The first collection of essays devoted to the Arabic philosopher Averroes's brilliant Commentary on Plato's "e;Republic,"e; which survived the medieval period only in Hebrew and Latin translations.
This volume is intended to serve as a review of the "e;next generation"e; of political economy scholars in what can be called the "e;Wagnerian"e; tradition, which traces its roots to Buchanan and De Viti De Marco in the 1930s, who argued that any decision that results from a political entity must be the product of individual decision makers operating within some framework of formal and informal rules.
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.
With a communicative approach to the phenomenon of terrorism and new archival sources, the book documents Meinhof's journalism and terrorism (1959-1976) and challenges many of the established narratives that have calcified around the story of Meinhof and the history of Germany's most infamous terrorist group.
This book aims to provide a general systematic analysis of key issues of Turkish environmental law and policies and to highlight the related concerns and challenges.
John Randolph LeBlanc examines the political oeuvre of critic and activist Edward Said and finds that Said preferred "reconciliation" to segregation in Palestine/Israel.
Aquatic ecosystem assessment is a rapidly developing field, and one of the newer approaches to assessing the condition of rivers and lakes is the Reference Condition Approach.
Diese Arbeit entwickelt erstmals ein Analysekonzept strategischer Muster der Macht- und Gestaltungszielverfolgung, welches auf die Regierungszeit der SPD 1998-2005 angewendet wird.
A central figure for anti-authoritarian Marxists and radicals who see the working class as an autonomous force, capable of acting independently and not simply reacting to the depredations of capitalism, Harry Cleaver brings this vision up to date, interpreting capitalisms latest crises and demonstrating how ordinary people can, and do, rupture the smooth functioning of the system that exploits them.
A Power Governments Cannot Suppress is a major collection of essays on American history, race, class, justice and ordinary people who stand up to power.
This comparative study deals with the important social phenomenon of sectarianism in four medium-sized cotton towns of northwest England -- Bolton, Preston, Stockport, and Blackburn -- between 1832 and 1870.
Tocqueville's view that a virtuous and viable democracy depends on robust associational life has become a cornerstone of contemporary democratic theory.
Scholarly and political interest in the work of the controversial twentieth century German thinker Carl Schmitt has exploded in the 20 years since William E.
This book proposes a cosmopolitan ethics that calls for analyzing how economic and political structures limit opportunities for different groups, distinguished by gender, race, and class.
The essays in Globalization on the Line criticize the almost exclusive emphasis on the ethnically constituted trans-nation, whose function as an instrument of de-nationalization has become signified in the metaphorical use of 'the border.
Diese Einführung bietet eine medientheoretisch fundierte und systematische Darstellung der Grundstrukturen des bundesdeutschen Mediensystems und seiner kommunikationspolitischen Genese seit 1945.
Using a variety of cases from history and today's life, the book examines character attackers targeting the private lives, behavior, values, and identity of their victims.
