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On the Uses and Abuses of Political Apologies (Hardcover): Mihaela Mihai, Mathias Thaler On the Uses and Abuses of Political Apologies (Hardcover)
Mihaela Mihai, Mathias Thaler
R2,633 R1,957 Discovery Miles 19 570 Save R676 (26%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Examining the complex nature of state apologies for past injustices, this title probes the various functions they fulfil within contemporary democracies. Cutting-edge theoretical and empirical research and insightful philosophical analyses are supplemented by real-life case studies, providing a normative and balanced account of states saying 'sorry'.

No Other Planet - Utopian Visions for a Climate-Changed World (Hardcover): Mathias Thaler No Other Planet - Utopian Visions for a Climate-Changed World (Hardcover)
Mathias Thaler
R2,519 Discovery Miles 25 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Visions of utopia - some hopeful, others fearful - have become increasingly prevalent in recent times. This groundbreaking, timely book examines expressions of the utopian imagination with a focus on the pressing challenge of how to inhabit a climate-changed world. Forms of social dreaming are tracked across two domains: political theory and speculative fiction. The analysis aims to both uncover the key utopian and dystopian tendencies in contemporary debates around the Anthropocene; as well as to develop a political theory of radical transformation that avoids not only debilitating fatalism but also wishful thinking. This book juxtaposes theoretical interventions, from Bruno Latour to the members of the Dark Mountain collective, with fantasy and science fiction texts by N. K. Jemisin, Kim Stanley Robinson and Margaret Atwood, debating viable futures for a world that will look and feel very different from the one we live in right now.

Political Violence and the Imagination - Complicity, Memory and Resistance (Hardcover): Mathias Thaler, Mihaela Mihai Political Violence and the Imagination - Complicity, Memory and Resistance (Hardcover)
Mathias Thaler, Mihaela Mihai
R4,469 Discovery Miles 44 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Using a variety of theoretical reflections and empirically grounded case studies, this book examines how certain kinds of imagination - political, artistic, historical, philosophical - help us tackle the challenge of comprehending and responding to various forms of political violence. Understanding political violence is a complex task, which involves a variety of operations, from examining the social macro-structures within which actors engage in violence, to investigating the motives and drives of individual perpetrators. This book focuses on the faculty of imagination and its role in facilitating our normative and critical engagement with political violence. It interrogates how the imagination can help us deal with past as well as ongoing instances of political violence. Several questions, which have thus far received too little attention from political theorists, motivate this project: Can certain forms of imagination - artistic, historical, philosophical - help us tackle the challenge of comprehending and responding to unprecedented forms of violence? What is the ethical and political value of artworks depicting human rights violations in the aftermath of conflicts? What about the use of thought experiments in justifying policy measures with regard to violence? What forms of political imagination can foster solidarity and catalyse political action? This book opens up a forum for an inclusive and reflexive debate on the role that the imagination can play in unpacking complex issues of political violence. The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue of the journal, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.

On the Uses and Abuses of Political Apologies (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): Mihaela Mihai, Mathias Thaler On the Uses and Abuses of Political Apologies (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
Mihaela Mihai, Mathias Thaler
R2,083 Discovery Miles 20 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Examining the complex nature of state apologies for past injustices, this probes the various functions they fulfil within contemporary democracies. Cutting-edge theoretical and empirical research and insightful philosophical analyses are supplemented by real-life case studies, providing a normative and balanced account of states saying 'sorry'.

No Other Planet - Utopian Visions for a Climate-Changed World (Paperback): Mathias Thaler No Other Planet - Utopian Visions for a Climate-Changed World (Paperback)
Mathias Thaler
R939 Discovery Miles 9 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Visions of utopia - some hopeful, others fearful - have become increasingly prevalent in recent times. This groundbreaking, timely book examines expressions of the utopian imagination with a focus on the pressing challenge of how to inhabit a climate-changed world. Forms of social dreaming are tracked across two domains: political theory and speculative fiction. The analysis aims to both uncover the key utopian and dystopian tendencies in contemporary debates around the Anthropocene; as well as to develop a political theory of radical transformation that avoids not only debilitating fatalism but also wishful thinking. This book juxtaposes theoretical interventions, from Bruno Latour to the members of the Dark Mountain collective, with fantasy and science fiction texts by N. K. Jemisin, Kim Stanley Robinson and Margaret Atwood, debating viable futures for a world that will look and feel very different from the one we live in right now.

Naming Violence - A Critical Theory of Genocide, Torture, and Terrorism (Hardcover): Mathias Thaler Naming Violence - A Critical Theory of Genocide, Torture, and Terrorism (Hardcover)
Mathias Thaler
R1,527 Discovery Miles 15 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Much is at stake when we choose a word for a form of violence: whether a conflict is labeled civil war or genocide, whether we refer to "enhanced interrogation techniques" or to "torture," whether a person is called a "terrorist" or a "patriot." Do these decisions reflect the rigorous application of commonly accepted criteria, or are they determined by power structures and partisanship? How is the language we use for violence entangled with the fight against it? In Naming Violence, Mathias Thaler articulates a novel perspective on the study of violence that demonstrates why the imagination matters for political theory. His analysis of the politics of naming charts a middle ground between moralism and realism, arguing that political theory ought to question whether our existing vocabulary enables us to properly identify, understand, and respond to violence. He explores how narrative art, thought experiments, and historical events can challenge and enlarge our existing ways of thinking about violence. Through storytelling, hypothetical situations, and genealogies, the imagination can help us see when definitions of violence need to be revisited by shedding new light on prevalent norms and uncovering the contingent history of ostensibly self-evident beliefs. Naming Violence demonstrates the importance of political theory to debates about violence across a number of different disciplines from film studies to history.

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