The story of how the Ohio conference of the American Association of University Professors mobilized its resources and fought alongside Teamsters, firefighters, janitors, and police to defeat Ohio Senate Bill 5 by referendum, restoring collective bargain rights across the state.
The Ethics of Governance: Moral Limits of Policy Decisions offers a toolbox drawn from normative ethics which finds applications in public governance, primarily focusing on policy making and executive action.
This book is a result of a joint conference, which was held from 18th-22nd July 2017 under the theme Religion, Citizenship and Development , Southern African Perspectives.
This book is a result of a joint conference, which was held from 18th-22nd July 2017 under the theme Religion, Citizenship and Development , Southern African Perspectives.
This book is devoted to the studies of Karl Marx's Paris Manuscripts and presents a new interpretation of early Marx, arguing that his transition to maturity can be found in these manuscripts, and specifically in Comments on James Mill, which was drafted between the First Manuscript and the Second Manuscript.
Many contemporary African writers remain trapped in the quest for a worldview, philosophy, supposing a single ,African, demesne to explain the entire continent, referring to a mythical past.
The once acrimonious debate on the existence of African philosophy has come of age, yet the need to cultivate a culture of belonging is more demanding now than ever before in many African societies.
This book discusses the seminal role played by Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud, in the founding of American-style public relations n persuasive communication through manipulation of symbols n and his huge (and cynical) impact on the American economic and political scene.
This book discusses the seminal role played by Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud, in the founding of American-style public relations , persuasive communication through manipulation of symbols , and his huge (and cynical) impact on the American economic and political scene.
Àqueles que chegam desavisados ao texto límpido e elegante de Nicolau Maquiavel pode parecer que o autor escreveu, na Florença do século XVI, um manual abstrato para a conduta de um mandatário.
This book addresses the reasons why the contemporary far-right has gained political resonance in a variety of states across both the Global North and South.
Mientras trabajos precedentes se habían focalizado exclusivamente en la trayectoria del Movimiento de Sacerdotes para el Tercer Mundo (MSTM), en este libro Claudia Touris demuestra que la corriente tercermundista en la Argentina fue una red sociorreligiosa más amplia y diversa que se desplegó como una verdadera constelación de actores sociales integrada no solo por los sacerdotes, sino también por religiosas, laicos que pasaron por los ámbitos de sociabilidad católica renovada por el Concilio Vaticano II y otros, como el grupo de Cristianismo y Revolución, que lo conectaron con la vía insurreccional minoritaria en la corriente tercermundista.
Considerar a Hegel como lector e interlocutor crítico de la economía política clásica abre una serie de interrogantes metodológicos y teórico-prácticos a la fecha: ¿cuál es la relación del discurso filosófico con su presente sociohistórico?
La avanzada evangélica en las arenas partidarias latinoamericanas es uno de los acontecimientos más estudiados en el campo de la sociología de la religión y un evento que suscita hondas polémicas en el espacio amplio de la sociedad civil.
Esther Díaz propone una cartografía de las múltiples contradicciones y paradojas de las sociedades contemporáneas que invita al lector a recorridos inesperados.
"Este libro pretende ser el comentario de la lección de marxismo impartida por Louis Althusser y una reflexión sobre lo que esa lección quiere enseñarnos y sobre lo que de hecho nos enseña: no sobre la teoría de Marx, sino sobre la realidad presente del marxismo; sobre lo que es el discurso de un reconocido filósofo marxista; sobre las condiciones que vuelven enunciable esa lección y que le permiten encontrar un eco: en los intelectuales y en los políticos.
"¿Estoy realmente seguro de no experimentar sentimiento de amor cuando odio, de amar verdaderamente cuando en realidad sólo estoy adorando, de estar celoso cuando siento envidia, de ser bienintencionado cuando sólo un egoísmo disfrazado me anima?
Toda escritura anterior, íntima o pública, debería someterse al ejercicio de la reescritura; todo fragmento leído, al de la relectura; todo pensamiento cristalizado será devuelto a su cristal y a resquebrajarse una y mil veces; toda certeza, una particular forma de agravio; toda duda: saber que aún estamos vivos.
The purpose of putting this book in your hands is to communicate to you the value and strength that must sustain you through this period of transition in which we find ourselves, as well as to reveal something of the solid and healthy foundation on which it is built the future of the Incoming Age.
The evolution of China's intellectual landscape, especially the battles among different influential social and political ideas, sheds light on its history.
In Vienna in the 1920s a group of brilliant philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists - led by figures such as Moritz Schlick, Otto Neurath, Rudolf Carnap, and Hans Hahn - gathered to discuss the foundations of science and mathematics.
The Singapore Perspectives series is a yearly publication that provides critical analysis of emerging trends and issues Singapore faces in terms of social, economic and political development.
The Singapore Perspectives series is a yearly publication that provides critical analysis of emerging trends and issues Singapore faces in terms of social, economic and political development.
This book critically examines the issues and challenges of social development faced by societies in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, with particular reference to the major strategies these societies adopt to promote social cohesion and civil harmony in the context of globalization.
This book represents the first critical edition and scholarly annotated translation of a pioneering report on the predicament of cross-cultural understanding at the dawn of globalization, titled "e;A Brief Response on the Controversies over Shangdi, Tianshen and Linghun"e; ("e;Resposta breve sobre as Controversias do Xamty, Tien Xin, Lim hoen"e;), which was written in China by the Sicilian Jesuit missionary Niccolo Longobardo (1565-1654) in the 1620s and profoundly influenced Enlightenment understandings of Asian philosophy.
The Singapore Perspectives series is a yearly publication that provides critical analysis of emerging trends and issues Singapore faces in terms of social, economic and political development.
This anthology critically re-examines and re-articulates the discursive boundary that binds the region called East Asia in order to produce Trans-Pacific Studies.
The Singapore Perspectives series is a yearly publication that provides critical analysis of emerging trends and issues Singapore faces in terms of social, economic and political development.
Compulsory voting has operated in Australia for a century, and remains the best known and arguably the most successful example of the practice globally.
