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Cover of SOME THOUGHTS ON JOHN RAWLS' 'A THEORY OF JUSTICE'
by Stuart Christie
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014

An anarchist critique of John Rawls' 'A Theory of Justice'. Since its publication in 1971 the political ideas expounded by philosopher John Rawls in A Theory of Justice have provided the justifiers and apologists (i.e., the informers and the regulators who, respectively, mould opinion and behaviour...
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The Philosophy of Set Theory

An Historical Introduction to Cantor's Paradise

by Mary Tiles
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012

A century ago, Georg Cantor demonstrated the possibility of a series of transfinite infinite numbers. His methods, unorthodox for the time, enabled him to derive theorems that established a mathematical reality for a hierarchy of infinities. Cantor's innovation was opposed, and ignored, by the establishment;...
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Knowledge-building

Educational studies in Legitimation Code Theory

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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015

Education and knowledge have never been more important to society, yet research is segmented by approach, methodology or topic. Legitimation Code Theory or ‘LCT’ extends and integrates insights from Pierre Bourdieu and Basil Bernstein to offer a framework for research and practice that overcomes...
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by Catherine Belsey
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003

What is poststructuralist theory, and what difference does it make to literary criticism? Where do we find the meaning of the text: in the author's head? in the reader's? Or do we, instead, make meaning in the practice of reading itself? If so, what part do our own values play in the process of interpretation?...
Cover of An Introduction to Moral Philosophy and Moral Education
by Robin Barrow
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007

This book presents and argues for a moral theory which draws on most of the major theoretical positions to some degree, but it also spells out the limits and boundaries of a moral theory. In doing so, it exposes a number of common confusions and misunderstandings about morality, and presents a strong...
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Liberty, Conscience, and Toleration

The Political Thought of William Penn

by Andrew R. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016

In a seventeenth-century English landscape populated with towering political and philosophical figures like Hobbes, Harrington, Cromwell, Milton, and Locke, William Penn remains in many ways a man apart. Yet despite being widely neglected by scholars, he was a sophisticated political thinker who contributed...
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Queer Apocalypses

Elements of Antisocial Theory

by Lorenzo Bernini
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016

This book is an attempt to save “the sexual” from the oblivion to which certain strands in queer theory tend to condemn it, and at the same time to limit the risks of anti-politics and solipsism contained in what has been termed antisocial queer theory. It takes a journey from Sigmund Freud to...
Cover of Theory for Ethnomusicology
by Ruth M. Stone
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015

For courses in ethnomusicological theory. This book covers ethnomusicological theory, exploring some of the underpinnings of different approaches and analyzing differences and commonalities in these orientations. This text addresses how ethnomusicologists have used and applied these theories in ethnographic research.
Cover of Personalising Learning in Teacher Education
by Mellita Jones, Karen McLean
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018

This volume sheds light on debates about personalised learning in teacher education by exploring the popular emergence of personalising learning in education and hence its significance in teacher education in the 21st century. It examines personalising learning theory and explores the tenets of this...
Cover of A Combinatorial Perspective on Quantum Field Theory
by Karen Yeats
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016

This book explores combinatorial problems and insights in quantum field theory. It is not comprehensive, but rather takes a tour, shaped by the author’s biases, through some of the important ways that a combinatorial perspective can be brought to bear on quantum field theory.  Among the outcomes...
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Higher Structures in Geometry and Physics

In Honor of Murray Gerstenhaber and Jim Stasheff

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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010

This book is centered around higher algebraic structures stemming from the work of Murray Gerstenhaber and Jim Stasheff that are now ubiquitous in various areas of mathematics— such as algebra, algebraic topology, differential geometry, algebraic geometry, mathematical physics— and in theoretical...
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The Pursuit of Happiness and the American Regime

Political Theory in Literature

by Elizabeth Amato
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018

The Declaration of Independence claims that individuals need liberty to pursue happiness, but provides little guidance on the “what” of happiness. Happiness studies and liberal theory are incomplete guides. Happiness studies offer insights into what makes people happy but happiness policy risks...
Cover of Shakespeare and Feminist Theory
by Professor Marianne Novy
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017

Are Shakespeare's plays dramatizations of patriarchy or representations of assertive and eloquent women? Or are they sometimes both? And is it relevant, and if so how, that his women were first played by boys? This book shows how many kinds of feminist theory help analyze the dynamics of Shakespeare's...
Cover of Paradoxes of Emotion and Fiction
by Robert J. Yanal
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 1999

How can we experience real emotions when viewing a movie or reading a novel or watching a play when we know the characters whose actions have this effect on us do not exist? This is a conundrum that has puzzled philosophers for a long time, and in this book Robert Yanal both canvasses previously proposed...
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