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Democracy in Crisis
This is the annual edited volume in the Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR) publication series, which addresses urgent issues surrounding the current crisis of democracy and the potential consequences and possibilities for civic protest and civic resistance. This latest volume has two novelties: for the first time, it is published in English, and it is edited by the ASPR in cooperation with the partner institutions of the recently formed Conflict Peace and Democracy Cluster (CPDC) - the Center for Peace Research and Peace Education at the Alps-Adriatic University of Klagenfurt/Celovec, the Institute of Conflict Research Vienna, and the Democracy Center Vienna. (Series: Dialog: Contributions to Peace Research -- Vol. 65)
Revolution as a Process
As Egyptian society stands at a point of extreme polarization, this book about the Egyptian Revolution makes an important contribution to current debates about the Arab uprisings by bringing together theoretical and practitioner’s perspectives. The clear aim of this edited volume of the series Contemporary Studies on the MENA Region is not to construct a singular narrative about the revolution but rather to highlight the multiplicity and complexity of perspectives and theoretical lenses. Consequently, this book brings together authors from diverse academic and cultural backgrounds, from the Middle East and the Global North, to raise their voices. This publication addresses scholars of the ...
Why Occupy a Square?
Demonstrates how social movements can become mass scale with the aid of smart social networking and media management.
Natural Laws as Dispositions
The book provides a novel account of laws of nature via dispositions. Laws of nature play a paramount role in philosophy, science and everyday life. Understanding laws of nature is philosophically interesting on its own right but also many important notions belonging to philosophy of science, like causation, prediction and explanation, are intimately related to the laws of nature. The book outlines the alleged characteristics of the laws of nature and introduces the main families of theories of laws of nature – neo-humean, ADT and dispositional theories. It then develops an account of dispositions the `triadic process picture of dispositions’ (TPD) and applies it to the debate about laws of nature. Finally, the (TPD) account of the necessity of the laws of nature is presented: laws of nature are naturally necessary and metaphysically contingent. Thus the book provides an introduction to the debates about laws of nature as well as dispositions, while at the same time developing a novel theory and thus is interesting for the beginner as well as expert in these fields.
Heilige Berge
Eine ca. 5000 Jahre zurückreichende problemorientierte Religionsgeschichte ist notwendigerweise eine ausgewählte transkulturelle Geschichte: Jürgen Stillig nimmt Leser/innen mit auf eine empirische Weltreise zu «Heiligen Bergen». Der Jerusalemer Tempelberg veranschaulicht seine historische Beziehung zum «Exodus» der Israeliten aus Ägypten um 1200 v. Chr. Diesem normativ geordneten Raum von Vergangenheit und Erinnerung, den dann Expansionen jüdisch-christlicher Orientierungen in Europa, Amerika und Asien porträtieren, widerfährt ein Wechsel vom biblischen Zauber des Anfangs in die selbstgewisse Fiktion eines begriffenen Konstruktionssystems. Modernisierungstheoretiker präformieren...
Dialektik des Lebendigen
Die Biologie kennt alle Eigenschaften des Lebendigen, aber auf die Frage »Was ist Leben?« hat sie keine eindeutige Antwort. Der Grund dafür liegt im Organischen selbst: Seine Struktur folgt zwar kausalen Naturgesetzen, ist aber nicht hinreichend durch sie zu begründen. Wir beurteilen Lebewesen analog zur Technik als zweckmäßig aufgebaut, aber zugleich wissen wir, dass sie natürlich entstanden sind. Christine Zunke analysiert den Widerspruch, Leben über ein teleologisches Prinzip zu erklären und es zugleich nicht zu tun. Mit ihrer naturphilosophischen Reflexion zeigt sie auf, wie dieser Widerspruch das Denken in eine Dialektik des Lebendigen führt - oder zur Quelle biologistischer Ideologie wird.
Knowledge Communities in Europe
The publication presents research results on a multitude of knowledge exchange processes in post-enlightenment Europe. These focus on the question in how far deeply rooted processes of knowledge exchange by transnational intellectual discourses and international expert communities have contributed to a variety of networks of European intellectual identities and research practices. These practices again constitute a fertile framework for de-territorialised and de-nationalised exchange of knowledge that might contribute to contagious processes of emancipation, cooperation as well as problem solving.
穆巴拉克时期的埃及
穆巴拉克時期(1981―2011)長達30年，是埃及當代歷史的重要時期。穆巴拉克政權的迅速垮臺，成為學界和靠前社會關注的熱點話題。本著旨在對穆巴拉克時期的埃及做全面、系統而深入的研究，闡釋該穆巴拉克時期埃及的經濟狀況、軍隊的狀況及其在埃及政治與社會中的角色、埃及的非政府組織狀況及影響、埃及少數民族與教派的狀況與影響、埃及的對外關係等。本著有助於客觀認識和評價穆巴拉克時期，揭示2011年埃及劇變的深層次原因。
Social Functions in Philosophy
Social functions and functional explanations play a prominent role not only in our everyday reasoning but also in classical as well as contemporary social theory and empirical social research. This volume explores metaphysical, normative, and methodological perspectives on social functions and functional explanations in the social sciences. It aims to push the philosophical debate on social functions forward along new investigative lines by including up-to-date discussions of the metaphysics of social functions, questions concerning the nature of functional explanations within the social domain, and various applications of functionalist theorising. As such, this is one of the first collections to exclusively address a variety of philosophical questions concerning the nature and relevance of social functions.
