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“tamara metz”

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  • Untying the Knot

    Marriage, the State, and the Case for Their Divorce

    by Tamara Metz ...
    Marriage is at the center of one of today's fiercest political debates. Activists argue about how to define it, judges and legislators decide who should benefit from it, and scholars consider how the state should protect those who are denied it. Few, however, ask whether the state should have anything to do with marriage in the first place. In Untying the Knot, Tamara Metz addresses this crucial ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Building Meaning

    An Architecture Studio Primer on Design, Theory, and History

    by Tamara Metz ...
    Building Meaning: An Architecture Studio Primer on Design, Theory, and History is an essential introduction to the complex relationship between form making, historical analysis, and conceptual explorations. This book focuses on the relationship and interdependence between design, theory, and history for an innovative and holistic studio approach.Rather than suggest a singular narrative, this book ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Justice, Politics, and the Family

    by Daniel Engster, Tamara Metz ...
    At a time when same-sex marriage, gay adoption, and the rise of single-parent households challenge traditional views of the family, this innovative volume helps readers put such issues into social and legal perspective. Engster and Metz bring together essential readings in political and legal theory and organise them to illuminate pressing contemporary debates on the family: gender and justice, ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

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  • Minimizing Marriage

    Marriage, Morality, and the Law

    by Elizabeth Brake ...
    Series series Studies in Feminist Philosophy
    Even in secular and civil contexts, marriage retains sacramental connotations. Yet what moral significance does it have? This book examines its morally salient features -- promise, commitment, care, and contract -- with surprising results. In Part One, "De-Moralizing Marriage," essays on promise and commitment argue that we cannot promise to love and so wedding vows are (mostly) failed promises, ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Constitutional Courts and Deliberative Democracy

    by Conrado Hübner Mendes ...
    Series series Oxford Constitutional Theory
    Contemporary democracies have granted an expansive amount of power to unelected judges that sit in constitutional or supreme courts. This power shift has never been easily squared with the institutional backbones through which democracy is popularly supposed to be structured. The best institutional translation of a 'government of the people, by the people and for the people' is usually expressed ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Anarchy and Legal Order

    Law and Politics for a Stateless Society

    by Gary Chartier ...
    This book elaborates and defends the idea of law without the state. Animated by a vision of peaceful, voluntary cooperation as a social ideal and building on a careful account of non-aggression, it features a clear explanation of why the state is illegitimate, dangerous and unnecessary. It proposes an understanding of how law enforcement in a stateless society could be legitimate and what the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Paternalism

    Theory and Practice

    Edited by Christian Coons, Michael Weber ...
    Is it allowable for your government, or anyone else, to influence or coerce you 'for your own sake'? This is a question about paternalism, or interference with a person's liberty or autonomy with the intention of promoting their good or averting harm, which has created considerable controversy at least since John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. Mill famously decried paternalism of any kind, whether ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • License to Harass

    Law, Hierarchy, and Offensive Public Speech

    by Laura Beth Nielsen ...
    Series series The Cultural Lives of Law
    Offensive street speech--racist and sexist remarks that can make its targets feel both psychologically and physically threatened--is surprisingly common in our society. Many argue that this speech is so detestable that it should be banned under law. But is this an area covered by the First Amendment right to free speech? Or should it be banned?In this elegantly written book, Laura Beth Nielsen ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics

    Edited by Andrew I. Cohen, Christopher Heath Wellman ...
    Series series Contemporary Debates in Philosophy
    Now in an updated edition with fresh perspectives on high-profile ethical issues such as torture and same-sex marriage, this collection pairs cogently argued essays by leading philosophers with opposing views on fault-line public concerns.Revised and updated new edition with six new pairs of essays on prominent contemporary issues including torture and same-sex marriage, and a survey of theories ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • Difference without Domination

    Pursuing Justice in Diverse Democracies

    Edited by Danielle Allen, Rohini Somanathan ...
    Around the globe, democracy appears broken. With political and socioeconomic inequality on the rise, we are faced with the urgent question of how to better distribute power, opportunity, and wealth in diverse modern societies. This volume confronts the dilemma head-on, exploring new ways to combat current social hierarchies of domination.Using examples from the United States, India, Germany, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To Whom Do Children Belong?

    Parental Rights, Civic Education, and Children's Autonomy

    by Melissa Moschella ...
    Most people believe that parents have rights to direct their children's education and upbringing. But why? What grounds those rights? How broad is their scope? Can we defend parental rights against those who believe we need more extensive state educational control to protect children's autonomy or prepare them for citizenship in a diverse society? Amid heated debates over issues like sexual ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Philosophical Foundations of Discrimination Law

    Edited by Deborah Hellman, Sophia Moreau ...
    Series series Philosophical Foundations of Law
    How do we understand and justify the particular partialities that discrimination law tries to protect against? Are different discrimination laws from around the world grounded in a single set of norms? And does discrimination law fail to treat people as individuals? The philosophical study around discrimination law in the private and public sector is a relatively young field of inquiry. This is ... Read more

    $122.99 USD