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by D.V. Glass, E.W. Hofstee
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Professor Hofstee has collected together, in compact and highly readable form, some of the most important conclusions so far reached in the study of selective aspects of internal and external migration. Of still greater value, however, than this sum mary of findings, and more stimulating to those...
by Manuel Lopez-Rey
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
During almost ten years I was in elose and frequent contact with Lionel Fox, both as Chiefofthe United Nations Section ofSocial Defence and as a friend. He was the permanent Chairman of the United Nations European ConsuItative Group on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, and he...
The Present State of International Law and Other Essays
written in honour of the Centenary Celebration of the International Law Association 1873–1973
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
In October I873, as every Conference Report recalls, the Associ ation for the Reform and Codification of the Law of Nations was founded in Brussels (Belgium). At the Brussels Conference of I895 the Association's name was changed and ever since it has been "The International Law Association"....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The basic aim of this special issue is to focus on the profound change of tendency in education that is taking place at both the national and interna tional level. At a time when education and lifelong learning are increasingly merging into one process, it is important to examine the ways in which...
Rousseau’s Economic Philosophy
Beyond the Market of Innocents
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
An increasing body of literature concerns the economics of those highly appreciated qualities of life that are not easily provided by market exchange. Today these problems are visible as never before, for example environmental problems. But already at the dawn of industrial society the problem had...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Is there universalism of human rights? If so, what are its scope and limits? This book is a doctrinal attempt to define universalism of human rights, as well as its scope and limits. The book presents tests of universalism on international, regional and national constitutional levels. It is maintained...
by Stanley Rothenberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
There have been many notable descriptions of music but perhaps one of the most apt from the viewpoint of law and commerce was Ian Hay's statement, "Music is about the most vulnerable piece of property that a man can bring into the world, especially today. " With the increased use of music...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
Historically, phenomenology began in Edmund Husserl’s theory of mathematics and logic, went on to focus for him on transcendental rst philosophy and for others on metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, and theory of interpretation. The c- tinuing focus has thus been on knowledge and being. But...
Jan Patočka and the Heritage of Phenomenology
Centenary Papers
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Whereas for the wider public Jan Patocka is known mainly as a defender of human rights and one of the first spokespersons of Charter 77, who died in Prague several days after long interrogations by secret police of the Communist regime, the international philosophical community sees in him an important...
Phenomenology and Social Reality
Essays in Memory of Alfred Schutz
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Alfred Schutz was born in Vienna on April 13, 1899, and died in New York City on May 20, 1959. The year 1969, then, marks the seventieth anniversary of his birth and the tenth year of his death. The essays which follow are offered not only as a tribute to an irreplaceable friend, colleague, and teacher,...
The Collected Works of Aron Gurwitsch (1901-1973)
Volume III: The Field of Consciousness: Theme, Thematic Field, and Margin
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
This volume contains Gurwitsch's magnum opus, which emphasizes how items in the thematic field are relevant to the theme. It is introduced by his student Richard Zaner. This volume also includes the posthumous text, Marginal Consciousness.
Emmanuel Levinas
The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Emmanuel Levinas recounts the main events of his life in a brief essay, "Signature," appended to a collection of essays on social, political and religious themes entitled Dillicile Uberti. He was born in I905 in Lithu ania and in I9I7, while living in the Ukraine, experienced the collapse...
The Problem of Embodiment
Some Contributions to a Phenomenology of the Body
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Early in the first volume of his Ideen zu einer reinen Phiinomeno logie und phiinomenologischen Philosophie, Edmund Husserl stated concisely the significance and scope of the problem with which this present study is concerned. When we reflect on how it is that consciousness, which is itself absolute...