Church of Our Granddaughters is a visionary work of theology and ethics that looks hopefully and lovingly two generations into the future, imagining the Orthodox Church's practices and realities rightfully aligned with its core theological teachings and truths regarding women.
This book is the first full-length study of Lenin's party building project and writings on elections, looking in detail at his leadership of the Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in the four state Dumas from 1906 to the beginning of the First World War.
The book examines the intersection of two philosophical developments which define define contemporary life in the liberal democratic west, considering how democracy has become the only legitimate and publicly defensible regime, while also considering how modern democracy attempts to solve what Leo Strauss called the "theologico-political problem.
By exploring the concepts of 'crisis' and 'critique', this study offers a thought-provoking re-examination of the political and social thought of Cornelius Castoriadis in light of the current world crisis and with regard to his radical critique of both the traditional Left and contemporary capitalist societies.
In the first full length examination of the topic, Ethical Citizenship rediscovers a significant and distinctive contribution to how we might understand citizenship today.
Through the use of a poststructuralist perspective, Antony O'Loughlin challenges the most basic tenets of International Relations Theory and deploys Rawlsian ideas of public reason in conjunction with Kratochwil's conceptions of practical reason in order to put forward a theory that overcomes the challenges posed by poststructuralism.
An investigation of the postsecular in International Relations and how an increasingly postsecular international politics is contributing to the emergence of new patterns of authority, legitimacy and power in the international system.
In this timely study, Pawling argues for a renewal of the 'politics of intellectual life', calling for an engaged critical theory written in the spirit of May 1968, as exemplified in the works of figures such as Sartre, Derrida, Badiou, Jameson and Said.
"Je nachdem, ob sich eine Kultur im Modus der Rede und der Wechselrede, des Lesens und Schreibens oder des Bildens und Schauens versteht, wird sich ihre Haltung zu Zeit und Geschichte, zu Sinn und Moral sowie zu ihren Gottes- und Menschenbildern unterschiedlich ausprägen.
Drawing from theories of world society and from historical-sociological theories the book studies the past, present, and future of Middle East Christianity.
Political societies frequently regard philosophers as potential threats to morality and religion, and those who speak for politics often demand a defense of philosophy.
This handbook explores anti-communism as an overarching phenomenon of twentieth-century global history, showing how anti-communist policies and practices transformed societies around the world.
This edited volume examines women's voices in phenomenology, many of which had a formative impact on the movement but have be kept relatively silent for many years.
El fenómeno del cristianismo sionista nos invita a preguntarnos sobre la secularización de las sociedad, qué problema plantea a la separación de Iglesia y Estado o más aún: la separación entre religión y política.
Newly revised and updated, To Serve God and Mammon is a classic in the field of religion and politics that provides an unbiased introduction and overview of church-state relations in the United States.
Drawing on Husserl's concepts of communalization and intersubjectivity, this book aspires to an orientation in which human beings are understood in the context of their full-blooded, concrete existence - the life-world.
Although rule breaking in Harry Potter is sometimes dismissed as a distraction from Harry's fight against Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter and Resistance makes the case that it is central to the battle against evil.
Although rule breaking in Harry Potter is sometimes dismissed as a distraction from Harry's fight against Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter and Resistance makes the case that it is central to the battle against evil.
El paro nacional colombiano comenzó el 28 de abril de 2021 como reacción en contra de la controversial reforma fiscal impulsada por el gobierno en medio de la pandemia.
Con una atenta y minuciosa selección de textos, discursos y homilías de Jorge Mario Bergoglio, este volumen remarca la continuidad existente en sus palabras desde el inicio de su camino sacerdotal hasta llegar al "pontificado de la ternura y de la misericordia", como ha sido definido por conocidos comentaristas.
Con la introducción del término "dispositivo", Foucault buscó modificar las categorías con las que la tradición ilustrada había analizado el poder político.
Este libro recoge los resultados de una investigación en torno a un tema de gran actualidad: la posverdad, abordado desde tres ámbitos importantes del saber humano: la TEOLOGÍA —la posverdad como contraposición entre verdad y mentira—, la FILOSOFÍA —presencia de la posverdad en la filosofía actual— y el DERECHO —tránsito desde la posverdad a la posverdad judicial—.
A través de esta obra el autor se propone desentrañar el pensamiento de Perón por considerar que no solo determinó una praxis política que se extiende hasta nuestros días en Argentina, sino que, además, hizo surgir un tipo antropológico muy particular que es el hombre argentino actual.
Históricamente, el sentido común fue tratado o bien como una facultad cognitiva propia de todos los seres humanos, o bien como una construcción social de rasgos cambiantes en el tiempo y el espacio.