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"In December 1912, Mississippi representative Pat Harrison stood before Congress and delivered an impassioned speech on behalf of the Choctaw Indians living in his district. 'Mr. Chairman,' Harrison announced, 'the Choctaw Indians always stood with the white men of the South.'"

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the complex conflict situation in Kashmir. Through an internal perspective, it charts the shift in the Kashmiri response towards the Centre and offers a detailed examination of the background in which separatist politics took roots in Kashmir, and the way it changed its nature in the militancy and post-militancy period. The volume shows how separatism and armed militancy, as manifest in the Valley in the late 1980s, (though augmented by external factors) have been internal responses to the changing nature of Kashmiri identity politics. It explores how the ideas central to Indian nationalist politics - especially democracy and secularism - echoed in Kashmir and were instrumental in dismantling the feudal structure and negotiating an autonomous space within the framework of asymmetrical federalism. Seamlessly blending facts and incisive analyses, this book raises new questions about the nature of conflict and contestation in the region.

This article starts from the assumption that public intellectuals have the potential of being valuable actors of democratization through their propensity of creating debate by cultivating the alternative and relentlessly challenging thinking patterns in the societies in which they live. By examining the public discourses practiced during the first decade of post-communist politics, this article considers whether the Romanian public intellectuals have fulfilled this function. This article identifies both deconstructive, anti-discourses aimed at dismantling specific narratives (i.e., communism, ethnic nationalist rhetoric, clan politics) and constructive discourses centered on building new narratives (i.e., European, civil society, democratic). The article argues that the performance of public intellectuals should not be judged on their electoral success, but on their ability to fuel debate and deal with those issues considered to be politically uncomfortable by conventional political actors and by the society at large. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright 2008 by the American Council of Learned Societies.]

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: Foundations -- 1. Reconfiguring Spirit -- 2. Group Formation and Divisions in the Young Hegelian School -- Part 2: Religion, Politics, Freedom -- 3. The Metaphysical and Theological Commitments of Idealism: Kant, Hegel, Hegelianism -- 4. Hegel's Philosophy of Religion and the Question of "Right" and "Left" Hegelianism -- 5. Politics, Religion, and Personhood: The Left Hegelians and the Christian German State -- 6. Hegelianism and the Politics of Contingency -- Part 3: Politics, Civil Society, Ethics -- 7. Hegelianism and the Theory of Political Opposition -- 8. Between Hegel and Marx: Eduard Gans on the "Social Question" -- 9. Post-Kantian Perfectionism -- Part 4: Art and the Modern World -- 10. The Aesthetics of the Hegelian School -- 11. Karl Rosenkranz and the "Aesthetics of the Ugly" -- Part 5: Appropriations and Critiques of Hegel -- 12. Some Political Implications of Feuerbach's Theory of Religion -- 13. Max Stirner and the End of Classical German Philosophy -- 14. Ruge and Marx: Democracy, Nationalism, and Revolution in Left Hegelian Debates -- 15. Marx, German Idealism, and Constructivism -- Index -- Contributors

Background: Health and social services provided at home are becoming increasingly important. Hence, there is a need for information on home care in Europe. The objective of this literature review was to respond to this need, by systematically describing what has been reported on home care in Europe in the scientific literature over the past decade. Methods: A systematic literature search was performed for papers on home care published in English, using the following data bases: Cinahl, the Cochrane Library, Embase, Medline, PsycINFO, Sociological Abstracts, Social Services Abstracts, and Social Care Online. Studies were only included if they complied with the definition of home care, were published between January 1998 and October 2009, and dealt with at least one of the 31 specified countries. Clinical interventions, instrument developments, local projects and reviews were excluded. The data extracted included: the characteristics of the study and aspects of home care 'policy & regulation', 'financing', 'organisation & service delivery', and 'clients & informal carers'. Results: Seventy-four out of 5,133 potentially relevant studies met the inclusion criteria, providing information on 18 countries. Many focused on the characteristics of home care recipients and on the organisation of home care. Geographical inequalities, market forces, quality and integration of services were also among the issues frequently discussed. Conclusions: It can be concluded that home care systems appeared to differ not just between but also within countries. The papers included, however, provided only a limited picture of home care. Many studies only focused on one aspect of the home care system and international comparative studies were rare. Furthermore, little information emerged on home care financing and on home care in general in Eastern Europe. This review clearly shows the need for more scientific publications on home care, especially papers comparing countries. A comprehensive and more complete insight into the ...