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Alessandro Ferrara argues that among the modern philosophers who have shaped the world we inhabit, Rousseau is the one to whom we owe the idea that identity can be a source of normativity (moral and political) and that an identity's potential for playing such a role rests on its capacity for being authentic. This normative idea of authenticity brings unity to Rousseau's reflections on the negative effects of the social order, on the just political order, on education, and more generally, on ethics. It is also shown to contain important teachings for contemporary Critical Theory, contemporary views of self-constitution (Korsgaard, Frankfurt and Larmore), and contemporary political philosophy

Alessandro Ferrara explains what he terms 'the democratic horizon' - the idea that democracy is no longer simply one form of government among others, but is instead almost universally regarded as the only legitimate form of government, the horizon to which most of us look. Professor Ferrara reviews the challenges under which democracies must operate, focusing on hyperpluralism, and impresses a new twist onto the framework of political liberalism. He shows that distinguishing real democracies from imitations can be difficult, responding to this predicament by enriching readers' understanding of the spirit of democracy; clearing readers' views of pluralism from residues of ethnocentrism; and conceiving multiple versions of democratic culture, rooted in the diversity of civilizational contexts.

During the twentieth century, the view that assertions and norms are valid insofar as they respond to principles independent of all local and temporal contexts came under attack from two perspectives: the partiality of translation and the intersubjective constitution of the self, understood as responsive to recognition. Defenses of universalism have by and large taken the form of a thinning out of substantive universalism into various forms of proceduralism. Alessandro Ferrara instead launches an entirely different strategy for transcending the particularity of context without contradicting ou

Intro -- GLOBAL BEEF TRADE -- GLOBAL BEEF TRADE -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- GLOBAL BEEF TRADE: EFFECTS OF ANIMAL HEALTH, SANITARY, FOOD SAFETY, ANDOTHER MEASURES ON UNITED STATES BEEF EXPORTS -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- MAJOR FINDINGS AND OBSERVATIONS -- BSE-Related Restrictions on Exports Have Resulted in Substantial Losses to the U.S. Beef Industry -- Absent BSE-Related Restrictions, U.S. Beef Exports Still Face Substantial Impediments in the Form of Tariffs and Tariff-Rate Quotas -- By Far the Greatest Losses to the U.S. Beef Industry Result from Trade Restrictions Imposed by Japan and Korea -- Other Measures Impede U.S. Beef Exports in Several Key Markets -- COUNTRY-SPECIFIC FINDINGS -- Japan -- Korea -- EU -- China -- Russia -- Canada -- Mexico -- ACRONYMS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- Background and Purpose -- Country and Product Coverage -- Approach -- 2. OVERVIEW OF THE GLOBAL BEEF MARKET -- Factors Affecting Global Markets -- Global Production -- Global Consumption -- Global Exports -- Global Imports -- 3. OVERVIEW OF THE U.S. BEEF MARKET -- Production System -- Cattle Slaughter and Beef Production -- Domestic Market -- Exports -- Imports -- Animal Health and Food Safety Regulatory Framework -- 4. INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL HEALTH, SANITARYAND FOOD SAFETY STANDARDS -- BSE -- Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) -- EU Beef Hormone Ban -- 5. JAPAN -- Japan Market Characteristics and Trends -- Import Market Characteristics and Trends -- ANIMAL HEALTH, SANITARY, AND FOOD SAFETY REGULATIONSIN JAPAN -- Other Barriers to Imports from the United States -- 6. KOREA -- Korean Market Characteristics and Trends -- Import Market Characteristics and Trends -- Animal Health, Sanitary, and Food Safety Regulations in Korea -- Other Barriers to Imports from the United States -- 7. EUROPEAN UNION -- EU Market Characteristics and Trends -- Import Market Characteristics and Trends.

Justice and Judgement is a comprehensive introduction to theories of judgement in contemporary political and moral philosophy. The book offers a critical examination of judgement in the recent works of Rawls, Habermas, Ackerman, Michelman and Dworkin, including an historical overview of the judgement model in contemporary political philosophy; the function of the constitution; and deliberative democracy. The book concludes with a discussion of universalism and contemporary liberalism and the judgement view of justice