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Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy: New Readings
Original scholarly essays by leading philosophers, which bring to life Machiavelli’s lengthiest and most challenging work.
Terrorism
This volume offers a collection of essays useful for analyzing and comparing terrorist movements, especially in relation to Islamic terrorism. But its scope goes well beyond that, offering theoretical insights into the concept of terrorism, debating the puzzling phenomenon from various traditions of thought, including analyses of writings by Jürgen Habermas, Michael Walzer and Eric Weil. It examines the uses of violence by terrorism: the “who,” the “how” and the “when.” Present day terrorism is a modern phenomenon to be distinguished from classical insurgency, revolution, guerrilla warfare, or coups d’état; it is mainly directed at modern societies, whether from a religious-fundamentalist point of view, or from radical social and ecological movements. In short, terrorism uses largely fabricated ways of thought for political-polemological ends. In Terrorism: Politics, Religion, Literature, the reader will find plenty of food for thought, as the chapters span a wide range of approaches, including manifestos, film and literature. It will be of particular interest to observers, scholars, students, military personnel, journalists, and government analysts.
Sovereignty as Value
Sovereignty as Value is one of the first books to examine sovereignty using solely a normative approach. Through fourteen original essays, the book seeks to understand its viability in a globalized world, thus taking into account the inclusion of a language of rights, limitation and legitimacy. The authors’ focus is on whether sovereignty as a normative concept might be understood as a criterion of legitimate power and authority; as a foundational concept of public ethics applied to political and legal institutions. How should notions of legitimacy be linked with the notion of sovereignty? In what manner is sovereignty challenged by territoriality and territorial control? How does sovereignty relate to political legitimacy? Are all the forms of sovereign authority legitimate? Does the project of advancing human rights globally conflict with the logic of exclusion inherent in the classic notion of national sovereignty? These are some of the questions that will be assessed in this collective volume.
Ética
Baruch de Espinosa, ou Spinoza (1632-1677), nasceu em Amsterdã, filho de pais judeus emigrados de Portugal. Aos 24 anos, por suas opiniões pouco ortodoxas, foi expulso da sinagoga da cidade e acabou se mudando para Haia, onde publicou duas obras em vida: os Princípios da filosofia de Descartes (1663) e o Tratado teológico-político (1670), este editado de forma anônima. Sua obra magna, a Ética demonstrada segundo a ordem geométrica, só veio à luz no final de 1677, após a sua morte, com a publicação, por amigos, das Opera Posthuma, tendo logo entrado para o Index da Inquisição. Constituída de cinco partes — “De Deus”, “Da natureza e da origem da mente”, “Da origem e...
Sovereign Justice
Sovereign Justice collects valuable contributions from scholars of both continental and analytic tradition, and aims to investigate into the relationship between global justice and the nation state. It deals therefore especially with the moral relevance of national boundaries and cosmopolitanism. It is organised in four sections. The first section deals with cosmopolitan approaches to global justice, with regard to which Kok-Choir Tan's article presents an overview over the current state of the art, the challenges that cosmopolitanism is currently facing, and its relationship and contrasts with other theoretical strands. Etinson's article attempts to clarify the concept of cosmopolitanism. D...
The Companion to Raymond Aron
This edited collection brings to light the rare virtues and uncommon merits of Raymond Aron, the main figure of French twentieth-century liberalism. The Companion to Raymond Aron is an essential supplement to Aron's autobiography Mémoires (1984) and main works, exploring the substance of his political, sociological, and philosophical thought.
After the Revolution
The contributors to this book attempt to describe, analyze, and interpret the literary events and practices that characterize the two decades of Portuguese political and cultural life after the 1974 revolution. This significant event provides the basis for all the issues discussed in this volume and emerges as a principal agent behind Portuguese "cultural renegotiation."
The Anthology in Portugal
This book breaks new ground in considering the nature and function of anthologies of poetry and short stories in twentieth-century Portugal. It tackles the main theoretical issues, identifies a significant body of critical writing on the relationship between anthologies, literary history and the canon, and proposes an approach that might be designated Descriptive Anthology Studies. The author aims to achieve a full understanding of the role of anthologies in the literary polysystem. Moreover, this study considers anthologies published in Portugal in the early years of the twentieth-century, the influential figures who made them, the works they selected, and who read them. It also focuses on ...
O Príncipe
Um dos grandes clássicos do pensamento político, O Príncipe, de Maquiavel, escrito por volta de 1513 e publicado em 1532, nos assombra até hoje por seu retrato sem meias-tintas dos mecanismos que podem ser usados para se atingir e manter o poder. Dedicado a um príncipe da família Médici, de Florença, este polêmico tratado tem recebido ao longo do tempo as mais diversas versões e interpretações, que muitas vezes se afastam de seu sentido primeiro. A presente edição, bilíngue, busca resgatar toda a força do original de Maquiavel, em uma tradução extremamente precisa realizada por Diogo Pires Aurélio, doutor em Filosofia Política e professor da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, que também assina uma ampla introdução ao texto.
Reflexões Sobre a Paz Vol. II paz e tolerância
A presente obra conta com contribuições dos(as) pesquisadores(as) de diversas instituições de ensino superior que participaram do “III Encontro de Reflexões sobre a Paz – Paz e Tolerância”, além de autores(as) especialmente convidados(as) para escrever sobre os temas da “paz” e da “tolerância”. Os(As) profissionais envolvidos(as) na obra são todos(as) pesquisadores(as) acadêmico-científicos(as) dos temas da “paz” e da “tolerância”, distribuídos(as) em áreas distintas de formação e atuação acadêmica, como a Ciência Política, a Antropologia, a Sociologia, a Filosofia, a História, o Direito e as Relações Internacionais, conformando uma obra de reflexão verdadeiramente multidisciplinar sobre os temas em questão.
