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Algorithmic Decision Theory - Second International Conference, ADT 2011, Piscataway, NJ, USA, October 26-28, 2011. Proceedings (Paperback, 2011)
Ronen Brafman, Fred S. Roberts, Alexis Tsoukias
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second
International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory, ADT 2011,
held in Piscataway, NJ, USA, in October 2011. The 24 revised full
papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 50
submissions.
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Art and Production (Paperback)
Boris Arvatov; Edited by John Roberts, Alexei Penzin; Translated by Shushan Avagyan
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R603
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Boris Arvatov's Art and Production is a classic of the early Soviet
avant-garde. Now nearing a century since its first publication, it
is a crucial intervention for those seeking to understand the
social dynamic of art and revolution during the period. Derived
from the internal struggles of Soviet Constructivism, as it
confronted the massive problems of cultural transformation after
'War Communism', Arvatov's writing is a major force in the split
that occurred in the revolutionary horizons of Constructivism in
the early 1920s. Critical of early Constructivism's
social-aesthetic process of art's transformation of daily life -
epitomised in studio-based painting, photography and object making
- Arvatov polemicises for the devolution of artistic skills
directly into the relations of production and the factory. Whilst
acknowledging the problems of a pure factory-based Productivism,
Arvatov remains overwhelmingly committed to a new role and function
for art outside the conventional studio and traditional gallery.
Addressing issues such as artistic labour and productive labour,
the artist as technician, art and multidisciplinarity and a life
for art beyond 'art' - finding new relevance amidst the extensive
social turn of contemporary participatory art - Art and Production
offers a timely and compelling manifesto.
At the heart of this book is the age-old question of how law and
morality are related. The legal positivist, insisting on the
separation of the two, explicates the concept of law independently
of morality. The author challenges this view, arguing that there
are, first, conceptually necessary connections between law and
morality and, second, normative reasons for including moral
elements in the concept of law. While the conceptual argument alone
is too limited to establish a sufficiently strong connection
between law and morality, and the normative argument alone fails to
address the nature of law, the two arguments together support a
nonpositivistic concept of law, toppling legal positivism qua
comprehensive theory of law.
The author makes his case within a conceptual framework of five
distinctions that can be variously combined to represent a
multiplicity of presuppositions or perspectives underlying the
enquiry into the relationship of law and morality. In this context,
it can indeed be shown that there are perspectives that bespeak
solely a positivistic concept of law. The decisive point, however,
is that there is a perspective, necessary to the law, that
necessarily presupposes a nonpositivistic concept of law. This is
the perspective of a participant in the legal system, asking for
the correct answer to a legal question in this legal system. The
participant-thesis is demonstrated by appeal to Gustav Radbruch's
formula (extreme injustice is not law) and to the judge's balancing
of principles in deciding a concrete case. The author arrives at a
concept of law that systematically links classical elements of
legal positivism - authoritative issuance and social efficacy -
with the desideratum of nonpositivistic legal theory, correctness
of content.
At the heart of this book is the age-old question of how law and morality are related. The legal positivist, insisting on the separation of the two, explicates the concept of law independently of morality. The author challenges this view, arguing that there are, first, conceptually necessary connections between law and morality and, second, normative reasons for including moral elements in the concept of law. While the conceptual argument alone is too limited to establish a sufficiently strong connection between law and morality, and the normative argument alone fails to address the nature of law, the two arguments together support a nonpositivistic concept of law, toppling legal positivism qua comprehensive theory of law.
This book analyzes the general structure of constitutional rights reasoning under the Geman Basic Law. It deals with a wide range of problems common to all systems of constitutional rights review. In an extended introduction the translator argues for its applicability to the British Constitution, with particular reference to the Human Rights Act 1998.
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