Unity Plurality And Politics

Author : J. M. Porter,Richard Vernon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000706659

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Unity, Plurality and Politics by J. M. Porter,Richard Vernon Pdf

First published in 1986. Nations have a unity often described as 'cultural'; and within them there are divergences some of which are termed 'political'. But culture and politics do not, therefore, comprise two wholly distinct zones or orders of experience, the one marked by unity, the other by plurality. Unity and plurality interpenetrate. These insights, which derive from the thinking of Herder, have been fundamental to the work of F. M. Barnard. In this volume a number of scholars contribute, in Barnardian vein, reflections on the tensions between unity and plurality in the history of ideas. The central underlying question is, in essence, ’what is the context of political life?’ The question remains of more importance than any single answer.

Author : Jene M. Porter,Richard Vernon
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Political science.
ISBN : 0312833318

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Unity, Plurality & Politics by Jene M. Porter,Richard Vernon Pdf

Author : Massimiliano Carrara,Alexandra Arapinis,Friederike Moltmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198716327

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Unity and Plurality by Massimiliano Carrara,Alexandra Arapinis,Friederike Moltmann Pdf

This volume brings together new work on the logic and ontology of plurality and on the semantics of plurals in natural language. A team of leading experts explore the traditions of plural reference and a singularist approach to plurals; investigate non-standard mereology; and explore novel applications to natural language phenomena.

Author : Gabriele De Anna
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000060577

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Authority and the Metaphysics of Political Communities by Gabriele De Anna Pdf

This book explores the metaphysics of political communities. It discusses how and why a plurality of individuals becomes a political unity, what principles or forces keep that unity together, and what threats that unity can be faced with. In Part I, the author justifies the need for the notion of substance in metaphysics in general and in the metaphysics of politics in particular. He spells out a moderately realist theory of substances and of their principles of unity, which supports substantial gradualism. Part II concerns action theory and the nature of practical reason. The author claims that the acknowledgement of reasons by agents is constitutive of action and that normativity depends on the role of the good in the formation of reasons. Finally, in Part III the author addresses the notion of political community. He claims that the principle of unity of a political community is its authority to give members of the community moral reasons for action. This suggests a middle way between liberal individualism and organicism, and the author demonstrates the significance of this view by discussing current political issues such as the role of religion in the public sphere and the political significance of cultural identity. Authority and the Metaphysics of Political Communities will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in social metaphysics, political philosophy, philosophy of action, and philosophy of the social sciences.

Author : Chantal Bax,Gert-Jan van der Heiden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000727913

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Continental Perspectives on Community by Chantal Bax,Gert-Jan van der Heiden Pdf

This volume explores the issues at the center of many historical and contemporary reflections on community and sociality in Continental philosophy. The essays reflect on the thought of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Levinas, Arendt, Derrida, Badiou, Fanon, Baldwin, Nancy, Agamben and Laruelle. Continental Perspectives on Community brings the different approaches of these thinkers into conversation with each other. It discusses the possibility of how the concept of community can extend beyond the one and beyond any sense of unity and totality. Additionally, the book shows how notion of community in plurality is at the heart of ethical and political reflections on alterity and race, of political philosophical reflections on the exception, and of ontological reflections on what it means for humans to be social. In this way, it offers an important contribution to the examination of how a community can be thought today. This book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on social, political, and cultural issues in Continental philosophy.

Author : Emilios A. Christodoulidis,Stephen Tierney
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0754673634

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Public Law and Politics by Emilios A. Christodoulidis,Stephen Tierney Pdf

In a critical engagement with the function of public law and constitutionalism in its political dimensions, this volume brings together the reflections of three leading constitutionalists: Martin Loughlin, James Tully and Frank Michelman. Comprising three critical commentaries on each, it addresses the multiple ways in which public law is implicated in the logic of rule.

Author : Stephanie Ruphy
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822981534

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Scientific Pluralism Reconsidered by Stephanie Ruphy Pdf

Can we expect our scientific theories to make up a unified structure, or do they form a kind of “patchwork” whose pieces remain independent from each other? Does the proliferation of sometimes-incompatible representations of the same phenomenon compromise the ability of science to deliver reliable knowledge? Is there a single correct way to classify things that science should try to discover, or is taxonomic pluralism here to stay? These questions are at the heart of philosophical debate on the unity or plurality of science, one of the most central issues in philosophy of science today. This book offers a critical overview and a new structure of this debate. It focuses on the methodological, epistemic, and metaphysical commitments of various philosophical attitudes surrounding monism and pluralism, and offers novel perspectives and pluralist theses on scientific methods and objects, reductionism, plurality of representations, natural kinds, and scientific classifications.

Author : Alvin Rabushka,Kenneth A. Shepsle
Publisher : Merrill Publishing Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCAL:B3950963

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Politics in Plural Societies by Alvin Rabushka,Kenneth A. Shepsle Pdf

This landmark study in the field of comparative politics is being celebrated for its return to print as the newest addition to the "Longman Classics in Political Science" series. "Politics in Plural Societies" presents a model of political competition in multi-ethnic societies and explains why plural societies, and the struggle for power within them, often erupt with inter-ethnic hostility. Distinguished scholars Alvin Rabushka and Kenneth Shepsle collaborate again in this reissuing of their classic work to demonstrate - in a new epilogue - the persistence of the arguments and evidence first offered in the book. They apply this thesis to the multi-ethnic politics of countries that are of great interest today: Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan, Yugoslavia, and more.

Author : Crawford Young
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0299067440

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The Politics of Cultural Pluralism by Crawford Young Pdf

Author : International Political Science Association
Publisher : Farnborough, Eng. : Gower
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035727572

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Three Faces of Pluralism by International Political Science Association Pdf

Author : Karlo Basta,John McGarry,Richard Simeon
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774828208

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Territorial Pluralism by Karlo Basta,John McGarry,Richard Simeon Pdf

Territorial pluralism is a form of political autonomy designed to accommodate national, ethnic, or linguistic differences within a state. It has the potential to provide for the peaceful, democratic, and just management of difference. But given traditional concerns about state sovereignty, nation-building, and unity, how realistic is it to expect that a state’s authorities will agree to recognize and empower distinct substate communities? Territorial Pluralism answers this question by examining a wide variety of cases, including developing and industrialized states and democratic and authoritarian regimes. Drawing on examples of both success and failure, contributors analyze specific cases to understand the kinds of institutions that emerge in response to demands for territorial pluralism, as well as their political effects. With identity conflicts continuing to have a major impact on politics around the globe, they argue that territorial pluralism remains a legitimate and effective means for managing difference in multinational states.

Author : Oriol Casanovas y La Rosa
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001-07-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9041116648

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Unity and Pluralism in Public International Law by Oriol Casanovas y La Rosa Pdf

The proliferation of international courts and the extension of international regulation to new areas have been considered to be threatening for the unity of Public International Law as a legal system. These developments are the consequence of the increasing formation of legal subsystems (material international regimes) which continue to grow in complexity. How these trends affect the unity of the international legal system requires theoretical scrutiny of its fundamental bases. This work considers that the unity of the international legal system depends upon its normative structure, and on the social medium in which it is applied: the evolving international community. A unified international legal system has as its ultimate goal the protection of human dignity through the international regulation of human rights. The question of the unifying stability of the international legal system and the development of legal subsystems within it encourages a review of the major issues of current Public International Law, considering the evolution from traditional doctrines to recent approaches. This review is done from an analytical frame that provides a deeper understanding of the current situation of Public International Law as a legal system.

Author : Xenophon Contiades,Alkmene Fotiadou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351020978

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Routledge Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Change by Xenophon Contiades,Alkmene Fotiadou Pdf

Comparative constitutional change has recently emerged as a distinct field in the study of constitutional law. It is the study of the way constitutions change through formal and informal mechanisms, including amendment, replacement, total and partial revision, adaptation, interpretation, disuse and revolution. The shift of focus from constitution-making to constitutional change makes sense, since amendment power is the means used to refurbish constitutions in established democracies, enhance their adaptation capacity and boost their efficacy. Adversely, constitutional change is also the basic apparatus used to orchestrate constitutional backslide as the erosion of liberal democracies and democratic regression is increasingly affected through legal channels of constitutional change. Routledge Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Change provides a comprehensive reference tool for all those working in the field and a thorough landscape of all theoretical and practical aspects of the topic. Coherence from this aspect does not suggest a common view, as the chapters address different topics, but reinforces the establishment of comparative constitutional change as a distinct field. The book brings together the most respected scholars working in the field, and presents a genuine contribution to comparative constitutional studies, comparative public law, political science and constitutional history.

Author : Vassilios Paipais
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137570697

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Political Ontology and International Political Thought by Vassilios Paipais Pdf

This book challenges received notions of ontology in political theory and international relations by offering a psychoanalytically informed critique of depoliticisation in prominent liberal, post-liberal, dialogic and agonistic approaches to pluralism in world politics. Paipais locates the temptation of depoliticisation in their labouring under the fundamental fantasy of various guises of foundationalism (in the form of either political anthropology or ontology as ‘in the last instance’ ground) or, conversely, anti-foundationalism (the denial of all grounds, yet still operating within a foundationalist imaginary). He argues, instead, for a formal political ontology of the void (against historicism) shot through an ‘incarnate’ messianic nihilism (against ethicism and teleological forms of politics). In so doing, the author offers critical readings of the messianic nihilism of Benjamin, Agamben, Taubes and Žižek by problematising the antinomian tendencies in their respective political theologies. The book argues for a version of Žižek’s Badiouian politics of militancy supplemented by a proper participatory understanding of St Paul’s messianic meontology and incarnational Christology as a means to reconceptualise the nexus between subjectivity, universality and political action in world politics. It will be of interest to students and scholars of International Relations theory, political theory, critical social theory and political theology.

Author : James W. Skillen,Rockne M. McCarthy
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0802848516

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Political Order and the Plural Structure of Society by James W. Skillen,Rockne M. McCarthy Pdf

This excellent volume explores three forms of pluralist theory -- those based on historical doctrines of custom and tradition, Catholic doctrines of natural law and subsidiarity, and Calvinist doctrines of sphere sovereignty and creation -- and compares and evaluates each of these forms of pluralism within the context of American thought.