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38 produkter
Gift of Science
Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition
Häftad, 2010
435 kr
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The front pages of our newspapers and the chatter on the blogs bear witness to the divorce of law from justice. Highly paid lawyers mine the law for loopholes to help Fortune 500 corporations legally evade their taxes and spoil the environment. In a world governed by the rule of law, justice, it …
Truth of Democracy
Inbunden, 2010
1010 kr
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The initial provocation for The Truth of Democracy was the fortieth anniversary of May '68 and the recent criticism (some by French President Nicolas Sarkozy himself) leveled against the ideals and actors at the center of this important but still misunderstood moment in French history. Nancy here …
Truth of Democracy
Häftad, 2010
346 kr
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The initial provocation for The Truth of Democracy was the fortieth anniversary of May '68 and the recent criticism (some by French President Nicolas Sarkozy himself) leveled against the ideals and actors at the center of this important but still misunderstood moment in French history. Nancy here …
Symbolic Forms for a New Humanity
Cultural and Racial Reconfigurations of Critical Theory
Av Drucilla Cornell, Kenneth Michael Panfilio
Inbunden, 2010
1123 kr
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In dialogue with afro-caribbean philosophy, this book seeks in Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms a new vocabulary for approaching central intellectual and political issues of our time. For Cassirer, what makes humans unique is that we are symbolizing creatures destined to come into a world …
Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages, 400–1500
Inbunden, 2011
1069 kr
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Sanctuary and Crime rethinks the history of sanctuary protections in the Western legal tradition. Until the sixteenth century, every major medieval legal tradition afforded protections to fugitive criminals who took sanctuary in churches. Sanctuary-seeking criminals might have been required to …
Creolizing Subject
Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity
Inbunden, 2011
1123 kr
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How does our understanding of the reality (or lack thereof ) of race as a category of being affect our understanding of racism as a social phenomenon, and vice versa? How should we envision the aims and methods of our struggles against racism? Traditionally, the Western political and philosophical …
Creolizing Subject
Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity
Häftad, 2011
473 kr
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How does our understanding of the reality (or lack thereof ) of race as a category of being affect our understanding of racism as a social phenomenon, and vice versa? How should we envision the aims and methods of our struggles against racism? Traditionally, the Western political and philosophical …
Kantian Courage
Advancing the Enlightenment in Contemporary Political Theory
Inbunden, 2012
1193 kr
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How may progressive political theorists advance the Enlightenment after Darwin shifted the conversation about human nature in the 19th century, the Holocaust displayed barbarity at the historical center of the Enlightenment, and 9/11 showed the need to modify the ideals and strategies of the …
Kantian Courage
Advancing the Enlightenment in Contemporary Political Theory
Häftad, 2012
371 kr
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How may progressive political theorists advance the Enlightenment after Darwin shifted the conversation about human nature in the 19th century, the Holocaust displayed barbarity at the historical center of the Enlightenment, and 9/11 showed the need to modify the ideals and strategies of the …
Dignity Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
Cases and Materials, Volumes I & II
Av Stu Woolman, Sam Fuller m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2271 kr
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Since the Second World War, dignity has increasingly been recognized as an important moral and legal value. Although important examples of dignity-based arguments can be found in western European and North American case law and legal theory, the dignity jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of …
Drawing the Line
Toward an Aesthetics of Transitional Justice
Inbunden, 2013
1372 kr
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Drawing the Line examines the ways in which cultural, political, and legal lines are imagined, drawn, crossed, erased, and redrawn in post-apartheid South Africa—through literary texts, artworks, and other forms of cultural production. Under the rubric of a philosophy of the limit, and with …
Drawing the Line
Toward an Aesthetics of Transitional Justice
Häftad, 2013
394 kr
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Drawing the Line examines the ways in which cultural, political, and legal lines are imagined, drawn, crossed, erased, and redrawn in post-apartheid South Africa—through literary texts, artworks, and other forms of cultural production. Under the rubric of a philosophy of the limit, and with …
Creolizing Political Theory
Reading Rousseau Through Fanon
Inbunden, 2014
1350 kr
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Might creolization offer political theory an approach that would better reflect the heterogeneity of political life? After all, it describes mixtures that were not supposed to have emerged in the plantation societies of the Caribbean but did so through their capacity to exemplify living culture, …
Creolizing Political Theory
Reading Rousseau Through Fanon
Häftad, 2014
388 kr
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Might creolization offer political theory an approach that would better reflect the heterogeneity of political life? After all, it describes mixtures that were not supposed to have emerged in the plantation societies of the Caribbean but did so through their capacity to exemplify living culture, …
Thresholds of Illiteracy
Theory, Latin America, and the Crisis of Resistance
Inbunden, 2014
1226 kr
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Thresholds of Illiteracy reevaluates Latin American theories and narratives of cultural resistance by advancing the concept of "illiteracy" as a new critical approach to understanding scenes or moments of social antagonism. "Illiteracy," Acosta claims, can offer us a way of talking about what …
Thresholds of Illiteracy
Theory, Latin America, and the Crisis of Resistance
Häftad, 2014
394 kr
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Thresholds of Illiteracy reevaluates Latin American theories and narratives of cultural resistance by advancing the concept of "illiteracy" as a new critical approach to understanding scenes or moments of social antagonism. "Illiteracy," Acosta claims, can offer us a way of talking about what …
Fugitive Rousseau
Slavery, Primitivism, and Political Freedom
Inbunden, 2014
1010 kr
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Critics have claimed that Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a primitivist uncritically preoccupied with "noble savages" and that he remained oblivious to the African slave trade. Fugitive Rousseau presents the emancipatory possibilities of Rousseau's thought and argues that a fresh, "fugitive" perspective …
Law and Revolution in South Africa
UBuntu, Dignity, and the Struggle for Constitutional Transformation
Inbunden, 2014
1098 kr
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The relation between law and revolution is one of the most pressing questions of our time. As one country after another has faced the challenge that comes with the revolutionary overthrow of past dictatorships, how one reconstructs a new government is a burning issue.South Africa, after a long and …
Law and Revolution in South Africa
UBuntu, Dignity, and the Struggle for Constitutional Transformation
Häftad, 2014
295 kr
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The relation between law and revolution is one of the most pressing questions of our time. As one country after another has faced the challenge that comes with the revolutionary overthrow of past dictatorships, how one reconstructs a new government is a burning issue.South Africa, after a long and …
Punishment and Inclusion
Race, Membership, and the Limits of American Liberalism
Av Andrew Dilts
Inbunden, 2014
1098 kr
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At the start of the twenty-first century, 1 percent of the U.S. population is behind bars. An additional 3 percent is on parole or probation. In all but two states, incarcerated felons cannot vote, and in three states felon disenfranchisement is for life. More than 5 million adult Americans cannot …
Punishment and Inclusion
Race, Membership, and the Limits of American Liberalism
Av Andrew Dilts
Häftad, 2014
355 kr
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At the start of the twenty-first century, 1 percent of the U.S. population is behind bars. An additional 3 percent is on parole or probation. In all but two states, incarcerated felons cannot vote, and in three states felon disenfranchisement is for life. More than 5 million adult Americans cannot …
What Fanon Said
A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought
Inbunden, 2015
1151 kr
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Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus supposedly unreason, is black. Challenging academic adherence to this notion, Lewis R. Gordon offers a portrait of Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon as an exemplar of "living thought" …
What Fanon Said
A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought
Häftad, 2015
418 kr
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Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus supposedly unreason, is black. Challenging academic adherence to this notion, Lewis R. Gordon offers a portrait of Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon as an exemplar of "living thought" …
Fugitive Rousseau
Slavery, Primitivism, and Political Freedom
Häftad, 2016
357 kr
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Critics have claimed that Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a primitivist uncritically preoccupied with "noble savages" and that he remained oblivious to the African slave trade. Fugitive Rousseau presents the emancipatory possibilities of Rousseau's thought and argues that a fresh, "fugitive" perspective …
Mandate of Dignity
Ronald Dworkin, Revolutionary Constitutionalism, and the Claims of Justice
Av Drucilla Cornell, Nick Friedman
Inbunden, 2016
1085 kr
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A major American legal thinker, the late Ronald Dworkin also helped shape new dispensations in the Global South. In South Africa, in particular, his work has been fiercely debated in the context of one of the world's most progressive constitutions. Despite Dworkin's discomfort with that document's …
Mandate of Dignity
Ronald Dworkin, Revolutionary Constitutionalism, and the Claims of Justice
Av Drucilla Cornell, Nick Friedman
Häftad, 2016
299 kr
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A major American legal thinker, the late Ronald Dworkin also helped shape new dispensations in the Global South. In South Africa, in particular, his work has been fiercely debated in the context of one of the world's most progressive constitutions. Despite Dworkin's discomfort with that document's …
Foucault's Critical Ethics
Inbunden, 2016
692 kr
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The central thesis of Foucault's Critical Ethics is that Foucault's account of power does not foreclose the possibility of ethics; on the contrary, it provides a framework within which ethics becomes possible. Tracing the evolution of Foucault's analysis of power from his early articulations of …
Forgiveness to Come
The Holocaust and the Hyper-Ethical
Häftad, 2017
343 kr
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This book is concerned with the aporias, or impasses, of forgiveness, especially in relation to the legacy of the crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II. Banki argues that, while forgiveness of the Holocaust is and will remain impossible, we …
Administering Interpretation
Derrida, Agamben, and the Political Theology of Law
Av Peter Goodrich, Michel Rosenfeld
Häftad, 2019
539 kr
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Populism in politics and policy orientations in law have thrown the jurisdiction of the academy and the disciplines of interpretation into disarray. Critique flounders in abstraction and negativity, law loses itself in particularity. Administering Interpretation brings together philosophers, …
Administering Interpretation
Derrida, Agamben, and the Political Theology of Law
Av Peter Goodrich, Michel Rosenfeld
Inbunden, 2019
1957 kr
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Populism in politics and policy orientations in law have thrown the jurisdiction of the academy and the disciplines of interpretation into disarray. Critique flounders in abstraction and negativity, law loses itself in particularity. Administering Interpretation brings together philosophers, …
