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Cambridge University Press Agency and Democracy in Development Ethics
Book SynopsisA diverse set of expert voices from the Global North and South - philosophers, economists, policy and development scholars and practitioners - explore two themes central to development ethics: agency and democracy. Established luminaries in development ethics engage with the book''s themes alongside fresh voices on the way to becoming familiar figures in the field. Their essays work within diverse areas of development studies, including human security and human rights, democratic governance in theory and practice, the capability approach, gender and development, and applied and theoretical critiques of the philosophical underpinnings of various accounts of development. The result is a varied and comprehensive discussion of current work in development ethics that significantly advances our understanding of theoretical and practical work of development. This book will interest students, scholars, and practitioners of global justice, human rights, international development and political pTrade Review'David A. Crocker has made crucial contributions to development ethics and the human development approach, in particular with his agency-oriented capability approach. The essays in this impressive volume testify to the great influence that David A. Crocker has had on several generations of scholars and students, and how he keeps inspiring others to take the important tasks of development ethics further. This volume will be required reading for students and scholars in development ethics, human development, capability theory, and related fields.' Ingrid Robeyns, Chair Ethics of Institutions, Universiteit Utrecht'David A. Crocker has been a leading figure in the multidisciplinary field of developmental ethics stressing the themes of agency and participatory deliberative democracy. He has inspired a generation of thinkers throughout the North and South who engage his thinking in this splendid collection of essays. Crocker contributes to the volume by answering his critics and developing his conception of liberal perfectionism. This is an extremely lively and timely discussion of fundamental issues confronting us today.' Richard J. Bernstein, Vera List Professor of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research, New York'There may be little justice in the world, but it is wonderful to see an excellent collection of insightful essays on development ethics written in honour of a pioneering contributor to the subject, David A. Crocker. The fact that the essays are inspired by and engage Crocker's original ideas makes this festschrift all the more significant.' Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, Harvard University, Massachusetts'This volume is a wonderful tribute to David A. Crocker, a pioneer in the field of development ethics, a humanist, and a dedicated teacher. Written by some of the top thinkers in this field, these essays are testimony both to the wide-ranging influence of Crocker's work on agency, capability and inclusive democracy, and to the importance of bringing together philosophy, development and critical theory. Crocker's responses to points raised by some authors adds further to the volume's intellectual sparkle. Those unfamiliar with these fine thinkers should begin here, while those already embedded in the field will find herein exciting new pathways of engagement.' Bina Agarwal, University of Manchester'In this impressive collection of essays, Keleher and Kosko have succeeded mightily in highlighting the deep contributions that David A. Crocker has made in his long career studying and expanding the field of development ethics. A particular success has been bringing a new focus on the roles of agency and deliberative democracy to bear on the capabilities approach. The essays of the many illustrious contributors highlight his contributions as well as the daunting obstacles that remain to achieving a development process that is ethical, equitable, and democratic for the many deprived populations of the world. The volume covers the philosophical, moral, and empirical aspects of this global challenge and is truly a wonderful read.' Carol Graham, Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution College Park Professor, University of Maryland'Edited in honour of David A. Crocker, the collection brilliantly brings together analyses, critiques, evaluations, amendments, and refinements of key concepts governing the paradigm of development ethics. The book voices the wealth of concepts of a whole solid school of social theory and the philosophical ramifications in its magnificent global perspectives; bringing into play the thoughts of such great philosophers of development as A. Sen, D. Crocker, S. Alkire, D. Goulet, J. Rawls, M. Nussbaum, and many other philosophers of development and democracy theory.' Ezroura Mohamed, Mohammed V University, MoroccoTable of ContentsIntroduction Lori Keleher and Stacy J. Kosko; Part I. Development Ethics: 1. Why development needs philosophy Lori Keleher; 2. What is development? Eric Palmer; 3. Public goods and public spirit: reflections on and beyond Nussbaum's political emotions Des Gasper and Flavio Comim; 4. Expanding a constricted moral lens: LGBTI persons, human rights, and the capabilities approach Chloe Schwenke; 5. Peacebuilding, development assistance, ethics and agency Nigel Dower; Part II. Agency: 6. Expanding agency: conceptual, explanatory, and normative implications Christine M. Koggel; 7. 'Reason to value': process, opportunity, and perfectionism in the capability approach Serene J. Khader and Stacy J. Kosko; 8. The multidimensionality of empowerment: conceptual and empirical considerations Alejandra Boni, Jay Drydyk, Alexandre Apsan Frediani, Aurora López-Fogués and Melanie Walker; 9. Agency, income inequality, and subjective well-being: the case of Uruguay Andrea Vigorito and Gonzalo Salas; 10. The legal status of whales and dolphins: from Bentham to the capabilities approach Rachel Nussbaum Wichert and Martha C. Nussbaum; Part III. Democracy: 11. On some limits and conflicts in participatory democracy Luis Camacho; 12. An agency-focused version of capability ethics and ethics of cordial reason: the search for a philosophical foundation for deliberative democracy Adela Cortina; 13. The double democratic deficit: global governance and future generations Frances Stewart; 14. Deliberative democracy and agency: linking transitional justice and development Colleen Murphy; 15. Consensus-building and its impact on policy: the National Agreement Forum in Peru Javier M. Iguíñiz Echeverría; Part IV. Development Ethics, Agency, and Democracy: New Challenges and New Directions: 16. From agency to perfectionist liberalism David A. Crocker; 17. Perfectionist liberalism and democracy David A. Crocker.
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Cambridge University Press The Owl and the Rooster
Book SynopsisSince 1945, there have been two waves of Anglo-American writing on Hegel''s political thought. The first defended it against works portraying Hegel as an apologist of Prussian reaction and a theorist of totalitarian nationalism. The second presented Hegel as a civic humanist critic of liberalism in the tradition of Rousseau. The first suppressed elements of Hegel''s thought that challenge liberalism''s individualistic premises; the second downplayed Hegel''s theism. This book recovers what was lost in each wave. It restores aspects of Hegel''s political thought unsettling to liberal beliefs, yet that lead to a state more liberal than Locke''s and Kant''s, which retain authoritarian elements. It also scrutinizes Hegel''s claim to have justified theism to rational insight, hence to have made it conformable to Enlightenment standards of admissible public discourse. And it seeks to show how, for Hegel, the wholeness unique to divinity is realizable among humans without concession or comproTrade Review'Brudner's account is, at once, broad and deep. The book is clear, engaging, erudite, and deeply intelligent. I believe that it will become widely recognized as a first-rate, original, and important contribution to our understanding of Hegel's political thought.' Peter Steinberger, Robert H. and Blanche Day Ellis Professor of Political Science and Humanities, Reed College, Oregon'[Brudner's] readers now have the opportunity to study in detail the interpretation of Hegel that lies behind [his] more narrowly jurisprudential works. They will discover the mature fruits of a lifetime of scholarly reflection, establishing Brudner as a courageous and unique voice in the very large literature on Hegel's political philosophy.' N. E. Simmonds, The Cambridge Law JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. The Circularity Problem: 1. The limit of cognition; 2. The limit of action; Part II. The Bridge: 3. The ridde of the Phenomenology of Spirit; 4. History conceptually understood; Part III. Institutional Preconditions: 5. The reasonableness of what is; 6. Authority, constitutionalism, justice; 7. Hegel and internationalism; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Justice Across Boundaries Whose Obligations
Book SynopsisWho ought to do what, and for whom, if global justice is to progress? In this collection of essays on justice beyond borders, Onora O'Neill criticises theoretical approaches that concentrate on rights, yet ignore both the obligations that must be met to realise those rights, and the capacities needed by those who shoulder these obligations. She notes that states are profoundly anti-cosmopolitan institutions, and that even those committed to justice and universal rights often lack the competence and the will to secure them, let alone to secure them beyond their borders. She argues for a wider conception of global justice, in which obligations may be held either by states or by competent non-state actors, and in which borders themselves must meet standards of justice. This rich and wide-ranging collection will appeal to a broad array of academic researchers and advanced students of political philosophy, political theory, international relations and philosophy of law.Trade Review'Onora O'Neill combines the most rigorous philosophical thinking with a rare capacity for judgment in order to address some of the deepest challenges of our age. Her essays are essential reading not only for philosophers and political theorists but for all those concerned about the prospects of justice on our planet.' John Tasioulas, King's College London'Onora O'Neill's moral and political philosophy has guided generations of scholars, practitioners and policy makers. This collection of important papers displays the integrity, rigour, breadth and arc of her thought over four decades. One cannot read this definitive work without concluding that she has torn down false boundaries and built firmer foundations for justice in a world of increasing complexity.' Andrew Kuper, Founder, LeapFrog Investments'A distinguished philosopher with a deep understanding of the real world of politics and professional practice, Onora O'Neill has been enriching and guiding our discourses on justice for over forty years. Amply demonstrating her practical wisdom and sound judgment, this wonderful collection displays her intellectual trajectory and the central insights that unify her thinking about human rights and responsibilities.' Thomas Pogge, Yale University, Connecticut'Onora O'Neill combines the most rigorous philosophical thinking with a rare capacity for judgement in order to address some of the deepest challenges of our age. Her essays are essential reading, not only for philosophers and political theorists but for all those concerned about the prospects of justice on our planet.' John Tasioulas, King's College LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Hunger across Boundaries: 1. Lifeboat Earth; 2. Rights, obligations and world hunger; 3. Rights to compensation; Part II. Justifications across Boundaries: 4. Justice and boundaries; 5. Ethical reasoning and ideological pluralism; 6. Bounded and cosmopolitan justice; 7. Pluralism, positivism and the justification of human rights; Part III. Action across Boundaries: 8. From Edmund Burke to twenty-first-century human rights: abstraction, circumstances and globalisation; 9. From statist to global conceptions of justice; 10. Global justice: whose obligations?; 11. Agents of justice; 12. The dark side of human rights; Part IV. Health across Boundaries: 13. Public health or clinical ethics: thinking beyond borders; 14. Broadening bioethics: clinical ethics, public health and global health; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Equality and Public Policy Volume 31 Part 2 312 Social Philosophy and Policy Series Number 312
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Cambridge University Press Enduring Injustice
Book SynopsisGovernments today often apologize for past injustices and scholars increasingly debate the issue, with many calling for apologies and reparations. Others suggest that what matters is victims of injustice today, not injustices in the past. Spinner-Halev argues that the problem facing some peoples is not only the injustice of the past, but that they still suffer from injustice today. They experience what he calls enduring injustices, and it is likely that these will persist without action to address them. The history of these injustices matters, not as a way to assign responsibility or because we need to remember more, but in order to understand the nature of the injustice and to help us think of possible ways to overcome it. Suggesting that enduring injustices fall outside the framework of liberal theory, Spinner-Halev spells out the implications of his arguments for conceptions of liberal justice and progress, reparations, apologies, state legitimacy, and post-nationalism.Trade Review'With characteristic sensitivity and nuance, Spinner-Halev explores the ways in which deep injustices can persist even within avowedly liberal regimes. This is an important book by a committed liberal with a deep appreciation for the limitations of liberal solutions.' Joseph H. Carens, University of Toronto'No country's past is free from the stain of injustice. But which past injustices merit attention today, and what kind of response is appropriate? Jeff Spinner-Halev tackles these questions from a fresh perspective, arguing that liberal political theory is ill equipped to handle them, and constructing a distinctive framework for thinking them through in a more helpful way. This is an insightful and provocative book by one of the country's most consistently interesting political theorists.' Alan Patten, Princeton University'Enduring Injustice introduces a new and provocative framework for thinking about not only the nature of past injustices but also the way in which they can persist into the present and why we need to address them. But even more impressively, Spinner-Halev ties this discussion to broader issues in liberal political theory and challenges us to think about the nature of injustice more generally. This is an important topic and [a] terrific read.' Duncan Ivison, University of SydneyTable of Contents1. Radical injustice; 2. Which injustices? What groups?; 3. Enduring injustice; 4. Apology and acknowledgement; 5. Legitimacy and the cast of history; 6. Elusive justice; 7. A chastened liberalism.
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Cambridge University Press Securitizing Islam Identity and the Search for Security
Book SynopsisSecuritizing Islam examines the impact of 9/11 on the lives and perceptions of individuals, focusing on the ways in which identities in Britain have been affected in relation to Islam. 'Securitization' describes the processes by which a particular group or issue comes to be seen as a threat, and thus subject to the perceptions and actions which go with national security. Croft applies this idea to the way in which the attitudes of individuals to their security and to Islam and Muslims have been transformed, affecting the everyday lives of both Muslims and non-Muslims. He argues that Muslims have come to be seen as the 'Other', outside the contemporary conception of Britishness. Reworking securitisation theory and drawing in the sociology of ontological security studies, Securitizing Islam produces a theoretically innovative framework for understanding a contemporary phenomenon that affects the everyday lives of millions.Trade Review'… combines theory with an empirically rich discussion of both historical and contemporary British identity … Securitizing Islam is a stimulating and important book that should be read and debated not only within the field of securitization theory, but by anyone interested in the relationship between security, national identity and Islam.' Frank Foley, European Political ScienceTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Ontological security and Britishness; 2. A post-Copenhagen securitisation theory; 3. 'Two World Wars and one World Cup': constructing contemporary Britishness; 4. 'New Britishness' and the 'new terrorism'; 5. The construction of ontological insecurity; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Virtuous Citizen
Book SynopsisTim Soutphommasane provides an original contribution to the political theory of citizenship and patriotism. Drawing on contemporary debates from across the world and over a range of issues including education and immigration, he argues that patriotism can be properly grounded in the liberal national tradition of a multicultural society.Trade Review'In this timely book, Tim Soutphommasane explains why the ideal liberal citizen is also a patriotic citizen. In so doing, he speaks directly to a deep desire for a philosophy that combines individual liberty with a sense of identity and belonging. His is an important argument that will shape debates in both academic political theory and real politics.' Marc Stears, University of Oxford'This is a very well-written and accessibly presented book that deals with an important and challenging topic: the place of patriotism in contemporary society. The author argues that patriotism properly construed can provide the basis for common citizenship in a multicultural state. The study relies on a careful reading and analysis of the key contemporary works on liberalism, multiculturalism and nationalism, and is itself a significant contribution to this body of literature. It is a fine example of applying rigorous philosophy to the problems of the real world.' Kok-Chor Tan, University of Pennsylvania'All too often nationalists and multiculturalists are at loggerheads. Tim Soutphommasane shows how dialogue between them is not only possible but highly productive for the making of good public policy.' Geoff Gallop, University of Sydney'In this topical book, Tim Soutphommasane constructs a theory of patriotic citizenship that confronts the profound challenges that cultural diversity raises for ideas of citizenship and community. Placing the value of patriotic commitments at the centre of the idea of citizenship, [he] seeks to show how they are compatible with liberal and democratic commitments, working through the implications of this for our ideas of membership, deliberative democracy, education and immigration. Lucidly written and forcefully argued, illustrated with a wide range of contemporary examples, this is a rich contribution to current political theory. It is likely to be both controversial and a key point of reference for future thinking about multiculturalism and citizenship.' Matthew Festenstein, University of York'Where the book stands out is in its nuanced treatment of liberalism, and it is this that accounts for its relevance to Britain.' The GuardianTable of Contents1. Introduction; Part I. Membership: 2. Patriotism; 3. Multiculturalism; 4. Liberal nationalism as cultural nationalism; Part II. Virtue: 5. Liberal nationalist virtue; 6. Patriotic deliberation and social criticism; Part III. Institutions: 7. Civic education; 8. Immigration and integration; 9. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press World Ordering
Book SynopsisDrawing on evolutionary epistemology, process ontology, and a social-cognition approach, this book suggests cognitive evolution, an evolutionary-constructivist social and normative theory of change and stability of international social orders. It argues that practices and their background knowledge survive preferentially, communities of practice serve as their vehicle, and social orders evolve. As an evolutionary theory of world ordering, which does not borrow from the natural sciences, it explains why certain configurations of practices organize and govern social orders epistemically and normatively, and why and how these configurations evolve from one social order to another. Suggesting a multiple and overlapping international social orders'' approach, the book uses three running cases of contested orders - Europe''s contemporary social order, the cyberspace order, and the corporate order - to illustrate the theory. Based on the concepts of common humanity and epistemological securitTrade Review'In this long-awaited, stunning book Emanuel Adler articulates his theory of cognitive evolution, expanding and deepening theoretical insights he has developed over a life-time of path-breaking scholarship. Its jacket should scream 'must-read'.' Peter J. Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter, Jr, Professor of International Studies Cornell University, New York'Emanuel Adler has written a work of extraordinary range and ambition. To say that it contributes to 'grand theory' in international relations tells only part of the story. His evolutionary-constructivist theory offers a new and challenging way to think about stability and change in many kinds of social order. This book will stimulate constructive debate both within and beyond international relations.' Charles R. Beitz, Princeton University, New Jersey'Emanuel Adler's theory of world order constitutes a unique and bold intellectual contribution. By addressing constructivist meta-theorising on a par with constitutive evolutionary theorising of world ordering, explanatory theorising of how such social orders evolve and normative theorising about the nature of better orders, his book shows in practice how our different modes of theorising need to be thought in parallel. Out of this reflection, Adler's framework combines practice and evolutionary theory that puts into motion a reconfigured understanding of communities of practice in their making of world order. Confronted with a fragmentation of theory and world order alike, the discipline of international relations has seen a return to grand theory of a more sophisticated kind. For all trying to 'think through' this fragmentation, Adler's book provides an indispensable intervention.' Stefano Guzzini, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Uppsala universitet, Sweden'A truly ambitious and innovative work that challenges dominant modes of theorizing international relations.' John Gerard Ruggie, Harvard University'Over the past three decades, Emanuel Adler has built up a weighty résumé of sophisticated contributions to debates about meta-theory and world order. World Ordering: A Social Theory of Cognitive Evolution both builds on and extends this oeuvre. It is a landmark achievement, one that will be ranked alongside, and may supersede, previous statements by Ernst Haas, Alexander Wendt, and others. World Ordering is, by any standard, a major accomplishment. The book is theoretically fertile, analytically insightful and compellingly argued. It is also a work of considerable ambition, rigour and sophistication. In his endorsement, Peter Katzenstein writes that its jacket 'should scream must read'. Quite so.' George Lawson, International Sociology'World ordering is a must-read and a major step in IR theorizing. It opens the latter to a flexible, processual social ontology, as well as to evolutionary theory.' International Affairs'With World Ordering, Adler has thus placed a solid foundation upon which scholarship on practice(s) and social order(s) can build and, relying on both creative variation and selective retention, strive toward a better understanding of social reality.' International Studies Review'Adler's social theory of cognitive evolution offers a novel way to look at the role played by practices in world-ordering processes.' Canadian Journal of Political Science'Emanuel Adler has been thinking about cognitive evolution, collective meaning, and social construction for a very long time. This book represents a major statement of his mature views, a kind of theoretical summation of decades of scholarship.' Perspectives on PoliticsTable of ContentsPrologue. The crux of the matter; Part I. Social Constructivism as Cognitive Evolution: 1. Samurai crabs and international social orders; 2. Evolutionary ontology: from being to becoming; 3. Evolutionary epistemology; 4. Practices, background knowledge, communities of practice, social orders; Part II. Cognitive Evolution Theory and International Social Orders: 5. International social orders; 6. Cognitive evolution theory: social mechanisms and processes; 7. Agential social mechanisms; 8. Creative variation; 9. Selective retention; 10. Better practices and bounded progress; Epilogue: world ordering.
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Cambridge University Press World Crisis and Underdevelopment
Book SynopsisWorld Crisis and Underdevelopment examines the impact of poverty and other global crises in generating forms of structural coercion that cause agential and societal underdevelopment. It draws from discourse ethics and recognition theory in criticizing injustices and pathologies associated with underdevelopment. Its scope is comprehensive, encompassing discussions about development science, philosophical anthropology, global migration, global capitalism and economic markets, human rights, international legal institutions, democratic politics and legitimation, world religions and secularization, and moral philosophy in its many varieties.Trade Review'World Crisis and Underdevelopment is an original, illuminating, solid contribution to a normative political philosophy of globalization. Soaring above specialties, Ingram discusses world poverty, migration, markets' misgivings, human rights, global justice, global constitutionalism, the reform of the UN from the angle of a critical theory inspired by Habermas' discourse-ethics and Honneth's theory of recognition.' Alessandro Ferrara, University of Rome Tor Vergata, ItalyTable of ContentsIntroduction: poverty and ethics: towards a critical theory of misdevelopment; Part I. Agency and Development: 1. Recognition, accountability, and agency; 2. Agency and coercion: empowering the poor through poverty expertise and development policy; Part II. Global Crisis: 3. Forced migration: toward a discourse theory of refugees; 4. Imperial power and global political economy: democracy and the limits of capitalism; Part III. Human Rights: 5. Human rights and global injustice: institutionalizing the moral claims of agency; 6. Making humanitarian law legitimate: the constitutionalization of global governance; 7. Nationalism, religion, and deliberative democracy: networking cosmopolitan solidarity.
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Cambridge University Press Homo Religiosus
Book SynopsisAre humans naturally predisposed to religion and supernatural beliefs? If so, does this naturalness provide a moral foundation for religious freedom? This volume offers a cross-disciplinary approach to these questions, engaging in a range of contemporary debates at the intersection of religion, cognitive science, sociology, anthropology, political science, epistemology, and moral philosophy. The contributors to this original and important volume present individual, sometimes opposing points of view on the naturalness of religion thesis and its implications for religious freedom. Topics include the epistemological foundations of religion, the relationship between religion and health, and a discussion of the philosophical foundations of religious freedom as a natural, universal right, drawing implications for the normative role of religion in public life. By challenging dominant intellectual paradigms, such as the secularization thesis and the Enlightenment view of religion, the volume oTrade Review'The contributors to this superb, inter-disciplinary collection are leaders in their respective fields. They illuminate a subject that should be of concern to everyone.' Roger Trigg, Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford'In recent years, academic and policy debates over religious freedom have had the unexpected but welcome effect of encouraging researchers to revisit several long-neglected questions: just what we mean by 'religion', whether religion is universal, and the implications of religion's presence in societies for our understanding of human nature. Although these questions are being posed anew in many circles, Timothy Samuel Shah and Jack Friedman's Homo Religiosus? is the first book to bring together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to address the issues in a philosophically sophisticated and comparative manner. The result is a pathbreaking book. The exercise is also bracing: even as its contributors speak in varied voices, their shared effort highlights the most critical epistemological and ethical shifts underway today in the comparative study of religion and human freedom.' Robert W. Hefner, The Pardee School of Global Affairs, Boston UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Jack Friedman and Timothy Samuel Shah; 1. Are human beings naturally religious? Christian Smith; 2. Are human beings naturally religious? A response to Christian Smith Phil Zuckerman; 3. On the naturalness of religion and religious freedom Justin L. Barrett; 4. Sacred versus secular values: cognitive and evolutionary sciences of religion and their implications for religious freedom Richard Sosis and Jordan Kiper; 5. Theism, naturalism and rationality Alvin Plantinga; 6. Alvin Plantinga on theism, naturalism and rationality Ernest Sosa; 7. Research on religion and health: time to be born again? Linda K. George; 8. Religion, health and happiness: an epidemiologist's perspective Jeff Levin; 9. Why there is a natural right to religious freedom Nicholas Wolterstorff; 10. Religious liberty, human dignity, and human goods Christopher Tollefsen; 11. Human rights, public reason, and American democracy: a response to Nicholas Wolterstorff Stephen Macedo.
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Cambridge University Press Democracy and Goodness
Book SynopsisCitizens, political leaders, and scholars invoke the term ''democracy'' to describe present-day states without grasping its roots or prospects in theory or practice. This book clarifies the political discourse about democracy by identifying that its primary focus is human activity, not consent. It points out how democracy is neither self-legitimating nor self-justifying and so requires critical, ethical discourse to address its ongoing problems, such as inequality and exclusion. Wallach pinpoints how democracy has historically depended on notions of goodness to ratify its power. The book analyses pivotal concepts of democratic ethics such as ''virtue'', ''representation'', ''civil rightness'', ''legitimacy'', and ''human rights'' and looks at them as practical versions of goodness that have adapted democracy to new constellations of power in history. Wallach notes how democratic ethics should never be reduced to power or moral ideals. Historical understanding needs to come first to higTrade Review'Democracy and Goodness is an admirable exercise in argumentation, as refined in its theoretical perspective as it is expansive in its political scope. Ranging across ancients and moderns in an unabashedly 'historicizing' mode, Wallach intervenes decisively onto the contested terrain of contemporary democratic theory, retrieving an account of democratic ethics that is intrinsic to democracy as an ongoing activity in politics and history. On these terms, Wallach's book is a welcome provocation at a moment when principled and coherent conceptions of the relation between democracy, power, and goodness are in short supply.' Mary G. Dietz, Northwestern University, Illinois'Wallach argues on the opening page of this ambitious, erudite, and wide-ranging book, 'democracy' is often treated as self-evidently 'good'. Why - on the basis of what conceptualizations of democracy and goodness - have successive generations of self identified democrats believed that? And how should future democracies act so as to bring democracy and goodness closer together? Wallach argues that efficacious answers to the second question require the kind of critical political judgment that can be developed by answering the first one.' Daniela Cammack, University of CaliforniaTable of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Historicizing democratic ethics; 2. Democracy and virtue in ancient Athens; 3. Representation as a political virtue and the formation of liberal democracy; 4. Civil rightness: a virtuous discipline for the modern Demos; 5. Democracy and legitimacy: popular justification of states amid contemporary globalization; 6. Human rights and democracy; Conclusion: political action and retrospection; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Healthy Conflict in Contemporary American Society
Book SynopsisUS citizens perceive their society to be one of the most diverse and religiously tolerant in the world today. Yet seemingly intractable religious intolerance and moral conflict abound throughout contemporary US public life - from abortion law battles, same-sex marriage, post-9/11 Islamophobia, public school curriculum controversies, to moral and religious dimensions of the Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall Street movements, and Tea Party populism. Healthy Conflict in Contemporary American Society develops an approach to democratic discourse and coalition-building across deep moral and religious divisions. Drawing on conflict transformation in peace studies, recent American pragmatist thought, and models of agonistic democracy, Jason Springs argues that, in circumstances riven with conflict between strong religious identities and deep moral and political commitments, productive engagement may depend on thinking creatively about how to constructively utilize conflict and intolerance. ThTrade Review'Jason A. Springs provides a timely reframing of our contemporary debates that have littered our political, religious, and social landscape with either an eager exclusion of the 'other' as extremist lost cases or through appeals toward some form of tolerant co-existence that mostly avoids any meaningful relationship across the divides. He wades into these broiling waters with the message that deep conflict will remain, in fact contemporary polarization will likely mark our discourse for decades to come, but this reality offers opportunity to practice a core set of basic democratic habits that may guide us away from this descending toward dysfunctional harm. Social health, he argues, depends not on denigrating the other or pursuing echo chambers, but on sustaining relationships that persist in carving qualities of imagination, a dose of empathic patience, and the courage to stay engaged with those who we find remarkably different and even offensive.' John Paul Lederach, author of The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace and Professor Emeritus, University of Notre Dame, Indiana'In a time of seemingly intractable conflicts, Jason A. Springs offers a thought-provoking analysis of what it takes to make headway in transforming those conflicts. That's the good news. The bad news is that it will not be easy or necessarily pleasant. It requires honing our skills for listening, living with dissonance and irresolution, stretching our imaginations, and facing our deepest fears without succumbing to despair or cynicism. Springs gathers these insights from philosophers, activists, sociologists, religious studies, preachers, peace studies, and comedians to construct vital recommendations for how to proceed with the problems we face.' Beth Eddy, author of The Rites of Identity: The Religious Naturalism and Cultural Criticism of Kenneth Burke and Ralph Ellison and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts'Jason A. Springs urges us not to stick our heads in the sand, but to confront unflinchingly, with imagination and courage, the conflicts that threaten to rend our way of life. Liberal tolerance isn't the answer. Instead, 'healthy conflict' can be the basis for enduring social and political change. This is an important and timely book.' Eddie Glaude, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Pragmatist Repertoires: 1. The difficulty of imagining other persons, re-imagined: moral imagination as a tool for transforming conflict; 2. Turning the searchlight inward: cultivating the virtues of moral imagination; 3. To let suffering speak: love, justice, and hope against hope; 4. The prophet and the president: prophetic rage in the age of Obama; 5. Testing the spirits: discerning true prophecy from false; 6. 'Dismantling the master's house': using the system to transform the system; Part II. Beyond American Intolerance: 7. Giving religious intolerance its due: agonistic respect in a post-secular society; 8. Looking it up in your gut?: Visceral politics and healthy conflict in the tea party era; 9. Islamophobia, American style: tolerance as American exceptionalism, and the prospects for strenuous pluralism; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Kumazawa Banzan Governing the Realm and Bringing Peace to All below Heaven
Book SynopsisKumazawa Banzan''s (1619-1691) Responding to the Great Learning (Daigaku wakumon) stands as the first major writing on political economy in early modern Japanese history. John A. Tucker''s translation is the first English rendition of this controversial text to be published in eighty years. The introduction offers an accessible and incisive commentary, including detailed analyses of Banzan''s text within the context of his life, as well as broader historical and intellectual developments in East Asian Confucian thought. Emphasizing parallels between Banzan''s life events, such as his relief efforts in the Okayama domain following devastating flooding, and his later writings advocating compassionate government, environmental initiatives, and projects for growing wealth, Tucker sheds light on Banzan''s main objective of ''governing the realm and bringing peace and prosperity to all below heaven''. In Responding to the Great Learning, Banzan was doing more than writing a philosophical comTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I: 1. The heaven-decreed duty of the people's ruler; 2. The heaven-decreed duty of the people's ministers; 3. Revering good counsel; 4. A grand project for growing wealth; 5. Eliminating anxieties over flooding and relieving droughts; 6. Preparing for northern barbarians, emergencies, and bad harvests; 7. Filling Shogunal coffers with gold, silver, rice, and grain; 8. Eliminating debt from the realm below heaven; 9. Helping Rōnin, vagrants, the unemployed, and the impoverished; 10. Making mountains luxuriant and rivers run deep; Part II: 11. The ebb and flow of the ruler's blessings; 12. Returning to the old farmer-Samurai society; 13. Eliminating landless income and increasing new fiefs; 14. Lowering the cost of foreign silk and textiles; 15. Eliminating Christianity; 16. Reviving Buddhism; 17. Reviving Shintō; 18. Worthy rulers reviving Japan; 19. Governing with education; 20. Those who should teach in our schools ; 21..A little kindness provides benefits; 22. Wasted rice and grain; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Montesquieus Liberalism and the Problem of Universal Politics
Book SynopsisDubbed ''the oracle'' by no less an authority than James Madison, Montesquieu stands as a theoretical founder of the liberal political tradition. But equally central to his project was his account of the relationship of law to each nation''s particular customs and place, a teaching that militates against universal political solutions. This teaching has sometimes been thought to stand in tension with his liberal constitutionalism. In this book, Keegan Callanan argues that Montesquieu''s political particularism and liberalism are complementary and mutually reinforcing parts of a coherent whole. In developing this argument, Callanan considers Montesquieu''s regime pluralism, psychological conception of liberty, approach to political reform, and account of ''the customs of a free people'', including the complex interaction of religion and commerce. Callanan concludes that, by re-orienting our understanding of liberalism and redirecting our attention toward liberty''s distinctive preconditiTrade Review'A thorough, searching study of Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws, the grandest and most comprehensive modern work on politics. Keegan Callanan explains its unique form of particularist liberalism, reviews and renews the scholarly controversies, and shows how Montesquieu intends 'to equip reformers, not merely to warn them'. With this elegant guide, Callanan aims to rouse today's liberalism from its lazy and misleading abstractions.' Harvey C. Mansfield, Harvard University, Massachusetts'Keegan Callanan's brilliant book, explaining how universal principles should be applied in a multicultural world, shows us how Montesquieu is still perfectly relevant for us today.' Céline Spector, University of Paris-Sorbonne'This masterful new book by Keegan Callanan goes to the heart of Montesquieu's effort to develop a theory of liberal government grounded on a universal moral foundation yet attuned to the particular needs of specific times, places and conditions. Callanan's study extends beyond The Spirit of the Laws to treat critical issues about the future of liberal regimes in a more globalized world. With this work Callanan establishes himself as an important new figure in the fields of democratic theory and the history of political philosophy.' James W. Ceaser, University of Virginia'In this lucid study of Montesquieu, Keegan Callanan presents to us the foremost liberal thinker whose strong commitment to liberal principles leads to an appreciation for the ways different constitutional forms can be compatible with these principles. At the same time, Callanan demonstrates that Montesquieu insists upon the need for liberal mores and manners that support, without being alien to, liberalism. Rousseau once said that Montesquieu 'knows how to teach by the things he says and by those he makes one think'. Callanan helps Montesquieu's teaching effort by bringing his thoughts to light.' Christopher Kelly, Boston College, Massachusetts'Two of the most celebrated and fundamental elements of Montesquieu's thought, his respect for cultural diversity and his embrace of liberal constitutionalism, are often thought to be at odds with one another. This deeply researched, consistently thoughtful, and finely crafted study shows that Montesquieu's critique of universalism is not only compatible with his liberalism, but flows directly from it as a matter of principle. Indeed, Callanan argues that today's liberals can and should learn from his combination of the two.' Dennis Rasmussen, Tufts University, Massachusetts'With lively prose and remarkable efficiency, Callanan (Middlebury) contrasts two variants of liberalism. … Given the length of Montesquieu's own 1748 work on the subject … [Callanan] provides an engaging summary and analysis that is relatively short but powerful and relevant. Readers gain not only an insightful overview of Montesquieu's landmark arguments but also of the challenges free societies face generally.' G. A. Moots, Choice'This is a first-rate book, and anyone interested in Montesquieu or Enlightenment liberalism more generally should buy it immediately … one of the very best books on Montesquieu yet published.' History of Political ThoughtTable of Contents1. Montesquieu and classical particularism; 2. Montesquieu and humanist constitutionalism; 3. Regime pluralism; 4. Understanding liberal culture; 5. Religion, secularism, and liberal society; 6. 'The spirit of tolerance and gentleness'; 7. Political change and the psychology of liberty; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
£76.49
Cambridge University Press Rawlss Egalitarianism
Book SynopsisThis is a new interpretation and analysis of John Rawls''s leading theory of distributive justice, which also considers the responding egalitarian theories of scholars such as Richard Arneson, G. A. Cohen, Ronald Dworkin, Martha Nussbaum, John Roemer, and Amartya Sen. Rawls''s theory, Kaufman argues, sets out a normative ideal of justice that incorporates an account of the structure and character of relations that are appropriate for members of society viewed as free and equal moral beings. Forging an approach distinct amongst contemporary theories of equality, Rawls offers an alternative to egalitarian justice methodologies that aim primarily to compensate victims for undeserved bad luck. For Rawls, the values that ground the most plausible account of egalitarianism are real equality of economic opportunity combined with the guarantee of a fair distribution of social goods. Kaufman''s analysis will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of political theory and political philosophy, particularly those working on justice, and on the work of John Rawls.Trade Review'Kaufman's book is an important contribution to the elaboration of Rawls's theory of distributive justice and its defense against many recent criticisms developed over the past 10–15 years. It should appeal to academic philosophers and political theorists who work on Rawls and on distributive justice more generally, including graduate students and upper level undergraduates.' Samuel Freeman, Avalon Professor of the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania'This book reflects a deep engagement with the work of John Rawls, and it captures both the general spirit and the details of that theory better than the great majority of commentaries. The most prominent criticisms of Rawls's work - including notably those of G. A. Cohen and Amartya Sen - rely on misunderstandings of the target view, and this manuscript goes a long distance toward explaining how and why that is so. Graduate students in philosophy or political science who are writing on Rawls (or on the particular critics considered here) will do very well to read this book, regardless of whether their own work is ultimately in sympathy with Rawls's work or critical of it. Critics of Rawls would also do well to read this book, since that would enable sharper and more sympathetic treatment of Rawls's views in the presentations of their own criticisms.' Jon Garthoff, University of Tennessee'… a learned and engaging book, and it will be of interest to scholars of Rawls and political equality. It pays meticulous attention to Rawls's particular arguments while keeping his entire political vision in mind.' Andrius Gališanka, Journal of Moral PhilosophyTable of ContentsIntroduction: democratic equality: retrieving Rawls's egalitarianism; 1. Rawls's practical conception of justice opinion, tradition and objectivity in political liberalism; 2. Stability, fit, and consensus; 3. Rawls and ethical constructivism; 4. A satisfactory minimum conception of justice reconsidering Rawls's maximin argument; 5. Cohen's ambiguities; 6. Justice as fairness and fair equality of opportunity; 7. Democratic equality; 8. Ideal theory and practical judgment; 9. Poverty, inequality, and justice.
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Cambridge University Press Kumazawa Banzan Governing the Realm and Bringing Peace to All below Heaven
Book SynopsisKumazawa Banzan''s (1619-1691) Responding to the Great Learning (Daigaku wakumon) stands as the first major writing on political economy in early modern Japanese history. John A. Tucker''s translation is the first English rendition of this controversial text to be published in eighty years. The introduction offers an accessible and incisive commentary, including detailed analyses of Banzan''s text within the context of his life, as well as broader historical and intellectual developments in East Asian Confucian thought. Emphasizing parallels between Banzan''s life events, such as his relief efforts in the Okayama domain following devastating flooding, and his later writings advocating compassionate government, environmental initiatives, and projects for growing wealth, Tucker sheds light on Banzan''s main objective of ''governing the realm and bringing peace and prosperity to all below heaven''. In Responding to the Great Learning, Banzan was doing more than writing a philosophical comTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I: 1. The heaven-decreed duty of the people's ruler; 2. The heaven-decreed duty of the people's ministers; 3. Revering good counsel; 4. A grand project for growing wealth; 5. Eliminating anxieties over flooding and relieving droughts; 6. Preparing for northern barbarians, emergencies, and bad harvests; 7. Filling Shogunal coffers with gold, silver, rice, and grain; 8. Eliminating debt from the realm below heaven; 9. Helping Rōnin, vagrants, the unemployed, and the impoverished; 10. Making mountains luxuriant and rivers run deep; Part II: 11. The ebb and flow of the ruler's blessings; 12. Returning to the old farmer-Samurai society; 13. Eliminating landless income and increasing new fiefs; 14. Lowering the cost of foreign silk and textiles; 15. Eliminating Christianity; 16. Reviving Buddhism; 17. Reviving Shintō; 18. Worthy rulers reviving Japan; 19. Governing with education; 20. Those who should teach in our schools ; 21..A little kindness provides benefits; 22. Wasted rice and grain; Bibliography.
£24.99
Cambridge University Press Montesquieus Liberalism and the Problem of Universal Politics
Book SynopsisDubbed ''the oracle'' by no less an authority than James Madison, Montesquieu stands as a theoretical founder of the liberal political tradition. But equally central to his project was his account of the relationship of law to each nation''s particular customs and place, a teaching that militates against universal political solutions. This teaching has sometimes been thought to stand in tension with his liberal constitutionalism. In this book, Keegan Callanan argues that Montesquieu''s political particularism and liberalism are complementary and mutually reinforcing parts of a coherent whole. In developing this argument, Callanan considers Montesquieu''s regime pluralism, psychological conception of liberty, approach to political reform, and account of ''the customs of a free people'', including the complex interaction of religion and commerce. Callanan concludes that, by re-orienting our understanding of liberalism and redirecting our attention toward liberty''s distinctive preconditiTrade Review'A thorough, searching study of Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws, the grandest and most comprehensive modern work on politics. Keegan Callanan explains its unique form of particularist liberalism, reviews and renews the scholarly controversies, and shows how Montesquieu intends 'to equip reformers, not merely to warn them'. With this elegant guide, Callanan aims to rouse today's liberalism from its lazy and misleading abstractions.' Harvey C. Mansfield, Harvard University, Massachusetts'Keegan Callanan's brilliant book, explaining how universal principles should be applied in a multicultural world, shows us how Montesquieu is still perfectly relevant for us today.' Céline Spector, University of Paris-Sorbonne'This masterful new book by Keegan Callanan goes to the heart of Montesquieu's effort to develop a theory of liberal government grounded on a universal moral foundation yet attuned to the particular needs of specific times, places and conditions. Callanan's study extends beyond The Spirit of the Laws to treat critical issues about the future of liberal regimes in a more globalized world. With this work Callanan establishes himself as an important new figure in the fields of democratic theory and the history of political philosophy.' James W. Ceaser, University of Virginia'In this lucid study of Montesquieu, Keegan Callanan presents to us the foremost liberal thinker whose strong commitment to liberal principles leads to an appreciation for the ways different constitutional forms can be compatible with these principles. At the same time, Callanan demonstrates that Montesquieu insists upon the need for liberal mores and manners that support, without being alien to, liberalism. Rousseau once said that Montesquieu 'knows how to teach by the things he says and by those he makes one think'. Callanan helps Montesquieu's teaching effort by bringing his thoughts to light.' Christopher Kelly, Boston College, Massachusetts'Two of the most celebrated and fundamental elements of Montesquieu's thought, his respect for cultural diversity and his embrace of liberal constitutionalism, are often thought to be at odds with one another. This deeply researched, consistently thoughtful, and finely crafted study shows that Montesquieu's critique of universalism is not only compatible with his liberalism, but flows directly from it as a matter of principle. Indeed, Callanan argues that today's liberals can and should learn from his combination of the two.' Dennis Rasmussen, Tufts University, Massachusetts'With lively prose and remarkable efficiency, Callanan (Middlebury) contrasts two variants of liberalism. … Given the length of Montesquieu's own 1748 work on the subject … [Callanan] provides an engaging summary and analysis that is relatively short but powerful and relevant. Readers gain not only an insightful overview of Montesquieu's landmark arguments but also of the challenges free societies face generally.' G. A. Moots, Choice'This is a first-rate book, and anyone interested in Montesquieu or Enlightenment liberalism more generally should buy it immediately … one of the very best books on Montesquieu yet published.' History of Political ThoughtTable of Contents1. Montesquieu and classical particularism; 2. Montesquieu and humanist constitutionalism; 3. Regime pluralism; 4. Understanding liberal culture; 5. Religion, secularism, and liberal society; 6. 'The spirit of tolerance and gentleness'; 7. Political change and the psychology of liberty; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
£29.44
Cambridge University Press Institutional Constructivism in Social Sciences and Law
Book SynopsisThis book proposes a new institutional constructivist model, for social scientific and legal enquiries, based on the interrelations within the social and political world and the application of change in EU laws and politics. Much of the research conducted in social sciences and law examines the diverse activities of individuals and collectivities and the role of institutions in the social and political world. Although there exist many vantage points from which one can gain entry into understanding how agents in the world act, interact, shape and bear the world, socio-legal scientific epistemology has found monism and dualism to be convincing models. This book argues that current models do not capture the complexity of our micro-worlds, macro-worlds and meso-worlds. Nor can they account for the forms and patterns of socio-legal change. Mind, time and change are brought together in an attempt to contribute to socio-legal epistemology and to enhance its toolkit.Trade Review'This book proposes an institutional constructivist model for social scientific and legal inquiries, based on the interrelations within the social and political world and the application of change in EU laws and politics.' Law & Social InquiryTable of ContentsIntroduction: on schemata: constructing theories and explanations; Part I. Theory Perspectives and Connexio Rerum: 1. On the methodology of social sciences: the case for connexio rerum; 2. Constructivisms and institutional constructivism; 3. Theorising institutional change: a dynamic theory of process; 4. Ideas, norms and European citizenship; Part II. Applied Aspects of Institutional Constructivism: 5. Co-creating European Union citizenship: institutional process and crescive norms; 6. From law, policies and norms to European integration: supranationalism contested; Conclusion: time and understanding in socio-legal research.
£63.64
Cambridge University Press Capabilities in a Just Society
Book SynopsisWhat sort of entitlements should citizens have in a just society? In this book, Rutger Claassen sets out a theory of what he terms ''navigational agency'', whereby citizens should be able to navigate freely between social practices. This shows how individuals can be at the same time free and autonomous in striving for their own goals in life, but also embedded in social practices in which they have to cooperate with others. He argues that for navigational agency, people need three sets of core capabilities: those which allow human empowerment in civil society, a decent level of socio-economic subsistence, and political participation in democratic decision-making procedures. The idea of navigational agency, the book argues, provides an alternative to currently dominant versions of the capability approach to social justice, and strengthens its liberal foundations.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Positioning the Capability Approach In Political Theory: 1. Liberalism: combining perfectionism and neutrality; Part II. The Theory of Navigational Agency: 2. An agency-based capability theory of justice; 3. Justifying the right to navigational agency; 4. The distribution of capabilities; Part III. Three Sets of Basic Capabilities: 5. Empowerment capabilities and civil freedom; 6. Subsistence capabilities and socio-economic justice; 7. Political capabilities and democracy; Conclusion.
£999.99
Cambridge University Press Imagining Africa
Book SynopsisAt times of Western crisis, such as the 2007–8 financial crisis, there has been a sudden growth of Afro-optimism, seemingly predicting Africa's 'rise'. Gabay examines British imperial attitudes towards Africa and shows that this phenomenon of positive coverage of Africa is neither unique, unexpected nor unpredictable.Trade Review'Clive Gabay employs a wide-angled lens to focus on the ways in which Euro-American idealisations of 'Africa' - its past, present and future - have continued to underpin the white-dominated racial order over the past hundred years. This painstakingly researched book will help to jolt contemporary conceptualisations of whiteness out of the narrow confines of identity politics (in which it is so often enmired).' Vron Ware, Kingston University'Is it possible to be optimistic about Africa? In this beautifully sculpted book, Clive Gabay argues that whiteness frames both negative and positive impressions of the continent. Via a set of empirically rich historical and contemporary investigations, Gabay comprehensively reveals the extent to which whiteness, in international relations, is a narcissism of the highest order.' Robbie Shilliam, The John Hopkins University'From black and savage Dark Continent to dynamic rising consumerist titan of the future, Africa has long occupied a special place in the Western imaginary. What Clive Gabay's boldly revisionist and impressively original text demonstrates is that the psychic interplay between maps and mapmakers has always been more complex and subtle than assumed - a dialectic reflecting the ongoing evolution of Whiteness itself from exclusionary phenotypical and eugenicist racial supremacy to putatively colourless institutional placeholder that even blacks (the right kind, of course) can now occupy.' Charles Mills, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; 1. Whiteness, the Western gaze and Africa; 2. Finding anti-civilisation in Africa; 3. Native rights in colonial Kenya: the symbolism of Harry Thuku; 4. 'Exploding Africa': Of post-war modernisers and travellers; 5. The Age of Capricorn: bridging the past to the present; 6. Afropolitanism, and the White-Western incorporation of Africa; 7. Africa rising, whiteness falling; 8. Making whiteness strange; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Utilitarianism in the Age of Enlightenment
Book SynopsisThis is the first book-length study of one of the most influential traditions in eighteenth-century Anglophone moral and political thought, ''theological utilitarianism''. Niall O''Flaherty charts its development from its formulation by Anglican disciples of Locke in the 1730s to its culmination in William Paley''s work. Few works of moral and political thought had such a profound impact on political discourse as Paley''s Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (1785). His arguments were at the forefront of debates about the constitution, the judicial system, slavery and poverty. By placing Paley''s moral thought in the context of theological debate, this book establishes his genuine commitment to a worldly theology and to a programme of human advancement. It thus raises serious doubts about histories which treat the Enlightenment as an entirely secular enterprise, as well as those which see English thought as being markedly out of step with wider European intellectual developmentTrade Review'… an impressive and enriching work.' Gregory Conti, The Review of PoliticsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. The Early Utilitarians: 1. The development of Lockean moral philosophy; 2. Abraham Tucker and the call for 'moral policy'; Part II. Paley's 'Moral Politics': 3. William Paley's moral thought; 4. 'Taking the pruning knife to the branch': expediency in action; 5. Natural theology as an aid to virtue; Part III. Paley's Politics: 6. Utility and the science of politics; 7. Utility and the constitution; 8. Paley on crimes and punishments; 9. Utility and toleration; Part IV. Property and Poverty: 10. The problem of poverty; 11. From Paley to Malthus: utility and society after 1785; Conclusion; Select bibliography.
£84.00
Cambridge University Press Empathy Beyond US Borders
Book SynopsisHow do middle-class Americans become aware of distant social problems and act against them? US colleges, congregations, and seminaries increasingly promote immersion travel as a way to bridge global distance, produce empathy, and increase global awareness. But does it? Drawing from a mixed methods study of a progressive, religious immersion travel organization at the US-Mexico border, Empathy Beyond US Borders provides a broad sociological context for the rise of immersion travel as a form of transnational civic engagement. Gary J. Adler, Jr follows alongside immersion travelers as they meet undocumented immigrants, walk desert trails, and witness deportations. His close observations combine with interviews and surveys to evaluate the potential of this civic action, while developing theory about culture, empathy, and progressive religion in transnational civic life. This timely book describes the moralization of travel, the organizational challenges of transnational engagement, and the difficulty of feeling transformed but not knowing how to help.Trade Review'Written beautifully and with heart, yet rigorously analytical, Adler's book uncovers the destabilizing and transformative complexity of human connection across political borders and, in the process, quietly but firmly dismantles the folly of wall-building delusions.' Peter Stamatov, Santander Endowed Chair Carlos III-Juan March Institute for the Social Sciences and New York University Abu Dhabi'Adler's book richly describes and theoretically analyzes the important case of progressive religious-based immersion trips along the US-Mexico border. He provides significant insight into the practice, structure, and transforming potential of these trips, and addresses the thorny issue of whether change occurs once participants return home. It is a must-read for anyone interested in religion and borders.' Kraig Beyerlein, Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society, University of Notre Dame'I can't wait to assign this thoughtful, balanced, beautifully theorized book to my students! Its subtle observations challenge some of our most cherished theories and common sense ideas about a kind of experience that many humanitarian organizations around the world try to produce. Social researchers will savor the book's clear and direct major contributions to social theory, organizational theory, and the sociology of emotions.' Nina Eliasoph, University of Southern California'Adler (Pennsylvania State Univ.) has written a compelling book about immersion travel … an accessible and enlightening analysis of a popular form of civic engagement, with much to say about its possibilities and limits … Highly recommended.' M. M. Franz, Choice'… Adler's work is both methodologically innovative and a great example of how empirics and conceptual abstraction can be brought into dialogue … I highly recommend it for the timeliness of its topic and as an example of what excellent cultural sociology can look like today.' Nicolette Manglos-Weber, Social Forces'… Empathy Beyond US Borders is an important contribution to those interested in the sociology of emotions and morally inspired collective action. Apart from scholars interested in transnational volunteering, civic engagement, philanthropy, and cosmopolitanism, this book offers non-specialized readers the opportunity to understand the reach of immersion travel, as well as the complexities that this alleged transformative experience bring about when it comes to convert concern into action.' Carlos R. Cordourier-Real, Voluntas'Scholars interested in religion, social theory, trasnational politics, and the sociology of culture will find this book immensely valuable.' Chandra Russo, Sociology of Religion'This book is a model piece of scholarship. It advances a number of important theories across the discipline and draws upon a remarkable breadth of literature. The book's empirical basis is meticulously considered. Adler's ethnographic voice is clear and compassionate. Its assessment of immersion travel is nuanced, offering important recommendations for practitioners. Scholars interested in religion, social theory, transnational politics, and the sociology of culture will find this book immensely valuable.' Chandra Russo, Sociology of ReligionTable of Contents1. From distance to concern; Part I. Organizational Roots and Dilemmas: 2. At the border between education and action; 3. The problems of finding truth through travel; Part II. Activities, Emotions, and Empathy: 4. What immersion travelers feel all day; 5. Why it's better to walk than talk; Part III. Patterns of Experience and Transformation: 6. Guided unsettledness: how groups safely shape travel; 7. What changes and why?; 8. The possibilities and problems of immersion travel; Methodological appendix; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Justice for People on the Move
Book SynopsisBy executive order, the US adopted an immigration policy that looks remarkably similar to a Muslim ban, and threatened to deport long-settled residents, such as the so-called Dreamers. Our defunct refugee system has not dealt adequately with increased refugee flows, forcing desperate people to undertake increasingly risky measures in efforts to reach safe havens. Meanwhile increased migration flows over recent years appear to have contributed to a rise in right-wing populism, apparently driving phenomena such as Brexit and Trumpism. In this original and insightful book Gillian Brock offers answers and tools that assist us in evaluating current migration policy and in helping to determine which policies may be permissible and which are normatively indefensible. She offers a comprehensive framework for responding to the many challenges which have recently emerged, and for delivering justice for people on the move along with those affected by migration.Trade Review'Brock's excellent book challenges readers to think carefully about what allows us to make policies around immigration and refugees that serve the interests of our citizens. In so doing, her book helps us to think deeply about what a just world would look like for migrants and non-migrants alike.' Serena Parekh, Journal of Global EthicsGillian Brock's book is a vital contribution to the existing philosophical literature on the ethics of migration. It engages in an original and incisive analysis of how respect for human rights ought to guide immigration policy today.' Desiree Lim, Ethics'Justice for People on the Move will be invaluable for those seeking clear ethical metrics for evaluating recent immigration policies. Brock deftly navigates between exploring current events and providing sound philosophical reasoning. Her capacious ethical framework draws from her prior work on global justice and solidly grounds arguments regarding policies that affect the human rights of migrants and refugees.' Paulina Ochoa Espejo, Haverford College'Gillian Brock directly engages the issues at the heart of our public debate: the US Muslim Ban, deportation of irregular migrants, refugee policy, temporary guestworker programs, and strategies for combating terrorism. Brock's excellent book has done us a great service by bringing the tools of philosophy to bear on these issues.' Anna Stilz, International Journal of Applied Philosophy'Gillian Brock's compelling and richly textured new book aims to set out a human-rights-based framework for thinking about justice in migration.' Andrea Sangiovanni, International Journal of Applied Philosophy'Justice for People on the Move is an important contribution to the political philosophy of immigration. It is humane and compassionate toward the world's most vulnerable migrants, refugees, while nonetheless seeking to understand the misguided thinking behind the attraction of anti-immigrant rhetoric for many ordinary people, as well as whose interests roadblocks in the ways of progress on migration justice serve.' Matthew Lindauer, Res Publica'Justice for People on the Move presents an important research program. Its core insight, that migration contexts should be understood not as natural justificatory deserts but rather as gaps in international human rights protection that need cooperatively to be filled, importantly sets us on the right track in thinking about contemporary migration challenges.' Jiewuh Song, Res Publica'… a fine book … that explores how the values embedded in the post-war human rights framework can be applied to illuminate the tensions between the rights of political communities to self-determination and the rights and aspirations of migrants and refugees.' Christopher Bertram, Mind'Brock's framework … does highly important work. Justice for People on the Move is an exciting book of great practical ambition, and its human rights framework facilitates its considerable capacities for action guidance.' David Owen, Ethics and Global Politics book symposium'A powerful, new account of migration justice, and as exciting, … contribution to normative debates on climate displacement.' Shelley Wilcox, Ethics and Global Politics book symposium'A significant contribution to the literature on migration justice. The book situates itself as a core reading for anyone interested in global migration justice and provides an excellent bridge between International Relations and Political Theory.' Merve Edilman, Journal of Refugee Studies'Her argument is a powerful and searing indictment of the inadequacy of present efforts and attitudes towards migrants and refugees. We should learn the lessons Brock offers, as well as investigate alternative pathways for clearing more access routes to developed states for people on the move. Pandemic aside, the international community ought to do much better, and this book offers one such path forward.' Carmen Pavel, Ethical PerspectivesTable of Contents1. New migration justice challenges and how to solve them: an overview; 2. Migration, justice and territory: towards a justificatory framework; 3. Self-determination, legitimacy, and the state system: a normative framework; 4. Muslim bans; 5. Irregular migration; 6. Refugees; 7. Temporary labor migration; 8. Terrorism and migration; 9. Migration in a legitimate state system: problems, progress and prospects.
£79.79
Cambridge University Press Transnational Cosmopolitanism
Book SynopsisThis volume is an original contribution to cosmopolitanism scholarship that questions the contemporary currency of Kant's canonical approach and enlists a neglected period of Du Bois's writing and political practice to radicalize, democratize, and transnationalize cosmopolitanism.Trade Review'By reading Kant 'disloyally' and mining Du Bois's anticolonial writings, Inés Valdez advances a radically transformed cosmopolitanism. Transnational Cosmopolitanism makes the case - brilliantly - that Du Bois's vision of transnational politics is essential to understanding and challenging global injustice today.' Lawrie Balfour, University of Virginia'This book makes a vital and timely contribution to the cosmopolitan and global justice literature by combining a rigorous investigation of Kantian and neo-Kantian theory with an equally rigorous, historically informed analysis of Du Bois's anti-colonial vision and Pan-Africanism. Valdez not only highlights the Eurocentric, racist, and exclusionary assumptions of the cosmopolitan tradition, she charts an alternative path of transnational solidarity that re-centers the contributions of subaltern counterpublics and expands cosmopolitan considerations beyond the ongoing limitations of imperialism.' Jeanne Morefield, University of Birmingham and author of Empires without Imperialism'In this excellent book, Inés Valdez powerfully reminds us that the 'postnational constellation' is also a postcolonial one. Thus the task before us is to theorize the normative grounds and political possibilities of a truly transnational cosmopolitanism that is aware of the blind spots of its own traditions. The dialogues Valdez constructs between Kant and Neokantians on the one hand and Du Bois and critical race theorists on the other hand are exemplary for the new kind of critical political theory we need. A great achievement that opens many doors.' Rainer Forst, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main'In Transnational Cosmopolitanism political theorist Inés Valdez offers a readable and engaged explication of key ideas in the works of Kant and Du Bois about the intellectual origins of our modern conceptions of cosmopolitan identity and its limits. Offering a thoughtful narrative based on wide reading of the primary and secondary texts, Valdez establishes an important new voice in contemporary debates about the ideology of identity and its understudied transnational sources and implications. The book superbly exposes the fragility of political cosmopolitanism rooted exclusively in national conceptions of identity and nationhood.' Desmond King, Andrew Mellon Professor of American Government, University of Oxford'Transnational Cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and Justice as a Political Craft provides a theoretical framework to think about politics outside of the domestic and international realms which dominate theorization on cosmopolitanism, establishes W. E. B. Du Bois as a crucial interlocutor in the cosmopolitan literature, and opens dynamic new avenues of research on the political theory of transnationalism.' Emma Stone Mackinnon, The Review of Politics'Inés Valdez's book is a gem, with game-changing contributions to cosmopolitanism in political theory and philosophy, international studies, and comparative political thought, not to mention in Kant and Du Bois Studies. A welcome tour de force, this book transfigures the premises and frameworks of Kant's and Kantian cosmopolitanism by bringing in DuBois's political craft as the much-needed reorienting normative framework of transnational justice. Not only is it rich and timely, but it also achieves a myriad of different and important tasks for contemporary political theory.' Dilek Huseyinzadegan, Contemporary Political Theory'This book is a fine contribution to the literature, exemplifying … interdisciplinary scope and appeal … and as such a text that could be read with profit by scholars not just in political theory, but IR, history, African American studies, and above all, philosophy.' Charles Mills, Review of PoliticsTable of Contents1. The limits of Kant's anti-colonialism and his philosophy of history; 2. Vertical and horizontal readings of Kant's principles; 3. Du Bois and a radical, transnational, cosmopolitanism; 4. Race, identity, and the question of transnational solidarity in cosmopolitanism; 5. A transnationally cosmopolitan counterpublic; References; Index.
£85.50
Cambridge University Press Sovereignty in Action
Book SynopsisSovereignty originally denoted the power of the 'sovereign', and later became a more abstract idea: the power of the state, later of the people or 'popular sovereign'. Today sovereignty confronts challenges of globalization, privatization of power, and the rise of sub-state nationalism. An examination of key writers traces these challenges.Trade Review'A fascinating collection of essays that explores the systematic and historical dimensions of sovereignty, the concept which distills the polemical claim to unity of modern polities.' Hans Lindahl, Chair of Legal Philosophy, Tilburg University and Chair of Global Law, Queen Mary University of LondonTable of ContentsList of contributors; Preface; Introduction: sovereignty in action Bas Leijssenaar and Neil Walker; Part I. Theory in History: 1. Post-sovereignty? Dieter Grimm; 2. When sovereigns stir Neil Walker; 3. The people as popular manifestation Jason Frank; 4. Sovereignty, action, autonomy Raf Geenens; Part II. History of Theory: 5. Liberal governmentality and the political theology of constitutionalism Miguel Vatter; 6. Popular sovereignty: the people's two bodies Pasquale Pasquino; 7. Nations against the people. Whose sovereign power? Olga Bashkina; 8. A positive or negative conception of sovereignty? Marcel Gauchet, Benjamin Constant and liberal democracy Nora Timmermans; 9. Political idolatry: the relation of Schmitt's two claims in Political Theology Stephanie Frank; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Age of Algorithms
Book SynopsisAlgorithms are probably the most sophisticated tools that people have had at their disposal since the beginnings of human history. They have transformed science, industry, society. They upset the concepts of work, property, government, private life, even humanity. Going easily from one extreme to the other, we rejoice that they make life easier for us, but fear that they will enslave us. To get beyond this vision of good vs evil, this book takes a new look at our time, the age of algorithms. Creations of the human spirit, algorithms are what we made them. And they will be what we want them to be: it''s up to us to choose the world we want to live in.Trade Review'... written by two computer scientists offering a most accessible view on both what algorithms are (the book starts with a clearest analogy between algorithms and recipes) and how algorithms are severely changing human life.' Simona Chiodo, Metascience'This short and interesting book provides a non-technical introduction to the age of algorithms. The book is worth reading many times even by those unfamiliar with algorithms or computer science.' S.V. Nagaraj, The SIGACT NewsTable of Contents1. Algorithms intrigue, algorithms disturb; 2. What is an algorithm?; 3. Algorithms, computers, and programs; 4. What algorithms do; 5. What algorithms don't do; 6. Computational thinking; 7. The end of employment; 8. The end of work; 9. The end of property; 10. Governing in the age of algorithms; 11. An algorithm in the community; 12. The responsibility of algorithms; 13. Personal data and privacy; 14. Fairness, transparency, and diversity; 15. Computers and ecology; 16. Computer science education; 17. The augmented human; 18. Can an algorithm be intelligent?; 19. Can an algorithm have feelings? 20. Time to choose.
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Cambridge University Press The Prophet of Modern Constitutional Liberalism
Book SynopsisJohn Stuart Mill is the father of modern liberalism. His most remembered work, On Liberty, which was published in 1859, changed the course of the liberal tradition. What is less well-known is that his ideas have profoundly influenced the American constitutional rights tradition of the latter half of the twentieth century. Mill''s ''harm principle'' inspired the constitutional right to privacy recognized in Griswold v Connecticut, Roe vs Wade and other cases. His defense of freedom of expression influenced Justices Holmes, Brandeis, Douglas, Brennan and others and led to greatly expanded freedom of speech in the twentieth century. Finally, Mill was an ardent feminist whose last important work, The Subjection of Women, was a full-scale and, for its time, radical defense of complete gender equality. This is a book for lawyers who want to understand the intellectual origins of modern constitutional rights, and for political philosophers interested in the constitutional implications of MillTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Mill and his Place in the Liberal Tradition: 1. Mill's life, work and character; 2. Liberalism before Mill; 3. Inventing modern liberalism; Part II. Mill and the Constitution: 4. Constitutional liberties before Mill; 5. The intellectual origins of the right to privacy; 6. Mill and the right of freedom of expression; 7. A new equality.
£85.49
Cambridge University Press Foundations of American Political Thought
Book SynopsisAmerican political thought was shaped by a unique combination of theoretical influences: republicanism, liberalism, and covenant theology. This reader shows how these influences came together. Organized chronologically from the Puritans'' arrival in the New World to the Civil War, each chapter includes carefully selected primary sources and substantial commentary to explain the historical context and significance of the excerpts. A coherent interpretative framework is offered by focusing the analysis on the different assumptions of the people - the republican understanding as a corporate whole and the liberal understanding as a multitude of individuals - that were intertwined during the founding. The book features, for the first time, two chapters on non-American authors, who capture the main tenets of republicanism and liberalism and were widely quoted in the era, as well as excerpts from lesser-known sources, including Puritan covenants, the first state constitutions, and Native AmerTrade Review'This valuable anthology connects primary texts of American political thought with key works of the European tradition. By focusing on the liberal, republican, and Puritan sources of the American founding period, Fumurescu and Schön provide the best introduction I know to the richness and diversity of our enduring national character. This book will be an invaluable instructional text for years to come.' Steven B. Smith, Yale University'This is a judiciously selected, well organized, and helpfully introduced anthology that should prove a valuable resource for both undergraduate and graduate teaching of the historical foundations of America's civic culture.' Thomas L. Pangle, University of Texas, Austin'Alin Fumurescu and Anna Marisa Schön provide an excellent introduction to the foundations of American political thought with this collection of readings and commentary that showcases competing understandings of the American political order and contested notions of American exceptionalism. Beginning with the classical and modern sources of American political thought and concluding with Abraham Lincoln's profound reflections in the crucible of the Civil War, this book is an essential resource for students and scholars alike.' Justin Buckley Dyer, University of MissouriTable of Contents1. Introduction – The People's Two Bodies; 2. Republicanism – The People 'Is'; 3. Liberalism – The People 'Are'; 4. The Puritans – The Bi-Dimensional Covenant; 5. Independence – The Negative Founding; 6. The Positive Founding (I): One People or Several Peoples? 7. The Positive Founding (II) – The People as One and Many; 8. The Whole and the Parties; 9. People That Were Left Behind; 10. The United States 'Is'.
£94.99
Cambridge University Press Social Avalanche
Book SynopsisIndividuality and collectivity are central concepts in sociological inquiry. Incorporating cultural history, social theory, urban and economic sociology, Borch proposes an innovative rethinking of these key terms and their interconnections via the concept of the social avalanche. Drawing on classical sociology, he argues that while individuality embodies a tension between the collective and individual autonomy, certain situations, such as crowds and other moments of group behaviour, can subsume the individual entirely within the collective. These events, or social avalanches, produce an experience of being swept away suddenly and losing one''s sense of self. Cities are often on the verge of social avalanches, their urban inhabitants torn between de-individualising external pressure and autonomous self-presentation. Similarly, Borch argues that present-day financial markets, dominated by computerised trading, abound with social avalanches and the tensional interplay of mimesis and autonTrade Review'Internationally known for his work on the role played by the crowd theory in the origins of sociology, particularly in France at the end of the nineteenth century (The Politics of Crowds: An Alternative History of Sociology, Cambridge, 2012), Christian Borch, in this new book, develops a critical reinterpretation of this tradition which brought him to build a completely original conceptual apparatus. One of the interests of this frame is to render again social sciences attentive to the plasticity and uncertainty of social processes. Its empirical implementation sheds a new light on crucial and misunderstood aspects of our modernity, particularly in the financial sphere. An important book that will trigger new debates in social sciences.' Luc Boltanski, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris'In Social Avalanche: Crowds, Cities and Financial Markets, Christian Borch brilliantly re-reads nineteenth- and early twentieth-century social, cultural and economic theories to reveal how they identified the tensions experienced by modern individuals trying to hold themselves together in crowds that also carried them away. Borch makes new connections between denizens of cities on the verge of losing their individuality in social avalanches and algorithms running off the rails in high-frequency-driven 'Flash Crashes'. A fascinating read deeply relevant to our current era.' Robin Wagner-Pacifici, University in Exile Professor of Sociology, New School for Social Research, New YorkTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; List of figures; 1. Introduction: reimagining collective life; 2. Fin-de-siècle landslides; 3. Tensional individuality; 4. Social avalanches; 5. Cities; 6. Financial markets; Conclusion; Index.
£90.25
Cambridge University Press Women as ConstitutionMakers
Book SynopsisThat a constitution should express the will of ''the people'' is a long-standing principle, but the identity of ''the people'' has historically been narrow. Women, in particular, were not included. A shift, however, has recently occurred. Women''s participation in constitution-making is now recognised as a democratic right. Women''s demands to have their voices heard in both the processes of constitution-making and the text of their country''s constitution, are gaining recognition. Campaigning for inclusion in their country''s constitution-making, women have adopted innovative strategies to express their constitutional aspirations. This collection offers, for the first time, comprehensive case studies of women''s campaigns for constitutional equality in nine different countries that have undergone constitutional transformations in the ''participatory era''. Against a richly-contextualised historical and political background, each charts the actions and strategies of women participants,Table of ContentsIntroduction Ruth Rubio-Marín and Helen Irving; 1. Women's movements and the recognition of gender equality in the constitution-making process in Morocco and Tunisia (2011–14) Sara Borrillo; 2. Women and constitution-making in post-Communist Romania Elena Brodeala and Silvia Suteu; 3. Re-living yesterday's battles: women and constitution-making in post-Saddam Iraq Noga Efrati; 4. Women's participation in peace-building and constitution-making in Somalia Sakuntala Kadirgamar; 5. Feminist legalism: Colombian constitution-making in the 1990s Julieta Lemaitre; 6. Women and constitution-making in Turkey: from Ottoman modernism to a constitutionalism of women's platform Bertil Emrah Oder; 7. Egypt's tale of two constitutions: diverging gendered processes and outcomes Mariz Tadros; 8. Dialogic democracy, feminist theory, and women's participation in constitution-making Susan H. Williams.
£99.90
Cambridge University Press Adivasis and the State
Book SynopsisIn Adivasis and the State, Alf Gunvald Nilsen presents a major study of how subalternity is both constituted and contested through state-society relations in the Bhil heartland of western India. The book unravels the historical processes that subordinated Bhil Adivasi communities to the everyday tyranny of the state and investigates how social movements have mobilised to reclaim citizenship. In doing so, the book also reveals how collective action from below transform the meanings of governmental categories, legal frameworks, and universalising vocabularies of democracy. At the core of the book lies a concern with understanding the dialectics of power and resistance that give form and direction to the political economy of democracy and development in contemporary India. Towards this end, Adivasis and the State contributes a sustained and nuanced Gramscian analysis of hegemony in order to interrogate the possibilities and limits of subaltern political engagement with state structures.Table of ContentsList of figures and tables; Glossary of Hindi terms; Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I. Subalternity: 2. 'So much fear was inside us': everyday tyranny in the Bhil heartland; 3. 'Quiet and obedient cultivators': colonial state space and the origins of everyday tyranny; 4. 'You are now the masters of the country': negotiations and consolidations; Part II. Citizenship: 5. 'The fears have gone away': making oppositional local rationalities; 6. 'We are the ones who make the Sarkar': law, civil society and citizenship in subaltern politics; 7. 'They have weakened us': deciphering the politics of coercion; 8. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
£999.99
Cambridge University Press Mobilising International Law for Global Justice
Book SynopsisThis book aims to reach scholars and undergraduate students interested in the theme of global justice and the dynamics of international law-making and enforcement. Practicing lawyers and public officials will also appreciate its grounded studies on the challenges of applying international law in response to complex social and political problems.Trade Review'… very well researched, tightly argued, and refreshingly coherent … This volume is clearly intended for scholars and more advanced students of international law and relations and will be of most use to those who are well versed in critical legal studies …' Eric A. Heinze, H-Diplo'The chapters showcase a diverse range of topics and methodologies. Through a series of case studies, the book aims to provide a number of strategies for these actors to realise the goal of preventing impunity for breaches of international law. In doing so, the book illustrates that it is possible for civil society and international lawyers to effect positive change in State-centric international legal institutions … The question of whether human rights change within a State is 'top-down' from international institutions or 'bottom up' from a mobilized society is one that international lawyers often contemplate. This book shows that under certain circumstances, it is possible for civil society to re-describe the issue to achieve some form of international justice, and that in order to do so, international law must couple with other areas, including international politics. Ultimately, this edited collection reminds international lawyers and civil society that instead of calling for reform of international institutions, there are other more effective means of achieving global justice.' Amina Adanan, Journal of Conflict & Security Law (2022)Table of Contents1. Mobilising international law as an instrument of global justice Jeff Handmaker and Karin Arts; 2. Speaking the language of international law and politics: or, of ducks, rabbits, and then some Martti Koskenniemi; 3. The globalisation of justice: amplifying and silencing voices at the ICC Sarah Nouwen and Warner ten Kate; 4. Justice through direct action: the case of the Gaza 'Freedom Flotilla' Claudia Saba; 5. The Hague Conventions: giving effect to human rights through instruments of private international law Maja Groff; 6. Current developments in the fight against corruption Abiola Makinwa; 7. A fatal attraction? The UN Security Council and the relationship between R2P and the International Criminal Court Mark Kersten; 8. A return to stability? Hegemonic and counter-hegemonic positions in the debate on universal jurisdiction in absentia Aisling O'Sullivan; 9. The domestic politics of international children's rights: a Dutch perspective Jasper Krommendijk; 10. Human rights cities: the politics of bringing human rights home to the local level Barbara Oomen; 11. Taking seriously the politics of international law Jeff Handmaker and Karin Arts.
£85.50
Cambridge University Press Social Avalanche
Book SynopsisIndividuality and collectivity are central concepts in sociological inquiry. Incorporating cultural history, social theory, urban and economic sociology, Borch proposes an innovative rethinking of these key terms and their interconnections via the concept of the social avalanche. Drawing on classical sociology, he argues that while individuality embodies a tension between the collective and individual autonomy, certain situations, such as crowds and other moments of group behaviour, can subsume the individual entirely within the collective. These events, or social avalanches, produce an experience of being swept away suddenly and losing one''s sense of self. Cities are often on the verge of social avalanches, their urban inhabitants torn between de-individualising external pressure and autonomous self-presentation. Similarly, Borch argues that present-day financial markets, dominated by computerised trading, abound with social avalanches and the tensional interplay of mimesis and autonTrade Review'Internationally known for his work on the role played by the crowd theory in the origins of sociology, particularly in France at the end of the nineteenth century (The Politics of Crowds: An Alternative History of Sociology, Cambridge, 2012), Christian Borch, in this new book, develops a critical reinterpretation of this tradition which brought him to build a completely original conceptual apparatus. One of the interests of this frame is to render again social sciences attentive to the plasticity and uncertainty of social processes. Its empirical implementation sheds a new light on crucial and misunderstood aspects of our modernity, particularly in the financial sphere. An important book that will trigger new debates in social sciences.' Luc Boltanski, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris'In Social Avalanche: Crowds, Cities and Financial Markets, Christian Borch brilliantly re-reads nineteenth- and early twentieth-century social, cultural and economic theories to reveal how they identified the tensions experienced by modern individuals trying to hold themselves together in crowds that also carried them away. Borch makes new connections between denizens of cities on the verge of losing their individuality in social avalanches and algorithms running off the rails in high-frequency-driven 'Flash Crashes'. A fascinating read deeply relevant to our current era.' Robin Wagner-Pacifici, University in Exile Professor of Sociology, New School for Social Research, New YorkTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; List of figures; 1. Introduction: reimagining collective life; 2. Fin-de-siècle landslides; 3. Tensional individuality; 4. Social avalanches; 5. Cities; 6. Financial markets; Conclusion; Index.
£28.99
Cambridge University Press New Technologies and the Law in War and Peace
Book SynopsisPolicymakers, legislators, scientists, thinkers, military strategists, academics, and all those interested in understanding the future want to know how twenty-first century scientific advance should be regulated in war and peace. This book tries to provide some of the answers. Part I summarises some important elements of the relevant law. In Part II, individual chapters are devoted to cyber capabilities, highly automated and autonomous systems, human enhancement technologies, human degradation techniques, the regulation of nanomaterials, novel naval technologies, outer space, synthetic brain technologies beyond artificial intelligence, and biometrics. The final part of the book notes important synergies that emerge between the different technologies and legal provisions, existing and proposed, assesses notions of convergence and of composition in international law, and provides some concluding remarks. The new technologies, their uses, and their regulation in war and peace are presenteTable of ContentsPart I: 1. Introduction William H. Boothby; 2. Regulating new weapon technologies William H. Boothby; 3. The law on the conduct of hostilities William H. Boothby; 4. Non-LOAC governed deployment of military technologies: some regulatory touchstones Rob McLaughlin; Part II: 5. Cyber capabilities William H. Boothby; 6. Highly automated and autonomous technologies William H. Boothby; 7. Military human enhancement Ioana Maria Puscas; 8. Legal aspects of human enhancement technologies Heather A. Harrison Dinniss; 9. Human degradation technologies and international law Harry Aitken and Hitoshi Nasu; 10. Nanomaterials: a tale of two applications Kobi Leins and Diana M. Bowman; 11. Naval technologies Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg; 12. Outer space Melissa de Zwart; 13. Synthetic brain technologies: beyond artificial intelligence David P. Fidler; 14. Biometrics William H. Boothby; 15. So, what do we make of all this? William H. Boothby.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Italian Thought Today
Book SynopsisThis collection provides English readers with a critical update on current debates on biopolitics in and around Italian thought. More than a decade after the publication of seminal books such as Agamben's Homo Sacer and Hardt and Negri's Empire, the names of, among others, Roberto Esposito, Paolo Virno, Christian Marazzi, and Andrea Fumagalli have recently been brought to the attention of Anglophone scholars and political activists. Several authors have rightly emphasised the evanescent character of biopolitics, and the difficulty in providing a definition of it that could embrace all the conflicting theories of its most celebrated critics and supporters. The present collection is structured around the basic contention that bio-economy, human nature, and Christianity are the three visible contemporary manifestations of the theoretical object/problem of biopolitics in, respectively, Italian post-workerist economics, post-Marxist philosophical anthropology, and post-struTable of Contents1. Introduction Lorenzo Chiesa 2. Twenty Theses on Contemporary Capitalism (Cognitive Biocapitalism) Andrea Fumagalli 3. Dyslexia and the Economy Christian Marazzi 4. Hunger, Repletion, and Anxiety Massimo Recalcati 5. The Word and the Flesh: Postworkerism and the Biopolitics of Language in Paolo Virno and Christian Marazzi Pietro Bianchi 6. The Untamed Ontology Davide Tarizzo 7. The Anthropological Meaning of Infinite Regression Paolo Virno 8. Politics and Human Nature Roberto Esposito 9. Affirmative Biopolitics and Human Nature in Franco Basaglia’s Thought Alvise Sforza Tarabochia 10. The Bio-Theo-Politics of Birth Lorenzo Chiesa 11. Angels Giorgio Agamben 12. Divine Management: Critical Remarks on Giorgio Agamben’s The Kingdom and the Glory Alberto Toscano 13. Giorgio Agamben’s Godless Saints: Saving What Was Not Jelica Šumič 14. Kafka’s Land Surveyor K.: Agamben’s Anti-Muselmann Boštjan Nedoh 15. The Event of Language as Force of Life: Agamben’s Linguistic Vitalism Lorenzo Chiesa Frank Ruda
£47.49
Cambridge University Press Understanding Race
Book SynopsisThe human species is very young, but in a short time it has acquired some striking, if biologically superficial, variations across the planet. As this book shows, however, none of those biological variations can be understood in terms of discrete races, which do not actually exist as definable entities. Starting with a consideration of evolution and the mechanisms of diversification in nature, this book moves to an examination of attitudes to human variation throughout history, showing that it was only with the advent of slavery that considerations of human variation became politicized. It then embarks on a consideration of how racial classifications have been applied to genomic studies, demonstrating how individualized genomics is a much more effective approach to clinical treatments. It also shows how racial stratification does nothing to help us understand the phenomenon of human variation, at either the genomic or physical levels.Trade Review'DeSalle and Tattersall provide a brilliant and comprehensive refutation of the folk concept of human races. Anyone who thinks that there are natural categories of people that correspond to zoological subspecies will have their worldview blown to bits!' Jonathan Marks, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte'Understanding Race explains to the reader in accessible terms all the misconceptions that continue to plague both lay people and professionals concerning race. First, the authors establish for the reader the fundamental mechanisms of evolution that are responsible for the variation within all species; then they explain how people thought about variation before there was a science to correctly explain it. The book guides the reader through how racial thinking changed as our understanding of evolution, as well as the technology to understand genetic variation, improved. The authors end by drawing attention to ongoing misconceptions concerning biological variation and social definitions of race in a variety of arenas, including medicine. If you don't read my books, you should read theirs; and in the best of all worlds you should read both.' Joseph L. Graves, Jr, Professor of Biological Sciences, North Carolina A&T State UniversityTable of Contents1. The evolutionary background; 2. Race before evolutionary theory; 3. Race after Darwin; 4. Race in the era of genetics and genomics; 5. Variation in genomes, and how humans took over the world; 6. Clustering and treeing; 7. Race in medicine and complex phenotypic studies; 8. Human adaptations; 9. Race, science and pseudoscience.
£39.99
Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Handbook of the Just War
Book SynopsisWhat makes a war just? What makes a specific weapon, strategy, or decision in war just? The tradition of Just War Theory has provided answers to these questions since at least 400 AD, yet each shift in the weapons and strategies of war poses significant challenges to Just War Theory. This book assembles renowned scholars from around the world to reflect on the most pressing problems and questions in Just War Theory, and engages with all three stages of war: jus ad bellum, jus in bello, and jus post bellum. Providing detailed historical context as well as addressing modern controversies and topics including drones, Islamic jihad, and humanitarian intervention, the volume will be highly important for students and scholars of the philosophy of war as well as for others interested in contemporary global military and ethical issues.Table of ContentsIntroduction Larry May; Part I. Historical Background: 1. Just War tradition in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages John Mark Mattox; 2. Grotius and the early modern tradition Johan Olsthoorn; Part II. Initiating a Just War: 3. State defense Yitzhak Benbaji; 4. Just cause Uwe Steinhoff; 5. The condition of last resort Suzanne Uniacke; 6. The moral problems of asymmetric war Steve Lee; Part III. Conducting a Just War: 7. Individual self-defense in war Lionel McPherson; 8. Distinction and civilian immunity Shannon French; 9. Proportionality and necessity in Bello Jovanna Davidovic; 10. Weighing civilian lives: domestic versus foreign Saba Bazargan-Forward; 11. Drone warfare and the principle of discrimination Eric Joseph Ritter; Part IV. Just War and International Legal Theory: 12. Jus ad Bellum Larry May; 13. The basic structure of Jus in Bello Jens David Ohlin; 14. Necessity and proportionality in international law Adil Haque; 15. Humanitarianism: neutrality, impartiality, and humanity Elizabeth Lanphier; 16. The challenge to the laws of war by Islamic Jihad Shannon Fyfe; Afterword Henry Shue.
£29.44
Cambridge University Press The Power of Nonviolence
Book SynopsisThe Power of Nonviolence, written by Richard Bartlett Gregg in 1934 and revised in 1944 and 1959, is the most important and influential theory of principled or integral nonviolence published in the twentieth century. Drawing on Gandhi''s ideas and practice, Gregg explains in detail how the organized power of nonviolence (power-with) exercised against violent opponents can bring about small and large transformative social change and provide an effective substitute for war. This edition includes a major introduction by political theorist, James Tully, situating the text in its contexts from 1934 to 1959, and showing its great relevance today. The text is the definitive 1959 edition with a foreword by Martin Luther King, Jr. It includes forewords from earlier editions, the chapter on class struggle and nonviolent resistance from 1934, a crucial excerpt from a 1929 preliminary study, a biography and bibliography of Gregg, and a bibliography of recent work on nonviolence.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Chronology; The works of Richard Bartlett Gregg; Editor's introduction: integral nonviolence; Bibliography; Preface to the 1934 edition Richard Bartlett Gregg; Foreword to a Discipline for Nonviolence 1941 Mohandas Gandhi; Foreword to the 1944 edition Rufus Matthew Jones; Preface to the 1944 edition Richard Bartlett Gregg; Foreword to the 1959 edition Martin Luther King, Jr; Preface to the 1959 edition Richard Bartlett Gregg; Preface to the 1960 Indian publication of the 1959 edition Richard Bartlett Gregg; 1. Modern examples of nonviolent resistance; 2. Moral Jiu-Jitsu; 3. What happens; 4. Utilizing emotional energy; 5. How is mass nonviolence possible?; 6. The working of mass nonviolent resistance; 7. An effective substitute for war; 8. The class struggle and nonviolent resistance; 9. Nonviolence and the state; 10. Persuasion; 11. The need for training; 12. Training; Notes by chapter; Index.
£22.99
Cambridge University Press Authority and the Globalisation of Inclusion and Exclusion
Book SynopsisProtracted and bitter resistance by alter- and anti-globalisation movements shows that the globalisation of law transpires as the globalisation of inclusion and exclusion. Humanity is inside and outside global law in all its possible manifestations. But how is this possible? How must legal orders be structured, such that, even if we can now speak of law beyond state borders, no emergent global legal order is possible that does not include without excluding? Is an authoritative politics of boundaries possible that neither postulates the possibility of realising an all-inclusive global legal order nor accepts resignation or political paralysis in the face of the globalisation of inclusion and exclusion? These pressing questions guide this book, opening up a vast field of enquiry that demands integrating sociological, doctrinal and philosophical perspectives and insights.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Law and the globalisation of inclusion and exclusion; 2. Collective action and emergent global legal orders; 3. Three variations on the theme of legal unification and pluralisation; 4. Anti-globalisations and the nomos of the earth; 5. Authority and reciprocal recognition; 6. Asymmetrical recognition; 7. Struggles for representation in a global context; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought
Book SynopsisDuring the Iranian Revolution of 1978/9, the influence of public intellectuals was widespread. Many espoused a vision of Iran freed from the influences of ''Westtoxification'', inspired by Heideggerian concepts of anti-Western nativism. By following the intellectual journey of the Iranian philosopher Ahmad Fardid, Ali Mirsepassi offers in this book an account of the rise of political Islam in modern Iran. Through his controversial persona and numerous public and private appearances before, during and particularly after the Revolution, Fardid popularised an Islamist vision militantly hostile to the modern world that remains a fundamental part of the political philosophy of the Islamic Republic to this day. By also bringing elements of Fardid''s post-revolutionary thought, as well as a critical analysis of Foucault''s writings on ''the politics of spirituality'', Mirsepassi offers an essential read for all those studying the evolution of political thought and philosophy in modern Iran anTrade Review'This book is a fascinating account of one of the most enigmatic intellectuals of modern Iran, the father of the idea of Westoxication. It offers an analytical frame whose implications go beyond Iran, disclosing how such anti-modern thinking is linked to the ideas of European luminaries such as Heidegger, Corbin, and Foucault. A meticulous example of scholarship.' Asef Bayat, Catherine and Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign'Ali Mirsepassi's book recounts the fascinating story of a momentous cross-cultural encounter between Western thought and Islam. At the center of his account lies the reception of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger's thought by the influential Iranian Islamist, Ahmad Fardid. Not only has Mirsepassi provided us with an outstanding study of the transnational circulation of ideas. His book also stands as a powerful cautionary tale concerning the ideological perils of virulent 'anti-modernism' - a tale that has the potential to revolutionize many of the unstated assumptions underlying the field of postcolonial studies.' Richard Wolin, Distinguished Professor of History and Political Science, CIty University of New York Graduate Center'… Mirsepassi's Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought is an informative and insightful reading for anyone who wants to understand the complex mindset of Fardid and the network of ideas that orchestrated the course of the twentieth-century intellectual history of Iran.' Mustafa Aslan, Kult OnlineTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction: Introduction. Islam after fall: why Fardid matters; 1. The historical context: the intellectual's modern calling; 2. 'Home' and the 'world': 'the swallows return to their nest'; Part II. The World of Young Fardid: 3. Young Fardid (1935–46); 4. Henry Corbin's 'imaginative spirituality' and Iranian 'Gharbzadegi' (Westoxication); Part III. Orientatlism and 'Spiritual Islam': Fardid, Corbin, Foucault: 5. Gharbzadegi (Westoxication); 6. The politics of spirituality: Foucault, the Iranian Revolution; Part IV. Ahmad Fardid's Philosophy after the Revolution, 1978–81: 7. The divine encounter and apocalyptic revelations; 8. A reckless mind: policies of Gharbzadegi; Part V. Fardid Remembered: 9. Interviews with Fardid's friends and critics; Conclusion. Fardid after Fardid.
£25.64
Bridge Publications Inc The Deterioration of Liberty
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Rowman & Littlefield Unsettling the World
Book SynopsisThis is the first book-length treatment of Edward Said’s influential cultural criticism from the perspective of a political theorist. Morefield argues that Said’s critique provides a timely approach that bridges historical analyses of imperialism and postcolonial politics with an urgent imperative to theorize contemporary global crises.Table of ContentsChapter One will introduce Said to a political theory audience who might not be intimately familiar with his work by examining his incalculable impact on postcolonial scholarship. Despite his looming presence in other disciplines, Said’s writing have been largely ignored by political theorists because they don’t fall neatly into the categories of either critical or normative theory. The chapter critiques the way international ethicists de-historicize institutions of international politics and the privileged position by which Western experts are able to diagnose and “solve” the problems of the formerly colonized world. Chapter Two will begin the process of formulating a Saidian response to this form of liberal presentism by looking closely at the promises and challenges of Said’s humanism. The chapter will first interrogate the tension between his support for universal ideas like justice and freedom (most apparent in his refusal to dismiss human rights as “cultural or grammatical things”) and his equally deep commitment to Foucaultian discourse analysis. This combination of worldliness and the provisional, disputable, arguable products of human inquiry compelled Said to situate “critique at the very heart of humanism.” Chapter Three will explore the relationship between a humanism that is explicitly historical, critical and global and Said’s conception of the exilic intellectual. The chapter begins with a brief examination of the role of “exile” in twentieth century political theory more generally. It moves on to examine Said’s conviction that humanist intellectuals engaged in critique must understand themselves as already contaminated by “power, positions, and interests,” a disposition which elicits an ongoing processes of self-reflection that asks the critic to pay close attention to their own subject position vis-à-visthe event/text they are analyzing. Said championed a subject position for the critic rooted in exile. “The intellectual,” he argued, “who considers him or herself to be part of a more general condition affecting the displaced national community is… likely to be a source not of acculturation and adjustment, but rather of volatility and instability.” The chapter will conclude by thinking critically about some of the conceptual problems generated by this approach to exile, such as, the fact that it appears profoundly voluntarist in a way that seems to run counter to Said’s own theory of power. Despite these tensions, the kinds of reflective practices that flow from a position of exile offer a necessary corrective to the unquestioned positionality of liberal internationalism.Chapter Four will explore the kinds of political reflection enabled by exile, focusing on Said’s analysis of language and the way this fine-grained approach to language functions in his explicitly political writings. It will begin with an investigation of Said’s conviction that the self-reflective awareness of the exilic critic entails “a lifelong attentiveness to the words and rhetorics by which language is used by human beings who exist in history,” a disposition he called philological. The chapter will then turn to Said’s political writings to explore this attentiveness to the kinds of communities both engendered and occluded by pro-nouns. Chapter Five will explore the unsettled approach to crisis implicit in Said’s two-pronged approach his exilic humanism. On the one hand, the practice of humanist criticism compels the exilic intellectual to approach perceived crises in international politics from the perspective of language critique, drilling into the space between words to reveal the holes where narrating subjects should be, subjects who – despite their rhetorical invisibility – still daily experience the material violence of a world which refuses to represent them or create the space for them to represent themselves. On the other hand, Said’s critical humanism insists that we engage the kinds of historical analyses that “protect against and forestall the disappearance of the past” which have fallen victim to the discursive press of crisis.[1]Chapter Six draws together the threads of discussion by thinking more broadly about the adequacy of Said’s theory as a counterweight to the international ethics of liberal internationalism. This will include thinking explicitly about those aspects of Said’s work that might frustrate some political theorists: his insistence, for instance, on conceptualizing democracy as a form of critical practice rather than as a type of politics, and his refusal to theorize the foundational logic behind concepts that he values like “justice” and “human rights.” The book concludes by suggesting that it is precisely Said’s relentlessly critical insistence on searching for the hidden “we” behind discourses of democracy, justice, and human rights that makes his humanism particularly able to puncture the presentist logic behind so many contemporary approaches to international politics, thus bringing the past that cannot be acknowledged, and the collective subjects who cannot be represented, back into the center of analysis. [1] Said, HDC, 141.
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Simon & Schuster Ltd Brown Boy
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking new memoir which charts the author's journey from growing up in a working-class, immigrant family on the outskirts of Toronto to becoming foreign policy advisor to Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau.
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Little, Brown Book Group The Seven Ages of Man
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be a man in the twenty-first century? How can today''s men lead a more fulfilling existence? Masculinity has reached a moment of crisis. From the erosion of unifying institutions such as marriage to a rise in male suicide rates, the last century and a half has been a particularly turbulent time to be a man. Increasing numbers of men are finding themselves anchorless, uprooted from the conventions and certainties of their forefathers. Today masculinity itself has come under attack, relentlessly maligned in the media. Now, more than ever, the long and perilous journey from infant to old age is fraught with strange complexities, moral dichotomies and maddening contradictions. Incisive and solution-driven, The Seven Ages of Man offers men of all ages, and the women who love them, a clear roadmap to a more meaningful life and a better future for all. Part practical guide and part call to arms, it encourages a return to decency, compassion, humiTrade ReviewBrilliant * Daily Express *Fascinating and timely * New Culture Forum *The book glances wistfully back to an era of sturdy men and sturdier moral certainties, a time when gender roles were more clearly defined -- James Bloodworth * Unherd *The Seven Ages of Man takes a compassionate approach to the challenges of contemporary masculinity * The Critic *Elegant . . . full of good advice . . . will strike a chord with many who struggle to make sense of modern masculinity . . . a sensible and inspiring way to navigate the world today * This England *
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H. G. Wells Library A Year of Prophesying
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Foucault and Modern Society
Book SynopsisThis books explore the relevance and application of the conceptual and theoretical works of Michel Foucault to an understanding of modern society. The book begins by providing a biographical excursion of Foucault's life and works that gives the reader hints of how this thinking of social theory was shaped. The book moves its attention to how conceptual tools he developed are relevant to modern social theory and the interpretation of people, professions and populations in western culture in particular. The book explores the impact of his work on power and the example of social work and how it reshaped such a helping profession. In doing so, Foucault raised both a challenge and impact for social theorists to take up on subjectivity in how individuals make their own histories. Despite this, the book concludes with a re-appraisal of Foucault's work on surveillance and aging prisoners that highlights the sheer analytical diversity of his social philosophy.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction The Relevance of Michel Foucault; Foucault and Social Science; Foucault, Governmentality and Helping Professions; Foucaults Impact: Butler, Performance and Social Work; Foucault and Surveillance; Conclusion; Index.
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Little, Brown & Company Go Woke Go Broke
Book SynopsisA riveting and smashmouth journalistic deep-dive into the progressive madness that has infected and corrupted the world''s biggest corporations, threatening the stability of the global economy-and life as we know it.Intimidated by activists on the left, virtually every major corporation in America has embraced woke politics. For years, these businesses could get away with progressive virtual signaling without worrying about alienating customers. But things have changed. As high-profile backlashes at companies like Anheuser-Busch, Disney, and Target show us, customers are fighting back. Companies who cave to the demands of left-wing social justice activists are being punished like never before.In Go Woke, Go Broke, New York Times bestselling author and veteran Fox Business financial journalist Charles Gasparino takes readers inside these disastrous corporate backlashes. A respected financial reporter who has covered finance for more than 30 years,
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Broadview Press Ltd Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on
Book SynopsisWhen abolitionists Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano published their essays on slavery in the late eighteenth century, they became key participants in one of the most important human rights campaigns in history. British abolitionism sought to expose the realities of transatlantic slavery in addition to asking politicians to help dehumanized Africans in the New World, and this edition brings together two major essays of the 1780s that were influential in the spread of the early abolitionist movement: Clarkson’s An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species and Cugoano’s Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species.A critical introduction and extensive historical appendices on British and American slavery and abolitionism, featuring contemporary arguments for and against slavery, are also included.Trade Review“Professor Smith provides here the complete texts of two important and eloquent early arguments against slavery, along with key selections from other works of the same era on both sides of that great debate. With its helpful introduction, annotations, and chronology, this collection is indispensable for all who wish to understand the long, hard fight for abolition.” — Paul K. Alkon, Bing Professor Emeritus of English and American Literature, University of Southern California“Mary-Antoinette Smith has placed together two important texts of the British abolitionist movement and made them accessible to the general reader. In particular, she has done a superb job of bringing to life the dense classical and biblical allusion that is the hallmark of Clarkson’s and Cugoano’s writing. In Smith’s hands, we can once again understand the urgency and vibrancy of their work and its importance in hastening the end of the Atlantic slave trade.” — Brycchan Carey, Kingston UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionThomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano and the History of Antislavery: A brief ChronologyA Note on the TextAn Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African; Translated from a Latin Dissertation, Which Was Honoured with the First Prize in the University of Cambridge, for the Year 1785. The Second Edition, Revised and Considerably Enlarged, Thomas Clarkson (1788)Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Humbly Submitted to the Inhabitants of Great Britain, Ottobah Cugoano (1787)Appendix A: British and American Antislavery Arguments From Debates in the House of Commons on the African Slave Bill (1788) From William Roscoe, A Scriptural Refutation of a Pamphlet Lately Published by the Reverend Raymund Harris (1788) From Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavas Vassa, the African. Written by Himself (1789) From Alexander Geddes, An Apology for Slavery, or, Six Cogent Arguments Against the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1792) From James Field Stanfield, Observations on a Voyage to the Coast of Africa, in a Series of Letters to Thomas Clarkson (1807) From William Cuttriss, Slavery Inconsistent with Christianity (1825) From Thomas Clarkson, Letter to Such Professing Christians in the Northern States of America, as have had no practical concern with slave holding, and have never sanctioned it by defending it; and to such, also, as have never visited the Southern States (1844) From Anthony Benezet, Observations on the Inslaving, Importing and Purchasing of Negroes (1760) From John Woolman, Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes (1762) From the American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Conditions of the African Race, Address ... to the People of the United States (1804) From the American Anti-Slavery Society, Declaration of the National Anti-Slavery Convention (1833) Appendix B: British and American Proslavery Arguments From Reverend Raymund Harris, Scriptural Researches on the Licitness of the Slave-Trade (1788) From Gilbert Francklyn, An Answer to the Rev. Mr. Clarkson’s Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species (1789) From William Harper, Memoir on Slavery, Read before the Society for the Advancement of Learning of South Carolina (1837) From James Henry Hammond, Letters on Southern Slavery: Addressed to Thomas Clarkson, the English Abolitionist (1845) Appendix C: British Antislavery Verse From Hannah More, Slavery. A Poem (1788) From Helen Maria Williams, A Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade (1789) Anonymous Abolitionist Poems The African’s Complaint On-Board a Slave Ship (1793) The African’s Complaint (c. 1790) An African’s Appeal to the British Nation (c. 1790) Appendix D: Antislavery Remarks Written to Thomas Clarkson From Alexander Falconbridge, Eyewitness Testimonial of African Slave Abuse on Slave Ships Made to Thomas Clarkson (c. 1778) Marquis de Lafayette, Letters to Thomas Clarkson (1798, 1823) Works Cited and Select Bibliography
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