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In the same intellectual league as Grotius, Hobbes and Locke, but
today less well known, Samuel Pufendorf was an early modern master
of political, juridical, historical and theological thought.
Trained in an erudite humanism, he brought his copious command of
ancient and modern literature to bear on precisely honed arguments
designed to engage directly with contemporary political and
religious problems. Through his fundamental reconstruction of the
discipline of natural law, Pufendorf offered a new rationale for
the sovereign territorial state, providing it with non-religious
foundations in order to fit it for governance of multi-religious
societies and to protect his own Protestant faith. He also drew on
his humanist learning to write important political histories, a
significant lay theology, and vivid polemics against his many
opponents. This volume makes the full scope of his thought and
writing accessible to English readers for the first time.
Reflecting on the "clash of civilizations" as its point of
departure, this book is based on a series of sixteen of the
author's interconnected, thematically focused lectures and calls
for new perspectives to resist imperialistic homogeneity. Situated
within a neo-humanist context, the book applies interactive
cognition from an Asian perspective within which China can be
perceived as an essential "other," making it highly relevant in the
quest for global solutions to the many grave issues facing mankind
today. The author critiques American, European, and Chinese points
of view; highlighting the significance of difference and the
necessity of dialogue; before ultimately, rethinking the nature of
world literature and putting forward interactive cognition as a
means of "reconciliation" between cultures. Chinese culture, as a
frame of reference endowed with traditions of "harmony without
homogeneity", may help to alleviate global cultural confrontation
and even reconstruct the understanding of human civilization. The
book will be essential reading for scholars and students of
Comparative Literature, Chinese Studies, and all those who are
interested in cross-cultural communication and Chinese culture in
general.
Christian Thomasius (1655 1728) was a tireless campaigner against
the political enforcement of religion in the early modern
confessional state. In a whole series of combative disputations -
against heresy and witchraft prosecutions, and in favour of
religious toleration - Thomasius battled to lay the intellectual
groundwork for the separation of church and state and the juridical
basis for pluralistic societies. In this first book-length study in
English of Thomasius' political thought, Ian Hunter departs from
the usual view of Thomasius as a natural law moral philosopher. In
addition to investigating his anti-scholastic cultural politics,
Hunter discusses Thomasius' work in public and church law,
particularly his disputations arguing for the toleration of
heretics, providing a revealing comparison with Locke's arguments
on the same topic. If Locke sought to base toleration in the
subjective rights protecting Christian citizens against an
intolerant state, Thomasius grounded it in the state's duty to
impose toleration as an obligation on intolerant citizens.
Reflecting on the "clash of civilizations" as its point of
departure, this book is based on a series of sixteen of the
author's interconnected, thematically focused lectures and calls
for new perspectives to resist imperialistic homogeneity. Situated
within a neo-humanist context, the book applies interactive
cognition from an Asian perspective within which China can be
perceived as an essential "other," making it highly relevant in the
quest for global solutions to the many grave issues facing mankind
today. The author critiques American, European, and Chinese points
of view; highlighting the significance of difference and the
necessity of dialogue; before ultimately, rethinking the nature of
world literature and putting forward interactive cognition as a
means of "reconciliation" between cultures. Chinese culture, as a
frame of reference endowed with traditions of "harmony without
homogeneity", may help to alleviate global cultural confrontation
and even reconstruct the understanding of human civilization. The
book will be essential reading for scholars and students of
Comparative Literature, Chinese Studies, and all those who are
interested in cross-cultural communication and Chinese culture in
general.
BRITISH TRASH CINEMA is the first overview of the wilder shores of
British exploitation and cult paracinema from the 1950s onwards.
From obscure horror, science fiction and sexploitation, to
art-house camp, Hammer's prehistoric fantasies and the worst
British films ever made, author I.Q. Hunter draws on rare archival
material and new primary research to take us through the
weird
and wonderful world of British trash cinema.
Beginning by outlining the definitions of trash films and their
place in British film history, Hunter explores topics including:
Hammer's overlooked fantasy films, the emergence of the
sexploitation film in the 1950s and 60s, the sex industry in the
1970s, Ken Russell's high camp Gothic and erotic adaptations since
the 1980s, gross-out comedies, revenge films, and contemporary
straight-to-DVD horror and erotica.
In the business world, especially in manufacturing or quality
management, the term Six Sigma usually refers to a set of tools and
methodologies developed by Motorola to improve processes by
eliminating defects. So why should the HR professional care what
Six Sigma is or how it can be applied in the HR function? According
to the specialists at Orion Partners, there are ten key reasons: to
create excellence in process delivery; to reduce defects; to
increase efficiency; to create a quality focused mindset; to
benefit from best practice; to bring clarity to the processes of
HR; to use a structured scientific approach; to speak the same
language and improve communication; to gain control over your
processes; and to strengthen your business case. Mircea Albeanu and
Ian Hunter explain some of the basic concepts to show how applying
Six Sigma tools and methodologies can be used to manage the
practical challenges of improving HR operations to meet your
organization's expectations at a lower cost and with greater
efficiency. To help illustrate some of the key messages examples
are drawn from Orion Partners' work using Six Sigma tools with
international organizations over the last seven years. This concise
guide is ideal for project and programme managers involved in
business transformation, and for HR managers as well as Six Sigma
specialists seeking to understand its applications within human
resources. About The Gower HR Transformation Series: The Human
Resources function faces a continuing challenge to its role and
purpose, in many organizations it has suffered from serious
under-representation at strategic, board level. Yet, faced with the
challenges of globalism, the need to innovate, manage knowledge,
attract and retain the very best employees, organizations need an
HR function that can lead from the front. The process of
transforming the function is complex and rarely linear. It includes
the practical challenges of improving HR opera
In the business world, especially in manufacturing or quality
management, the term Six Sigma usually refers to a set of tools and
methodologies developed by Motorola to improve processes by
eliminating defects. So why should the HR professional care what
Six Sigma is or how it can be applied in the HR function? According
to the specialists at Orion Partners, there are ten key reasons: *
to create excellence in process delivery; * to reduce defects; * to
increase efficiency; * to create a quality focused mindset; * to
benefit from best practice; * to bring clarity to the processes of
HR; * to use a structured scientific approach; * to speak the same
language and improve communication; * to gain control over your
processes; * and to strengthen your business case. Mircea Albeanu
and Ian Hunter explain some of the basic concepts to show how
applying Six Sigma tools and methodologies can be used to manage
the practical challenges of improving HR operations to meet your
organization's expectations at a lower cost and with greater
efficiency. To help illustrate some of the key messages examples
are drawn from Orion Partners' work using Six Sigma tools with
international organizations over the last seven years. This concise
guide is ideal for project and programme managers involved in
business transformation, and for HR managers as well as Six Sigma
specialists seeking to understand its applications within human
resources. About The Gower HR Transformation Series: The Human
Resources function faces a continuing challenge to its role and
purpose, in many organizations it has suffered from serious
under-representation at strategic, board level. Yet, faced with the
challenges of globalism, the need to innovate, manage knowledge,
attract and retain the very best employees, organizations need an
HR function that can lead from the front. The process of
transforming the function is complex and rarely linear. It includes
the practical challenges of improving HR operations to meet
customer expectations at lower cost and with greater efficiency.
The Gower HR Transformation Series will help; it uses a blend of
conceptual frameworks, practical advice and global case study
examples to cover each of the main elements of the HR
transformation process. The books in the series follow a standard
format to make them easy to read and reference. Together, the
titles create a definitive guide from one of the leading specialist
HR transformation consultancies; an organization that has been
involved in HR transformation for clients as diverse as Bombardier
Transportation, Marks & Spencer, Barnardo's, Oxfam, Schroders,
UnitedHealth Group, Nestle, BP, HM Prison Service, Transport for
London and Vodafone.
For many years now, both private and public sector organizations
have been dealing with the challenge of how best to improve
corporate performance. HR has not escaped this scrutiny. The very
same businesses that have spent recent years cost cutting,
restructuring and streamlining, are putting the pressure on the HR
'overhead' to prove that it is not just a cost centre but a
function that provides added value through alignment to business
needs and aspirations. The traditional, transaction-based HR
service must, however, still be delivered. Understanding how to
combine a renewed strategic focus with effective delivery of
transactional and administrative services is the key to HR's next
generation of service delivery models. The authors' work with HR
functions includes an established set of service design criteria
and an approach that differentiates between a successful
implementation and what can be a costly backward step that only
serves to alienate the business. They show how any prospective HR
transformation should consider five fundamental issues in the
service design phase to align the HR approach to the business
strategy. These issues are critical to ensuring a fit for purpose
HR function that can measure and demonstrate the value it adds.
About The Gower HR Transformation Series: The Human Resources
function faces a continuing challenge to its role and purpose, in
many organizations it has suffered from serious
under-representation at strategic, board level. Yet, faced with the
challenges of globalism, the need to innovate, manage knowledge,
attract and retain the very best employees, organizations need an
HR function that can lead from the front. The process of
transforming the function is complex and rarely linear. It involves
designing a function that can manage its generalist and specialist
roles with equal skills. The Gower HR Transformation Series will
help; it uses a blend of conceptual frameworks, practical advice
and global case study examples to cover each of the main elements
of the HR transformation process. The books in the series follow a
standard format to make them easy to read and reference. Together,
the titles create a definitive guide from one of the leading
specialist HR transformation consultancies; an organization that
has been involved in HR transformation for clients as diverse as
Bombardier Transportation, Marks & Spencer, Barnardo's, Oxfam,
Schroders, UnitedHealth Group, Nestle, BP, HM Prison Service,
Transport for London and Vodafone.
The concept of heresy is deeply rooted in Christian European
culture. The palpable increase in incidences of heresy in the
Middle Ages may be said to directly relate to the Christianity's
attempts to define orthodoxy and establish conformity at its
centre, resulting in the sometimes forceful elimination of
Christian sects. In the transition from medieval to early modern
times, however, the perception of heresy underwent a profound
transformation, ultimately leading to its decriminalization and the
emergence of a pluralistic religious outlook. The essays in this
volume offer readers a unique insight into this little-understood
cultural shift. Half of the chapters investigate the manner in
which the church and its attendant civil authorities defined and
proscribed heresy, whilst the other half focus on the means by
which early modern writers sought to supersede such definition and
proscription. The result of these investigations is a multifaceted
historical account of the construction and serial reconstruction of
one of the key categories of European theological, juristic and
political thought. The contributors explore the role of nationalism
and linguistic identity in constructions of heresy, its analogies
with treason and madness, the role of class and status in the
responses to heresy. In doing so they provide fascinating insights
into the roots of the historicization of heresy and the role of
this historicization in the emergence of religious pluralism.
For many years now, both private and public sector organizations
have been dealing with the challenge of how best to improve
corporate performance. HR has not escaped this scrutiny. The very
same businesses that have spent recent years cost cutting,
restructuring and streamlining, are putting the pressure on the HR
'overhead' to prove that it is not just a cost centre but a
function that provides added value through alignment to business
needs and aspirations. The traditional, transaction-based HR
service must, however, still be delivered. Understanding how to
combine a renewed strategic focus with effective delivery of
transactional and administrative services is the key to HR's next
generation of service delivery models. The authors' work with HR
functions includes an established set of service design criteria
and an approach that differentiates between a successful
implementation and what can be a costly backward step that only
serves to alienate the business. They show how any prospective HR
transformation should consider five fundamental issues in the
service design phase to align the HR approach to the business
strategy. These issues are critical to ensuring a fit for purpose
HR function that can measure and demonstrate the value it adds.
About The Gower HR Transformation Series: The Human Resources
function faces a continuing challenge to its role and purpose, in
many organizations it has suffered from serious
under-representation at strategic, board level. Yet, faced with the
challenges of globalism, the need to innovate, manage knowledge,
attract and retain the very best employees, organizations need an
HR function that can lead from the front. The process of
transforming the function is complex and rarely linear. It involves
designing a function that can manage its generalist and specialist
roles with equal skills. The Gower HR Transformation Series will
help; it uses a blend of conceptual frameworks, practical advice
and global case study examples to
Ian Hunter's Diary of a Rock `n' Roll Star, first published in
1974, is a fascinating diary of Mott the Hoople's 1972 US tour. It
has received a litany of plaudits and been described as what "may
well be the best rock book ever" and "an enduring crystallization
of the rock musician's lot, and a quietly glorious period piece"
from Q and The Guardian. A brutally honest chronicle of touring
life in the Seventies, and a classic of the rock writing genre,
Diary of a Rock `n' Roll Star remains the gold standard for rock
writing. This new edition includes new content from Hunter. Ian
Hunter is the lead singer in Mott the Hoople and a successful solo
artist in his own right. He continues to record and perform across
the world after more than fifty years in rock'n'roll.
Educationalists have long worked to democratise our school system
and purge traces of its religious origins. Rethinking the School
shows that these efforts have been in vain. The bureaucratic
organisation of schooling is here to stay, and Christian moral
discipline is an integral part of the school as we know it.Hunter
argues that both liberal and Marxian theory ignore the historical
reality of the school. He does not see the school as the failed
attempt to realise principles of social equality, complete personal
development and intellectual enlightenment. Rather, he sees the
modern school as an improvised apparatus for the training of good
citizens and the guidance of souls.Rethinking the School is one of
the first major applications of Foucault's genealogical method to
the school system, and will be widely debated by educationalists,
policy-makers and those interested in the interaction of government
and subjectivity.'This is a serious piece of scholarship which
breaks with much orthodoxy in educational theory and research. It
brings new insights to old dilemmas and as such is a major
contribution to a field which has in some respects lost its nerve.
This is a book that must be read.' - Professor Richard Smith,
Australian Journal of Education'Hunter. offers a detailed and
fascinating account of the popular school. in a manner which
reinvigorates modern debates regarding the relations between
government and education. He makes us look and see differently, the
hallmark of a powerful and original thinker.' - Professor Tony
Bennett, Institute for Cultural Policy Studies
In the same intellectual league as Grotius, Hobbes and Locke, but
today less well known, Samuel Pufendorf was an early modern master
of political, juridical, historical and theological thought.
Trained in an erudite humanism, he brought his copious command of
ancient and modern literature to bear on precisely honed arguments
designed to engage directly with contemporary political and
religious problems. Through his fundamental reconstruction of the
discipline of natural law, Pufendorf offered a new rationale for
the sovereign territorial state, providing it with non-religious
foundations in order to fit it for governance of multi-religious
societies and to protect his own Protestant faith. He also drew on
his humanist learning to write important political histories, a
significant lay theology, and vivid polemics against his many
opponents. This volume makes the full scope of his thought and
writing accessible to English readers for the first time.
This Orion Partners' report addresses the main considerations for
an organization investigating a large-scale transference of HR
transactional activity to an outsource provider. The report also
provides an overview of the market for HR outsourcing services in
Europe. There are sections profiling each of the main outsourcing
providers in the UK and continental Europe and case studies drawn
from both the public and private sector. Human Resources
Outsourcing agreements, which typically run for seven years or
more, have a critical influence on any organization's ability to
deliver its long-term strategy. The Orion Partners' report is a
valuable contribution to identifying the right model, locating the
right partner and realising the value of one of the most important
elements in the current strategic investment for large
organizations. It also provides helpful advice on how to manage the
impact of outsourcing on the retained HR team.
Christian Thomasius (1655 1728) was a tireless campaigner against
the political enforcement of religion in the early modern
confessional state. In a whole series of combative disputations -
against heresy and witchcraft prosecutions, and in favour of
religious toleration - Thomasius battled to lay the intellectual
groundwork for the separation of church and state and the juridical
basis for pluralistic societies. In this 2007 text, Ian Hunter
departs from the usual view of Thomasius as a natural law moral
philosopher. In addition to investigating his anti-scholastic
cultural politics, Hunter discusses Thomasius' work in public and
church law, particularly his disputations arguing for the
toleration of heretics, providing a revealing comparison with
Locke's arguments on the same topic. If Locke sought to base
toleration in the subjective rights protecting Christian citizens
against an intolerant state, Thomasius grounded it in the state's
duty to impose toleration as an obligation on intolerant citizens.
In this groundbreaking collection of essays the history of
philosophy appears in a fresh light, not as reason's progressive
discovery of its universal conditions, but as a series of
unreconciled disputes over the proper way to conduct oneself as a
philosopher. By shifting focus from the philosopher as proxy for
the universal subject of reason to the philosopher as a special
persona arising from rival forms of self-cultivation, philosophy is
approached in terms of the social office and intellectual
deportment of the philosopher, as a personage with a definite moral
physiognomy and institutional setting. In so doing, this collection
of essays by leading figures in the fields of both philosophy and
the history of ideas provides access to key early modern disputes
over what it meant to be a philosopher, and to the institutional
and larger political and religious contexts in which such disputes
took place.
Rival Enlightenments, first published in 2001, is a major
reinterpretation of early modern German intellectual history. Ian
Hunter approaches philosophical doctrines as ways of fashioning
personae for envisaged historical circumstances, here of
confessional conflict and political desacralization. He treats the
civil philosophy of Pufendorf and Thomasius and the metaphysical
philosophy of Leibniz and Kant as rival intellectual cultures or
paideiai, thereby challenging all histories premised on Kant's
supposed reconciliation and transcendence of the field. This study
reveals the extraordinary historical self-consciousness of the
civil philosophers, who repudiated university metaphysics as
inimical to the intellectual formation of those administering
desacralized territorial states. The book argues that the
marginalization of civil philosophy in post-Kantian philosophical
history may itself be seen as a continuation of the struggle
between the rival enlightenments. Combining careful and
well-documented scholarship with vivid polemic, Hunter presents
penetrating insights for philosophers and historians alike.
In this groundbreaking collection of essays the history of
philosophy appears in a fresh light, not as reason's progressive
discovery of its universal conditions, but as a series of
unreconciled disputes over the proper way to conduct oneself as a
philosopher. By shifting focus from the philosopher as proxy for
the universal subject of reason to the philosopher as a special
persona arising from rival forms of self-cultivation, philosophy is
approached in terms of the social office and intellectual
deportment of the philosopher, as a personage with a definite moral
physiognomy and institutional setting. In so doing, this collection
of essays by leading figures in the fields of both philosophy and
the history of ideas provides access to key early modern disputes
over what it meant to be a philosopher, and to the institutional
and larger political and religious contexts in which such disputes
took place.
Rival Enlightenments is a major reinterpretation of early modern German intellectual history. Ian Hunter treats the civil philosophy of Pufendorf and Thomasius and the metaphysical philosophy of Leibniz and Kant as rival intellectual cultures or paideia, thereby challenging all histories premised on Kant's supposed reconciliation and transcendence of the field. This landmark study argues that the marginalization of civil philosophy in post-Kantian philosophical history may itself illustrate the continuing struggle between the rival enlightenments. Combining careful scholarship with vivid polemic, Hunter presents penetrating insights for philosophers and historians alike.
Over his long and illustrious career, Knud Haakonssen has explored
the role of natural law in formulating doctrines of obligation and
rights in accordance with the interests of early modern polities
and churches. The essays collected in this volume range across this
exciting and contested field. These 13 new essays acknowledge
Haakonssen's immense academic achievement and give us new insights
into the cultural and political role of law and rights in a variety
of historical contexts and circumstances.
This book highlights the changes and challenges to the role of the
HR Business Partner, overviewing the emerging service delivery
models for the HR function (in particular the development of shared
services and outsourcing options) and what this means for the HR
Business Partner (HRBP) in the modern enterprise. The purpose of
this book is to provide a conceptual framework and practical
advice, based on real life case studies and recent research, into
how HR Business Partners best add value to the organization. The
authors have extensive experience of working in the area of HR
restructuring (having been HR Directors in blue chip organizations
and senior advisers in leading consultancies) and have consistently
come up against confusion and contradiction about what is the new
role of the HR Manager/Business Partner in supporting business
managers in the delivery of strategic and tactical objectives.
Theory and conceptual models are used to underpin this book but it
has been written as a pragmatic, hands-on guide that will help its
readers think through how best they might fulfil the role of the
HRBP. The book contains checklists, case study examples and
self-assessment tools. It is supported by supplementary material
(updates, further case studies, templates and tools) which are
available via the authors' website.
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