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  • Capital Redefined

    A Commonist Value Theory for Liberating Life

    Capital Redefined presents a unique perspective on the nature of “capital,” departing from the prevailing reductionist accounts. Hosseini and Gills offer an expanded perspective on Marxian value theory by addressing its main limitations and building their own integrative value theory. They argue that the current understanding of “value” must be re-examined and liberated from its subservient ties ... Read more

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  • Anarchy and Nihilism: Consequences

    by Aragorn! ...
    Series series Anarchist Library Texts
    This ebook has been ported from theanarchistlibrary.org.This is the second in a series of pamphlets that draw connections between the tradition of the political nihilist tendency of 19thcentury Czarist Russia and current anarchist thought.As Nihilism, Anarchy, and the 21st Century (the first pamphlet in the series) begged the question of what relevance nihilism has to anarchy it could be argued ... Read more

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  • A Philosophical Examination of Social Justice and Child Poverty

    This book is open access under a CCBY license. This book investigates child poverty from a philosophical perspective. It identifies the injustices of child poverty, relates them to the well-being of children, and discusses who has a moral responsibility to secure social justice for children. ... Read more

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  • The Subtle Change from Principles to Rules

    by David Mint ...
    In the lazy summer days of 2007, the world appeared to be getting its groove back. Few, if any, were the signs pointing to the financial catastrophe that was about to unfold.Yet despite the feeling of relative calm and optimism, it was clear that a permanent change was occurring at the very base of society. The Subtle Change from Principles to Rules explores this change and its implications. ... Read more

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  • Modernity, History, and Politics in Czech Art

    Series series Routledge Research in Art and Politics
    This book traces the influence of the changing political environment on Czech art, criticism, history, and theory between 1895 and 1939, looking beyond the avant-garde to the peripheries of modern art. The period is marked by radical political changes, the formation of national and regional identities, and the rise of modernism in Central Europe – specifically, the collapse of Austria-Hungary and ... Read more

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  • Ragionamento sul Tutto

    by Luigi Albino ...
    Raccolta di pensieri sul Tutto e sulle relazioni tra le entità che lo compongono. Passando in rassegna una serie di ragionamenti sequenziali, il lettore viene accompagnato nella realizzazione di una teoria che prova a spiegare l'esistenza del Tutto. Come un mosaico filosofico formato da una serie di tessere astratte, ma non troppo. ... Read more

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  • La libération par la machine, un regard nietzschéen

    Series Book 2 - D'une main de maître
    De nos jours, les progrès techniques offrent une production de plus en plus rapide des marchandises. Pourtant, le temps de travail humain n’a que peu diminué. La robotisation actuelle entraîne son lot de craintes quant à l’avenir du travail, tandis qu’elle est posée comme base d’un salaire à vie par quelques penseurs. Si l’on cite volontiers Paul Lafargue, André Gorz ou certains écrits ... Read more

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  • Indigenous Sport and Nation-Building

    Interrogating Sámi Sport and Beyond

    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    The first book to offer an in-depth study of sport and an Indigenous people in the context of nation-building and national identityAddresses key contemporary themes in the social sciences including colonialism, post-colonial research, and cultural identityDraws on original empirical research into the Sámi people of NorwayOffers insight on other Indigenous people and culture around the world ... Read more

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  • A medida de todas as coisas

    by Rafael Arrais ...
    Series series O Livro da Reflexão
    Textos para Reflexão é um blog que fala sobre filosofia, ciência e espiritualidade. Onde se busca a sabedoria tanto no Evangelho de Tomé quanto no Cosmos de Carl Sagan. Onde as palavras nada mais são do que cascas de sentimentos, embora a poesia ainda assim possa nos levar a um outro mundo. Onde toda religião se pratica no pensamento, e onde Deus é nosso amor...O presente volume é o quarto e ... Read more

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  • COEXIST

    Oneness through Diversity

    This ark brings to life a mirid of ancient concepts humanity has discarded as impossible. Concepts such as direct democracy and world peace. It challenges each on an internal level to seek the wisdom of their rival to become whole and externally through the diversity of our politics and religions to become one. There are explorers of the known, and then there are explorers of the unknown. This ark ... Read more

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  • Knowledge Resistance in High-Choice Information Environments

    Series series Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics
    This book offers a truly interdisciplinary exploration of our patterns of engagement with politics, news, and information in current high-choice information environments. Putting forth the notion that high-choice information environments may contribute to increasing misperceptions and knowledge resistance rather than greater public knowledge, the book offers insights into the processes that ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Autocratization in South Asia

    Edited by Sten Widmalm ...
    This handbook offers a comprehensive analysis of the processes and actors contributing to autocratization in South Asia. It provides an enhanced understanding of the interconnectedness of the different states in the region, and how that may be related to autocratization.The book analyzes issues of state power, the support for political parties, questions relating to economic actors and sustainable ... Read more

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  • Zwischen Biomacht und Lebensmacht

    Biopolitisches Denken bei Michel Foucault und Ernst Jünger

    by Nasser Ahmed ...
    Series Book 113 - Edition Politik
    Gibt es Parallelen zwischen Michel Foucaults und Ernst Jüngers politischem Denken? Auf den ersten Blick scheint dies abwegig. Doch Nasser Ahmed deckt in Foucaults »Sexualität und Wahrheit I« und Jüngers »Der Arbeiter« denselben Typus biopolitischen Denkens auf und zeigt, wie nah sich beide Ansätze sind. Zwischen der Biomacht auf der einen und der Lebensmacht auf der anderen Seite erhellt er einen ... Read more

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  • The Burning Block Issue 2

    by Shane Eide ...
    Series Book 2 - The Burning Block
    In this second issue, such topics as currency and general politics are explored, along with the unconscious, driving forces of culture in a series called 'Invisible Totems of the Modern World.' Readers are also invited to explore what lies behind the surface of our common preconceptions through the latest in a series of aphorisms. ... Read more

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  • Surveillance | Society | Culture

    Series Book 3 - Contributions to English and American Literary Studies (CEALS)
    What only a few decades ago would have been considered a totalitarian nightmare seems to have become reality: Surveillance practices and technologies have infiltrated all aspects of our lives, forcing us to reconsider established notions of privacy, subjectivity, and the status of the individual in society. The United States is central to contemporary concerns about surveillance. American ... Read more

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  • Redesigning Life

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

    Series Book 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 ... Read more

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  • Ukraine's Search for Justice in the Shadow of the Donbas Conflict

    Strategic Reforms or Crisis Management?

    Series Book 15 - Studies in Political Transition
    Should we punish wrongdoers? Should we take care of the ones who suffered from wrongdoings? Although we may believe answers to these questions are obvious, they become less so when similar questions are asked under exceptional circumstances, such as armed conflicts. These answers may decide about the continuation of hostilities or their end. The stakes are high, while we can hardly ignore the need ... Read more

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  • Memories of Utopia

    The Revision of Histories and Landscapes in Late Antiquity

    Edited by Bronwen Neil, Kosta Simic ...
    Series series Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
    These essays examine how various communities remembered and commemorated their shared past through the lens of utopia and its corollary, dystopia, providing a framework for the reinterpretation of rapidly changing religious, cultural, and political realities of the turbulent period from 300 to 750 CE.The common theme of the chapters is the utopian ideals of religious groups, whether these are ... Read more

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  • Sui linguaggi operativi e il mondo contemporaneo

    L’assassinio del linguaggio nel totalitarismo post-moderno

    Series Book 14 - I Quaderni di Polimnia
    Questo breve testo – ultimo di quattro capitoli di una ricerca più articolata che si basa sul pensiero di Hannah Arendt, ma perfettamente leggibile nella sua autonomia – interroga, analizzandone identità e differenze, il legame dei totalitarismi del XX secolo con il totalitarismo sui generis che caratterizza la “post-modernità”, cioè la nostra contemporaneità, dove l’estremo sviluppo del ... Read more

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  • Untold Stories of the Spanish Civil War

    Series series Routledge/Canada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain
    This is the first scholarly volume to offer an insight into the less-known stories of women, children, and international volunteers in the Spanish Civil War.Special attention is given to volunteers of different historical experiences, especially Jews, and voices from less-researched countries in the context of the Spanish war, such as Palestine and Turkey. Of an interdisciplinary nature, this ... Read more

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  • The Collapse of Communist Power in Poland

    Strategic Misperceptions and Unanticipated Outcomes

    Based on extensive original research, including interviews with key participants, this book investigates the sudden and unforeseen collapse of communist power in Poland in 1989. It sets out the sequence of events, and examines the strategies of the various political groupings prior to the partially free election of June 1989.This volume argues that the specific negotiating strategies adopted by ... Read more

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  • The Self, Civic Virtue, and Public Life

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Nancy E. Snow ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
    This volume showcases new and interesting ways in which the possession of civic virtues can contribute to people’s abilities to engage in public life in meaningful ways.What is the role of civic virtues in public life? How does possessing civic virtues affect persons and their capacities for participation in the public order? The chapters in this volume combine philosophical and empirically ... Read more

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  • Politicisation, Democratisation and EU Identity

    National EU Discourses in Germany and France

    What is it that unites the European Union as a polity? Why is it necessary to democratise the EU? Can EU politicisation help democratising the EU? Why do EU citizens in referenda seemingly vote against the EU? And how can a European identity develop? To tackle these questions, this book makes a theoretical, conceptual and empirical contribution to the study of EU politicisation, democratisation, ... Read more

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  • The Nordic Economic, Social and Political Model

    Challenges in the 21st Century

    The Nordic Model is the 20th-century Scandinavian recipe for combining stable democracies, individual freedom, economic growth and comprehensive systems for social security. But what happens when Sweden and Finland – two countries topping global indexes for competitiveness, productivity, growth, quality of life, prosperity, and equality – start doubting themselves and their future? Is the Nordic ... Read more

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