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Oxford University Press Inc Freedom Inside Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral State
Book SynopsisAn estimated forty million people in the United States regularly practice yoga, and as an industry it generates over nine billion dollars annually. A major reason for its popularity is its promise of mental and physical well-being: yoga and meditation are thought to be spiritual paths to self-improvement. Yoga is also widely practiced in prisons, another large business in the United States. Prisons in all fifty states offer yoga and meditation as a form of rehabilitation. But critics argue that such practices can also have disempowering effects, due to their emphasis on acceptance, non-judgment, and non-reaction. If the root of suffering is in the mind, as the philosophy behind yoga and meditation suggests, then injustice (including mass incarceration) may be reduced to a mental state requiring coping techniques rather than a more critical mindset. Others insist that yoga can heighten people''s attention to structural violence, hierarchy, racism, and inequity. In fact, some of history'Trade ReviewFreedom Inside? is far more than a book about yogic and meditative practices in prison. It is a reflection on the neoliberal seductions of self-help and what self-improvement means in the context of an oppressive total institution. Farah Godrej questions everything, including her role as a researcher, a volunteer, a critic of the carceral state. The result is a deeply meditative, careful, and caring book. By resisting the false dichotomies of self-help versus systemic critique, as well as the "violent/non-violent" distinction, Godrej pushes us past the deadly classifications so endemic to the prison industrial complex. * Naomi Murakawa, Princeton University, and author of The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America *In this ambitious book, Farah Godrej asks after the tensions, ambivalences, and potentially transformative political work performed by yoga and meditation in the gut of the racialized carceral state. Combining decades of first-person experience as a practitioner of yoga, direct research inside the California prison system, and the sensibilities of an accomplished political theorist, Freedom Inside? is an original, boundary-crossing work that contributes to critically important questions about the relationship between individual practices of the mind, heart, and body and quiescence to—or revolt against—broader collective structures of domination and suffering. * Timothy Pachirat, author of Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight and Among Wolves: Ethnography and the Immersive Study of Power *Through the lens of a four-year ethnography as a yoga and meditation instructor in prison, Godrej explores the insidious culture of individual responsibility, the widespread acceptance of responsibilization assumptions by people who volunteer in prison rehabilitation programs, and the limited but real possibilities for institutional reform and individual redemption. These are complex, abstract, and often demoralizing arguments, but Godrej brings them to life with real people, described vividly, engaged compassionately. * Keramet Reiter, University of California, Irvine, author of 23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement *Table of ContentsSection I 1. Introduction: Why Prison Yoga and Meditation? 2. Who Was I?: Scholarship, Personal Narrative, and the Testimony of the Unprotected 3. Yoga and Meditation: Historical and Contemporary Debates Section II 4. The Total Institution: The World of Mass Incarceration, Prisons, and Population-Control 5. "Rescued by Prison" or "Drinking the Kool-Aid?": Practicing Yoga and Meditation While Incarcerated 6. Mindfulness Meditation in a Men's Detention Facility Section III 7. The World of Prison Volunteers 8. "Making them Better Human Beings" or "Stirring the Pot"?: Interviews with Volunteers 9. Yogic Philosophy, Nonviolence, and Resistance in a Women's Prison, co-authored with Reighlen Jordan and Maitra 10. Conclusion
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Oxford University Press Inc Freedom Inside Yoga and Meditation in the
Book SynopsisAn estimated forty million people in the United States regularly practice yoga, and as an industry it generates over nine billion dollars annually. A major reason for its popularity is its promise of mental and physical well-being: yoga and meditation are thought to be spiritual paths to self-improvement. Yoga is also widely practiced in prisons, another large business in the United States. Prisons in all fifty states offer yoga and meditation as a form of rehabilitation. But critics argue that such practices can also have disempowering effects, due to their emphasis on acceptance, non-judgment, and non-reaction. If the root of suffering is in the mind, as the philosophy behind yoga and meditation suggests, then injustice (including mass incarceration) may be reduced to a mental state requiring coping techniques rather than a more critical mindset. Others insist that yoga can heighten people''s attention to structural violence, hierarchy, racism, and inequity. In fact, some of history''s most radical activists, including M.K. Gandhi and Thich Nhat Hanh, traced their ethical and political commitments to their grounding in yogic or meditative traditions. Yoga and meditation programs no doubt offer crucial respite for those who are incarcerated, but what sort of political effects do they have? Do they reinforce the neoliberal logic of mass incarceration which emphasizes individual choices, or can they assist marginalized people in navigating systemic injustice? Drawing on collaborations with incarcerated practitioners, interviews with volunteers and formerly incarcerated practitioners, and her own fieldwork with organizations offering yoga/meditation classes inside prisons, Farah Godrej examines both the promises and pitfalls of yoga and meditation. Freedom Inside? reveals the ways in which incarcerated persons have used yogic practices to resist the dehumanizing effects of prisons, and to heighten their awareness of institutional racism and mass incarceration among poor people and people of color. Godrej argues that while these practices could unwittingly exacerbate systemic forms of inequity and injustice, they also serve as resources for challenging such injustice, whether internally (via the realm of belief) or externally (through action). A combination of ethnography and political theory, Freedom Inside? reimagines the concept of resistance in a way that considers people''s interior lives as a crucial arena for liberation.Trade ReviewFreedom Inside? is far more than a book about yogic and meditative practices in prison. It is a reflection on the neoliberal seductions of self-help and what self-improvement means in the context of an oppressive total institution. Farah Godrej questions everything, including her role as a researcher, a volunteer, a critic of the carceral state. The result is a deeply meditative, careful, and caring book. By resisting the false dichotomies of self-help versus systemic critique, as well as the "violent/non-violent" distinction, Godrej pushes us past the deadly classifications so endemic to the prison industrial complex. * Naomi Murakawa, Princeton University, and author of The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America *In this ambitious book, Farah Godrej asks after the tensions, ambivalences, and potentially transformative political work performed by yoga and meditation in the gut of the racialized carceral state. Combining decades of first-person experience as a practitioner of yoga, direct research inside the California prison system, and the sensibilities of an accomplished political theorist, Freedom Inside? is an original, boundary-crossing work that contributes to critically important questions about the relationship between individual practices of the mind, heart, and body and quiescence to—or revolt against—broader collective structures of domination and suffering. * Timothy Pachirat, author of Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight and Among Wolves: Ethnography and the Immersive Study of Power *Through the lens of a four-year ethnography as a yoga and meditation instructor in prison, Godrej explores the insidious culture of individual responsibility, the widespread acceptance of responsibilization assumptions by people who volunteer in prison rehabilitation programs, and the limited but real possibilities for institutional reform and individual redemption. These are complex, abstract, and often demoralizing arguments, but Godrej brings them to life with real people, described vividly, engaged compassionately. * Keramet Reiter, University of California, Irvine, author of 23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement *Table of ContentsSection I 1. Introduction: Why Prison Yoga and Meditation? 2. Who Was I?: Scholarship, Personal Narrative, and the Testimony of the Unprotected 3. Yoga and Meditation: Historical and Contemporary Debates Section II 4. The Total Institution: The World of Mass Incarceration, Prisons, and Population-Control 5. "Rescued by Prison" or "Drinking the Kool-Aid?": Practicing Yoga and Meditation While Incarcerated 6. Mindfulness Meditation in a Men's Detention Facility Section III 7. The World of Prison Volunteers 8. "Making them Better Human Beings" or "Stirring the Pot"?: Interviews with Volunteers 9. Yogic Philosophy, Nonviolence, and Resistance in a Women's Prison, co-authored with Reighlen Jordan and Maitra 10. Conclusion
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Oxford University Press Inc Free Traders
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis excellent study dissects the role that businesses, economists, and political elites each played in constructing hyper-globalization. Fairbrother eschews easy generalizations, yet provides a unified and convincing account that challenges accepted theories. * Dani Rodrik, Harvard University *Liberals assume that since free trade benefits everyone it's rational for democracies to favor trade integration. Critics of such integration argue that if that is the case then the dark cabals that make trade agreements out of sight of mass publics are something that needs explanation. Malcolm Fairbrother resolves this contradiction. By showing us how in developed countries it's a mercantilist' 'folk ideology' among business elites that drives integration, while in developing countries free trade ideology among top bureaucrats carries the day, Fairbrother identifies the real pro-globalization coalitions at work in the global economy. * Mark Blyth, Brown University *In this highly original book, Fairbrother presents North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as a case study in really-existing globalization. Policy actors from all three partner-nations reflect on events and motivations in their own words, describing an agreement bearing little resemblance to the idealized 'free trade' described in macroeconomics textbooks. As we reflect back on the allegedly golden years of globalization, Fairbrother's work will give us a great deal to think about. * Sarah Babb, Boston College *
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Oxford University Press Inc Mobilizing Hope Climate Change and Global Poverty
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewClimate change is occurring in a radically unjust world in which nearly 700 million people live in extreme poverty. Most people who write about climate change know this, but Moellendorf feels it. While insisting on hope, he does not traffic in false optimism. * Dale Jamieson, Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy, New York University *In this compelling book, Darrel Moellendorf paints a picture of mass mobilization as a potent route out of the climate crisis. He argues for a hopeful vision combining prosperity and sustainability to guide this mobilisation and finds 'hope-makers' in youth climate activism. * Catriona McKinnon, Professor of Political Theory, University of Exeter *Moblizing Hope is an illuminating, accessible, innovative response to the moral problems posed by the morally urgent task of limiting global warming and its harms... [It] is an outstanding example of how moral philosophy can advance a politics of hope in the face of a uniquely fearsome global danger. * Richard W. Miller, Hutchinson Professor in Ethics and Public Life Emeritus, Cornell University *Mobilizing Hope: Climate Change and Global Poverty is both a learned treatise and a highly accessible and inspiring assessment as to what we, the human race, need to accomplish, starting right now, to create a just and sustainable present and future for ourselves and generations to come. * Robert Pollin, Distinguished University Professor of Economics and Co-Director, Political Economy Research Institute (PERI),University of Massachusetts Amherst *This valuable book's exceptionally wide range includes imaginative explorations of the implications of Martin Luther King Jr.'s theory of mass movements for challenging the political entrenchment of the fossil fuel industry, the technological assumptions of net zero carbon, and the meaning and grounds of hope in our current situation. * Henry Shue, Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter 1: Hope for a Warming Planet Chapter 2: Uncertainty and Precaution Chapter 3: Intergenerational Justice Chapter 4: Global Poverty and Responsibility for Climate Change Mitigation Policy Chapter 5: Justice and Adaptation Chapter 6: Hope for the Paris Agreement Chapter 7: Supplementing Mitigation: A Pro-Poor Approach Chapter 8: Hope for the Anthropocene
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Oxford University Press Inc Unmuted Conversations on Prejudice Oppression and
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword Unmuting Philosophic Voices in Our Time Cornel West Introduction A Revolution of Ideas Notes on Contributors Section 1: Politics and Society 1. Meena Krishnamurthy on Political Distrust 2. Denise James on Political Illusions 3. Lori Gruen on Prisons 4. Jose Mendoza on Immigration 5. Wendy Salkin on Informal Political Representation Section 2: Language, Knowledge, and Power 6. Rachel Ann McKinney on Police and Language 7. Cassie Herbert on Risky Speech 8. Luvell Anderson on Slurs and Racial Humor 9. Jason Stanley on Speech, Satire, and Public Philosophy 10. Winston Thompson on Educational Justice Section 3: Social Groups and Activism 11. Serene Khader on Cross-Border Feminist Solidarity 12. Joel Michael Reynolds on Disability 13. Elizabeth Barnes on The Minority Body 14. Douglas Ficek on Frantz Fanon and Black Lives Matter 15. Rachel V. McKinnon on Allies and Active Bystanders 16. Kyle Whyte on Indigenous Resilience & Environmental Change 17. Andrea Pitts on Feminist Indigenous Resistance to Neoliberalism Section 4: Race and Economics 18. David Livingstone Smith on Dehumanization 19. Linda Alcoff on The Future of Whiteness 20. Chike Jeffers on Black Political Thought 21. Larry Blum on Teaching Race 22. Tommie Shelby on Dark Ghettos 23. David McClean on Money and Materialism 24. Vanessa Wills on Marxism and Today Section 5: Gender, Sex, and Love 25. Nancy Bauer on Pornography 26. John Corvino on Homosexuality 27. Tom Digby on the Problem of Masculinity 28. Justin Clardy on Love and Relationships Section 6: Emotions and Art in Public Life 29. Paul C. Taylor on Black Aesthetics 30. Amir Jaima on the Power of Literature 31. Adrienne Martin on Hope Conclusion Say What? A Glossary of Terms Acknowledgments
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Oxford University Press Inc Just Shelter
Book SynopsisThe United States of America is experiencing a housing crisis, which, by some estimates, started in the early 2000s and was made worse by the financial crisis of the 2007-2008 recession. Hundreds of thousands of Americans lack decent and affordable housing or everyday shelter. Instead, they must live in tent encampments stowed in the niches of neighborhoods and under the freeway overpasses of many major U.S. cities, often in unsafe conditions. Signs of this crisis are all around: in the spikes of evictions, in nationwide problems with over- and under-development, and in the growing concerns about the sustainability of this nation''s towns and cities in the face of global climate change. This crisis didn''t arise from the specific circumstances of the housing market or shortfalls in the construction of new homes or increased labor and material costs. The current housing crisis is the result of state-sponsored discrimination in housing and land-use policy and the enforcement of racial anTable of ContentsIntroduction Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Justice and Social Spatial Arrangements 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Spatial Justice 1.3 Equality and Social Spatial Arrangements 1.4 Distributive Justice Chapter 2: Open Cities and Reconstructive Justice 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Reaching for Transformation 2.3 Open Communities and Substantive Opportunity 2.4 Rectifying Enduring Injustice Chapter 3: The Trouble with Gentrification 3.1 Bad Techies 3.2 The Concept of Gentrification 3.3 Two or Three Cheers for Gentrification 3.4 Here's the Thing about Displacement 3.5 Harms and Inequality Chapter 4: The Harms of Gentrification 4.1 The Harms 4.2 Distributive Justice 4.3 Cultural Loss 4.4 Democratic Inequality 4.5 Pragmatic Rectification Chapter 5: Segregation and the Trouble with Integration 5.1 Know Your Place 5.2 The Concept of Social-Spatial Segregation 5.3 The Benefits of Segregation 5.4 The Harms of Segregation 5.5 Integration as Evenness and Mobility 5.6 Integration is not a Proxy for Justice Chapter 6: Reconstructing Integration 6.1 What Remains of Integration 6.2 Integration as Reconstruction 6.3 Outcomes, not Conversion Chapter 7: Conclusion 7. Discomfiting Justice Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law Volume 4
Book SynopsisOxford Studies in the Philosophy of Law is a forum for new philosophical work on law. The essays range widely over general jurisprudence (the nature of law, adjudication, and legal reasoning), philosophical foundations of specific areas of law (from criminal to international law), and other philosophical topics relating to legal theory.Table of Contents1: Thomas Adams: Practice and Theory in The Concept of Law 2: Michael Sevel: Practical Authority and Self-Knowledge 3: Giorgio Pino: Sources of Law 4: Avihay Dorfman and Alon Harel: Law as Standing 5: Alexander Kaiserman: Against Accomplice Liability 6: Deborah Hellman: The Epistemic Commitments of Nondiscrimination 7: Kate Greasley: Silencing Without Uptake 8: Timothy Macklem: Absence of Consent
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Oxford University Press Whats Wrong with Lookism Personal Appearance
Book SynopsisWhat is wrong with discriminating on the basis of personal appearance? Andrew Mason considers this question in three contents: employment decisions; the choice of friends or romantic partners; and the everyday practice of judging and commenting upon people's looks.Table of Contents1: Introduction Part One What Makes Discrimination Wrong? 2: Non-contingent wrongness 3: Contingent wrongness PART II Contexts of Appearance Discrimination 4: Appearance, race, and employment 5: Appearance as a reaction qualification 6: Appearance and personal relationships 7: Everyday lookism Part Three Responding to Appearance Discrimination 8: Prevention 9: Compensation and beyond Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Friendship for Virtue
Book SynopsisThrough its revised and applied Aristotelianism, this book illuminates our understanding of friendship in moral philosophy, moral psychology, and moral education. Friendship for Virtue has four main aims. The first is to give the virtue of friendship the pride of place it deserves in contemporary Aristotle-inspired virtue ethics. The second is to integrate Aristotelian theory with recent social scientific research on friendship through mutual adjustments. The third is to retrieve Aristotelian friendship as a moral educational concept, where ''friendship for virtue'' is to be understood as ''friendship for virtue development''. The fourth is to offer a more detailed and realistic account than Aristotle did of why even the best of friendships can go stale and dissolve and why the human relationships they represent are so precarious - for example in circumstances where erotic love and friendship clash.Trade ReviewAccording to Kristján Kristjánsson, Friendship for Virtue aims to retrieve for contemporary Aristotelian virtue ethics the major importance that the virtue of friendship plays in Aristotle's own texts, and to do so in a way that highlights friendship as, in essence, characterologically educational. This book succeeds at this aim and does so with clarity. Moreover, Kristjánsson does sufcient justice to the relevant history and in a way that should prove fascinating to historians of philosophy. * Bradford Jean-Hyuk Kim, Metascience *Friendship for Virtue aims to retrieve for contemporary Aristotelian virtue ethics the major importance that the virtue of friendship plays in Aristotle's own texts,...This book succeeds at this aim and does so with clarity. * Bradford JeanâHyuk Kim, Metascience *Table of ContentsPreface 1: Setting the Scene: Friendship from Aristotle to Contemporary Psychology 2: Fragile Friendships: Instabilities and Terminations 3: Friendship with a Filter: The Role of Phronesis 4: Grounding Friendships: Reconciling the Moralised and Aestheticised Views 5: How Friendship Cultivates Virtue: Retrieving Friendship as a Moral Educational Concept 6: Friendships for Utility: Their Moral Value and an Online Example 7: Online Character Friendships: The Example of Epalships 8: Concluding Remarks: Some Retrospective Reflections on Friendships
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Oxford University Press Engagements with Aimé Césaire
Book SynopsisAimé Césaire is due a major critical reinterpretation and that is exactly what this book carries out. Through an in-depth grasp of the trajectory and core significance of Césaire''s work, Jason Allen-Paisant highlights a set of links it makes between ''spirit,'' ''poetry,'' and ''knowing''. These explications, setting Césaire''s work in relation to a rigorously accounted for set of influences, reframe how we understand his writings, enhancing their philosophical, rather than merely political, aspects. Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits is about more than Negritude (which has come to mean something less than a deep poetic sensibility with its own aspirational aesthetics and metaphysics, and rather something more like a fantasy-ridden iteration of pan-Africanism). It shows an Aimé Césaire deeply relevant to today: to the crises of ecological collapse, capitalist dystopias, and ideologies predicated upon fear and the threat of foreigners; and to contemporary chatter arouTrade ReviewJason Allen-Paisant introduces us to a pedagogy of spirit in which the rigid divisions of Western thought, and the rigid Western interpretations of Aimé Césaire, are transformed into a homage to the daily inspirited materialities of African/diasporic social poiesis. The most original and inspiring reading of Césaire in decades. * Professor Stefano Harney, Academy of Media Arts Cologne - co-author of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study *Stunning, sensuous, and urgent, Jason Allen-Paisant's poetic meditation on the ecopoetics of Aimé Cesaire is also a wholly original philosophical inquiry into the shifting ways of being human under conditions of coloniality and climate catastrophe. He gives us a vibrant new language, deeply rooted in the ancestral lands and Black vitality of his native Jamaica, to engage the vibrational intelligence of the earth, and open ourselves to a regenerative ethics of life. * Professor Kris Manjapra, Northeastern University - author of Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation *Beautifully written and propelled by a fascinating new approach and its direct intervention to Aimé Césaire's scholarship, Thinking with Spirits will cement Jason Allen-Paisant's reputation as a rigorous critical thinker. * Professor Frieda Ekotto, University of Michigan - author of Race and Sex Across the French Atlantic: The Color of Black in Literary, Philosophical and Theater Discourse *
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Handbook of Political Obligation
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Oxford University Press The Origins of Unfairness
Book SynopsisIn almost every human society some people get more and others get less. Why is inequity the rule in these societies? In The Origins of Unfairness, philosopher Cailin O''Connor firstly considers how groups are divided into social categories, like gender, race, and religion, to address this question. She uses the formal frameworks of game theory and evolutionary game theory to explore the cultural evolution of the conventions which piggyback on these seemingly irrelevant social categories. These frameworks elucidate a variety of topics from the innateness of gender differences, to collaboration in academia, to household bargaining, to minority disadvantage, to homophily. They help to show how inequity can emerge from simple processes of cultural change in groups with gender and racial categories, and under a wide array of situations. The process of learning conventions of coordination and resource division is such that some groups will tend to get more and others less. O''Connor offers solutions to such problems of coordination and resource division and also shows why we need to think of inequity as part of an ever evolving process. Surprisingly minimal conditions are needed to robustly produce phenomena related to inequity and, once inequity emerges in these models, it takes very little for it to persist indefinitely. Thus, those concerned with social justice must remain vigilant against the dynamic forces that push towards inequity.Trade ReviewIn The Origins of Unfairness Cailin O'Connor makes a number of excellent contributions to our understanding of social norms, discrimination, and inequity. O'Connor blends formal ethods from game theory with philosophical discussion and socio-cultural commentary. This combination and the book's accessible style mean it will be of interest to scholars from many disciplines. * Aja Watkins & Rory Smead, Economics and Philosophy *Carefully and clearly argued ... a powerful statement about how unfairness between genders and races is likely to arise in a wide variety of actual conditions ... O'Connor insightfully warns us that when we think we have made moral progress in fighting oppression, there will inevitably be new forms of unfairness to recognize and struggle against * Ann Cudd, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Human groups across cultures and times have divided labor by gender. What explains this fact, along with related inequities in the division of resources? ... Cailin O'Connor illuminates this complicated story using evolutionary game-theoretic modeling. * William J. FitzPatrick, The Philosophical Review *
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Oxford University Press Ageing Without Ageism
Book SynopsisAgeing without Ageism? contributes to the essential and timely discussion of age, ageism, population ageing, and public policy. It demonstrates the breadth of the challenges posed by these issues by covering a wide range of policy areas: from health care to old-age support, from democratic participation to education, and from family to fiscal policy. With contributions from 21 authors the discussion bridges the gap between academia and public life by putting in dialogue fresh philosophical analysis and specific new policy proposals. It approaches familiar issues like age discrimination, justice between age groups, and democratic participation across the ages from novel perspectives.Table of Contents1: Greg Bognar and Axel Gosseries: Introduction 2: Katharina Berndt Rasmussen: Age Discrimination: Is It Special? Is It Wrong? 3: Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen: Does the Badness of Disability Differ from that of Old Age? 4: Viki Møller Lyngby Pedersen: In Defence of Age-Differentiated Paternalism 5: Matthew D. Adler: Age and the Social Value of Risk Reduction: Three Perspectives 6: Paul Bou-Habib: Can Egalitarians Justify Spending More on the Elderly? 7: Axel Gosseries: Age Limits and the Significance of Entire Lives Egalitarianism 8: Simon Birnbaum and Kenneth Nelson: Age Universalism will Benefit All (Ages) 9: Anca Gheaus:
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Oxford University Press Sex Matters
Book SynopsisSex Matters addresses a cluster of related questions that arise from the conflict of interests between rights based on sex and rights based on gender identity. Some of these questions are theoretical, including: who has the more ambitious vision for women''s liberation, gender-critical feminists or proponents of gender identity? How does each understand what gender is? What are the arguments for the refrain that ''trans women are women!'', and do they succeed? Other questions taken up in the book are more applied to specific issues in law and policy including: should there be a right to exclude people who are biologically male from women-only spaces? How do the interests of all stakeholders to bathrooms, in particular, trade off when it comes to moving from sex to gender identity as the basis for self-inclusion? If we think about types of transition, or gatekeeping requirements on transition, as providing assurance to women who are asked to accept the opening up of women-only spaces to transwomen, are any such assurances sufficient? Is ''TERF'' a slur, as some radical and gender-critical feminists have claimed? And finally, is gender-critical speech ''hate speech'', as it has been classified by some social media platforms, or at least harmful speech? Holly Lawford-Smith discusses these issues in a series of essays, all but one of them previously unpublished. She takes an analytic philosophical approach to these issues, drawing on ideas from political philosophy, philosophy of biology, and philosophy of language, as well as second-wave feminist theory and empirical literature, to defend a gender-critical position in response to all of these questions.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Some notes on language Part I: Theory 1: Ending Sex-Based Oppression: Transitional Pathways 2: Gender: What Is It, And What Do They Want It To Be? 3: Do Arguments For 'Trans Women Are Women' Succeed? Part II: Policy 4: Women-Only Spaces And The Right To Exclude 5: Sex Self-Identification And Costly Signals Of Assurance 6: The Never-Ending Dispute Over Public Bathrooms Part III: Speech 7: Is 'TERF' A Slur? 8: Is Gender-Critical Speech Hate Speech? 9: Is Gender-Critical Speech Harmful Speech?
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Oxford University Press The Monarchy of Fear
Book Synopsis''A manifesto for hope''Literary ReviewFrom one of the world''s most celebrated moral philosophers comes a thorough examination of the current political crisis and recommendations for how to mend a divided country.For decades, Martha C. Nussbaum has been an acclaimed scholar and humanist, earning dozens of honours for her books and essays. In The Monarchy of Fear she turns her attention to the current political crisis that has polarized America since the 2016 election.Although today''s atmosphere is marked by partisanship, divisive rhetoric, and the inability of two halves of the country to communicate with one another, Nussbaum focuses on what so many pollsters and pundits have overlooked. She sees a simple truth at the heart of the problem: the political is always emotional. Globalization has produced feelings of powerlessness in millions of people in the West. That sense of powerlessness bubbles into resentment and blame. Blame of immigrants. Blame of Muslims. Blame of other races. Trade ReviewReview from previous edition Nussbaum develops her analysis of fear, anger, disgust and envy with a rich array of examples from literature and the law (two longstanding areas of interest for her). And the results are illuminating. * Jonathan Derbyshire, Financial Times *ambitious new book ... Nussbaum's fundamental idealism is undiminished by the coarseness of our time. * Charles Kaiser, The Guardian *One of the virtues of this slender volume is how gradually and scrupulously it moves, as Nussbaum pushes you to slow down, think harder and revisit your knee-jerk assumptions. * New York Times *A fascinating book ... boy, does Nussbaum write well. It's incredibly readable. * John Shand, Times Higher Education *New readers get what amounts to a vivid introduction to a lot of [Nussbaum's] recent work ... A manifesto for hope and mutual sympathy is a welcome change from the dystopian tone of much contemporary political commentary. * Alan Ryan, Literary Review *[Nussbaum's] writing over 30 years has done so much to bring human impulses into the realm of political discourse. When she argues that we can reduce social envy by increasing what is constituted as a universal 'right' ... or connects Nelson Mandela's magnanimous treatment of his enemies to his freedom from bodily disgust ... it's clear that she has given more thought to such processes than virtually anyone else alive. * Leo Robson, New Statesman *Nussbaum is one of the most accomplished political and moral philosophers of our time...there is almost no domain of political and moral life and thought that her work and apparently endless curiosity have not explored. * William Adams, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts *Nussbaum is an elegant and lyrical writer, and she movingly describes the pain of recognizing one's vulnerability... * Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker *A philosopher considers Trumpism through the lens of history, classical thought, and a bit of Hamilton. Like any clearheaded thinker, Nussbaum was unsettled by Trump's election, but she's troubled also by the way people of all political persuasions have succumbed to fear and mindless fear-slinging. She tries to keep Trump at arm's length and focus instead on what philosophers and psychologists going back to antiquity have had to say about fear...its role in stoking anger, disgust, and envy, and how those emotions in turn perpetuate divisive politics (sexism and misogyny especially). That approach gives this important book both up-to-the-moment relevance and long-view gravitas...An engaging and inviting study of humanity's long-standing fear of the other. * Kirkus Reviews *Table of ContentsPreface 1: Introduction 2: Fear, Early and Powerful 3: Anger, Child of Fear 4: Fear-Driven Disgust: The Politics of Exclusion 5: Envy's Empire 6: A Toxic Brew: Sexism And Misogyny 7: Hope, Love, Vision Acknowledgments
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Oxford University Press On Female Body Experience Throwing Like a Girl
Book SynopsisWritten over a span of more than two decades, the essays by Iris Marion Young collected in this volume describe diverse aspects of women''s lived body experience in modern Western societies. Drawing on the ideas of several twentieth century continental philosophers--including Simone de Beauvoir, Martin Heidegger, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty--Young constructs rigorous analytic categories for interpreting embodied subjectivity. The essays combine theoretical description of experience with normative evaluation of the unjust constraints on their freedom and opportunity that continue to burden many women. The lead essay rethinks the purpose of the category of gender for feminist theory, after important debates have questioned its usefulness. Young''s classic essay, Throwing Like a Girl, is reprinted here, along with a comment of the impact of that essay twenty years later. Newer essays include reflection on the meaning of being at home, and the need for privacy in old age residences. Other essays analyze aspects of the experience of women and girls that have received little attention even in feminist theory--such as the sexuality of breasts, or menstruation as punctuation in a woman''s life story. Young describes the phenomenology of moving in a pregnant body and the tactile pleasures of clothing. While academically rigorous, the essays are also written with engaging style, incorporating vivid imagery and autobiographical narrative. On Female Body Experience raises issues and takes positions that speak to scholars and students in philosophy, sociology, geography, medicine, nursing, and education.Trade ReviewNot only does it group together essays representative of Young's on-going thinking about female embodiment and her engagement with phenomenological and feminist philosophers over the span of her career- thus of interest to scholars- this collection also provides a thematically cohesive work that can be read as an introduction to questions of lived bodily experience from a feminist perspective, hence representing a valuable resource for teaching. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of Contents1: Lived Body vs. Gender: Reflections on Social Structure and Subjectivity 2: Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment, Motility, and Spatiality 3: Pregnant Embodiment: Subjectivity and Alienation 4: Women Recovering Our Clothes 5: Breasted Experience: The Look and the Feeling 6: Menstrual Meditations 7: House and Home: Feminist Variations on a Theme 8: A Room of One's Own: Old Age, Extended Care, and Privacy
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Oxford University Press Inc The Movement for Black Lives Philosophical
Book SynopsisThe Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) has gained worldwide visibility as a grassroots social justice movement distinguished by a decentralized, non-hierarchal mode of organization, and in 2020 Black Lives Matter protests across the country shook America''s moral conscience to its core. M4BL rose to prominence in part thanks to its protests against police brutality and misconduct directed at Black Americans. However, its animating concerns are far broader, calling for a wide range of economic, political, legal, and cultural measures to address what it terms a war against Black people, as well as the shared struggle with all oppressed people. Yet despite the significance of the social, political, and economic goals of M4BL, as well as the innovative organizational leadership strategies it employs, M4BL has so far received little sustained philosophical attention. The Movement for Black Lives: Philosophical Perspectives brings philosophical analysis to bear on the aims, strategies, policy pTrade ReviewFor scholars and laity in the fields of race studies or philosophy, this book offers an important examination of the theoretical foundations and issues of social and political philosophy. The uniqueness of this book is that the essays offer both support for and critiques of the foundational assumptions and arguments underlying different scholarly/activist positions. The volume also provides a theoretical discussion of how to move away from leadership--oriented activism/scholarship and toward democratic/cooperative-oriented activism/scholarship. Though clearly rooted in philosophy, chapters are accessible to readers of all levels. This would be an excellent book for class discussion and student research. * L. L. Lovern, Valdosta State University, CHOICE *This volume is evidence of the fruitfulness of philosophical reflection on and engagement with social movements, as well as being an important contribution to the literature on racial justice. For those looking for philosophical insights into the Movement for Black Lives, this book is essential reading. * Andrew Valls, Criminal Law and Philosophy *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I - The Value of Black Lives 1. What "Black Lives Matter" Should Mean, Brandon Hogan 2. "And He Ate Jim Crow": Racist Ideology as False Consciousness, Vanessa Wills 3. He Never Mattered: Poor Black Males and the Dark Logic of Intersectional Invisibility, Tommy J. Curry Part II - Theorizing Racial Justice 4. Reconsidering Reparations: The Movement for Black Lives and Self-Determination, Olúfemi O. Táíwò 5. The Movement for Black Lives and Transitional Justice, Colleen Murphy Part III - The Language of M4BL 6. Positive Propaganda and the Pragmatics of Protest, Michael Randall Barnes 7. Value-Based Protest Slogans: An Argument for Reorientation, Myisha Cherry 8. The Movement for Black Lives and the Language of Liberation, Ian Olasov Part IV -M4BL, Anti-Black Racism, and Punishment 9. Can Capital Punishment Survive if Black Lives Matter?, Michael Cholbi and Alex Madva 10. Sentencing Leniency for Black Offenders, Benjamin S. Yost Part V - Strategy and Solidarity 11. The Violence of Leadership in Black Lives Matter, Dana Francisco Miranda 12. Speaking For, Speaking With, and Shutting Up: Models of Solidarity and the Pragmatics of Truth Telling, Mark Norris Lance 13. Sky's the Limit: A Case-Study in Envisioning Real Anti-Racist Utopias, Keyvan Shafiei
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Oxford University Press Inc No Refuge
Book SynopsisSyrians crossing the Mediterranean in ramshackle boats bound for Europe; Sudanese refugees, their belongings on their backs, fleeing overland into neighboring countries; children separated from their parents at the US/Mexico border--these are the images that the Global Refugee Crisis conjures to many. In the news we often see photos of people in transit, suffering untold deprivations in desperate bids to escape their countries and find safety. But behind these images, there is a second crisis--a crisis of arrival. Refugees in the 21st century have only three real options--urban slums, squalid refugee camps, or dangerous journeys to seek asylum--and none provide genuine refuge. In No Refuge, political philosopher Serena Parekh calls this the second refugee crisis: the crisis of the millions of people who, having fled their homes, are stuck for decades in the dehumanizing and hopeless limbo of refugees camps and informal urban spaces, most of which are in the Global South. Ninety-nine percent of these refugees are never resettled in other countries. Their suffering only begins when they leave their war-torn homes. As Parekh urgently argues by drawing from numerous first-person accounts, conditions in many refugee camps and urban slums are so bleak that to make people live in them for prolonged periods of time is to deny them human dignity. It''s no wonder that refugees increasingly risk their lives to seek asylum directly in the West.Drawing from extensive first-hand accounts of life as a refugee with nowhere to go, Parekh argues that we need a moral response to these crises--one that assumes the humanity of refugees in addition to the challenges that states have when they accept refugees. Only once we grasp that the global refugee crisis has these two dimensions--the asylum crisis for Western states and the crisis for refugees who cannot find refuge--can we reckon with a response proportionate to the complexities we face. Countries and citizens have a moral obligation to address the structures that unjustly prevent refugees from accessing the minimum conditions of human dignity. As Parekh shows, there are ways we as citizens can respond to the global refugee crisis, and indeed we are morally obligated to do so.Trade ReviewParekh...provides a valuable introduction to contemporary refugee issues, avoiding the jargon of the international refugee regime in favor of an informal, almost conversational approach...Her argument is indeed a moral one, that everyone must help ensure 'minimum conditions of human dignity' for all people. Since refugees are outside their own origin country, it falls to the more economically developed countries in the world to ensure those minimum conditions for them. The developed countries, she points out, 'are in a position to easily help,' as she calmly debunks the supposed dangers that refugees bring, whether in monetary costs, human security, or cultural coherence. Her description of the hazards in seeking asylum, the 'last hope' for many refugees, is appropriately grueling. Importantly, her discussion includes vivid case examples from the journalistic literature that underscore the pain, loss, and uncertainty of being a refugee...Highly recommended. * CHOICE *...[Q]uietly potent... The moral case for helping the worlds refugees, solidly grounded in facts. * Kirkus *This is an excellent book, accessible to ordinary citizens and valuable for philosophers as well. It provides a clear overview of the moral questions raised by refugees and explains effectively why it is important not to view this topic solely through the lens of immigration to Western states. It links this philosophical analysis to compelling narratives about the lives of refugees. No Refuge shows why all of us are responsible for the plight of refugees, why we have a duty to address this issue, and what we can do about it. * Joseph H. Carens, University of Toronto *In this must-read book addressing one of the most urgent injustices of our age, Serena Parekh offers an empirically-grounded philosophical exploration of responsibilities towards refugees. Written with great clarity and sensitivity, this is real world philosophy at its finest. Now, more than ever, we need work like No Refuge. It demands a place on everyone's reading list. * Sarah Fine, King's College London *No Refuge is an important contribution by a leading theorist on the pressing topic of displaced persons. Everyone from concerned laypeople to scholars who study the global refugee crisis will profit from Serena Parekh's excellent book. * Christopher Heath Wellman, Washington University in St. Louis *Table of ContentsPreface: Turbulence Introduction: A Tale of Two Refugee Crises Part I: The First Crisis - The Crisis for Western Countries Chapter 1: Understanding Refugees Chapter 2: Moral Obligations Or Why We Should Help People Even if We Don't Like Them Chapter 3: Reasons For and Against Accepting Refugees: A Philosophical Overview Part II: The Second Crisis - The Crisis for Refugees Chapter 4: Refugee Camps and Urban Settlements - The Problem We Have Created Chapter 5: The Price We Demand for Asylum Chapter 6: Structural Injustice Conclusion: What Should I Do? What Should We Do?
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Oxford University Press Inc In Praise of Skepticism
Book SynopsisA culture of trust is usually claimed to have many public benefits--by lubricating markets, managing organizations, legitimating governments, and facilitating collective action. Any signs of its decline are, and should be, a matter of serious concern. Yet, In Praise of Skepticism recognizes that trust has two faces. Confidence in anti-vax theories has weakened herd immunity. Faith in Q-Anon conspiracy theories triggered insurrection. Disasters flow from gullible beliefs in fake Covid-19 cures, Madoff pyramid schemes, Russian claims of Ukrainian Nazis, and the Big Lie denying President Biden''s legitimate election. Trustworthiness involves an informal social contract by which principals authorize agents to act on their behalf in the expectation that they will fulfill their responsibilities with competency, integrity, and impartiality, despite conditions of risk and uncertainty. Skeptical judgments reflect reasonably accurate and informed predictions about agents'' future actions based oTrade ReviewAll in all, an excellent contribution to scholarly research on the foundations of trust and a rich addition to the ever-growing body of knowledge on the importance of trust in our society, for which we can thank Pippa Norris. * Severin de Wit *Pippa Norris convincingly shows that our common understanding of trust needs to be challenged normatively by introducing cynicism and credulity, allowing a focus on a healthy dose of skepticism, through which risks are minimized and benefits are maximized * Severin de Wit, Journal of Trust Research *Pippa Norris offers a beautifully written, argued, and documented account of what we need to strengthen democracy. She emphasizes the combination of trustworthiness and healthy skepticism derived from considered judgment and critical deliberation. And she details the preconditions: an open society, a lack of strong ideological convictions, and education. In outlining the possible, Norris makes a reinvigorated democracy more probable. * Margaret Levi, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University *This is a landmark study in the discussion of trust as a major concept in political research. Norris differentiates the general concept by introducing cynicism and credulity, allowing a focus on prudence skepticism. Norris shows that there is no evidence for a simple claim of a steady erosion of trust. Rather, skeptical and informed judgments mostly support her trust-as-performance thesis. This book is fun to read and it addresses a wide audience. Political science as a profession will be theoretically enriched. Decision makers and the general public interested in evidence will find many empirical treasures. It is a must-read for all. * Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Professor Emeritus, WZB Berlin Social Science Center and Freie Universitaet Berlin *For too long, the scholarly mainstream treated political trust as the quintessential source of democratic legitimacy. Yet, a revisionist view using terms like 'critical' and 'assertive' citizens has challenged the mainstream, arguing that the complacency element in political trust actually undermines democracy. Pippa Norris' In Praise of Skepticism provides to date the firmest conceptual foundation and empirical confirmation of the revisionist camp in political culture research. * Christian Welzel, Political Culture Research Professor, Leuphana University of Lüneburg *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements List of Tables and Figures I: Introduction 1. Two Faces of Trust 2. The General Theory of Skeptical Trust 3. Evidence II: What Causes Trust? 4. Comparing Trends in Trust Worldwide 5. Competency 6. Integrity and Impartiality III: Conclusions 7. In Praise of Skepticism Notes Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Trolling Ourselves to Death
Book SynopsisAlmost forty years ago, Neil Postman argued that television had brought about a fundamental transformation to democracy. By turning entertainment into our supreme ideology, television had recreated public discourse in its image and converted democracy into show business. In Trolling Ourselves to Death, Jason Hannan builds on Postman''s classic thesis, arguing that we are now not so much amusing, as trolling ourselves to death. Yet, how do we explain this profound change? What are the primary drivers behind the deterioration of civic culture and the toxification of public discourse? Trolling Ourselves to Death moves beyond the familiar picture of trolling by recasting it in a broader historical light. Contrary to the popular view of the troll as an exclusively anonymous online prankster who hides behind a clever avatar and screen name, Hannan asserts that trolls have emerged from the cave, so to speak, and now walk in the clear light of day. Trolls now include politicians, performers, pTrade ReviewWhen assessing online toxicity, violence, and manipulation, it's tempting to frame each as creatures of the platforms' lagoons: 'new' problems caused by digital technologies. In this provocative analysis, Jason Hannan shows that there are creatures in the lagoon, yes, but those waters are older, murkier, and much more steeped in analog dysfunction than we might care to admit. Identifying these origins is the first and most critical step to understanding how we arrived at such a precarious political moment—and what we can, and must, do next to begin undoing the damage. * Whitney Phillips, author of This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture *Almost forty years after Neil Postman's seminal work, Jason Hannan analyzes the profound problem of a poisoned public sphere in a platform society. His new book offers a deeply insightful analysis of the transformation of online culture, in which trolling, disinformation, and conspiracy theories are increasingly normalized. Essential reading for all teachers and students who believe that education can serve as a civic counteroffensive against the massive pollution of our online channels. * José van Dijck,, co-author of The Platform Society: Public Values in a Connective World *Democracy comes with an abundance of enemies, and lately with trolls. In this engaging read, Jason Hannan historicizes trolling with and without technology and walks us through its impact on civic cultures. This lucid and informed book is a must-read for those curious about what trolling is, why and how it manifests, and how we may survive it. * Zizi Papacharissi, author of After Democracy: Imagining Our Political Future *A tour-de-force, essential analysis, and call to action of a book that becomes more relevant by the hour. Hannan's high-energy, meticulously researched tract is vivid, well-reasoned, morally astute, and rightly outraged, and should be required reading for anyone who wants to get at least a glimpse of the roiling factors and forces that are bending and rending our world to the breaking point. * Paul Levinson, author of McLuhan in an Age of Social Media *Jason Hannan raises one of the most critical questions of our age: is the public sphere to be a space of reflective human agency or a sinister arena in which trolls divert, degrade, and destroy the prospect of democratic discourse? Hannan approaches this question with magisterial wisdom and abundant evidence. This is a book for those who do not want to be trolled to death. * Stephen Coleman, author of Can The Internet Strengthen Democracy? *Jason Hannan addresses the toxic influence of social media by broadly and brilliantly analyzing the practice of trolling. This book should be read by everyone who wants the tools-historical, political, and pedagogical-to both understand and dismantle online communities that engage in shaming, conspiracy theories, and lies. Trolling Ourselves to Death is more than a critique of social media; it is also a book that offers a language of possibility rooted in a pedagogy of trust, compassion, and social justice. * Henry Giroux, author of Critical Pedagogy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Technology Chapter 2: Disenlightenment Chapter 3: Unreason Chapter 4: Conspiracy Chapter 5: Shame Chapter 6: Trust Conclusion Notes References Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Political Corruption The Internal Enemy of Public
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis timely, wonderful book illuminates the many faces of political corruption, from the 'bad apple' to the dysfunctional institution, through the unified framework of a public ethics of office. Emanuela Ceva and Maria Paola Ferretti's incisive philosophical analysis of political corruption as a deficit of office accountability reconciles the phenomenon's individual and institutional dimensions. The authors elucidate the deontic wrong of political corruption in terms of an 'interactive injustice,' which consists of officeholders' violation of their duty of office accountability, and identify the practice of answerability as the key to fostering an organizational culture of anticorruption. Political Corruption's deeply significant contribution to political theory and public ethics is needed now more than ever. * Candice Delmas, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, Northeastern University *Political Corruption: The Internal Enemy of Public Institutions offers an original account of political corruption which aims to understand how political corruption works and what is wrong with it. Restoring office accountability serves as a key focus which can help reorient anti-corruption efforts. This impressive work is essential reading for theorists interested in understanding why political corruption is problematic and how we might aim to combat it. * Gillian Brock, Professor of Philosophy, University of Auckland, New Zealand *In this highly original study of political corruption, Ceva and Ferretti ask us to reflect on the wrong of corruption by looking beyond both individualist and structural accounts of institutional responsibility. Their analysis of corruption as an unaccountable use of the power conferred by holding public office is a crucial inter-disciplinary intervention. The book is essential reading for both an adequate diagnosis of the phenomenon, and identifying appropriate responses to it. * Lea Ypi, Professor of Political Theory, London School of Economics *Ceva and Ferretti have written an important book on how we should understand political corruption. * Paul M. Heywood, Review of Politics *Ceva and Ferretti provide rich, comprehensive, and thought-provoking answers to the question of what political corruption-understood as corruption that occurs in public institutions-is and when and why it is morally wrong. * Alice el-Wakil, Review of Politics *Ceva and Ferretti's book offers an innovative account of political corruption as "a form of unaccountable use of entrusted power". * Chiara Destri, Review of Politics *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: What Political Corruption is Chapter 2: Political Corruption: Individual or Institutional? Chapter 3: How is Political Corruption Wrong? Chapter 4: Responsibility for Political Corruption Chapter 5: Opposing Political Corruption Conclusion References
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Oxford University Press Inc Kant and the Law of War
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRipstein ... done a great service to the philosophical debate on the morality of war. * Lior Erez, Haifa University, Israel, Springer Nature Switzerland *Table of ContentsDedication Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Perpetual War or Perpetual Peace Chapter 2: Political Independence, Territorial Integrity, and Private Law Analogies Chapter 3: National Defense Chapter 4: Ius In Bello I: Perfidy Chapter 5: Ius In Bello II: Combatants and Civilians Chapter 6: Ius In Bello III: Punishment Chapter 7: Ius In Bello IV: New Types of War Chapter 8: Ius Post Bellum: Kant's Juridical Critique of Colonialism Chapter 9: The Structure of Peace: Global Institutions and Cosmopolitan Right
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Oxford University Press Inc Policing Empires
Book SynopsisThe police response to protests erupting on America''s streets in recent years has made the militarization of policing painfully transparent. Yet, properly demilitarizing the police requires a deeper understanding of its historical development, causes, and social logics. Policing Empires offers a postcolonial historical sociology of police militarization in Britain and the United States to aid that effort. Julian Go tracks when, why, and how British and US police departments have adopted military tactics, tools, and technologies for domestic use. Go reveals that police militarization has occurred since the very founding of modern policing in the nineteenth century into the present, and that it is an effect of the imperial boomerang. Policing Empires thereby unlocks the dirty secret of police militarization: Police have brought imperial practices home to militarize themselves in response to perceived racialized threats from minority and immigrant populations.Trade Review<"Meticulously researched, deftly argued, and beautifully written-Go unearths the transnational roots and imperial seeds of today's brutal police policies and culture. As we learn, the racist patrol practices, automatic weaponry, and armored vehicles that dominate the streets of Ferguson and London are not a deviation from policing's original ethos, but a perfection of counter-insurgency tactics hatched in colonial Manila and Madras. One of the best books on law enforcement in decades, Go has shifted the way we will think about policing, justice, and resistance for years to come.>" Forrest Stuart, author of Down, Out, and Under Arrest<"Julian Go's Policing Empires is an indispensable work of historical sociology, tracing the waves of police militarization in the United States and Britain over time that have cumulatively rendered nearly meaningless the lines between what police do to some people at home and what imperial forces do to people abroad. We see here the very particular ways by which the tools of imperial subjugation and control (military weapons, but also imperial logics and technologies), as well as the racialization of both colonial subjects themselves and of supposed deviance and disorder in the colonies, come home to roost in an imperial boomerang, to be used against citizens in Britain and the U.S. - especially racialized citizens and moral/crime panics that are racialized. This is the most nuanced and important book I have yet read when it comes to understanding police militarization.>" Simon Balto, author of Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power<"In this meticulous and innovative study, Julian Go unearths the deep imperial roots of the militarization of policing in Britain and the United States. The thesis is bold and its implications far-reaching. It is sure to excite, surprise, and challenge students of the penal state, colonialism, urban marginality, and racial domination.>" Loïc Wacquant, author of The Invention of the <"Underclass>" and Bourdieu in the City<"This original and fascinating history of colonial policing, is a must-read for anyone concerned by racist state violence. Policing Empire combines detailed research with a compelling and urgent argument challenging militarised policing across the Anglophone world in the 21st century>" Adam Elliott-Cooper, author of Black Resistance to British Policing<"Turning his keen and critical eye toward police militarization, Julian Go reveals how the modes, means, and technologies of the police were forged in empire's cauldron. This brave and provocative genealogy shows how the disdain of a racialized other and the fear of their revolt brought the tactics of imperial conquest home. Ambitious in scope yet effortlessly readable, Policing Empires takes us from the advent of the civil police in London, where the threat of Irish rebellion and the revolt of black Caribbean slaves shaped the formation of the modern police force, to the counterinsurgent practices developed and honed in the Philippines and in Vietnam which would be deployed in Harlem and Watts, but also in Chicago, Detroit, Oakland, Ferguson and Minneapolis. Reuben Jonathan Miller, Author of Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incar<" Policing Empires painstakingly reveals the colonial roots of modern policing across the globe. Dismissing simple narratives of police militarization or individualized racism, Go shows how racialized fear of crime and the mobilization of counterinsurgency practices have been the organizing logics of the institution of policing. Alex S. Vitale, author of The End of PolicingPolicing Empires painstakingly reveals the colonial roots of modern policing across the globe. Dismissing simple narratives of police militarization or individualized racism, Go shows how racialized fear of crime and the mobilization of counterinsurgency practices have been the organizing logics of the institution of policing. * Alex S. Vitale, author of The End of Policing *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Introduction: A Civil Police? The Coloniality of Policing 1. The Birth of the Civil Police in London, 1829 2. Cotton Colonialism and the New Police in the US and England, 1830s-1850s The New Imperialism at Home 3. Police "Reform" and the Colonial Boomerang in the US, 1890s-1930s 4. "Our Problems...are not so Difficult": Militarization and its Limits in Britain, 1850s-1910s Informal Empire and Urban Insurgency 5. Tactical Imperialism in the US, 1950s-1970s 6. Cycles of Policing & Insurgency in Britain, 1960s-1980s Conclusion: Policing Beyond Empire? Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Philosophy and Human Flourishing The Humanities
Book SynopsisWhat is a thriving, meaningful, and flourishing human life? What practices, associations, policies, and institutions support flourishing lives?These questions are not new ones. Philosophers from Buddha and Socrates onward have stressed that love of wisdom is demonstrated by living well--not by thought or theory alone but by action and practice. In light of new developments in positive psychology, psychiatry, evolutionary biology, cognitive science, and behavioral economics, these questions can be addressed with fresh insight rooted in both theory and practice. This new perspective is further supported by recent research in feminist theory, critical race studies, philosophical psychology, neuro-ethics, and more. Philosophy and Human Flourishing both draws on and charts new directions for philosophy and humanistic thought aimed at human flourishing.To reflect the fact that human lives and cultures differ, the perspectives here are refreshingly pluralistic, a commitment evident in the breTable of ContentsEditor's Introduction Philosophy and Human Flourishing: Good Lives and How to Lead Them Part I: Meanings of Human Flourishing Chapter 1: The Conatus Project: Mattering and Morality by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein Chapter 2: Flourishing in the Flesh by Mark Johnson Chapter 3: Pragmatic Stories of Selves and Their Flourishing by Jessica Wahman Chapter 4: Well-Being: Taking Our Selves Seriously by Daniel M. Haybron Chapter 5: Hybrid Subjectivism about Well-Being by Valerie Tiberius Chapter 6: The Allure of the All by John Lachs Part II: Human Flourishing in Practice Chapter 7: Pragmatism About Flourishing: Conceptual Clarity and Practical Genius by John J. Stuhr Chapter 8: Navigating Irreconcilable Conflicts: Philosophical Thinking for Better Lives in Unjust Contexts by Lori Gallegos de Castillo Chapter 9: Relational Insensitivity: Social Deadening and the Interdependence of Flourishing and Withering by José Medina Chapter 10: Values Literacy and Citizenship by John Z. Sadler Chapter 11: Teaching Philosophy: The Love of Wisdom and the Cultivation of Human Flourishing by James Pawelski Chapter 12: Cultivating Autotelic Activities and Freedom to Flourish by Jennifer Hansen Chapter 13: Philosophy and the Art of Human Flourishing by Michele Moody-Adams
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Oxford University Press Inc The Two Faces of Democracy Decentering Agonism and Deliberation
Book SynopsisThe democratic imagination is facing significant challenges. These challenges involve not only philosophical questions about the core values of democratic life, but also pressing practical issues related to how we should understand and confront current threats to democracy. Those who want to defend democracy against anti-democratic forces are at odds: some want a politics that puts vehement conflict at the center of democratic strategies, while others assert the necessity of more civil and deliberative strategies. What should our stance be as defenders of democratic life? In The Two Faces of Democracy, Mary F. (Molly) Scudder and Stephen K. White present an analysis of these two stances, the deliberative and agonistic models of democracy, arguing that neither is adequate on its own. The deliberative model emphasizes reasoned discussion, but some worry that this discounts structures of injustice that distort civil deliberation. The agonistic model prioritizes contestation and conflict, Trade ReviewScudder and White have written a powerful and welcome contribution to democratic theory in times of democratic crisis. The Two Faces of Democracy accomplishes three things: it advances a new and deeply compelling reading of the two most prominent paradigms in contemporary democratic theory, agonism and deliberation; it argues that each tradition complements the other to form a more adequate picture of both the ideal of democracy and the present crisis we face; it offers a hopeful and realistic view of how we might approach and perhaps even escape destructive misconceptions of democracy circulating in the real world today. This is a wonderful read for anyone who cares about democratic theory and its contribution to democratic culture. * Simone Chambers, Professor and Chair of Political Science, University of California, Irvine *In this very timely and praiseworthy book, aimed at exploring convergence rather than drawing boundaries, Scudder and White eloquently drive home the point that deliberative and agonistic conceptions of democracy share more in common than usually thought. Their underlying aspiration to justice and passionate commitment to equal voice, taken as two moral sources, highlight complementary sides of democracy: the formation of consent and the persistence of contestation. The Two Faces of Democracy offers an insightful and thought-provoking contribution to democratic theory, indispensable for anyone who wishes to stay abreast and ahead of the present debate. * Alessandro Ferrara, Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Rome Tor Vergata *In this bold and original work, Scudder and White propose a framework for reconciling an expansive model of deliberative democracy with a tempered model of agonism. Reconstructing the ethical sources of democracy as autonomy and equality of voice, they show that an adequate understanding of these values requires acknowledgment of the impulses expressed in both deliberative and agonistic faces of democracy. Written with great lucidity, this is a book that should be widely read and thoughtfully pondered. * David Owen, Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Southampton *The book provides a valuable review and critique of the recent history of these two modes of democratic theory...Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Challenge of Imagining Democracy Today 2. The Deliberative Turn and U-Turn in Democratic Theory 3. The Deliberative Face 4. The Agonistic Face 5. Re-envisioning the Core of Democracy 6. An Exemplary Scene of the Moral Equality of Voice 7. Conclusion: The Communicative Model of Democracy Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Divided Not Conquered How Rebels Fracture and
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewEvan Perkoski has delivered an impressive study of why militant group fragmentation can produce such profoundly different patterns of violence. His answer is novel, rigorous, and elegant—how and why the splinter groups break away determines how they behave in their next incarnation. A truly fascinating and persuasive read. * Erica Chenoweth, Harvard University *This well-conceived analysis, buttressed by careful use of evidence, answers vexing questions about the fragmentation of militant organizations that are of interest to both scholars and policymakers. Perkoski links the formation of splinter groups to their subsequent behavior and undermines the commonly held assumption that offshoots are more radical than the original group. * Martha Crenshaw, Stanford University and Wesleyan University *An admirably systematic exploration of the intra-organizational dynamics of terrorism. Original, serious-minded, and fascinating. * Richard English, Queen's University Belfast, and author of Does Terrorism Work? A History *This book is an important addition to the literature on rebel group fragmentation. It offers a novel, nuanced argument and backs up its claims with a variety of tests. It also draws on new primary source material for the Irish Republican Army case study. This is essential reading for students, researchers, and practitioners studying why and how violent groups fragment. At times, Perkoski uses technical or specialized language that may be difficult for general readers to grasp. * Choice *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. How Armed Groups Divide 3. Conflict in Northern Ireland: Contrasting Republican Splinter Groups 4. Statistically Evaluating How Splinter Groups Emerge and Behave 5. Creating a Menace: Al Qaeda and the Islamic State 6. Conclusions, Implications, and Future Research Appendix
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Oxford University Press Inc George Orwell
Book SynopsisGeorge Orwell is sometimes read as disinterested in (if not outright hostile) to philosophy. Yet a fair reading of Orwell''s work reveals an author whose work was deeply informed by philosophy and who often revealed his philosophical sympathies. Orwell''s written works are of ethical significance, but he also affirmed and defended substantive ethical claims about humanism, well-being, normative ethics, free will and moral responsibility, moral psychology, decency, equality, liberty, justice, and political morality. In George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality, philosopher Peter Brian Barry avoids a narrow reading of Orwell that considers only a few of his best-known works and instead considers the entirety of Orwell''s corpus, including his fiction, journalism, essays, book reviews, diaries, and correspondence, contending that there are ethical commitments discernible throughout his work that ground some of his best-known pronouncements and positions. While Orwell is often read as a humaniTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. George Orwell: Philosophical Outsider Chapter 2. George Orwell: The Age's Advocate Chapter 3. Orwell on Free Will and Responsibility Chapter 4. Orwellian Moral Psychology Chapter 5. Orwellian Decency Chapter 6. Orwell's Egalitarianism Chapter 7. George Orwell and Left-Libertarianism Chapter 8. Orwell's Incomplete Case for Socialism Index
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Oxford University Press Confucian Constitutionalism Dignity Rights and Democracy
Trade ReviewIn this learned and rigorous volume, Kim accomplishes the seemingly impossible: reviving elements of Confucian thought for the twenty-first century without reifying hierarchy and authoritarianism. A wonderful contribution that reminds us of the vitality of the tradition and its relevance for today's complex and plural societies. * Tom Ginsburg, Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law and Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago Law School *The twenty-first century may yet prove to be the Chinese Century. To understand that future, all of us will need to come to terms with a cultural tradition that stretches back over thousands of years. Sungmoon Kim has long assumed his rightful place among the leading scholars of both classical and contemporary Confucian law and politics, and this timely book crowns his already impressive achievements. * Eric Heinze, Professor of Law and Humanities, Queen Mary University of London *Comprehensively and persuasively argued, Kim offers a case for a Confucian democratic constitutionalism in East Asian countries, one rooted in both the ethics and the institutional strains of Confucian thought, and grounded in the combination of rights and popular sovereignty that defines democracy. The approach stands out for its attentiveness to the circumstances of politics—the facts of pluralism and the realities of political conflict. A must-read for those interested in the future of democracy in East Asia. * Mark E. Warren, Harold and Dorrie Merilees Chair in the Study of Democracy, University of British Columbia *Highly recommended. Undergraduates through faculty; general readers. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: A Short History of Confucian Constitutionalism 1. Virtue, Dignity, and Constitutional Democracy 2. Beyond the Pluralism Dilemma 3. Disagreement and Public Reason 4. The Meritocratic House and the Dignity of Legislation 5. The Rule of Law and the Place of Rights 6. Judicial Review and Constitutional Dialogue Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Divided
Book SynopsisIf you tune into televised newscasts or read any newspaper, it is impossible to ignore the increased polarization of political discussion. These news reports are supported by empirical research documenting increases in social and political polarization. Polarization is not completely undesirable, as differences between groups can contribute to a vibrant democratic life in which alternative solutions to social problems are fully explored. However, polarization can also produce dysfunctional outcomes, including sub-optimal decision-making processes within groups and a lower likelihood that competing groups are able to resolve differences. Extreme forms of polarization are presumably exacerbated by dogmatic or closed-minded thinking that fails to openly consider the viability of opposing viewpoints, as well as low levels of intellectual humility in which people rarely consider the possibility that their own beliefs and opinions might be fallible. This volume aims to increase the understanTable of ContentsI. DEFINING AND UNDERSTANDING OPEN-MINDEDNESS, DOGMATISM, AND POLARIZATION 1. Open-Mindedness and Dogmatism in a Polarized World: Core Concepts and Definitions Victor Ottati, Chadly Stern, Whinda Yustisia, and Lori D. Bougher 2. Identity Strength Leads to Out-Group Animus and Polarization Shanto Iyengar and Matthew DeBell II. OPEN AND CLOSED-MINDED PROCESSING: ATTITUDE FORMATION AND CHANGE 3. Attitudes in a Polarized World: Sociological and Psychological Processes of Reinforcement of Social and Political Worldviews Angelita Repetto and Dolores Albarracín 4. Openness and Persuasion: Multiple Processes, Meanings, and Outcomes Pablo Briñol and Richard E. Petty III. INTELLECTUAL HUMILITY AND OPEN-MINDEDNESS 5. Links Between Intellectual Humility and Open-Mindedness: Does Strength of Belief Matter? Elizabeth J. Krumrei-Mancuso and Everett L. Worthington, Jr. 6. Forms of Intellectual Humility and Their Associations with Features of Knowledge, Beliefs, and Opinions Rick H. Hoyle and Erin K. Davisson IV. NORMATIVE STANDARDS AND OPEN-MINDEDNESS: OPEN-MINDED COGNITION AND ACTIVELY OPEN-MINDED THINKING 7. Situation-Specific Open-Minded Cognition: Scale Validation and Incremental Effects of Person and Situation Victor Ottati, Chase Wilson, Devon Price, Yelvzaveta Distefano, and Fred B. Bryant 8. The Role of Group Context in Open-Minded Cognition Salma Moaz, Kelsey Berryman, Jeremy R. Winget, R. Scott Tindale, and Victor Ottati 9. Actively Open-Minded Thinking and the Political Effects of Its Absence Jonathan Baron, Ozan Isler, and Onurcan Y?lmaz V. IDEOLOGY, AUTHORITARIANISM, AND DOGMATISM 10. Persistent Problems With the Conceptualization, Measurement, and Study of "Left-Wing Authoritarianism" Benjamin A. Saunders and John. T. Jost 11. New Evidence On an Enduring Question: The Role of Political Ideology and Extremism in Dogmatic Thinking Chadly Stern and Benjamin C. Ruisch VI. DOGMATISM AND OPEN-MINDEDNESS: THE INTERPLAY OF AFFECT, MOTIVATION, AND COGNITION 12. Open-Mindedness and Dogmatism in a Darwinian world: The Roles of Affective Appraisals Over Time and Circumstance George E. Marcus 13. Feeling Open or Closed-Minded: The Role of Affective Feelings in the Closing or Opening of the Mind Akila Raoul and Jeffrey R. Huntsinger 14. Terror Management, Dogmatism, and Open-Mindedness Dylan E. Horner, Alex Sielaff, Sheldon Solomon, and Jeff Greenberg
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Oxford University Press Inc Racial Climates Ecological Indifference An
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDeveloping an ecointersectional analysis, Tuana (philosophy, women's studies, Pennsylvania State Univ.) has produced an elegant, meticulously crafted, deep, and yet accessible text on how racism is entangled in the environmental justice movement. * Choice *Table of ContentsChapter 1 - The Interlocking Domains of Racism and Ecological Indifference Chapter 2 - Racial Climates Chapter 3 - Climate Apartheid: The Forgetting of Race Chapter 4 - Through the Eye of a Hurricane Chapter 5 - Weathering the Climate Conclusion - Cultivating Anthropocenean Sensibilities Acknowledgements References Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Bioethics What Everyone Needs to KnowR
Book SynopsisThe questions and dilemmas of bioethics touch everyone. Should people who refuse to be vaccinated be treated for COVID-19, even if that displaces vaccinated patients with other serious conditions? What restrictions on abortion should there be, if any? Should women be paid to donate eggs? Bioethics: What Everyone Needs to Know discusses these and other similar questions facing the public today--as well as providing a way for thinking deeply about them.Steinbock and Menzel first examine major moral theories and how they can be used to analyze bioethical issues. They then provide historical background to the birth of bioethics and explain how it shifted from a paternalistic doctor knows best approach to respect for autonomy, a fundamental value in contemporary bioethics. Subsequent chapters cover advance directives, experimentation on human subjects, the definition of death, physician-assisted dying, abortion, disability, just healthcare systems, the allocation of scarce resources, pharmTrade ReviewThe book's coverage is excellent and more than sufficient to ground a robust understanding of contemporary bioethics. * Choice *
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Oxford University Press Inc Beauvoir and Belle
Book SynopsisKathryn Sophia Belle centers feminist frameworks, discourses, and vocabularies of Black women and other Women of Color that existed prior to and have continued to exist after The Second Sex. She centers and amplifies the voices of Black women and other Women of Color, such as Lorraine Hansberry, Angela Davis, Chikwenye Ogunyemi, Deborah King, Oyèrónké Oywùmí, Mariana Ortega, Kathy Glass, bell hooks, Kyoo Lee, Stephanie Rivera Berruz, Patricia Hill Collins, and Alia Al-Saji. Special attention is also given to Claudia Jones and Audre Lorde, both of whom implicitly and indirectly engage with The Second Sex. Beauvoir and Belle demonstrates the myriad ways in which these frameworks both expose and surpass the limits of The Second Sex. Belle argues against the frameworks of oppression used by Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sex, a foundational text of white feminist philosophy. She frames Beauvoir''s analogies as limitations, and shows how Beauvoir either does not engage with Black women and other Women of Color-or engages with them in problematic ways. Belle explores how Black and other Women of Color have critically written and talked about The Second Sex, and in so doing exposes the ways in which the existing Beauvoir scholarship has mostly ignored these engagements, thereby replicating Beauvoir''s exclusions.
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Oxford University Press Inc Citizenship
Book SynopsisThe emergence of citizenship, some 4,000 years ago, was a hinge moment in human history. Instead of the reign of blood descent, questions regarding who rules and who belongs were opened up. Yet purportedly primordial categories, such as sex and race, have constrained the emergence of a truly civic polity ever since. Untying this paradox is essential to overcoming the crisis afflicting contemporary democracies. Why does citizenship emerge, historically, and why does it maintain traction, even if in compromised forms? How can citizenship and democracy be revived? Learning from history and building on emerging social and political developments, David Jacobson and Manlio Cinalli provide the foundations for citizenship''s third revolution.Citizenship: The Third Revolution considers three revolutionary periods for citizenship, from the ancient and classical worlds; to the flourishing of guilds and city republics from 1,000 CE; and to the unfinished revolution of human rights from the post-WoTrade ReviewCompelling, original, and thought-provoking, Citizenship: The Third Revolution is a masterful book. Drawing insights from the past and present of citizenship to chart a path toward a more inclusive and democratic future, Jacobson and Cinalli envision seams and multiscalar civic corporations as alternatives to fixed borders and boundaries. Their feverishly erudite approach takes interdisciplinary scholarship to new heights. * Ayelet Shachar, Professor of Law, Political Science & Global Affairs, University of Toronto *Citizenship notions embody internal inconsistencies between the interests of members and the social good; the freedoms of insiders and the exclusion of outsiders; and necessary solidarities and norms of justice. Jacobson and Cinalli masterfully review these issues, and creatively suggest resolutions. Their book is an important contribution. * John W. Meyer, Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, Stanford University *Who is a citizen? What is citizenship? Does it matter for democracy? The authors deliver an intellectual and historical tour de force in responding to these questions. A must-read book for social scientists-and citizens. * Andrea Ruggeri, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, University of Oxford *We are witnessing how ideologies of self-interest and of exclusive identity claims are fracturing contemporary societies. Jacobson and Cinalli develop an intriguing suggestion that corporate guilds can help renew democratic society. It is a book about what holds us together. * Herman Lebovics, New York State Trustees Distinguished Professor, Stonybrook *Citizenship: The Third Revolution is an engaging history of the idea of citizenship and its evolution (or, rather, revolutions) from ancient times to today. But it also compellingly moves beyond the narrative into normative territory, seeking to learn from citizenship's revolutionary past to revive our faltering democracies. * Aakash Singh Rathore, International Fellow, LUISS University, Rome *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Who Rules? Who Belongs? Two Questions, Three Revolutions, Six Propositions Chapter 2: The First Revolution: The Ancient and Classical Periods Chapter 3: The Second Revolution: The Medieval Roots of Modern Citizenship Chapter 4: Practices of Citizenship: From the Enlightenment to the Nation-State Chapter 5: The Turn to Human Rights, and its Vulnerabilities Chapter 6: Interests and Identities: Citizenship and the Problem of Collective Action Chapter 7: From Borders to Seams Chapter 8: A 21st Century Guild Chapter 9: Completing the Third Revolution? A Conclusion
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Oxford University Press Inc Against Inequality
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewTom Malleson has written a great book on why we need to impose maximum limits on both income and wealth, together with steeply progressive taxation on income, inheritance, and wealth. A very important book and a must-read. * Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century *Against Inequality is a logical and compelling proposal for why there should be no billionaires. In this era of great inequality and grave unrest, Malleson explains why the wealthy can and should pay for the investments and services needed to address the issues of our time, from poverty to environmental crises. For those of us who seek to understand and influence our future, Malleson's book is a must-read. * Jessica Bell, Member of the Provincial Parliament of Ontario (NDP) *Urgent alert to all billionaires—you should buy up all the copies of Tom Malleson's Against Inequality. If this book gets in the hands of ordinary citizens, its powerful evidence and persuasive argument could finally spark a mass movement to take back the wealth that billionaires have successfully appropriated. Nobody else has produced such a powerful argument against today's catastrophic inequalities. * Fred Block, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of California, Davis *Tom Malleson has achieved a book that is as important as it is gripping: you will struggle to put it down. With expertise and rigor, Malleson shows that the rich have become so extremely wealthy that redistributing even a tiny portion of their wealth could dramatically change the world. Malleson also shows that this can be successfully achieved within the current system, and with great benefits to all, as well as our planet. * Isabelle Ferreras, President of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts of Belgium, 2021-2022 *With sparkling clarity—both moral and intellectual—Malleson methodically demolishes the mainstream justifications for the cartoonish inequality that defines early twenty-first century capitalism. More importantly, they make a case for its abolition that is both intensely practical and just feels so damn good to read. Mixing exceptionally accessible philosophy with necessary economic and political popular education, this book will only increase in relevance and urgency as the crimes and fortunes of the hoarding class pile up amid the crises they fuel. * Avi Lewis, Filmmaker and co-author of The Leap Manifesto *This is a fantastic book making the case for why we should limit inequalities in income and wealth. The book combines a wealth of empirical insights with rigorous normative arguments. Tom Malleson debunks the claims of those defending inequalities, and shows how a world with much less inequality is not only eminently feasible, but will also be a much better world. This book is highly recommended not only to students and scholars, but equally to politicians and citizens. * Ingrid Robeyns, Chair in Ethics of Institutions, Utrecht University *This is a provocative book, but it couldn't be more timely. A little over a decade ago, the Occupy movement brought the issue to public attention: 'The One-Percent versus the 99%.' Thomas Piketty's landmark Capital in the Twenty-First Century gave it academic credence. Malleson updates the ever-more-disturbing data and takes on the question, 'What is to be done?' Deeply researched, Against Inequality combines careful analysis of the ethical justifications for inequality with empirically based proposals, not to end all economic inequality, but to bring down the staggering levels that now threaten not only democratic governance, but the survival of our species. * David Schweickart, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Loyola University Chicago *In this volume, Malleson makes a compelling case for reducing the gap between the superrich and everyone else...Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Is it Feasible to Reduce Inequality? Income Tax and Market Regulations Chapter 2: Is it Feasible to Reduce Inequality? Wealth Taxes and Tax Havens Chapter 3: Should We Aim for High Taxes and Low Inequality? Weighing Costs and Benefits Chapter 4: Do Rich People Deserve Their Income? Chapter 5: Do the Skilled and Hard Working Deserve More Than Others? Chapter 6: Does Voluntary Exchange of Private Property Justify Inequality? Chapter 7: How Much Inequality is Acceptable? The Case for Maximum Limits on Income and Wealth Conclusion Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Inc Contemporary Politics and Classical Chinese
Book SynopsisCurrent approaches to contemporary political philosophy are disproportionately western, and the need for more diverse and global perspectives is urgent. To address this imbalance Colin J. Lewis and Jennifer Kling take up a series of contemporary topics in political philosophy and consider how the application of classical Chinese thought can engender new insights and enable progress on some of the thorniest sociopolitical issues. They argue that classical Chinese political theories and views have much to say that is relevant to our contemporary life, and buttress their argument with case studies. Each chapter takes up a particular contemporary sociopolitical issue, describes standard Western approaches to it, and then applies classical Chinese thought to the task of either re-framing it, or suggesting a novel solution. The book engages with and makes progress on several current sociopolitical issues, including the construction and deconstruction of political narratives, the legal stan
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Oxford University Press Inc Intersectional Solidarity
Book SynopsisBlack women have been credited for Democratic wins in a number of recent consequential elections. Yet outside of the post-election glow, Black women's interests tend not to attract a great deal of attention from politicians, media, or the public more broadly. In Intersectional Solidarity, Chaya Y. Crowder looks at the question of what prompts people to prioritize issues that affect Black women, and when? In particular, she challenges the notion that racial or gender consciousness alone shape political preferences and instead argues that intersectional group consciousness shapes political behavior. Crowder argues that a combination of race, gender, sexuality, and class-based consciousness influences political behavior, particularly when it comes to issues that affect individuals at the intersection of multiple marginalized identities. Further, she introduces the idea of intersectional solidarity, informed by work in social psychology, political science, and Black feminist theory. Crowde
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Oxford University Press Inc Governing Least
Book SynopsisThat government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau In this major new defense of libertarianism, Dan Moller argues that critics and supporters alike have neglected the strongest arguments for the theory. It is often assumed that libertarianism depends on thinking that property rights are absolute, or on fetishizing individual liberty. Moller argues that, on the contrary, the foundations of libertarianism lie in widely shared, everyday moral beliefs -- particularly in restrictions on shifting our burdens onto others. The core of libertarianism, on this New England interpretation, is not an exaggerated sense of our rights against other people, but modesty about what we can demand from them. Moller then connects these philosophical arguments with related work in economics, history, and politics. The result is a wide-ranging discussion in the classical liberal tradition that defies narrow academic specialization. Among the questions Moller addresses are how to think aboutTrade ReviewThis is a masterful work. It may even be a masterpiece. It does everything and does it well. It should be read right up alongside Rawls's theory of justice, and if this books fails to radically change the conversation in political philosophy, that would amount to a condemnation of the field, not the book. Moller has produced a comprehensive defense of classical liberal thought, one that deftly integrates ideas from ethics, political theory, metaethics, epistemology, metaphysics, sociology, economics, and history. He understands the critics' arguments better than they do, and has powerful and often decisive answers to all of their concerns. The book defends classical liberal ideas, but it is not ideological. Orthodox libertarians will find plenty of deep and difficult challenges to their own positions ... This is a great and important book. * Jason Brennan, Georgetown University, *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Property Part II: Markets Part III: History Part IV: Theory and Practice Appendices Appendix A: Utilitarianism as Self-deception Appendix B: Victim-blaming and Moral Modus Tollens Works Cited
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Oxford University Press Inc From the Best to the Rest
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Oxford University Press From Rationality to Equality
Book SynopsisMost contemporary moral and political philosophers would like to have an argument showing that morality is rationally required. In From Rationality to Equality, James P. Sterba provides just such an argument and further shows that morality, so justified, requires substantial equality. His argument from rationality to morality is based on the principle of non-question-beggingness and has two forms. The first assumes that the egoist is willing to argue for egoism non-question-beggingly, and the second only assumes that the egoist is willing to assent to premises she actually needs to achieve her egoistic goals. Either way, he argues, morality is rationally (i.e., non-question-beggingly) preferable to egoism.Sterba''s argument from morality to equality non-question-beggingly starts with assumptions that are acceptable from a libertarian perspective, the view that appears to endorse the least enforcement of morality, and then shows that this perspective requires a right to welfare which, wTrade ReviewJames P. Sterba has put together a clearly written, closely and thoroughly argued, and well-organized book that advances arguments that address two fundamental questions in ethics and social theory. * Social Theory and Practice *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. The Historical Connection to Immanuel Kant ; 3. From Rationality to Morality ; 4. Critics of the Rationality to Morality Argument ; 5. Alternative Justifications for Morality ; 6. From Liberty to Equality ; 7. Critics of the Liberty to Equality Argument ; 8. Alternative Justifications for Welfare and Equality ; 9. Conclusion
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Oxford University Press A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe Volume I Negotiating Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century 1
Book SynopsisThe volume offers the first-ever synthetic overview of the history of modern political thought in East Central Europe.Trade ReviewThis authoritative revision succeeds brilliantly thanks to the innovative and sophisticated approaches developed by its authors. Challenging traditional and recent conventions of intellectual history writing, they situate Eastern European political thought of the nineteenth century simultaneously in its local, regional, and transnational contexts. Rejecting tired nationalist teleologies, claims of an Eastern European Sonderweg, or binary structures that categorized political ideas as either local in origin or imported from an imagined West, the authors frame Eastern European political thought in fundamentally European terms, even as they elucidate its comparative local and regional dimensions. Pieter M. Judson, European University Institute This volume is the first comparative and transnational history of nineteenth-century political thought ever written about the broadly and challengingly defined region of East Central Europe that includes also relevant parts of the Balkans. Given the ethnic, cultural, and linguistic variety of the region, such work could only be accomplished as a team undertaking, which in this case has successfully overcome the usual sorting of national pigeon-holes next to each other. The book thus combines well-grounded local knowledge, paying due attention to the multilayered and multidirectional cultural transfers, while also being sensitive to the European social and political context. Miroslav Hroch, Charles University, Prague This impressive comparatist surveytwo centuries of political thought traced across a terrain of daunting political and linguistic complexitywill not only serve as a benchmark for future scholarship, but also as an inspiration. A shining example of what talented scholars can achieve through dedicated international cooperation, it restores a very important part of Europe to our understanding of European history. Joep Leerssen, University of AmsterdamTable of ContentsI. THE DISCOVERY OF MODERNITY: ENLIGHTENED STATECRAFT, DISCOURSES OF REFORM, AND CIVILIZATIONAL NARRATIVES; II. SPIRITUALIZING MODERNITY: THE ROMANTIC FRAMEWORK OF POLITICAL IDEAS; III. INSTITUTIONALIZING MODERNITY: CONCEPTIONS OF STATE-BUILDING AND NATION-BUILDING IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY; IV. TAMING MODERNITY: THE FIN DE SIECLE AND THE RISE OF MASS POLITICS
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Oxford University Press Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy Volume 3
Book SynopsisOxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy showcases the best scholarly research in this flourishing field. The series covers all aspects of medieval philosophy, including the Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew traditions, and runs from the end of antiquity into the Renaissance. It publishes new work by leading scholars in the field, and combines historical scholarship with philosophical acuteness. The papers will address a wide range of topics, from political philosophy to ethics, and logic to metaphysics. OSMP is an essential resource for anyone working in the area.Table of ContentsCRITICAL NOTICE ; DISCUSSION
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Oxford University Press, USA Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility Volume 3
Book SynopsisOxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a forum for outstanding new work in an area of vigorous and broad-ranging debate in philosophy and beyond. What is involved in human action? Can philosophy and science illuminate debate about free will? How should we answer questions about responsibility for action?Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Free Will and Agential Powers ; 2. Injecting the Phenomenology of Agency Into the Free Will Debate ; 3. Coherence of Attitudes, Integration of the Self, and Personal Integrity ; 4. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Moral Agency ; 5. Sensitivity to Reasons and Actual Sequences ; 6. Responsibility and the Actual Sequence ; 7. Moral Luck Reexamined ; 8. The Hard Problem of Responsibility ; 9. Rationality, Authority, and Bindingness: An Account of Communal Norms ; 10. A Difference-Making Framework for Intuitive Judgments of Responsibility ; 11. Moral Responsibility, Reasons, and the Self ; Index
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Oxford University Press Understanding Liberal Democracy
Book SynopsisUnderstanding Liberal Democracy presents notable work by Nicholas Wolterstorff at the intersection between political philosophy and religion. Alongside his influential earlier essays, it includes nine new essays in which Wolterstorff develops original lines of argument and stakes out novel positions regarding the nature of liberal democracy, human rights, and political authority. Taken together, these positions are an attractive alternative to the so-called public reason liberalism defended by thinkers such as John Rawls. The volume will be of interest to philosophers, political theorists, and theologians, engaging a wide audience of those interested in how best to understand the nature of liberal democracy and its relation to religion.Table of ContentsPART ONE: PUBLIC REASON LIBERALISM; PART TWO: RE-THINKING LIBERAL DEMOCRACY; PART THREE: PERSPECTIVES ON RIGHTS; PART FOUR: LIBERAL DEMOCRACY AND RELIGION
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Oxford University Press Hegel Manuscripts of the Introduction and the Lectures of 18221823
Book SynopsisThis edition makes available an entirely new version of Hegel''s lectures on the development and scope of world history. Volume I presents Hegel''s surviving manuscripts of his introduction to the lectures and the full transcription of the first series of lectures (1822-23). These works treat the core of human history as the inexorable advance towards the establishment of a political state with just institutions-a state that consists of individuals with a free and fully-developed self-consciousness. Hegel interweaves major themes of spirit and culture-including social life, political systems, commerce, art and architecture, religion, and philosophy-with an historical account of peoples, dates, and events. Following spirit''s quest for self-realization, the lectures presented here offer an imaginative voyage around the world, from the paternalistic, static realm of China to the cultural traditions of India; the vast but flawed political organization of the Persian Empire to Egypt and thTrade ReviewIn this and earlier volumes Peter Hodgson and his collaborators have in many ways set new standards of clarity and consistency in the presentation and translation of Hegel's writings and lectures . . . the present edition provides an excellent starting point for the serious study of Hegel's unfolding concept of 'philosophical' history in his Berlin period. * Nicholas Walker, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of ContentsPreface 1: Editorial Introduction 2: Manuscripts of the Introduction The Lectures of 1822-23 3: Introduction: The Concept of World History 4: The Oriental World 5: The Greek World 6: The Roman World 7: The Germanic World Glossary Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press, USA Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy 4
Book SynopsisOxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy showcases the best new scholarly work on philosophy from the end of antiquity into the Renaissance. OSMP combines historical scholarship with philosophical acuteness, and will be an essential resource for anyone working in the area.Table of ContentsARTICLES; CRITICAL NOTICE; DISCUSSION
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Oxford University Press The Origins of Unfairness
Book SynopsisIn almost every human society some people get more and others get less. Why is inequity the rule in these societies? In The Origins of Unfairness, philosopher Cailin O''Connor firstly considers how groups are divided into social categories, like gender, race, and religion, to address this question. She uses the formal frameworks of game theory and evolutionary game theory to explore the cultural evolution of the conventions which piggyback on these seemingly irrelevant social categories. These frameworks elucidate a variety of topics from the innateness of gender differences, to collaboration in academia, to household bargaining, to minority disadvantage, to homophily. They help to show how inequity can emerge from simple processes of cultural change in groups with gender and racial categories, and under a wide array of situations. The process of learning conventions of coordination and resource division is such that some groups will tend to get more and others less. O''Connor offers solutions to such problems of coordination and resource division and also shows why we need to think of inequity as part of an ever evolving process. Surprisingly minimal conditions are needed to robustly produce phenomena related to inequity and, once inequity emerges in these models, it takes very little for it to persist indefinitely. Thus, those concerned with social justice must remain vigilant against the dynamic forces that push towards inequity.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: The Evolution of Inequity Through Social Coordination 1: Gender, Coordination Problems, and Coordination Games 2: Social Categories, Coordination, and Inequity 3: Cultural Evolution with Social Categories 4: The Evolution of Gender Part II: The Evolution of Inequity Through Division of Resources 5: Power and the Evolution of Inequity 6: The Cultural Red Queen and the Cultural Red King 7: Discrimination and Homophily 8: The Evolution of Household Bargaining 9: Evolution and Revolution 10: Conclusion
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Oxford University Press Normativity and Power
Book SynopsisThe English translation of Forst's Normativität und Macht (2015), this book continues to develop the author's account of the nature of social orders and their justifications by re-evaluating fundamental philosophical concepts such as 'reason' and 'power'.Trade ReviewAs a whole, Forst's book suggests an answer to the question of how organization scholars as social scientists can engage with normative ideas. In particular, Forst's book helps clarify two questions: first, how organizational scholars can make a distinct contribution to societal deliberation on normative ideas; and second, why research on normative ideas can only ever play a supporting role for societal deliberation on normative ideas. * Emilio Marti, Organization Studies *Rainer Forst is the most systematic, methodologically self-conscious moral and political philosopher writing today. In this volume he manages to do something no one else could do: fruitfully connect metaethical constructivism and critical theory, through a probing exploration of the reciprocal relations between social power and normativity. * Allen Buchanan, James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy, Duke University, and Professor of the Philosophy of International Law, King's College, London *Rainer Forst's account of the right to justification has positioned him as a central figure in political philosophy. In this new book, Forst engages with other political ideas that are often thought to compete with his vision of humans as fundamentally justificatory beings, integrating the right to justification with issues of exploitation, power, cultural narrative, and progress. Everyone interested in any of these issues will want to read this book. * Arthur Ripstein , Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of Toronto *Rainer Forst is one of the most illuminating political philosophers now working. His writing carries forward the systematic project of the Frankfurt School with an admirable combination of analytical rigor and historical depth. At a time when liberal democracy has come to seem troublingly fragile, it is salutary to have this clear-eyed and uncompromising defense of its ideal of inclusive justification. * Michael Rosen, Department of government, Harvard University *Rainer Forst develops a powerful version of critical theory that spans philosophy, social theory, and critique where the principle of general and reciprocal justification is fundamental. Justification is not merely a theoretical question; it is a political and practical question. Such a theory must be attentive to complex historical ways in which human beings actually justify practices as well as the way in which practices themselves are always open to criticism by an appeal to rational justification. In developing his theory, he shows how it can account for power, justice, and democracy... He is imaginative, bold, and always thought provoking. * Richard J. Bernstein, New School for Social Research *Forst's characteristically brilliant and lucid essays demonstrate the potency of his signature idea—the right to justification—to perform a defining task of political philosophy: the critical analysis of social and political power. With stunning intellectual range, Forst tacks between abstract principle and concrete examples to make a compelling case that justice demands attentiveness to the structures through which we justify (or fail to justify) ourselves to others. This important book, by one of the leading political philosophers of our time, is essential reading for understanding justice in a global age. * Melissa Williams, Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: ORDERS OF JUSTIFICATION. ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY, SOCIAL THEORY, AND CRITICISM; I REASON, NORMATIVITY, AND POWER; II JUSTIFICATION NARRATIVES AND HISTORICAL PROGRESS; III RELIGION, TOLERATION, AND LAW; IV JUSTICE, DEMOCRACY, AND LEGITIMACY; V TRANSNATIONAL JUSTICE
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