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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is one of the most important sets of
historical documents concerning the history of the British Isles.
Without these vital accounts we would have virtually no knowledge
of some of the key events in the history of these islands during
the dark ages and it would be impossible to write the history of
the English from the Romans to the Norman Conquest. The history it
tells is not only that witnessed by its compilers, but also that
recorded by earlier annalists, whose work is in many cases
preserved nowhere else. At present there are nine known versions or
fragments of the original 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle' in existence. All
of the extant versions vary (sometimes greatly) in content and
quality, and crucially all of the surviving manuscripts are copies,
so it is not known for certain where or when the first version of
the Chronicle was composed. The translation that has been used for
this edition is not a translation of any one Chronicle; rather, it
is a conflation of readings from many different versions containing
primarily the translation of Rev. James Ingram from 1828. The
footnotes are all those of Rev. Ingram and are supplied for the
sake of completeness. This edition also includes the complete
Parker Manuscript. The book is illustrated throughout with
paintings and engravings.
Axel Honneth has been instrumental in advancing the work of the
Frankfurt School of critical theorists, rebuilding their effort to
combine radical social and political analysis with rigorous
philosophical inquiry. These eleven essays reclaim the relevant
themes of the Frankfurt School, which counted Theodor W. Adorno,
Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Jürgen Habermas, Franz Neumann,
and Albrecht Wellmer as members. They also engage with Kant, Freud,
Alexander Mitscherlich, and Michael Walzer, whose work on morality,
history, democracy, and individuality intersects with the Frankfurt
School's core concerns. Collected here for the first time in
English, Honneth's essays pursue the unifying themes and theses
that support the methodologies and thematics of critical social
theory, and they address the possibilities of continuing this
tradition through radically changed theoretical and social
conditions. According to Honneth, there is a unity that underlies
critical theory's multiple approaches: the way in which reason is
both distorted and furthered in contemporary capitalist society.
And while much is dead in the social and psychological doctrines of
critical social theory, its central inquiries remain vitally
relevant. Is social progress still possible after the horrors of
the twentieth century? Does capitalism deform reason and, if so, in
what respects? Can we justify the relationship between law and
violence in secular terms, or is it inextricably bound to divine
justice? How can we be free when we're subject to socialization in
a highly complex and in many respects unfree society? For Honneth,
suffering and moral struggle are departure points for a new
"reconstructive" form of social criticism, one that is based
solidly in the empirically grounded, interdisciplinary approach of
the Frankfurt School.
First published in French in 2010, Equaliberty brings together
essays by Étienne Balibar, one of the preeminent political
theorists of our time. The book is organized around equaliberty, a
term coined by Balibar to connote the tension between the two
ideals of modern democracy: equality (social rights and political
representation) and liberty (the freedom citizens have to contest
the social contract). He finds the tension between these different
kinds of rights to be ingrained in the constitution of the modern
nation-state and the contemporary welfare state. At the same time,
he seeks to keep rights discourse open, eschewing natural
entitlements in favor of a deterritorialized citizenship that could
be expanded and invented anew in the age of globalization. Deeply
engaged with other thinkers, including Arendt, Rancière, and
Laclau, he posits a theory of the polity based on social relations.
In Equaliberty Balibar brings both the continental and analytic
philosophical traditions to bear on the conflicted relations
between humanity and citizenship.
Axel Honneth has been instrumental in advancing the work of the
Frankfurt School of critical theorists, rebuilding their effort to
combine radical social and political analysis with rigorous
philosophical inquiry. These eleven essays published over the past
five years reclaim the relevant themes of the Frankfurt School,
which counted Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin,
J?rgen Habermas, Franz Neumann, and Albrecht Wellmer as members.
They also engage with Kant, Freud, Alexander Mitscherlich, and
Michael Walzer, whose work on morality, history, democracy, and
individuality intersects with the Frankfurt School's core
concerns.
Collected here for the first time in English, Honneth's essays
pursue the unifying themes and theses that support the
methodologies and thematics of critical social theory, and they
address the possibilities of continuing this tradition through
radically changed theoretical and social conditions. According to
Honneth, there is a unity that underlies critical theory's multiple
approaches: the way in which reason is both distorted and furthered
in contemporary capitalist society. And while much is dead in the
social and psychological doctrines of critical social theory, its
central inquiries remain vitally relevant.
Is social progress still possible after the horrors of the
twentieth century? Does capitalism deform reason and, if so, in
what respects? Can we justify the relationship between law and
violence in secular terms, or is it inextricably bound to divine
justice? How can we be free when we're subject to socialization in
a highly complex and in many respects unfree society? For Honneth,
suffering and moral struggle are departure points for a new
"reconstructive" form of social criticism, one that is based
solidly in the empirically grounded, interdisciplinary approach of
the Frankfurt School.
Utopia has long been banished from political theory, framed as an
impossible-and possibly dangerous-political ideal, a flawed social
blueprint, or a thought experiment without any practical import.
Even the "realistic utopias" of liberal theory strike many as
wishful thinking. Can politics think utopia otherwise? Can utopian
thinking contribute to the renewal of politics? In Political Uses
of Utopia, an international cast of leading and emerging theorists
agree that the uses of utopia for politics are multiple and nuanced
and lie somewhere between-or, better yet, beyond-the mainstream
caution against it and the conviction that another, better world
ought to be possible. Representing a range of perspectives on the
grand tradition of Western utopianism, which extends back half a
millennium and perhaps as far as Plato, these essays are united in
their interest in the relevance of utopianism to specific
historical and contemporary political contexts. Featuring
contributions from Miguel Abensour, Etienne Balibar, Raymond Geuss,
and Jacques Ranciere, among others, Political Uses of Utopia
reopens the question of whether and how utopianism can inform
political thinking and action today.
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