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Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738193722
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Author: Athanasios Moulakis
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826211620
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Because it is impossible to distinguish Weil's life from her thought, her writings cannot be understood properly without linking them to her life and character. By situating Weil's political thought within the context of the intellectual climate of her time, Moulakis connects it also to her epistemology, her cosmology, and her personal experience.

Author: Étienne VACHEROT
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Languages : en
Pages : 598

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Author: Christos Yannaras
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 022717755X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Christos Yannaras’ pioneering critique of the concept of the right of the individual is presented in English for the first time. This central aspect of political theory (since Hegel’s Philosophy of Right) summarizes the philosophical and cultural identity of the paradigm of modernity, but the philosophical assumptions underlying the concept of right have not hitherto been subject to scrutiny. Yannaras shows that the starting-point of the concept of right is a phenomenalistic naturalism, which presupposes an abstract concept of the human subject as a fundamentally undifferentiated natural individual. The question is also explored of how the priority accorded to this concept of right is related to the contemporary crisis of the modern politico-social paradigm, while a new preface from the translator underlines the continued significance of Yannaras’ proposal for Anglophone readers. Against the modern concept of right with its illusion of objectivity, The Inhumanity of Right sketches out the basic lines of a political theory that prioritizes new social needs that reflect the relational character of the human person.

Author: Alistair Cole
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719071508
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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This text investigates continuity and change in contemporary French politics, society and culture. It draws on contributions that reflect a variety of methodological approaches, ranging from theoretical speculations and modelling to the interpretation of fieldwork data.

Author: Boštjan M. Zupančič
Publisher: Eleven International Publishing
ISBN: 907759647X
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 465

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The title of the book is taken from Hegel and refers to the idea that philosophy cannot be prescriptive because it understands only in hindsight. The same holds true for conceptions of human rights. Based on his many years of experience in the field, the author shares his thoughts about human rights and the role it plays in society. In these thought-provoking essays, the author examines the dialectic relationship between rule of law and law and order; between state and individual; judicial power of logic vs executive logic of power. These dynamic contradictions are never resolved. On the contrary, they are the motor of development and inspire judicial reasoning and the balancing of justice vis--vis power and arbitrariness.

Author: Jorge Nef
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1137020016
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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This text provides a critical but systematic overview of democratic theory and practice in the contemporary world. The authors show that recent developments are more complex than admitted by proponents of the idea of a democratic world with, what they call, de-democratization of various forms running in parallel with democratization.

Author: Anita Schroven
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 178920190X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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In Guinea, situated against the background of central government struggles, rural elites use identity politics through contemporary political reforms to maintain their privileges and perpetuate a generations-old local social contract that bridges ethnic and religious divides. Simultaneously, administrative reform and national unrest lead to the creative re-combination of sources of authority and practices of legitimate rule. Past periods of colonization, socialism and authoritarian regime are reflected in contemporary struggles to make sense of participatory democracy and the future of the embattled Guinean national state.

Author: African Association of Political Science
Publisher: Africa World Press
ISBN: 9780865436381
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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This book is a study of the issues of democracy and democratization in Africa, with emphasis on the roles of civil society and the state in the democratic transition. After clarifying the meaning of democracy as a universal principle of governance and the applicability of the concept to Africa, the book examines the major problems facing the democratic transition on the continent as a whole.

Author: Gino G. Raymond
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230512879
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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The demise of the French Communist Party (PCF) has been a recurrent feature of overviews of the Left in France for the past two decades, and yet the Communists survive. This study examines the factors that undermined the position of the PCF as the premier party of France, but also highlights the challenges that the party faces in a society disillusioned with politics, and the new strategies that it is developing in order to revive its fortunes.