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City of Changes
  • Language: en

City of Changes

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-03-31
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Collection of poems printed for family and friends of Jonathan Trejo-Mathys. Jonathan, an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, was only 35 and the father of two girls when he died from a diagnosis of Stage IV colorectal cancer. Poetry was an avocation and avenue to express his thoughts and emotions.

Domination and Global Political Justice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

Domination and Global Political Justice

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-02-11
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Domination consists in subjection to the will of others and manifests itself both as a personal relation and a structural phenomenon serving as the context for relations of power. Domination has again become a central political concern through the revival of the republican tradition of political thought (not to be confused with the US political party). However, normative debates about domination have mostly remained limited to the context of domestic politics. Also, the republican debate has not taken into account alternative ways of conceptualizing domination. Critical theorists, liberals, feminists, critical race theorists, and postcolonial writers have discussed domination in different wa...

Social Acceleration
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 513

Social Acceleration

Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation, communication, and production; the acceleration of social change, reflected in cultural knowledge, social institutions, and personal relationships; and acceleration in the pace of life, which happens despite the expectation that technological change should increase an individual's free time. According to Rosa, both the structural and cultural aspects of our institutions and practices are marked by the "shrinking of the present," a decreasing time period...

Injustice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

Injustice

  • Categories: Law

This book challenges the conventional approach to problems of injustice in global normative theory. It offers a radical alternative designed to transform our thinking about what kind of problem injustice is and to show how political theorists might do better in understanding and addressing it. Michael Goodhart argues that the dominant paradigm, ideal moral theory (IMT), takes a fundamentally wrong-headed approach to injustice. At the same time, leading alternatives to IMT struggle to make sense of the role values play in politics and abandon political theory's critical and prescriptive aspirations. Goodhart treats justice claims as ideological and develops an innovative bifocal theoretical framework for making sense of them. This framework reconciles realistic political analysis with substantive normative commitments, enabling theorists to come to grips with injustice as a political rather than a philosophical problem. The book describes the work that political theory and political theorists can do to combat injustice and illustrates its key arguments through a novel reconceptualization of responsibility for injustice.

Justice in a Globalized World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

Justice in a Globalized World

Are wealthy countries' duties towards developing countries grounded in justice or in weaker concerns of charity? Justice in a Globalized World offers both an in-depth critique of the most prominent philosophical answers to this question, and a distinctive approach for addressing it.

New Approaches to Neo-Kantianism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 335

New Approaches to Neo-Kantianism

  • Categories: Art

A collection of new essays examining the impact of Neo-Kantianism on a range of philosophical topics and fields of study.

Disorienting Neoliberalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 311

Disorienting Neoliberalism

Introduction : injustice in a disorienting world -- Neoliberal theory as a source of orientation -- Seeing (like) supply chain managers -- The outer limit of freedom -- Ugly progress and unhopeful hope -- The significance of solidarity -- Why sovereignty is not a solution -- Conclusion : freedom and resentment amid neoliberalism.

Republicanism and the Future of Democracy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 309

Republicanism and the Future of Democracy

Explores how republican political thought can make a constructive and distinctive contribution to our understanding of democracy and the challenges it faces.

Global Modernity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160

Global Modernity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-05-07
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book introduces the concept of global modernity as a paradigm for the analysis of the contemporary era. Building on Parson's distinction between social, cultural, personal and organismic systems, it presents a four-dimensional scheme that aims to identify modernity's key structural components.

Resisting Biopolitics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

Resisting Biopolitics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-09-16
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The topic of biopolitics is a timely one, and it has become increasingly important for scholars to reconsider how life is objectified, mobilized, and otherwise bound up in politics. This cutting-edge volume discusses the philosophical, social, and political notions of biopolitics, as well as the ways in which biopower affects all aspects of our lives, including the relationships between the human and nonhuman, the concept of political subjectivity, and the connection between art, science, philosophy, and politics. In addition to tracing the evolving philosophical discourse around biopolitics, this collection researches and explores certain modes of resistance against biopolitical control. Written by leading experts in the field, the book’s chapters investigate resistance across a wide range of areas: politics and biophilosophy, technology and vitalism, creativity and bioethics, and performance. Resisting Biopolitics is an important intervention in contemporary biopolitical theory, looking towards the future of this interdisciplinary field.