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Philosopher Michael Boylan and theologian James A. Donahue provide a framework_compatible with humanist and theist beliefs_that will enable college and university professors to address a full range of ethical issues as they arise in classroom discussion, both in the academic disciplines and in professional education.

A rendering of the philosophical problems of complexity, in theory as well as in daily life. It describes the limits of analysis within mathematics, the natural sciences and analytic philosophy, explaining how Aristotle came upon, and sought to move beyond, the limits of ontological analysis.

In a new approach to a vexing problem in modern philosophy, William H. F. Altman shows that Heidegger's decision to join the Nazis in 1933 can only be understood in the context of his complicated relationship with the Great War.

Scholars, specialists, government officials, and patriots faced vandalism, war, and the Terror to establish great national institutions accessible to the public - the Louvre and the Bibliotheque Nationale - living monuments of French patrimony. This book talks about these institutions.

Examines the post-World War II leadership efforts of four major German intellectuals Karl Jaspers, Thomas Mann, Friedrich Meinecke, and Bertolt Brecht. This book focuses on the symbolic, practical, and theoretical contributions of these men to post-war cultural reconstruction, and pays special attention to their key works of the period.

Drawn from Borton's personal papers, this work provides an intimate picture of the man who played a pivotal role in defining the meaning of unconditional surrender for Japan, retaining the emperor, and designing Japan's post-war constitution.

Guy Padula's work suggests that the answers to heated political debate can only be found by scrutinizing the past. This text puts the spotlight on the interpretive intent of America's founding fathers to discover if the consent of the people or the rule of justice triumphs.

Bridging the gap between applied ethics and ethical theory, Ethical Argumentation draws on recent research in argumentation theory to develop a more realistic model of how ethical justification actually works.

Virginia's American Revolution focuses on the remaking of colonial Virginia into a republican society. It considers this topic with a focus on particular episodes, such as the Richmond Ratification Convention of 1788 and the adoption of the Virginia Resolutions of 1798, that brought the question 'What does it mean to be republican?' to the fore.

Provides the history of the death penalty. Incorporating and synthesizing public opinion data and empirical studies, this work compares, across societies, the types of offenses punishable by death, the level of public support for the death penalty, the forms the penalty takes, and the categories of persons exempt from punishment.

Brings together the views of three of the greatest scholar-thinkers in the area of Jewish philosophy of the twentieth century, including Harry Austryn Wolfson (1887-1974), Julius Guttmann (1880-1950), and Leo Strauss (1899-1973).

Investigates the European Commission's preferences and tactics in the development of regional policy in the European Union since its inception in 1975, concluding that the Commission has played a central role in designing the European Regional Development Fund and in continuing to shape a new Europe.

This book traces from antiquity to the present the concept of the sentence as a fundamental unit of human language and cognition and situates it in different languages and linguistic and philosophical theories.

This work examines how the mainstream American media reacts to pro-war and anti-war themes throughout the War on Terror in regards to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Using a political economy approach, the author addresses the ways in which corporations that own media reinforce official doctrines and propaganda by contrasting the content of American media to that of other global media.

Alienation, as a theme, deeply pervaded both the work and life of Max Weber, one of the pillars of modern sociology. In this book, the author analyzes the genesis of the concept of alienation and works to recreate the context in which Weber understood alienation in both the intellectual and lived sense.

Charts the discursive transformations of US immigration policy between 1875 and 1942. Drawing from American foreign policy, identity politics, post-structuralism, post-colonialism, and feminist theory, this study seeks to examine the construction of Oriental bodies within the emergence of US immigration policy.

Explores why the expansion of economic communication has proven to be of only limited benefit. This book argues that the financial media boom has had negative repercussions resulting in substantial costs for the individual as well as the systemic level.

Author John McClendon has written first ever book-length study of CLR James's Notes on Dialectics. This text opens and simultaneously closes the book on James's Notes through an erudite and expansive look at the political, social, and cultural context in which James conducted an unprecedented investigation of Marxism.

Examines the teaching of political philosophy in what is taken to be skeptical times. This book aims to encourage political philosophers to remain committed to the analytical achievements of political philosophy, while also improving the teachings of the discipline to be more in tune with the demands of democratic society.

In recent years, foundations have begun to come together in groups to take on shared initiatives and agendas. Hopkins argues that these funder collaboratives are more than a collection of isolated experiments. Instead, they provide a window into a dramatic and promising new stage in the development of organized philanthropy.

The animosity of classical liberalism towards groups and associations, termed by Boyd (political science, U. of Wisconsin, Madison) "the perils of pluralism," was a fundamental factor in the shaping of the institutional and intellectual form of Anglo-American liberalism, he argues.

This book affirms its feminist and activist roots, resists gender essentialisms, and companions the activist orientations of critical animal studies and environmental justice. It draws on feminist science and anticolonial studies, utilizing a posthumanist, queer feminist methodology to enhance discussions of today's ecopolitical challenges.