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The Enigma of Justice: Freedom and Morality in the Work of Immanuel
Kant, G.W.F Hegel, Agnes Heller, and Axel Honneth offers a novel
perspective on the idea of justice. Claire Nyblom argues that
justice is a cultural and historical constant, routinely summoned
as if it were a foundational concept to legitimate or challenge
social arrangements. Instead, justice is characterized by a
plurality of theories, containing regulative and critical
dimensions that are in tension. Nyblom argues that the categorical
imperative can be positioned as a strong evaluative standard that
mediates plurality, creating a revisable idea of justice resistant
to relativism. After identifying the originating architecture of
Immanuel Kant and G.W.F Hegel, the discussion engages with the work
of Agnes Heller and Axel Honneth, using the "pivots of justice" as
an analytic lens focused on commonalities rather than differences.
This framework leads to a dialogue between Heller and Honneth that
strengthens their respective positions. The Enigma of Justice
provides a valuable study and insight into the contemporary nature
of justice. The book provides a useful orientation for students and
scholars interested in debates about justice, and to those working
in the areas of European philosophy, social and political theory,
sociology, and the law.
For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough
food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet in Africa, more than 9
million people every year die of hunger, malnutrition, and related
diseases every year--most of them children. In this powerful
investigative narrative, "Wall Street Journal" reporters Kilman
& Thurow show exactly how, in the past few decades, Western
policies conspired to keep Africa hungry and unable to feed itself.
"Enough" is essential reading on a humanitarian issue of utmost
urgency.
International politics is witnessing a rapid transformation due to
the emerging impact of the internet and digital media. Activists in
various countries have been given a new medium to voice their views
and opinions, resulting in governments adapting to the digital
environment in which we currently live. As the role of social media
and online communities continue to grow, empirical research is
needed on their specific impact on governmental policies and
reform. Handbook of Recent Developments in Internet Activism and
Political Participation is an essential reference source that
explores the modern role that digital media plays within community
engagement and political development. This book discusses
real-world case studies in various regions of the world on how the
internet is affecting government agendas and promoting the voice of
the community. Featuring research on topics such as digital
ecosystems, information technology, and foreign policy, this book
is ideally designed for researchers, strategists, government
officials, policymakers, sociologists, administrators, scholars,
educators, and students seeking coverage on the societal impact of
social media in modern global politics.
Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great
Reset, revisits Thomas Paine's Common Sense. In any era, great
Americans inspire us to reach our full potential. They know with
conviction what they believe within themselves. They understand
that all actions have consequences. And they find commonsense
solutions to the nation's problems. One such American, Thomas
Paine, was an ordinary man who changed the course of history by
penning Common Sense, the concise 1776 masterpiece in which,
through extraordinarily straightforward and indisputable arguments,
he encouraged his fellow citizens to take control of America's
future-and, ultimately, her freedom. Nearly two and a half
centuries later, those very freedoms once again hang in the
balance. And now, Glenn Beck revisits Paine's powerful treatise
with one purpose: to galvanize Americans to see past government's
easy solutions, two-party monopoly, and illogical methods and take
back our great country.
Since the Second World War, constitutional justice has spread
through much of the democratic world. Often it has followed in the
wake of national calamity and historical evil - whether fascism or
communism, colonialism or apartheid. Unsurprisingly, the memory of
such evils plays a prominent role in constitutional adjudication.
This book explores the relationship between constitutional
interpretation and the memory of historical evil. Specifically, it
examines how the constitutional courts of the United States,
Germany, and South Africa have grappled, respectively, with the
legacies of slavery, Nazism, and apartheid. Most courts invoke
historical evil through either the parenthetical or the redemptive
mode of constitutional memory. The parenthetical framework views
the evil era as exceptional - a baleful aberration from an
otherwise noble and worthy constitutional tradition. Parenthetical
jurisprudence reaches beyond the evil era toward stable and
enduring values. It sees the constitutional response to evil as
restorative rather than revolutionary - a return to and
reaffirmation of older traditions. The redemptive mode, by
contrast, is more aggressive. Its aim is not to resume a venerable
tradition but to reverse recent ills. Its animating spirit is not
restoration, but antithesis. Its aim is not continuity with deeper
pasts, but a redemptive future stemming from a stark, complete, and
vivid rupture. This book demonstrates how, across the three
jurisdictions, the parenthetical mode has often accompanied
formalist and originalist approaches to constitutional
interpretation, whereas the redemptive mode has accompanied realist
and purposive approaches. It also shows how, within the three
jurisdictions, the parenthetical mode of memory has consistently
predominated in American constitutional jurisprudence; the
redemptive mode in South African jurisprudence; and a hybrid,
parenthetical-redemptive mode in German constitutional
jurisprudence. The real-world consequences of these trends have
been stark and dramatic. Memory matters, especially in
constitutional interpretation.
From Revolution to Revolution (1973) examines England, Scotland and
Wales from the revolution of 1688 when William became King, to the
American Revolution of 1776. In this period lies the roots of
modern Britain, as it went from being underdeveloped countries on
the fringe of European civilization to a predominating influence in
the world. This book examines the union of the island, development
of an organized public opinion and national consciousness, as well
as Parliament and its factions, the landed and business classes.
Views on religion, art, architecture and the changing face of the
countryside are also examined, as is the tension between London and
the rest of the island. The important issues of colonial expansions
in Ireland, America, India and Africa are also analysed.
The Court and the Country (1969) offers a fresh view and synthesis
of the English revolution of 1640. It describes the origin and
development of the revolution, and gives an account of the various
factors - political, social and religious - that produced the
revolution and conditioned its course. It explains the revolution
primarily as a result of the breakdown of the unity of the
governing class around the monarchy into the contending sides of
the Court and the Country. A principal theme is the formation
within the governing class of an opposition movement to the Crown.
The role of Puritanism and of the towns is examined, and the
resistance to Charles I is considered in relation to other European
revolutions of the period.
A Nation of Change and Novelty (1990) ranges broadly over the
political and literary terrain of the seventeenth century,
examining the importance of the English Revolution as a decisive
event in English and European history. It emphasises the historical
significance of the English Revolution, exploring not only its
causes but also its long term consequences, basing both in a broad
social context and viewing it as a necessary condition of England's
having nurtured the first Industrial Revolution.
Reflections on the Puritan Revolution (1986) examines the damage
done by the Puritans during the English Civil War, and the enormous
artistic losses England suffered from their activities. The
Puritans smashed stained glass, monuments, sculpture, brasses in
cathedrals and churches; they destroyed organs, dispersed the
choirs and the music. They sold the King's art collections,
pictures, statues, plate, gems and jewels abroad, and broke up the
Coronation regalia. They closed down the theatres and ended
Caroline poetry. The greatest composer and most promising scientist
of the age were among the many lives lost; and this all besides the
ruin of palaces, castles and mansions.
A History of Political Thought in the English Revolution (1954)
examines the large range of political doctrines which played their
part in the English revolution - a period when modern democratic
ideas began. The political literature of the period between 1645,
when the Levellers first seized upon the revolution's wider
implications, and 1660, when Charles II restored the monarchy to
power, is here studied in detail.
Cromwell and Communism (1930) examines the English revolution
against the absolute monarchy of Charles I. It looks at the
economic and social conditions prevailing at the time, the first
beginnings of dissent and the religious and political aims of the
Parliamentarian side in the revolution and subsequent civil war.
The various sects are examined, including the Levellers and their
democratic, atheistic and communistic ideals.
Allegiance in Church and State (1928) examines the evolution of
ideas and ideals, their relation to political and economic events,
and their influence on friends and foes in seventeenth-century
England - which witnessed the beginning of both the constitutional
and the intellectual transition from the old order to the new. It
takes a careful look at the religious and particularly political
ideas of the Nonjurors, a sect that argued for the moral
foundations of a State and the sacredness of moral obligations in
public life.
Leveller Manifestoes (1944) is a collection of primary manifestoes
issued by the Levellers, the group which played an active and
influential role in the English revolution of 1642-49. This book
collects together rare pamphlets and tracts that are seldom
available, and certainly not in one place for ease of research.
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