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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Ethical Leadership: A Primer: Second Edition
Book SynopsisThe world cries out for ethical leaders. We expect the best, but we are often left profoundly disappointed. While leadership programs may feature ethics as part of their curriculum, the approach is often either simplistic or overly esoteric. This second edition addresses this scarcity of resources for training ethical leaders, providing a primer of several ethical frameworks accompanied by extended examples to help inform decision-making. It also addresses several leadership models that claim an ethical component. The new edition also includes new chapters on the ethics of care and toxic leadership, and new case studies for all chapters. By providing a consistent case analysis based on the Five Components of Leadership Model, readers benefit from a comprehensive approach to understanding ethical leadership.By using the Five Components of Leadership Model as a consistent point of reference, McManus, Ward, and Perry offer readers a variety of insights on ethical leadership. Conclusions include the importance of drawing from multiple ethical and leadership perspectives, moving away from exclusively leader-centric approaches to ethical leadership, the importance of asking questions to maximize self-awareness, and considering multiple points of view whenever addressing an ethical conundrum. To connect ‘ethical thinking’ and ‘ethical doing,’ the text uses classroom-friendly framing questions, timelines, visual models, summary tables, case studies, discussion questions, and recommended resources for additional study. After reading the book, students will benefit from a foundational understanding of theories and models of both ethics and leadership, as well as a concrete view of what these theories and models look like in practice. Professors will benefit by having all of these resources in one text, viewed through the lens of the Five Components of Leadership Model.Striving to be both comprehensive and approachable, this book is an excellent resource for upper-level students studying leadership, especially those who are new to philosophy or ethics. It is inclusive enough to serve as a primary text or as a supplement for a well-rounded ethics or leadership course.Table of ContentsContents Forewords xx Gama Perruci Ronald E. Riggio SECTION I 1 Introduction to Ethical Leadership: A Primer 2 Robert M. McManus, Stanley J. Ward and Alexandra K. Perry 2 Kantianism 12 J. Michael Cervantez 3 Utilitarianism 30 Alexandra K. Perry 4 Virtue ethics 48 Sabrina B. Little and Molly Reed-Waters 5 Ethical egoism 71 Jon Rogers and Robert M. McManus 6 Care ethics 84 Karen Tanguay and Alexandra K. Perry 7 Universal ethics 102 Stephanie E. Raible and Alexandra K. Perry 8 Cultural relativism 124 Stephanie Varnon-Hughes, Stanley J. Ward and Alexandra K. Perry 9 Divine command theory 142 James N. Thomas 10 Social contract theory 161 Lavina Sequeira and Stanley J. Ward 11 Justice as fairness 180 Alexandra K. Perry and Emily Schuck 12 The common good 201 Robert M. McManus SECTION II 13 Authentic leadership 223 Phyllis H. Sarkaria 14 Servant leadership 247 Maribeth Saleem-Tanner 15 Followership 270 Stanley J. Ward 16 Transformational leadership 293 Benjamin Dean 17 Adaptive leadership 322 Stephen C. Trainor 18 Toxic leadership 351 Stanley J. Ward and Robert M. McManus 19 Conclusion 373 Robert M. McManus, Stanley J. Ward and Alexandra K. Perry Index 385
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Legare Street Press Aristoteles
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Legare Street Press SchopenhauerLexikon
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Cambridge University Press Do the Humanities Create Knowledge
Book SynopsisWe often think of people as falling into one of two very different categories: those into science, math, and engineering; or into history, philosophy, and literature. Haufe reveals the unexpected unity underlying different disciplinary efforts to understand our experiences. He makes a vital contribution to wider debates about knowledge-generation.Trade Review'Constantly interesting and engagingly written, this timely book is destined to generate a lot of interest, both inside and outside academia.' Peter Vickers, Durham University'Many books denounce or praise the humanities. Only a few tell us how they work. In this elegant, witty, sometimes paradoxical book, informed by deep knowledge of the history of science, Chris Haufe shows that the humanities can and do produce powerful knowledge. He also argues that they could create much more of it if scholars and funders understood how communities and disciplines frame productive inquiries.' Anthony Grafton, Princeton UniversityTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. 'What would the community think?'; 3. Canon and consensus; 4. Knowing what matters; 5. In defense of how things seem; 6. Reading what lies within; 7. Humanities victorious?; 8. Of interest; 9. The hoax and the humanities.
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LEGARE STREET PR Der Heilige Geist
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Oxford University Press Health Problems Philosophical Puzzles about the
Book SynopsisHealth is weird. Health is weird in a way that resists simple explanations or elegant theorizing. This book is a philosophical explanation of that weirdness, and an argument that grappling with the distinctive weirdness of health can give us insight into how we might approach difficult questions about social reality.Table of ContentsForward Introduction 1: Theories of Health 2: Health and Wellbeing 3: Health, Subjectivity, and Capability 4: Health and Disability 5: Ameliorative Skepticism and the Nature of Health 6: Ameliorative Skepticism, Shifting Standards, and the Measure of Health Afterward Bibliography
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Princeton University Press The Darkened Light of Faith
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Important. . . . For Rogers, indicting the United States for not achieving Baldwin and King’s vision does not mean that racial equality is impossible. Rather, it remains a future to be fought for, albeit by drawing on elements of the past."---William P. Jones, Dissent"Provocative. . . . This illuminating work helps build a foundation of scholarship for understanding core ideas, ideological development, and necessary engagement in African American politics. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice Reviews *"By bringing African American political thought to the forefront of the American tradition, Rogers advances a hopeful but realistic view of American democracy that rejects the narrative that the country is fundamentally white supremacist while, at the same time, acknowledges the United States’ sins of slavery, segregation, and discrimination. . . . At a time when ridiculous and dangerous views about race are voiced in the public square, we need a sensible and hopeful one. The Darkened Light of Faith is such a voice."---Lee Trepanier, University Bookman"In an age when the canons of political thought are being critically reexamined and made more inclusive, this book is an essential resource to learn about what makes African American reflections on democracy and freedom rather distinctive – and how they could fruitfully reshape mainstream conversations." * Review of Democracy *
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LEGARE STREET PR The Inner Consciousness how to Awaken and Direct It
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Legare Street Press Max Stirners Kleinere Schriften
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Temple University Press,U.S. Jewish SelfDetermination beyond Zionism Lessons
Book SynopsisTrade Review“An exciting, profound, and humane critical rethinking of Zionism as the ideological foundation of the Israeli state, Graubart’s alternative vision reinforces what Zionism might have become if its leaders had not opted for an exclusivist Jewish state necessitating the continuous repression, exploitation, and discrimination of the Palestinian people in their own homeland. The recent surge to the Israeli far right gives this fine book a timely urgency, especially for liberal Jews, who should be deeply disturbed by what has happened in Israel beneath the banner of Zionism.”—Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, and author of Palestine’s Horizon: Toward a Just Peace“Jewish Self-Determination beyond Zionism is a recovery operation designed to provide tools for contemporary analysts to contend with the problems posed by the effective disappearance of diplomatic paths toward a negotiated solution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem. Graubart’s well-written and accurate summary of the sharp rightward trajectory Israel has taken in recent decades shows how many of the forecasts of the ‘Humanist Zionists,’ like Martin Buber and Hannah Arendt, have come true, and how decisive have been the ‘core pathologies’ that those thinkers identified.”—Ian Lustick, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality"There is much to learn from this thoughtful, well-researched, clearly written exegesis of the history of what the author calls 'Humanist Zionism' and his proposal for an alternative to Israel in its current configuration.... Summing Up: Recommended."—Choice"In a particularly dark historical and political moment in Palestine/Israel, Jonathan Graubart offers a glimmer of hope for a brighter future by offering new pathways toward Jewish and Palestinian self-determination.... [T]he book makes a valuable contribution to the field of critical Zionism studies. Graubart advances a new approach that moves beyond Zionism while maintaining a commitment to Jewish self-determination. It highlights a well-articulated binational vision for the future rooted in both past ideologies and contemporary realities while also providing a fascinating new analysis of Jewish self-determination rooted in justice for all."—Perspectives on Politics
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Edinburgh University Press Positive Atheism
Book SynopsisCharles Devellennes looks at the the religious, social and political thought of the first four thinkers of the French Enlightenment: Pierre Bayle, Jean Meslier, Paul-Henri Thiry d'Holbach and Denis Diderot to explicitly argue for atheism as a positive philosophy.Trade Review"This study represents a surprisingly yet unwritten history of atheism focusing on the point of view of atheists themselves a fresh and much needed take that moves beyond narratives written by adversaries of atheism. By examining four key thinkers of the French Enlightenment, Devellenes' outstanding book offers a nuanced and contextualised view of atheism that is carefully attuned to politics." -Rosario L pez, Assistant Professor, University of M laga
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Princeton University Press Philosophy Politics and Economics
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University of Minnesota Press Edges of the State
Book SynopsisUsing philosophical and scientific work to engage the perennial question of human nature This book takes a look at the formation, and edges, of states: their breakdowns and attempts to repair them, and their encounters with non-state peoples. It draws upon anthropology, political philosophy, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, child developmental psychology, and other fields to look at states as projects of constructing “bodies politic,” where the civic and the somatic intersect. John Protevi asserts that humans are predisposed to “prosociality,” or being emotionally invested in social partners and patterns. With readings from Jean-Jacques Rousseau and James C. Scott; a critique of the assumption of widespread pre-state warfare as a selection pressure for the evolution of human prosociality and altruism; and an examination of the different “economies of violence” of state and non-state societies, Edges of the State sketches a notion of prosocial human nature and its attendant normative maxims. Forerunners: Ideas First Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead
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Templeton Foundation Press,U.S. Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created
Book SynopsisWho am I? The question today haunts every society in the Western world. Legions of people—especially the young—have become unmoored from a firm sense of self. To compensate, they join the ranks of ideological tribes spawned by identity politics and react with frenzy against any perceived threat to their group. As identitarians track and expose the ideologically impure, other citizens face the consequences of their rancor: a litany of “isms” run amok across all levels of cultural life, the free marketplace of ideas muted by agendas shouted through megaphones, and a spirit of general goodwill warped into a state of perpetual outrage. How did we get here? Why have we divided against one another so bitterly? In Primal Screams, acclaimed cultural critic Mary Eberstadt presents the most provocative and original theory to come along in recent years. The rise of identity politics, she argues, is a direct result of the fallout of the sexual revolution, especially the collapse and shrinkage of the family. As Eberstadt illustrates, humans have forged their identities within the kinship structure from time immemorial. The extended family, in a real sense, is the first tribe and teacher. But with its unprecedented decline across various measures, generations of people have been set adrift and can no longer answer the question Who am I? concerning primordial ties. Desperate for solidarity and connection, they claim membership in politicized groups whose displays of frantic irrationalism amount to primal screams for familial and communal loss. Written in her impeccable style and with empathy rarely encountered in today’s divisive discourse, Eberstadt’s theory holds immense explanatory power that no serious citizen can afford to ignore. The book concludes with three incisive essays by Rod Dreher, Mark Lilla, and Peter Thiel, each sharing their perspective on the author’s formidable argument. Trade Review "Primal Screams is and should be controversial. It is also quite brilliant. I can think of few books in recent memory that eschews academic and journalistic orthodoxy in as cutting and well defended away. Anyone interested in the roots of our current identity-driven dilemmas would be remiss in not reading it."—The Federalist “Eberstadt is a shrewd, thoughtful analyst of our culture, and scrutinizes her subject through a nonpartisan lens….Primal Screams is, then, important for readers of all political and ideological complexions.”—Washington Examiner “Mary Eberstadt manages the nearly impossible: finding something new—and worthwhile—to say about identity politics. . . . If we see more books about identity politics in the near future, and doubtless we will, they will have to grapple with Eberstadt's argument and take a look through the lens she provides.”—Washington Free Beacon "Mary Eberstadt’s thesis is exactly right, and she backs it up with evidence."—Public Discourse “Eberstadt’s work is not only for conservatives but also for everyone who thinks about contemporary society and finds himself puzzled, worried, or in a foreboding frame of mind about the alarming spike in identity politics as well as suicide, depression, substance abuse, and loneliness.”—National Review “Vintage Eberstadt: clearly argued with conviction. . . . This is a good and helpful book, and the responses of Dreher and company are thought-provoking and constructive. . . . Eberstadt’s greatest strength is her consistent calm and compassionate tone. As such, she offers us a model for how political discussion should be pursued.”—The Gospel Coalition "An incredibly influential, intellectual, precise commentary about current culture, philosophy, and the fate of the post-modern man."—Jonathan Van Maren, LifeSite News "Insightful."—The Conway Daily Sun "I wait for Mary Eberstadt’s books the way some people used to wait for the next Harry Potter installment." —Fr. John Hollowell, Pastor of Annunciation and St. Paul's Catholic Church "Primal Screams provides a cogent, prophetic take on how and why it is that so many well-educated, materially well-off people—after all, this is mostly a Western political development — do not seem to know who they are."—Black Christian News Network One "A cogent, prophetic take on how and why it is that so many well-educated, materially well-off people...do not seem to know who they are." —The Christian Post "Mary Eberstadt is one of America’s foremost public intellectuals." —John Stonestreet, Breakpoint "Primal Screams stands as essential reading for all pastors, educators, church leaders and workers, and, supremely, parents." —John J. Bombaro, The Mod "Mrs. Eberstadt’s study is a welcome contribution to the current crisis in an increasingly secularized society. It is an attempt to pick away at a problem that is a vast tangle of personal motivations, subconscious drives and desires, societal currents, historical trends, socio-economic factors, and the irrational reactions of the mob. She’s done well to hone in on a crucial aspect to shed light on the problem."—Dwight Longenecker, The Imaginative Conservative “Mary Eberstadt’s book is a thought-provoking, informed lead-in to a discussion that the world urgently needs to have.” —Margaret Hickey, Position Papers “A well-researched, powerfully argued, and profound account of the deepest sources of our current cultural crises. Wise and courageous, Mary Eberstadt has written an indispensable book for understanding our time.” —Leon R. Kass, professor emeritus, Committee on Social Thought, The University of Chicago “Primal Screams is a deeply thought-provoking reflection on human nature and the fate of our republic.” —Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard University "Some basic questions of identity have overtaken Western politics in the 21st century, and before they can be addressed, they must be understood. With her characteristic clarity and breadth of learning, Mary Eberstadt offers a powerfully persuasive guide to why we are beset by these challenges, and how to take them on." —Yuval Levin, editor of National Affairs “Mary Eberstadt proves, yet again, that she is one of America's most insightful—as well as compassionate—social analysts.”—George Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow and William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies, Ethics and Public Policy Center "Mary Eberstadt understands ‘identity politics’ better than its practitioners and critics to date. She considers why so many people need the sense of belonging that identity politics seeks to provide. Her answer is terrifying—a loss that human beings of modern times have suffered but of which we have been almost entirely unaware. Until now.”—Tod Lindberg, author of The Heroic Heart: Greatness Ancient and Modern “It is scarcely a foregone conclusion that our society will return to sanity on questions of sexual morality and marriage. But if we do, then prophets like Mary Eberstadt will be celebrated in song and story.”—Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University “In Primal Screams, Mary Eberstadt responds to the deepest cries of the wounded souls of our time. Read it and share it.”—Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review Institute Table of Contents Introduction: The Myth of the Lone Wolf / 1 PART ONE: PRIMAL SCREAMS 1 The Conversation So Far, and Its Limitations / 19 2 A New Theory: The Great Scattering / 37 3 Supporting Evidence, I: Understanding the “Mine!” in Identity Politics / 63 4 Supporting Evidence, II: Feminism as Survival Strategy / 71 5 Supporting Evidence, III: Androgyny as Survival Strategy / 77 6 Supporting Evidence, IV: How #MeToo Reveals the Breakdown of Social Learning / 89 Conclusion: Thoughts on the Rediscovery of Self / 103 PART TWO: COMMENTARY Rod Dreher / 113 Mark Lilla / 121 Peter Thiel / 129 Afterword / 133 Acknowledgments / 139 Notes / 143 Bibliography / 165 About the Contributors / 169 Index / 171
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Liberty Fund Inc Politics by Principle Not Interest Toward
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Columbia University Press Recognition and Ambivalence
Book SynopsisThis book brings together leading scholars in social and political philosophy to develop new perspectives on recognition and its role in social life. It begins with a debate between Axel Honneth and Judith Butler, the first sustained engagement between these two major thinkers on this subject.Trade ReviewThis fascinating encounter between Judith Butler and Axel Honneth—accompanied by a terrific collection of critical essays—advances the theoretical conversation about the political valence of recognition, casts a clarifying eye on its past, and shows how much patient labor is required to achieve understanding across differences in philosophical approach and political perspective. Indispensable! -- Patchen Markell, Cornell UniversityThis book brings together a diverse array of scintillating essays from some of the most important proponents and critics of recognition theory today. One pervasive theme is the ambiguity of recognition—its dangers as well as its indispensability to human life. In this respect Recognition and Ambivalence implicitly makes Rousseau rather than Hegel into the true founder of recognition theory, while at the same time developing it in ways that illuminate such contemporary phenomena as racism, gender inequality, postcolonial domination, reification, and emancipatory social movements. -- Frederick Neuhouser, author of Rousseau's Critique of Inequality: Reconstructing the Second DiscourseRecognition and Ambivalence explores key issues regarding the merits and problems of considering the concept of recognition as a primary driver of critical social theory. By encouraging the contributors to think through the potential ambivalences, and negative impact, of such a focus, the editors have provided a uniquely valuable volume that facilitates a nuanced and qualified defense of critical recognition theory by taking us beyond the current debates that have engaged supporters and detractors. -- Shane O'Neill, coauthor of Recognition Theory as Social Research: Investigating the Dynamics of Social ConflictTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Heikki Ikäheimo, Kristina Lepold, and Titus Stahl1. Recognition Between Power and Normativity: A Hegelian Critique of Judith Butler, by Axel Honneth2. Recognition and the Social Bond: A Response to Axel Honneth, by Judith Butler3. Intelligibility and Authority in Recognition: A Reply, by Axel Honneth4. Recognition and Mediation: A Second Reply to Axel Honneth, by Judith Butler5. Historicizing Recognition: From Ontology to Teleology, by Lois McNay6. Recognizing Ambivalence: Honneth, Butler, and Philosophical Anthropology, by Amy Allen7. How Should We Understand the Ambivalence of Recognition? Revisiting the Link Between Recognition and Subjection in the Works of Althusser and Butler, by Kristina Lepold 8. Recognition, Constitutive Domination, and Emancipation, by Titus Stahl9. Return to Reification: An Attempt at Systematization, by Heikki Ikäheimo10. Negativity in Recognition: Post-Freudian Legacies in Contemporary Critical Theory, by Jean-Philippe Deranty11. Beyond Needs: Recognition, Conflict, and the Limits of Institutionalization, by Robin Celikates12. Freedom, Equality, and Struggles of Recognition: Tully, Rancière, and the Agonistic Re-Orientation, by David OwenContributorsIndex
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Hominescence
Book SynopsisAccording to Michel Serres, a process of ''hominescence'' has taken place throughout human history. Hominescence can be described as a type of adolescence; humanity in a state of growing, a state of constant change, on the threshold of something unpredictable. We are destined never to be the same again but what does the future hold? In this innovative and passionately original work of philosophy, Serres describes the future of man as an adolescence, transitioning from childhood to adulthood, or luminescence, when a dark body becomes light. After considering the radical changes that humanity has experienced over the last fifty years, Serres analyzes the new relationship that man has with diverse concepts, like the dead, his own body, agriculture, and new communication networks. He alerts us to the consequences of these changes, particularly on the danger of growing inequalities between rich and poor countries. Should we rejoice in the future, ignore it, or even dread it? Unlike otherTrade ReviewThis fascinating text will interest readers across the entire spectrum of scholarship and human endeavor. Summing Up: Essential. All readers. * CHOICE *Produced in certain collectivities, in the course of their history, by their sciences and their technologies, in their economy and their politics, these ruptures affect, beneath these cultural components, the ‘nature’ of humans and of the world. That is why I call such ruptures hominescent. This study provides a powerful, innovative analysis of a new form of being human, ‘hominescence’. In the three domains, corporeal, worldly and in relation to other kinds of otherness, Michel Serres pursues enquiries begun over forty year ago, in his innovative reading of the system of Gottfried Leibniz. These enquiries gain from their expansion into the current context of digital tele-communications, and the internet of things, transgenic modifications and the resulting new ontologies of large numbers and quasi objects. -- Joanna Hodge, Professor of Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University, UKHominescence is Michel Serres’s best book – a profound mediation on the prodigious transformations the human species has faced in the past fifty years, which have altered our relation to death, to our bodies, our technologies, our planet, and even to thought itself. -- Daniel W. Smith, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University, USAIn Hominescence, Michel Serres draws together themes which span decades of his work to illuminate the critical moment of human history where we cease to be natured and become forces of naturing. He offers a bold vision of the renewed relationship between the sciences and humanities to think beyond the crisis. -- Steven D. Brown, Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology, The Open University, UK * 20/02/2019 *Table of ContentsDeaths The Body How Our Body Changed The First Loop of Hominescence Three Global Houses The Greatest Contemporary Discovery Ego: Who Signs These Pages? The World The Greatest Contemporary Event Ancient and New Common Houses The Evolutionary House The Second Loop of Hominescence Who, ego? The Others The Event of Communication Contemporary Humanity The End of Networks: the Universal House The Third Loop of Hominescence The Others and the Death of the Ego Peace
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Verso Books The Adventure of French Philosophy
Book SynopsisThe Adventure of French Philosophy is essential reading for anyone interested in what Badiou calls the "French moment" in contemporary thought.Badiou explores the exceptionally rich and varied world of French philosophy in a number of groundbreaking essays, published here for the first time in English or in a revised translation. Included are the often-quoted review of Louis Althusser's canonical works For Marx and Reading Capital and the scathing critique of "potato fascism" in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus. There are also talks on Michel Foucault and Jean-Luc Nancy, and reviews of the work of Jean-François Lyotard and Barbara Cassin, notable points of interest on an expansive tour of modern French thought.Guided by a small set of fundamental questions concerning the nature of being, the event, the subject, and truth, Badiou pushes to an extreme the polemical force of his thinking. Against the formless continuum of life, he posits the need for radical discontinuity; against the false modesty of finitude, he pleads for the mathematical infinity of everyday situations; against the various returns to Kant, he argues for the persistence of the Hegelian dialectic; and against the lure of ultraleftism, his texts from the 1970s vindicate the role of Maoism as a driving force behind the communist Idea.Trade ReviewFrench philosophy still has a kick in it, and it can still turn heads. You have been warned. -- Jonathan Rée * Prospect *One of the most important philosophers writing today. -- Joan CopjecA figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us! -- Slavoj ZizekAn heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser. * New Statesman *Focused and illuminating, technical and deft. -- Shahidha Bari * Times Higher Education *A series of snapshots of how Badiou participates in and understands what ... we might call the post-1960s moment in French philosophy. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *
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Fordham University Press On Universals Constructing and Deconstructing
Book SynopsisMany on the Left have looked upon “universal” as a dirty word, one that signals liberalism’s failure to recognize the masculinist and Eurocentric assumptions from which it proceeds. Balibar builds on these critiques, yet works to rescue and reinvent what universal claims can offer for a revolutionary politics answerable to the common.Table of ContentsPreface: Equivocity of the Universal | vii 1 Racism, Sexism, Universalism: A Reply to Joan Scott and Judith Butler | 1 Racism and sexism: a single “community”? | 5 The institution and discriminatory function of the universal | 8 “Human essence,” “normality,” and “anthropological differences” | 14 2 Constructions and Deconstructions of the Universal | 19 First Lecture | 19 Second Lecture | 39 3 Sub Specie Universitatis: Speaking the Universal in Philosophy | 59 Strategies of disjunction | 65 Strategies of subsumption | 69 Strategies of translation | 75 4 On Universalism: In Dialogue with Alain Badiou | 84 5 A New Quarrel | 96 Anthropological differences and “human” subjectivity | 97 The desire to know | 103 Three aporias of universality | 105 “Les langues se parlent” | 115 Notes | 121
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Princeton University Press The Necessary Nation
Book SynopsisLooking at nationalism, this title offers a defense of the nation as a protector of cultural difference and a catalyst for modernization. It reveals how nationalism enables people to defend their distinctive ways of life, to fight colonial oppression, and to build an independent society of citizens.Trade Review"This is an exceptionally erudite and thoughtful book on one of the major subjects of our day—the future of the nation-state. Gregory Jusdanis offers a wide-ranging discussion of culture and nationalism that raises important questions for cultural critics, political theorists, and historians, among other readers."—Barry S. Strauss, Cornell University"Thoughtful, balanced and urgent, Jusdanis's study acknowledges the double-edged nature of nationalism. It resists the wholesale rejection of nationalism that has become characteristic of an historically ill-informed, conceptually impoverished, and politically correct anti-nationalism. Drawing upon a range of disciplines and national histories, he offers a rich and flexible discourse of nationalism and its others."—Khachig Tololyan, Wesleyan University"Gregory Jusdanis has written a provocative book that challenges the nearly universal opinion among cultural studies and postcolonial theorists that the nation-form must and should be overcome. Strongly critical of the presentist biases of much current writing on the nation, Jusdanis provides an historical theory essential to all those interested in a variety of important problems: the role of the intellectual in nation-building; the nation in the era of globalization; the nation in a post-colonial world; and the origins of nationalism. Daring and lucid at the same time, The Necessary Nation is basic reading for scholars in all the humanistic and social science disciplines."—Paul A. Bové, University of PittsburghTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix INTRODUCTION 3 CHAPTER ONE On Nationalism 17 The Union of Nation and State 18 Nations as Self-Institutions 23 Emotional Attachments 28 Ancient Roots 36 National Integration 39 CHAPTER TWO The Autonomy of Culture? 44 Culture as a Totality 46 Culture as Way of Life 49 Absolute States and Religious Wars 52 Culture as Secondary Agent 55 Nationalism as a Reactive Force 58 The Chicken or the Egg? 65 CHAPTER THREE The Bastion of National Culture 71 Fortress Culture 77 National Culture in Aspiration 83 Intellectuals and Class Interest 86 The Perils of Comparisons 89 National Intellectuals 93 CHAPTER FOUR Progress and Belatedness 102 Being Late 105 Catching Up 108 Greece: Postcolonial Narratives 110 Of Backwardness and Change 114 The Greek Culture Wars 118 The Discovery of Tardiness 122 CHAPTER FIVE Political Nations 134 England 137 Canada 143 Brazil 148 Egypt 151 The United States 155 Civic Identity 162 CHAPTER SIX The End of Identities? 166 The Disconnecting of America 166 Of Two Multiculturalisms 169 Racial Panethnicities 177 Culture, Culture Everywhere 185 Does Globalization Spell the End? 192 CHAPTER SEVEN Federal Unions 197 Private Identities, Public Assimilation 201 Endless Diaspora 205 Liberal Nationalism 211 Federalism 215 REFERENCES 225 INDEX 259
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Imprint Academic Myth, Meaning, and Antifragile Individualism: On
Book SynopsisJordan Peterson has attracted a high level of attention. Controversies may bring people into contact with Peterson''s work, but ideas are arguably what keep them there. Focusing on those ideas, this book explores Peterson's answers to perennial questions.What is common to all humans, regardless of their background? Is complete knowledge ever possible? What would constitute a meaningful life? Why have humans evolved the capacity for intelligence? Should one treat others as individuals or as members of a group? Is a single person powerless in the face of evil? What is the relation between speech, thought, and action? Why have religious myths and narratives figured so prominently in human history? Are the hierarchies we find in society good or bad?After devoting a chapter to each of these questions, Champagne unites the different strands of Peterson's thinking in a handy summary. Champagne then spends the remaining third of the book articulating his main critical concerns. He argues that while building on tradition is inevitable and indeed desirable, Peterson's individualist project is hindered by the non-revisable character and self-sacrificial content of religious belief.This engaging multidisciplinary study is ideal for those who know little about Peterson's views, or for those who are familiar but want to see more clearly how Peterson's views hang together. The debates spearheaded by Peterson are in full swing, so Myth, Meaning, and Antifragile Individualism should become a reference point for any serious engagement with Peterson's ideas.
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Columbia University Press Critique and Praxis
Book SynopsisBernard E. Harcourt calls for moving beyond the complacency of decades of philosophical detours and to harness critical thought to the need for action. Critique and Praxis advocates for a new path forward that constantly challenges each one of us to ask what more we can do to realize a society based on equality and justice.Trade ReviewCritique and Praxis is the work of a visionary revolutionary intellectual. -- Biodun Jeyifo * British Journal of Sociology *With his typical combination of erudition, eloquent argument, and theoretical clarity, Bernard Harcourt now gives us a complete account of his reading of contemporary critical philosophy, articulating it with immediate issues in the field of human rights and democratic politics. A tour de force which will give readers much to learn and much to think about. I will have it permanently on my desk, or not far. -- Étienne Balibar, author of Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political PhilosophyHas critical philosophy completed its mission or has it renounced the task, which it posed in the 1920s, to link theory and praxis in order to change the world? Harcourt’s response is unequivocal: the critical theory that emerged from the Frankfurt School has lost its original orientation and separated theory from the passion for praxis. Many other philosophical tendencies have since occupied this terrain, reimagining the theoretical horizon and trying to construct practices adequate to contemporary society. Harcourt studies and critiques them attentively, be they liberal currents or socialist variants, European philosophies of the common or insurrectionalist approaches. For Harcourt, however, critique must return to its radical roots and be done ‘en situation.’ This book inaugurates a turn from Foucault-style genealogies to a critical thought that is rooted in praxis and critiques it politically. With this passage, Harcourt exclaims, with Haraway, that ‘the only scientific thing to do is to revolt!’ And he confesses that in his previous books he only scratched at the surface of this conversion. Today the paradigm has shifted and praxis must be posed as subjectivation. If before the problem consisted in responding to ‘What is to be done?,’ today the question is ‘What more am I to do?’ Harcourt thus transforms critical philosophy into a manifesto of ethical engagement. -- Antonio Negri, coauthor of EmpireA relentlessly honest and learned exploration of how critical theory can turn again to the task of changing the world. Learning from above but assiduously from below, activist legal scholar Bernard Harcourt utilizes illusion and value, makes theory and practice collide, and asks: 'What more am I to do?' Required reading. -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of Other AsiasBernard Harcourt's pragmatic and comprehensive dissection of philosophy and the quest for social justice is timely, provocative, and critically needed in this moment of global uncertainty, endless conflict, and pervasive inequality. -- Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and RedemptionHarcourt has produced a challenging book, which addresses many of our current predicaments, and he has the moral authority to command our attention. * Marx and Philosophy Review of Books *His mountainous text is a repetitive tool-box of notes and thoughts from his seminar series and own readings. Like lightning, brilliant ideas flash across the pages. * Counterpunch *By any measure, Critique & Praxis is an impressive contribution, passionate, lucid, deeply committed and nearly always generous in its disagreements. As a conversation between Foucauldian philosophy and radical-political engagement, it is a tour de force. * New Left Review *It’s lucidly written and relatively short on jargon. Which makes it an important book to pay attention to, even for those with no interest in abstruse political-social theories, because we urgently need new ways to critique the system we live in and develop new strategies to oppose and replace it. * History News Network *Critique & Praxis is one of the most provoking contributions to critical theory of the twenty-first century. * Foucault Studies *Bernard Harcourt's latest book is bold, brave, and too short. -- Frieder Vogelmann * British Journal of Sociology *A wide-ranging effort to take up the conundrum of critical theory, which has been with us since Marx wrote the eleventh thesis—that is, that we think and act in and on a damaged society. * Political Theory *Table of ContentsPreface: The Primacy of Critique and PraxisIntroduction: Toward a Critical Praxis TheoryPart I. Reconstructing Critical Theory1. The Original Foundations2. Challenging the Frankfurt Foundations3. Michel Foucault and the History of Truth-Making4. The Return to Foundations5. The Crux of the Problem6. Reconstructing Critical Theory7. A Radical Critical Philosophy of IllusionsPart II. Reimagining the Critical Horizon8. The Transformation of Critical Utopias9. The Problem of Liberalism10. A Radical Critical Theory of Values11. A Critical Horizon of Endless Struggle12. The Problem of Violence13. A Way ForwardPart III. Renewing Critical Praxis14. The Transformation of Praxis15. The Landscape of Contemporary Critical Praxis16. The New Space of Critical PraxisPart IV. Reformulating Critique17. Reframing the Praxis Imperative18. What More Am I To Do?19. Crisis, Critique, PraxisConclusionPostscriptNotesBibliographyAcknowledgmentsName IndexConcept Index
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University of Notre Dame Press Horizons of Difference
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Horizons of Difference is a probing study of the crisis of our time, revolving around scientific, technological, economic, political, and cultural globalization. Many studies have focused on one or more of these dimensions, but only Dallmayr’s approach dives deeply into the cultural roots of ‘Western’ modernity and its alleged clash with ‘non-Western’ traditions.” —David Ingram, author of World Crisis and Underdevelopment“This book is a must-read for advanced interdisciplinary classes of religion, philosophy, ethics, and peace/justice studies.” —Religious Studies Review
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Wirklichkeit Books The New Fascist Body
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Pan Macmillan Society Must Be Defended
Book SynopsisAn examination of the relation between war and politics, by one of the twentieth century''s most influential thinkersFrom 1971 until 1984 at the Collège de France, Michel Foucault gave a series of lectures ranging freely and conversationally over the range of his research. In Society Must Be Defended, Foucault deals with the emergence in the early seventeenth century of a new understanding of war as the permanent basis of all institutions of power, a hidden presence within society that could be deciphered by an historical analysis. Tracing this development, Foucault outlines the genealogy of power and knowledge that had become his dominant concern.
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The University of Chicago Press The Truth about Leo Strauss Political Philosophy
Book SynopsisIs Leo Strauss truly an intellectual forebear of neoconservatism and a powerful force in shaping Bush administration foreign policy? This title puts this question to rest, revealing how the popular media came to perpetuate an oversimplified view of a complex and wide-ranging philosopher.Trade Review"The Truth about Leo Strauss is the most balanced and insightful book yet written about Strauss's thought, students, and political influence. It dispels myths promulgated by both friends and foes and persuasively traces the conflicting paths that American thinkers indebted to Strauss have taken." - William Galston, Brookings Institution "The late emigre philosopher Leo Strauss has achieved a great deal of posthumous notoriety, demonized by the Left as the cynical spiritual father of imperialist U.S. policies. Strauss's thought deserves better - and gets it, in The Truth about Leo Strauss." - National Review"
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HarperCollins Publishers AntiRacist Ally An Introduction to Action and
Book SynopsisGives you the information you need to begin, or continue, your understanding of what it means to be a true anti-racist ally' Pippa VosperDo you want to be an anti-racist ally?This punchy, pocket-sized guide shows you how, whether you're using your voice for the first time, or are looking for ways to keep the momentum and make long lasting change.Sophie Williams' no-holds-barred posts about racism and Black Lives Matter on @officialmillennialblack have taken the online world by storm. Sharp, simple and insightful, they get to the heart of anti-racist principles and show us all how to truly be better allies.Now, in her iconic Instagram style, this pocket-sized primer unpacks complex topics into their most important concepts, and provides a crucial starting block for every anti-racist ally.Trade Review‘In a year that has made racial divisions painfully clear, Sophie Williams’ concise and comprehensive book could not be better timed. Those who are newly aware of their place of privilege and looking to take action that goes beyond the black square, would do well to start by reading this.’ Kenya Hunt, Fashion Director, Grazia magazine ‘For the uninitiated, anti-racism allyship can feel fraught with risk. In this clear-eyed, concise guide to being an effective ally, Sophie Williams gives us space to make mistakes and teaches us to be better.’ Kia Abdullah, Take It Back ‘Gives you the information you need to begin, or continue, your understanding of what it means to be a true anti-racist ally’ Pippa Vosper ‘An incredible, insightful book’ Michael Chakraverty Great British Bake Off, Season 10 ‘A punchy, pocket-sized guide which unpacks complex anti-racist topics into their most important concepts and shows us how to be a truly better ally’ GLAMOUR ‘If you feel less-than-informed, this book will get you up to speed with stats and facts.’ COSMOPOLITAN
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Oxford University Press Locke
Book SynopsisJohn Locke (1632-1704) one of the greatest English philosophers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, argued in his masterpiece, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, that our knowledge is founded in experience and reaches us principally through our senses; but its message has been curiously misunderstood. In this book John Dunn shows how Locke arrived at his theory of knowledge, and how his exposition of the liberal values of toleration and responsible government formed the backbone of enlightened European thought of the eighteenth century.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition 'lucid and lively ... offers a rich insight into the triumphs and tragedy of the source of English ideology' * New Society *Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. Life ; 2. The politics of trust ; 3. Knowledge, belief and faith ; Conclusion ; Note on sources ; Further reading
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Oxford University Press Inc Decolonizing Freedom
Book SynopsisFreedom is celebrated as the definitive ideal of modern western civilization. Yet in western thought and practice, the freedom of some has typically been defined through opposition to the unfreedom of others. These exclusions are not secondary to a prior concept of freedom but are constitutive exclusions that have shaped the ways in which western theorists define what freedom is. Allison Weir draws on Indigenous political philosophies and practices of decolonization grounded in conceptions of relationality and resurgence, in dialogue with western philosophies, to reconstruct a tradition of relational freedom as a distinctive political conception of freedom: a radically democratic mode of engagement and participation in social and political relations with an infinite range of strange and diverse beings perceived as free agents in interdependent relations in a shared world. Through the work of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, John Borrows, Glen Coulthard, Audra Simpson, Rauna Kuokkanen, Joan
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Oxford University Press Inc The Case for Rage
Book SynopsisThis book is a philosophical defense of anger at racial injustice. It shows that this type of angerwhat author Myisha Cherry calls Lordean rage, honoring Audre Lordecan inspire us to change the world. For that reason, we should seek to cultivate it, rather than push it down. Crossing the terrain of moral psychology, philosophy, and current affairs, the book shows how anger at racism is an appropriate and even necessary way of valuing others, how anger canmotivate those who are outraged to engage in productive action, and how anger strengthens us to become the heroes that we have been waiting for. Beyond laying out the theory behind her case for rage, Cherry shows racially marginalized people and their allies how to better manage and channel anti-racistanger in order to affect lasting, long-awaited change.Trade ReviewOne of Cherry's stated aims is for the book to be accessible to a wide audience that includes not just academics but anyone with an interest in racial justice and the role that anger should play in its pursuit. On this score, Cherry succeeds with flying colors. The writing is exceptionally clear, and the book is full of real life examples and pop culture references that make it highly engaging and a pleasure to read. * Tyler Paytas, Australian Catholic University, Ethics *Myisha Cherry argues very plausibly that anger is an appropriate, useful, and powerful reaction to racism, and often more effective than cooler responses might be ... When bad people get angry we are in trouble. Of course. But when good people are angry about things that matter there is hope for change. * Nigel Warburton, The New European *Moving beyond reductive, 'broad brush stroke' judgements about political anger, The Case for Rage considers its varied forms and nuances. * Mike Waite, Process North *(Starred) ...Cherry... makes a bold and persuasive call for using rage to combat racial injustice... Inspired by the poet and activist Audre Lorde, Cherry advocates in particular for 'Lordean rage,' which 'aims for change' and is 'informed by an inclusive and liberating perspective.' She finds examplesin the words and actions of Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr....James Baldwin, among others, and contrasts the 'respect' given to displays of entitled anger by Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh and other white men and women with the denial of African Americans' right to anger. Cherry lucidly distinguishes between different forms of rage...With its incisive readings of classical philosophers, contemporary politics, and even Saturday Night Live sketches, this accessible, passionate, and meticulously argued case is a must-read. * Publishers Weekly *A philosophical manifesto defending anger as an effective instrument of protest against racism and oppression…Cherry unpacks Martin Luther King Jr.'s celebrated 'Letter From Birmingham Jail' as a foundational document in what she calls 'Lordean rage,' after the iconic poet and activist Audre Lorde. This Lordean rage ranks favorably in a typology of anger that she constructs...Such rage, as well as the rage of narcissism, is the fevered, useless tool of the enemy, whereas 'Lordean rage is a kind that is well suited to maintain itself just as it is, without needing to get out of the way so that "better" emotions can get to work.'…Cherry effectively shows that anger can be a positive force in organizing resistance and keeping the pressure on perpetrators of racism, sexism, and other societal ills. A well-reasoned case for not holding one's tongue in the presence of injustice. * Kirkus *In a time where the ubiquity of outrage makes it difficult to find our bearings, Myisha Cherry pierces through the confusion with sharp analysis, accessible writing, and her characteristic sense of humor to offer an exemplary work of public philosophy on the place of anger in our lives. Passionate and incisive, witty and wise, Cherry builds a powerful case for the value of what she calls Lordean rage, following the great Audre Lorde, to sustain struggles against racial justice, resist habits of undue deference, and defend our self-respect. A book to argue with, and be transformed by, The Case for Rage introduces to the public one of the most original and distinctive voices in contemporary American philosophy at a time when her thinking, and perhaps even anger, is sorely needed. * Brandon Terry, African and African American Studies and Social Studies, Harvard University *Brilliant. Timely. Necessary. * Kate Manne, Philosophy, Cornell University, author of Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny (OUP, 2017) and Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women (Crown, 2020) *Myisha Cherry's The Case for Rage is public philosophy at its best. In a book that is simultaneously concise, accessible, and profound, Cherry demonstrates how we—all of us—can learn to use our anger to make the world more free, more just, and more loving. This book is essential reading for our moment. * Nicholas Buccola, Author of The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America *In the struggle against racism, anger can be a powerful resource but also has well-known dangers. In a judicious and wide-ranging discussion, Cherry insightfully examines this controversial terrain, helping readers better comprehend the complexity and practical value of antiracist anger. This timely, accessible, and philosophically rich book advances the important debate on the role of rage in politics. * Tommie Shelby, Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy, Harvard University, and author of Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform (Belknap, 2016) *The Case for Rage is an incredibly hopeful and inspiring book, and it comes at just the right time. Myisha Cherry explains how Lordean rage — in the lineage of righteous anger from Ida B. Wells and Sojourner Truth — is both necessary and suited to the anti-racist struggles of our times. Lordean rage is furious, but focused and not frenzied. It is compassionate and empathic, but uncompromising when it comes to the demands of justice. Cherry offers firm, reasoned resistance to skeptics about the role of anger in the service of anti-racism. An important book. * Owen Flanagan, Duke University, author How to Do Things with Emotions: The Morality of Anger and Shame Across Cultures *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Broad Strokes Chapter 2: Fitting Fury Chapter 3: Rage in Work Clothes Chapter 4: Breaking Racial Rules Chapter 5: Rage Renegades Chapter 6: Anger Management Chapter 7: The End of Rage?
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Oxford University Press Inc Aristotle on Sexual Difference Metaphysics
Book SynopsisAristotle''s remarks about the differences between the sexes have become infamous for their implications for the social status of women. In his observations on female biology, Aristotle claims that the female nature is, as it were, a deformity. In describing women''s role in the public sphere, he claims that women are naturally subordinate because, while they possess a deliberative faculty, that capacity is without authority. While both claims express the inferiority of female bodies/women relative to male bodies/men, it is not self-evident that the defects Aristotle identifies in female biology have cognitive or moral manifestations that would justify the rule of men over women in political life. Marguerite Deslauriers here aims to construct a coherent picture of Aristotle''s views on sexual and gender-based difference from these remarks and to show the extent to which his views on female biology and women''s role in politics are causally connected.Without exculpating Aristotle from charges of misogyny, Deslauriers contextualizes his explanations of the role and origin of female animals in his biology and the role of women in his political philosophy; she shows how Aristotle developed these views and the importance they hold for his wider philosophical commitments. She then explores how Aristotle might have seen the link between the physiology of sex and the bearing it has on political life. She ultimately argues that in Aristotle''s conception of sexual difference in biology and politics, there is a tension between his view of the inferiority of female bodies and women and his commitment to the idea that females and women are valuable both for generation and for the political life characteristic of human beings. In this tension she finds a difference between Aristotle and his predecessors: while previous accounts associate sexual difference with affliction, Aristotle sees sexual difference as a benefit, both to a species and a political community. This volume will be of interest to philosophers and students interested in ancient philosophy, feminist philosophy, as well as those studying moral and political philosophy.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Precursors to Aristotle's Account of Sexual Difference 2. Sex is a Difference in the Matter 3. Sexual Difference in Social and Political Life 4. The Relation between Biological and Political Sexual Differences Conclusion
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Oxford University Press Inc Why We Hate Understanding the Roots of Human
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is a must read for anyone hoping to address instances of human hatred, because it also offers a hope of reducing hate-based conflicts. * R. E. Osborne, CHOICE *Ruse has written one of the most powerful books this reader has encountered in quite a while... [he] does a masterful job of uncovering those roots in a text that addresses the fundamentals of human conflict in a more comprehensive way than any other work on this reader's current course list. The work is both personal and professional, incorporating a blend of historical fact and firsthand observation that effectively reveals manifestations of the roots of human conflict. The text is both humbling and uplifting, offering a clear look at the past with an eye toward promoting resolution or avoidance of hate-based conflicts in the future. Ruse achieves this effect through a blended approach encompassing aspects of religion, sociology, social work, history, anthropology-and even a bit of psychology. This book is a must read for anyone hoping to address instances of human hatred, because it also offers a hope of reducing hate-based conflicts. * Choice *An illuminating interdisciplinary rumination on the causes of war and prejudice. Considering both nature and nurture, Ruse argues that hate is not an irradicably given aspect of human life. Squarely facing present day cultural conflicts over immigration, race, sex, and more, this heartfelt book provides hope that we may yet overcome ingroup/outgroup divisions and find a way forward together. * Robert T. Pennock, Michigan State University, and author of An Instinct for Truth *This is a lively, personal, and often provocative natural history of human hate, its origins in ingroup-outgroup discriminations, and all it brings: wars, individual aggression, prejudice, racism, class conflict, anti-Semitism, misogyny and more. In his unique and conversational style, Michael Ruse draws upon an impressive range of scholarship from evolutionary biology, philosophy, history, political science, anthropology, and literature, to understand human hate and its sources, in part to debunk the 'killer ape' hypothesis that humans are irremediably violent and hateful. We may be able to do something about human hate if we understand more about it; if so, then Why We Hate starts an essential conversation on a matter of crucial importance. * Richard A. Richards, University of Alabama *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Illustrations Introduction 1. The Biology of War 2. The Biology of Prejudice 3. The Culture of War 4. The Culture of Prejudice 5. Moving Forward Epilogue Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc The Two Faces of Democracy Decentering Agonism
Book SynopsisTrade 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 Wicked Problems
Book SynopsisThe ethics of changemaking and peacebuilding may appear straightforward: advance dignity, promote well-being, minimize suffering. Sounds simple, right? Actually acting ethically when it really matters is rarely straightforward. If someone engaged in change-oriented work sets out to do good, how should we prioritize and evaluate whose good counts? And, how ought we act once we have decided whose good counts? Practitioners frequently confront dilemmas where dire situations may demand some form of response, but each of the options may have undesirable consequences of one form or another. Dilemmas are not merely ordinary problems, they are wicked problems: that is to say, they are defined by circumstances that only allow for suboptimal outcomes and are based on profound and sometimes troubling trade-offs.Wicked Problems argues that the field of peacebuilding and conflict transformation needs a stronger and more practical sense of its ethical obligations. For example, it argues against posiTrade ReviewUnderexplored are the ethics of such approaches and whose interests are served by their successes. This edited collection of 17 short essays, along with an introduction, begins filling this lacuna. Readers will encounter a highly diverse set of chapters covering subject matter that touches on American Black nationalism, LGBTQ+ issues, human trafficking, sanctions, transitional justice, and more...The book is best used for individual chapters for scholarly and teaching purposes. * Choice *This comprehensive survey of the wicked ethical problems created by struggles for peace, rights, and justice is elegant and fast-paced. It weaves together different perspectives, contexts, and dilemmas to provide readers with a vivid, diverse, and sometimes provocative set of insights. This collection will surely become the go-to text for all those wanting to better understand the moral complexities of movements for peace and justice. * Alex J. Bellamy, The University of Queensland, Australia *Wicked Problems is refreshing, forward looking, and engaging. It pushes the peace and conflict studies field into new directions and frames many of its most difficult challenges around the ethical implications for the various areas of this vast field of practice. * Pamina Firchow, Associate Professor of Coexistence and Conflict, Brandeis University, and author of Reclaiming Everyday Peace: Local Voices in Measurement and Evaluation After War *Peace, rights, and justice advocacy has a wicked problem: an aspiration for the good that demands change and therefore entails conflict small, large, and sometimes even violent. Bringing together a diverse group of scholars and practitioners who have thought deeply about and grappled with such ethical dilemmas, this volume offers important insights, lessons learned, and possible paths forward. As such, Wicked Problems is a must-read for anyone involved in normative fields like peace studies, transitional justice, human rights, atrocity prevention, and social justice. * Alex Hinton, Rutgers University, and author of It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US *A really valuable volume full of real-world dilemmas, rich personal experience, and practical advice from a wide range of activists. Wicked Problems is a major addition to the reading list of students studying human rights activism, social movements, political resistance, conflict transformation, and the struggle for peace. * Hugo Slim, Senior Research Fellow, Las Casas Institute for Social Justice at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford *Although other books examine ethics in changemaking, this one stands out in the diversity of the contributors' backgrounds, experiences, and assumptions about changemaking... [It collects] a stunning array of authors write short, punchy chapters that offer a visceral kick in the gut by describing the trade-offs and tensions involved in addressing these problems outside the realm of normative academic posturing. * Perspectives on Politics *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Contributors Introduction: Wicked Problems - The Ethics of Action for Peace, Rights, and Justice Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, Douglas Irvin-Erickson, and Ernesto Verdeja I: VIOLENCE 1. The Ritual of Black Armed Resistance: Police Abolition through the Eyes of the Black Radical Tradition Tony Gaskew 2. Building a Movement to End Poverty through Nonviolent Resistance Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back 3. Is Violence the Answer? A Pragmatic Approach Kirssa Cline Ryckman 4. How Is It to Be Done? Dilemmas of Prefigurative and Harm - Reduction Approaches to Social Movement Work Ashley J. Bohrer II: LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONS 5. The Paradox of Survivor Leadership Minh Dang 6. Allies Out Front: Dilemmas of Leadership Daniel J. Myers 7. Organizing Dilemmas across U.S.- Based Social Justice Movement Spaces alicia sanchez gill 8. The Ones Who Walk Away to Stay and Fight Philip Gamaghelyan 9. From Righteous to Responsive: Rethinking the Role of Moral Values of Peacebuilding Reina C. Neufeldt III: SYSTEMS AND INSTITUTIONS 10. Dilemmas in Action Where Rule of Law Conflicts with Justice Deena R. Hurwitz 11. Establishing an Ethics of Post-Sanctions Peacebuilding George A. Lopez and Beatrix Geaghan-Breiner 12. Threading the Needle: Ethical Dilemmas in Preventing Mass Atrocities Ernesto Verdeja 13. Whither the Villains? The Ethical Dilemma in Armed Conflict Laurie Nathan 14. "A Different Kind of Weapon": Ethical Dilemmas and Nonviolent Civilian Protection Felicity Gray 15. The Ethics of Transitional Justice Tim Murithi 16. Why the Peacebuilding Field Needs Clear and Accessible Standards of Research Ethics Elizabeth Hume and Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik 17. Consent, Inclusivity, and Local Voices: Ethical Dilemmas of Teaching Peace in Conflict Zones Agnieszka Paczynska and Susan F. Hirsch Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Living Toward Virtue Practical Ethics in the
Book SynopsisPaul Woodruff's Living Toward Virtue gives ethics a new start that is practical and down to earth, while resting on a foundation of ancient wisdom. Woodruff draws on the ancient wisdom of Socrates to develop a new approach to an ethical life - one that shows how we can nurture our souls, enjoy a virtuous happiness, and avoid moral injury.Trade ReviewThis engaging, challenging, and timely book will be good supplementary reading for those interested in introductory ethics and ancient philosophy. * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface Table of Contents Acknowledgements About the Author 1. Practical Ethics 1.1. Epimeleisthai 1.2. Ignorance 1.3. Injury: The Wounded Soul 1.4. Impractical Virtue Appendix to Chapter 1: Moral Injury 2. The Spirit of Socrates 2.1. Socrates' Approach 2.2. Socrates' Way 2.3. Going Beyond Socrates 3. The Shape of Virtue 3.1. An Impossible Assignment: Confucius 3.2. An Activity Good in Itself: Socrates 3.3. The Adverb Problem 3.4. Virtues of Imperfection 3.5. Degrees of Human Virtue 3.6. Self-examination 3.7. Bad Luck and Moral Failure 3.8. The Tragic View of Human Life 4. Aiming at Virtue 4.1. Moral Holidays 4.2. Grand Aims 4.3. Aiming Well: Commitments 4.4. Competing Virtues 4.5. Avoidance: Dilemmas and Injuries 4.6 The Nature of Human Virtue Appendix to Chapter 4: Moral Dilemmas 5. Human Wisdom and Practical Knowledge 5.1. Ignorance and Aporia 5.2 Self-knowing 5.3. The Limits of Knowledge in Ethics 5.4. The Theory Trap 5.5 Judgment 5.6. Virtues of Imperfection Appendix 1 to Chapter 5: The Rectification of Names Appendix 2 to Chapter 5: Socrates on Human Wisdom 6. Resources 6.1. Using Resources 6.2. Internal vs. External Resources 6.3. Community 6.4. Human Nature and Virtue 6.5. Justice 6.6. Differences in Human Environment 6.7. Friendship 6.8. Love 6.9. Expert Advice and Example 6.10. Emotions 6.11. Intuitions vs. Judgments 6.12. Orientation to the Good Appendix 1 to Chapter 5: The Jewish-Christian Ethics of Love Appendix 2 to Chapter 5: How Elenchus Succeeds 7. Living Toward Virtue 7.1. The Beautiful Soul 7.2. Love 7.2. Other-regarding Virtues 7.4 Rounding Up the Virtues 7.5 Growth 7.6. Self-repair 7.7. Looking Behind 7.8. Looking Ahead 7.9. Happiness: "Paradise within Thee" Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Inc Nasty Politics The Logic of Insults Threats and
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn Nasty Politics, Zeitzoff explores why some politicians resort to insults, accusations, threats, and incitement of violence, even though the majority of the population finds such behavior repulsive. Drawing from data from the US, Israel, and Ukraine, he shows that 'outsiders and losers' use such rhetoric to gain attention and mobilize the segment of the population that supports it * and that words have consequences. It's hard to imagine a timelier book.Erica Chenoweth, Harvard University *In the first comprehensive account of the causes and consequences of 'nasty politics,' Zeitzoff uses extensive survey and experimental evidence from the US, Ukraine, and Israel to show why politicians use insults, threats, and incitement and why these tactics so often succeed despite the public's ostensible distaste for them. Anyone who wants a better politics should heed these lessons. * Brendan Nyhan, Dartmouth College *Theoretically, Nasty Politics is highly original and has important qualitative and quantitative evidence of the existence and growth of the nasty style. It also outlines in creative ways the public's reactions to this style across three democracies and the implications for democracy. It is written in an accessible and interesting way and is a must read for scholars interested in contentious politics and political psychology. * Shana Kushner Gadarian, Syracuse University *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Chapter 1: The Nasty Style of Politics Chapter 2: A Theory of Nasty Politics Chapter 3: From Insults to Incitement in U.S., Ukrainian, and Israeli Politics Chapter 4: How Does the Public Respond to Nasty Rhetoric? Chapter 5: Which Politicians Choose to get Nasty and When? Chapter 6: What do the Experts Think About Nasty Politics? Chapter 7: Nasty Politics and Its Implications for Democracy Chapter 8: Prelude toWar, a Coup and an Insurrection, and Concluding Thoughts Appendix: Ukrainian Politics Overview References Index
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Oxford University Press Inc The Quest for Human Nature
Book SynopsisOver the last fifty years, scholars in biology, psychology, anthropology, and cognate fields have substantially enriched traditional philosophical theories about who we are and where we come from. The assumption of a shared human nature lies at the core of some of the most pressing socio-political issues of our time. From race to sex and gender, from medical therapy to disability, from biotechnological enhancement to transhumanism, all these timely debates presuppose a robust notion of human nature. Nevertheless, the riddle of human nature remains frustratingly elusive. Why? Marco J. Nathan here provides an accessible, detailed, and up-to-date overview of cutting-edge empirical research on human nature, including evolutionary psychology, critiques of essentialism, innateness, and genetic determinism, addressing the question of why these fields have failed to provide a full-blown theory of human nature. Nathan''s answer is that our nature is not the kind of notion that is susceptible to
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Oxford University Press Inc Intelligent Democracy
Book SynopsisWhether due to Donald Trump, Brexit, or the rise of populism, many are increasingly questioning the value of democracy. Complaints of ignorant voters, irrational public debate, and disconnected politicians have led some to suggest that democracies are destined to make bad decisions, and to propose alternatives. In Intelligent Democracy, political theorist Jonathan Benson rejects this new democratic scepticism. He argues that democracies can make effective use of knowledge, engage in experimentation, utilise diversity, and motivate decisions towards the common good-and that they can do all these things better than their rivals. Benson pleads that we value democracy, not only because it treats us all equally, but because it is intelligent. At the core of the book is the first systemic account of democracy''s epistemic value. While it is common to focus on the faults of any one democratic body, Benson argues that democracy represents a much broader network of institutions which work together to produce a system which is more intelligent than any of its parts. The book examines how elections, deliberative assemblies, random sortition, and the open public sphere can be best connected, and offers innovative new proposals for improving our democratic systems. Through this approach, Benson shows that democracy is superior to regimes of epistocracy and political meritocracy which aim to empower the knowledgeable and exclude the ignorant, as well as proposals for granting greater powers to free markets or private companies. Drawing on work from political science, philosophy, and economics, Intelligent Democracy produces a unique epistemic justification of democratic politics and a robust answer to its critics.
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Oxford University Press Inc Seeing Like a Firm
Book SynopsisBusiness corporations are political entities and need to be considered as such. Seeing Like a Firm invites readers to do just that by providing a political theory of the business firm and, in doing so, offering new perspectives on the recent history of social justice, neoliberalism, and conservatism.This book challenges the usual way of thinking about corporations in two ways. Firstly, it argues that firms ''see'' in a conservative way and embrace a ''conservatism of commerce'' that requires socioeconomic inequality. In doing so, it challenges our usual interpretation of neoliberalism and its connections with the contemporary business corporation. Secondly, it argues that we need a relational concept of equality and justice to think about corporations. Given that the corporate ''optic'' is built on dismissing demands for equal standing, Pierre-Yves Néron asserts that relational egalitarians should deconstruct it, argue against it, tackle it.By offering a new interpretation of conservatism based not on a desire to simply preserve the existing system but on an ''aesthetics of inequality'', Néron provides an alternative way to think about the main challenges that proponents of equality face.
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Oxford University Press Extravagance and Misery
Book SynopsisIn Extravagance and Misery: The Emotional Regime of Market Societies, Alan Thomas, Alfred Archer, and Bart Engelen investigate the extensive and growing economic inequalities that characterize the affluent market societies of the West. Drawing on insights from political philosophy and the new science of happiness, they show the damaging impact that existing inequalities have on our well-being, and offer an explanation for what went wrong in our highly unequal and frequently unhappy societies. Combining the approaches of philosophy and political economy, the authors expose the economic, social and political mechanisms that create and perpetuate economic inequalities. They employ research from the new science of happiness to assess the impact of those mechanisms on the well-being of the poor, the middle class and the rich. They scrutinize the role of key emotions, such as shame (amongst the poor), envy and admiration (towards and for the rich) as well as discussing which emotional narratives serve to justify and entrench excessive inequalities in income and wealth. The result is an explanation of the emotional regime that characterizes our capitalist societies and that perpetuates the unfair gap between the extravagance of the rich and the misery of the poor. Extravagance and Misery concludes with a proposal of how to re-shape this emotional regime in the interests of justice and solidarity.
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Oxford University Press Human Flourishing
Book SynopsisThis book draws on both scientific insights and spiritual wisdom to help the reader focus on what is of value in helping them decide what makes for a good life. In using evidence from psychology, sociology, philosophy, theology, and other disciplines, it helps readers think through choices about what the good life consists of.Trade ReviewThis book offers a very broad panorama about many areas and fields, and an updating for those persons less informed about developments in a vast range of subjects and areas that know a growing production and new insights in the last few years. * Luis Oviedo, Reviews in Science, Religion and Theology *This is an important and necessary book, and one that not only inspires but informs about that central topic * Reviews in Science, Religion and Theology, March 2022 *This is a book for a general reader who already suspects that the 'scientism' (the belief that science alone can establish truth) of the so -- called new atheists is flawed. … The authors identify three crucial, interrelated dimensions of flourishing: the material, the relational and the transcendent. … Their inclusive approach to a wide variety of academic disciplines, tempered in the end by a strong appeal to transcendence, has much to be recommended. * Robin Gill, Theology *This is a book for a general reader who already suspects that the 'scientism' (the belief that science alone can establish truth) of the so-called new atheists is flawed... [The authors] inclusive approach to a wide variety of academic disciplines, tempered in the end by a strong appeal to transcendence, has much to be recommended. * SAGE Perspectives Theology, January 2022 *The struggle for human beings to integrate a thoughtful understanding of the world as described by science and an ambitious hope of human flourishing as described by philosophy or faith is one at which humans have largely failed over the last three hundred years. This book is a major step in the right direction. It is very serious about science and very serious about human beings and their hopes and fears. I warmly commend it for a careful and thoughtful provocation towards a deeper commitment to the flourishing of human beings and of the creation. * Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury *The theme of this highly readable and enlightening book is broad and ambitious. It's the product of the authors' deep engagement with science, ethics and religion, and analyses the requisites for a fulfilled life, highlighting those that too often elude politicians and economists. The text is enlivened with historical allusions and quotations. It offers a wise perspective that's much needed as individuals and societies contend with the anxieties of the present era. * Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, former President of the Royal Society *In this magisterial book, Andrew Briggs and Michael Reiss address one of the most fundamental issues confronting humanity—human flourishing. Drawing on science and religion, they examine it from the perspective of the material, relational and spiritual. What emerges are profound insights into meaning, purpose, truth, and the reason for being. This book should be read by anyone interested in what it is to be human. * Colin Mayer, Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies, University of Oxford *What enables the good life? Material goods? Supportive relationships? Transcendent purpose? In this state-of-the-art synopsis, scientist Andrew Briggs and bioethicist Michael Reiss weave these and other threads into the fabric of human thriving. With a breath-taking sweep of scholarship that draws insights from multiple disciplines, they illuminate a path toward meaningful well-being and sustainable joy. * David Myers, Professor of Psychology, Hope College, author of The Pursuit of Happiness *A sophisticated and much-needed and insightful integration of science and humanity. As an economist I am embarrassed by my profession's stunted characterisation of humanity as 'Homo economicus', which shrivels us to hedonistic consumers. In reality, as Professors Briggs and Reiss demonstrate, we thrive from morally-guided agency that transcends ourselves and our time on Earth. In this time of uncertainty and pessimism, it is a hopeful guide to meaningful lives. * Sir Paul Collier, Blavatnik School of Government, author of The Future of Capitalism *In a world where human flourishing seems somewhat more elusive and abstract than ever, Professors Briggs and Reiss capture the many dimensions of human flourishing in the 21st century. In doing so, they give us reason to hope and to work toward a world where all people flourish. This is a delightful and uplifting treatise on what it means to be human. * Heather Templeton Dill, President, John Templeton Foundation *In Human Flourishing: Scientific insight and spiritual wisdom in uncertain times, acclaimed scholars Andrew Briggs and Michael Reiss provide insight for navigating a world of uncertainty and complexity to find more meaning, purpose, and happiness all around us. Using a combination of science and ancient wisdom, they demonstrate why love is essential for human flourishing. * Arthur C. Brooks, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School, and The New York Times bestselling author *For those of my generation, who grew up with post-war austerity, the twenty-first century promised an era of unparalleled human flourishing. But it was a mirage. Material wealth has led to problems of disparity, over-consumption and climate catastrophe. Social media has produced alienation and a retreat from shared values. Democracy and common decency look increasingly fragile. We have entered a strange new era in which extraordinary promise is coupled with a burgeoning sense of insecurity and uncertainty. Science, the powerful facilitator of progress, also threatens our undoing. In this lucid and comprehensive analysis, Andrew Briggs and Michael Reiss carefully examine the rich tapestry of religious, cultural and scientific factors that define our current predicament, and offer a message of hope, a way ahead founded on that familiar, yet too-often elusive, human quality - love. * Paul Davies, Director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, Arizona State University *This book by Briggs and Reiss covers questions that are of critical importance to everyone everywhere: How do we understand human life? What is human flourishing? How do we flourish? The book's rich insights and comprehensive scope will be of benefit to all readers. It provides a roadmap to flourishing in this life, and beyond. * Tyler J. VanderWeele, Loeb Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Human Flourishing Program, Harvard University *In the midst of a great pandemic, unprecedented poverty, and natural disasters alongside never-before-seen development of new technologies and great wealth, nothing could be more important than wrestling with what it really means for humans to flourish. Here, Briggs and Reiss provide a comprehensive, synthetic and highly readable book that addresses this topic head on. It is the kind of book that should be read and re-read. * Elaine Howard Ecklund, Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences, Rice University *As I read this book, Modest Mussorgsky's wonderful Pictures at an Exhibition started playing in my mind. The same sense of multiple perspective, overt spaciousness with periodic attention to intense detail, yet a persistent crescendo in continuity of purpose emerges in this elegant and comprehensive tour of a rich and pan-disciplinary subject. Briggs and Reiss have given a compelling introduction to human flourishing, and show us why, though discussed since the ancient world, it has become ever more pressing in our own times. * Tom McLeish, Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of York *... especially comprehensive in its coverage. Individually, we can all contribute to the good common life, and this book provides a deeply reflective consideration of what this means in increasingly uncertain times. * David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer, 2022/2 *Individually, we can all contribute to the good common life, and this book provides a deeply reflective consideration of what this means in increasingly uncertain times. * David Lorimer, The Summer *Table of Contents1. Dimensions and Pillars of Human Flourishing Part I. Dimensions of Human Flourishing 2. The Material Dimension 3. The Relational Dimension 4. The Transcendent Dimension Part II. Pillars of Human Flourishing 5. Truth 6. Purpose 7. Meaning Part III. Changing Contexts of Human Flourishing 8. Limits to Predictability 9. Religion and Human Flourishing 10. Human Flourishing in an Age of Technology ConclusionDLActionable love 11. Human Flourishing Fuelled by Love Picture Credits and Sources Index
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Oxford University Press How to Think about Religious Schools
Book SynopsisShould religious schools be an option? Should they receive public funding? Are they bad for community cohesion? What should we make of the charge that they indoctrinate? How should they be regulated? People disagree on the answers to these questions. Some maintain that religious schools should not be permitted. If parents want to raise their children in a particular faith at home, then that is up to them, but schools should not be involved. Others think it obvious that parents should be free to send their children to religious schools. Any government that ruled that out would be violating parents'' right to religious freedom, or their right to raise their children according to their own beliefs. In order to make progress on these issues, we need a way of thinking about them that enables us to understand more clearly what is at stake. This book provides a framework that identifies the different kinds of normative considerations that are in play and provides the basis for understanding why people disagree about religious schools. It uses a method that involves moving from the relevant normative considerations--especially the child''s potential to acquire personal autonomy and to develop a capacity and disposition to treat others as equals--to specific policy proposals for governing religious schools in England today, taking into account the legal and political constraints on policy options and the likely unintended consequences of reforms.A unique feature of the book is that its three authors have somewhat different perspectives on the implications of the normative framework they each endorse, which they draw out in separate chapters. Despite reaching different conclusions on some philosophical issues concerning religious schools, the framework and method they share enables them to converge on a regulatory framework that forbids directive teaching aimed at imparting religious beliefs in publicy-funded religious schools, and that makes the charitable status of private religious schools conditional on avoiding this kind of teaching.
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McGill-Queen's University Press Liberalism in Time
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Palgrave MacMillan Us The Politics of Torture
Book SynopsisWhy did the United States begin to torture detainees during the War on Terror? These ideas are tested using comparative historical narratives drawn from two cases where torture was adopted - the War on Terror and the Stalinist Terror - and one where it was not - the Mexican War.Trade Review'Tracy Lightcap's analysis of comparative case studies of interrogation policy is a sophisticated work of scholarship, which is well written, well organized, and carefully sourced. His use of the framework of political time provides valuable analytical leverage in understanding the use of interrogation policy in different political regimes and in different historical eras.' - James P. Pfiffner, George Mason University, USA, and author of Torture as Public PolicyTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Questions, Designs, and Mechanisms A. Appendix One: Methods Used for Table 1.1 4. Crisis and Opportunity in the United States and the Soviet Union 5. The Mechanism Fails: The United States and the Mexican War 6. Torture and Leadership Projects B. Appendix Two: Personality and Leadership 7. Conclusions
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The Problem of Moral Demandingness New Philosophical Essays
Book SynopsisHow much can morality demand of well-off Westerners as a response to the plight of the poor and starving in the rest of the world? What does the answer tell us about the nature of morality? The cutting edge of this contemporary ethical debate is represented by eleven new essays from some of the world's leading moral philosophers.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction Demandingness and Arguments From Presupposition; G.Cullity What Do Basic Rights Demand?; R.Cruft Demandingness and Rules; O.O'Neill Impartial Benevolence and Partial Love; T.Chappell Demandingness, Moral Development and Moral Philosophy; J.Cottingham Virtue Ethics and the Problem of Demandingness; C.Swanton Consequentialism, Integrity and Demandingness; A.Thomas The Demandingness Objection; B.Hooker Is Utilitarian Morality Necessarily Too Demanding?; A.Carter Moral Demands and Not Doing the Best One Can; J.Louise The Demanding Future; T.Mulgan Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Animal Rights Moral Theory and Practice
Book SynopsisIn this 2nd edition the author has substantially revised his book throughout, updating the moral arguments and adding a chapter on animal minds. Importantly, rather than being a polemic on animal rights, this book is also a considered and imaginative evaluation of moral theory as explored through the issue of animal rights.Trade Review'Those concerned with animal ethics owe a debt of gratitude to Mark Rowlands. He has written what is without doubt the best defense of animal rights from a contractarian position, or perhaps from any position. Rowlands writes in an admirably clear and engaging manner, guaranteed to lure the reader into joining the spirited conversation.' - Susan J. Armstrong, Professor Emerita, Department of Philosophy, Humboldt State University, Arcata, Canada 'Philosophers, in particular, and those interested in animal rights issues, in general, should be grateful for the publication of this book for several reasons. First, familiar defenses of the animal rights position offered by Peter Singer and Tom Regan are examined anew, such that even those who are very familiar with these defenses see them in a new light. Second, the more recent debate in virtue ethics regarding treatment of animals (between Rosalind Hursthouse and Roger Scruton) is treated very insightfully. Third, Rowlands develops his own powerful version of a contractarian account of animal rights based on Rawlsian principles. And fourth, he also treats the animal rights issue in novel terms in light of recent debates in philosophy of mind and in relation to a fantastic thought experiment wherein brilliant aliens start farming and eating human beings because of their intellectual inferiority. This is not a book to be ignored!' - Daniel A. Dombrowski, Professor of Philosophy, Seattle University, USATable of ContentsAnimal Rights and Moral Theories Arguing for One's Species Utilitarianism and Animals: Peter Singer's Case for Animal Liberation Tom Regan: Animal Rights as Natural Rights Virtue Ethics and Animals Contractarianism and Animal Rights Animal Minds Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Félix Guattari Thought Friendship and Visionary
Book SynopsisFélix Guattari: Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography, by Franco Berardi 'Bifo', originates in the author's close personal acquaintance with Félix Guattari's writings and political engagement in the context of Berardi Bifo's activism in Italian autonomist politics and his ongoing collaboration with Guattari in the 1970s and 1980s.Trade Review'In these stirring pages Bifo produces a rhythmic map of Félix Guattari's thought that resonates with the contemporary discords of cognitive labour. Tones of intimacy and abstraction combine in haunting chords of unhappy politics and philosophical triumphs. Strains of oracularity take flight in political insights more Buddhist than Leninist. Immensely protective of Félix as both teacher and friend, Bifo ensures that the refrains of Guattari's processes of subjectivation do not petrify into academic givens but continue to sing their extraordinary singularity and make new becomings available for those engaged in tomorrow's struggles. Bifo invites his readers to share the intensities of conceptual and political creativity, productively despair of the fragility of the psyche and the environment, and rejoice in a philosophical friendship with the conviction to head straight into chaos. Bifo's Félix is a netizen before the letter; semio-chemist of molecular evolution; analyst of an unconscious redesigned for getting things done together; and a trusted fellow militant. In this remarkable book there is more than enough sharable affect available to counteract the attenuations of revolutionary desire under infocapital.' - Gary Genosko, Canada Research Chair in Technoculture, Lakehead University 'Félix Guattari was the bridge between French poststructuralism and Italian autonomism, the thinker and militant who, more than anyone else, made possible the synthesis of those currents that now looms so large in debates over globalization, network culture and cognitive capitalism. Franco 'Bifo' Berardi is a major Italian media theorist and activist, an agent provocateur who deserves to be as well known to Anglophone readers as Agamben, Negri or Vattimo. Bifo's book does many things at once: it introduces readers to the thought of Guattari (and Deleuze, who for once gets second billing) in a lively and agile manner; it offers a moving tribute to a departed friend and ally as well as a meditation on friendship as the necessary condition of thought and action; it creates new philosophical concepts of unhappiness and depression that are crucial for understanding the present; and much more. This book should be essential reading for everyone who is concerned with nihilism and deconstruction, biopower and the multitude, bare life and the state of exception in short, everyone who wants to confront the twenty-first century on its own terms.' - Timothy S. Murphy, University of OklahomaTable of ContentsPreface: Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography; G.Mecchia & C.J.Stivale Introduction: Cartographies in Becoming PART I The Happy Depression Integrated World Capitalism Planetary Psychopathia Postmediatic Affect PART II User's Manual Deleuze and the Rhizomatic Machine Why is Anti-Oedipus the Book of the '68 Movement? Kafka, Hypertext and Assemblages The Tantric Egg Chaosmosis The Provisional Eternity of Friendship Interview with Franco Berardi 'Bifo', July 11 2005; G.Mecchia Notes Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Philosophy of Economics Palgrave Philosophy Today
Book SynopsisDon Ross provides a concise and distinct introduction to the philosophy of economics for students in need of a short but engaging study of the main issues in the subject today. Ross offers his own provocative interpretation of the value of economics in science and public policy giving a unique perspective from a world authority.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Acronyms Series Editor's Preface Preface 1. Philosophy of Economics as Philosophy of Science 2. Economics and its Neighbours Before 1980 3. The Expansion of the Economic Toolbox 4. How Economics and Psychology Differ 5. Economics as a Social Science References Index
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