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“frieder vogelmann”

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  • The Contested Sciences

    Between Idealization and Contempt

    by Frieder Vogelmann ...
    The defense against attacks on the sciences requires not an idealized image of “Science” but a realistic understanding of scientific practices to account for their epistemic authority.Analysing the controversy about contemporary attacks on the sciences, Frieder Vogelmann shows that the defenders of scientific practices all too often erect an ideal that immunises them against criticism, obscures ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • The Spell of Responsibility

    Labor, Criminality, Philosophy

    Translated by Daniel Steuer ...
    by Frieder Vogelmann ...
    Series series
    Most people would agree that we should behave and act in a responsible way. Yet only 200 years ago, ‘responsibility’ was only of marginal importance in discussions of law and legal practice, and it had little ethical significance. What is the significance of the fact that ‘responsibility’ now plays such a central role in, for example, work, the welfare state, or the criminal justice system? What ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • The Birth of Austerity

    German Ordoliberalism and Contemporary Neoliberalism

    Edited by Thomas Biebricher, Frieder Vogelmann ...
    Ordoliberalism and the ‘Freiburg School’ have gained traction in contemporary political economy in response to two factors: a rising interest in governmentality studies and the banking, financial and sovereign debt crisis in Europe. In the face of these crises, Germany has assumed a position of quasi-hegemony in the European Union, making decisions about bailouts, the politics of crisis management ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

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  • German Europe

    by Ulrich Beck ...
    Translated by Rodney Livingstone ...
    The euro crisis is tearing Europe apart. But the heart of the matter is that, as the crisis unfolds, the basic rules of European democracy are being subverted or turned into their opposite, bypassing parliaments, governments and EU institutions. Multilateralism is turning into unilateralism, equality into hegemony, sovereignty into the dependency and recognition into disrespect for the dignity of ... Read more

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  • The Crisis of the European Union

    A Response

    by Jürgen Habermas ...
    Translated by Ciaran Cronin.In the midst of the current crisis that is threatening to derail the historical project of European unification, Jürgen Habermas has been one of the most perceptive critics of the ineffectual and evasive responses to the global financial crisis, especially by the German political class. This extended essay on the constitution for Europe represents Habermas’s ... Read more

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  • Freedom's Right

    The Social Foundations of Democratic Life

    by Axel Honneth ...
    The theory of justice is one of the most intensely debated areas of contemporary philosophy. Most theories of justice, however, have only attained their high level of justification at great cost. By focusing on purely normative, abstract principles, they become detached from the sphere that constitutes their “field of application” - namely, social reality.Axel Honneth proposes a different approach ... Read more

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  • The Public International Law Theory of Hans Kelsen

    Believing in Universal Law

    by Jochen von Bernstorff ...
    Series Book 68 - Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    This analysis of Hans Kelsen's international law theory takes into account the context of the German international legal discourse in the first half of the twentieth century, including the reactions of Carl Schmitt and other Weimar opponents of Kelsen. The relationship between his Pure Theory of Law and his international law writings is examined, enabling the reader to understand how Kelsen tried ... Read more

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  • The Three Branches

    A Comparative Model of Separation of Powers

    by Christoph Moellers ...
    Series series Oxford Constitutional Theory
    The idea of the separation of powers is still popular in much political and constitutional discourse, though its meaning for the modern state remains unclear and contested. This book develops a new, comprehensive, and systematic account of the principle. It then applies this new concept to legal problems of different national constitutional orders, the law of the European Union, and international ... Read more

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  • War in Social Thought

    Hobbes to the Present

    by Hans Joas, Wolfgang Knöbl ...
    A sweeping history of social theories about war and peace, from Hobbes to the twenty-first centuryThis book, the first of its kind, provides a sweeping critical history of social theories about war and peace from Hobbes to the present. Distinguished social theorists Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knöbl present both a broad intellectual history and an original argument as they trace the development of ... Read more

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  • Freedom's Right

    The Social Foundations of Democratic Life

    by Axel Honneth ...
    Series Book 13 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Theories of justice often fixate on purely normative, abstract principles unrelated to real-world situations. The philosopher and theorist Axel Honneth addresses this disconnect, and constructs a theory of justice derived from the normative claims of Western liberal-democratic societies and anchored in morally legitimate laws and institutionally established practices.Honneth's paradigm—which he ... Read more

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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter

    His Life and Work

    by Richard Swedberg ...
    Joseph A. Schumpeter (1883-1950) is one of the most celebrated authors on the economics and sociology of the twentieth century. Richard Swedberg's new biography provides an engaging and vivid account of Schumpeter's varied life, including his ventures into politics and private banking as well as his academic career. As a backdrop to these, Swedberg also discusses Schumpeter's tragic personal life ... Read more

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