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  • Redesigning Life

    Eugenics, Biopolitics, and the Challenge of the Techno-Human Condition

    Series Libro 27 - Philosophie et Politique / Philosophy and Politics
    The emerging development of genetic enhancement technologies has recently become the focus of a public and philosophical debate between proponents and opponents of a liberal eugenics – that is, the use of these technologies without any overall direction or governmental control. Inspired by Foucault’s, Agamben’s and Esposito’s writings about biopower and biopolitics, the author sees both positions ... Leer más

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  • Plato: 'The Republic'

    de Plato ...
    Traducido por Tom Griffith ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
    First published in 2000, this translation of one of the great works of Western political thought is based on the assumption that when Plato chose the dialogue form for his writing, he intended these dialogues to sound like conversations - although conversations of a philosophical sort. In addition to a vivid, dignified and accurate rendition of Plato's text, the student and general reader will ... Leer más

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  • China's New Confucianism

    Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society

    What is it like to be a Westerner teaching political philosophy in an officially Marxist state? Why do Chinese sex workers sing karaoke with their customers? And why do some Communist Party cadres get promoted if they care for their elderly parents? In this entertaining and illuminating book, one of the few Westerners to teach at a Chinese university draws on his personal experiences to paint an ... Leer más

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  • The China Model

    Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy

    How China's political model could prove to be a viable alternative to Western democracyWesterners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and “bad” authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three decades, China has evolved a political system that can best be described as “political meritocracy.” The China Model ... Leer más

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  • Timelines

    A Political History of the Modern World

    de John Rees ...
    War and revolution, economic crises and political conflict are the very stuff of modern history. This guide to the last 100 years of great power conflict, social rebellion, strikes and protests gives us the essential history of the world in which we live. Based on the Timeline TV series this is a rapid and accessible guide for those who want to know how power is exercised, by who, and for what ... Leer más

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  • Dictators and Democracy in African Development

    The Political Economy of Good Governance in Nigeria

    de A. Carl LeVan ...
    Series Libro 130 - African Studies
    What are the conditions for good governance in Africa, and why do many democracies still struggle with persistent poverty? Drawing on a historical study of Nigeria since independence, this book argues that the structure of the policy-making process explains variations in government performance better than other commonly cited factors, such as oil, colonialism, ethnic diversity, foreign debt, and ... Leer más

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  • The Religious Philosophy of Simone Weil

    An Introduction

    The French philosopher Simone Weil (1909-1943), a contemporary of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, remains in every way a thinker for our times. She was an outsider, in multiple senses, defying the usual religious categories: at once atheistic and religious; mystic and realist; sceptic and believer. She speaks therefore to the complex sensibilities of a rationalist age. Yet despite her ... Leer más

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  • The Four Freedoms

    Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Evolution of an American Idea

    Edición de Jeffrey A. Engel ...
    The specter of global war loomed large in President Franklin Roosevelt's mind as he prepared to present his 1941 State of the Union address. He believed the United States had a role to play in the battle against Nazi and fascist aggression already underway in Europe, yet his rallying cry to the nation was about more than just national security or why Americans should care about a fight still far ... Leer más

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  • Re-inventing the Italian Right

    Territorial politics, populism and 'post-fascism'

    Series series Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy
    Following his third election victory in 2008, the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was the most controversial head of government in the EU. This is a cogent examination of the Berlusconi phenomenon, exploring the success and development of the new populist right-wing coalition in Italy since the collapse of the post-war party system in the early 1990s.Carlo Ruzza and Stefano Fella provide ... Leer más

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  • The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton

    Women's Rights and the American Political Traditions

    de Sue Davis ...
    2009 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleElizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was not only one of the most important leaders of the nineteenth century women’s rights movement but was also the movement’s principal philosopher. Her ideas both drew from and challenged the conventions that so severely constrained women’s choices and excluded them from public life.In The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady ... Leer más

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  • Neither Liberal nor Conservative

    Ideological Innocence in the American Public

    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    Congress is crippled by ideological conflict. The political parties are more polarized today than at any time since the Civil War. Americans disagree, fiercely, about just about everything, from terrorism and national security, to taxes and government spending, to immigration and gay marriage.Well, American elites disagree fiercely. But average Americans do not. This, at least, was the position ... Leer más

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  • Contemporary Political Philosophy and Religion

    Between Public Reason and Pluralism

    What is the place of religion in a pluralist democracy? The continuous presence of religion in the public sphere has raised anew normative and practical issues related to the role of religion in a democratic polity, generating spirited political debates in Western and non-Western contexts. Contemporary Political Philosophy and Religion provides an advanced introduction to, and a critical appraisal ... Leer más

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