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In Visions of Statesmanship: A Statesman's Imagination and Autonomy, I provide a critical examination of the figure of the statesman as it has been presented in the philosophical reflections of three key thinkers: Plato, Yannis Markrygiannis, and Cornelius Castoriadis.

"This collection brings together case studies that cover a wide spectrum: from Hindu, Buddhist, Jaina traditions through reformist ventures such as the Brahmos, to issues in modern Islam and Judaism. The first part of the book explores idioms of self-fashioning in global platforms and religious congresses. The second part explicates the nature of movements of such ideas. Cumulatively, they offer fresh and invaluable insights into their histories in modern South Asia against the backdrop of, and in relation to, wider transcultural global flows"--

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- II -- PREFACE TO ENGLISH EDITION. -- PREFACE. -- CHAPTER I.-THE FUNDAMENTAL DOCTRINES OF MARXIST SOCIALISM. -- (a) The Scientific Elements of Marxism. -- (b) The Materialist Interpretation of History and Historic Necessity. -- (c) The Marxist Doctrine of Class War and of the Evolution of Capital. -- CHAPTER II.-THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN SOCIETY. -- (a) On the Meaning of the Marxist Theory of Value. -- (b) The Distribution of Wealth in the Modern Community. -- (c) The Classes of Establishments in the Production and Distribution of Social Wealth. -- (d) The Crises and Possibilities of Adjustment in Modern Economy. -- CHAPTER III.-THE TASKS AND POSSIBILITIES OF SOCIAL DEMOCRACY. -- (a) The political and economic preliminary conditions of socialism. -- b) The Economic Capacities of Co-operative Associations. -- (c) Democracy and Socialism. -- (d) The most pressing Problems of Social Democracy. -- CONCLUSION. -- ULTIMATE AIM AND TENDENCY.-KANT AGAINST CANT. -- ABSTRACT.

This book is the first to balance an account of the traditional life and history of the Hmong as a global people, with a full account of their modern, urban lives.Culture and Customs of the Hmong takes a global approach to understanding the Hmong, a people who have lived in China for more than 4,000 years. It is the first book to combine an account of the traditional life and history of the Hmong with a full account of their modern, urban lifestyle, balancing traditional lifeways and practices with modern, evolving customs.The book is unique in dealing, not only with the Hmong in the United States, Australia, and other Western nations, but also with their traditional and changing lives in their Asian homelands of Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and China. This broad international perspective allows readers to look at the Hmong through the complex interplay of the many social, historical, economic, and cultural influences they have been exposed to in their worldwide migration, and at how they manage to maintain their many traditions across national boundaries and great distances. - Verlagsangaben

Far-right newspeak and the fragility of liberal democracy / A. James McAdams -- Masters of contemporary newspeak : Tucker Carlson, Marine Le Pen, and Jordan Peterson / A. James McAdams -- "We are looking for a new feminism" : Marine Le Pen's reappropriation of the liberal language of women's rights and gender equality / Sarah Shurts -- Far-right politics in the Czech Republic : Tomio Okamura's liberal language and populist playbook / Petra Mlejnková -- The transition from liberal to illiberal constitutionalism in Poland and Hungary : the language of rights and equality / Tímea Drinóczi and Agnieszka Bień-Kacała -- When legal language meets apocalypse anxiety : democracy, constitutional scholars, and the rise of the German far right after 2015 / Frank Wolff -- From practical critics to hateful malcontents : the rise and fall of the online "manosphere" / George Hawley -- Forced to be free? : America's "postliberals" on freedom and liberty / Laura K. Field -- Shine a light or burn it down? : conspiracism and liberal ideas / Steven Pittz -- Against the global prison-society : the far right's language of the opposition to the great reset / José Pedro Zúquete -- Hard men, hard money, hardening right : Bitcoin, Peter Thiel, and Schmittian states of exception / Josh Vandiver -- Liberalism's vulnerabilities and two paths for the future / Samuel Piccolo.

Alex Green argues that states arise under contemporary international law only when two abstract conditions are fulfilled. First, emerging states must constitute 'genuine political communities': collectives within which particular kinds of ethically valuable behaviour are possible. Second, such communities must emerge in a manner consistent with the ethical importance of individual political action. This uniquely 'Grotian' theory of state creation provides a clear legal framework comprising four factual 'antecedents' and five procedural principles, rendering the law of statehood both coherent and normatively attractive

This is the first English translation of Herbert Witzenmann s seminal work, Strukturphänomenologie, which departs from the traditional phenomenological methods of Husserl, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty to introduce a fresh approach to the nexus of consciousness and reality. In Structure Phenomenology, published open access, Witzenmann argues for the active mental, yet mostly pre-reflective, participation of humans in the emergence of individual consciousness of all kinds and the basic structure that determines it. While Witzenmann ascribes a derivative or memorative status to habitual states of phenomenal consciousness, even if they seem to refer to present objectivity, he proposes that the underlying formative processes be unveiled and explored through systematic first-person observation. Through his logically grounded and experience-based approach, he contends that it is not neural processes that produce consciousness, but rather one s own preconscious rootedness in reality which can be made conscious. Influenced by the writings of Rudolf Steiner and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Witzenmann s innovative approach casts new light on a number of philosophical, psychological, and scientific issues: from being and becoming to temporality and presence, and from remembering to mind and body. Even freedom takes on a new meaning when reality is not pre-given to human consciousness, but is rather a result of human participation in the basic process. This annotated translation makes Witzenmann s text accessible to an English audience for the first time and, with a comprehensive editorial introduction by Johannes Wagemann, situates his ground-breaking insights within the development of phenomenology, as well as in current philosophical and psychological debates. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com

Highlighting three decades of key research and emphasizing the psychological processes that characterize us all, Psychological Foundations of The Entrepreneurial Mindset moves away from the traditional focus on the entrepreneurial ecosystem to provide a novel investigation at the level of the individuals themselves.

At present, much of the research on bilingual cognition focuses on late second language learners of a small number of languages. In this fascinating book, Evangelia Adamou widens the net by integrating advances in the field of bilingualism with the study of endangered languages. Drawing on recent studies from Europe and Latin America, she demonstrates that experimental psycholinguistic methods can be successfully applied outside the lab and, conversely, how data from these understudied populations provide new insights into the adaptive capacities of the bilingual mind. Adamou shows how bilinguals manage competing conceptualizations of time and space, how their grammars and language mixing patterns adapt to cognitive constraints such as the need for simplification, and how language processing concurrently adapts to their complex bilingual experience. Combining statistical analyses with detailed linguistic and ethnographic information, this essential book will appeal to scholars of bilingualism, cognitive sciences, language endangerment, and language contact

"This fascinating book examines how microsites of spontaneous nature can reframe our understanding of the relationship between urban development and green space. Metropolitan cities are facing stark inequalities of green space distribution, hindering goals of sustainable development. But outside of human control, spontaneous nature grows in spaces that are neglected or are unaccounted for. Drawing on existing literature and primary research in a range of towns and cities, including Quito in Ecuador, Bengaluru and Kolkata in India, and Whitby in United Kingdom, the book delves into the morphology, meanings and values of those small-scale assemblages of wild growth which are typically overlooked. Discussing instead how such settings can be integrated in everyday urban life, the book offers a fresh perspective on issues around green infrastructure, heritage conservation and environmental education, enabling cities worldwide to become more nature-positive. A unique examination of an under-researched topic, the book will appeal to students, researchers and professionals across landscape architecture, urban planning, urban ecology and all related fields"--