The Seeley Lectures – serie
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26 produkter
The Rights of Others
Aliens, Residents, and Citizens
Häftad, 2004
390 kr
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The Rights of Others examines the boundaries of political community by focusing on political membership - the principles and practices for incorporating aliens and strangers, immigrants and newcomers, refugees and asylum seekers into existing polities. Boundaries define some as members, others as …
Women and Human Development
The Capabilities Approach
Häftad, 2001
439 kr
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In this major book Martha Nussbaum, one of the most innovative and influential philosophical voices of our time, proposes a kind of feminism that is genuinely international, argues for an ethical underpinning to all thought about development planning and public policy, and dramatically moves beyond …
Value, Respect, and Attachment
Av Joseph Raz
Häftad, 2001
350 kr
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The book is a contribution to the study of values, as they affect both our personal and our public life. It defends the view that values are necessarily universal, on the ground that that is a condition of their intelligibility. It does, however, reject most common conceptions of universality, like …
On the People's Terms
A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy
Häftad, 2012
383 kr
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According to republican theory, we are free persons to the extent that we are protected and secured in the same fundamental choices, on the same public basis, as one another. But there is no public protection or security without a coercive state. Does this mean that any freedom we enjoy is a …
Strange Multiplicity
Constitutionalism in an Age of Diversity
Av James Tully
Häftad, 1995
422 kr
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In the inaugural set of Seeley Lectures, the distinguished political philosopher James Tully addresses the demands for cultural recognition that constitute the major conflicts of today: supranational associations, nationalism and federalism, linguistic and ethnic minorities, feminism, …
Laws of Fear
Beyond the Precautionary Principle
Häftad, 2005
390 kr
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What is the relationship between fear, danger, and the law? Cass Sunstein attacks the increasingly influential Precautionary Principle - the idea that regulators should take steps to protect against potential harms, even if causal chains are uncertain and even if we do not know that harms are …
The Dignity of Legislation
Inbunden, 1999
780 kr
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Jeremy Waldron here attempts to restore the good name of legislation in political theory. Focused in particular on the writings of Aristotle, Locke and Kant, this book recovers and highlights ways of thinking about legislation that present it as a dignified mode of governance and a respectable …
The Dignity of Legislation
Häftad, 1999
455 kr
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Jeremy Waldron here attempts to restore the good name of legislation in political theory. Focused in particular on the writings of Aristotle, Locke and Kant, this book recovers and highlights ways of thinking about legislation that present it as a dignified mode of governance and a respectable …
Women and Human Development
The Capabilities Approach
Inbunden, 2000
1274 kr
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In this major book Martha Nussbaum, one of the most innovative and influential philosophical voices of our time, proposes a kind of feminism that is genuinely international, argues for an ethical underpinning to all thought about development planning and public policy, and dramatically moves beyond …
Counter-Democracy
Politics in an Age of Distrust
Av Pierre Rosanvallon, Arthur Goldhammer
Häftad, 2008
487 kr
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Democracy is established as a generally uncontested ideal, while regimes inspired by this form of government fall under constant criticism. Hence, the steady erosion of confidence in representatives that has become one of the major political issues of our time. Amidst these challenges, the paradox …
Value, Respect, and Attachment
Av Joseph Raz
Inbunden, 2001
1351 kr
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The book is a contribution to the study of values, as they affect both our personal and our public life. It defends the view that values are necessarily universal, on the ground that that is a condition of their intelligibility. It does, however, reject most common conceptions of universality, like …
The Rights of Others
Aliens, Residents, and Citizens
Inbunden, 2004
1351 kr
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The Rights of Others examines the boundaries of political community by focusing on political membership - the principles and practices for incorporating aliens and strangers, immigrants and newcomers, refugees and asylum seekers into existing polities. Boundaries define some as members, others as …
Laws of Fear
Beyond the Precautionary Principle
Inbunden, 2005
1351 kr
Lägg i varukorg
What is the relationship between fear, danger, and the law? Cass Sunstein attacks the increasingly influential Precautionary Principle - the idea that regulators should take steps to protect against potential harms, even if causal chains are uncertain and even if we do not know that harms are …
Counter-Democracy
Politics in an Age of Distrust
Av Pierre Rosanvallon, Arthur Goldhammer
Inbunden, 2008
1322 kr
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Democracy is established as a generally uncontested ideal, while regimes inspired by this form of government fall under constant criticism. Hence, the steady erosion of confidence in representatives that has become one of the major political issues of our time. Amidst these challenges, the paradox …
Hijacked
How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back
Inbunden, 2023
415 kr
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What is the work ethic? Does it justify policies that promote the wealth and power of the One Percent at workers' expense? Or does it advance policies that promote workers' dignity and standing? Hijacked explores how the history of political economy has been a contest between these two ideas about …
Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change
Inbunden, 2024
1358 kr
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How does long-term intellectual change occur? Can we develop a theoretical framework for understanding past systems of knowledge? In this ambitious study, Elías José Palti seeks to reassess the main concepts in the field of intellectual history. Evaluating modes of thought from the seventeenth …
Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change
Häftad, 2024
407 kr
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How does long-term intellectual change occur? Can we develop a theoretical framework for understanding past systems of knowledge? In this ambitious study, Elías José Palti seeks to reassess the main concepts in the field of intellectual history. Evaluating modes of thought from the seventeenth …
On the People's Terms
A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy
Inbunden, 2012
830 kr
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According to republican theory, we are free persons to the extent that we are protected and secured in the same fundamental choices, on the same public basis, as one another. But there is no public protection or security without a coercive state. Does this mean that any freedom we enjoy is a …
The Politics of the Human
Inbunden, 2015
1351 kr
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The human is a central reference point for human rights. But who or what is that human? And given its long history of exclusiveness, when so many of those now recognised as human were denied the name, how much confidence can we attach to the term? This book works towards a sense of the human that …
The Sleeping Sovereign
The Invention of Modern Democracy
Av Richard Tuck
Inbunden, 2016
1322 kr
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Richard Tuck traces the history of the distinction between sovereignty and government and its relevance to the development of democratic thought. Tuck shows that this was a central issue in the political debates of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and provides a new interpretation of the …
The Politics of the Human
Häftad, 2015
439 kr
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The human is a central reference point for human rights. But who or what is that human? And given its long history of exclusiveness, when so many of those now recognised as human were denied the name, how much confidence can we attach to the term? This book works towards a sense of the human that …
The Sleeping Sovereign
The Invention of Modern Democracy
Av Richard Tuck
Häftad, 2016
382 kr
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Richard Tuck traces the history of the distinction between sovereignty and government and its relevance to the development of democratic thought. Tuck shows that this was a central issue in the political debates of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and provides a new interpretation of the …
Recognition
A Chapter in the History of European Ideas
Av Axel Honneth
Häftad, 2020
390 kr
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The idea that we are mutually dependent on the recognition of our peers is at least as old as modernity. Across Europe, this idea has been understood in different ways from the very beginning, according to each country's different cultural and political conditions. This stimulating study explores …
Recognition
A Chapter in the History of European Ideas
Av Axel Honneth
Inbunden, 2020
1351 kr
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The idea that we are mutually dependent on the recognition of our peers is at least as old as modernity. Across Europe, this idea has been understood in different ways from the very beginning, according to each country's different cultural and political conditions. This stimulating study explores …
Demopolis
Democracy before Liberalism in Theory and Practice
Av Josiah Ober
Inbunden, 2017
1384 kr
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What did democracy mean before liberalism? What are the consequences for our lives today? Combining history with political theory, this book restores the core meaning of democracy as collective and limited self-government by citizens. That, rather than majority tyranny, is what democracy meant in …
Demopolis
Democracy before Liberalism in Theory and Practice
Av Josiah Ober
Häftad, 2017
390 kr
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What did democracy mean before liberalism? What are the consequences for our lives today? Combining history with political theory, this book restores the core meaning of democracy as collective and limited self-government by citizens. That, rather than majority tyranny, is what democracy meant in …
