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Does good democratic government require intelligent, moral, and productive citizens? Can our political institutions educate the kind of citizens we wish or need to have? With recent arguments 'against democracy' and fears about the rise of populism, there is growing scepticism about whether liberalism and democracy can continue to survive together. Some even question whether democracy is worth saving. In this book, Gianna Englert argues that the dilemmas facing liberal democracy are not unique to our present moment, but have existed since the birth of liberal political thought in nineteenth-century France.

This text is about the idea that goodness is the correctness condition for desire, in the same way that truth is the correctness condition for belief. Allan Hazlett argues that, given this similarity between desire and belief, desires, like beliefs, can both amount to knowledge and be justified or unjustified.

This volume offers a collective exploration of the moral philosophy of Christian Wolff, one of the great philosophers of the 18th century. The contributors discuss major themes in Wolff's 'German Ethics' of 1720, showing the importance of this work within the history of ethics and its continuing interest today.

'Ethics for Rational Animals' presents a new account of practical wisdom, virtue, and akrasia (acting against one's best judgement) through an original study of the moral psychology at the basis of Aristotle's ethics. It ranges over his works on ethics, psychology, and biology, and defends a novel view concerning Aristotle's intellectualism.

Prompted both by past policies and recent developments concerning immigration around the world that centre on race, ethnicity, religion, and other identities, 'Immigration and Discrimination' explores what bases states are morally permitted to use for their admission decisions and policies, and why. Many scholars appeal to the terminology and concept of wrongful discrimination when discussing identity-based immigration decisions, but there has been little to no effort dedicated to examining whether the idea of wrongful discrimination - traditionally applied to interactions among people within a state - is applicable at the global level, or to interactions among people in different states.

'Modes of Representation' analyses a collection of problems, known as 'Frege's puzzle', resulting from how thinkers and speakers have a limited perspective on reference in thought and language. Heck argues that these puzzles have much to teach us both about the foundations of cognition and the nature of linguistic communication.

"This book brings together recent work on the topic of exploitation from philosophy, political science, and economics in one volume, organised around three main questions: what is exploitation?, why is exploitation wrong?, and what should we do about it? These questions are increasingly relevant in public policy discussions. The past decade has witnessed the rise of populism and an increasing sense that politics is a game rigged to benefit certain classes of persons at the expense of others. Interestingly, this sense of unfairness has been shared across the political spectrum though, of course, the left and right differ in both their moral diagnosis and their political prescription. Current debates over minimum wage laws, immigration reform, and undue corporate influence on politics can all be understood as drawing on and developing these concerns over exploitative political treatment. This book also draws upon the natural opportunities for interdisciplinary engagement that the topic of exploitation presents. Questions about exploitation often involve not only philosophical issues, but economic and political ones as well. The contributors to this volume add to that breadth of knowledge. With the re-emergence of Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (PPE) as a burgeoning field of academic inquiry, now is the perfect time to explore issues of exploitation in an interdisciplinary, public-policy focused context. This books is essential reading for anyone interested in exploitation theory, and in PPE more generally"--

'Making Makers' presents a comprehensive history of a seminal work of scholarship in war and strategy: Makers of Modern Strategy, a volume which was made and re-made across the twentieth century. Here we learn the stories of the scholars who were central to these efforts, building a nuanced appraisal of the development of scholarship on war.

State responses to terrorism have shaped politics and society globally. But how far, and in what precise ways, has counter-terrorism actually succeeded? This book offers an historically-grounded, systematic, and expert interrogation of the effectiveness of state responses to terrorist violence from one of the world's leading experts on terrorism.

This text examines what unifies and separates various Sunni Muslim sects and incites polemics. It explores Islam as a body of information and cultural practices that focus on family and other social groups. The work also reveals the shared experience of being a persecuted religious minority in a Hindu majoritarian democracy.

This volume investigates the reasons for and consequences of the wide-scale changes to the nature of local government in early modern England: a shift from 'open' to 'closed' management of a host of problems - from the representation of authority itself to treatment of every kind of local disorder, from petty crime and poverty to dirty streets.

'The Human Factor' establishes a foundation for the study of ancient demography in the Iberian Peninsula, focusing on its largest province, Hispania Citerior/Tarraconensis. The authors take a multidisciplinary approach, compiling archaeological, epigraphic, architectonic, osteological, and genetic datasets. This comprehensive and detailed study of a single province is necessary to generate accurate demographic estimates and to compare it with datasets from other regions and historical periods. By examining the province of Hispania Citerior/Tarraconensis in depth, the authors provide a detailed understanding of demographic patterns, urbanism, and urbanization rates over time, and link them with the social, cultural, and economic factors that affected the Iberian Peninsula and the Western Mediterranean from the fourth century BC until the end of the Roman period.

Das vorliegende Buch befasst sich mit Umgangspraktiken mit Fremdheit aus der Perspektive von nach Deutschland zugewanderten Menschen aus zwei unterschiedlichen Migrationsphasen: Zugewanderte der 1990er Jahre und als Geflüchtete seit 2015 nach Deutschland zugewanderte Menschen. Latente Spannungen, Ängste, Konflikte, Ausgrenzungs- und Stigmatisierungsprozesse zwischen den früh und neu Zugewanderten deuten auf eine Etablierten-Außenseiter-Figuration zwischen den beiden genannten Zuwanderungsgruppen hin. Es wird gezeigt, dass die Beziehung zwischen den "etablierten Migrant*innen" und den als Außenseiter stehenden Geflüchteten zum einen auf Prozesse deutet, dass und wie früh Zugewanderte zu "Einheimischen" wurden und somit eine Phase des Fremdseins offenbar überwunden haben. Zum anderen deuten aktuell wahrnehmbare Vorurteile, Zuschreibungen und Rassismen von Zugewanderten der 1990er Jahre darauf hin, dass die eigenen Fremdheitserfahrungen in der Zeit des Ankommens in Deutschland nahezu verdrängt oder verdeckt wurden. Die Autorin Tatevik Mamajanyan arbeitet als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin in verschiedenen Forschungsprojekten im Fachbereich Sozialwesen an der Hochschule Fulda. Sie hat im hessischen hochschulübergreifenden Promotionszentrum Soziale Arbeit promoviert. Außerdem ist sie Lehrbeauftragte für Qualitative Sozialforschung an der Ernst-Abbe Hochschule in Jena und Mediendidakterin für digital gestützte Lehre im Förderprojekt "GO-IN" an der Hochschule Fulda.

1. Einleitung – Überblick Populärkulturforschung (Thomas Hecken) -- 2. Genre (Daniel Stein, Sebastian Berlich) -- 3. Die Vielen (Cornelia Wild) -- 4. Konsumsoziologie/Vergleichen/Bewerten (Ute Schneider) -- 5. Populismus (Thomas Hecken) -- 6. Populäres Wissen (Theresa Specht) -- 7. Beachtung (Hans Velten) -- 8. Praxeologie (Franka Schäfer) -- 9. Fan Fiction (Anne Deckbar) -- 10. Frankfurter Schule (Jörg Döring) -- 11. Systemtheorie (Niels Werber) -- 12. Marketing, Ranking: populäres Unternehmertum (Simone Schmid) -- 13. Paratext (Laura Haas) -- 14. Kritische Öffentlichkeit (Viktoria Ehrmann).