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"Pazifisten in Uniform" ist ein Buch über die Bausoldaten in der Nationalen Volksarmee - ein Buch über Menschen in der DDR, die sich mutig und couragiert der herrschenden SED widersetzten. Die fünf Autoren stellen verschiedene Facetten der damit verbundenen Aktivitäten und Konflikte vor, die sich nicht allein auf die Bausoldatendienstzeit beschränkten: Die Auseinandersetzungen der Wehrdienstverweigerer und Bausoldaten wurden für die unabhängige Friedensbewegung in der DDR von grundlegender Bedeutung.

In the great tradition of moral argument about the nature of the economic market, Rebecca Blank and William McGurn join to debate the fundamental questions—equality and efficiency, productivity and social justice, individual achievement and personal rights in the workplace, and the costs and benefits of corporate and entrepreneurial capitalism. Their arguments are grounded in both economic sophistication and religious commitment. Rebecca Blank is an economist by training and describes herself as "culturally Protestant in the habits of mind and heart." She has also chaired the committee that wrote the statement on Christian faith and economic life adopted by the United Church of Christ. Addressing market failure, for her, requires that sometimes "freedom to choose" give way to other human values. William McGurn, a journalist and a Roman Catholic, uses his expertise in economics to reflect on the teachings of the church concerning the morality of the market. For McGurn, humans reach their fullest potential when they are free from the constraints of others. He writes that "our quarrel is not so much with Adam Smith or Milton Friedman but with the Providence that so clearly designed man to be his most prosperous at his most free." This book grapples with the new imperatives of a global economy while working in the classic tradition of political economy which always treated seriously the questions of morality, justice, productivity, and freedom.

""Men in Political Theory"" builds on feminist re-readings of the traditional canon of male writers in political philosophy by turning the ""gender lens"" on to the representation of men in widely studied texts. It explains the distinction between ""man"" as an apparently de-gendered ""individual"" or ""citizen"" and ""man"" as an overtly gendered being in human society. The ten chapters on Plato, Aristotle, Jesus, Augustine, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx and Engels show the operation of the ""gender lens"" in different ways, depending on how each philosopher deploys concepts of m

A thematically-organized reader, this student text introduces key works on major contemporary political theories. It covers egalitarian-liberalism, libertarianism, communitarianism republicanism, deliberative democracy, feminism and multiculturalism.