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Cosmopolitan Responsibility
The world we live in is unjust. Preventable deprivation and suffering shape the lives of many people, while others enjoy advantages and privileges aplenty. Cosmopolitan responsibility addresses the moral responsibilities of privileged individuals to take action in the face of global structural injustice. Individuals are called upon to complement institutional efforts to respond to global challenges, such as climate change, unfair global trade, or world poverty. Committed to an ideal of relational equality among all human beings, the book discusses the impact of individual action, the challenge of special obligations, and the possibility of moral overdemandingness in order to lay the ground for an action-guiding ethos of cosmopolitan responsibility. This thought-provoking book will be of interest to any reflective reader concerned about justice and responsibilities in a globalised world. Jan-Christoph Heilinger is a moral and political philosopher. He teaches at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, and at Ecole normale supérieure, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Knowledge, Morals and Practice in Kant’s Anthropology
This volume sheds new light on Immanuel Kant’s conception of anthropology. Neither a careful and widespread search of the sources nor a merely theoretical speculation about Kant’s critical path can fully reveal the necessarily wider horizon of his anthropology. This only comes to light by overcoming all traditional schemes within Kantian studies, and consequently reconsidering the traditional divisions within Kant’s thought. The goal of this book is to highlight an alternative, yet complementary path followed by Kantian anthropology with regard to transcendental philosophy. The present volume intends to develop this path in order to demonstrate how irreducible it is in what concerns some crucial claims of Kant’s philosophy, such as the critical defense of the unity of reason, the search for a new method in metaphysics and the moral outcome of Kant’s thought.
Writing the Revolution
This study investigates German and English revolutionary literary discourse between 1819 and 1848/49. Marked by dramatic socioeconomic transformations, this period witnessed a pronounced transnational shift from the concept of political revolution to one of social revolution. Writing the Revolution engages with literary authors, radical journalists, early proletarian pamphleteers, and political theorists, tracing their demands for social liberation, as well as their struggles with the specter of proletarian revolution. The book argues that these ideological battles translated into competing "poetics of revolution." (Series: Kulturgeschichtliche Perspektiven - Vol. 10)
2011
Particularly in the humanities and social sciences, festschrifts are a popular forum for discussion. The IJBF provides quick and easy general access to these important resources for scholars and students. The festschrifts are located in state and regional libraries and their bibliographic details are recorded. Since 1983, more than 639,000 articles from more than 29,500 festschrifts, published between 1977 and 2010, have been catalogued.
Passionate Animals
Passionate Animals: Emotions, Animal Ethics, and Moral Pragmatics draws on the theoretical achievements made in ethics, political philosophy, and human-animal studies, addressing the problem that these advancements have not resulted in practical change toward significantly improved human-animal-relations. Mara-Daria Cojocaru argues that this gap between theory and action can close only if humans live up to the task of becoming passionate animals themselves—and passionate about animals as well. In the tradition of philosophical pragmatism and with reference to congenial thinkers like Mary Midgley, Cojocaru develops a moral pragmatics that highlights the role of emotions in moral and political life and focuses on the institutions necessary to make tangible progress on the problems posed by animal experimentation and factory farming.
Popular Culture and the Public Sphere in the Rhineland, 1800-1850
A study of the politicisation of 'ordinary people' in western Germany in the 1850s.
Anthropologie und Ethik des Enhancements
Biotechnologische Eingriffe in den menschlichen Organismus (genetisch, psychopharmazeutisch oder technisch) können die körperliche oder geistige Leistungsfähigkeit von Menschen steigern und das menschliche Erleben gezielt verändern, auch über ein "normales" oder "natürliches" Maß hinaus. Der Autor untersucht die ethische Debatte zu diesem Thema, insbesondere Argumente, die ausgehend von einem normativen Begriff vom Menschen bestimmte Eingriffe verbieten oder erlauben wollen. Er entwickelt ein integratives, anthroponomes Modell einer signifikanten "Kartierung" des Begriffs Mensch, das es erlauben soll, den Begriff in normativer Hinsicht möglichst stark zu machen. Dennoch sind anthropologische Argumente - angesichts von Risiko- und Gerechtigkeitserwägungen - lediglich ein Element einer umfassenderen Ethik des Enhancements.
Bibliographie zur deutschen Soziologie
Diese Bibliographie - entstanden aus der Datenbank SOLIS (Sozialwissenschaftliches Literaturinformationssystem) - enthält die soziologische Fachliteratur der Erscheinungsjahre 1978 bis 1982. In ihr werden über 14.000 selbständige und unselbständige Veröffentlichungen aus dem gesamten deutschsprachigen Raum nachgewiesen. Die Bibliographie ist inhaltlich in drei Abschnitte (Grundlagen und Methoden, Spezielle Soziologie, Sozialpsychologie) und insgesamt 29 Kapitel untergliedert. Sie schließt an eine frühere Publikation gleichen Namens ("Bibliographie zur Deutschen Soziologie 1945 - 1977") an und bildet den ersten Band einer Folge gleichartiger Bibliographien, die in kurzen Abständen erscheinen und den Anschluß an das Hier und Heute herstellen werden. Die Bibliographie wird (neben der Kapitelgliederung) durch ein umfassendes Personenregister, ein Institutionenregister sowie durch ein zweistufiges Sachregister erschlossen, das sich auf den vom Informationszentrum Sozialwissenschaften entwickelten Thesaurus der sozialwissenschaftlichen Fachterminologie stützt und alle in ihm enthaltenen Sachgebiete berücksichtigt.
Cognitive History
This book is the first introduction to the new field called cognitive history. The last decades have seen a noticeable increase in cognitive science studies that have changed the understanding of human thinking. Its relevance for historical research cannot be overlooked any more. Cognitive history could be explained as the study of how humans in history used their cognitive abilities in order to understand the world around them and to orient themselves in it, but also how the world outside their bodies affected their way of thinking. In focus for this book is the relationship between history and cognition, the human mind’s interaction with the environment in time and space. It especially discusses certain cognitive abilities in interaction with the environment, which can be studied in historical sources, namely: evolution, language, rationality, spatiality, and materiality. Cognitive history can give us a deeper understanding of how – and not only what – people thought, and about the interaction between the human mind and the surrounding world.
Global Justice and Desire
Employing feminist, queer, and postcolonial perspectives, Global Justice and Desire addresses economy as a key ingredient in the dynamic interplay between modes of subjectivity, signification and governance. Bringing together a range of international contributors, the book proposes that both analyzing justice through the lens of desire, and considering desire through the lens of justice, are vital for exploring economic processes. A variety of approaches for capturing the complex and dynamic interplay of justice and desire in socioeconomic processes are taken up. But, acknowledging a complexity of forces and relations of power, domination, and violence – sometimes cohering and sometimes contradictory – it is the relationship between hierarchical gender arrangements, relations of exploitation, and their colonial histories that is stressed. Therefore, queer, feminist, and postcolonial perspectives intersect as Global Justice and Desire explores their capacity to contribute to more just, and more desirable, economies.
