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Responding to the increasing need for new and peaceful forms of emancipation, Stuart Blaney offers a unique solution in the synergy between two pioneering strands of continental philosophy: Michael Foucault's ideas on freedom and Jacques Ranciere's ideas on equality. Building a dialogue between these two thinkers, Blaney presents new perspectives on their work and a clear picture that emancipation comes from everyday practices rather than any particular movement or revolution.In exploring these combined views of equality and freedom, Blaney draws on some of the central facets of both concepts, including revolution, disagreement, care for the self, free speech and stoicism. To put these ideas into a practical framework of real, lived experience, we are introduced to the figure of Louis-Gabrielle Gauny the nineteenth century worker-poet and self confessed plebeian philosopher. Gauny is a nexus for Ranciere's and Foucault's ideas; his life exemplifying a dual mode of existence in-between conformity and political revolution. This lived philosophy of equality and freedom shows the strong synergy between the two concepts, with one reinforcing the other and strengthening their efficacy as forms of emancipatory practice.

In this open access book Jana S. Rosker presents a novel dialectical method to our comprehension of diverse philosophical ideas. Analyzing philosophical discourses that have emerged in China and the Sinophone region, Rosker applies the method to examples from across the history of thought. From Ancient Chinese logicians to 20th-century intellectuals, she connects thinkers and offers fresh insights into key aspects of philosophy. The result is a series of vibrant dialogues among different intellectual traditions, providing new understandings of transcultural philosophical interactions. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

"Offering the first full-scale edition of Thomas Gray's Latin poetry along with a facing English translation, this book balances accessibility and readability. Estelle Haan provides the reader with a detailed introduction and a comprehensive commentary that situate Gray's Latin verse in relation to his works on translation theory, queer theory, feminist theory and, especially, his appropriation of classical and Neo-Latin literature. This book also traces hitherto unlocated manuscripts of several of his Latin poems, and includes an editio princeps of his recently discovered Latin verses pertaining to his Neapolitan sojourn"--

Do our political systems and democracies really reflect the complex reality of the 21st century? Or does politics seem to be legislating about yesterday's world? In his latest book, Daniel Innerarity warns of the gap between the political concepts that serve as our guide and our overly complex reality that has long ceased to respond to them. Arguing that this theoretical deficit leads to a political practice that simplifies and impoverishes our democracies, nourishing the demagogues and sustaining reassuring old narratives, Innerarity proposes a modern update of key political concepts, from power and sovereignty to territory and representation. The theory of democracy originates from a time of relative social and political simplicity. There was less pluralism, less interdependence, political entities were autarkic, and the technological tools they had to handle had nothing to do with the sophistication of our artificial intelligence, our financial system, or the technological advances in medicine. And yet, Innerarity argues, there is no need to despair. If democracy has made the transition from the polis to the nation-state, from direct democracy to representative democracy, there is no reason to suppose that it cannot face new challenges, as long as it is provided with an adequate political architecture. Drawing on a broad range of sources, including classical and contemporary theorists, A Theory of Complex Democracy presents a new theory of democracy and government for the 21st century, a theory that starts from the premise that the most promising rejuvenation of our democracies is to make them more complex.

Based on extensive archival research, this open access book provides a fresh perspective on the early history of Isotype and pictographic communication, with new information about largely unknown episodes throughout its development. The picture-script Isotype (International System of Typographic Picture Education), previously conceived as the Vienna Method of Pictorial Statistics, evolved through numerous publications and exhibitions in the early 20th century. Christopher Burke and Günther Sandner trace how its development responded to differing cultural and political climates, through a period when the idea of a universal language - an artificial or planned language - was linked to ideas of internationality and democratic planning. This book explores in depth, for the first time, the early picture-statistical work carried out at Austrian institutions during a new era of visual education and communication during and after World War II. Examining the work of Isotype's initiators - Otto Neurath, the founding director of The Social and Economic Museum of Vienna, the artist Gerd Arntz, and Marie Reidemeister, who performed the role of 'transformer', a prototype of the modern information designer - this book challenges existing conceptions of an enormously influential pictographic language. Richly illustrated throughout with over 60 examples of work by key figures, this book provides a comprehensive history of Isotype and offers critical reflections on its legacy within, and relevance to, contemporary design practice.The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

This book develops a systematic analysis of the principle of proportionality of penalties in EU law.Taking a four-part approach, the book firstly looks at the protection of victims' rights in EU law and the lessons to be learned from regional and international instruments. It looks specifically at the case law of the CJEU, such as the Victims' Rights Directive and the Compensation Directive. It then goes on to look at the state of play of victims' rights in the national laws of the Member States, such as France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Romania, Lithuania and Ireland. Part three addresses the need for coherence and balance between the different interests at stake. Finally, the book looks at the prospects, putting forward a fresh perspective on the topic.Until now, the principle has been mainly assessed from a criminological point of view. By departing from existing literature, the book advances an original EU law perspective on proportionality of penalties, which underlies the analysis of its theorisation, place and influence on domestic criminal systems. Building upon this approach, scholarly contributions in the book systematically delve into the various implications of the principle in EU law, while paying particular attention to its profound interaction with criminal law concepts.

This book provides a systematic and critical analysis of the role trusts play in modern commercial markets. Commercial trusts are complex and ever-evolving, and a reassessment of the traditional legal norms relating to them is much needed in order to provide new doctrinal insights. The book does just that: focusing on trusts in the UK, while drawing on developments in European jurisdictions and in China. It presents a thought-provoking assessment and a unified understanding of commercial trusts.

Throughout the history of Heideggerian thought - a thought which surely shapes our understanding of 'Being' in the 20th and 21st century (as well as the history of western metaphysics in general) - there seems to be no place for what Plato, Hegel and Marx before him called 'dialectics'. For Heidegger, the dialectical method was "a philosophical embarrassment". Equally, for one of our more contemporary philosophers, Graham Harman, there is no appearance of the word 'dialectic' in his complete oeuvre. In this relatively short book, Johns and Bensusan, in the style of Derrida, looks over the absence or spectre of the signifier 'dialectic' in both Heidegger and Harman's work, arguing that such a negation of the term turns out to be more of an intentional repression than any passive neglection. Rather, the editors insist that such a repression finds its way into their writing as an alternative interpretation of their core concepts. Bringing together for the first time Hegelian thought in relation to both Speculative Realism and Harman's work, this volume markedly serves less as a Hegelian critique of such thinkers and more as a Heideggerian and Harmanian resuscitation of the dialectic in Hegel; as a realist method capable of integration into contemporary philosophy. Offering a new way of conceiving 'dialectics' based on recent developments in science and the most cutting edge of contemporary philosophy, this book is indispensable to anyone interested in the crossroads of contemporary strands of idealism, materialism and realism. Perhaps, in this sense, the 'speculative' term antecedent in both Hegel's Speculative Philosophy and Speculative Realism can finally be reconciled in true dialectical form.

This collection looks at the protection of victims' rights in EU law. Taking a four-part approach, it firstly focuses on the Victims' Right Directive and the proposal for a Directive on combating violence against women. It then explores victims' rights in the national laws of the Member States, including France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Romania, Lithuania and Ireland.Finally it analyses the main challenges in the field and the need for coherence between the different competing interests.

From a magical childhood in Kenya, through misery at an American high school, to rescue by an inspirational teacher in England, Victoria Whitworth weaves a sublimely rich narrative, which is both an ode to her beloved Greece and Corfu, and a highly original exploration of myth and legend. Her adventures in the often weird and unsettling world of a Corinth English language school, and the shattering experience of her rape by a Greek taxi driver, lead Victoria to question some deeply familiar stories. Did Agamemnon really kill his daughter Iphigenia, so the wind would fill their sails for Troy? Was beautiful Helen of Troy a powerful enchantress? Or a tragic victim? Was Theseus, the Minotaur slayer, a superhero, or a predatory rapist? Or were they all of these things? This beautiful memoir asks repeatedly where truth lies, and how, as women, we can survive violence and conquer fear.

A gripping and inspiring account of one of the world's toughest races through the eyes of an extraordinary woman, and how she (and all of us) can use the lessons she learned to live a life of authenticity and success

PREORDER EYE OF THE RAVEN, THE EXCITING NEW WHALE ROAD CHRONICLES VIKING ADVENTURE FROM TIM HODKINSON, NOW!Alone in a foreign land, Viking warrior Einar must choose his loyalties in the face of warfare. The gripping new instalment in the Whale Road Chronicles. For the first time, Einar and the Wolf Coats find themselves divided as circumstances mean they end up on opposing sides: the Wolf Coats in Ireland, and Einar in the lands of the English. With war brewing and a great battle on the horizon, can Einar and his comrades reunite in time - or will the horrors of war make their split a permanent one?

This innovative and thought-provoking book studies how subrogation and marshalling should be understood in the context of private law.Subrogation and marshalling are legal rules which give a person new rights with prima facie the same content as someone else's extinguished rights. There is little examination of why the law does this. This book argues that the key to understanding subrogation is the distinctive form of the rights that it creates. The form of rights created reflects a particular role in ensuring interpersonal justice: subrogation's role is to properly distribute the burden of debts. Taking this model, the book goes on to resolve persistent controversies in the case law, including when subrogation should occur, what rights it should create, the relationship between subrogation and marshalling, and whether subrogation is a remedy for unjust enrichment.

This book provides a timely and much-needed critical legal review of children's participation in healthcare that goes beyond merely documenting the extent and scope of participation, and explores the importance, definition of, and barriers to their meaningful participation. Addressing a gap in the literature, the book uses a combination of empirical data, childhood and participatory theory, and legal analysis to study the participation of children and young people in the medical context from a child's rights perspective. Centring the unheard and underrepresented lived experiences of recent and past child patients, and doctors, the book uses Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, a methodology traditionally used in psychology, to provide a refreshing and unique exploration of children's participation in their healthcare. The book explores to what extent national law and international non-binding conventions have created a 'right' to participation, studies the application of national law in clinical practice asking whether the law facilitates meaningful participation, and analyses the interaction between law and quasi-legal regulations.The book will be useful for academics, children's activists, and legal and clinical practitioners.

Two centuries after Napoleon Bonaparte's death, this edited volume brings together a diverse group of historians, art historians, and museum professionals to critically examine the enduring power of visual and material culture in the making of Napoleonic memory. While most discussions surrounding the legendary figure explore his impact on legislative, political, or military reform, this innovative volume explores the global dimensions of the trade in Napoleonic collectibles, art, and relics over time.Representing new avenues of research and scholarship, Napoleonic Objects and their Afterlives investigates the material objects and cultural forms that Napoleon inspired through a range of themes. These include art collecting, the circulation and display of objects, political and imperial symbolism, and the flexibility and ambiguity of Napoleon's enduring legacy. The essays examine how and why, despite his contentious role in contemporary memory, Napoleon continues to escape much historical and popular censure. They explore the ways people have connected with the idea of him: on stage and screen; in museums and galleries; and most intimately of all, by gathering items said to have belonged to him, right down to his toothbrush and locks of his hair.Napoleonic items can be official or personal, serious or comical, luxury or disposable, yet little work has been done to bring together these diverse cultural histories into conversation with one another. With its broad, multi-disciplinary approach, including perspectives from art history, film studies, cultural history, and museum curation, the book provides a deep critical insight into the cult of personality surrounding Napoleon and its effect on our understanding of celebrity culture today and in the future. Includes an additional foreword by Napoleon's biographer, Ruth Scurr, author of In Gardens and Shadows (2021).

Metaphysics of Nature in Kant's Opus postumum argues that Kant's last, unfinished manuscript contains an attempt to work out the long-awaited "system of pure speculative reason" or "metaphysics of nature" Kant had been promising for many years. Challenging current readings of Opus postumum that claim to show how Kant was filling a "gap" in the Critical system, this book explores how the gap might be the system itself. Suggestive of an entirely different approach, Metaphysics of Nature in Kant's Opus postumum argues that we must develop a more radical, open-ended reading of Kant's last drafts, now known as Opus postumum (1796-1803), so as to situate them in a broader light. Thomson offers a new interpretation of the place and role of the hundreds of pages bundled into "fascicles" which Kant left on his desk when he died by taking his demand for a "metaphysics of nature" to be the seed from which they grow and the centre around which they orbit. By starting out with the often overlooked Architectonic of Pure Reason in Critique of Pure Reason, this book explores how Opus postumum is this future born into the present; it is Kant's attempt to deliver on the Critical promise of a fully worked out metaphysics of nature.

This book explains the new requirements of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act in an understandable and application-oriented manner. In addition to a complete commentary on the AI Act, the book contains chapters on technical and ethical principles, and responsibility for AI and data protection aspects. It describes in detail which obligations are imposed on providers and commercial users of AI systems, how such systems can be introduced and used in compliance with the law, and what requirements the providers and users of such systems are subject to.

This book describes the multiple ways in which Black Jews in France practice and claim their Judaism, relate to their fellow Jews, and reconstruct their identities. After fifteen years of fieldwork, Dr. Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot offers an original analysis of their individual and collective itineraries.

This book argues that rights complete rather than undermine the ethical and political vision of Alasdair MacIntyre. It does so through bringing MacIntyre into conversation with medieval historians, contemporary theologians, and postcolonial thinkers, demonstrating how his thought can be extended through their insights.

Augustine's Apocalyptic Political Theology in the Evil Saeculum explores Augustine's political theology, emphasizing his apocalyptic vigilance against the demons of Rome who corrupted the social and political lives of Roman citizens.

The Colonization of Land in Matthew's Gospel proposes a reading of Matthew's Gospel that constructs geographical land as a colonized subject that will be released from Roman control and reasserted under God's rule at Jesus' return. This book brings awareness to the use of the Gospel to justify colonial ideologies over people and their lands.

In this book, the natures and roles of both guru and disciple-as depicted in the Upani¿ads and Dharma ¿¿stras-are discussed and further developed into a paradigm by which to comprehend the ancient and modern expressions of the Guru Tradition. This study is conducted from the perspective of Advaita Ved¿nta, or nondualism.

This book explores the language maintenance of Russian abroad, emphasizing the role of educational ventures and transnational communications facilitated by the internet, pointing to shifts in values and migration expectations, and reflecting on the evolution of diasporic communities and the dynamic adaptation of the Russian language.

This comparative study of teacher attrition in the Global South and OECD countries examines the exceptionality of twenty selected learning leaders in the D.R. Congo, Ghana, and Uganda who have stayed in the teaching profession.

In Climate Crisis and the Kleptocene the author argues that the nullification of all value that competes with exchange value is inherent to the ontology of capitalism, including value associated with sentient life. Despite recent reform efforts to address the climate crisis, capitalism's kleptocratic logic is catastrophic for planetary stability.

Reading Luther and Kierkegaard in dialogue, Carl S. Hughes develops an alternative to the literalism and other-worldliness often characteristic of modern Christianity. Clouds of the Cross in Luther and Kierkegaard's account of revelation as mystical or apophatic theology offers provocative resources for thinking about Christ and the Bible today.

David Botting defends Aristotle as an empiricist against those who see him as a rationalist, focusing on Aristotle's account of how we acquire the first principles of science. The author argues that Aristotle's account is empiricist and that first principles are, perhaps surprisingly, known inferentially and not by intuition.

Contemporary Feminist Art by Women in North Africa examines perceptions of the female body as both a subject and an object of aesthetic discourse in the works of six contemporary Maghrebi female artists. The book includes discussions of several artistic mediums including photography, painting, videos, and installations.

This book argues for the existence of the Queer Coming of Age genre, in which films reveal the unique challenges experienced by queer people during this time of their lives, positing that these films are driven by a political undercurrent advocating for queer acceptance and that they provide guidance for queer people to understand their own lives.

This book critically engages with the Walt Disney Company as a global media conglomerate as they mark their 100th year of business. The chapters include discussions of company management, transmedia presence, and audience engagement as well as content analyses of cultural representations.