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Philosophy

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Physical Space and Spatiality in Muslim Societies

Notes on the Social Production of Cities

By Mahbub Rashid
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Philosophy, Political History, African Studies

The conscious construction of urban space

Reading Jean-Jacques Rousseau through the Prism of Chess

By Florian Vauleon
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Philosophy

Man is born free, but everywhere he is in checkmate

Intellectual Empathy

Critical Thinking for Social Justice

By Maureen Linker
Subjects: Political Science, Human Rights, Race and Ethnicity, Philosophy

A guide for facilitating discussions about socially divisive issues for students, educators, business managers, and community leaders

The One and Only Law

Walter Benjamin and the Second Commandment

By James Martel
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Philosophy, Law, Religion

A radical critique of contemporary legal practices and understandings based on a new consideration of Walter Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence”

Textual Conspiracies

Walter Benjamin, Idolatry, and Political Theory

By James Martel
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Philosophy

Engaging political and literary luminaries in an alternative narrative about power

Seven Stories of Threatening Speech

Women's Suffrage Meets Machine Code

By Ruth A. Miller
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Philosophy, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

Treating language as a type of machine code opens new avenues for the study of history and politics

Teaching about Religions

A Democratic Approach for Public Schools

By Emile Lester
Subjects: Political Science, Religion, Philosophy, Education

Public schools can play a role in promoting respect for religious differences

Understanding Torture

Law, Violence, and Political Identity

By John Parry
Subjects: Law, International Law, Law and Society, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Political Science, International Relations, Human Rights, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Philosophy

Legal prohibitions against torture cannot prevent state violence

The Justice of Mercy

By Linda Ross Meyer
Subjects: Philosophy, Law, Criminology, Political Science, Political Theory, Religion, International Law
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Is there room for mercy in a system of justice?

Justice and Injustice in Law and Legal Theory

Edited by Austin Sarat & Thomas R. Kearns
Subjects: Law, Philosophy, Sociology, Political Science, American Politics
Series: Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought

Explores the relationship between law and justice

Sacred Violence

Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty

By Paul W. Kahn
Subjects: Law, International Law, Law and Society, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Human Rights, International Relations
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Is torture the inevitable reaction to terrorism?

The Cult of Statistical Significance

How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives

By Deirdre Nansen McCloskey & Steve Ziliak
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, Economic Theory, Political Science, Political Methodology, Sociology, History, Intellectual History, Health & Medicine, European History, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Philosophy
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

How the most important statistical method used in many of the sciences doesn't pass the test for basic common sense

Economics in Real Time

A Theoretical Reconstruction

By John Francis McDermott
Subjects: Economics, Micro Economics, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology
Series: Advances in Heterodox Economics

A new model for contemporary economic behavior

Stately Bodies

Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of Gender

By Adriana Cavarero
Translated by Robert de Lucca & Deanna Shemek
Subjects: Gender Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Explores the curious prevalence of bodily metaphors in conceptions of noncorporeal institutions: the state, the law, and politics itself

Liberal Democracy and the Limits of Tolerance

Essays in Honor and Memory of Yitzhak Rabin

Edited by Raphael Cohen-Almagor
Subjects: Law, Philosophy, Political Science, Comparative Politics, Political Psychology

How to prevent the enemies of democracy from using its freedoms to attack its existence

The Concept of Man in Contemporary China

By Donald J. Munro
Subjects: Philosophy, Political Science, Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Classics in Chinese Studies

Considers the connections between politics, education, and distinctly Chinese theories of mind

Choice-Free Rationality

A Positive Theory of Political Behavior

By Robert Grafstein
Subjects: Political Science, Political Methodology, Philosophy, Economics, Economic Theory

Offers an alternative to the definition of 'rationality' for rational choice theory

Equal Freedom

Edited by Stephen Leicester Darwall
Subjects: Philosophy, Political Science, Economics
Series: Selected Tanner Lectures in Human Values

Issues at the major fault-line of political beliefs and debates

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