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  • Utopia from Thomas More to Walter Benjamin

    Univocal Publishing LLC Utopia from Thomas More to Walter Benjamin

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    Book Synopsis“Utopia poses a question. Not simply in the sense of a problem to be resolved and at the same time eliminated . . . but in the sense that, within the economy of the human condition, utopia, the aim of social alterity—of all social otherness—is ceaselessly being reborn, coming back to life despite all the blows rained down upon it, as if human resistance had taken up residence within it.”For the French philosopher Miguel Abensour, the fictional genre of utopia has provided thinkers and artists a fertile ground to explore for the past 500 years, both as a way to imagine new emancipatory practices of shared existence and as a tyrannical imposition of power. Here, Abensour’s project is to examine the idea of utopia in two different but powerful moments in its trajectory: first, utopia’s beginning, when Thomas More sought a path for justice through a world in transformation, and second, when utopia faced its greatest danger, the moment that Walter Benjamin called “catastrophe.” Trade Review"Short but an interesting eclectic reading, this book surely is an enjoyable reading for theorists of politics and cultural studies."—Leonardo

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  • The Politics of Humanity: Justice and Power

    Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Politics of Humanity: Justice and Power

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    Book SynopsisThis book is the collaborative response of engaged scholars from diverse countries and disciplines who are disturbed by the contemporary resurgence of anti-democratic movements and regimes throughout the world. These movements have manifest in vitriolic “nationalist” polemics, state-supported violence, and exclusionary anti-immigrant policies, less than a century after the rise and fall and horrific devastations of fascism in the early 20th century. Table of Contents“Introduction: The Politics of Humanity” by Richard A. CohenPart I: Principles of JusticeChapter 1: “Ethics of Hospitality: The Limits of Cosmopolitan Rights” by Tito MarciThe paper re-examines, from a cosmopolitan perspective, the ethical and juridical topic of ‘hospitality’ in some of its paradoxical aspects that are more and more involved in difficult relationships with ‘outsiders’. On this base we will try to take another look at the problem posed by the growing phenomenon of migration in democratic and multi-ethnic societies, which, is bound to reappear, for good or for ill, on the level of social inclusion. Rethinking the concept and the practice of hospitality (the terrain of relating among “others”) today becomes an operation as important as ever, since precisely now, with the development of globalization and migration processes over the entire surface of the earth, the way of relating among “outsiders” is presented as a fact decisive for our social coexistence. Chapter 2: “Cosmopolitanism versus Globalization: Breaking the Inevitable Ceremonial” by Richard A. CohenAppeal to the root of intelligibility - scientific, social, economic, political - in moral responsibility arising as singular response to the vulnerability and suffering of the singular other, being for-the-other before being for-oneself, ethics before interest, this “before” as the root significance of any priority, the very importance of importance. Cosmopolitanism oriented by this primordial ethics, in contrast to the nihilism of globalization which puts the private accumulation of capital and the personal satisfaction of self-interests, and the governmental totalities allied to and enforcing such selfishness, before responsibility, responsibility to and for the neighbor, responsibility to and for the neighbor’s neighbors, and responsibility to and for all others, humanity. In pursuit of the above, brief forays into Aristotle, Antonio Gramsci, Heinrich Heine, Herman Melville, Emmanuel Levinas and Socrates. Chapter 3: “Reassessing the ‘Humanitarian Turn’ in Global Politics” by Luca ScuccimarraSome scholars have argued that one of the most characteristic aspects of the “new” post-1989 political and legal order has been the emergence – or re-emergence – of a form of international political morality based not on the “particularism” of the modern society of States, but rather on the universalism of the rising global society. Against the traditional State-centric approach to international relations, from the 1990s on there have been more and more positions favoring a real “global” turn of politics, founded on “universal principles that challenge the presumed moral supremacy of territorial boundaries and which favor instead the welfare of humanity generally” (Hayden). The aim of this chapter is to reconstruct the main issues at stake in the philosophical-political debate about the so-called “humanitarian turn” in global politics, in order to discuss their actual meaning in an age of “national-populist backlash.” Chapter 4: “Vulnerability and Intimacy: Ethical Foundation for Social Relations, Confucius and Levinas” by Kuan-min HuangIn the Hobbesian model, the necessity for the state derives from a virtual contract originating out of a natural state of everyone against everyone. It thus defends self-protection by urging certain rights be given up to construct the state. Our contemporary situation demands that we consider an alternative model. Accordingly, the present paper proposes to consider another view of the natural state considering temporality and affectivity. Every human being, while persevering in existence, is subject to multiple health variations, physical and psychological. Human temporal finitude is expressed in such vulnerability. A newborn baby needs motherly care. The aged often need help in their daily activities. Such are fundamental facts of finite human vulnerability. It signifies that living is not solitary monadic being but a being-together with other human beings. Furthermore, such interactions are not only causal or instrumental, but affective. The affectivity of social life constitutes an ontological need for intimacy. Being intimate with someone (parents, lovers, family members, friends) constitutes basic social interactions, an affectivity manifest in communal life. Based on these two factors – vulnerability and intimacy – the formation of community is founded on a very different foundation than more superficial analyses based in instrumentality, which treats of others by taking advantage of them, for profit, for efficiency. Confucian ideas can contribute to better understanding community in this way, so that we can imagine a social phenomenology inspired by Confucian ethical thoughts.Part II: Dangers to JusticeChapter 5: “The ‘Migrant Crisis’ and the Rise of Anti-Humanitarian Populism in Europe” by Luca ScuccimarraOver the last few years the so-called “migrant crisis” has been acquiring a growing relevance within the space of the political experience of the European Union and its generally out-of-synch member states. The contemporary debate on this issue also includes attempts to question the general reliability of this consolidated representation of the dynamics in progress, through a more or less successful effort to problematize the widely conditioning role that the “language of crisis” plays in the construction of our specific way of representing, interpreting and understanding contemporary migration. This chapter aims at highlighting some of the main passages of this line of critical reflection, discussing the contribution it may give to a deeper understanding of the so-called “populist turn” of contemporary politics.Chapter 6: “Bourdieu, Brexit and Mobility Justice” by Deborah Reed-DanahayThis chapter considers questions of social justice and mobility in the context of Brexit with reference to the work of Pierre Bourdieu. Bourdieu was deeply concerned with forms of structural inequality. His concept of social space, with its focus on the relationship between social space and geographical or physical space, is a useful lens through which to examine the ways in which the capacity to be mobile or immobile in physical and social space is unevenly distributed and subject to relations of power and inequality. The United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union at the end of January 2020, referred to as “Brexit,” resulted from the outcome of a Referendum on the question of staying or leaving in the EU put to the voters in the summer of 2016. The vote to leave was in part fueled by insecurities about immigrants and refugees, and reflects nationalist and anti-cosmopolitan sentiment. The negotiations following the Referendum have resulted in policies restricting forms of geographical mobility to and from the UK. Questions of mobility are central to Brexit, therefore, and mobility is a key pillar of the EU’s social and economic programs. Bourdieu’s focus on trajectories in social and physical space, and his view of habitus as a position in social space, is deployed in this chapter in order to shed light on the injustices of mobility associated with Brexit.Chapter 7: “The Future of Justice and Our Political Triangulation: Liberalism, Socialism and Fascism” by Richard A. CohenContemporary philosophy realizes that time, like language and embodiment, is not an obstacle to truth and reality but a means to them. Time means past, present, future, and the directionality of before and after. Politics has its own temporality. So, conservative politics aims to restore a selected past, progressive politics aims for a better future, and authoritarian politics supports the present status quo. In each case, however, the dominant temporal dimension is the future. According to Levinas, time is neither objective (clock time) nor subjective (temporal syntheses) but inter-subjective, a function of the diachrony of responsibility. From such a perspective, morality is past oriented, attending to suffering already undergone, while politics is future oriented, i.e., aiming for a justice for all not yet instituted, still outstanding. Hence politics is a struggle over the meaning of time, to return to a past justice or to move forward to a future justice. The basic question is whether the world is already just enough (liberal democracy), or not yet just enough (social democracy). The peculiarity of fascist politics, in contrast, is that in rejecting justice it rejects time altogether, preferring a delirious sensationalist or occasionalist present oblivious to history. Chapter 8: “What is Radically Wrong?” by Tito MarciThe paper analyses the issue of Radicalism in a contemporary context through a sociological perspective that involves a critique of the economic idea of exchange. On the basis of this critique, the paper will try to show how the concept of Radicalism takes its current meaning in relation to the cultural and political assets that have become predominant in western modern and global contemporary societies.From a certain point of view, we can state that, to some extent, the social phenomena of political, religious, or cultural radicalization of individuals or groups could be also considered as an effect (a product of) or as a form of reaction to the radicalization of the economic exchange as absolute paradigm of social integration.Chapter 9: “Totalitarian, State, and Civil Society: The Case of Hong Kong” by Kwok-kui WongThis paper begins by arguing that the biggest threat of totalitarianism to Hong Kong is the undermining or even destruction of the mutual trust among the people in civil society. It then shows that totalitarianism, communism in particular, is a form of nihilism in the Nietzschean sense that “the highest value devalues itself, the question ‘why?’ finds no answer,” invoking texts by Karl Marx, Sergey Nechaev and Hannah Arendt to argue this point. It then analyses how these processes of destruction are happening in Hong Kong in the form of what we may call “post-totalitarianism,” using Harvel’s term. Finally, using Hegel’s theory, the paper argues that civil society can act as a bulwark against the totalitarian state by championing arete as the common good.

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  • A Climate of Justice: An Ethical Foundation for Environmentalism

    Springer Nature Switzerland AG A Climate of Justice: An Ethical Foundation for Environmentalism

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    Book SynopsisThis open access book helps readers combine history, politics, and ethics to address the most pressing problem facing the world today: environmental survival. In A Climate of Justice, Marvin Brown connects the environmental crisis to basic questions of economic, social, and racial justice. Brown shows how our current social climate maintains systemic injustices, and he uncovers resources for change through a civic ethics of repair and reciprocity. A must-read for researchers and educators in the area of environmental ethics and those teaching courses in the fields of public policy and environmental sustainability. With the support of more than 30 libraries, the LYRASIS United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Fund has enabled this publication related to SDG13 (Climate Action) to be available fully open access. Table of ContentsPreface PART 1: THE INTERPRETIVE FRAMEWORK Chapter 2 THE EARTH Chapter 3 OUR HUMANITY Chapter 4 THE SOCIAL Chapter 5 THE CIVIC PART 2: TELLING “TELLING” STORIES Chapter 6 WHITE COMPROMISES AND AMERICAN PROSPERITY Chapter 7 EINHOLD NIEBUHR DURING THE TIME OF THE WHITE COMPROMISE Chapter 8 THE SHARECROPPER’S STORY AND AN ETHICS FOR ENVIRONMENTALISM PART 3: EMPOWERING THE CIVIC Chapter 9 CIVILIAN EMPOWERMENT: A THEOLOGICAL INQUIRY Chapter 10 THE CITIZEN’S ROLE IN CREATING A CLIMATE OF JUSTICE Chapter 11 AN INVITATION TO CIVIC DIALOGUE Index

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  • Sensual Austerity and Moral Leadership:

    Springer Nature Switzerland AG Sensual Austerity and Moral Leadership:

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    Book SynopsisThis book examines the link between sensual austerity and moral leadership—a topic largely neglected in contemporary academic scholarship and public policy—by exploring the comparative cross-cultural perspectives of Plato, Confucius, and Gandhi, on this theme. Despite the diverse cultural contexts that gave rise to their respective philosophical perspectives, they shared similar views on what might constitute a universal and perennial basis for individual moral development in any harmonious political order. They all agreed that sensual austerity is necessary for the realization of a flourishing society and political culture: recognizing that control over sensual desire is both a vehicle for individual moral self-cultivation and social-political progress. Sensual austerity is thus an essential aspect of any morally governed person, institution, state, or society. The book also argues that further examination of this theme may assist scholars and policymakers in developing more peaceful and harmonious national and global communities.Table of Contents1. Introduction2. The Philosopher King: Body, Mind, and Eros3. Moral Social Order and the Ideal Ruler, the Sage-King4. Brahmacharya, Nonviolent Social Praxis, and Leadership5. Parallels, Variations, and Pathways

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  • An Ancient Greek Philosophy of Management

    Springer Nature Switzerland AG An Ancient Greek Philosophy of Management

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    Book SynopsisManagement consultancy practice is particularly concerned with helping clients implement strategic organisational change. But what exactly are organisations, and management consultancy interventions in them? Management consulting is said to be a knowledge-intensive industry. But what kind of knowledge do management consultants possess, and how far can we rely on it? Management consultants are often criticised for unethical exploitation of their clients. But how ought management consultants to behave in order to meet acceptable ethical standards? These are questions about the philosophical topics of ontology, epistemology and ethics. The ancient Greek philosophers thought deeply about these topics, and their ideas remain fresh and relevant even to so modern a subject matter as management consulting. Writing between the end of the sixth and the end of the fourth century BCE, these philosophers were drawing upon an intellectual tradition that was very different from our own, and were responding to social and economic conditions that were wholly unlike ours. Approaching these philosophical questions from a perspective that is radically different from our own, their work provides a rich resource for novel thinking about management consulting. From the speculations of the Presocratic philosophers Heraclitus, Parmenides, Leucippus and Democritus about the nature of the universe to the thought of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle about the nature of human beings, this book uses the work of these great thinkers as a lens through which to study major philosophical questions about management consulting. Examined in this way, many established assumptions and principles of management consultancy practice seem questionable, and new ways of thinking possible.Table of Contents1. Learning from Ancient Greek Philosophy.- 2. Aristotle and the Function of Management Consultants.- 3. Aristotle and Management Consultants’ Ethical Obligations.- 4. Aristotle and Ethical Choices of Clients.- 5. Plato and the Ethics of Management Consultancy Interventions.- 6. Heraclitus and the Nature of Management Consultancy Interventions.- 7. Plato on Leadership.- 8. Plato, Aristotle and Management Consultancy Knowledge.- 9. Management Consulting and Heraclitus’s Unity of Opposites.

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  • Friedrich Engels for the 21st Century:

    Springer Nature Switzerland AG Friedrich Engels for the 21st Century:

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    Book SynopsisThis edited volume presents an interdisciplinary and international revaluation of Friedrich Engels as much more than “junior partner” to Karl Marx or “second fiddle” in the Marxist orchestra. The nineteen critical essays in this collection are the work of scholars from Germany, USA, UK, Italy, China, India, Mexico and the Philippines. Together they present and evaluate archival material and scholarly commentary that covers epistemology, political economy, political theory, gender studies, cultural studies, political geography, philosophy of social science and sociological studies of class-conflict. Students, activists and specialists will find fresh consideration of familiar works, such as The Condition of the Working Class in England, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, and The Dialectics of Nature. They will also be able to explore Engels’s less familiar pamphleteering, literary criticism and political commentary through detailed contextualization and careful analysis. Friedrich Engels for the 21st Century: Perspectives and Problems is unique in putting different intellectual and political receptions of Engels’s work into productive conversation, particularly from non-Anglophone scholars, translated here into English. Readers will appreciate why Engels has been so widely celebrated some two hundred years after his birth. Table of ContentsChapter One: Introduction.- Section 1 Epistemology and Philosophy of Nature.- Chapter Two: Engels and the dialectic of nature.- Chapter Three: Engels and the “Dialectics of Nature”.- Chaper Four: Was Engels a dialectical materialist?.- Chapter Five: Engels and the end of philosophy.- Section 2 Political Economy.- Chapter Six: Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy: the is/ought question.- Chapter Seven: The young Engels and the critique of capitalism: his influence on the young Marx.- Chapter Eight: Engels on the „external market“ and „de-industrialization“.- Section 3 The Condition of the Working Class.- Chapter Nine: The constitution of the proletariat: bringing together Friedrich Engels, Edward P. Thompson and Michael Vester.- Chapter Ten: The Housing Question Revisited.- Section 4 Theorizing Power.- Chapter Eleven: Engels theorizes gender hierarchy in The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State.- Chapter Twelve: The concept of power in Engels’s theory of the state.- Chapter Thirteen Re-reading Engels in the twenty-first century: state, nationalism, and internationalism.- Section 5 Engels and Literature.- Chapter Fourteen: The proletariat and the „people“: Engels and the „social prose“ of the 1840s.- Chapter Fifteen: Engels’s philosophical mock-epic: The Triumph of Faith.- Chapter Sixteen: Engels and German literature: a political history to the present.- Section 6 Emancipation – Revolution – Communism.- Chapter Seventeen: Engels on post-capitalist society: continuity or discontinuity with Marx.- Chapter Eighteen Engels and the remaking of communism in the twenty-first century.- Chapter Nineteen: Afterword: whither Engels?

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  • Aporias of Translation: Literature, Philosophy,

    Springer Nature Switzerland AG Aporias of Translation: Literature, Philosophy,

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    Book SynopsisThis book proposes a new way for scholars in, for example, Education, Literary Studies, and Philosophy to approach texts and other phenomena through the concept and practice of translation. Its interdisciplinary perspective makes the book of value for graduate students and scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The unique take on translation as related to the notion of aporia is applied to a number of seminal and classical texts within literature, poetry, and philosophy, which gives the reader new understandings of the workings of language and what happens within and between languages, as well as within and between disciplines, when some form of interpretation or analysis is at work. Importantly, the book develops the notion of aporias of translation as a way to learn and develop our understanding of texts and phenomena, and thus functions as a pedagogical process, which helps us come to terms with the boundaries of language and academic disciplines.Table of ContentsFor proposal stage:1. Introduction: Aporias of TranslationThe three main fields of study, education, literature, and philosophy, are introduced in relation to the notion aporias of translation. A brief history of each of the two basic concepts of the book, aporia and translation, is given. These histories provide the reader with the relevant previous research on the two concepts, and also stake out the paths that the studies in the book will follow in relation to aporias of translation. The introduction, moreover, outlines the way aporias of translation as a practice relates to education and pedagogy. Relevant research on education is addressed and accounted for. Important secondary literature on the main themes and fields of study is described and related to the argument of the book. The introduction concludes with short summaries of the seven chapters (including the Coda) which make up the main studies in the book. 2. The Education of DeathThe chapter consists of an analysis of what the notion of an education of death, as suggested in Thomas Bernhard’s novel Gargoyles (Verstörung), might entail. The primary texts of the chapter are, besides Bernhard’s novel, a passage from Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (Phänomenologie des Geistes), and Jacques Derrida’s Aporias (Apories). The translations of the primary texts are addressed and problematized, in order to highlight the aporetic character of translation, and how the aporias of translation, further, relates to an education of death. Specifically, when it comes to the notion of aporia, the chapter provides an analysis of Derrida’s thinking concerning aporia and death, which have a direct bearing on the notion of an education of death. The chapter concludes with a return to Bernhard’s Gargoyles in light of the previous analysis of the education of death, and suggests that a possible education of death points beyond the instrumentalism of formal education toward a notion of experience and Bildung developed through the confrontation with death and aporia. 3. Translation and Aporia in Censorship, Critique, and EducationThe main texts of this chapter are the censored chapter “At Tikhon” in Dostoevsky’s novel Demons, Derrida’s chapter “Vacant Chair: Censorship, Mastery, Magisteriality” in Eyes of the University: Rights to Philosophy 2, and Rodolph Gasché’s book The Honor of Thinking: Critique, Theory, Philosophy, especially the chapter on Heidegger’s notion of Auseinandersetzung (“Toward an Ethics of Auseinandersetzung”). These three textual encounters set the stage for rethinking ethics in relation to education, critique, and censorship. The chapter begins with a reading of “At Tikhon,” and the correlation between the Dostoevsky and his protagonist in Demons, Stavrogin, concerning censorship. The reading also broaches the relationship between education and censorship, more precisely a certain pedagogical movement discernable in Tikhon’s treatment of Stavrogin, which borders on censorship. The chapter continues with an analysis of Derrida’s deconstruction of censorship in Kant. As Derrida notes in “Vacant Chair,” censorship is not limited to state sanctioned intellectual violence (Gewalt) as Kant would have it, but applies to any act to limit free expression. The chapter concludes by proposing an alternative way of doing critique which tries to address the inevitable censorship of any critique, but in a manner that poses an ethical alternative in the form of Heidegger’s notion of Auseinadersetzung, proposed by Rodolph Gasché. In sum, the chapter poses the question if not translation, in fact, is a form of censorship. How, for example, can we come to terms with the gaps and omissions in the English translation of Demons? These absences, it is argued, are aporetic moments that can enrich our reading of the novel. Moreover, and by extension, the chapter probes the question of censorship also in relation to critique as an academic genre and to education as an academic discipline. 4. Sensitive Readings: Literature and the Discourse of Critical ThinkingThe chapter has a twofold aim: 1) To explore how the analysis of works of literature relate to the concept of what is called “critical thinking.” What characterizes a reading of a literary work that at the same time displays what within higher education discourse is defined as “critical thinking”? To address this question student undergraduate theses in literature are analyzed using Tim Moore’s seven criteria of “critical thinking” from his 2013 article “Critical thinking: seven definitions in search of a concept.” 2) The chapter, moreover, exposes the reduction of literary scholarship into simple instrumentalism by certain proponents of critical thinking, exemplified by arguments by critical thinking scholar Marin Davies, and Jon Elster’s criticism of what he calls the “obscuritanism” of humanities scholarship. The chapter, to counter these arguments, suggests that an important aspect of a literary analysis and literary scholarship is to be able to endure uncertainty. It is in uncertainty and undecidability, that is, in moments of aporia, which sensitive readings are performed. This is something completely different from the kind of “obscuritanism” with which Elster wants to characterize literary and humanities scholarship. 5. The (Ir)responsibilty of Teaching: Deconstructing DiversityThe chapter consists of a critical review of the discourse of diversity, and also proposes, as an alternative, to consider the aporia of responsibility in relation to the “wholly other(s)” as in Derrida’s formula “tout autre est tout autre,” as he conceives of it in his book The Gift of Death. The chapter, furthermore, sets out to examine the different conceptions of difference and “the Other” which the discourses on diversity often refer to as a point of departure for a theoretization of diversity. The wholly other and the aporia of responsibility is then related to education, specifically to teaching as an act of addressing the other as altogether other. Key thinkers that figure in the chapter are Terry Eagleton, Alain Badiou, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Derrida. In line with Derrida’s notion of the wholly other(s), the chapter proposes a perspective on education and teaching which takes into consideration the impossibility of a formalized responsibility in relation to diversity, since as soon as responsibility is formalized and thematized according to certain determined principles, responsibility reveals a fundamental irresponsibility which it cannot escape. Every notion of responsibility, in other words, rests on a simultaneous irresponsibility; that is, the concept of responsibility is caught in an unsolvable aporia. This aporia of responsibility has consequences for teaching, since in teaching one has to address and respond to the other as wholly other. The responsiveness of teaching, moreover, beyond any kind of retribution or compensation, brings with it the necessity to translate, more specifically, to translate the aporia so that those involved will have to read and translate, in their turn, what it means to remain in the aporetic pedagogical situation that every instance of teaching and learning constitutes. Teaching as such has the possibility to be, as Derrida states of responsibility, “a dissident and inventive rupture with respect to tradition, authority, orthodoxy, rule, or doctrine.” 6. Translation and Poetry: Reading John AshberyThe chapter considers, first, John Ashbery’s practice of translation in relation to his poetry, which builds the foundation for a reading of Ashbery’s poetry in its own right. As Rosanne Wasserman and Eugene Richie suggest in their introduction to Ashbery’s Collected French Translations – Prose: “Not only does translation transform a poet’s original work, but also the poet can offer us translations “closer to the originals than the originals themselves,” (note 43) [Ashbery, Selected Prose, 86] as the intuitive, interpretive alchemy of translation enhances and deepens our sense of a text, bringing out the best of its original” (36-37). This assertion is the point of departure for the analysis of translation and poetry in the chapter. To achieve this aim, Ashbery’s poetry is related to the aporetic character of the concept of translation by reading a selection of his poems, such as “Soonest Mended,” “And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name, “ “The New Spirit,” and “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.” The chapter centers on a reading of “Soonest Mended” with the expressed notion in the poem of learning as a delusion and the eternal recurrence of the same, the return of time. This theme provides the basis for invoking a “process of awareness,” namely what Ashbery calls the “experience of experience,” that is, a poetics of process (Silverberg, p. 115), which can be connected to the process of translation. The reading of Ashbery’s poems shows how an aporia is revealed and enacted when “meaning” becomes secondary and understanding must turn toward experiencing the event of translation as a process of language. This is where “learning / Is a delusion” (“Soonest Mended”) because what is learned is temporary and changes, transforms as soon as it has happened, so that “Tomorrow would alter the sense of what had already been / Learned” (“Soonest Mended”) and is thus undone. The chapter, in this way, points to translation as a pedagogical practice that “enhances and deepens our sense of a text,” to echo Wasserman and Richie’s introduction to Ashbery’s translations.7. Translation and the Aporias of “Words”The chapter employs the developed notion of the aporia of translation to analyze Martin Heidegger’s essay “Words” (Das Wort, GA 12). Already a comparison between the original German title of the essay and the translated English title reveals a discrepancy which leads to an aporia; e.g. why did the English translator, Joan Stambaugh, choose to translate the German “das Wort” with the English “words”? What connotations do the English expression “the word” have that make it an inappropriate translation of the German das Wort? Another significant detail is that Heidegger’s essay carries the same title as the poem that is the main focus in his text, namely Stefan George’s “Das Wort” (“The Word”). This, then, is another reason to ask why the translator of Heidegger’s essay have chosen to render the title of the essay as “Words.” Taking this preliminary instance of an aporia of translation as a stepping stone, the chapter continues by invoking Paul Natorp’s conceptions “gewortete Wort” and “wortenden Wort,” that is, the “worded word” and the “wording word,” as developed in his Philosophische Systematik, to analyze Heidegger’s thinking regarding the mystery or secret (Geheimnis) of the word. Furthermore, by way of Heidegger’s translation of the Greek λόγος as “saying” as well as “Being,” the analysis invokes the translation of λόγος as “the Word” in John 1:1; that is, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,” and the debates on its translation. Given the complications of translation analyzed in the chapter, it concludes with a reflection on translation and education, and how translation can serve as a means to approach, not only languages, but also literature, poetry, and philosophy. J. Hillis Miller’s essay “Border Crossings, translating Theory: Ruth” is a significant essay which the chapter addresses regarding translation, theory, and the reading of biblical texts. Important Heidegger scholarship that is addressed in the book is, for example, Richard Capobianco’s Engaging Heidegger and Heidegger’s Way of Being, Markus Joachim Brach’s Heidegger-Platon: Vom Neukantianismus zur existentiellen Interpretation des “Sofistes,” and Jussi Backman’s essay “The Transitional Breakdown of the Word: Heidegger and Stefan George’s Encounter with Language.”8. Coda: Aporia and the Excess of Translation and Education The Coda consists in an analysis of a number of conceptions and translations of excess; such as, for example, excess as Überschuß (Husserl), Übermaß, Überfluss (Heidegger), the exorbitant (l’exorbitant) (Derrida), sûrcroit (Marion), expenditure (dépense), excess (excédant, excès, surabondance) (Bataille). The excess of translation, it is argued, is an excess inherent in an aporia, that is, the insoluble character of aporia gives rise to an excess that cannot be contained in a single concept, theory, method, discourse, etc. Each system or discipline, then, such as a philosophical system, a system of ethics, a theory of education, or the academic discipline of Education itself, by defining and determining itself, opens up unto aporia, which means the system, theory, or discipline is always already in excess of itself. Examples from the previous chapters are revisited in order to sum up the main argument of the book, namely the educational and pedagogical possibilities of the theoretical concept aporias of translation, as well as its performative consequences.

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  • Adam Smith’s System: A Re-Interpretation Inspired

    Springer Nature Switzerland AG Adam Smith’s System: A Re-Interpretation Inspired

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    Book SynopsisInspired by his lectures on rhetoric and by game theory, this book provides a new interpretation of Adam Smith’s system of thought. It highlights its coherence through the identification of three reasoning routines and a meta-reasoning routine throughout his work on languages, rhetoric, moral sentiments, self-command, and the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. The identification of these reasoning routines allows the authors to uncover a hitherto poorly understood deep structure of Smith’s work and to explain its main characteristics. How these routines emerged in Smith’s early research on the principles of the human mind is also traced. This book sheds new light on Adam Smith and his work, highlighting his sophisticated understanding of strategic interaction in all things rhetorical, moral, and economic. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in the history of ideas, the history of economic thought, game theory, Enlightenment studies, and rhetoric.Trade Review“This collection of essays offers an interpretation of Smith’s thought that is particularly informed by Smith’s conception of rhetoric and by game theory. It is undoubtedly the claim to show that Smith’s social science is better and more clearly understood via the vehicle of game theory that will attract attention … . it is highly commendable for its extensive documentation of, and close engagement with, much extant Smith scholarship … .” (Tony Aspromourgos, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, May 8, 2023)Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Chapter 1: Schumpeter’s Assessment of Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations: Why He Got It Wrong.- Chapter 2: Adam Smith's Rhetorical Strategy in The Wealth of Nations, against the Commercial System of Great Britain.- Chapter 3: The Nature and Causes of Corporate Negligence, Sham Lectures, and Ecclesiastical Indolence: Adam Smith on Joint-Stock Companies, Teachers, and Preachers.- Chapter 4: Self-Command in Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments. A Game-Theoretic Reinterpretation_Chapter 5: A Game-theoretic Re-evaluation of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations.- Chapter 6: Adam Smith’s economics and the Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: the language of commerce.- Chapter 7: Adam Smith's Reasoning Routines, The Deep Structure of His Oeuvre, and Why It Turned out the Way It Did.- Chapter 8: Open questions.

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  • Agonistic Democracy and Political Practice: Ways

    Springer International Publishing AG Agonistic Democracy and Political Practice: Ways

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    Book SynopsisThis book explores the implications of agonistic democratic theory for political practice. Fuat Gürsözlü argues that at a time when political parties exacerbate political division, political protesters are characterized as looters and terrorists, and extreme partisanship and authoritarian tendencies are on the rise, the agonistic approach offers a much-needed rethinking of political practice to critically understand challenges to democracy and envision more democratic, inclusive, and peaceful alternatives. Inspired by Chantal Mouffe’s agonistic theory and drawing on insights of other prominent agonistic scholars, Gürsözlü offers a distinctive approach that develops the connections between the agonistic approach and political practice. His main claim is that approaching democratic politics from an agonistic perspective changes the way we understand the nature of democratic society, the place of political protest in democracy, the nature of adversarial engagement, and the democratic function of political parties. The book also advances an account of agonistic peace that is best fitted to the pluralistic and inherently conflictual nature of democratic societies. This book should be of interest to anyone working in the field of contemporary political theory, political philosophy, peace studies, and philosophy of peace.Table of ContentsPart I Theoretical Interventions1. Democracy: Radical or Agnostic?2. For a More Democratic Agonistic Politics Part II Practical Considerations3. Expanding Agonistic Engagement4. Agonistic Spaces and the Value of Political Protest5. What Should We Expect from Political Parties? An Agonistic Account of Political Party6. Thinking Peace Agonistically

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  • Karl Marx on Socialist Theory and Practice:

    Springer International Publishing AG Karl Marx on Socialist Theory and Practice:

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    Book SynopsisThis book discusses Marx’s thinking on human emancipation based on his critique of capitalism and the prospect of socialism. It analyzes the double relations between persons and things, and persons and persons by tracking Marx’s writings, including MEGA2, and taking into consideration the socialist practice and socialist reform of the last century. It is a necessary study for social scientists, social andpolitical philosophers, and students for its deep and wide analysis from the perspective of Marxian theory in practice.Table of Contents1. The Real Man in the Objectified Relationship2. Concept of Preposition and Analysis on Relevant Issues3. Marx’s Economic Analysis and Sociological Critique of Capitalism4. The logic of Marx’s view of emancipation5. Marxian and non-Marxian theories: what is the Demarcation?6. Marxian and non-Marxian views on distributive justice7. The concept of Justice in Marx’s theory8. Predicament of distributive justice in the socialist system9. Pre-modern, modern and post-modern: what do historical changes mean to Marx’s theory?

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  • African Communitarianism and the Misanthropic

    Springer International Publishing AG African Communitarianism and the Misanthropic

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    Book SynopsisAnti-natalism is the provocative view that it is either always or almost always all-things-considered wrong to procreate. Philanthropic anti-natalist arguments say that procreation is always impermissible because of the harm done to individuals who are brought into existence. Misanthropic arguments, on the other hand, hold that procreation is usually impermissible given the harm that individuals will do once brought into existence. The main purpose of this short monograph is to demonstrate that David Benatar’s misanthropic argument for anti-natalism ought to be endorsed by any version of African Communitarianism. Not only that, but there are also resources in the African philosophical tradition that offer unique support for the argument. Given the emphasis that indigenous African worldviews place on the importance of procreation and the immediate family unit this result is highly surprising. This book marks the first attempt to bring anti-natalism into conversation with contemporary African ethics. Table of ContentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: What is African Communitarianism?Chapter 3: Benatar’s Misanthropic Argument for Anti-NatalismChapter 4: African Communitarianism and Benatar’s Misanthropic Argument for Anti-Natalism Chapter 5: Conclusion

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    £39.99

  • Marxism, Social Movements and Collective Action

    Springer International Publishing AG Marxism, Social Movements and Collective Action

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    Book SynopsisThis book makes a relevant contribution to a Marxist critical explanation of social conflicts, social movements and protests. There is abundant literature on social conflict and social movements from Marxist perspectives. However, rigorous criticism, both theoretical and methodological, is scarce. The objective of this volume is the collection of works developing a critical reflection on the categories of theories about contentious collective action and social movements from a Marxist perspective. In order to better understand these phenomena and go beyond their mere case description, the theory needs to be improved. To that end, the book also promotes the debate between Marxisms and the collective action and new social movements in a renewed way. Here different Marxist arguments consider not only their methodological and ideological bias, but also the specific conceptual contributions of those theories.Table of Contents​1 Introduction2 From the Critique of Collective Action Theories to the Study of Political Class Composition.3 Class Formation and Collective Action from a Marxist Perspective4 From Mechanisms to Dynamics: How to Embed Social Movement Studies Within Historical Materialism5 The Denial of Social Classes in the Theory of Collective Contentious Action6 On Dignity: Reflections on the Rationality of Insurrectional Actions7 A Marxist Perspective on Workers’ Collective Action8 Work, Reproduction and Informality: Challenges for a Marxist Politics of Labour9 Gramsci, Theoretician of Political Subjectivation: The Subalternity–Autonomy–Hegemony Triad10 Surplus Populations, Working-Class Struggles and Crises of Capitalism: A World-Historical MaterialistReconceptualization11 Being on the Side of Workers: On the Normative Foundations of Global Labour Studies12 About the Old and New “Class Maps”: Notes on the Formation of the Working Class

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  • Die Erziehung der Vernünftigen: Politischer

    Springer International Publishing AG Die Erziehung der Vernünftigen: Politischer

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    Book SynopsisDieses Buch bietet die erste ausgearbeitete Darstellung politisch-liberaler Bildung und verbindet eine gründliche Analyse der theoretischen Grundlagen mit anwendungsorientierten Ansätzen für zeitgenössische pädagogische Herausforderungen. Neben einer eingehenden Auseinandersetzung mit den Unzulänglichkeiten der Rawls'schen Theorie und der Erörterung einiger zentraler Einwände gegen neutralitätsbasierte Beschränkungen in der Bildung bietet der Band eine aufschlussreiche Diskussion von Themen wie gleichgeschlechtliche Beziehungen in der Sexualerziehung, die Stellung von Kindern mit Migrationshintergrund und das Recht religiöser Eltern, die Erziehung ihrer Kinder zu bestimmen. Das Buch skizziert ein politisch-liberales Bildungsverständnis, das einen nützlichen Beitrag zu den aktuellen Debatten über Liberalismus und Bildung leistet, wie er in der bisherigen Literatur zum politischen Liberalismus nicht zu finden ist. Es ist von Interesse für alle, die an der Schnittstelle von politischer Philosophie und Bildungsphilosophie arbeiten, sowie für Wissenschaftler, die ein breiteres Interesse daran haben, wie der Liberalismus auf die Herausforderungen des Wertepluralismus reagieren kann.Table of ContentsKapitel 1. Einleitung - Teil 1: Zentrale Elemente des politischen Liberalismus.- Kapitel 2. Rawlssche Bildung: Vorbemerkungen.- Kapitel 3. Politische Tugenden.- Kapitel 4. Autonomie.- Kapitel 5. Rechte.- Teil 2: Anwendungsfälle: Kapitel 6. Religion.- Kapitel 7. Gleichgeschlechtliche Beziehungen im Bildungswesen.- Kapitel 8. Einwanderung und Integration.- Kapitel 9. Schlussfolgerung.

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  • The Death of Death: The Scientific Possibility of

    Springer International Publishing AG The Death of Death: The Scientific Possibility of

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    Book SynopsisIs death inevitable? Until now, the history of mankind has been marked by this fatal fact. Religions, borders and progress are born from an ancient fear of death, comfort from this fear man often found only in religious paradigms. But according to José Luis Cordeiro and David Wood, the incontrovertible fact of death is no longer an absolute certainty - science and technology are preparing to tear down the final frontier: that of immortality.This accessible book provides insight into recent exponential advances in artificial intelligence, tissue regeneration, stem cell treatment, organ printing, cryopreservation, and genetic therapies that, for the first time in human history, offer a realistic chance to solve the problem of the aging of the human body. In this book, Cordeiro and Wood not only present all the major developments, initiatives, and ideas for eternal life, they also show why there are a number of good arguments for seeing death for what it is: the last undefeated disease.Enter any drugstore or bookstore, and we confronted with a mountain of nonsense concerning the aging process. Society seems obsessed with aging. That is why The Death of Death is such a refreshing delight, able to cut through the hype and reveal a balanced, authoritative, and lucid discussion of this controversial topic. It summarizes the astonishing breakthroughs made recently in revealing how science may one day conquer the aging process.Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist and author of The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything We are entering a Fantastic Voyage into life extension, crossing different bridges that will take us to indefinite life spans. The Death of Death explains clearly how we might soon reach longevity escape velocity and live long enough to live forever. Ray Kurzweil, co-author of Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever and co-founder of Singularity University The Death of Death is a truly revolutionary book. This is a visionary book that confronts us with the terrible reality of aging, and its authors are friends and connoisseurs of the subject. I believe that the authoritative and exhaustive description of this crusade that José and David make in this excellent book will accelerate this process. Forward! Aubrey de Grey, founder of LEV (Longevity Escape Velocity) Foundation and co-author of Ending AgingTable of ContentsPrologue: by Aubrey de Gray, PhD Warnings Introduction: The greatest and oldest dream of humanity Chapter 1: Life appeared to live Chapter 2: What is aging? Chapter 3: The biggest industry in the world has been born Chapter 4: From the linear to the exponential world Chapter 5: How much does it cost? Chapter 6: The terror of death Chapter 7: Paradigms: good, bad and “experts" Chapter 8: Plan B: human cryopreservation Chapter 9: The future depends upon us Conclusion: The moment has come Epilogue Appendix: Chronology of life on EarthBibliography Acknowledgments

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    £21.84

  • Evolutions in Critical and Postcritical

    Springer Nature Switzerland Evolutions in Critical and Postcritical

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    Book SynopsisMoving beyond traditional critical ethnography, postcritical ethnographies accept as a key premise that studies which are critical of the social world must also turn critique back on the ethnographer, the study, and its process.

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  • Palgrave Macmillan The Palgrave Walter Benjamin Handbook

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    Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- Section 1: Philosophical Starting Points.- Chapter 2: Walter Benjamin, Antifascism and Mimetic Education.- Chapter 3: On Redemptive Critique: The Metaphysics of Destruction and Experience in Walter Benjamin.- Chapter 4: Walter Benjamin and Romantic Critique.- Chapter 5: Presentation of Experience and Experience of Presentation: An Introductory Reading of the Epistemo-Critical Foreword to the Origin of the German Trauerspiel.- Chapter 6: Walter Benjamin on Concept Formation.- Chapter 7: Turns. On the Destruction of the Destruction of Philosophy.- Section 2: Literature.- Chapter 8: Extreme Life Revolts: Philosophical Refuge of Objectivity in the Trauerspiel-book.- Chapter 9: The Sole Reign of Relation': On Walter Benjamin and Friedrich Hölderlin.- Chapter 10: Baudelaire and Modernity.- Chapter 11: Allegory and the Commodity in Benjamin.- Chapter 12: Walter Benjamin and the Violence of Seal: Making History Legible by Interrupting Myth.- Section 3: States of Consciousness.- Chapter 13: The Phantasmagoria of Surrealism.- Chapter 14: This hand is the hand of all': Walter Benjamin on Drawing, On Walter Benjamin's Drawings.- Chapter 15: Benjamin on Pain and Storytelling.- Chapter 16: Figures of the Collective Dream. Utopia, Dream and Waking in Walter Benjamin.- Chapter 17: Flashback as Flashforward: The Idea of Eingedenken between Ernst Bloch and Walter Benjamin.- Section 4: Theology.- Chapter 18: Surrealism, Messianism and the Occult: Toward a Modern Materialist Theology in Benjamin.- Chapter 19: Dimensions of the Bilderverbot in Walter Benjamin:  A Gravitational Reading of the Theological-Political Fragment.- Chapter 20: Divine Creativity in the Early Writings of Walter Benjamin.- Chapter 21: The Animal, The Creature, the Hunchback: Messianism and Distorted Life.- Chapter 22: Walter Benjamin's Dwarfed Hunchback.- Chapter 23: De-Centering Capitalism within Theravada Buddhism through a Benjaminian Ethics of Merit-Making.- Section 5: Politics.- Chapter 24: Why is Benjamin the right thinker for our political moment?.- Chapter 25: Temporalities of Power: Re-reading Walter Benjamin's essay Zur Kritik der Gewalt.- Chapter 26: From Myth to Life: Benjamin's Biopolitics.- Chapter 27: Of Which There is History: The Thought of Survival (Benjamin with Lifton and Lyotard).- Chapter 28: Between the Serpent and the Sovereign: On the Perception of Divine Violence.- Chapter 29: Benjamin's Angel of History' and the Critique of Progress.- Section 6: Materialism.- Chapter 30: Walter Benjamin's Utopia of the Body: Mystical Experience and Political Thought.- Chapter 31: Benjamin's Materialism: Anthropological, Historical or Dialectical?.- Section 7: Technology.- Chapter 32: The Question of Technology in Benjamin's Work.- Chapter 33: Walter Benjamin on Cinema: An Object of Human Innervation.- Chapter 34: On the Relation between the Collective and the Auratic in Benjamin's Artwork Essay: A Constructive Re-reading.- Chapter 35: On the rhythm of today, which determines this work or on Montage in Benjamin's Theory of Knowledge.- Chapter 36: The Phantasmagoria of the Techno-City: Walter Benjamin's Play-Space.- Chapter 37: Towards a Philosophy of Urban Life.

    3 in stock

    £208.99

  • Karl Marx - Geschichte, Gesellschaft, Politik:

    De Gruyter Karl Marx - Geschichte, Gesellschaft, Politik:

    Book SynopsisThe new series of Ideen&Argumente subscribes to the ideal of a pluralist and open culture of argument and debate and presents well-produced volumes on topics and questions which make substantive or methodologically important contributions to contemporary philosophy. The publications are designed to effect a productive synergy between the Anglo-Saxon and Continental European philosophical traditions. Ideen&Argumente provides a platform for outstanding systematically oriented original editions and German first editions from all areas of Theoretical and Practical Philosophy. A welcome is extended to programmatic monographs from whatever philosophical direction. The aim is to highlight anew the thematic and methodological richness of contemporary philosophy.

    £95.00

  • Ideologie

    De Gruyter Ideologie

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    £18.95

  • De Gruyter Strong Evaluation without Moral Sources: On Charles Taylor's Philosophical Anthropology and Ethics

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    Book SynopsisCharles Taylor (1931- ) is one of the leading living philosophers. This is the first extended study on the key notions of his views in philosophical anthropology and ethical theory. Firstly, Laitinen clarifies, qualifies and defends Taylor's thesis that transcendental arguments show that personal understandings concerning ethical and other values (so called "strong evaluation") is necessary, in different ways, for human agency, selfhood, identity and personhood. Secondly, Laitinen defends and develops in various ways Taylor's value realism. Finally, the book criticizes Taylor's view that it is necessary to identify and locate a constitutive source of value, such as God, Nature or Human Reason. Taylor relies heavily on this claim in his accounts of moral life, modern identity and, most recently, secularisation. Laitinen argues that the whole notion of constitutive moral source should be dropped – Taylor's views concerning strong evaluation and value realism are distorted by the question of constitutive "moral sources".Trade Review"One of the most careful and thorough explications of Taylor's work in the field of moral theory that I have ever encountered, going into detailed interrogations of matters that other commentators, including myself, have dealt in a much more superficial way. It makes a major contribution to the growing literature on the meaning and significance of Taylor's thought. I have learnt a great deal from it and am confident that future readers will too. The book proposes answers to key questions about moral life in a very thoughtful, well-informed and sometimes counterintuitive way." Ruth Abbey, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA"

    15 in stock

    £170.05

  • De Gruyter Immanuel Kant und die Öffentlichkeit der Vernunft

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    Kants kritischer Philosophie wird bis heute von prominenter Seite der Vorwurf gemacht, sie unterstelle ein im Kern subjektivistisch-monologisches Individuum. Tatsächlich aber liegt ihr nichts ferner als ein solcher Subjektivismus. Kants Vernunft ist eine durch und durch öffentliche Vernunft, sie ist, wie er selbst sagt, existenziell angewiesen auf öffentliches Räsonnement. Kant verwendet den Begriff „Öffentlichkeit“, anders als das Adjektiv „öffentlich“, in seinem schriftlichen Werk zwar kein einziges Mal, die Funktion der Öffentlichkeit aber sieht er als für sein Denken elementar an. Entscheidend dabei: Öffentlichkeit ist nicht nur eine Bedingung allen kritischen Vernunftgebrauchs, sondern gerade auch dessen Folge. Träger der Vernunft sind freie, empirische Individuen. Machen diese Individuen Gebrauch von ihrer öffentlichen Vernunft, konstituieren sie bestimmte Öffentlichkeiten des Vernunftgebrauchs - nämlich neben der politischen, die theoretische, die praktische und die ästhetische Öffentlichkeit. Die vorliegende Arbeit geht dieser Öffentlichkeit der Vernunft unter anderem in den drei Kritiken nach - und zeigt dabei, wie eng insbesondere Kants theoretische Philosophie mit seinen politischen Schriften verbunden ist.

    15 in stock

    £106.40

  • Einführung in Die Theorien Von Karl Marx

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  • Idealismus und Entfremdung - Adornos

    £103.55

  • Axel Honneth and the Movement of Recognition

    £18.50

  • Einwanderung und Einbürgerung aus

    £16.14

  • Liberal Responses to Populism

    De Gruyter Liberal Responses to Populism

    Book SynopsisPopulism has taken root almost everywhere in the West. It is crucial to understand how it has come about, where its antagonistic worldview, its nativism, its illiberalism and its anti-pluralism will take us, and how we should seek to fend off this threat to liberal democracy. In particular, what could liberal answers look like? This book is a collection of essays written by young and senior scholars in various fields from philosophy to economics. Part I explores populism's nature and causes, shedding light on the lure of sovereignty, the perceived representation gap and the process of radicalization, and human psychology. Part II is dedicated to observations inside the political arena, pitting liberalism and populism in a historical perspective, analyzing the risk of democratic backsliding, and asking how liberals should navigate the political need to make compromises. In Part III, the focus turns to liberal responses such as rules-based public deliberation, a liberal ethics attending to civic virtues, improved representation through the blockchain, and polycentric migration policies. Part IV, finally, houses critical engagements with influential relevant authors such as Foucault, Laclau, Berlin, and Harrington. Liberal Responses to Populism is a rich and thought-provoking read for scholars and students in political economy, political science, and political philosophy.

    £92.62

  • PhilosophischMethodologische Probleme Der

    £126.64

  • Dialektik Staat Recht

    de Gruyter Dialektik Staat Recht

    Book Synopsis

    £126.64

  • Im Netz Der Manipulierung

    de Gruyter Im Netz Der Manipulierung

    Book Synopsis

    £126.64

  • Adorno und die Folgen

    J.B. Metzler Adorno und die Folgen

    Book SynopsisVorbemerkungen.- Adorno im Frankfurter Institut für Sozialforschung intellektuelle Gründung der BRD oder Labor für nonkonformistische Intellektuelle?.- Poetik und Erinnerung nach Auschwitz.- Von der F-Skala über die deutsche-Michel-Skala zu den Mitte-Studien.- Kritik der Halbbildung: zwischen Bildungskatastrophe, PISA-Schock und Università alla Bolognese.- High and Low Culture oder Kulturindustrie?.- Jazz und die Aporien der Avantgarde.- Die Natur der Kunst: Ästhetische und soziale Erfahrung.- Adornos Dialektik rettende Kritik der Vernunft oder bodenlose Vernunftskepsis?.- Nachbemerkung und Dank.- Literatur.

    £17.09

  • Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Der lange Schatten des Contrat social: Demokratie

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    Book SynopsisDas Hauptwerk von Rousseau zum Gesellschaftsvertrag ist nun 250 Jahre alt. Dieser Band überprüft noch einmal dezidiert und umfassend die Relevanz von Rousseaus Ideen der Volkssouveränität und der direkten Demokratie für die politische Gegenwart.Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Volkssouveränität.- Demokratie und Religion.- Rousseau im kritischen Diskurs. Oliver Hidalgo, Marcus Llanque, Daniel Hildebrand, Olaf Asbach, Maik Herold, Ahmet Cavuldak, Barbara Zehnpfennig, Alfons Söllner, Urs Marti, Alexander Weiß, Verena Ibscher, Stefan Christoph.

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    £999.99

  • Raum und Grenze

    Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Raum und Grenze

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    Book SynopsisNeben der Kategorie der Zeit bilden die Kategorien Raum und Grenze sowohl im materiellen als auch im spirituellen Sinne die wichtigsten Determinanten des menschlichen Lebens und Zusammenlebens. Im Umgang mit ihnen vollzieht und erfüllt sich unser Schicksal - als Einzelne, im Zusammenleben mit Anderen, in Gesellschaft und Politik. In der Wahrnehmung wie auch im Umgang mit dem Phänomen des Raumes und der Grenze sieht der Münchner Politik- und Kulturwissenschaftler P. C. Mayer-Tasch eines der letzten Abenteuer unserer weithin "entzauberten Welt" (Max Weber).​Trade ReviewTable of ContentsRaum und Grenze.- Anaximander oder: Der Raum und die Ordnung der Zeit.- Transit oder: Die Bewegung durch Raum und Zeit.- Regionalismus – Das Netz mit vielen Knoten.

    1 in stock

    £37.99

  • Kann Demokratie Nachhaltigkeit?

    Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Kann Demokratie Nachhaltigkeit?

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    Book SynopsisWir leben auf Kosten der Zukunft. Warum? Kurzfristige Interessen der Bürger (sichere Arbeit) ergänzen sich mit kurzfristigen Interessen der Politiker (Wiederwahl). Das politische System trägt Mitschuld. Wie kann man es ändern, um diese Schwächen zu vermeiden? Lässt es sich demokratisch rechtfertigen, wenn Anwälte zukünftiger Generationen heute schon mitentscheiden? Diese Fragen werden von Wissenschaftlern, Schriftstellern, Politikern und Unternehmern behandelt, um methodische Analyse, politischen und ökonomischen Sachverstand und kreative Ideen zu kombinieren. Das Buch enthält Beiträge von H. Geißler, H. J. Schellnhuber, I. Trojanow u.a. „Die Demokratie hat viele große Vorzüge und Stärken. Langfristigkeit und Nachhaltigkeit gehören bislang nicht dazu. Dem kann man institutionell abhelfen. Das Buch zeigt, wie.“ (Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, MdB a.D.)Trade Review“... das Buch an Politikwissenschaftler und Philosophen sowie politisch interessierte Bürger, die sich mit der Frage auseinandersetzen möchten, welche Zukunftsentwicklung gesellschaftspolitisch wünschenswert wäre.” (in: et Energiewirtschaftliche Tagesfragen, Jg. 65, Heft 10, 2015)Table of ContentsProblemanalyse und Überblick.- Neue Institutionen: Zukunftsräte.- Neue Institutionen: Ombudspersonen.- Ergänzungen und Alternativen: Ein Weltgerichtshof; Mehr Bürgerbeteiligung; Hoffnung auf die Dynamik der Verhandlungsrealitäten.- Ombudspersonen in Unternehmen?.

    1 in stock

    £37.99

  • Energiewende: Wege zu einer bezahlbaren

    Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Energiewende: Wege zu einer bezahlbaren

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    Book SynopsisDeutschland wird seine bisher weitgehend auf fossilen Brennstoffen basierende Energieversorgung bis zum Jahr 2050 auf größtenteils regenerative Energien umstellen. Die Bürgerinnen und Bürger dieses Landes kennen dieses weltweit einzigartige Projekt unter dem Namen Energiewende. Von ihren gesellschaftlichen Wurzeln, dem Beginn ihrer Umsetzung und ihrer rasanten Entwicklung in den letzten Jahren berichtet Klaus-Dieter Maubach. Er beschreibt, wie das deutsche Energiesystem der Zukunft aussehen muss, und schlägt einen kurzfristigen Aktionsplan vor, der die volkswirtschaftlichen Kosten eindämmt und die Energiewende für die Verbraucher bezahlbar macht.Table of ContentsEnergiewende.- Fukushima.- Kernenergieausstieg.- Entstehung der Energiewende.- EEG.- Emissionshandel.- Energiepreise.- Energieeffizienz.- Netzregulierung.- Energiesystem der Zukunft.- Regenerative Energien.- Dezentrale Energie.- Energiepolitik.- Klimapolitik.

    1 in stock

    £23.74

  • Der Arabische Frühling: Eine Analyse der

    Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Der Arabische Frühling: Eine Analyse der

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    Book Synopsis​Der Arabische Frühling wird häufig als Zäsur nicht nur für die Region, sondern auch für die euro-mediterranen Beziehungen wahrgenommen, nach der sich vermeintlich „alles“ änderte. Annette Jünemann und Julia Simon stellen diese Annahme in Zweifel und untersuchen, welche zentralen Determinanten die Mittelmeerpolitik der Europäischen Union (EU) seit den 1990er Jahren bestimmten. Von diesen Determinanten leiten die Autorinnen Erklärungsansätze für das normative wie realpolitische Versagen der EU ab. In einem zweiten Schritt analysieren sie die Reaktionen der EU auf die Umbrüche in ihrer Nachbarschaft. Ausgehend vom Logics of Action-Ansatz identifizieren sie sowohl Wandel als auch Persistenz in den Handlungslogiken der EU-Mittelmeerpolitik und messen darüber die Lernfähigkeit der EU in unterschiedlichen Bereichen ihrer Regionalpolitik. Ein grundlegender Paradigmenwechsel ist noch nicht erkennbar.​Table of ContentsDie EU-Mittelmeerpolitik und deren Entwicklung von 1995 bis hin zu den „Arabellionen“.- Persistenz und Wandel der EU-Mittelmeerpolitik im Kontext der „Arabellionen“ in der MENA-Region​.

    1 in stock

    £11.77

  • Wertkonflikte als Herausforderung der Demokratie

    Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Wertkonflikte als Herausforderung der Demokratie

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisWertkonflikte wie der Konflikt um die Regelung des Schwangerschaftsabbruches bilden eine besondere Herausforderung demokratischer Politik. Auf der Basis einer systematischen Rekonstruktion existierender Ansätze und Theorien unterbreitet die vorliegende Arbeit zunächst einen Vorschlag zur Bestimmung der Logik und Dynamik von Wertkonflikten. In einem zweiten Schritt werden die empirischen Befunde zur Leistungsfähigkeit konventioneller und alternativer Verfahren demokratischer Konfliktregelung hinsichtlich der Zivilisierung oder Lösung von Wertkonflikten analysiert. Hier wird gezeigt, dass entgegen vorherrschenden Einschätzungen spezifische Arten von Kompromissen durchaus geeignet sind, den Kern einer Strategie der Zivilisierung von Wertkonflikten zu bilden. Der dritte Teil widmet sich der Frage nach der politischen Ordnung moralisch pluraler Gesellschaften. Die kritische Auseinandersetzung mit dem liberalen politiktheoretischen Modell für den Umgang mit Wertkonflikten mündet in das Plädoyer, die politische Ordnung moralisch pluraler Gesellschaften an der Idee eines modus vivendi zu orientieren.Trade Review“… Das Buch bietet einen breiten, differenzierten und systematischen Überblick über die einschlägigen Theorien. ... primär für Sozialwissenschaftler wichtig, die sich vertieft mit der Problematik von Wertkonflikten und deren Lösung auseinandersetzen möchten.” (Ursula Hoffmann-Lange,in: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Jg. 70, 2018)Table of ContentsDie Logik und Dynamik von Wertkonflikten.- Strategien der Zivilisierung und Lösung von Wertkonflikten.- Die politische Ordnung der moralisch pluralen Gesellschaft.

    1 in stock

    £44.99

  • Nonprofit-Organisationen vor neuen

    Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Nonprofit-Organisationen vor neuen

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    Book SynopsisGemeinnützige oder Nonprofit-Organisationen (NPO) stehen aktuell vor vielfältigen Herausforderungen. Diese problematisiert der Sammelband, indem er die Perspektive der Fallstudie wählt. So wird anhand einer Vielzahl von Beispielen aufgezeigt, wie NPOs in unterschiedlichen Konstellationen auf veränderte Rahmenbedingungen reagieren können. Sie illustrieren, wie Probleme in der Praxis angegangen werden, welche Schwierigkeiten dabei auftreten und wie diese erfolgreich zu bewältigen sind. Dabei wird ein breites Spektrum an Tätigkeitsfeldern, Problematiken und Lösungsansätzen abgedeckt. Der Schwerpunkt liegt weniger auf den Großorganisationen des NPO-Sektors in Deutschland, sondern vielmehr auf den kleineren Organisationen und ihren Bedarfen, innovativen Ansätzen und Problemlösungsstrategien.Trade Review“... Die Kombination von Einführungsbeiträgen, Fallstudien und Interviews macht den Band sehr lesefreundlich. ... Das Buch eignet sich durch seinen Aufbau und den starken Praxisbezug sowohl für Dozierende im Rahmen von Fallbesprechungen im Unterricht, als auch für Fach- und Führungskräfte in Nonprofit Organisationen ...” (Peter Suter, in: VM Verbands-Management, Heft 2, 2016)Table of ContentsNPO heißt Veränderung.- Involvieren und mobilisieren: Freiwillige gewinnen.- Interessenvertretung durch NPOs.- Neue Wege der Mittelbeschaffung.- Auf die Sache kommt es an: Soziales unternehmen!

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    £56.99

  • Subsidiarität in Europa: Bürgernähe,

    Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Subsidiarität in Europa: Bürgernähe,

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    Book SynopsisDer Sammelband zeigt auf, wie das im EU-Recht festgeschriebene Prinzip der Subsidiarität eine Politik, die nahe am Menschen ist, stärken und zur Selbstverwaltung vor Ort beitragen kann. Die darin versammelten Beiträge befassen sich zum einen mit den theoretischen Grundlagen des Subsidiaritätsprinzips und beleuchten zum anderen dessen konkrete Ausgestaltung aus der Perspektive verschiedener Akteure. Subsidiarität ist sowohl im Grundgesetz als auch im europäischen Verfassungsrecht verankert. Durch ihre Verwirklichung, das heißt, indem Probleme dort angegangen und gelöst werden, wo sie ihren Ausgangspunkt haben, kann auch das Demokratieprinzip gestärkt werden. Table of ContentsSubsidiarität in der Europäischen Union.- Selbstverwaltung und Partizipationsmöglichkeiten.- Akteure der Subsidiarität: Zivilgesellschaft, Gewerkschaften, Unternehmen, öffentliche Verwaltung und Kommunen.

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  • Das Phänomen des Vertrauens: Klärung des Begriffs

    Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Das Phänomen des Vertrauens: Klärung des Begriffs

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    Book SynopsisIn diesem Buch wird eine neue, realistische und leistungsstarke Auffassung des Vertrauens entwickelt, die es erlaubt, beliebige Vertrauensverhältnisse zu analysieren und damit zu gestalten. Es wird dargelegt, dass Vertrauen sich stets auf Freiheitseinschränkungen bezieht, es stets an Bedingungen gebunden ist und die Vortäuschung von Vertrauenswürdigkeit weit verbreitet ist. Diese Vertrauens-Konzeption leitet sich aus eingehenden Untersuchungen entsprechender Phänomene und einer intensiven Auseinandersetzung mit der einschlägigen Literatur her. Damit ist es möglich, auf Vertrauen basierende soziale Beziehungen besser zu verstehen als bisher. Durch den Einbezug einer Zeichentheorie besitzt diese Auffassung Züge einer Erkenntnistheorie sozialer Beziehungen.Table of ContentsEntwicklung einer eigenständigen, realistischen und leistungsstarken Vertrauensauffassung.- Historische Untersuchungen von Phänomenen bzw. Vehikeln des Vertrauens.- Freiheits-Einschränkungen als Kernproblem des Vertrauens.

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  • Befragungen des Politischen: Subjektkonstitution

    Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Befragungen des Politischen: Subjektkonstitution

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    Book SynopsisDas Buch entwirft mithilfe von Befragungen des Politischen eine radikale und kritische politische Theorie. Hierfür ist zum einen wichtig, die derzeit vorherrschende politische Theorie und Philosophie, die auf umfassende normative Begründungsprogramme setzt, einer eingehenden Kritik zu unterziehen. Das geschieht in dieser Studie, indem die Konturen einer gesellschaftstheoretischen, kritischen und skeptischen politischen Theorie in Auseinandersetzung mit u.a. Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Foucault, Derrida, Lefort, Butler und Rancière ausgeleuchtet werden. Zum anderen wird das Potential dieser anderen kritischen politischen Theorie an drei grundlegenden Gegenstandsbereichen erprobt: Subjektkonstitution, Gesellschaftsordnung und radikale Demokratie.Table of ContentsZwei Irrwege der modernen politischen Philosophie • Von der Begründung zu Analytik, Kritik, Genealogie und Dekonstruktion • Subjekt, Ordnung und Demokratie im Diskurs des Politischen.

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  • Handbuch Friedensethik

    Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Handbuch Friedensethik

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    Book SynopsisDieses Handbuch bietet eine umfassende, systematische Übersicht zu zentralen Aspekten der Friedensethik, einen interdisziplinären Zugang zum Stand der Forschung sowie zu aktuellen politischen und gesellschaftlichen Debatten. Es versammelt einerseits zahlreiche Beiträge zur Ideengeschichte und zu den theoretischen Grundlagen der Friedensethik. Andererseits suchen Expertinnen und Experten aus den relevanten Fachgebieten eine realitäts- und problembewusste Auseinandersetzung mit den Herausforderungen unserer konfliktbeladenen Gegenwart und nehmen dabei die Spannungen zwischen normativer und erklärender Theorie sowie zwischen Theorie und lebensweltlicher Erfahrung in den Blick. Somit ist dieses Buch ein unentbehrlicher Helfer sowohl in der wissenschaftlichen Forschung und Lehre als auch in der Politik und der zivilgesellschaftlichen und kirchlichen Friedensarbeit.Trade Review“... Der Sammelband richtet sich an Wissenschaftler, Dozenten und Studenten der Philosophie, Theologie, Politikwissenschaft, Soziologie und Rechtswissenschaft. Darüber hinaus werden auch politische Akteure sowie Vertreter von Kirchen und Religionsgemeinschaften eine Menge wertvoller Informationen finden, die zum Nachdenken anregen. Der Herausgeberin und dem Herausgeber ist es gelungen, ganz auf der Höhe der wissenschaftlichen Fachdiskurse ein systematisches Nachschlagewerk zu erarbeiten ...” (Thomas Bohrmann, in: Theologische Literaturzeitung, Jg. 144, Heft 6, Juni 2019) “... Ein überaus beachtliches Themenfeld wird in umfassender Weise abgedeckt. ... klare begriffliche Präzisierungen und graphische Aufbereitungen erleichtern das Verständnis an vielen Stellen, ein resümierender Ausblick und ein abschließendes Literaturverzeichnis laden zum Weiterlesen ein. ... Es bietet sowohl die notige Quantität als auch die erforderliche Qualität ... ist das Handbuch allen Interessierten aus Politik, Wissenschaft und Kirche zu empfehlen ...” (Alexander Merkl, in: Amosinternational, Jg. 12, Heft 1, 2018) “... Dieses Handbuch bietet zweifellos umfassende Information und verdeutlicht zugleich überzeugend das Anliegen friedensethischer Reflexion ...” (Hans Ludwig Ollig, in: Stimmen der Zeit, Heft 2, 2017)Table of ContentsVerständigung über Grundbegriffe.- Friedensethische Diskurse: Hauptströmungen in der abendländischen Tradition.- Friedensethische Diskurse: Traditionen weltweit – eine dialogorientierte Perspektivenerweiterung.- Friedensethische Analysen zu aktuellen Kontroversen und Entwicklungen.- Ethische Selbstreflexion der Frieden- und Konfliktforschung

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  • Rassismuskritik und Widerstandsformen

    Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Rassismuskritik und Widerstandsformen

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    Book SynopsisDie Autor_innen dieses Bandes analysieren zum einen spezifische rassistische Phänomene und Widerstandsformen gegen diese in unterschiedlichen Nationalstaaten. Zum anderen arbeiten sie die Interdependenz spezifischer rassistischer Phänomene und Widerstandsformen im transnationalen Vergleich unter Berücksichtigung von Hegemonie- und Subalternitätsverhältnissen heraus. Unterschiedliche rassistische Phänomene in spezifischen nationalen Kontexten sind Teil transnationaler rassistischer Mechanismen. Der Fokus des Sammelbandes liegt in der Herausarbeitung rassistischer Mechanismen bei gleichzeitiger Beachtung der nationalstaatlichen Spezifizität sowie in der Analyse nationaler und transnationaler Widerstandsformen. Trade Review“... Mit seinem breiten Themenspektrum gibt das Buch einen Einblick in eine Bandbreite von Aspekten der aktuell in Deutschland bzw. international geführten wissenschaftlichen Diskussion um Rassismus ... Es ist sowohl für Studierende, die sich mit Rassismusforschung beschäftigen, als auch für Personen, die in den behandelten Bereichen praktisch tätig sind, empfehlenswert und bietet einen Einstieg für alle Leser*innen, die rassistische Diskriminierung besser verstehen wollen ...” (Jule Bönkost, in: aric.de, August 2016)Table of Contents

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    £94.99

  • Kultur und Praxis der Wahlen: Eine Geschichte der

    Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Kultur und Praxis der Wahlen: Eine Geschichte der

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    Book SynopsisWas ist eigentlich der Sinn und Zweck des Wählens? Warum gelten Wahlen seit dem 20. Jahrhundert für nahezu alle Staaten als unverzichtbar? Um die Erfolgsgeschichte und die variierenden Bedeutungen von Wahlen zu verstehen, gilt es, die historische Dimension zu berücksichtigen und mit einem anthropologisch interessierten Blick neue Fragen zu stellen. Diese Neue Wahlgeschichte lässt den scheinbar so selbstverständlichen Gegenstand „Wahlen“ erklärungsbedürftig erscheinen. Sie fragt nach Praktiken, Materialität, Ideen und Diskursen, um die Funktionen politischer Wahlen in verschiedenen historischen und politischen Kontexten von Europa über Nordamerika bis hin nach Lateinamerika zu ergründen. Da das Interesse dem Massenwahlrecht als Grundlage moderner Demokratien gilt, richtet sich der Fokus auf das 19. und 20. Jahrhundert.Trade Review“... Der lesenswerte Sammelband präsentiert einen reichhaltigen Blick auf verschiedene Schwerpunkte historischer Wahlforschung ...” (Jahrbuch Extremismus & Demokratie, Jg. 30, 2018)Table of ContentsDemokratie.- Politik.- Staatlichkeit.- Legitimität, Legitimation.- Wahlen als Disziplinierungsinstrument.- Emotionen und Rationalität.- Gewalt.- Postdemokratie.- Ordnung und Bürokratie der Wahlen.

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  • Handbuch Kommunitarismus

    Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Handbuch Kommunitarismus

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    Book SynopsisDieses Handbuch vermittelt umfassend und systematisch alle Grundlagen zur politischen Theorie und Philosophie des Kommunitarismus.Table of Contents1. Grundlagen1.1. WALTER REESE-SCHÄFER: Begriffsbestimmungen und Typologie 1.2. Geschichtliche Entwicklung (Mathias Hildebrandt)2. Ideengeschichtlicher Hintergrund2.1. Tugendethik – Aristoteles (Dagmar Borchers, Verena Weber)2.2. Republikanismus (Daniel Tröhler, Richard Dagger, Philipp Pettit)2.3. Hegel (Holmer Steinfarth, Christian Albert)2.4. Tocqueville (Harald Bluhm, evtl. Irene Albers, Wolfgang Fach)2.5. Ferdinand Tönnies ()2.6. Kommunitarismus und Konservatismus (Tilman Mayer)3. Personen3.1. Elisabeth Anderson (Ingo Pies)3.2. Robert Bellah (Hans Joas, Derek Davis)3.3. Benjamin Barber (Michael Saward)3.4. WALTER REESE-SCHÄFER: Amitai Etzioni3.5. William Galston (?)3.6. (Hans Joas) (?)3.7. Alaisdair MacIntyre (Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, Kelvin Knight, Karen Joisten, Leonore Marx)3.8. Martha Nussbaum (Herlinde Pauer-Studer, John Alexander, Adam Galamaga)3.9. Robert Putnam (?)3.10. JOHANNES FIOOLE: Michael Sandel3.11. Amartya Sen (Christian Neuhäuser)3.12. Charles Taylor (Ingeborg Breuer, Thomas Rentsch, Michael Kühnlein)3.13. Michael Walzer (Skadi Krause, evtl. Michael Haus)4. Liberalismus und Kommunitarismus 4.1. Die kommunitaristische Kritik am Liberalismus4.2. Die liberalistische Kritik am Kommunitarismus (Hans Vorländer?)4.3. Kommunitaristische Grundlagen des Liberalismus5. Begriffe5.1. Demokratietheorie (Michael Haus)5.2. Freiheit (Beate Rössler)5.3. Gemeinwohl (Friedrich Pohlmann)5.4. Gemeinschaft (?)5.5. Gerechtigkeit (Rainer Forst)5.6. ANDRÈ OLBRICH: Gesellschaftskritik 5.7. Identität (Peter Nick)5.8. Kulturkritik (?)5.9. Kulturrelativismus (Klaus-Peter Rippe, Urs Marti, evtl. Hartmut Rosa)5.10. Menschenrechte (Norbert Brieskorn)5.11. Patriotismus (Tilman Mayer)6. Bereiche (Alternativen: Felder/Diskurse/Themen)6.1. Wirtschaft (Robert Misik)6.2. Religion (Michael Kühnlein, Ulrich Wilhelms, Oliver Hidalgo,) 6.3. Kommunitarismus und Islam (???)6.4. Kommunitarismus und Konfuzianismus (Eun-Jeung Lee)6.5. Zivilreligion (Heinz Kleger)6.6. Erziehung (Ulrich Binder, Graham Haydon)6.7. Feminismus (Elizabeth Frazer, Martina Ullrich, Herlinde Pauer-Studer)6.8. Recht (Christoph Menke)6.9. Verwaltung (Dietrich Budäus, Gernod Grüning)7. Kommunitarismus in der Praxis7.1. (Allgemein?) (Annette Zimmer)7.2. USA (Mathias Hildebrandt)7.3. Asien (Daniel Bell)7.4. Frankreich (Justine Lacroix)7.5. Deutschland (Andreas Kaiser)7.6. Weltparlament der Bürgermeister (Scott Gissendanner)8. Spannungsfelder und Abgrenzungen8.1. Volksgemeinschaft (Samuel Salzborn)8.2. Nation8.3. Kommunismus9. Kommentierte Bibliographie10. Schlusswort bzw. Rückblick eines berühmten Kommunitariers (Etzioni?)Sonstige Themen:• New Age Communities, Utopian Communities• Kommunitarismus als Verfassungstheorie des Grundgesetzes (Ideen des verstorbenen Juristen Winfried Brugger aufgreifend)

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    £218.49

  • Professionalisierte politische Kommunikation:

    Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Professionalisierte politische Kommunikation:

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    Book SynopsisZu welchem Ausmaß stellen Wahlkämpfe professionalisierte politische Kommunikation dar? Die These der Professionalisierung von Wahlkämpfen ist gerade im Hinblick auf die Wirkung von Kontextfaktoren – also im Vergleich von Staaten oder über Zeit hinweg – noch nicht systematisch untersucht worden. Die Beiträge in diesem Band analysieren unterschiedliche Aspekte der Professionalisierung von Wahlkämpfen auf der Ebene der deutschen Bundesländer – über Länder hinweg, über die Zeit und zwischen Parteien in einem Land. Dieser erste systematische Test der Professionalisierungsthese in einem föderalen System ermöglicht es, besonders die Wirkung von Kontextfaktoren auf die – stark variierende – Nutzung von Elementen der Professionalisierung in den Vordergrund zu rücken. Mit seinen Erkenntnissen, die auf innovativen empirischen Datenerhebungen beruhen, ist der Band für die wissenschaftliche und praktische Diskussion von größter Bedeutung.Der InhaltKampagnenstruktur • Kandidaten und ihre Partei • Kampagnenstrategie Der HerausgeberDr. Bernd Schlipphak ist Professor für empirische Methoden der Sozialwissenschaft am Institut für Politikwissenschaft an der Universität Münster.Table of ContentsKampagnenstruktur.- Kandidaten und ihre Partei.- Kampagnenstrategie.

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    £31.34

  • Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Karl Marx und seine Staatstheorie: Zum 200.

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    Book SynopsisDieses Buch, das Karl Marx zum 200. Geburtstag gewidmet ist, befasst sich mit seiner Staatstheorie, die nicht – wie geplant – als systematische Arbeit erschien. Es sind vielmehr zahlreiche Studien, die sich mit dem Staat befassen und zu mehreren Rekonstruktionen der Staatstheorie von Marx führten. Die vorliegende Darstellung will diesen Rekonstruktionen keine weitere hinzufügen. Es wird auch nicht der Versuch unternommen, Marxʼ Denken einheitlicher und geschlossener erscheinen zu lassen, als es ist. Das Buch beabsichtigt, im Zuge einer Neubestimmung seines Denkens die vorliegenden Erkenntnisse der Staatstheorie von Marx aufzugreifen und diesen jeweils klassische Konzeptionen und neuere Positionen der Staatsdiskussion – wie die Horkheimers und Adornos – zuzuordnen. Table of ContentsDie Staatstheorie als Ideologiekritik.- Die Staatstheorie und der bürgerliche Staat.- Die Staatstheorie und die kapitalistische Produktionsweise.- Marx und die Kritische Theorie.- Briefe.

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  • Die Afd Im Deutschen Bundestag: Zum Umgang Mit

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    £11.77

  • Bürgerkommune: Ein Überblick

    Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Bürgerkommune: Ein Überblick

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    Book SynopsisDieses essential gibt einen Überblick über die Bürgerkommune, von den ersten Schritten der Einführung bis hin zu einem Netzwerk mit Bürgern, die freiwillig Aufgaben und Entscheidungen übernehmen. Bürgerkommunen benötigen die Unterstützung der Verwaltungsspitze und der Politik. Der Autor Armin König ist Bürgermeister der Gemeinde Illingen, die am Netzwerkprogramm „Engagierte Stadt“ teilnimmt. Er zeigt anhand von Beispielen wirksame Partizipationsinstrumente und erläutert, wie erfolgreiche Bürgerkommunen entstehen können.Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Der Orientierungsrahmen der Bürgerkommune.- Begriffe der Bürgerkommune.- Organisation der Bürgerkommune.- Engagierte Stadt.- Bürgerkommune als Chance – Fazit.

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    £11.77

  • Politische Führung: Eine Einführung

    Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Politische Führung: Eine Einführung

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    Book SynopsisDieses Lehrbuch widmet sich Elementen und Konzepten von Politischer Führung. Weder in der Theorie noch in der Praxis geht sie allein von Führenden aus. Führung machen vielmehr Geführte, indem sie ihre „Leader“ eben „Leader“ sein lassen und „Führungspersönlichkeiten“ besondere Eigenschaften zuschreiben; selbst im notorischen Vorwurf der „Führungsschwäche“ spiegeln sich Machtinteressen und Ordnungsvorstellungen wider.In der repräsentativen Demokratie darf Führung sich indes nicht in Handwerkstechniken zur Machtbeschaffung erschöpfen, sondern bedeutet vor allem Überzeugungs- und Integrationsarbeit: Politische Führung heißt, Angebote zu machen, die – zum Glück – nicht immer angenommen werden. Der Inhalt· ​Einleitung: Führung zwischen Sehnsucht und Skepsis· Elemente des Führens: Politische Führung als Handwerk· Führung und Verführung: Die Herausforderung der Demokratie· Vom Sinn des Führens: Politische Führung als Idee· Fazit: Führung als Angebot Die Zielgruppen Studierende und Lehrende der Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften Politische Akteurinnen und Akteure Politikinteressierte Der AutorDr. Georg Eckert ist Privatdozent für Neuere Geschichte an der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal.Table of ContentsEinleitung: Führung zwischen Sehnsucht und Skepsis.- Elemente des Führens: Politische Führung als Handwerk.- Führung und Verführung: Die Herausforderung der Demokratie.- Vom Sinn des Führens: Politische Führung als Idee.- Fazit: Führung als Angebot.

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    £18.99

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