Known as 'the angriest black man in America', Malcolm X was one of the most famous activists to ever live. Going beyond biography, Black Minded examines Malcolm X's philosophical system, restoring his thinking to the pantheon of Black Radical Thought. Michael Sawyer argues that the foundational concepts of Malcolm X's political philosophy - economic and social justice, strident opposition to white supremacy and Black internationalism - are often obscured by an emphasis on biography. The text de...
After MacIntyre
This is an important full--length study of the work of this controversial thinker by leading political philosophers and social theorists, and includes a reply written by MacIntyre.
La Nave y las tempestades. T. 9
by Javier Olivera Ravasi, Que No Te La Cuenten, and Alfredo Saenz
Preventing Nuclear Genocide (American University Studies, Series 5: Philosophy, #50)
by George H Hampsch
Exploring the Political Economy and Social Philosophy of James M. Buchanan (Economy, Polity, and Society)
James M. Buchanan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1986, was a pioneer of public choice and constitutional political economy, as well as contributing to many fields of study, including philosophy, political science, and public finance. Each chapter in this volume seeks to explore, critique, and emphasize the continuing relevance of the vast contributions of Buchanan to our understanding of political economy and social philosophy. The diversity in topics and approaches will make the vo...
Focusing on individual political thinkers and beginning with indigenous African political thought, the book successively examines African nationalism, African socialism, populism and Marxism, Africanism and pan-Africanism, concluding with contemporary perspectives on democracy, development and the African state.
Exploring the Political Economy and Social Philosophy of Vincent and Elinor Ostrom (Economy, Polity, and Society)
The interdisciplinary chapters in this volume explore and engage the work of Vincent and Elinor Ostrom, along with the Bloomington School of political economy more generally.The book emphasizes the continuing relevance of the Ostroms' work for our understanding of collective action, self-governance, and institutional diversity for interdisciplinary research in the social sciences and humanities. The wide array of topics and approaches will make the volume of interest to readers in a variety of f...
The Ethics of Voting
by Assistant Professor of Business and Philosophy Jason Brennan
This accessible and readable account analyses the political stances adopted by French writers and artists from the end of the nineteenth century to the Liberation. Opening with the 'Birth of the Intellectuals' during the Dreyfus Affair in the 1890s, it traces the political commitment of French intellectuals through World War One, and their subsequent responses to communism, pacifism, surrealism, the rise of fascism and the Occupation. It is a companion volume to Drake's Intellectuals and Politic...
David Michael Levin's ongoing exploration of the moral character and enlightenment-potential of vision takes a new direction in The Philosopher's Gaze. Levin examines texts by Descartes, Husserl, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Benjamin, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas, using our culturally dominant mode of perception and the philosophical discourse it has generated as the site for his critical reflections on the moral culture in which we are living. In Levin's view, all these philosophers attemp...
Annotations on the Philosophy of Values (American University Studies, Series 5: Philosophy, #185)
by Carlos Ramos-Mattei
Le present volume est le resultat des interventions et des discussions qui prirent place lors de deux journees d'etudes organisees a l'Universite Paris-Est Creteil a l'automne 2010. Croisant les perspectives de la philosophie, de la science politique, de l'histoire et de la sociologie, cet ouvrage reprend la question de l'art de gouverner pour en montrer le caractere de noeud problematique pour notre modernite. L'art de gouverner fait signe vers une politique qui ne se confond ni avec la science...
Zum Umgang Mit Angst Und Vertrauen in Der Politik
by Timo Freudenberger
Sicherheit und Freiheit bestimmen den Diskurs uber den Kampf gegen den internationalen Terrorismus. Eine These der Untersuchung lautet, dass dieser Diskurs immer auch eine Diskussion um Angst und Vertrauen ist. Wesentlich scheint, dass Angst und Vertrauen einer strukturellen Ambivalenz unterliegen. Je nach Staatsform werden sie unterschiedlich eingesetzt und erhalten dadurch eine andere Wirkung. Im Gegensatz zu totalitaren Regimen ist fur den demokratischen Rechtsstaat das Recht der Massstab fu...
Jesus in an Age of Enlightenment (Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World)
by Jonathan C. P. Birch
This book explores the religious concerns of Enlightenment thinkers from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson. Using an innovative method, the study illuminates the intellectual history of the age through interpretations of Jesus between c.1650 and c.1826. The book demonstrates the persistence of theology in modern philosophy and the projects of social reform and amelioration associated with the Enlightenment. At the core of many of these projects was a robust moral-theological realism, sometimes m...
Presents a philosophical look at the world in these uncertain times. This work searches out the road signs of history and walks along the footpath of industrialisation to partial post industrial self-sufficiency.
En 1979, Jean-Francois Lyotard a articule la condition postmoderne, annoncant la fin de la modernite. Mais la modernite nous tient encore et se reinvente dans des nouvelles periodisations. Il nous incombe de reprendre la reflexion sur ce paradigme a la fois historique, culturel et social, et ceci, a partir de notre condition de " puines " de la modernite. Tel est le programme de reflexion de cet ouvrage collectif qui privilegie une approche interdisciplinaire et internationale. In 1979, Jean-Fra...