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This book deals with the major ethical and social implications of
computer networking and its technological development. In this
book, a number of leading thinkers-philosophers, computer
scientists and researchers-address some fundamental questions posed
by the new technology.
This book deals with the major ethical and social implications of
computer networking and its technological development. In this
book, a number of leading thinkers-philosophers, computer
scientists and researchers-address some fundamental questions posed
by the new technology.
Virginia Held, best known for her landmark book Rights and Goods,
has made an indelible mark on the fields of ethics, feminist
philosophy, and social and political thought. Her impact on a
generation of feminist thinkers is unrivaled and she has been at
the forfront of discussions about the way in which an ethic of care
can affect social and political matters. These new essays by
leading contemporary philosophers range over all of these areas.
While each stands alone, the essays together demonstrate the
lasting value of Held's work to the field. Includes an afterword by
Held.
Preface; C.C. Gould. Marxology; R.S. Cohen. Art: Institutional
Blessing: the Museum as Canon-Maker; H. Hein. `Suddenly One Has the
Right Eyes': Illusion and Iconoclasm in the Early Gombrich; G.
Horowitz. Danto, Dutton, and our Pre-Understanding of Tribal Art
and Artifacts; M.Kelly. In Defense of Musical Representation:
Music, Representation and the Hybrid Arts; P. Kivy. Two Vignettes
in the History of the Mensuration of Value; D. Lackey. Irony, Ltd.,
and the Future of Art; B. Lang. A Genealogy of `Aura': Walter
Benjamin's Idea of Beauty; G. Smith. Science: Analysis and
Synthesis According to Ibn al-Haytham; R. Rashed. Changes in the
Concepts of Space and Time Brought about by Relativity; J. Stachel.
Philosophy and Its History: Hegel and the Doctrine of Expressivism;
A. Buchwalter. Translating Feuerbach; P. Caws. Is the Enlightenment
Over? W.J. Earle. Realism; P. Feyerabend. An Anatomy of
Wittgenstein's Picture Theory; J. Hintikka. Rationality and
Commitment; I. Levi. The Theses on Feuerbach: a Road not Taken; A.
MacIntyre. Donald Davidson's Philosophical Strategies; J. Margolis.
Time and Conscious Experience; J. Proust. Ten Philosophical Poems;
A. Shimony. Politics and Praxis: The Philosophy of Optimism and
Pessimism; J. Agassi. Life is not a Poem? B. Elevitch. Levinas,
Feminism, Holocaust, Ecocide; R.S. Gottlieb. Marx after Marxism;
C.C. Gould. The Good and the Rational; E. Kohak. The End of a
Metaphor: the Base and the Superstructure; G. Markus. The Marxian
Vision of a (Better) Possible Future: End of a Grand Illusion?
W.McBride. On the Communicative Dimension of Social Practice; T.
McCarthy. The Bread of Faithful Speech; C. Ryan. Unsafe at Any
Depth: Geological Methods, Subjective Judgments, and Nuclear Waste
Disposal; K. Shrader-Frechette. Community and Difference:
Reflections in the Wake of Rodney King; L.C. Simpson. Partisanship,
Universalism, and the Dialectics of Moral Consciousness; W.H.
Truitt.
How can we confront the problems of diminished democracy, pervasive
economic inequality, and persistent global poverty? Is it possible
to fulfill the dual aims of deepening democratic participation and
achieving economic justice, not only locally but also globally?
Carol C. Gould proposes an integrative and interactive approach to
the core values of democracy, justice, and human rights, looking
beyond traditional politics to the social conditions that would
enable us to realize these aims. Her innovative philosophical
framework sheds new light on social movements across borders, the
prospects for empathy and solidarity with distant others, and the
problem of gender inequalities in diverse cultures, and also
considers new ways in which democratic deliberation can be enhanced
by online networking and extended to the institutions of global
governance. Her book will be of great interest to scholars and
upper-level students of political philosophy, global justice,
social and political science, and gender studies.
The chapters in this volume deal with timely issues regarding
democracy in theory and in practice in today's globalized world.
Authored by leading political philosophers of our time, they appear
here for the first time. The essays challenge and defend
assumptions about the role of democracy as a viable political and
legal institution in response to globalization, keeping in focus
the role of rights at the normative foundations of democracy in a
pluralistic world. Through an examination of key topics of current
relevance, with contrasting views of the leading theorists, the
chapters address the most relevant theories and forms of
globalization, traditional democratic paradigms and their limits,
public deliberation and democratic participation, the moral hazards
of imperial democracy, and the future of liberal democracy. In
addition to suggesting new perspectives on democracy, they use the
current debate on justice, human rights, sovereignty, and cultural
relativism to shed light on enduring questions about politics,
culture, and global development. This timely and provocative
collection will be of interest to anyone concerned with democracy,
human rights, global justice, economic development, poverty,
international law, peace, and various aspects of globalization.
The chapters in this volume deal with timely issues regarding
democracy in theory and in practice in today's globalized world.
Authored by leading political philosophers of our time, they appear
here for the first time. The essays challenge and defend
assumptions about the role of democracy as a viable political and
legal institution in response to globalization, keeping in focus
the role of rights at the normative foundations of democracy in a
pluralistic world. Through an examination of key topics of current
relevance, with contrasting views of the leading theorists, the
chapters address the most relevant theories and forms of
globalization, traditional democratic paradigms and their limits,
public deliberation and democratic participation, the moral hazards
of imperial democracy, and the future of liberal democracy. In
addition to suggesting new perspectives on democracy, they use the
current debate on justice, human rights, sovereignty, and cultural
relativism to shed light on enduring questions about politics,
culture, and global development. This timely and provocative
collection will be of interest to anyone concerned with democracy,
human rights, global justice, economic development, poverty,
international law, peace, and various aspects of globalization.
In her 2004 book Carol Gould addresses the fundamental issue of
democratizing globalization, that is to say of finding ways to open
transnational institutions and communities to democratic
participation by those widely affected by their decisions. The book
develops a framework for expanding participation in crossborder
decisions, arguing for a broader understanding of human rights and
introducing a new role for the ideas of care and solidarity at a
distance. Reinterpreting the idea of universality to accommodate a
multiplicity of cultural perspectives, the author takes up a number
of applied issues, including the persistence of racism, cultural
rights, women's human rights, the democratic management of firms,
the use of the Internet to enhance political participation, and the
importance of empathy and genuine democracy in understanding
terrorism and responding to it. Accessibly written with a minimum
of technical jargon this is a major contribution to political
philosophy.
Here is the first book to present Karl Marx as one of the great
systematic philosophers, a man who went beyond the traditional
bounds of the discipline to work out a philosophical system in
terms of a concrete social theory and politico-economic critique.
Basing her work on the "Grundrisse" (probably Marx's most
systematic work and only translated into English for the first time
in 1973), Gould argues that Marx was engaged in a single enterprise
throughout his works, specifically the construction of a systematic
and philosophical theory of society.Gould examines five basic
themes of Marx's social ontology: society, labor, causality,
freedom, and justice, in five separate chapters, preceded by an
introductory chapter explicating thesis and methods. The book shows
how Marx's ontology, or theory of social reality, may be
reconstructed from concrete details of his account of the
historical stages of social development and from his analyses and
critiques of capitalist economy. It clarifies further the value
theory underlying Marx's critique of modern society and explores
the question of how philosophy can play a major role in
understanding and resolving social issues.This book will be of
interest to all students of society, since it raises issues of the
relationship of technologies to society and of the forms and
prospects for socialism as a possible future society. It has
deliberately been written in a style that makes the difficult,
technical issues accessible to undergraduates just beginning to
read Marx, as well as, of course, graduate students of social
theory and specialized scholars. The lay reader will also be drawn
to the particular content of this book and will enjoy the lucid,
straightforward presentation."Marx's Social Ontology" proposes a
solution to a long-standing problem in interpretations of Marx: the
apparent dilemma of his insistence on the ideal of full
self-realization of the individual and his equal insistence on the
ideal of full self-realization of the community. This is a book of
major significance dealing with topics of enduring and current
interest.
How can we confront the problems of diminished democracy, pervasive
economic inequality, and persistent global poverty? Is it possible
to fulfill the dual aims of deepening democratic participation and
achieving economic justice, not only locally but also globally?
Carol C. Gould proposes an integrative and interactive approach to
the core values of democracy, justice, and human rights, looking
beyond traditional politics to the social conditions that would
enable us to realize these aims. Her innovative philosophical
framework sheds new light on social movements across borders, the
prospects for empathy and solidarity with distant others, and the
problem of gender inequalities in diverse cultures, and also
considers new ways in which democratic deliberation can be enhanced
by online networking and extended to the institutions of global
governance. Her book will be of great interest to scholars and
upper-level students of political philosophy, global justice,
social and political science, and gender studies.
In her 2004 book Carol Gould addresses the fundamental issue of
democratizing globalization, that is to say of finding ways to open
transnational institutions and communities to democratic
participation by those widely affected by their decisions. The book
develops a framework for expanding participation in crossborder
decisions, arguing for a broader understanding of human rights and
introducing a new role for the ideas of care and solidarity at a
distance. Reinterpreting the idea of universality to accommodate a
multiplicity of cultural perspectives, the author takes up a number
of applied issues, including the persistence of racism, cultural
rights, women's human rights, the democratic management of firms,
the use of the Internet to enhance political participation, and the
importance of empathy and genuine democracy in understanding
terrorism and responding to it. Accessibly written with a minimum
of technical jargon this is a major contribution to political
philosophy.
In this book, Carol Gould offers a fundamental reconsideration of
the theory of democracy, arguing that democratic decision-making
should apply not only to politics but also to economic and social
life. Professor Gould redefines traditional concepts of freedom and
social equality, and proposes a principle of Equal Positive Freedom
in which individual freedom and social co-operation are seen to be
compatible. Reformulating basic conceptions of property, authority,
economic justice and human rights, the author suggests a number of
ways in which these principles could be realised in social
institutions. She also discusses such issues as democratic control
of technology, the nature of democratic personality, and the
question of democracy in international relations.
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