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This book critically analyses the role of behavioural sciences in public policy and challenges the belief that they provide sufficient evidence to build policy from. Through highlighting the ethical, political legal questions around nudges, the author examines the impact of their influence on our society.
Gathering together an impressive array of legal scholars from around the world, this book features essays on Jeremy Bentham’s major legal theoretical treatise, Of the Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence, reassessing Bentham’s theories of law as well as his impact on jurisprudence. While offering a suggestive picture of contemporary Bentham studies, the book provides a thorough examination of concepts such as legal discourse, legal norms, legal system, and subjective legal positions. The book compares Bentham’s approach with other landmark theories and the works of major legal philosophers including Austin, Hart and Kelsen, and explores Bentham’s treatise through major trends ...
Traduit de l'anglais par Malik Bozzo-Rey, Jean-Pierre Clero et Claire Wrobel. Un regime representatif peut-il etre une democratie ? Lorsqu'il publie ces Considerations sur le gouvernement representatif, en 1861, John Stuart Mill n'en connait aucun qui satisfasse cette exigence. En puisant dans l'histoire politique europeenne et americaine des XVIIIe et XIXe siecles, il elabore pourtant un discours philosophique original sur ce regime inedit qu'est la democratie representative . S'il y adhere sans reserves, il distingue aussi tous les points critiques par ou elle pose probleme. Il en degage ainsi les principes, qui survivront a son temps. Ce n'est pas le moindre merite des Considerations de placer dans une lumiere crue les regimes que nous disons aujourd'hui democratiques. Cette traduction entierement nouvelle, accompagnee d'un appareil critique detaille, entend rendre a cette pensee novatrice son sens historique et son actualite politique.
Le dérèglement climatique et la perte de biodiversité sont aujourd’hui des réalités. Leurs causes et origines proviennent du mode de vie très consommateur d’énergies, de biens et de ressources d’une partie croissante de l’humanité. Des usagers intelligents pour la transition énergétique et sociétale fait le point sur cette transition plus que nécessaire, ainsi que sur les scénarios et les pistes essentielles pour atténuer l’impact du changement climatique. Il traite des transitions expérimentées sous forme d’écosystèmes dans les universités, les villes et les territoires, ainsi que des concepts de smart buildings, de smart grids et de smart city adressés à des smart users ou non, dans un contexte de recherche interdisciplinaire. Les questions sociologiques liées au rôle des usagers dans les smart buildings sont abordées, allant de l’acceptation à l’appropriation des technologies mises à leur disposition. L’éthique de la transition et l’importance des comportements individuels dans la sauvegarde de l’humanité sur une planète préservée sont mis en évidence.
Frederick Rosen presents an original study of John Stuart Mill's moral and political philosophy. He explores a range of key themes across the breadth of Mill's works, and considers Mill's complex relationships with his contemporary thinkers; the traditional sources on which he drew; and his influence on major thinkers of recent centuries.
Climate change and the loss of biodiversity are now realities. Their causes and origins stem from the energy, goods and resources relied upon by the lifestyle of a growing part of humanity. Smart Users for Energy and Societal Transition presents this much needed transition, as well as the scenarios and paths essential to mitigating the impacts of climate change. It deals with transitions experimented in the form of ecosystems in universities, cities and territories, as well as with concepts of smart buildings, smart grids and smart cities, addressed to smart users – or not – in an interdisciplinary research context. Sociological issues related to the role of smart building users are discussed, ranging from acceptance to the appropriation of the technologies made available to them. The book highlights the ethics of this essential transition and the importance of individual behaviors in safeguarding humanity on a preserved planet.
Between the early seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, major European political thinkers first began to look outside their national borders and envisage a world of competitive, equal sovereign states inhabiting an international sphere that ultimately encompassed the whole globe. In this insightful and wide-ranging work, David Armitage – one of the world's leading historians of political thought – traces the genesis of this international turn in intellectual history. Foundations of Modern International Thought combines important methodological essays, which consider the genealogy of globalisation and the parallel histories of empires and oceans, with fresh considerations of leading figures such as Hobbes, Locke, Burke and Bentham in the history of international thought. The culmination of more than a decade's reflection and research on these issues, this book restores the often overlooked international dimensions to intellectual history and recovers the intellectual dimensions of international history.
A groundbreaking history of philosophy and punishment, The Prison before the Panopticon traces the influence of ancient political philosophy on the modern institution of the prison, showing how prevailing theories of carceral rehabilitation and common justifications for the denial of liberty developed in classical and early modern thought.
Offers a comprehensive account of Bentham's mature, distinctive thought on democracy, courts, codification, and cosmopolitanism.