Principia Noetica, how to apply them in understanding political reality, and how to recognize the symptoms of the “Western Crisis.”

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Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume honor the work of political scientist and Eric Voegelin scholar, Barry Cooper, by considering how political philosophy (a form of hunting) and empiricism get “woven” together (to borrow a metaphor from Plato). In other words, they consider how science needs to be conducted if it is to remain true to our commonsense experience of the world and to facilitate political judgment. Several of the essays cover Eric Voegelin, including his understanding of consciousness, a comparison of him and Leo Strauss, and his self-understanding as a scholar. Other essays consider terrorism, technology, religion and the modern world, the divided line in Plato’s Republic, and the political significance of hope. The volume also includes a number of essays that consider different aspects of Canadian politics, including its strong regionalism, political culture, public law, and the infamous “Calgary School” of political science. These essays are united by the concern that political science must “weave” together political philosophy and empiricism. This task was what Aristotle meant when he characterized political science as a matter of practical wisdom. It is an insight that was also central for Voegelin’s restoration of political science in the twentieth century, and that these essays continue into the twenty-first century. Political analysis begins in whatever contemporary crisis the analyst has found himself. The analyst sifts through competing claims of political meaning asserted by the partisans in the crisis. From there he ascends to greater luminosity concerning the human condition by viewing those claims in light of the “major questions in the history of political thought.” They inform one another, as the search for order is necessarily the search for order that is conducted by a particular individual’s consciousness in the context of a particular community in space and time. This volume will be of special interest to scholars of political philosophy as well as citizens and statesmen interested in how an engagement in the history of political philosophy can facilitate political judgment in particular political circumstances.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Hunting and Weaving, Empiricism and Political Philosophy Thomas Heilke and John von Heyking I. Contemporary Politics1. Legends of the Calgary School: Their Guns, Their Dogs, and the Women Who Love Them Tom Flanagan2. Of Homesteaders and Orangemen: An Archeology of Western Canadian Political Identity Richard Avramenko3. Hunting for Cowboys Rainer Knopff4. Teaching Public Law Janet Ajzenstat5. Spiritual Disorder and Terrorism: On Barry Cooper’s New Political Religions Michael FranzII. Political Philosophy6. Thinking with Technology Leah Bradshaw7. Precarious Restorations: Religious Life in the Contemporary World Peter Emberley8. Tracking the Good in Plato’s Republic: The Literary and Dialogic Form of the Sun, Line, and Cave Imagery Zdravko Planinc9. The Timeliness of Political Philosophy – Reflecting on the Legacy of Voegelin and Strauss Jürgen Gebhardt10. A Probing of ConsciousnessJene M. Porter11. Eric Voegelin’s Workshop: A Study in Confirmation of Barry Cooper’s Genetic Paradigm Tilo Schabert12. Hope Does Not DisappointDavid WalshBibliography of Works by Barry CooperTabula GratuloraList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThis is the second volume, following the well-received edition of Mill’s writing essential to understanding the liberal tradition. His commentary on a full spectrum of issues gives further insight into the strengths and vulnerabilities of liberal democratic theory in practice. Rare and difficult to locate material is here brought to attention and made available. The contribution of Mill’s most authoritative biographer, Nicholas Capaldi, is a singular and unmatched highlight. The tenor of St. Augustine’s Press volumed on Mill is distinct in its intention to place his work in the framework of political philosophy and the conversation of the viability of liberalism as a tradition of thought.

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Book SynopsisFor five centuries, literary treasures had lain dormant in the archives of the Palazzo Tuttofare in Florence. Through a fortunate coincidence they have been recently discovered, and the present work is the result of this find. Contained herein, in fact, is the unedited correspondence – or presented as such – exchanged between Desiderius Erasmus, Thomas More, and Niccolo Machiavelli in 1517–1518. To these letters are added texts which serve, as it were, as annexes of the Prince and of the Utopia.Between these three illustrious writers the discussion, or the quarrel, bears chiefly on two themes: the art of governing on the one hand, and the art of writing on the other. As was to be expected, they battle over the best manner of governing: Erasmus and More on one side, Machiavelli on the other. The confrontation occurs on two terrains in particular: morality and necessity in politics, and the political forms of necessity. In the background of the quarrel is raised the problem of Christianity’s political power, perhaps that of its truth.The second theme is not unrelated to the first. Erasmus, More, and Machiavelli are accomplished writers. Each has several styles at his command, each knows and practices the resources of the art of writing, each intends to read as he should. And so in the margins of their discussion about substance, they argue about the significance of their respective works; they interpret, rightly or wrongly, the others’ manners of writing; they explain their own writing or dodge explanation, they deliver their secret or lead into error. What is at stake is the meaning of these enigmatic works, which are the Prince (1513), the Utopia (1516), and, to a lesser extent, the Praise of Folly (1511). Any lifting of the veil necessitates a golden rule: we cannot grasp the meaning of a work unless we grasp the manner in which it was written. In the case of Erasmus, More, and Machiavelli, cunning has a role to play. The author has taken a leaf from their book. “And from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence,and the violent bear it away.” – Matthew 11:12 Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTSPrologue1PreliminariesSection 1. The Readers, The Readings 6Section 2. The Authors, The Strategic Context 15Section 3. The Authors, The Historical Contexts 31Section 4. The Texts, The Writing 426Book I. Morality and NecessityCh. 1. The Tender Commerce of Friendship 51Ch. 2.Ch. 3.(July 1517–March 1518) 51Institutio Tyranni 60Liber Necessitatis 85Book II. Realism and UtopiaCh. 4. Prince Atecratos’s Island 101Ch. 5. Nowhere and Elsewhere 125(April–November 1518) 101Book III. The Hidden PrinceCh. 6.Ch. 7.Ch. 8. Addenda 176(1519–1525) 149Quia Nominor Princeps (1) 149Quia Nominor Princeps (2) 168Book IV. The Registers of WritingCh. 9. The Languages of Friendship 182Ch. 10.(1535–1536) 182Apte dicere, apte tacere 201Epilogue227Appendices232Acknowledgments252Index253

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in Polish in 2019 by The Lethe Foundation, this book demonstrates the relevance and importance of Paul Elmer More (1864–1937) and Irving Babbitt (1865–1933). Their collective legacy is one of responsible and truly thoughtful living. Their treatment of Humanists and their diagnosis of modernity is an important theme in this work, and the indication of the political consequences of humanism. This is a protreptic book. Its main goal is to encourage people to undertake independent studies or more generally, simply to think independently. If we want to think for ourselves, and not like preprogrammed humanoids, we can’t do so in a vacuum. We have to lean on something. In the Author’s view, the more than century-old writings of Paul Elmer More and Irving Babbitt are perfectly suited to the role of such a support for us, living in the here and now. They make it possible for us to dig ourselves out from underneath the heaps of opinions, “principles” or “theories” that allegedly can’t be rejected, that we’re obliged to follow, but that have a paralyzing and dumbing-down effect on us, making our lives from the outset seems like the dream of a childish old man." ––Taken from the Preface by Pawel Armada

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Book SynopsisModernity and What Has Been Lost comes out of a conference held at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, on June 4–5, 2009 that sought to identify Leo Strauss’s intellectual background in re: the repudiation of a modern idea of homogenous, universal state (considered as an illegitimate synthesis of Jerusalem and Athens, i.e., the claims of Reason and Revelation). The world we live in, molded by science and historical relativism, may be described as hostile to human dignity or perfection, or abhorrent to those who love the search for wisdom. Straussian teaching consisted in the steady effort to reopen “the quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns,” and refers to the esoteric way of writing practiced by the most profound thinkers of the past which has been apparently forgotten in the last three centuries. Strauss binds the concept of natural right with the question of maintenance of conditions for philosophizing, and it probably seems to him that such defense of philosophy is the highest task in our times. However, one must be well aware that philosophizing always means a perilous way of life. Indeed, it may be destructive of the city (polis) itself as far as the city exists due to some crucial beliefs the philosopher might put in doubt. Reflecting on those issues, Strauss engaged in several highly important debates with his contemporaries, in an open way with, e.g., Carl Schmitt, Karl Löwith and Alexandre Kojève, and more tacitly with Martin Heidegger. Table of ContentsHeinrich Meier, Why Leo Strauss? Four Answers and One Consideration concerning the Uses and Disadvantages of the School for the Philosophical Life Daniel Tanguay, Leo Strauss and the Contemporary Return to Political Philosophy Nathan Tarcov, Philosophy as the Right Way of Life in Natural Right and History David Janssens, The Philosopher’s Ancient Clothes: Leo Strauss on Philosophy and Poetry Pawel Armada, Leo Strauss as Erzieher: The Defense of the Philosophical Life or the Defense of Life against Philosophy Jürgen Gebhardt, Modern Challenges – Platonic Responses: Strauss, Arendt, Voegelin Arkadiusz Górnisiewicz, Karl Löwith and Leo Strauss on Modernity, Secularization, and Nihilism Emmanuel Patard, Remarks on the Strauss-Kojève Dialogue and Its Presuppositions Piotr Nowak, Carl Schmitt and His Critic Till Kinzel, Postmodernism and the Art of Writing: The Importance of Leo Strauss for the 21st Century Laurence Lampert, Leo Strauss’s Gynaikologia

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Book SynopsisThe achievement of unity and perfection in human action begins with a struggle for these ideals in human thought. Dr. Klaus Vondung in his collection of essays that span four decades explores examples of this in different fields of human inquiry: striving for harmonious existential unity of talents and morals, intellect and emotion; seeking to make natural sciences consonant with the humanities and thereby moving toward a more universal, “perfect” science; and establishing unity in political structures and cultivating in this unity a homogenous society. Vondung devotes himself especially to exposing National Socialism, and revisits its perverted motivations and the murderous consequences of its ideology. Particular focus in following the thread of unity and perfection in human intellectual and practical ambitions ultimately hones in on the combination of religion and politics. Vondung in these essays unpacks the ways in which this continues to fascinate and disturb us, and in his expertise he uses National Socialism to connect this pursuit of unity and perfection to what he calls one of the signature marks of modernity––namely, secular apocalypticism. This claim stands in opposition to Eric Voegelin’s remark that Gnosticism, rather, is “the nature of modernity.” Vondung, who studied and wrote his dissertation under Voegelin, grapples with the contrast of these positions. Vondung is willing to challenge Voegelin, but ultimately his treatment of the latter bears the quality of tribute to this great scholar. Vondung also explores the points of contact between apocalypticism and Hermetic speculation. Despite the independence of the religious and philosophical doctrines of Hermeticism, there are parallels to be found. Apocalypticism and Hermeticism originated in antiquity and yet each represents a tradition that still holds footing today. Vondung furthermore leads the reader to see the project of salvation found in both even as each operates with a different scope. This collection of essays centers itself on a perspective of the human pursuit of unity and perfection, directly or indirectly, as objectives of intellectual endeavors, existential ideals, as social or political outcomes, and in the case of National Socialism even as perverse aberrations that led to the Holocaust. Vondung’s particular treatment of Voegelin’s work likewise establishes what the former identifies as a stand-out question of this study: Does the search for order in history show us the unity of the history of humankind?

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Book Synopsis"Is not modern democracy the finally-found form of the religion of Humanity?" (2007)The Religion of Humanity: The Illusion of Our Time is the first anthology in any language of the writings of the contemporary French political philosopher, Pierre Manent, on “the religion of Humanity.” The striking phrase comes from nineteenth-century French thinker, Auguste Comte (1798–1857). Comte coined the phrase and indeed created an atheistic religion of a self-adoring Humanity. In the aftermath of the Cold War, Manent observed victorious democracy interpreting itself in a similar framework. He took it upon himself to track this development, analyze it, and warn his fellow Europeans of its deleterious political, intellectual, moral, and spiritual effects. With conceptual precision and (most often) a sober tone, many contemporary sacred cows were gored. But in addition to cursing the humanitarian darkness, he also lit many candles of judicious political, philosophical, moral, and spiritual analysis. This anthology is thus almost unique in its subject matter, and certainly unique in its treatment of the subject. It is a rarity and gem: a first-rate work of political philosophy.Trade Review“With this book, Pierre Manent’s considerations on the greatness of political and Christian life have been introduced to Americans by an expert arranger and translator of these writings, Paul Seaton, and by Daniel J. Mahoney, author of an introduction that gets readers right on track.” --Will Morrissey"Pierre Manent is one of our time’s most incisive political thinkers, and Paul Seaton has done a great service to all students of democracy by translating and editing The Religion of Humanity: The Illusion of Our Times. In this anthology, Seaton has collected some of Manent’s most important essays, lectures, and interviews on the theme of religion and politics in the contemporary West. Taken together, these writings provide the reader with a broad understanding of both Manent’s hopes and his worries for Western democracies today." –– John Kitch

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Book SynopsisThis is a posthumously published collection of Nalin Ranasinghe's sharp analyses of Shakespeare's five heavy dramas: Hamlet, King John, Julius Caesar, King Lear, and Antony and Cleopatra. True to form, Ranasinghe serves up philosophical and literary genius for the reader's benefit and delight. "I will try to claim that Shakespeare offers an esoteric vindication of the human soul itself, not merely poetry, against the looming backdrop of the Counter-Reformation in Europe and the Puritan perversion of English Anglicanism. Neither the Scholasticism of the former nor the fundamentalism of the latter had any sympathy for the claims of men like Bottom or the Bastard to see beyond the confines of scripture and sacred social structures. While poetry could indulge in metaphysical fantasy, it could not take on the status quo without the assistance of more learned allies; this Shakespeare seems to do by his re-telling of Classical and English history. As disingenuous as Bottom (or Erasmus) in this artful use of ignorance and folly to conceal his serious goals, Shakespeare is thus tying poetry to history and giving us an alternate, if playful, account of Western Civilization."

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Book SynopsisA persuasive argument against "forgive and forget"Trade Review"Resentment's Virtue represents an important counterpoint to the privileged status accorded to the logic of forgiveness in the transitional justice and reparations literatures. Brudholm illustrates nicely that 'negative emotions' are not only understandable in the aftermath of mass atrocity, but that they possess a moral component that is often ignored by the boosters of reconciliation."—Andrew Woolford, co-author of Informal Reckonings: Conflict Resolution in Mediation, Restorative Justice and Reparations"Resentment’s Virtue offers a much-needed corrective to the current fashionable enthusiasm for reconciliation and forgiveness as appropriate and desirable responses to unspeakable atrocities and the persons who authorized or committed them. It also provides a detailed analysis of Jean Améry’s contribution to the alternative argument that continuing outrage and refusal to forgive constitute justifiable moral reactions to such atrocities. It should stimulate renewed discourse on a troublesome subject." —Lawrence L. Langer, author of Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory and, most recently, Using and Abusing the Holocaust"In Resentment's Virtue, Thomas Brudholm rightly takes issue with some of the lazy assumptions concerning both the putative benefits of reconciliation and the assumed negativity of anger directed against those who have committed human rights atrocities.... The results are a thoughtful and interesting… treatment.... [T]he themes in this book will be of interest across the transitional justice disciplines and if Brudholm compels people to take Améry seriously, I think he will regard his work as well done." —International AffairsTable of ContentsForeward by Jefferie Murphy Preface and Acknowledgements1. Transitional Justice and the Ethics of AngerPart I: Revisiting the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa2. Commissioning Anger 3. The Hearings 4. The Therapy of Anger 5. Desmond Tutu on Anger 6. Layers and RemaindersPart II: Jean Améry on Resentment and Reconciliation7. Contextualizing "Ressentiments" 8. Opening Moves 9. Facing the Irreversible 10. Restoring Coexistance 11. Guilt and Responsibility 12. Wishful Thinking? 13. A Multifarious Reception 14. Epilogue: Between Resentment and RessentimentAppendix I: Overview of Jean Améry's "Ressentiments" Appendix II: Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisA persuasive argument against "forgive and forget"Trade Review"Resentment's Virtue represents an important counterpoint to the privileged status accorded to the logic of forgiveness in the transitional justice and reparations literatures. Brudholm illustrates nicely that 'negative emotions' are not only understandable in the aftermath of mass atrocity, but that they possess a moral component that is often ignored by the boosters of reconciliation."—Andrew Woolford, co-author of Informal Reckonings: Conflict Resolution in Mediation, Restorative Justice and Reparations"Resentment’s Virtue offers a much-needed corrective to the current fashionable enthusiasm for reconciliation and forgiveness as appropriate and desirable responses to unspeakable atrocities and the persons who authorized or committed them. It also provides a detailed analysis of Jean Améry’s contribution to the alternative argument that continuing outrage and refusal to forgive constitute justifiable moral reactions to such atrocities. It should stimulate renewed discourse on a troublesome subject." —Lawrence L. Langer, author of Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory and, most recently, Using and Abusing the Holocaust"In Resentment's Virtue, Thomas Brudholm rightly takes issue with some of the lazy assumptions concerning both the putative benefits of reconciliation and the assumed negativity of anger directed against those who have committed human rights atrocities.... The results are a thoughtful and interesting… treatment.... [T]he themes in this book will be of interest across the transitional justice disciplines and if Brudholm compels people to take Améry seriously, I think he will regard his work as well done." —International AffairsTable of ContentsForeward by Jefferie Murphy Preface and Acknowledgements1. Transitional Justice and the Ethics of AngerPart I: Revisiting the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa2. Commissioning Anger 3. The Hearings 4. The Therapy of Anger 5. Desmond Tutu on Anger 6. Layers and RemaindersPart II: Jean Améry on Resentment and Reconciliation7. Contextualizing "Ressentiments" 8. Opening Moves 9. Facing the Irreversible 10. Restoring Coexistance 11. Guilt and Responsibility 12. Wishful Thinking? 13. A Multifarious Reception 14. Epilogue: Between Resentment and RessentimentAppendix I: Overview of Jean Améry's "Ressentiments" Appendix II: Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Gullì is arguing for bold and radical theses which illuminate developments in the contemporary world, go beyond existing literature in the field in a dramatic way (by critiquing the very idea of sovereignty) and draw out the political implications of so-called postmodern theory. In my opinion, this is a seminal work.”—Anatole Anton, San Francisco State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionPART I: Critique of Sovereignty 1. Singularity or the Dignity of Individuation 2. Exception and Critique 3. Bataille’s Special Use of the Concept of SovereigntyPART II: Sovereignty and Labor 4. Ax and Fire: Knowledge Production and the Superexploitation of Contingent Academic Labor 5. Sovereign, Productive, and Effi cient: Th e Place of Disability in the Ableist SocietyConclusion: Labor without Sovereignty Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisLove, Justice, and Education by William H. Schubert brings to life key ideas in the work of John Dewey and their relevance for the world today. He does this by imagining continuation of highly evocative article that Dewey published in the ""New York Times"" in 1933. Dewey wrote from the posture of having visited Utopia. Schubert begins each of thirty short chapters with a phrase or sentence from Dewey's article, in response to which a continuous flow of Utopians consider what is necessary for educational and social reform among Earthlings. Schubert encourages the Utopians, who have studied Earthling practices and literatures, to recommend from their experience what Earthlings need for educational and social reform and how they can address obstacles to that reform. The Utopians speak to myriad implications of Dewey's report by drawing upon a wide range of philosophical, literary, and educational ideas - including many of Dewey's other writings. Their central message is that loving relationships and empathic dedication to social justice are necessary for educational reform that responds wholeheartedly to learner needs and interests. True to Dewey's original position, such education must be built upon social reform that works to overcome acquisitive society based on greed: the principal impediment to realizing human potential, democratic society, and educational relationships that enhance it. To overcome the debilitating acquisitiveness that plagues Earth is the challenge for educators and all human beings who seek to involve the young in composing their lives and cultivating a world of integrity, beauty, justice, love, and continuously evolving capacities of humanity.Table of ContentsPrologue. Improvising Riffs on Dewey and the Utopian; 1. No Schools at All; 2. Gatherings; 3. Assembly Places; 4. Homelike Ambience; 5. Resources; 6. Parents and Peers; 7. All as Teachers and Learners; 8. Learning Community for Children; 9. Sharing of Gifts; 10. Responsibility for Cooperation; 11. Life, Not Objectives; 12. Toward Worthwhile Lives; 13. Purpose Engrained in Activities; 14. Discovery of Aptitudes and Development of Capacities; 15. Inevitability of Learning; 16. Analogy to Babies; 17. Creating Attitudes, Not Acquiring and Storing; 18. Resisting Acquisitive Society; 19. Overcome Acquisitiveness; 20. Cultivating Positive Capacities to Liberate; 21. Enjoyment Now, Not Deferred; 22. Always "Is" with Faith in "To Be"; 23. All-Around Development; 24. Sense of Positive Power; 25. Elimination of Fear; 26. Confi dence, Eagerness, and Faith in Human Capacity; 27. Faith in the Environment; 28. Worthwhile Activities; 29. The "Right Way"; 30. From Love to Justice, "For Goodness Sake!"; Epilogue: Riffs of Hopes and Dreams; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisLove, Justice, and Education by William H. Schubert brings to life key ideas in the work of John Dewey and their relevance for the world today. He does this by imagining continuation of highly evocative article that Dewey published in the ""New York Times"" in 1933. Dewey wrote from the posture of having visited Utopia. Schubert begins each of thirty short chapters with a phrase or sentence from Dewey's article, in response to which a continuous flow of Utopians consider what is necessary for educational and social reform among Earthlings. Schubert encourages the Utopians, who have studied Earthling practices and literatures, to recommend from their experience what Earthlings need for educational and social reform and how they can address obstacles to that reform. The Utopians speak to myriad implications of Dewey's report by drawing upon a wide range of philosophical, literary, and educational ideas - including many of Dewey's other writings. Their central message is that loving relationships and empathic dedication to social justice are necessary for educational reform that responds wholeheartedly to learner needs and interests. True to Dewey's original position, such education must be built upon social reform that works to overcome acquisitive society based on greed: the principal impediment to realizing human potential, democratic society, and educational relationships that enhance it. To overcome the debilitating acquisitiveness that plagues Earth is the challenge for educators and all human beings who seek to involve the young in composing their lives and cultivating a world of integrity, beauty, justice, love, and continuously evolving capacities of humanity.Table of ContentsPrologue. Improvising Riffs on Dewey and the Utopian; 1. No Schools at All; 2. Gatherings; 3. Assembly Places; 4. Homelike Ambience; 5. Resources; 6. Parents and Peers; 7. All as Teachers and Learners; 8. Learning Community for Children; 9. Sharing of Gifts; 10. Responsibility for Cooperation; 11. Life, Not Objectives; 12. Toward Worthwhile Lives; 13. Purpose Engrained in Activities; 14. Discovery of Aptitudes and Development of Capacities; 15. Inevitability of Learning; 16. Analogy to Babies; 17. Creating Attitudes, Not Acquiring and Storing; 18. Resisting Acquisitive Society; 19. Overcome Acquisitiveness; 20. Cultivating Positive Capacities to Liberate; 21. Enjoyment Now, Not Deferred; 22. Always "Is" with Faith in "To Be"; 23. All-Around Development; 24. Sense of Positive Power; 25. Elimination of Fear; 26. Confi dence, Eagerness, and Faith in Human Capacity; 27. Faith in the Environment; 28. Worthwhile Activities; 29. The "Right Way"; 30. From Love to Justice, "For Goodness Sake!"; Epilogue: Riffs of Hopes and Dreams; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisImitating the desire of others is inherent to the struggle for power in international politics. The imitation of desire is a human trait seldom recognized in International Relations studies, let alone conceptualized. The imitation of desire that takes place among entities-as opposed to being intentionally generated by them-challenges the conventional wisdom of International Relations that assumes rational autonomous individuals. This book identifies the root of Realism, pointing out its awareness of the conflicting impact of desire and imitation in a world driven by restless comparison. It subsequently demonstrates the conceptual value of mimetic theory while proposing a template of understanding international polities, starting from assumptions of disorder and violence. This volume not only contributes to the study of conflict based on the imitation of the desire of others among international polities, but also proposes in its conceptualization that it is worth looking at studies of agency and structure, normative change, peace, and reconciliation.

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Book SynopsisRacial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity has become of global importance in places where many never would have imagined. Increasing diversity in the U.S., Europe, Africa, New Zealand, and Asia strongly suggests that a homogeneity-based focus is rapidly becoming an historical artifact. Therefore, culturally responsive evaluation (CRE)should no longer be viewed as a luxury or an option in our work as evaluators. The continued amplification of racial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity and awareness among the populations of the U.S. and other western nations insists that social science researchers and evaluators inextricably engage culturally responsive approaches in their work. It is unacceptable for most mainstream university evaluation programs, philanthropic agencies, training institutes sponsored by federal agencies, professional associations, and other entities to promote professional evaluation practices that do not attend to CRE. Our global demographics are a reality that can be appropriately described and studied within the context of complexity theory and theory of change (e.g., Stewart, 1991; Battram, 1999). And this perspective requires a distinct shift from “simple” linear cause-effect models and reductionist thinking to include more holistic and culturally responsive approaches.The development of policy that is meaningfully responsive to the needs of traditionally disenfranchised stakeholders and that also optimizes the use of limited resources (human, natural, and financial) is an extremely complex process. Fortunately, we are presently witnessing developments in methods, instruments, and statistical techniques that are mixed methods in their paradigm/designs and likely to be more effective in informing policymaking and decision-making. Culturally responsive evaluation is one such phenomenon that positions itself to be relevant in the context of dynamic international and national settings where policy and program decisions take place. One example of a response to address this dynamic and need is the newly established Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment (CREA) in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.CREA is an outgrowth of the collective work and commitments of a global community of scholars and practitioners who have contributed chapters to this edited volume. It is an international and interdisciplinary evaluation center that is grounded in the need for designing and conducting evaluations and assessments that embody cognitive, cultural, and interdisciplinary diversity so as to be actively responsive to culturally diverse communities and their aspirations. The Center’s purpose is to address questions, issues, theories, and practices related to CRE and culturally responsive educational assessment. Therefore, CREA can serve as a vehicle for our continuing discourse on culture and cultural context in evaluation and also as a point of dissemination for not only the work that is included in this edited volume, but for the subsequent work it will encourage.

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Book SynopsisRacial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity has become of global importance in places where many never would have imagined. Increasing diversity in the U.S., Europe, Africa, New Zealand, and Asia strongly suggests that a homogeneity-based focus is rapidly becoming an historical artifact. Therefore, culturally responsive evaluation (CRE)should no longer be viewed as a luxury or an option in our work as evaluators. The continued amplification of racial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity and awareness among the populations of the U.S. and other western nations insists that social science researchers and evaluators inextricably engage culturally responsive approaches in their work. It is unacceptable for most mainstream university evaluation programs, philanthropic agencies, training institutes sponsored by federal agencies, professional associations, and other entities to promote professional evaluation practices that do not attend to CRE. Our global demographics are a reality that can be appropriately described and studied within the context of complexity theory and theory of change (e.g., Stewart, 1991; Battram, 1999). And this perspective requires a distinct shift from “simple” linear cause-effect models and reductionist thinking to include more holistic and culturally responsive approaches.The development of policy that is meaningfully responsive to the needs of traditionally disenfranchised stakeholders and that also optimizes the use of limited resources (human, natural, and financial) is an extremely complex process. Fortunately, we are presently witnessing developments in methods, instruments, and statistical techniques that are mixed methods in their paradigm/designs and likely to be more effective in informing policymaking and decision-making. Culturally responsive evaluation is one such phenomenon that positions itself to be relevant in the context of dynamic international and national settings where policy and program decisions take place. One example of a response to address this dynamic and need is the newly established Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment (CREA) in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.CREA is an outgrowth of the collective work and commitments of a global community of scholars and practitioners who have contributed chapters to this edited volume. It is an international and interdisciplinary evaluation center that is grounded in the need for designing and conducting evaluations and assessments that embody cognitive, cultural, and interdisciplinary diversity so as to be actively responsive to culturally diverse communities and their aspirations. The Center’s purpose is to address questions, issues, theories, and practices related to CRE and culturally responsive educational assessment. Therefore, CREA can serve as a vehicle for our continuing discourse on culture and cultural context in evaluation and also as a point of dissemination for not only the work that is included in this edited volume, but for the subsequent work it will encourage.

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Book SynopsisIn On Tocqueville, Alan Ryan brilliantly illuminates the observations of the French philosopher who first journeyed to the United States in 1831 and went on to catalogue the unique features of the American social contract. Tocqueville’s prescient analyses of American life remain as relevant today as when they were first written. On Tocqueville features a chronology, biography and excerpts from Tocqueville’s major works.Trade Review"Ryan's excellent introduction makes Tocqueville's observations and anxieties vitally relevant for 21st-century readers."

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Book SynopsisIn On Marx, Alan Ryan examines Marx’s writing, not within the framework of Lenin or Tolstoy but within its own time, tracing its Hegelian roots and providing a sterling explication and critique of his theories of alienation, class struggle and revolution. This volume provides the clearest, most accessible introduction to Marx’s theories in recent years. On Marx features a chronology, biography and excerpts from Marx’s major works.

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Book SynopsisThe first collection of essays devoted to the Arabic philosopher Averroes's brilliant Commentary on Plato's "Republic," which survived the medieval period only in Hebrew and Latin translations. The first collection of essays devoted entirely to the medieval philosopher Averroes's Commentary on Plato's "Republic" includes a variety of contributors from across several disciplines and countries. The anthology aims to establish Averroes as a great philosopher in his own right, with special and unique insight into the world of Islam, as well as a valuable commentator on Plato. A major feature of the book is the first published English translation of Shlomo Pines's 1957 essay, written in Hebrew, on Averroes. The volume explores many aspects of Averroes's philosophy, including its teachings on poetry, philosophy, religion, law, and government. Other sections trace both the inspiration Averroes's work drew from past philosophers and the influence it had on future generations, especially in Jewish and Christian Europe. Scholars of medieval philosophy, ancient philosophy, Jewish studies, and the history of political thought more generally will find important insights in this volume. The anthology is also intended to provide the necessary background for teachers aiming to introduce Averroes's commentary into the classroom. With the Republic regularly appearing near the top of lists of the most frequently taught books in the history of philosophy, this volume shows how the most important medieval commentary on it deserves a place in the curriculum as well.Table of ContentsIntroduction Alexander Orwin Section 1: Averroes and His Teachers Imposing Alfarabi on Plato: Averroes's Novel Placement of the Platonic City Alexander Orwin Ibn Bajja: An Independent Reader of the Republic Josep Puig Montada Section 2: Poetry, Philosophy, and Logic Expelling Dialectics from the Ideal State: Making the World Safe for Philosophy in Averroes's Commentary on Plato's "Republic" Yehuda Halper Music, Poetry, and Politics in Averroes's Commentary on Plato's "Republic" Douglas Kries Section 3: Law, Religion, and Philosophy Averroes on Family and Property in the Commentary on Plato's "Republic" Catarina Belo Notes on Averroes's Political Teaching Shlomo Pines (trans. Alexander Orwin) The Shari?a of the Republic: Islamic Law and Philosophy in Averroes Commentary on Plato's "Republic" Rasoul Namazi An Indecisive Truth: Divine Law and Philosophy in the Decisive Treatise and Commentary on Plato's "Republic" Karen Taliaferro Section 4: Wisdom, Government, and the Character of the Political Community Averroes between Jihad and McWorld Michael Kochin The Essential Qualities of the Ruler in Averroes's Commentary on Plato's "Republic" Rosalie Helena de Souza Pereira Natural Perfection or Divine Fiat Joshua Parens Philosopher Kings and Counsellors: How Should Philosophers Participate in Politics? Alexander Orwin Section 5: Averroes's Reception in Europe Three Readings of Averroes's Commentary on Plato's "Republic" in Medieval Jewish Thought Alexander Green The Two Hebrew-into-Latin Translations of Averroes's Commentary on Plato's "Republic": Method, Motivation, and Context Michael Engel Bibliography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisA fascinating story of the rise of individualism in the formerly German Western Territories of Poland after World War II and how this new culture powered Poland's democratic-capitalist development. What does it take for a traditional society based on the primacy of the group over the individual to change into one where the autonomous individual is the most valued actor? How does this individualism in turn shape the possibilities of democratic politics? In this provocative book, author Tomek Grabowski argues that for liberal democracy to be sustainable, a prior breakthrough to individualism is often necessary, but that individualist revolutions are among the rarest in history. They require an unlikely confluence of three distinct historical processes-a large-scale uprooting of society, a frontier experience, and a process of civic nation building-in order to succeed. Grabowski illustrates this logic of a cultural breakthrough by focusing on the fascinating case of Poland, a country that was transformed, in the span of seventy years, from an archaic and peripheral polity into a vital component of the liberal-democratic West. The little known but central building blocks of Poland's individualist revolution included the uprooting of populations induced by the World War II, the chaotic frontier conditions that accompanied mass resettlement of the formerly German Western Territories, and the subsequent civic-educational efforts by the Catholic Church among the Polish settlers in the region. Drawing on a wealth of sources, from settlers' memoirs to contemporary interviews, Individualism and the Rise of Democracy in Poland breaks new ground with respect to both Poland's recent history and a larger cultural history of the West.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Individualism and Social Theory Chapter 1: Four Discourses of Individualism Chapter 2: Individualism Reconsidered Chapter 3: Theories of Social Individuation and A Way Forward Part Two: Individualism and Democracy in Poland Chapter 4: The Democratic Promise of Western Poland Chapter 5: Individualism Disaggregated: The Wrocław and Łódź Elites in A Cultural Perspective Part Three: Rupture and Reintegration Chapter 6: Rupture, 1945-1948 Chapter 7: The Communist Party and the Taming of the Frontier, 1949-1955 Chapter 8: A Quasi-Reformation: The Catholic Church in the Western Territories, 1945-1956 Chapter 9: The Socializers, 1965-1980 Conclusion: The Resilience of Individualism Appendix 1: Selected Socioeconomic Development Indicators for Wrocław and Łódź at the Beginning of the Democratic Era (1994) Appendix 2: Interview Questionnaire for Sorting Out Individual and Corporate Identities Appendix 3: List of Interviewees together with Their Classification into Two Main Identity Types Index

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Book SynopsisGovernments and organizations of all shapes and sizes espouse values of equity and social justice. Yet, there are many examples of unfair social arrangements and employment conditions, dysfunctional government practices, and growing income inequality in both developed and developing countries worldwide. The profession and transdiscipline of evaluation is well equipped to address issues of inequality and social injustice, but until recently has been much more focused on primary stakeholder and donor satisfaction (being as useful as possible to funders of interventions and evaluations) and accountability concerns.The authors in this volume challenge the field of evaluation to become more concerned about using evaluation to develop more equitable organizations, governments, and societies. Leading evaluation theorists and practitioners including Michael Scriven, Jennifer Greene, Thomas Schwandt, Emily Gates, Sandra Mathison, Karen Kirkhart, Saville Kushner, Lois-Ellin Datta, Ernest House, Robert Stake, Patricia Rogers, Robert Picciotto and Stewart Donaldson, provide a range of visions for how evaluation can play a much larger role in facilitating social justice across the globe.Evaluation for an Equitable Society will be of great interest to evaluation practitioners, students and scholars. It will be of interest to those teaching and taking introductory evaluation courses, as well as advanced courses focused on improving evaluation theory and practice.

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Book SynopsisGovernments and organizations of all shapes and sizes espouse values of equity and social justice. Yet, there are many examples of unfair social arrangements and employment conditions, dysfunctional government practices, and growing income inequality in both developed and developing countries worldwide. The profession and transdiscipline of evaluation is well equipped to address issues of inequality and social injustice, but until recently has been much more focused on primary stakeholder and donor satisfaction (being as useful as possible to funders of interventions and evaluations) and accountability concerns.The authors in this volume challenge the field of evaluation to become more concerned about using evaluation to develop more equitable organizations, governments, and societies. Leading evaluation theorists and practitioners including Michael Scriven, Jennifer Greene, Thomas Schwandt, Emily Gates, Sandra Mathison, Karen Kirkhart, Saville Kushner, Lois-Ellin Datta, Ernest House, Robert Stake, Patricia Rogers, Robert Picciotto and Stewart Donaldson, provide a range of visions for how evaluation can play a much larger role in facilitating social justice across the globe.Evaluation for an Equitable Society will be of great interest to evaluation practitioners, students and scholars. It will be of interest to those teaching and taking introductory evaluation courses, as well as advanced courses focused on improving evaluation theory and practice.

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Book SynopsisThis Fist Called My Heart: The Peter McLaren Reader, Volume I is “at the same time an homage, a gathering, an intellectual activist’s…toolkit, a teacher’s bullshit detector, a parent’s demand list and an academic’s orienting topography. This collection of essays…represents some of the most central and important work of Peter McLaren; work he has done on behalf of people’s liberation and humanization over more than three decades. [It provides] readers with an opportunity to develop a deep understanding of McLaren’s intellectual history and academic development, and the thinking processes that lead to his current framework and intellectual/philosophical/political situatedness in humanist Marxism. Through these gathered and sequentially presented essays, readers will be able to `see’ McLaren in the process of his theory construction, over time, without missing his essence of struggling for a just society that promotes the full humanity and liberation of all people. [Here,] we have curated some of the most exemplary essays along the trajectory of Peter McLaren’s long and impactful career. These pieces track and document Peter’s intellectual grow as one of North America’s most important intellectuals and advocates for critical pedagogy; his theorizing of the discursive and the everyday through post-modernist and post-structural lenses; his contributions to the literature and practice of critical multiculturalism; his stirring work on capitalist empire, and valiant struggles to resist it; through to his foundational, long held connection and cutting edge contribution to the field of humanist Marxism.”

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Book SynopsisThis Fist Called My Heart: The Peter McLaren Reader, Volume I is “at the same time an homage, a gathering, an intellectual activist’s…toolkit, a teacher’s bullshit detector, a parent’s demand list and an academic’s orienting topography. This collection of essays…represents some of the most central and important work of Peter McLaren; work he has done on behalf of people’s liberation and humanization over more than three decades. [It provides] readers with an opportunity to develop a deep understanding of McLaren’s intellectual history and academic development, and the thinking processes that lead to his current framework and intellectual/philosophical/political situatedness in humanist Marxism. Through these gathered and sequentially presented essays, readers will be able to `see’ McLaren in the process of his theory construction, over time, without missing his essence of struggling for a just society that promotes the full humanity and liberation of all people. [Here,] we have curated some of the most exemplary essays along the trajectory of Peter McLaren’s long and impactful career. These pieces track and document Peter’s intellectual grow as one of North America’s most important intellectuals and advocates for critical pedagogy; his theorizing of the discursive and the everyday through post-modernist and post-structural lenses; his contributions to the literature and practice of critical multiculturalism; his stirring work on capitalist empire, and valiant struggles to resist it; through to his foundational, long held connection and cutting edge contribution to the field of humanist Marxism.”

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Book SynopsisNational identity has been the subject of much controversy and debate. Some have even suggested dropping the concept entirely. One group, Essentialists, argue that national identity is fixed, cultural, based on birth and ancestry. Another viewpoint is posited by Postmodernists who argue that national identity is malleable, invented or imagined. As alternatives, some have suggested that national identity is a hybrid of both Essentialist and Postmodernist views. And still others bypass this argument and suggest that national identity should be based on civic factors, such as shared values and norms about citizenship.While controversy and debate are healthy exercises in any science, at some point order must be established if science is to proceed. The present volume is based on the idea that national identity is an ideal-type concept; it does not completely capture reality, but is used for analytic purposes. In addition, rather than focusing on these theoretical debates, we pursue research with the idea that results from research will contribute to the field of national identity. Three areas of national identity are discussed: theoretical, national, and individual. Two chapters focus on the major theories about national identity, provide critiques, and make suggestions about the topic. In section two, six chapters provide case studies of national identity on Scotland, Ireland, Russia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Germany, and France. In section three, two case studies focus on immigrants and the challenges they face in forming their identities, especially identifying with their host countries—Belgium, and the United Kingdom.Several important conclusions may be gleaned from the contributions of the present volume. To begin with, while national identity is a slippery concept, if the field wishes to move beyond debate about fundamentals, it would be well advised to view the concept as an ideal-type as suggested by the great German scholar, Max Weber. Secondly, the case studies included in the present volume indicate that national identity is not only based on ethnicity and culture, but on such external factors as governance regimes and their changes, economic crises, wars and other forms of aggressive activity, and social demographic changes in a population. These factors affect a population at the national level. For immigrants at the individual level, developing national identity is greatly affected by four interrelated factors: 1) the degree to which they are accepted by members of the host society; 2) immigrants’ language skills and physical appearances; 3) how well they are able to balance their host national identity, their ethnic identity, and acceptance of their native country; 4) and their generational status. Generally, at the national and individual levels, context and circumstances matter in developing national identity.

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Book SynopsisNational identity has been the subject of much controversy and debate. Some have even suggested dropping the concept entirely. One group, Essentialists, argue that national identity is fixed, cultural, based on birth and ancestry. Another viewpoint is posited by Postmodernists who argue that national identity is malleable, invented or imagined. As alternatives, some have suggested that national identity is a hybrid of both Essentialist and Postmodernist views. And still others bypass this argument and suggest that national identity should be based on civic factors, such as shared values and norms about citizenship.While controversy and debate are healthy exercises in any science, at some point order must be established if science is to proceed. The present volume is based on the idea that national identity is an ideal-type concept; it does not completely capture reality, but is used for analytic purposes. In addition, rather than focusing on these theoretical debates, we pursue research with the idea that results from research will contribute to the field of national identity. Three areas of national identity are discussed: theoretical, national, and individual. Two chapters focus on the major theories about national identity, provide critiques, and make suggestions about the topic. In section two, six chapters provide case studies of national identity on Scotland, Ireland, Russia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Germany, and France. In section three, two case studies focus on immigrants and the challenges they face in forming their identities, especially identifying with their host countries—Belgium, and the United Kingdom.Several important conclusions may be gleaned from the contributions of the present volume. To begin with, while national identity is a slippery concept, if the field wishes to move beyond debate about fundamentals, it would be well advised to view the concept as an ideal-type as suggested by the great German scholar, Max Weber. Secondly, the case studies included in the present volume indicate that national identity is not only based on ethnicity and culture, but on such external factors as governance regimes and their changes, economic crises, wars and other forms of aggressive activity, and social demographic changes in a population. These factors affect a population at the national level. For immigrants at the individual level, developing national identity is greatly affected by four interrelated factors: 1) the degree to which they are accepted by members of the host society; 2) immigrants’ language skills and physical appearances; 3) how well they are able to balance their host national identity, their ethnic identity, and acceptance of their native country; 4) and their generational status. Generally, at the national and individual levels, context and circumstances matter in developing national identity.

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Book SynopsisThe essays in The Question of Peace in Modern Political Thought address the contribution that political theories of modern political philosophers have made to our understandings of peace. The discipline of peace research has reached a critical impasse, where the ideas of both "realist peace" and "democratic peace" are challenged by contemporary world events. Can we stand by while dictators violate the human rights of citizens? Can we impose a democratic peace through the projection of war? By looking back at the great works of political philosophy, this collection hopes to revive peace as an active question for political philosophy while making an original contribution to contemporary peace research and international relations.Trade Review"This is a strong and integrated collection of insightful, informative essays, offering a critical account of philosophical reflections on the nature and conditions of peace from early modernity to the present. The authors skilfully trace the principal themes, theoretical divergences, and abiding problems in modern notions of peace, in relation to justice, rights, and freedom." -- Douglas Moggach, University of Ottawa and University of Sydney"Can the study of peace be separated from the study of war? In The Question of Peace in Modern Political Thought, editors Toivo Koivukoski and David Edward Tabachnick attempt to present an interrogation of peace as an independent strand of philosophical inquiry. ...[T]his volume contains some fine essays, notably by Benjamin Holland on Emer de Vattel and morally non-discriminatory peace, Toivu Koivukoski on Henry David Thoreau and seeking peace in nature and Herminio Meireles Teixeira on Walter Benjamin and divine violence, an essay that explores with great clarity and dexterity some extremely complex and difficult ideas. But, as one reads over this set of essays, and as one sees the so-called refugee crisis unfold across Europe, it is Leah Bradshaw's essay on "Kant, Cosmopolitan Right, and the Prospects for Global Peac" that appears most compelling and timely. ... The Question of Peace in Modern Political Thought is to be highly recommended. ... [P]rovide[s] a good introduction to those thinkers whom we do not normally associate with the idea of peace." -- Alexander Blanchard -- LSE Review of Books, 20151023Table of ContentsTable of Contents The Question of Peace in Modern Political Thought , edited by Toivo Koivukoski and David Edward Tabachnick Foreword | John Gittings Introduction | Toivo Koivukoski and David Edward Tabachnick Transition to Modernity: The Place of God and Myth 1 By the Grace of God: Martin Luther's Two Kingdoms | Jarrett A. Carty 2 A Secure and Healthy Life: Spinoza on the Prospects for Peace | Paul Bagley Modern Definitions of Peace: State and Law as Means to Peace 3 Thomas Hobbes on the Path to Peace: Love of Glory versus Realist Foreign Policy | Laurie M. Johnson 4 John Locke's Liberal Path to Peace | Jeffery Sikkenga 5 Vattel on Morally Non-Discriminatory Peace | Benjamin Holland 6 In Search for Laws above Nations: Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Perpetual Peace | René Paddags 7 Kant, Cosmopolitan Right, and the Prospects for Global Peace | Leah Bradshaw 8 Hegel on Peace | Mark Blitz Late-Modern Critiques of the Security of States as Approximations of Peace 9 Seeking Peace in Nature: A Reading of Thoreau on Ecology and Economy | Toivo Koivukoski 10 Heidegger's Polemical Peace: Outer Violence for Inner Harmony | David Edward Tabachnick 11 The State of Exception, Divine Violence, and Peace: Walter Benjamin's Lesson | HermÃ-nio Meireles Teixeira 12 Hannah Arendt on Peace as a Means to Politics | Diane Enns 13 Defining Peace: Jacques Derrida's âImpossible Friendshipâ and âDemocracy to Comeâ | Pamela Huber 14 Habermas on Peace and Democratic Legitimacy | David A. Borman About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn Black X: Liberatory Thought in Azania, Tendayi Sithole elaborates on the problematic signifier X, a marker of the dehumanization of the black subject, and makes an argument for the struggle for Azania as a liberatory project. Azania refers to the land that became South Africa after its conquest by settler-colonialists. Sithole argues that post-1994 South Africa retains the markers of its colonial past and remains a territory of unfreedom for blacks. He shows that the colonial contract still stands, with the land question unresolved by the new constitutional dispensation. For Sithole, being and land are indissoluble, and the denial of the centrality of land restitution is a denial of the black being. Drawing on the Black Consciousness philosophy of Steve Biko, he critiques the manner in which Marx and Marxism evade the reality of antiblack racism and landlessness as drivers of colonial conquest and ongoing forms of oppression, and emphasises the existential struggle of the black subject as explicated in Mabogo P More’s African philosophy. Sithole gathers these iterations under the mark X, and shows how the black subject, as a dehumanized figure, continues to radically insist on alternative forms of being in an antiblack world, and on Azania as the true form of liberation.This timely and relevant book offers a way to rethink the meaning of liberation in a country that has yet to rename and redefine itself.Table of ContentsIntroduction: X, The InceptualChapter 1 The Black and the Colonial ContractChapter 2 On Land and BeingChapter 3 Steve Biko: The Matter of Ante-Marx(ism)Chapter 4 Mabogo P More’s IntensificationsPostscript – The ‘X File’ (Notes on Extended Thought) ReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisAre we really living in a shrinking world? Is it true that diversity is on the decline everywhere? Are we condemned to live on a planet without difference or hope? The Expanding World challenges the basic notion of a shrinking world in current debates around globalization and argues that it informs ways of thinking and doing which are deeply damaging to the emergence of a progressive politics. The work proposes instead a new kind of politics based on a notion of an expanding rather than a shrinking world. This implies a different way of looking at the world and a different way of doing politics. The Expanding World is fundamentally about looking more closely at what is around us and acting on that knowledge. It is about considering what it means to have whole worlds reflected in the looking glass of local inquiry. Cronin challenges the prevailing culture of disenchantment by highlighting the inexhaustible variety and richness of the planet and how that variety and richness can become the basis of new forms of emancipatory politics.

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Book SynopsisThe 'Cloud', hailed as a new digital commons, a utopia of collaborative expression and constant connection, actually constitutes a strategy of vitalist post-hegemonic power, which moves to dominate immanently and intensively, organizing our affective political involvements, instituting new modes of enclosure, and, crucially, colonizing the future through a new temporality of control. The virtual is often claimed as a realm of invention through which capitalism might be cracked, but it is precisely here that power now thrives. Cloud time, in service of security and profit, assumes all is knowable. We bear witness to the collapse of both past and future virtuals into a present dedicated to the exploitation of the spectres of both.Trade ReviewIt's not only your head that is in the Cloud, but your whole body in its desires, actions, reactions, hiccups and errors too. Coley and Lockwood show in their strong theoretical take on cloudy media cultures that the more invisible control becomes, the more we need to develop fresh theoretical tools to open it up. Cloud Time offers a much-needed analysis of contemporary capitalism as a perverse form of informationalization and quantification of life to which we happily, voluntarily contribute. Even Microsoft's Steve Ballmer has admitted to the difficulty involved in clearly defining the Cloud - and yet, Coley and Lockwood give us excellent clues.(Jussi Parikka, Author of 'Insect Media' and 'Digital Contagions')

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Book SynopsisCapitalism has become strange. Ironically, while the 'age of work' seems to have come to an end, working has assumed a total presence - a 'worker's society' in the worst sense of the term - where everyone finds themselves obsessed with it. So what does the worker tell us today? "I feel drained, empty - dead." This book tells the story of the dead man working. It follows this figure through the daily tedium of the office, to the humiliating mandatory team building exercise, to awkward encounters with the funky boss who pretends to hate capitalism and tells you to be authentic. In this society, the experience of work is not of dying...but neither of living. It is one of a living death. And yet, the dead man working is nevertheless compelled to wear the exterior signs of life, to throw a pretty smile, feign enthusiasm and make a half-baked joke. When the corporation has colonized life itself, even our dreams, the question of escape becomes ever more pressing, ever more desperate.Trade ReviewCederstrom and Fleming, like a present day Virgil, bravely venture into an underworld full of shades whose entire lives have been put to work, who throw themselves heart and soul into the job, and who are constantly implored by management gurus to 'be themselves,' 'feel free,' and 'have fun' in the office. This fascinating and dark little book is an excellent and disturbing introduction to what increasingly large realms of the world of work have become. (Michael Hardt, Co-author of Empire, Multitude, and Commonwealth) What has work done to us? Cederstrom and Fleming's brilliant dark and witty book tells us the truth. Working in our sleep? Dressing up as infants? Deprivation tank addiction? Fitness centrers? Suicide? Email? If you didn't already know what work has made you become then this book might have a devastating effect on your life. Read it! (Simon Critchley, Hans Jonas Professor, New School for Social Research)

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Book SynopsisThe book sets out to interrogate and challenge many of the distinctions drawn in the human rights discourse; but it also highlights and critiques the different and incomplete ways in which legal philosophers and international lawyers see human rights. These issues are dealt with by some of the leading - and most readable - authors in the field.'- Christof Heyns, University of Pretoria, South Africa and UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions'This volume will make a lasting contribution to how we address the dilemmas that human rights theory and practice encounter - for instance, between democracy and human rights, negative and positive rights, or individual and group rights. Philosophers have become indispensable to lawyers' arguments about why human rights matter, and how they must be interpreted: this book superbly illustrates why.'- Olivier De Schutter, University of Louvain, Belgium and United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to foodReflecting on the various dichotomies through which human rights have traditionally been understood, this book takes account of recent developments in both theories of rights and in international human rights law to present new ways of thinking about some long-standing problems.Leading legal and political philosophers, social theorists and scholars of international law discuss traditional dilemmas and taxonomies in human rights theory, engaging with contemporary scholarship and current practice. The book examines various tensions, such as those between legal and moral rights, positive and negative rights, universal and particular rights, and group and individual rights.Encouraging new thinking about conventional understandings of human rights, this book will strongly appeal to international lawyers, legal and political philosophers, as well as graduate students and upper-level undergraduate students in law and philosophy.Contributors: T. Campbell, P. Emerton, D. Ivison, D. Kinley, E. MacDonald, S. Marks, J. Mowbray, T. Pogge, W. Sadurski, J. Waldron, N. Walker, K. WaltonTrade Review‘The book sets out to interrogate and challenge many of the distinctions drawn in the human rights discourse; but it also highlights and critiques the different and incomplete ways in which legal philosophers and international lawyers see human rights. These issues are dealt with by some of the leading – and most readable – authors in the field.’ -- Christof Heyns, University of Pretoria, South Africa and UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions‘This volume will make a lasting contribution to how we address the dilemmas that human rights theory and practice encounter – for instance, between democracy and human rights, negative and positive rights, or individual and group rights. Philosophers have become indispensable to lawyers' arguments about why human rights matter, and how they must be interpreted: this book superbly illustrates why.’ -- Olivier De Schutter, University of Louvain, Belgium and United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to foodTable of ContentsContents: Preface David Kinley, Wojciech Sadurski and Kevin Walton 1. Human Rights: Moral or Legal? Tom Campbell 2. Human Rights as Moral Rights Kevin Walton 3. Are We Violating the Human Rights of the World’s Poor? Thomas Pogge 4. Human Rights and Political Agency: On Pogge’s Analysis of Human Rights Violations Today Duncan Ivison 5. Universalism and Particularism in Human Rights: Trade-off or Productive Tension? Neil Walker 6. The Particularism of Human Rights Discourse Patrick Emerton 7. Democracy and Human Rights: Good Companions Jeremy Waldron 8. Recasting the Relationship: Human Rights, Democracy and Constitutionalism as Material Topoi of Legitimacy Euan MacDonald 9. Autonomy, Identity and Self-knowledge: A New ‘Solution’ to the Liberal-Communitarian ‘Problem’? Jacqueline Mowbray 10. Four Human Rights Myths Susan Marks 11. Where Hope Meets Expectation between Human Rights Idealism and Pragmatism David Kinley Index

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Book SynopsisMary Warnock's Critical Reflections on Ownership is a sustained meditation on the significance that ownership has for us from one of our finest philosophical voices. First exploring the responsibility and love we have for things that are owned, she goes on to provide a penetrating investigation of the relationship we have to those things which we do not, indeed cannot, own, in particular the natural world. Critical Reflections on Ownership is required reading for anyone who wants to think deeply, and clearly, about the prospect of a global environmental cataclysm and what we might do to address it.'- J.E. Penner, author of The Idea of Property in LawIn this thought-provoking work, Mary Warnock explores what it is to own things, and the differences in our attitude to what we own and what we do not.Starting from the philosophical standpoints of Locke and Hume, the ownership of gardens is presented as a prime example, exploring both private and common ownership, historically and autobiographically. The author concludes that, besides pleasure and pride, ownership brings a sense of responsibility for what is owned and a fundamental question is brought to light: can we feel the same responsibility for what we do not, and never can, own? Applying this question to the natural world and the planet as a whole, a realistic and gradualist perspective is offered on confronting global environmental degradation. Critical Reflections on Ownership examines the effect of the Romantic Movement on our attitudes to nature and is a salient commentary on the history of ideas.Providing an accessible entrance into moral philosophy and its practical applications, this book is an invaluable source for students in the fields of politics and philosophy. Academics interested in conceptions of ownership, and in the interface between philosophy, morality and politics, will find this deeply considered insight to be a stimulating read.Trade Review‘Mary Warnock’s Critical Reflections on Ownership is a sustained meditation on the significance that ownership has for us from one of our finest philosophical voices. First exploring the responsibility and love we have for things that are owned, she goes on to provide a penetrating investigation of the relationship we have to those things which we do not, indeed cannot, own, in particular the natural world. Critical Reflections on Ownership is required reading for anyone who wants to think deeply, and clearly, about the prospect of a global environmental cataclysm and what we might do to address it.’ -- J.E. Penner, author of The Idea of Property in Law‘Mary Warnock is one of the leading figures of the post-WWII philosophy in Britain. Her scope of publications is quite extraordinary: from ethics to existentialism and metaphysics; from education policy to bioethics and to the place of religious arguments in public morality. Given such breadth, it comes as no surprise that she takes on new challenges in the form of the philosophy of ownership with a strong aroma of environmental concerns.’ -- Environmental ValuesTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Scope of the Investigation: Can Absolutely Anything be Owned? 2. Origins of Society and Property 3: Property, Intimacy and Privacy: Gardening as Ownership in Action 4: Common Ownership 1: Communism 5: Common Ownership 2: Some More Modest Forms 6: The Unowned: The Romantic Idea of Wilderness 7: Taking Responsibility for the Planet 8: What Can be Done? Some Useful Compromises 9: Why Do We Want to Preserve the Natural World? Index

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Book SynopsisMary Warnock's Critical Reflections on Ownership is a sustained meditation on the significance that ownership has for us from one of our finest philosophical voices. First exploring the responsibility and love we have for things that are owned, she goes on to provide a penetrating investigation of the relationship we have to those things which we do not, indeed cannot, own, in particular the natural world. Critical Reflections on Ownership is required reading for anyone who wants to think deeply, and clearly, about the prospect of a global environmental cataclysm and what we might do to address it.'- J.E. Penner, author of The Idea of Property in LawIn this thought-provoking work, Mary Warnock explores what it is to own things, and the differences in our attitude to what we own and what we do not.Starting from the philosophical standpoints of Locke and Hume, the ownership of gardens is presented as a prime example, exploring both private and common ownership, historically and autobiographically. The author concludes that, besides pleasure and pride, ownership brings a sense of responsibility for what is owned and a fundamental question is brought to light: can we feel the same responsibility for what we do not, and never can, own? Applying this question to the natural world and the planet as a whole, a realistic and gradualist perspective is offered on confronting global environmental degradation. Critical Reflections on Ownership examines the effect of the Romantic Movement on our attitudes to nature and is a salient commentary on the history of ideas.Providing an accessible entrance into moral philosophy and its practical applications, this book is an invaluable source for students in the fields of politics and philosophy. Academics interested in conceptions of ownership, and in the interface between philosophy, morality and politics, will find this deeply considered insight to be a stimulating read.Trade Review‘Mary Warnock’s Critical Reflections on Ownership is a sustained meditation on the significance that ownership has for us from one of our finest philosophical voices. First exploring the responsibility and love we have for things that are owned, she goes on to provide a penetrating investigation of the relationship we have to those things which we do not, indeed cannot, own, in particular the natural world. Critical Reflections on Ownership is required reading for anyone who wants to think deeply, and clearly, about the prospect of a global environmental cataclysm and what we might do to address it.’ -- J.E. Penner, author of The Idea of Property in Law‘Mary Warnock is one of the leading figures of the post-WWII philosophy in Britain. Her scope of publications is quite extraordinary: from ethics to existentialism and metaphysics; from education policy to bioethics and to the place of religious arguments in public morality. Given such breadth, it comes as no surprise that she takes on new challenges in the form of the philosophy of ownership with a strong aroma of environmental concerns.’ -- Environmental ValuesTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Scope of the Investigation: Can Absolutely Anything be Owned? 2. Origins of Society and Property 3: Property, Intimacy and Privacy: Gardening as Ownership in Action 4: Common Ownership 1: Communism 5: Common Ownership 2: Some More Modest Forms 6: The Unowned: The Romantic Idea of Wilderness 7: Taking Responsibility for the Planet 8: What Can be Done? Some Useful Compromises 9: Why Do We Want to Preserve the Natural World? Index

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