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Historically, as well as more recently, women's emancipation has
been seen in two ways: sometimes as the `right to be equal' and
sometimes as the `right to be different'. These views have often
overlapped and interacted: in a variety of guises they have played
an important role in both the development of ideas about women and
feminism, and the works of political thinkers by no means primarily
concerned with women's liberation. The chapters of this book deal
primarily with the meaning and use of these two concepts in the
context of gender relations (past and present), but also draw
attention to their place in the understanding and analysis of other
human relationships.
Helps scholars to examine historical press censorship in England.
This title draws together around 500 texts, reaching across 140
years from the rigours of the Elizabethan Star Chamber Decree to
the publication of "Cato's Letters", which famously advanced
principles of free speech.
Helps scholars to examine historical press censorship in England.
This title draws together around 500 texts, reaching across 140
years from the rigours of the Elizabethan Star Chamber Decree to
the publication of "Cato's Letters", which famously advanced
principles of free speech.
Helps scholars to examine historical press censorship in England.
This title draws together around 500 texts, reaching across 140
years from the rigours of the Elizabethan Star Chamber Decree to
the publication of "Cato's Letters", which famously advanced
principles of free speech.
Helps scholars to examine historical press censorship in England.
This title draws together around 500 texts, reaching across 140
years from the rigours of the Elizabethan Star Chamber Decree to
the publication of "Cato's Letters", which famously advanced
principles of free speech.
Governments worldwide assume that national competitiveness can be
improved by developing workforce skills. This book critically
examines this 'high skills' vision at both policy and practice
levels. It challenges an oversimplified policy rhetoric that
underestimates the complexity of the processes involved in
developing a skilled workforce. The book focuses on key issues
relating to the high skills agenda: skills and political economy;
different investment strategies for producing skills; qualification
systems and learning. A multidisciplinary team of authors from a
range of disciplines, including economics, management and
education, provides the cross-cutting international and comparative
analysis. Editorial comment links their explorations to wider
questions of skill formation processes and overarching questions
are addressed through in-depth analysis of the roles of higher
education, apprenticeship and formal school learning in skill
formation.
Contents: Contributors include: Carole Pateman, Adriana Cavarero, Karen Offen, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Deborah L. Rhode, Patrizia Violi, Rosi Braidotti, Jane Flax, Silvia Vegetti Finzi
Governments worldwide assume that national competitiveness can be
improved by developing workforce skills. This book critically
examines this 'high skills' vision at both policy and practice
levels. It challenges an oversimplified policy rhetoric that
underestimates the complexity of the processes involved in
developing a skilled workforce. The book focuses on key issues
relating to the high skills agenda: skills and political economy;
different investment strategies for producing skills; qualification
systems and learning. A multidisciplinary team of authors from a
range of disciplines, including economics, management and
education, provides the cross-cutting international and comparative
analysis. Editorial comment links their explorations to wider
questions of skill formation processes and overarching questions
are addressed through in-depth analysis of the roles of higher
education, apprenticeship and formal school learning in skill
formation. Balancing the skills equation is important reading for
policy makers, academics and graduate students interested in social
policy, education and labour markets. It will also be of interest
to Vocational Education and Training (VET) practitioners.
Philosophising, as Spinoza conceives it, is the project of learning
to live joyfully. Yet this is also a matter of learning to live
together, and the surest manifestation of philosophical insight is
the capacity to sustain a harmonious way of life. Here, Susan James
defends this overall interpretation of Spinoza's philosophy and
explores its bearing on contemporary philosophical debates around
issues such as religious toleration, putting our knowledge to work,
and the environmental crisis. Part I focuses on Spinoza's
epistemology. Philosophical understanding empowers us by giving us
access to truths about ourselves and the world, and by motivating
us to act on them. It gives us reasons for living together and
enhances our ability to live co-operatively. Part II takes up
Spinoza's claim that, to cultivate this kind of understanding, we
need to live together in political communities. It explores his
analysis of how states can develop a co-operative ethos. Finally,
living joyfully compels us to look beyond the state to our
relationship with the rest of nature. James concludes with
discussions of some of the virtues this requires.
Susan James book ""Card Making - A Wonderful Hobby"" reveals tips
and tricks and a whole lot more on handcrafted materials. If you
follow her simple steps - and a little perseverance on your part -
you will be pleasantly rewarded and delighted creating beautiful
greeting cards that will amaze your loved ones, and friends alike.
You will also have a lot of fun, too!
How should feminist theories conceive of the subject? What is it to
be a legal person? What part does embodiment play in subjectivity?
Can there be a conception of rights which does justice to the
social contexts in which rights claims are embedded? Is the way the
law constitutes legal subjects a form of violence? These questions
lie at the heart of contemporary feminist theory, and in this
collection they are addressed by a group of distinguished
international scholars working in law, philosophy and politics. The
volume, in which the concerns of one author are taken up by others,
advances current debate on two interconnected levels. First, it
contains original and ground-breaking discussions of the questions
raised above. At the same time, it contains a more reflexive strand
of argument about the intellectual resources available to feminist
thinkers, and the advantages and dangers of borrowing from
non-feminist traditions of thought. It thus provides an
exceptionally rich examination of contemporary legal and political
feminist theory.
Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise is simultaneously a work of
philosophy and a piece of practical politics. It defends religious
pluralism, a republican form of political organisation, and the
freedom to philosophise, with a determination that is extremely
rare in seventeenth-century thought. But it is also a fierce and
polemical intervention in a series of Dutch disputes over issues
about which Spinoza and his opponents cared very deeply. Susan
James makes the arguments of the Treatise accessible, and their
motivations plain, by setting them in their historical and
philosophical context. She identifies the interlocking theological,
hermeneutic, historical, philosophical, and political positions to
which Spinoza was responding, shows who he aimed to discredit, and
reveals what he intended to achieve. The immediate goal of the
Treatise is, she establishes, a local one. Spinoza is trying to
persuade his fellow citizens that it is vital to uphold and foster
conditions in which they can cultivate their capacity to live
rationally, free from the political manifestations and corrosive
psychological effects of superstitious fear. At the same time,
however, his radical argument is designed for a broader audience.
Appealing to the universal philosophical principles that he
develops in greater detail in his Ethics, and drawing on the
resources of imagination to make them forceful and compelling,
Spinoza speaks to the inhabitants of all societies, including our
own. Only in certain political circumstances is it possible to
philosophise, and learn to live wisely and well.
Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise is simultaneously a work of
philosophy and a piece of practical politics. It defends religious
pluralism, a republican form of political organisation, and the
freedom to philosophise, with a determination that is extremely
rare in seventeenth-century thought. But it is also a fierce and
polemical intervention in a series of Dutch disputes over issues
about which Spinoza and his opponents cared very deeply. Susan
James makes the arguments of the Treatise accessible, and their
motivations plain, by setting them in their historical and
philosophical context. She identifies the interlocking theological,
hermeneutic, historical, philosophical, and political positions to
which Spinoza was responding, shows who he aimed to discredit, and
reveals what he intended to achieve. The immediate goal of the
Treatise is, she establishes, a local one. Spinoza is trying to
persuade his fellow citizens that it is vital to uphold and foster
conditions in which they can cultivate their capacity to live
rationally, free from the political manifestations and corrosive
psychological effects of superstitious fear. At the same time,
however, his radical argument is designed for a broader audience.
Appealing to the universal philosophical principles that he
develops in greater detail in his Ethics, and drawing on the
resources of imagination to make them forceful and compelling,
Spinoza speaks to the inhabitants of all societies, including our
own. Only in certain political circumstances is it possible to
philosophise, and learn to live wisely and well.
Noch eine Geschichte Kinder lieben es, sich vorlesen zu lassen. Und
oft k nnen sie gar nicht genug davon bekommen. Tauchen Sie ein in
diese mal fantastischen, spannenden und lustigen, mal einf hlsamen
und nachdenklichen Geschichten, und lassen Sie sich verzaubern.
This is a study of the central questions of explanation in the
social sciences, and a defence of 'holism' against 'individualism'.
In the first half of the book Susan James sets out very clearly the
philosophical background to this controversy. She locates its
source not at the analytical level at which most of the debate is
usually conducted but at a more fundamental, moral level, in
different conceptions of the human individual. In the second half
of the book she examines critically three case studies of holistic
approaches - Althusser, Poulantzas and the Annales historians - and
progressively refines our sense of the strengths and deficiencies
of their programmes. She ends by arguing for a form of concessive
holism, which offers some accommodation to liberal conceptions of
individual autonomy but continues to emphasise the explanatory
importance of social regularities and environments.
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) is unique among women writers of the seventeenth century in the scale of her output and in her aspiration to create a philosophical system. This edition presents Cavendish as a political author, and Susan James includes two major texts, the Orations and The Blazing World, accompanied by the standard series features that enables students to gain a better understanding of one of the truly distinctive political voices of the early modern period.
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) is unique among women writers of the seventeenth century in the scale of her output and in her aspiration to create a philosophical system. This edition presents Cavendish as a political author, and Susan James includes two major texts, the Orations and The Blazing World, accompanied by the standard series features that enables students to gain a better understanding of one of the truly distinctive political voices of the early modern period.
Author/Consultant, Susan James continues her User Friendly Physics
theme in the second manifesting series; Manifesting 102 &
Beyond: The Design Continues. How to Manifest Desires Using
Momentum. Includes: Money Flow Game and Game of Intrinsic Value.
Hank Ramsan made everyone Millionaires who learned to use his Magic
Wall. This enraged the powers that controlled the world's banks
because hidden secrets were revealed and lifestyles threatened, as
the world's money systems crumbled. Would he succeed and how?
Could achieving Millionaire be as easy as picking up groceries from
the store? James describes in every day language, the application
of the mechanics of spirit and energy towards Millionaire. The 50
Branches introduces the energy faction and secret ingredients.
How does 17 Seconds change your weight? What does it mean for
weight loss to come to you instead of you chasing it? You do not
need willpower and discipline. Find out why We're doing this weight
loss thing backwards
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