Stanford University: 1318 books
Guilt
The Bite of Conscience
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
This is the first study of guilt from a wide variety of perspectives: psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, evolutionary psychology, anthropology, six major religions, four key moral philosophers, and the law. Katchadourian explores the ways in which guilt functions within individual lives and intimate...
The Right’s First Amendment
The Politics of Free Speech & the Return of Conservative Libertarianism
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Not so long ago, being aggressively "pro–free speech" was as closely associated with American political liberalism as being pro-choice, pro–affirmative action, or pro–gun control. With little notice, this political dynamic has been shaken to the core. The Right's First Amendment examines...
The End of Intelligence
Espionage and State Power in the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Using espionage as a test case, The End of Intelligence criticizes claims that the recent information revolution has weakened the state, revolutionized warfare, and changed the balance of power between states and non-state actors—and it assesses the potential for realizing any hopes we might have...
Imagining New Legalities
Privacy and Its Possibilities in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Imagining New Legalities reminds us that examining the right to privacy and the public/private distinction is an important way of mapping the forms and limits of power that can legitimately be exercised by collective bodies over individuals and by governments over their citizens. This book does not...
Compelling Interest
Examining the Evidence on Racial Dynamics in Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2003
In recent years American colleges and universities have become the locus of impassioned debates about race-conscious social policies, as conflicting theories clash over the ways to distribute the advantages of higher education in a fair and just manner. Just below the surface of these policy debates...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Many today place great hope in law as a vehicle for the transformation of society and accept that law is autonomous, universal, and above all, secular. Yet recent scholarship has called into question the simplistic narrative of a separation between law and religion and blurred the boundaries between...
The Beauty of the Real
What Hollywood Can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Even as actresses become increasingly marginalized by Hollywood, French cinema is witnessing an explosion of female talent—a Golden Age unlike anything the world has seen since the days of Stanwyck, Hepburn, Davis, and Garbo. In France, the joy of acting is alive and well. Scores of French actresses...
Thinking Through Animals
Identity, Difference, Indistinction
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
The rapidly expanding field of critical animal studies now offers a myriad of theoretical and philosophical positions from which to choose. This timely book provides an overview and analysis of the most influential of these trends. Approachable and concise, it is intended for readers sympathetic to...
Corporate Responsibility Coalitions
The Past, Present, and Future of Alliances for Sustainable Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
It is estimated that there are more than 110 national and international business-led corporate responsibility coalitions. Given the growing reach and significance of these alliances, there is now a critical need for an informed and balanced analysis of their achievements, their progress, and their...
Habermas
The Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Though many legal theorists are familiar with Jürgen Habermas's work addressing core legal concerns, they are not necessarily familiar with his earlier writings in philosophy and social theory. Because Habermas's later work on law invokes, without significant explanation, the whole battery of concepts...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Law and the Utopian Imagination seeks to explore and resuscitate the notion of utopianism within current legal discourse. The idea of utopia has fascinated the imaginations of important thinkers for ages. And yet—who writes seriously on the idea of utopia today? The mid-century critique appears...
What Should Think Tanks Do?
A Strategic Guide to Policy Impact
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Think tanks and research organizations set out to influence policy ideas and decisions—a goal that is key to the very fabric of these organizations. And yet, the ways that they actually achieve impact or measure progress along these lines remains fuzzy and underexplored. What Should Think Tanks...
Secrecy at Work
The Hidden Architecture of Organizational Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Secrecy is endemic within organizations, woven into the fabric of our lives at work. Yet, until now, we've had an all-too-limited understanding of this powerful organizational force. Secrecy is a part of work, and keeping secrets is a form of work. But also, secrecy creates a social order—a hidden...
The Politics of Space Security
Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
The past five decades have witnessed often fierce international rivalry in space, but also surprising military restraint. Now, with an increasing number of countries capable of harming U.S. space assets, experts and officials have renewed a long-standing debate over the best route to space security....