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Northwestern University Press Arendt Kant and the Enigma of Judgment
Book SynopsisMore than a half century after it was first published, Hannah Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism rose to the top of bestseller lists as readers grappled with the triumph of Trumpism. This volume directs our attention to her later thought, the highly provocative Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Prologue Introduction I.The Act of Spectatorship II.The Judgment of Taste III.The Exemplarity of Particulars Notes Works Cited Index
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Fordham University Press The Origin of the Political
Book SynopsisTrade Review"For Esposito, thought does not just fight-it is the fight itself. Esposito moves on the basis of a fundamental ontology of war, which marks what a previous tradition would have called "the unity of being." The Origin of the Political elaborates implications of this, not only through its masterful conceptual analysis and through its insights into the two thinkers it studies and critiques, but also because, as it makes explicit the stakes of the impolitical approach, it also ruins so many of the foundations of modern political thought and prepares the way for its fundamental renewal." -- -Alberto Moreiras Texas A&M UniversityTable of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition (2014) 1. Partitions 2. Truth 3. Principium and Initium 4. Beginn, Anfang, Ursprung 5. Polemos-Polis 6. The Third Origin 7. Nothingness 8. Forces 9. In Common 10. Imperium 11. Topologies 12. In the Grip of Love 13. The Final Battle
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Fordham University Press Beyond the Doctrine of Man Decolonial Visions of
Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume interrogate the problem of modern/colonial definitions of the human person and take up the struggle to decolonize such descriptions. Contributions engage work from various fields, including ethnic studies, religious studies, theology, queer theory, philosophy, and literary studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Projects of Unsettling Man Joseph Drexler-Dreis and Kristien Justaert | 1 Part I: Sylvia Wynter and the Project of Unsettling Man 1. Where Life Itself Lives Mayra Rivera | 19 2. Unsettling Blues: A Decolonial Reading of the Blues Episteme Rufus Burnett Jr. | 36 3. Not Your Papa’s Wynter: Women of Color Contributions toward Decolonial Futures Xhercis Méndez and Yomaira C. Figueroa | 60 Part II: Religious Cosmologies and the Project of Unsettling Man 4. Enfleshing Love: A Decolonial Theological Reading of Beloved M. Shawn Copeland | 91 5. Nat Turner’s Orientation beyond the Doctrine of Man Joseph Drexler-Dreis | 113 6. Mystical Bodies of Christ: Human, Crucified, and Beloved Andrew Prevot | 134 7. African Humanism: Between the Cosmic and the Terrestrial Patrice Haynes | 161 Part III: Biopolitics and the Project of Unsettling Man 8. Bodies That Speak Linn Marie Tonstad | 193 9. Life beyond the Doctrine of Man: Out of This World with Michel Henry and Radical Queer Theory Kristien Justaert | 217 10. Black Life/Schwarz-Sein: Inhabitations of the Flesh Alexander G. Weheliye | 237 Acknowledgments | 263 Bibliography | 265 List of Contributors | 289 Index | 293
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Emerald Publishing Limited The Behavior of Law
Book SynopsisA work on sociology that presents a theoretical approach of pure sociology.Table of ContentsIntroduction Stratification Morphology Culture Organization Social Control Anarchy
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Seagull Books London Ltd Ecologica
Book SynopsisWriting in 2007, French social philosopher André Gorzwas remarkably prophetic, foretelling the international economic meltdown of 2008: The real economy is becoming an appendage of the speculative bubbles sustained by the finance industryuntil that inevitable point when the bubbles burst, leading to serial bank crashes and threatening the global system of credit with collapse and the real economy with a severe, prolonged depression. This prescient article is collected in Ecologica alongside many of Gorz's final writings and interviews, which together offer practical and often path-breaking set of solutions to our current economic and political problems. In his writings Gorz condemns the speculative global economic system and anatomizes its terminal crisis. Advocating an exit from capitalism through the self-limitation of needs and the networked use of the latest technologies, he outlines a practical, democratically based solution to our current predicament. Compiled by Gorz, Ecologica is intended as a final distillation of his work and thought, a guide to the survival of our planet. It is a work of political, rather than scientific ecologyGorz aruges that the key to planetary survival is not a surrender to environmental experts and eco-technocrats, but a switch to non-consumerist modes of living that would amount to a type of cultural revolution. Praise for André GorzTo my mind the greatest of modern French social thinkers.Herbert Gintis, author of Schooling in Capitalist AmericaGorz's work was always within the Utopian traditiona label he welcomed but which was used pejoratively by his opponents. . . . Many of his derided early warnings about globalization and environmental degradation have become commonplace discourses in political debates today. Ultimately, Gorz's Utopianism was expressed in a very practical sensewe never know how far along the road we are if we have no idea of the destination.Independent
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Book SynopsisFocuses on the cultural and intellectual milieu in which Rousseau operated. This title includes a select bibliography, a note on the text, a translator's note, and Rousseau's own "Notes on the Discourse".
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Liberty Pub. Co. The American Ideology Taking Back our Country
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Cambridge University Press Leo Strauss and Islamic Political Thought
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive discussion of Leo Strauss's writings on Islamic political thought, and his reflections on religion, philosophy, and politics in their relationship with wisdom, persecution, divine law, and unbelief in the writings of Muslim thinkers, including Alfarabi and Averroes and in the famous Arabic collection, the Arabian Nights.Table of Contents1. Averroes between platonic philosophy and the Sharīʻa; 2. Politics, religion, and love: How Leo Strauss read the Arabian Nights; 3. From Alfarabi's Plato to Strauss's Alfarabi; 4. Strauss, Alfarabi, and Plato's Laws.
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Cambridge University Press Deliberative Democracy for Diabolical Times
Book SynopsisContemporary challenges to democracy include populism, extremism, truth denial, and authoritarianism. This book provides a compelling response to these challenges, arguing that the crisis of democracy can be overcome by a citizen-centric deliberative approach.
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Cambridge University Press Deliberative Democracy for Diabolical Times
Book SynopsisContemporary challenges to democracy include populism, extremism, truth denial, and authoritarianism. This book provides a compelling response to these challenges, arguing that the crisis of democracy can be overcome by a citizen-centric deliberative approach.
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Cambridge University Press The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics
Book SynopsisIs economics a science? What distinguishes it from other sciences, both natural and social? Does it have a distinctive method? Can its models of perfect rationality and perfect competition help us to understand real market economies and to help them to function better? This book offers answers to these questions and more.Table of ContentsPart I. Introduction: Content, Structure and Strategy of Mainstream Economics: 1. Rationality, preferences and utility theory; 2. Demand and consumer choice; 3. Theory of the firm and general equilibrium; 4. Equilibrium theory and normative economics; 5. Equilibrium theory and macroeconomic models; 6. Models and theories in economics; 7. The structure and strategy of economics; 8. Overlapping generations: a case study; Part II. Theory Assessment: 9. Inexactness in economic theory; 10. Mill's deductive method and the assessment of economic hypotheses; 11. Methodological revolution; 12. Karl Popper, Imre Lakatos: Falsificationism and research programs; 13. The inexact deductive method; 14. Casting off dogmatism: the case of preference reversals; Part III. Conclusion: 15. Economic methodology; 16. Conclusions.
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Cambridge University Press Systems Relations and the Structures of International Societies
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Cambridge University Press The Conduct of Politics
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Cambridge University Press Democracy for a Sustainable World
Book SynopsisThe path to global sustainable development is participatory democratic global governance ? the only truly effective path to confronting pandemics, military conflict, climate change, biodiversity loss, and potential overall ecological collapse. Democracy for a Sustainable World explains why global democracy and global sustainable development must be achieved and why they can only be achieved jointly. It recounts the obstacles to participatory democratic global governance and describes how they can be overcome through a combination of right representation and sortition, starting with linking and scaling innovative local and regional sustainability experiments worldwide. Beginning with a visit to the birthplace of democracy in ancient Athens, a hillside called the Pnyx, James Bacchus explores how the Athenians practiced democratic participation millennia ago. He draws on the successes and shortfalls of Athenian democracy to offer specific proposals for meeting today''s challenges by constructing participatory democratic global governance for full human flourishing in a sustainable world.
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LEGARE STREET PR The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
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LEGARE STREET PR Outline of the Principles of History Grundriss
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Legare Street Press Sextus Empiricus
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LEGARE STREET PR History of the Early Church From the First
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LEGARE STREET PR Of Wisdome
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LEGARE STREET PR De Officio Hominis Et Civis Iuxta Legem Naturalem
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Legare Street Press The Social Destiny Of Man Or Theory Of The Four
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Climate Obstruction
Book SynopsisIn Climate Obstruction: How Denial, Delay and Inaction are Heating the Planet, Kristoffer Ekberg, Bernhard Forchtner, Martin Hultman and Kirsti Jylhà bring together crucial insights from environmental history, sociology, media and communication studies and psychology to help us understand why we are failing to take necessary measures to avert the unfolding climate crisis.They do so by examining the variety of ways in which meaningful climate action has been obstructed. This ranges from denial of the scientific evidence for human-induced climate change and its policy consequences, to (seemingly sincere) acknowledgement of scientific evidence while nevertheless delaying meaningful climate action. The authors also consider all those actions by which often well-meaning individuals and collectives (unintendedly) hamper climate action. In doing so, this book maps out arguments and strategies that have been used to counter environmental protection and regulation since the 1960s by, first and foremost, corporations supported by conservative actors, but also far-right ones as well as ordinary citizens.This timely and accessible book provides tools and lessons to understand, identify and call out such arguments and strategies, and points to actions and systemic and cultural changes needed to avert or at least mitigate the climate crisis.Trade Review"Efforts to obstruct climate action are a major factor in delaying meaningful reductions in carbon emissions. This new book captures the latest peer reviewed literature and weaves an entertaining, easy to read and chilling narrative about how a number of concentrated efforts by vested economic and ideological interests have successfully worked to imperil the planet. Read this book carefully when you develop new measures to advance climate action."Robert J. Brulle, Brown University, USA"Climate Obstruction: How Denial, Delay and Inaction are Heating the Planetis an authorative introduction laying out the key definitions and components of climate obstruction. To a lay reader and an audience familiar with the topic they encapsulate a clear summary of what obstruction is usefully using a three-part typology to identify and help understand the complexity of climate obstruction and why it manifests. A fantastic text and well-needed read to help understand the history of and continuing role that climate obstruction plays in delaying the required changes to mitigate the climate crisis."Ruth E. McKie, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK"This is the book we've been needing: Climate Obstruction gives us big concepts to understand why we haven't acted on climate change, and to figure out how we might. Obstruction comes in different types, and overcoming each requires understanding and strategies specific to each. From a history of understanding and responses to climate science to documentation of the complex denial apparatus and contemporary obstruction to a look at the psychological side of well-meaning people getting in the way, Climate Obstruction makes a genuine, pathbreaking contribution."J. Timmons Roberts, Brown University, USAhttps://www.etc.se/klimat-miljo/utbrett-motstaand-mot-klimatomstaellninghttps://storaideer.podbean.com/e/klimatfornekarnas-handbok/“Grappling with this question, Climate Obstruction is a timely and sophisticated assessment of how diverse actors in the Global North intentionally and unintentionally impede appropriate climate measures of mitigation. Bringing together insights from environmental history, communication studies, psychology and sociology, the authors successfully meet their aim to provide an accessible overview that enables academics and interested readers from a wider public to explore this vibrant research field. (…) Climate Obstruction is an eye-opening, thought-provoking contribution and a must-read for everybody who despairs of understanding why late modern societies are sliding into climate catastrophe with their eyes wide open, or – to be precise – are already in the midst of it.” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09644016.2023.2215659Hauke Dannemann (2023) Climate obstruction: how Denial, delay and inaction are heating the planet, Environmental Politics, DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2023.2215659Table of ContentsTable of contents Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Foundations of Climate Obstruction Chapter 3: Organised Climate Obstruction Chapter 4: The Far Right and Climate Obstruction Chapter 5: The Public and Climate Obstruction Chapter 6: Conclusion Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd White Nationalism and the Republican Party
Book SynopsisIn this book, John Ehrenberg argues that Donald Trump, as both candidate and president, represents a qualitatively new stage in the evolution of the Republican Party's willingness to exploit American racial tensions.Works on Trump's use of race have tended to be fragmentary or subsidiary to a larger purpose. Ehrenberg concentrates his investigation on Trump's weaponized use of race, contextualized through historical and theoretical details, demonstrating that while Trump draws on previous Republican strategies, he stands apart through his explicit intention to convert the Republican Party into a political instrument of a threatened racial order. The book traces the Grand Old Party's (GOP) approach to racial matters from Goldwater's constitutional objection to federal activity in the South to George W. Bush's overtures to Black citizens. Ehrenberg examines the role of racial animus in prying loose a significant portion of the Democratic Party's electoral coalition and making pTrade Review"Ehrenberg has produced a beautifully written interdisciplinary study of Trump’s racism that is based on profound political insight and scholarly acumen. It should become a standard work."Stephen Eric Bronner, Board of Governors Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Rutgers UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Trumped 1. Barry and George Go Fishing 2. Dick’s Trick 3. Whistling for Plutocracy 4. The Wrecker and the Warrior Throw a Party 5. The Tribune Rides Forth 6. Toward White Minority Rule
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Taylor & Francis Ltd White Nationalism and the Republican Party
Book SynopsisIn this book, John Ehrenberg argues that Donald Trump, as both candidate and president, represents a qualitatively new stage in the evolution of the Republican Party's willingness to exploit American racial tensions.Works on Trump's use of race have tended to be fragmentary or subsidiary to a larger purpose. Ehrenberg concentrates his investigation on Trump's weaponized use of race, contextualized through historical and theoretical details, demonstrating that while Trump draws on previous Republican strategies, he stands apart through his explicit intention to convert the Republican Party into a political instrument of a threatened racial order. The book traces the Grand Old Party's (GOP) approach to racial matters from Goldwater's constitutional objection to federal activity in the South to George W. Bush's overtures to Black citizens. Ehrenberg examines the role of racial animus in prying loose a significant portion of the Democratic Party's electoral coalition and making pTrade Review"Ehrenberg has produced a beautifully written interdisciplinary study of Trump’s racism that is based on profound political insight and scholarly acumen. It should become a standard work."Stephen Eric Bronner, Board of Governors Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Rutgers UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Trumped 1. Barry and George Go Fishing 2. Dick’s Trick 3. Whistling for Plutocracy 4. The Wrecker and the Warrior Throw a Party 5. The Tribune Rides Forth 6. Toward White Minority Rule
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Violence Against Women in the US
Book SynopsisAnalyzing what is known about violence against women, this book centers on the contrast between the U.S.âs historic focus on a criminal legal framework and the human rights lens used globally by feminist activists.Distilling the existing evidence base and literature on violence against women in the United States, this book includes an overview of forms of violence, the prevalence of violence, contexts in which violence occurs, and debates about intervention and prevention. It engages with how human rights frameworks define violence against women as a cause and consequence of womenâs inequality, and explores how race, ethnicity, class, citizenship status, and sexual orientation shape experiences of victimization, perpetration, and institutional responses. Chapters synthesize prevalence methods and data, key feminist concepts, impacts and aftermath of violence, what is known about perpetrators, the history of anti-violence activism, violence against women on college campuses and in the media, and how the criminal legal systems respond. Contested issues, such as prostitution and pornography, and the extent to which commercial sex can be understood as a form of, and/or context for, violence against women, are also explored. The book closes with a final chapter offering directions for adopting a human rights approach to ending violence against women in the United States.By offering an analysis of how violence against women has come to be named in activist, policy, and academic arenas, Violence Against Women in the US is an essential resource for students, scholars, and practitioners.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Assessing Multiculturalism in Global Comparative
Book SynopsisIn Assessing Multiculturalism in Global Comparative Perspective, a group of leading scholars come together in a multidisciplinary collection to assess multiculturalism through an international comparative perspective.Multiculturalism today faces challenges like never before, through the concurrent rise of populism and white supremacist groups, and contemporary social movements mobilizing around alternative ideas of decolonization, anti-racism and national self-determination Taking these challenges head on, and with the backdrop that the term multiculturalism originated in Canada before going global, this collection of chapters presents a global comparative view of multiculturalism, through both empirical and normative perspectives, with the overarching aim of comprehending multiculturalism's promise, limitations, contemporary challenges, trajectory and possible futures. Collectively, the chapters provide the basis for a critical assessment of multiculturalism's firstTrade Review"What is multiculturalism? How is it different from ideologies and movements that resemble it but are nevertheless quite different? What are its origins and patterns of development in different countries? Why has it provoked hostility in some societies and been received with great relief in others? Has it exhausted its constructive potential and become irrelevant, or does it have a future, and of what kind? While much has been written on multiculturalism, some of the questions listed above and others associated with them have received relatively little attention. This well-constructed and skilfully edited collection of fine essays, each probing a particular aspect of multiculturalism, fills the gap and deserves a warm welcome."Bhikhu Parekh, House of Lords"Assessing Multiculturalism in Global Comparative Perspective grounds multiculturalism in history and theory, while exploring its contemporary relevance in light of challenges from the ethnonationalist right and its strained relationship with progressive emancipatory movements. The book’s outstanding contributors offer a uniquely global perspective on some of the most pressing problems confronting diverse polities the world over. Highly recommended for all students of contemporary membership politics."Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos, Associate Professor, University of Toronto"This visionary collection provides a timely global comparative diagnostic on multiculturalism’s challenges and possible futures in the post-pandemic era. The diverse set of co-editors proposes a useful framework of analysis in their introduction, highlighting the origins, expansion and critiques of multiculturalism. They brought together a particularly talented group of experts whose analyses will inform both scholars and the general public interested in the future of recognition and diversity in a range of societies. Together, they deploy enlightening perspectives that illuminate our worlds as they evolve. What a feat!!!"Michèle Lamont, Harvard University, author of Who Matters: How to Define Worth in our Divided WorldTable of ContentsIntroduction: Reflecting on Multiculturalism at its Semicentennial: Over the Hill or Just Getting Started? Part 1: Multiculturalism and Citizenship 1. Multiculturalism and Citizenization: Past and Future 2. Multiculturalism and Inclusive Democracy: Canadian Multiculturalism and Immigrant Citizenship 3. Multicultural Citizenship in Singapore Part 2: Multiculturalism, History and Intersectionality 4. Multiculturalism and Decolonization 5. Multiculturalism in the Post-Colony: Shadows of Agamben in South Africa 6. Language and Multiculturalism in the United States 7. Framing Diversities: European approaches to Minorities-within Minorities Part 3: Multiculturalism, Religion and Secularism 8. Interculturalism and the Fair Management of Diversity in Multinational Democracies: The Contribution of Quebec-Canada Dynamics 9. Multiculturalism: The Place of Religion and State-Religion Connections 10. Hinduizing Nation: Shifting Grounds of Secularism, Diversity and Citizenship Part 4: Multiculturalism’s Meaning and Value 11. Oh Canada, Your Home’s on Native Land: Narratives of the Missing in a Multicultural Home 12. Black Lives Matter, Social Justice, and the Limits of Multiculturalism 13. Hungary and the Paradoxes of Illiberal Anti-Multiculturalism Part 5: Multiculturalism, Pandemic. Populism and the Political Right 14. Rethinking Multiculturalism under a Pandemic Crisis 15. Imperiled Multiculturalism? COVID-19, Racism and Nation-Building in Australia 16. Immigration, Multiculturalism and Tolerance: Canada’s Two Images Conclusion: Towards a New Diversity Politics for the 21st Century? Building on Multiculturalism through Solidarity
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Schizostructuralism
Book SynopsisSchizostructuralism draws together insights from psychoanalytic, structuralist, and Marxist theory, and the divisions and antagonisms that both underpin and distinguish them, to form a new psychoanalytic system.Working through the key concepts and methods in these fields, Daniel Bristow describes the processes of unification and separation inherent in structure; extends concepts within the field of psychoanalytic topology and its study of surface; and interrogates types and phasings of time that operate psychosocially, testing workings of these against analyses of class division and struggle. Returning to and working through key concepts and methods in the fields of structuralism, topology, temporality, and Marxist political theory, Schizostructuralism looks again at such major figures as Freud, Reich, Lacan, Laing, and Deleuze and Guattariinvoking their socially oriented theories and practicesand sets out possibilities for recalibrating critical and clinical Trade Review"In our era of mass migration and segregation, when new categories of otherness are invented to dehumanize and control, Daniel Bristow tackles the divisions and antagonisms that structure our unconscious, showing how our split subjectivities are ripe for revolutionary futures. Creatively appropriating Hegel’s Aufhebung by way of Lacan, this concise and cogent book brings together psychoanalysis, structuralism, and Marxism. Opening the possibility of reading Freud, Reich, and Laing together, Bristow performs a surgically precise topological cut that transforms what it unites and separates. An important and timely book for anyone interested in the political unconscious."Patricia Gherovici, Psychoanalyst and Author; Recipient of the 2020 Sigourney Award"There is no sharper analyst of Lacanian topologies than Daniel Bristow. In this elegant, concise and original book, following his outstanding work on Joyce and Lacan, he performs a Marxism of schizo-analysis, and a schizo-analysis of Marxism. He thus rescues the term ‘schizo-’ from its normative encrustations, and restores its power as a dialectical principle."Richard Seymour, Author of The Twittering Machine (Verso, 2020)"Despite its brevity, this book offers a rich and intricate exploration of the question of dis/continuity and change, in spatial, temporal and social terms, building with originality upon key contributions in understanding the nature of the mind, as elaborated over the last century in psychoanalysis, from Freud to Lacan, and beyond. This exploration raises important questions about the nature and emergence of psychic structures, not just in theory, but in the reality of a less than perfect world."A. Carrington, Analyst"Bristow has crafted a creative tool for Lacanian studies which others can mold to their academic and clinical experiences. A medium serving multiple creative environments is indispensable—and its creation is testament to Bristow’s confluential sensibilities." S. Alfonso Williams, Independent Researcher and InterlocutorTable of ContentsSeries Editor Preface; Introduction: ‘Schizostructuralism'; 1. Enverity (Divisions in Structure: The Unconscious); 2. Topology (Divisions in Surface: The Freudian Structures); 3. Enverneity (Divisions in Temporality: Outside-Time); 4. Class (Antagonism) (Divisions in Materiality and Distribution: Between the Lacanian Orders); Appendix; Acknowledgements; Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Towards Strategic Pragmatism in Foreign Policy
Book SynopsisWhat is pragmatism? Is it a means to an end, or an end in itself? Is it antithetical to ideology or morality?Arguing that pragmatism is a skill much more than an attribute, Phua examines how viewing it in this way can help achieve better foreign policy outcomes. He examines and contrasts the ways in which the United States, China and Singapore have incorporated pragmatism into their approaches to foreign policy. In doing so he debunks dualistic myths around pragmatism and ideology and promotes the view of pragmatism as a skill that can be developed. An essential primer for students, analysts and policymakers, with a fresh and practical approach to pragmatism.Trade Review"Early in the book, Charles Phua quoted Humpty Dumpty: When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less. Pragmatism is perhaps one such word. By discussing pragmatism in the context of how three very different countries view it - China, the US and Singapore - Phua has been able to develop a conceptual framework for the analysis of the word in academic discourse and distinguish between its use in social conversation and as an organizing principle in statecraft."---George Yeo, former Foreign Minister, Republic of Singapore"Dr Charles Phua has written a book that uniquely considers how the philosophy of pragmatism, in both practice and principles, influences the exercise of foreign policy and statecraft in nations. In particular, he carefully examines the policies and approaches of China, the US and Singapore, and considers how each nation is shaped by a blend of idealism, realism and contextual opportunities and constraints. As we move towards a more complex geopolitical environment, Dr Phua’s book offers fascinating ideas on how nations mould their agendas, and fashion their policy formulations and implementations."---Professor Tan Eng Chye, President, National University of Singapore"As the world changes, foreign policy must change. As this book makes clear, pragmatic foreign policy is needed to contend not just with politics narrowly understood but also with the full range of global challenges: economic, social, climate, and others."---Professor Craig Calhoun, University Professor of Social Sciences, Arizona State University, former president of London of School of Economics and Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC)"A highly original and interesting book that compares and connects Chinese, Singaporean and American thinking on foreign policy. There is much food for thought for scholars and practitioners to ponder."---Professor Qin Yaqing, former President, Chinese Foreign Affairs University"Is Singapore’s foreign policy based on realism, as many have claimed? Dr Phua is right to say it is not. It is based on pragmatism or a combination of realism and idealism in pragmatism."---Professor Tommy Koh, Ambassador-At-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore, and former President, Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea"A well-analyzed book on pragmatism in foreign policy, a topic that has not received much attention in scholarly debates. The case studies are illuminating."---T.V. Paul, James McGill Professor of International Relations, McGill University, Canada, former President, International Studies Association, and author of: Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era (Yale University Press, 2018)."Pragmatism" is a slippery term, touching on different domains of human behaviour - psychological, philosophical, social, political, economic, and others. Charles Chao Rong Phua's book takes an interdisciplinary approach to case studies - China, Singapore, the U.S. - in order to delineate the "system[s] that supports 'being pragmatic'" and thus provides the context for pragmatism in the contemporary global order."---Professor Robbie Goh, Provost, Singapore University of Social Sciences "It is hard to do justice to the scholarly range of this challenging book which ranges from the mysteries of Daoism to the emerging properties of American decision making. The author rightly warns that we need strategic pragmatism more than ever - perhaps it is timely to recalibrate the pendulum swings between ‘strategic narcissism’ and 'strategic autism’ tendencies, both of which are threatening world peace."---Professor Christopher Coker, Director, LSE IDEAS"Pragmatism has long been held up as a primary organising concept for policy-making. But what does pragmatism mean in the policy context? And how are we to understand its application in the process of policy formulation? By way of a comparative study of the United States, China, and Singapore, Charles Phua helps us navigate these complex conceptual and practical issues. This book should be essential reading for those interested in the fundamental philosophical underpinnings of “pragmatic” policy thinking and making."---Professor Joseph Chinyong Liow, Dean of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University"This is an intriguing and systematic assessment of pragmatism as an element of foreign policy formulation and implementation in three very different states. The author draws out some important practical implications for policymakers from his study, and one can only agree with his concluding argument that future generations would benefit from pragmatic responses to complex global challenges such as managing climate-change and ensuring environmental sustainability."---Dr Tim Huxley, former Executive Director, IISS-Asia"A must read for anyone seeking to understand how China’s "idiosyncratic mixture of principle and pragmatism" shapes its relations with the rest of the world."---Professor Carla P. Freeman, Executive Director, SAIS Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins University"A solid contribution to the study of what the author calls strategic pragmatism in foreign policy, with the fascinating comparative illustrations of the United States, China, and Singapore. Insightful and thought provoking, while necessarily controversial in some points of the policies conducted by the three states."---Professor Shi Yinhong, Distinguished Professor of International Relations, Renmin University of China"Charles has written a creative piece linking philosophy, public policy and international affairs. It isworth a read to examine its implications to our theory and practice of international affairs in both US and China."---Professor Wang Yizhou, Boya Chair Professor and Associate Dean, School of International Studies, Peking University"By operationalizing pragmatism, a frequently used but vague and elusive term, Phua not only successfully develops a conceptual framework of foreign policy but also succinctly substantiates it by the foreign policy practice of China, the U.S., and Singapore in a way that will be useful to academics and practitioners alike. An original work on pragmatic foreign policy!"---Professor Zhang Qingmin, Chair, Department of Diplomacy, School of International Studies, Peking University"This book seeks to be a synthetic primer on Pragmatism as applied in US, Chinese and Singaporean foreign policies. Moreover, Pragmatisms in the three countries are subtly different. This book not only helps us to understand current policies of the three countries, but it also constructs a theoretical framework of Pragmatism for foreign international politics in the world."---Professor Xufeng Zhu, Associate Dean, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University"Towards Strategic Pragmatism in Foreign Policy crafts a unique and integrative approach, embodying both academic rigor and practical relevance in treating the role of pragmatism in political process. Charles Chao Rong Phua unfolds a paradigm for optimizing unstable equilibria amidst ever-shifting currents of public policy, national interest, international relations, and geostrategic positioning. He authoritatively reconciles variegated meanings and nuances of pragmatism, without contradiction, among three contrasting polities: China, USA, and Singapore. This original and illuminating work is highly recommended!"---Lou Marinoff, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy and Asian Studies, The City College of New York, founding President of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association, and author of The Middle Way."Charles Chao Rong Phua offers an important corrective to the realist notion that international structure compels pragmatism in foreign policy. Through a close examination of Chinese, American and Singapore foreign policies, Phua establishes that pragmatic leaders necessarily act as realists simultaneously in both domestic politics and international politics and that pragmatism is filtered through leadership personalities. Foreign policy pragmatism may be the ideal of realists,, but it is illusive, except in the extreme. More generally, Phua shows that foreign policy tends toward a hybrid mix of the imperatives of personal politics and international politics."---Professor Robert S. Ross, Professor of Political Science at Boston College and Associate, John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.Table of Contents1. A Pragmatic Definition of Pragmatism (Problem Solving Approach) I. What is Pragmatism 2. Fitness Beats Truth: Towards a Definition of Pragmatism 3. Big P and Small P Pragmatism, Strategic Pragmatism and Grand Strategy 4. Agential and Structural Factors of (Pragmatic) Production 5. Pragmatism in Policy Process Framework 6. Varieties of Pragmatism II.China 7. The Dao of Pragmatism: Going With the Flow Without Being Swept Away 8. Seeking Truth from Facts 9. Red Lines (and Pink Lines) in Chinese Foreign Policy III. Singapore 10. The Ideology of Pragmatism 11. A Friend to Everybody and an Ally to None 12. The Geography of Pragmatism IV.The United States13. The System (Systemic Pendulums) of Pragmatism 14. Small P and Big P Pragmatism on the Election Trail 15. How the Emergent Properties of the US System Force Unpragmatic Actors to Make V. What Have We Learnt? 16. From Varieties of Pragmatism: Muddling Through, In Style 17. Strategic and Systemic Pragmatism Through Dynamic Equilibria
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dignity and International Human Rights Law
Book SynopsisThe Punta del Este Declaration, and this book dedicated to elaborating upon it, is devoted to exploring the ways that human dignity for everyone everywhere can be a useful tool in helping to address the challenges and strains facing human rights in the world today.In 2018, an initiative was instigated to revitalize the human rights project by way of engaging the notion of human dignity. This resulted in the Punta Del Este Declaration on Human Dignity for Everyone Everywhere (Punta Del Este Declaration), a declaration co-authored by over 30 human rights experts from all over the world. The Punta Del Este Declaration simplifies and brings coherence to the concept of human dignity in 10 brief statements that capture the many dimensions and aspects of human dignity and the practical ways that human dignity is useful in the promotion of human rights. This book provides an overview of how the notion of human dignity has been used to strengthen human rights. It discusses how human dTable of ContentsForeword by Ján FigeľChapter One: Seventy Years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Towards Strengthening the Protection of Human RightsChapter Two: An Introduction to the Punta del Este Declaration and Its Preamble Chapter Three: Article One: Foundation, Objective, and Criterion Chapter Four: Article Two: Generating Agreement and Building Common Understanding Chapter Five: Article Three: Defining and Specifying Human Rights Chapter Six: Article Four: Duties and Responsibilities Chapter Seven: Article Five: Education Chapter Eight: Article Six: Seeking Common GroundChapter Nine: Article Seven: Implementing and Realizing Human Rights in LegislationChapter Ten: Article Eight: Reconciliation and AdjudicationChapter Eleven: Article Nine: Potential Difficulties Involving Competing Human Rights ClaimsChapter Twelve: Article Ten: Most Egregious and Most FeasibleChapter Thirteen: Conclusions and The Way Forward Appendix A. The Punta del Este Declaration on Human Dignity for Everyone EverywhereAppendix B. African Perspectives on Human Dignity for Everyone Everywhere
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Remorse and Criminal Justice
Book SynopsisThis multi-disciplinary collection brings together original contributions to present the best of current thinking about the nature and place of remorse in the context of criminal justice. Despite the widespread and long-standing nature of interest in offender remorse, the topic has until recently been peripheral in academic studies. The authors are scholars from North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, South Africa and Australia, from diverse academic disciplines. They reflect on the role of remorse in law, for better or for worse; on how expressions of remorse are affected by the legal contexts in which they arise; and on the impact of these expressions on the individual, the court and the community. The work is divided into four parts Part I Judging Remorse addresses issues concerning the task of assessing remorse in the courtroom, usually prior to determining sentence. Part II Remorse Beyond the Courtroom explores the place and significance of remorse Trade Review"Remorse permeates the entire criminal justice system, affecting decisions from policing through to parole. This unique collection of essays explores the role and consequences of remorse, drawing on a range of perspectives and disciplines. It will interest scholars across many jurisdictions, and indeed to anyone with an interest in criminal justice."Julian Roberts, Professor of Criminology, University of Oxford, UK"As a sentencing judge who wrestles daily with questions of whether and how to detect remorse in a highly multicultural courtroom, Part 1 – Judging Remorse - is particularly helpful in offering theoretical and practical guidance to beleaguered lawyers and judges. This excellent text should be provided to every new judge."Justice David P. Cole, Ontario Court of Justice, Toronto, Canada"Bringing remorse in from the sidelines of scholarly and policy interest `Remorse and Criminal Justice' untangles the place of this complex emotion in criminal courts and beyond. With depth and urgency, a stellar mix of authors and chapters addresses the performance, expression, experience and assessment of remorse. An essential resource for practitioners, the collection enriches law and emotion scholarship." Sharyn Roach Anleu, Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor, Flinders University, Australia Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Judging RemorseChapter 1: Remorse and JudgingChapter 2: Remorse and Sentencing in a World of Plea BargainingChapter 3: Temporary Irresponsibility, Foolish Mistakes, and Outright Villains: Narratives of Remorse in Sexual Assault TrialsChapter 4: Reflections on the Grey Zone: ‘Sort of Remorseful’ OffendersChapter 5: Cranking the Sausage Machine: A Magistrate’s Perspective on Remorse AssessmentPart II: Remorse Beyond the CourtroomChapter 6: Remorse, Probation and the StateChapter 7: Long Haul Remorse: The Continuous Performance of Repentance Throughout Prison SentencesChapter 8: Perceptions of Remorse in Forensic PatientsChapter 9: Remorse on Death RowPart III: Remorse, War and Social TraumaChapter 10: Remorse in International Criminal Justice: Sentencing, Offender Rehabilitation and Reintegration: A Case Study of the International Tribunal for the Former YugoslaviaChapter 11: Remorse as Ethical Encounter and the Impossibility of RepairPart IV: ReflectionsChapter 12: Reflections on Researching Remorse: Unearthing an Epistemological Unconscious
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Taylor & Francis Revolution and Democracy in Ghana
Book SynopsisThis book analyses Flight-Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlingsâ plans for radical democratisation in Ghana, involving ordinary people directly in the countryâs political and economic decision-making processes. Rawlings came to power in Ghana in late 1981 determined to restructure the characteristics of Ghana's political and economic systems. Despite Rawlingsâ aim to bring ordinary Ghanaians into the decision-making process, his regime was still heavily dependent on the support of the military and attempts at direct democracy ultimately ended in failure. Outside analysts have viewed his plans as one of Africaâs most draconian economic reform programmes. The book traces this turbulent period of Ghanaâs history, showing Rawlingsâ development from a fiery revolutionary to a democracy-supporting politician adept at winning elections. It investigates how, despite frequent coup attempts and the loss of most of its original civilian support base, the regime was able to remain in power, ove
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Taylor & Francis Holocaust vs. Popular Culture
Book SynopsisHolocaust vs. Popular Culture debates and deconstructs the binary responses to the representation of the Holocaust in European and non-European forms of Popular Culture.The binary is defined in terms of âœincompatibilityâ between the Holocaust and Popular Culture on the one hand and the âœuniversalizationâ of the Holocaust memory through Popular Culture on the other. The book does emphasize the anti-representation argument. Nevertheless, the authors make a case for a productive understanding of âœHolocaust Popular Cultureâ as contributing to the expansion of Holocaust studies as well as cultural studies in the transnational context. The book theorizes Popular Culture in broad terms and highlights the diversity of Holocaust Popular Culture mainly but not exclusively produced in the twenty-first century. This interdisciplinary collection covers a wide variety of Popular Culture genres including language, literature, films, television shows, soap operas, music, dance, social media, advertisements, comics, graphic novels, videogames, and museums. It studies the (mis)representation of the Holocaust trauma, not only across genres but also across nations (Western and Asian) and generations (from testimonial remembrance to post-memory).This book will be of interest to students and scholars from a wide range of disciplines and subjects, including Popular Culture, Holocaust studies, cultural studies, genocide studies, postcolonial and transnational studies, media and film studies, visual culture, games studies, race and ethnicity studies, memory studies, and Jewish studies.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Invisible European Government
Book SynopsisThis book questions the theoretical premises and practical applications of transparency, showing both the promises and perils of transparency in a methodologically innovative way and in a cross-section of policy instruments. It scrutinizes transparency from three perspectives - methodologically, theoretically, and empirically - both in the specific context of the EU but also in the wider context of modern society in which transparency is embraced as an almost unquestionable virtue. This book examines the ways in which transparency practices can make institutions visible and stands out for its methodological self-reflection: to fully understand the irresistible call for transparency in our governing institutions, we must reflect on our own relationship with it. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of transparency studies, democratic legitimacy, global governance, governance law, EU studies and law and public policy more widely.Table of Contents1. Introduction: European Government Transparency beyond the Slogans PART 1 2. Transparency as a Critical Research Agenda: Engaging with the EU Institutions on Access to Documents 3. What is the Purpose of Regulation 1049/2001? An Empirical Analysis of Member State Positions 4. Interpretive Approaches in Transparency Studies: Gaining New Perspectives on Old Problems 5. Learning Through Rejection: Studying the Informalisation of EU Readmission Policy with Access to Documents Requests PART 2 6. The Human Face of Legal Transparency? Performance in Action 7. Toward Radical Transparency 8. Escaping the Transparency Trap: In Defense of Playacting 9. Algorithms and the Open Society: New Approaches to Information, Transparency and Accountability 10. Government Transparency: Dispelling the Myth PART 3 11. “Off paper”: The Transparency Dilemma in EU Institutions 12. Transparency as Enabling Citizen-participation: The Quality of Public Information on EU Decision-making Processes 13. Access to documents and the EU agency Frontex: Growing pains or outright obstruction? 14. The Council Presidency, brought to you by Coca-Cola: Transparency about Commercial Sponsoring 15. EU Agencies and Lobbying Transparency Rules: A Case Study on the Islandization of Transparency? 16. "Mediated Transparency": The Digital Services Act and the legitimization of platform power 17. Epilogue: Against transparency. For engaged publics
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Taylor & Francis Ideals and Ideologies
Book SynopsisIdeals and Ideologies: A Reader is a comprehensive compilation of classic and contemporary readings representing all major âœisms.â It offers students a generous sampling of key thinkers in different ideological traditions and places them in their historical and political contexts. Used on its own or with Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal, the anthology accounts for the different ways people use ideology and conveys the continuing importance of ideas to politics.New to this editionThe twelfth edition includes the following additions: Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, âœHow Democracies Dieâ (two distinguished political scientists delineate the sources of democratic demise). Ayn Rand, âœCollectivized Ethicsâ (a well-known libertarian thinker argues that it is illegitimate for governments to legally mandate behavior that benefits other people). Patrick Deneen, âœAristopopulismâ (an influential conservative
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Nazi Occultism
Book SynopsisNazi Occultism provides a serious scholarly study of a topic that is often marred by sensationalism and misinformation.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1 – Studies 1. The esoteric origins of Mein Kampf: Myths and realities 2. Nazi esotericism: Between völkisch thought and fantasy 3. Neopaganism and Nazism 4. The ‘mysterious history’ and the French extreme right Part 2 – Portraits 5. Evolian anthropology, the ‘spirit of the race’ and Judaism 6. Jacques de Mahieu: Between biological racism and the ‘mysterious history’ 7. Miguel Serrano: A Chilean neo-nazi between diplomacy and racial occultism 8. Counter-culture and ‘nazi esotericism’: The Thulean cycle of Wilhelm Landig 9. Between freak thinking and an identitarian world view: The writer Jean-Paul Bourre 10. Michael Moynihan and the Wulfing Kindred Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dignity and Human Rights
Book SynopsisIs it impossible to assess dignity, which is the faculty or agency of autonomy and equality of rights under the current rule of law, when we are met by global challenges like climate change, financial crisis, food crisis, natural disasters, inequality, violent conflicts and trade disputes? Drawing on European philosophical enlightenment to rethink dominant theories of contemporary Western Human Rights, Stephan P. Leher explores the philosophical foundation of the concept of dignity and Human Rights. Using specific examples from Africa and Latin America to explain these concepts as social realizations in the world, Leher demonstrates the link between justice and peace and contends that dignity, freedom and Human Rights law rule are social realizations and claims by all people. With the help of language philosophy, he argues that sentences and propositions about social choices and realizations of real life expressed in ordinary language constitute the basic elements of the foundation Trade Review'Stephan P. Leher explains the concept of Human Rights, key to contemporary Political Theory, in a complex and systematic way. The book includes the most recent approaches and is of the utmost interest for different academic disciplines – like Philosophy and Political Science, Legal Studies and Theology.' - Anton Pelinka, Central European University, BudapestTable of ContentsIntroduction1. The End of History or the Beginning of a Human Rights History?2. Two Surprising Facts: There Are a First Case and a First International Court to Hold Defendants Responsible for Their Crimes According to the Rule of Human Rights Law3. The Individual Woman, Man and Queer Is the Subject of International Human Rights Law4. There Is a Plurality of Understandings and Realizations of the Concept "Human Dignity"5. Dignity, Human Rights and Language Philosophy6. The West's Adherence to Privileges, Cultural Contexts and Arguments on State Sovereignty Challenge Universal Human Rights7. Democracy Is about Self-Determination of Women, Men and Queer within Their Communities8. Choice and Ability to Claim One’s Dignity as Policies of the Individual9. A Question to be Answered by Empirical Social Research: Are Women and Men Conscious of Their Dignity in Relation to the Quality of Their Social Choices and Social Realizations?10. Language Philosophy, Interview Sentences, Dignity and Human Rights11. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy Politics and
Book SynopsisThis handbook advances the interdisciplinary field of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) by identifying thirty-five topics of ongoing research. Instead of focusing on historically significant texts, it features experts talking about current debates. Individually, each chapter provides a resource for new research. Together, the chapters provide a thorough introduction to contemporary work in PPE, which makes it an ideal reader for a senior-year course.The handbook is organized into seven parts, each with its own introduction and five chapters: I. FrameworksII. Decision-MakingIII. Social StructuresIV. MarketsV. Economic SystemsVI. Distributive JusticeVII. DemocracyThe Frameworks part discusses common tools and perspectives in PPE, and the Decision-making section shows different approaches to the study of choice. From there, parts on Social Structures, Markets and Economic Systems each use tools from theTable of Contents1. PPE as an Intellectual Enterprise 2. On Models and their Uses 3. Complexity 4. PPE in Marx’s Materialist Conception of History 5. Feminist Theory 6. Game Theory 7. Four Structures of Intransitive Preferences 8. Theories of Choice Behavior 9. Rule-Following 10. Implicit Bias and Decision-Making 11. Social Norms 12. Institutions and Institutionalism 13. Property 14. Corporations in our Polity 15. Polycentricity 16. The Advantages of Markets 17. Exploitation 18. The Meaning of Markets 19. Gender and the Division of Labor 20. Housing Markets 21. Capitalism 22. Socialisms 23. Property-Owning Democracy 24. Social Democracy 25. Corruption 26. Property Rights and Justice in Holdings: A Libertarian Perspective 27. High Liberalism 28. Institutionalism, Injustice, and Personal Responsibility 29. Social Justice 30. Justice Across Borders 31. In Defense of Epistocracy: Enlightened Preference Voting 32. Voting Rules 33. Enabling Informed and Equal Participation 34. What, If Anything, Can Justify Limiting Workers’ Voice? 35. Social Trust
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Border Regimes in Twentieth Century Europe
Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the history of passports, border surveillance, border crossing, and other elements of European border regimes in the 20th century. Border regime is interpreted widely, including inbound and outbound travels, permanent and temporary movements, distance and local border traffic, borderland fortifications, penalties for borderland offences, and also restrictions of free movement, even inside a given country. Based on archival sources from Hungary and the Czech Republic, extensive literature and more than two decades of research, the author distinguishes between two basic border regimes: the restrictive eastern and the permissive western systems, and a transitional zone between them. The historical development of these regimes is discussed in the framework of waves of globalisation and territorialisation. Border Regimes in Twentieth Century Europe offers the first-ever systematic comparison of European Table of ContentsIntroduction / Chapter 1 Theoretical background / Chapter 2 The emergence of the western and eastern model / Chapter 3 The period of the two World Wars / Chapter 4 Cold War tendencies / Chapter 5 Border regimes of East Central Europe, 1945–1989 / Conclusions / Sources and bibliography
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Taylor & Francis What the MeToo Movement Highlights and Hides
Book SynopsisWhat the #MeToo Movement Highlights and Hides about Workplace Sexual Harassment seeks to examine both the spotlights (Part I) and the shadows (Part II) of the #MeToo movement, setting a research agenda to examine both more carefully in management research.Sexual harassment (SH) is not a new phenomenon in organizations; it has been the topic of scholarly inquiry since the 1970s and has existed as a form of dysfunctional organizational behavior and abuse of power for much longer. Even so, the #MeToo movement thrust this organizational issue into the spotlight, raising new awareness and concern about an age-old problem, including digital forms of SH, bystander behavior, and organizational and societal ideas around masculinity and gender-based violence. At the same time, #MeToo kept other aspects of SH in the dark. Shadows addressed include the more mundane and common forms of low-severity micro-SH, how to help targets heal from trauma, the complex intersectional experiences of women of color, the experiences of male targets and those in low socioeconomic status jobs, and the implications of #MeToo on legal theory.Insights from #MeToo highlight the power of social movements to frame the publicâs understanding of the issue of SH and to spark counter-movements that challenge that frame. This volume will be of interest to researchers, scholars, students, practitioners and policymakers.
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Taylor & Francis Experiments in Moral and Political Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis volume presents new research on the use of experimental methodologies in moral and social philosophy. The contributions reflect the growing plurality of methodologies and strategies for implementing experimental work on morality to new domains, problems, and topics.Philosophers are exploring the ways in which empirical approaches can transform our idea of the good, our understanding of the social nature of norms and morality, and our methods of fulfilling ethical goals. The chapters in this volume extend experimental work on morality to previously underexplored areas. The contributions in Part 1 explore the methods and foundations of experimental work in areas such as folk moral judgments, metaethical beliefs, moral explanations, and reflective equilibrium. Part 2 focuses on issues in normative ethics and legal and political philosophy such as virtue ethics, utilitarianism, theories of justice, and criminal responsibility. Finally, the chapters in Part 3 tackle various aTable of Contents1. The Experimental Turn in Moral and Political Philosophy Antonio Gaitán, Fernando Aguiar and Hugo Viciana Part 1: Methods and Foundations 2. The Natural Law Thesis Under Empirical Scrutiny Ivar R. Hannikainen, Brian Flanagan and Karolina Prochownik 3. Concrete Over Abstract: Experimental Evidence of Reflective Equilibrium in Population Ethics Philipp Schoenegger and Ben Grodeck 4. Trolley Problems Reimagined: Sensitivity to Ratio, Risk, and Comparisons Craig McKenzie, Dana Kay Nelkin, Samuel C. Rickless and Arseny Ryazanov 5. The Psychology of Metaethics: Evidence For and Against Folk Moral Objectivism Lieuwe Zijlstra 6. The Explanatory Redundancy Challenge to Moral Properties Thomas Pölzler 7. Belief Distributions and the Measure of Social Norms Cuizhu Wang 8. Coming Full Circle: Incentives, Reactivity, and the Experimental Turn Mariìa Jimeìnez Buedo Part 2: Normative Ethics and Legal and Political Philosophy 9. Virtues for Real-world Utilitarians Stefan Schubert and Lucius Caviola 10. What Experiments Can Teach Us About Justice and Impartiality: Vindicating Experimental Political Philosophy Aureìlien Allard and Florian Cova 11. A Behavioral Ethics Perspective on the Theory of Criminal Law and Punishment Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg and Yuval Feldman 12. Behavioral Ethics and the Extent of Responsibility Douglas Husak 13. Against Moorean Defences of Speciesism François Jaquet Part 3: Applied Issues 14. Experimental Bioethics and the Case for Human Enhancement Blanca Rodriìguez 15. The Use and Abuse of Moral Preferences in the Ethics of Self-Driving Cars Norbert Paulo, Leonie Alina Möck and Lando Kirchmair 16. Adaptive Preferences: An Empirical Investigation of Feminist Perspectives Urna Chakrabarty, Romy Feiertag, Anne-Marie McCallion, Brain McNiff, Jesse Prinz, Montaque Reynolds, Sukhvinder Shahi, Maya Von Ziegesar, Angella Yamamoto, and Tomasz Zyglewicz 17. Reactionary Attitudes: Strawson, Twitter, and the Black Lives Matter Movement Anastasia Chan, Marinus Ferreira, and Mark Alfano
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Taylor & Francis Ltd What Nazism Did to Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisWhat Nazism Did to Psychoanalysis explores the impact Nazism had on the evolution of psychoanalysis and tackles the enigma of the transformation of individual hate into mass psychosis and of the autocratic creation of a neo-reality. Addressing the effects of the Holocaust on the psychoanalytic world, this book does not focus on the suffering of the survivors but the analysis of the concrete mechanisms of destruction that affected language and thought, their impact on the practice of psychoanalysis and the defences that psychoanalysts tried to find against the linguistic, legal and symbolic chaos that struck the foundations of reality. Laurence Kahn discusses the struggle against the appropriation, by the Nazi language, of key terms such as demonic nature, drives, ideals and, above all, the Selbsterhaltungstrieb (the self-preservation drive), which became, with Hitler, the axis of the living space policy, the Lebensraum. Covering key topics suTable of ContentsSeries Editor's foreword by Gabriela Legorreta. 1. Introduction: old words, new meanings 2. The law beyond the law 3. The mMoses or brother Hitler 4. The Freudian heresy 5. The parasite and identity: the Gestalt 6. Psychoanalysis and Weltanschauung in 1930 7. Purifying psychoanalysis scientifically 8. Hartmann: logos against bios 9. Extreme trauma: which unconscious? 10. Mother, child and empathy 11. The liquidation of tragedy 12. The temptation of kitsch 13. What about hatred? 14. Conclusion: the foundations of words
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Taylor & Francis Penal Abolitionism and Transformative Justice in
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Identity Trumps Socialism
Book SynopsisWith essays by today's leading leftist social critics, Identity Trumps Socialism presents a rigorous and persuasive primer on the problems generated by postmodern and neoliberal challenges to the legacy of emancipatory universality. In addition to the ways in which capitalism has used racialized and gendered forms of oppression to divide the working class, today's activism must also understand how neoliberal capitalism uses identity politics to undermine socialism. Identity Trumps Socialism advances an emancipatory left universality that addresses the limits of diversity and makes the case for the centrality of class in the struggle against global capitalist hegemony. Table of Contents1 Introduction: The Politics of Emancipatory Universality Marc James Léger. 2 Eight Theses on the Universal Alain Badiou. 3 Politics, Identification and Subjectivization Jacques Rancière. 4 The Eternal Return of the Same Class Struggle Slavoj Žižek. 5 Universality and Its Discontents Bruno Bosteels. 6 Capitalism, Class and Universalism: Escaping the Cul-de-Sac of Postcolonial Theory Vivek Chibber. 7 Intersectionality: A Marxist Critique Barbara Foley. 8 From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump – and Beyond Nancy Fraser. 9 What Materialist Black Political History Actually Looks Like Adolph Reed, Jr. 10 Who’s Afraid of Left Populism? Anti-Policing Struggles and the Frontiers of the American Left Cedric G. Johnson. 11 Class Not Race Walter Benn Michaels. 12 Capitalism Is the Problem: Articulating Race and Gender with Class David Harvey. 13 A Comrade for the Anthropocene: Beyond Survivors and Allies Jodi Dean. 14 The Use and Abuse of Class Reductionism for the Left Marc James Léger. 15 Index
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Taylor & Francis Latin America in Times of Turbulence
Book SynopsisThe Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781003324249, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.This book accounts for and analyses the latest developments in Latin American presidential democracies, with a special focus on political institutions.The stellar line-up of renowned scholars of Latin American politics and institutions from Latin America, Europe, and the United States offer new insights into how democratic institutions have operated within the critical context that marked the political and social life of the region in the last few years: the eruption of popular protest and discontent, the widespread distrust of political institutions, and, of course, the COVID-19 pandemic. Combining different methodological approaches, including cross-national studies, small-N studies, case studies, and quantitative and qualitative data, the contributions cluster around three themes: the problem with fixed terms and other features of presidentialism, inter-institutional relations and executive accountability, and old and new threats to democracy in these times of turmoil. The volume concludes with an assessment of the political consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America.Beyond current scholars and students of comparative political scientists, Latin America in Times of Turbulence will be of great interest to a wide spectrum of readers interested in comparative systems of government, democracy studies, and Latin American politics more generally.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Democratization and Autocratization in
Book SynopsisThis book provides balanced, critical, and comprehensive coverage of the theories and realities of autocratization and democratization. It sketches developments in the conceptions of democracy, discusses how to distinguish between different forms of political rule, and maps the development of democracy and autocracy across space and time. The book reviews the major debates and findings about domestic and international causes and consequences of democratization and autocratization. It synthesizes theoretical models and empirical relationships based on an explicit comparative perspective which focuses on similarities and differences across countries and historical periods. Key features: Offers a coherent framework, which students and scholars can use to grasp the literature on democratization and autocratization as a whole. Includes tables and figures as well as plentiful, illustrative in-text features, including chapter summaries, text boxes, concluding bullet Trade Review"Whether we live under democracy or not, whether our democracies are in crisis and deliver certain goods, whether democracies are becoming autocracies, are key questions of our times. And Møller and Skaaning’s engaging up-to-date book discusses concepts, theories and empirical analyses that help us make sense of our world. A sophisticated but accessible introduction to a complex topic by two experts in the field." Gerardo L. Munck, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, University of Southern California, USA"In Democratization and Autocratization, Svend Erik Skaaning and Jørgen Møller offer scholars and students a comprehensive, nuanced and insightful analysis of the complex and intervowen concepts of democracy and autocracy. The authors´ excellent grasp of theory, history and contemporary debates has resulted in a volume that will be a significant contribution to scholarly debates on regime theory, waves of democracy and autocracy, and the consequences of different regime forms for civil and international conflict, economic development, and equality." Lise Rakner, Professor of Political Science, University of Bergen, Norway"The literature on democracy and autocracy has grown immensely in the last decades. It is complex, it spans several social scientific disciplines, and it draws on various sometimes very different methodologies. But this new textbook by Møller and Skaaning makes it simple to understand and joyful to experience. Being able to chart this seemingly impenetrable terrain, with attentiveness to both general patterns and historical detail, is no small feat. There is simply no other book like this out there." Jan Teorell, Professor of Political Science, Stockholm University, SwedenTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Concepts 1. Conceptions of democracy from ancient Greece to our time 2. Typologies of democratic and autocratic regimes Part II: Currents 3. Historical processes of democratization and autocratization 4. Regime changes in the twenty-first century: a new wave of autocratization? Part III: Causes 5. Deep roots 6. Modernization 7. Social forces 8. Agency, institutions, and integrative approaches 9. International factors Part IV: Consequences 10. War, civil conflict, and violent repression 11. Growth, equality, environment, and disaster management Part V: Challenges 12. Crisis of democracy in developed countries? Conclusions: looking back and looking forward
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Coalition Politics in Central Eastern Europe
Book SynopsisThis insightful book brings the study of coalitions and coalition governance in Central and Eastern European democracies up to date, with an analytical focus framed by difficult economic and social periods, such as the end of the economic crisis and the Coronavirus pandemic.The volume posits insights from a plethora of experts on party politics and coalition studies from their respective countries, with chapters on Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Embellished with illustrative tables and extensive datasets throughout, each chapter maps the developments of party system change, covering the coalition life cycle from the early 1990s until the end of 2021, and explores whether there has been transformation of the coalition, governance and dissolutions patterns due to heightened pressures.This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of coalition politics, representative democracy, governance, poliTable of Contents1. Coalitions in Times of Crisis. 2. Concepts and Measurements. 3. Fragility of Coalition Governance in Bulgaria. 4. Regularity and Instability: Coalition Governments in Czechia 2008-2022. 5. Estonia: The Breakdown of the Exclusionary Logic in Coalition Formation 6. Hungary: Party Alliances and Personal Coalitions. 7. Latvia: Populist Wind of Change. 8. Lithuania: Ministerial Government and the EU Factor. 9. Poland: Resilience to the External Crisis, Permanent Coalition Patterns, and Weakening of the Position of the Prime Minister. 10. Live Fast, Die Young: Romanian Coalitions in Time of Crisis. 11. Slovakia: Gradual Settlement of Rules in an Unstable Environment. 12. Slovenia: Newcomers as Prime Ministers. A New Mode of Coalition Governance? 13. New Patterns of Coalition Politics in Central and Eastern Europe?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Judges and Democratization
Book SynopsisThis second edition examines judicial independence as an aspect of democratization based on the premise that democracy cannot be consolidated without the rule of law of which judicial independence is an indispensable part.It pays particular attention to the restraints placed upon judicial independence and examines the reforms which are being applied, or remain to be adopted, in order to guard against the different kinds of interference which prevent judicial decisions being taken in a wholly impartial way. Focusing on the growing authoritarianism in the new democracies of Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa, the book analyses the paradox of judicial activism arising from the independence endowed upon the judiciary and the rights bestowed on citizens by post-authoritarian constitutions. Finally, it asks how judicial accountability can be made compatible with the preservation of judicial independence when the concept of an accountable, independent judiciary appears t
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Taylor & Francis Trade Unions and Politics in the 1980s
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1987, this book traces the historical and sociological dimensions of the Trade Union movement and analyses the nature of the trade unionsâ involvement in the UK Labour Party during the 1970s and 80s. It discusses the review campaigns, and their implications, both for trade unions specifically and for politics in general. From the viewpoint of the trade unions, this book tells of an experience which was, for the Thatcher era, uniquely successful and innervating, opening up new approaches to campaigning.
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