Just Ideas: Transformative Ideals of Justice in Ethical and Political Thought

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Politics in Captivity

Lena Zuckerwise

From the 1811 German Coast Slave Rebellion to the 1971 Attica Prison Uprising, from the truancy of enslaved women to the extreme self-discipline exercised by prisoners in solitary confinement, Black...

ISBN: 9781531507039

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Throwing the Moral Dice

Thomas Claviez, Viola Marchi, Alain Badiou, Étienne Balibar, Rosi Braidotti, Thomas Claviez, Drucilla Cornell, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Viola Marchi, Michael Naas, Cary Wolfe, Slavoj Žižek

Edited by Thomas Claviez and Viola Marchi

Contributor(s): Étienne Balibar, Rosi Braidotti, Thomas Claviez, Drucilla Cornell, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Viola Marchi, Michael Naas, Cary Wolfe and Slavoj Žižek

From deconstruction to feminism to ecological thought, some of today’s most influential thinkers consider the challenge that contingent life poses to the broad claims of ethics. In doing so, they reshape the most debated concepts of moral philosophy.

ISBN: 9780823298082

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Administering Interpretation

Peter Goodrich, Michel Rosenfeld, Giovanna Borradori, Marinos Diamantides, Allen Feldman, Stanley Fish, Peter Goodrich, Pierre Legrand, Bernadette Meyler, Michel Rosenfeld, Bernhard Schlink, Jeanne Schroeder, Laurent de Sutter, Katrin Truestedt, Marco Wan

Edited by Peter Goodrich and Michel Rosenfeld

Contributor(s): Giovanna Borradori, Marinos Diamantides, Allen Feldman, Stanley Fish, Peter Goodrich, Pierre Legrand, Bernadette Meyler, Michel Rosenfeld, Bernhard Schlink, Jeanne Schroeder, Laurent de Sutter, Katrin Truestedt and Marco Wan

Populism in politics and policy orientations in law have thrown the jurisdiction of the academy and the disciplines of interpretation into disarray. Critique flounders in abstraction and negativity,...

ISBN: 9780823283781

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The Forgiveness to Come

Peter Jason Banki

This book is concerned with the aporias, or impasses, of forgiveness, especially in relation to the legacy of the crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Nazis and their collaborators during World...

ISBN: 9780823278657

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Thresholds of Illiteracy

Abraham Acosta

Through a series of literary and cultural analyses, this book examines current theories of resistance and their impact on contemporary Latin American cultural discourse, developing a cultural theory of “illiteracy.”

ISBN: 9780823257102

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Drawing the Line

Carrol Clarkson

Drawing the Line examines the ways in which cultural, political, and legal lines are imagined, drawn, crossed, erased, and redrawn in post-apartheid South Africa—through literary texts, artworks,...

ISBN: 9780823254163

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Punishment and Inclusion

Andrew Dilts

This book gives a theoretical and historical account of felon disenfranchisement, showing deep connections between punishment and citizenship practices in the United States. These connections are deployed quietly and yet perniciously as part of a political system of white supremacy, shaping contemporary regimes of punishment and governance.

ISBN: 9780823262427

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Creolizing Political Theory

Jane Anna Gordon

Asking whether it is possible to develop an approach to studying political life that reflects its heterogeneity, Jane Anna Gordon offers the creolization of political theory as a response. Offering a critique of mere comparison, Gordon demonstrates the generative capacity of creolization through bringing together across time and place the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Frantz Fanon.

ISBN: 9780823254828

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Law and Revolution in South Africa

Drucilla Cornell

The relation between law and revolution is one of the most pressing questions of our time. As one country after another has faced the challenge that comes with the revolutionary overthrow of past dictatorships,...

ISBN: 9780823257584

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The Mandate of Dignity

Drucilla Cornell, Nick Friedman

Drucilla Cornell and Nick Friedman

This is the first book to review Ronald Dworkin’s entire body of work in its relevance to constitutional dispensations in the Global South.

ISBN: 9780823268115

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What Fanon Said

Lewis R. Gordon, Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun, Drucilla Cornell

Lewis R. Gordon

Afterword by Drucilla Cornell

Challenging the notion of theory as white and experience as black, Lewis Gordon here offers a philosophical portrait of the thought and life of the Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon as an example of “living thought” against the legacies of colonialism and racism, and thereby shows the continued relevance and importance of his ideas.

ISBN: 9780823266098

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Fugitive Rousseau

Jimmy Casas Klausen

Fugitive Rousseau explores slavery and primitivism in Rousseau’s political writings by contextualizing them in modern European empire and Roman imperial philosophy. Fugitive Rousseau argues against seeing Rousseau as either a nativist or cosmopolitan, either communitarian or liberal, and instead reconstructs a radical conception of freedom based in fugitive political resistance.

ISBN: 9780823267477

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Foucault's Critical Ethics

Richard A. Lynch

Argues that Michel Foucault's account of power provides a inescapable framework for ethics. Traces Foucault's analyses of power and ancient and contemporary ethical practices. Articulates a Foucauldian ethics constituted by a critical attitude, with substantive but revisable values grounded in a practice of freedom.

ISBN: 9780823271252

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Kantian Courage

Nicholas Tampio

Advancing the Enlightenment draws upon John Rawls, Gilles Deleuze, and Tariq Ramadan to present a vision for progressive politics. Rather than defend Kant’s ideas, heirs of the Enlightenment should create concepts such as overlapping consensus, rhizome, and space of testimony to facilitate alliances across religious and philosophical differences.

ISBN: 9780823245017

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Technicians of Human Dignity

Gaymon Bennett

Tracks the development of the concept of human dignity in post-war ethics and politics, focusing on the Vatican, the United Nations, and U.S. Federal Bioethics.

ISBN: 9780823267774

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Symbolic Forms for a New Humanity

Drucilla Cornell, Kenneth Michael Panfilio

Drucilla Cornell and Kenneth Michael Panfilio

In dialogue with afro-caribbean philosophy, this book seeks in Cassirer’s philosophy of symbolic forms a new vocabulary for approaching central intellectual and political issues of our time. For Cassirer,...

ISBN: 9780823232512

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The Creolizing Subject

Michael J. Monahan

How does our understanding of the reality (or lack thereof ) of race as a category of being affect our understanding of racism as a social phenomenon, and vice versa? How should we envision the aims...

ISBN: 9780823234509

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The Truth of Democracy

Jean-Luc Nancy, Pascale-Anne Brault, Michael Naas

Jean-Luc Nancy

Translated by Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas

The initial provocation for The Truth of Democracy was the fortieth anniversary of May ’68 and the recent criticism (some by French President Nicolas Sarkozy himself) leveled against the ideals and...

ISBN: 9780823232451

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The Gift of Science

Roger Berkowitz

The front pages of our newspapers and the chatter on the blogs bear witness to the divorce of law from justice. Highly paid lawyers mine the law for loopholes to help Fortune 500 corporations legally...

ISBN: 9780823231911

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Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages, 400–1500

Karl Shoemaker

Sanctuary and Crime rethinks the history of sanctuary protections in the Western legal tradition. Until the sixteenth century, every major medieval legal tradition afforded protections to fugitive criminals...

ISBN: 9780823232680

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uBuntu and the Law

Drucilla Cornell, Nyoko Muvangua

Edited by Drucilla Cornell and Nyoko Muvangua

This book brings together the uBuntu jurisprudence of South Africa, as well as the most cutting-edge critical essays about South African jurisprudence on uBuntu. Can indigenous values be rendered compatible with a modern legal system? This book raises some of the most pressing questions in cultural, political, and legal theory.

ISBN: 9780823233823

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The Dignity Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of South Africa

Drucilla Cornell, Stu Woolman, Sam Fuller, Jason Brickhill, Michael Bishop, Diana Dunbar

Stu Woolman, Sam Fuller, Jason Brickhill, Michael Bishop and Diana Dunbar

Edited by Drucilla Cornell

Since the Second World War, dignity has increasingly been recognized as an important moral and legal value. Although important examples of dignity-based arguments can be found in western European and...

ISBN: 9780823250080

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Just Ideas: Transformative Ideals of Justice in Ethical and Political Thought

Politics in Captivity

Throwing the Moral Dice

Administering Interpretation

The Forgiveness to Come

Thresholds of Illiteracy

Drawing the Line

Punishment and Inclusion

Creolizing Political Theory

Law and Revolution in South Africa

The Mandate of Dignity

What Fanon Said

Fugitive Rousseau

Foucault's Critical Ethics

Kantian Courage

Technicians of Human Dignity

Symbolic Forms for a New Humanity

The Creolizing Subject

The Truth of Democracy

The Gift of Science

Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages, 400–1500

uBuntu and the Law

The Dignity Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of South Africa

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