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The present study is an attempt to liberate the thought of the Daodejing from the constraints imposed on it by both traditional Confucian exegesis and modern Western sinological methodologies in the effort to engage the thought of the work more directly. Because the language and thought of the Daodejing are somehow oddly foreign to the Western traditions of analytic philosophy and sinology, this study attempts to make the Daodejing more familiar by recourse to the tradition of continental philosophy, in this case by taking recourse to Hannah Arendt and in particular to her seminal essay on authority. Engaging Arendt's understanding of authority, this study offers a new look at the thought of the Daodejing by discussing issues that lie at the heart of its political vision, including natural versus political authority, power and coercion, and the relation between authority, tradition, and religion. This study also attempts to situate the fate of the Daodejing's conception of authority in Chinese political history, and it concludes with a brief look at the contemporary comparative philosophical project that brings the Daodejing into conversation with continental philosophy.

Chapter 1. The Ozarks -- Chapter 2. Exploring Regional Identity in Arkansas: The Salience of the Term "Ozark" -- Chapter 3. Li'l Abner the Trickster: Mythical Identity in the Ozarks -- Chapter 4. Eureka Springs, Where Misfits Fit -- Chapter 5. Close Encounters of the Ozark Kind -- Chapter 6. The Cults of Searcy County, Arkansas -- Chapter 7. The Group -- Chapter 8. When Electric Music Came to the Ozarks -- Chapter 9. The Hot Mulch Band and the Missouri Back-to-the-Land Experience -- Chapter 10. Back-to-Landers in the Arkansas Ozarks -- Chapter 11. Conclusions.

From Abbot Daniel to Count Potocki: Middle East Travel to 1800 -- From the "Emir" to the Metropolitan: Middle East Travel (1800-1914) -- Tatar Slave Raiding and Turkish Captivity in Ukrainian History and Legend -- Maksymovych and the National Awakening -- Shamil, Shevchenko, and the Chef-d'oeuvre, "The Caucasus": A Poem as Seen from Afar -- All about Ève: The Realist Balzac's Ukrainian Dreamland -- La Guzla, Gogol, and the Cossacks: Prosper Mérimée Looks East -- Deciphering Rembrandt's Polish Rider -- Message to Mehmed: Repin Creates His Zaporozhian Cossacks.

Die neoinstitutionalistische Kritik wendet sich gegen die durch den Keynesianismus eingeführte Möglichkeit der Defizitfinanzierung von Staatsausgaben, welche aufgrund politisch-ökonomischer Interdependenzen in westlichen Demokratien zu immer neuen und höheren Defiziten, einem wachsenden Staatsanteil und ständig steigenden Inflationsraten führt. Auf der Basis dieser Kritik wird eine Rückkehr zur Regel des jährlichen materiellen Haushaltsausgleichs gefordert. Die vorliegende Arbeit setzt sich kritisch mit der neoinstitutionalistischen Analyse und der Forderung eines jährlichen Budgetausgleichs auseinander. Der Autor relativiert diese Forderung durch allokative und stabilisatorische Argumente und schlägt Ergänzungsregelungen vor.

Entworfen wird eine allgemeine Rechtslehre unter spezieller Perspektive. Ausgangspunkt ist das Versagen der deutschen Justiz, ein Zeichen gegen die Rechtsbeugung der NS-Zeit zu setzen. Das Rechtszeichen wird auf Grundlage der allgemeinen Semiotik von Charles S. Peirce so vorgestellt, dass damit auch interne Gesichtspunkte der Normbildung und Akzeptanz, die literarische Verarbeitung (Kleist, Kafka, Schreber, Klaus Mann u.a.) und schließlich die mediale Erscheinung in Akten und Verhandlungen erfasst werden. Das praktizierte Recht im »Justizdispositiv« wird anhand des Verfahrensgangs veranschaulicht und diskutiert anhand teilweise berühmter Einzelentscheidungen. Am Ende stehen Grundbegriffe der klassischen Methodenlehre: Norm und Fall ebenso wie Methode und Verfassung. Am Beispiel sieht man, dass Rechtszeichen nicht immer auch gerechte Zeichen sind. / »The Sign of Law« -- On the basis of general jurisprudence theoretical aspects of Peirce-specific trichotomies are developed. They lead from the firstness of leading cases to the secondness of well known court decisions and produce judicial habits opening a process of recursive operations using this formula

A political scientist's firsthand report on Iraq and his work with his Iraqi staff to promote democracy and fight corruption, from the days of the Coalition Provisional Authority to the present, and his recommendations for American policy-makers based on the lessons learned

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the New Edition -- Preface to the Original Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One: The Power and Mystique of Economics: Sharing the Power, Eliminating the Magic -- 1. The Misdefinition of Economics -- 2. The Power of Economics -- 3. The Distribution of the Power of Economics -- 4. The Historical Origins of the Power of Economics -- 5. Rejecting the Equation of Economics with Markets and Business -- 6. An Accurate and Adequate Definition of Economics -- 7. The Role of Quality and Subjective Judgment in Economics -- 8. When Is Quality Economic? Market and Nonmarket Pursuits of Quality -- 9. How We Look at the Local Economy: The "Economic Base" as a Distracting Vision -- 10. A Broader Vision of the Economic Base: Local Quality -- 11. Does It Matter Anyway? The Policy Implications of This Alternative Vision -- Chapter Two: The Dominance of Quality in Economic Pursuits: Survival Needs, Food, and Health Care -- 1. Introduction: Necessity and Quality in Economics -- 2. The Economic Pursuit of Quality: An Impressionistic Overview -- 3. Food as a Necessity in Our Economy -- 4. Subjective Preferences and the Pursuit of Quality in Medical Care -- Chapter Three: The Dominance of Quality in Economic Pursuits, Continued: Clothing, Housing, and Stone Age Economics -- 1. Protection from the Elements: Clothing Expenditures and the Pursuit of Necessity -- 2. Necessary Housing Expenditures -- 3. Necessary Survival Expenditures: A Summary -- 4. Survival and Necessity in More Primitive Societies -- 5. The Dominance of the Subjective and the Qualitative in Determining Economic Productivity -- 6. Our Perceptions of Economic Necessity and Survival -- 7. Conclusions -- Chapter Four: The Economic Pursuit of Quality in a Noncommercial Setting -- 1. Introduction.

This book discusses the critical legal issues raised by the US responses to the terrorist threat, analyzing their compliance with international law. The book extrapolates from the actions of the USA, going on to look at the difficulties all modern democracies face in trying to combat international terrorism.

This book discusses the critical legal issues raised by the US responses to the terrorist threat, analyzing the actions taken by the Bush administration during the so-called "war on terrorism" and their compliance with international law. Thomas McDonnell highlights specific topics of legal interest including torture, extra-judicial detentions and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and examines them against the backdrop of terrorist movements which have plagued Britain and Russia. The book extrapolates from the actions of the USA, going on to look at the difficulties all modern democracies face in trying to combat international terrorism. This book demonstrates why current counter-terrorism practices and policies should be rejected, and new policies adopted that are compatible with international law. Written for students of law, academics and policy-makers, the volume demonstrates the dangers that breaking international law carries in the "war on terrorism".