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Leprosy in China
A History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Angela Ki Che Leung's meticulous study begins with the classical annals of the imperial era, which contain the first descriptions of a feared and stigmatized disorder modern researchers now identify as leprosy. She then tracks the relationship between the disease and China's social and political spheres...
Animal Lessons
How They Teach Us to Be Human
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
Philosophy reads humanity against animality, arguing that "man" is man because he is separate from beast. Deftly challenging this position, Kelly Oliver proves that, in fact, it is the animal that teaches us to be human. Through their sex, their habits, and our perception of their purpose,...
All the Art That's Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn't)
Inside The New York Times Op-Ed Page
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2008
All the Art That's Fit to Print reveals the true story of the world's first Op-Ed page, a public platform that—in 1970—prefigured the Internet blogosphere. Not only did the New York Times's nonstaff bylines shatter tradition, but the pictures were revolutionary. Unlike anything ever seen in a...
Transforming America
Politics and Culture During the Reagan Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2006
By the end of the 1980s, the "malaise" that had once pervaded American society was replaced by a renewed sense of confidence and national purpose. However, beneath this veneer of optimism was a nation confronting the effects of massive federal deficits, a reckless foreign policy, AIDS, homelessness,...
Japan, South Korea, and the United States Nuclear Umbrella
Deterrence After the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
For close to sixty years, the United States has maintained alliances with Japan and South Korea that have included a nuclear umbrella, guaranteeing their security as part of a strategy of extended deterrence. Yet questions about the credibility of deterrence commitments have always been an issue,...
by James Gordon Finlayson
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Jürgen Habermas and John Rawls are perhaps the two most renowned and influential figures in social and political philosophy of the second half of the twentieth century. In the 1990s, they had a famous exchange in the Journal of Philosophy. Quarreling over the merits of each other’s accounts of...
Beyond the Ivory Tower
International Relations Theory and the Issue of Policy Relevance
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2001
The gap between academics and practitioners in international relations has widened in recent years, according to the authors of this book. Many international relations scholars no longer try to reach beyond the ivory tower and many policymakers disdain international relations scholarship as arcane...
Adventures of the Symbolic
Post-Marxism and Radical Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Marxism's collapse in the twentieth century profoundly altered the style and substance of Western European radical thought. To build a more robust form of democratic theory and action, prominent theorists moved to reject revolution, abandon class for more fragmented models of social action, and elevate...
by Jacques Derrida, Kaira M. Cabañas
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
In 1996 Jacques Derrida gave a lecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on the occasion of Antonin Artaud: Works on Paper, one of the first major international exhibitions to present the avant-garde dramatist and poet's paintings and drawings. Derrida's original title, "Artaud the Moma,"...
The Politics of Our Selves
Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
Some critical theorists understand the self as constituted by power relations, while others insist upon the self's autonomous capacities for critical reflection and deliberate self-transformation. Up to now, it has all too often been assumed that these two understandings of the self are incompatible....
The Right to Justification
Elements of a Constructivist Theory of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Contemporary philosophical pluralism recognizes the inevitability and legitimacy of multiple ethical perspectives and values, making it difficult to isolate the higher-order principles on which to base a theory of justice. Rising up to meet this challenge, Rainer Forst, a leading member of the Frankfurt...
Critical Theory in Critical Times
Transforming the Global Political and Economic Order
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
We live in critical times. We face a global crisis in economics and finance, a global ecological crisis, and a constant barrage of international disputes. Perhaps most dishearteningly, there seems to be little faith in our ability to address such difficult problems. However, there is also a more positive...
Delivering Home-Based Services
A Social Work Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2009
Service providers are increasingly called upon to serve clients at home, a setting even a seasoned professional can find difficult to negotiate. From monitoring the health of older populations to managing paroled offenders, preventing child abuse, and reunifying families, home-based services require...
Reshaping Theory in Contemporary Social Work
Toward a Critical Pluralism in Clinical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
William Borden's persuasive collection of original essays reaffirms the place of theory in social work practice, showing how different theoretical models, therapeutic languages, and modes of intervention strengthen eclectic and integrative approaches to psychosocial intervention. A distinguished group...