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Liberalism
An up-to-date critical survey of Liberal political theory, this book explores the historical development of the Liberal tradition and the challenges it faces in the 21st-century. In Liberalism, Enzo Rossi explores the full range of of philosophical arguments for Liberal political practice. Along the way he covers theorists such as Locke and Rawls, who ground political legitimacy in consensus, and those such as Mill, Raz and Sen who derve political principles from moral ones. From this historical and theoretical overview, the book goes on to explore how Liberal ideas can help us approach such key contemporary challenges as free trade, migration and multiculturalism and climate change.
The Missionary Position
In the 1970's Angie Benedetto, a smart-mouthed Brooklyn girl whos neighborhood customs chafe her as much as her plaid-flannel Catholic school uniform, desperately wants to fly. Angie dreams of flying airplanes, traveling to exotic places and finding a guy who doesn't think high-roll collars and a duck's ass hairstyle mark the height of sophistication. After Angies mother allows her to fly for her Uncle Anthony as a missionary pilot, Angie reports the murder of Asmat natives. She becomes a tool for her Uncles plans to gain control of a gold mine and the quarry of mercenaries who protect the new owners possession of the same mine. Charles Abbott Aldridge is a proper New Englander who wants to study primitive tribes, help his father, and be left alone to live his life. Charles, lost and presumed dead for half-a-dozen years, is the only man who can help Angie. Smart-mouthed Angie needs proper New Englander Charles to escape from those people looking to kill her and Charles needs Angie to help his father. Angies Uncle Anthony must deal with Angies mother alone.
Religious Pluralism and Political Stability
This book argues that the principles and institutions of political liberalism are necessary conditions for achieving reliable stability amid conditions of pluralism. Only a political system of this sort can bring citizens’ moral, religious, and political loyalties into robust agreement. Through an analysis that encompasses normative political theory and American constitutional law, David Golemboski illustrates the implications of this conclusion by examining contemporary legal debates in law and religion. By developing a fresh perspective on how legal frameworks for religious exercise and establishment can ameliorate conflict and enhance the stability of a liberal constitution, this book demonstrates that political systems need not subordinate or sacrifice important liberal priorities in favor of stability. Rather, those liberal priorities are themselves necessary components of a stable order. Religious Pluralism and Political Stability will be of interest to scholars across the fields of political philosophy, legal theory, and constitutional law who have an interest in religion.
Justice, Legitimacy, and Diversity
Most contemporary political philosophers take justice—rather than legitimacy—to be the fundamental virtue of political institutions vis-à-vis the challenges of ethical diversity. Justice-driven theorists are primarily concerned with finding mutually acceptable terms to arbitrate the claims of conflicting individuals and groups. Legitimacy-driven theorists, instead, focus on the conditions under which those exercising political authority on an ethically heterogeneous polity are entitled to do so. But what difference would it make to the management of ethical diversity in liberal democratic societies if legitimacy were prior to or independent from justice? This question identifies a widel...
Hidden Notes
Family secrets always resurface... if not in life, then after death. Spain, 1937. In the midst of the Spanish Civil War, a young woman crosses Europe for love, forced to exile herself in former Yugoslavia. Carmen never thought that her secret, hidden since the forties, would come to light in the 21st century… An 18th-century inheritance that can save a woman with no future. A ghost with a debt to settle. Madrid, 2016. After receiving a visit from her late mother’s ghost, Vesna travels to a tiny country in Central Europe in search of an enigmatic inheritance. A failed musician accompanies her on her quest, during which they will unearth family mysteries buried amid the ruins of World War ...
Constitutionalism Justified
This volume analyzes Rainer Forst's theory of the right to justification from legal-philosophical and constitutional-theoretical perspectives. The contributions address issues such as the philosophical foundations of justification and constitutionalism, the justification of human rights, the requirements of social justice, and important elements of constitutional law. Forst responds to the contributions in a concluding chapter.
The Italian Food Guide
Each one of Italy's 20 regions has its own unique culinary traditions that reflect the country's varied landscape and local food products and wines. From the five-star restaurants of Rome and Milan, to the off-the-beaten-track "trattoria" in the heart of the Tuscan countryside, Italy's greatest food travel experts, The Touring Club of Italy, bring you the best of the Italian cuisine. Book jacket.
Secularization, Desecularization, and Toleration
This book challenges the modern myth that tolerance grows as societies become less religious. The myth inseparably links the progress of toleration to the secularization of modern society. This volume scrutinizes this grand narrative theoretically and empirically, and proposes alternative accounts of the varied relationships between diverse interpretations of religion and secularity and multiple secularizations, desecularizations, and forms of toleration. The authors show how both secular and religious orthodoxies inform toleration and persecution, and how secularizations and desecularizations engender repressive or pluralistic regimes. Ultimately, the book offers an agency-focused perspective which links the variation in toleration and persecution to the actors of secularization and desecularization and their cultural programs.
Transitional Justice for Foxes
Offers a pluralist reading of transitional justice to deal with conflicts constructively and to enable diversity in approaches.
