Paul Passavant: 2 books
No Escape
Freedom of Speech and the Paradox of Rights
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2002
Conventional legal and political scholarship places liberalism, which promotes and defends individual legal rights, in direct opposition to communitarianism, which focuses on the greater good of the social group. According to this mode of thought, liberals value legal rights for precisely the same...
Making Threats
Biofears and Environmental Anxieties
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Today we live in times of proliferating fears. The daily updates on the ongoing 'war on terror' amplify fear and anxiety as if they were necessary and important aspects of our reality. Concerns about the environment increasingly take center-stage, as stories and images abound about deadly viruses,...