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11 produkter
Pierre Rosanvallon′s Political Thought – Interdisciplinary Approaches
Av Daniel Schulz, Franziska Martinsen m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
422 kr
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The work of Pierre Rosanvallon has increasingly found itself at the center of debates in democratic and political theory – although only few of his numerous monographs have thus far been translated from French. This interdisciplinary volume, the first comprehensive collection on his political …
Are We Comparing Yet? – On Standards, Justice, and Incomparability
Av Saussy, Haun
Häftad, 2021
247 kr
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Debates about the possibility of an open culture – or indeed about the possibility of an open debate about the openness of culture – often turn on questions of standards. But since no benchmark can be absolute, judgement is a proliferation of comparisons.Through a series of case studies in everyday …
Practices of Comparing – Towards a New Understanding of a Fundamental Human Practice
Av Angelika Epple, Walter Erhart m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
928 kr
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Practices of comparing shape how we perceive, organize, and change the world. Supposedly innocent, practices of comparing play a decisive role in forming categories, boundaries, and hierarchies; but they can also give an impetus to question and change such structures. Like almost no other human …
Narratives and Comparisons – Adversaries or Allies in Understanding Science?
Av Martin Carrier, Rebecca Mertens m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
668 kr
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As a powerful tool in the production of knowledge, comparing plays a crucial part in the sciences and the humanities. This volume explores the relationship between comparing and narrating in epistemic practices and clarifies the ways in which narratives enable or impede practices of comparing. It …
Imagining Unequals, Imagining Equals
Concepts of Equality in History and Law
Av Antje Fluchter, Ulrike Davy
Häftad, 2022
694 kr
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Why did »equality« become prominent in European societies based on hierarchy during the Enlightenment? What does »equality« imply for societies, politics, or legal systems? The contributors to this volume draw on various historical case studies, from visionary practices in revolutionary France and …
Global Contestations of Gender Rights
Av Alexandra Scheele, Julia Roth m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
779 kr
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Across the globe, a growing number of social movements, such as demonstrations in support of equal civil status or reproductive freedom and against sexualized violence, show that women's and gender rights are highly contested. Against the backdrop of a long history of unequal rights implementation, …
Red Pilled - The Allure of Digital Hate
Av Luke Munn
Häftad, 2023
669 kr
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Hate is being reinvented. Over the last two decades, online platforms have been used to repackage racist, sexist and xenophobic ideologies into new sociotechnical forms. Digital hate is ancient but novel, deploying the Internet to boost its allure and broaden its appeal. To understand the logic of …
Leitmotifs in Life Stories
Developments and Stabilities of Religiosity and Narrative Identity
Häftad, 2024
1000 kr
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Faith Development Interviews offer great insight into people's ways of (non-)religious meaning-making, and of looking at their life and relationships. Ramona Bullik portrays nine longitudinal case studies in a mixed-methods design with narrative analysis granting insight into the developments and …
Faith in Development
Mixed-Method Studies on Worldviews and Religious Styles
Av Heinz Streib, Ralph W. Hood Jr.
Häftad, 2024
890 kr
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How has faith developed in the US and German societies across the last decades? In a three-wave longitudinal investigation of faith development, this study presents the changes of worldview and meaning-making that people associate with their religious, spiritual, agnostic and atheist …
Comparing and Change
Orders, Models, Perceptions
Av Antje Fluchter, Kirsten Kramer m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
951 kr
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Comparisons affect various ways of perceiving and interpreting the world, characterized by distinct legitimization strategies and knowledge application routines by different actors. The contributors to this volume explore the link between change and practices of comparing, focusing on order, …
Communicative AI in (Inter-)Action
Investigating Human-Machine Encounters outside the Laboratory
Häftad, 2024
728 kr
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So far, human-machine encounters have primarily been tested and monitored in controlled laboratory settings. However, the first robots that are used in care, service and education are already being sold commercially. The contributors grapple with methodological challenges in investigating …
