This book expounds an analytical method that focuses on paradoxes - a method originally associated with deconstructive philosophy, but bearing little resemblance to the various techniques that have come to be labelled as 'deconstruction' in literary studies. After delineating th…
"Queer Democracy undertakes an interdisciplinary critical investigation of the centuries-old metaphor of society as a body, drawing on queer and transgender accounts of embodiment as a constructive resource for reimagining politics and society. Daniel Miller argues that this met…
On July 19, 2012, the revolution of Rojava started in Kobanî. Under the initiative of the Western Kurdistan People's Council (MGRK) the population drove the Syrian Baath regime away largely bloodlessly. While the rest of Syria sank into civil war, Rojava was increasingly pointin…
At the heart of representative government is the question: "What makes government and its agents legitimate authorities?" The notion of consent to a social contract between the citizen and his government is central to this problem. What are the functions of public authority? Wha…
Thomas Hobbes' Lebensaufgabe besteht in einer wissenschaftlichen Staatsphilosophie. Dabei stellt er sich den drei Herausforderungen seiner Epoche: methodisch dem Beweisideal der Mathematik, politisch der blutigen Wirklichkeit der Kriege und Bürgerkriege und moralisch dem Schwind…
Handbuch Rechtsphilosophie
Handbuch Rechtsphilosophie
"Studies based on regime types have shown that the level of public goods provision is higher in democratic systems than in authoritarian forms of government"--