Off the Fence: Morality, Politics and Society – serie
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31 produkter
Social Cohesion Contested
Av Dan Swain, Petr Urban
Inbunden, 2024
1063 kr
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In recent decades social cohesion has emerged as a major concern of states, policymakers and researchers. Social cohesion is represented as a desirable policy goal and as the basis for everything from economic growth to individual well-being. At the same time, it is increasingly presented as a …
Relational Agents and Autonomy
A Lesson from Anorexia
Av Jacopo Condò
Inbunden, 2026
1208 kr
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A critical examination of how value-neutral policy fails patients with anorexia nervosa, and what anorexia can teach us about liberal autonomy.Reconsidering and reframing autonomy through the lived experiences of individuals with anorexia nervosa, Relational Agents and Autonomy challenges our …
Relational Agents and Autonomy
A Lesson from Anorexia
Av Jacopo Condò
E-bok, 2026
1296 kr
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A critical examination of how value-neutral policy fails patients with anorexia nervosa, and what anorexia can teach us about liberal autonomy. Reconsidering and reframing autonomy through the lived experiences of individuals with anorexia nervosa, Relational Agents and Autonomy challenges our …
Relational Agents and Autonomy
A Lesson from Anorexia
Av Jacopo Condò
E-bok, 2026
1325 kr
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A critical examination of how value-neutral policy fails patients with anorexia nervosa, and what anorexia can teach us about liberal autonomy. Reconsidering and reframing autonomy through the lived experiences of individuals with anorexia nervosa, Relational Agents and Autonomy challenges our …
Other Enlightenment
Self-Estrangement, Race, and Gender
Inbunden, 2023
1204 kr
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Challenging widespread misunderstandings, this book shows that central to key enlightenment texts was the practice of estranging taken-for-granted prejudices by adopting the perspective of Others.The enlightenment’s key progenitors, led by Montesquieu, Voltaire and Diderot, were more empiricist …
Other Enlightenment
Self-Estrangement, Race, and Gender
Häftad, 2025
430 kr
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Challenging widespread misunderstandings, this book shows that central to key enlightenment texts was the practice of estranging taken-for-granted prejudices by adopting the perspective of Others.The enlightenment’s key progenitors, led by Montesquieu, Voltaire and Diderot, were more empiricist …
Digital Working Lives
Worker Autonomy and the Gig Economy
Inbunden, 2022
1204 kr
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Recent innovations in digital technologies are fundamentally transforming the world of work. A digital gig economy is emerging that threatens to displace traditional labour relations based on legally regulated labour contracts. Companies like Uber, Deliveroo, or Amazon Mechanical Turk rely …
University in Crisis
From the Middle Ages to the University of Excellence
Inbunden, 2023
1063 kr
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As is obvious to the casual newspaper reader, the debt-saddled student, the increasingly precarious university teaching force, the reactionary politician, and the budget-constrained administrator, the entire system of higher education is in crisis. This book brings necessary clarity to contentious …
University in Crisis
From the Middle Ages to the University of Excellence
E-bok, 2023
1144 kr
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As is obvious to the casual newspaper reader, the debt-saddled student, the increasingly precarious university teaching force, the reactionary politician, and the budget-constrained administrator, the entire system of higher education is in crisis. This book brings necessary clarity to contentious …
Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine
Universities, Intellectualism and Liberation
Av Nick Riemer
Inbunden, 2023
1275 kr
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The academic boycott of Israel, a branch of the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, is one of the richest—and most divisive—topics in the politics of knowledge today. In Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine, Nick Riemer addresses the most fundamental questions …
Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine
Universities, Intellectualism and Liberation
Av Nick Riemer
Häftad, 2023
458 kr
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The academic boycott of Israel, a branch of the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, is one of the richest—and most divisive—topics in the politics of knowledge today. In Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine, Nick Riemer addresses the most fundamental questions …
Social Cohesion Contested
Av Dan Swain, Petr Urban
E-bok, 2024
1169 kr
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In recent decades social cohesion has emerged as a major concern of states, policymakers and researchers. Social cohesion is represented as a desirable policy goal and as the basis for everything from economic growth to individual well-being. At the same time, it is increasingly presented as a …
Kill Box
Military Drone Systems and Cultural Production
Av Alex Adams
Inbunden, 2024
1035 kr
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Drone warfare represents one of the most pressing moral and political problems of contemporary military ethics. Since the beginning of the American drone program in the late twentieth century, drone technologies have been used to conduct remote extrajudicial assassinations, to violate national …
Kill Box
Military Drone Systems and Cultural Production
Av Alex Adams
E-bok, 2024
1138 kr
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Drone warfare represents one of the most pressing moral and political problems of contemporary military ethics. Since the beginning of the American drone program in the late twentieth century, drone technologies have been used to conduct remote extrajudicial assassinations, to violate national …
State and the Self
Identity and Identities
Inbunden, 2017
1275 kr
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In this fascinating and timely book, Maren Behrensen facilitates a conversation between philosophy and the ‘practitioners’ of identity. What makes a person the same person over time? This question has been studied throughout the history of philosophy. Yet philosophers have never fully engaged with …
State and the Self
Identity and Identities
Häftad, 2017
458 kr
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In this fascinating and timely book, Maren Behrensen facilitates a conversation between philosophy and the ‘practitioners’ of identity. What makes a person the same person over time? This question has been studied throughout the history of philosophy. Yet philosophers have never fully engaged with …
State and the Self
Identity and Identities
E-bok, 2017
499 kr
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In this fascinating and timely book, Maren Behrensen facilitates a conversation between philosophy and the ‘practitioners’ of identity. What makes a person the same person over time? This question has been studied throughout the history of philosophy. Yet philosophers have never fully engaged with …
Right of Necessity
Moral Cosmopolitanism and Global Poverty
Inbunden, 2016
1345 kr
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Does recognition of the basic human right to subsistence imply that the needy are morally permitted to take and use other people’s property to get out of their plight? Should we respect the exercise of this right of necessity in a variety of scenarios – from street pickpocketing and petty theft to …
Right of Necessity
Moral Cosmopolitanism and Global Poverty
Häftad, 2016
514 kr
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Does recognition of the basic human right to subsistence imply that the needy are morally permitted to take and use other people’s property to get out of their plight? Should we respect the exercise of this right of necessity in a variety of scenarios – from street pickpocketing and petty theft to …
Right of Necessity
Moral Cosmopolitanism and Global Poverty
E-bok, 2016
561 kr
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Does recognition of the basic human right to subsistence imply that the needy are morally permitted to take and use other people’s property to get out of their plight? Should we respect the exercise of this right of necessity in a variety of scenarios – from street pickpocketing and petty theft to …
Just Liberal Violence
Sweatshops, Torture, War
Av Michael Neu
Inbunden, 2017
1415 kr
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This book critically examines "just liberal violence": forms of direct and structural violence that others may be "justly" subjected to. Michael Neu focusses on liberal defences of torture, war and sweatshop labour, respectively, and argues that each of these defences fails and that all of them …
Just Liberal Violence
Sweatshops, Torture, War
Av Michael Neu
Häftad, 2017
514 kr
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This book critically examines "just liberal violence": forms of direct and structural violence that others may be "justly" subjected to. Michael Neu focusses on liberal defences of torture, war and sweatshop labour, respectively, and argues that each of these defences fails and that all of them …
Just Liberal Violence
Sweatshops, Torture, War
Av Michael Neu
E-bok, 2017
561 kr
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This book critically examines "just liberal violence": forms of direct and structural violence that others may be "justly" subjected to. Michael Neu focusses on liberal defences of torture, war and sweatshop labour, respectively, and argues that each of these defences fails and that all of them …
Complicity
Criticism Between Collaboration and Commitment
Inbunden, 2016
1556 kr
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Complicity argues that all existing modes of cultural critique are regarded as legitimate and productive if and only if they are complicit with the very ideologies and values that the criticism sets out to undermine. Through philosophical, literary and theoretical analysis, Thomas Docherty shows …
Complicity
Criticism Between Collaboration and Commitment
Häftad, 2016
528 kr
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Complicity argues that all existing modes of cultural critique are regarded as legitimate and productive if and only if they are complicit with the very ideologies and values that the criticism sets out to undermine. Through philosophical, literary and theoretical analysis, Thomas Docherty shows …
Complicity
Criticism Between Collaboration and Commitment
E-bok, 2016
564 kr
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Complicity argues that all existing modes of cultural critique are regarded as legitimate and productive if and only if they are complicit with the very ideologies and values that the criticism sets out to undermine. Through philosophical, literary and theoretical analysis, Thomas Docherty shows …
Troubles with Democracy
Av Jeff Noonan
Inbunden, 2019
1345 kr
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This book sets out the most influential theories of democracy (liberal-egalitarian, deliberative, and cosmopolitan) and argues that they fail to adequately comprehend the cause of politically meaningful inequality on the one hand and the security state on the other. The private and exclusive …
Troubles with Democracy
Av Jeff Noonan
Häftad, 2019
514 kr
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This book sets out the most influential theories of democracy (liberal-egalitarian, deliberative, and cosmopolitan) and argues that they fail to adequately comprehend the cause of politically meaningful inequality on the one hand and the security state on the other. The private and exclusive …
Troubles with Democracy
Av Jeff Noonan
E-bok, 2019
561 kr
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This book sets out the most influential theories of democracy (liberal-egalitarian, deliberative, and cosmopolitan) and argues that they fail to adequately comprehend the cause of politically meaningful inequality on the one hand and the security state on the other. The private and exclusive …
Against Borders
Why the World Needs Free Movement of People
Av Alex Sager
Inbunden, 2020
1204 kr
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This book provides a philosophical defence of open borders. Two policy dogmas are the right of sovereign states to restrict immigration and the infeasibility of opening borders. These dogmas persist in face of the human suffering caused by border controls and in spite of a global economy where the …
