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El terremoto y el maremoto del 27 de febrero del 2010 produjeron incontables tragedias personales. Desde el derecho, la psicología, el trabajo social y los estudios municipales se proponen una visión que rescata el beneficio de estudiar y comprender cualquier suceso desde una perspectiva multidimensional. Así, también se establece el desafío de que, para tener un mejor país que el que teníamos antes del terremoto, es necesaria una gran reforma del Estado, que apunte a establecer una democracia de

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) is one of the central figures of 20th-century Continental philosophy, and his work has been hugely influential in a wide range of fields. His writings engage in the study of perception, language, politics, aesthetics, history and ontology, and represent a rich and complex network of exciting ideas. The Merleau-Ponty Dictionary provides the reader and student of Merleau-Ponty with all the tools necessary to engage with this key thinker: a comprehensive A to Z that provides summaries of all his major texts and articles, clear and straightforward explanations of

What kind of role can the middle class play in potential democratization in such an undemocratic, late developing country as China? To answer this profound political as well as theoretical question, Jie Chen explores attitudinal and behavioral orientation of China's new middle class to democracy, based on a probability-sample survey and in-depth interviews of residents in the Chinese cities of Beijing, Chengdu, and Xi'an. While China's middle class is not likely to serve as the harbinger of democracy now, its current negative attitudes toward democracy may change in the future.

How does the UK Supreme Court approach human rights law? This book presents the first comprehensive overview of the human rights jurisprudence of the Court, analysing the opinions expressed by the current Justices and their predecessors, both judicially and extra-judicially. It criticizes the judges for not developing the common law in a way which supplements the Human Rights Act, for not making imaginative enough use of that Act, and for adopting an attitude to Convention rightswhich is often out of step with the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. After setting

This study proposes a theory of international arbitration culture, tests this theory against real-world outcomes, and uses it to make predictions about the contract law principles that international arbitrators are likely to favour. Drawing on interviews with prestigious practitioners from a range of jurisdictions, as well as published arbitral awards, the writings of international arbitrators, and available statistical data on international arbitration, it presents a comparativeanalysis of arbitral and judicial responses to contract law issues.Part I develops a theory of arbitral decision-mak

Martin Heidegger is one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers. His ground-breaking works have had a hugely significant impact on contemporary thought through their reception, appropriation and critique. His thought has influenced philosophers as diverse as Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, Adorno, Gadamer, Levinas, Derrida and Foucault, among others. In addition to his formative role in philosophical movements such as phenomenology, hermeneutics and existentialism, structuralism and post-structuralism, deconstruction and post-modernism, Heidegger has had a transformative effect o

The Westminster-stylized model of Parliamentary democratic politics and public service accountability is increasingly out of step with the realities of today's digitally and socially networked era. This book explores the reconfiguration of democratic and managerial governance within democratic societies due to the advent of technological mobility. More specifically, the traditional public sector prism of organizational and accountability - denoted as 'machinery of government', is increasingly strained in an era characterized by smart devices, social media, and cloud computing. This book examines the roots and implications of the tensions between machinery and mobility and the sorts of investments and initiatives that have been undertaken by governments around the world as well as their appropriateness and relative impacts. This book also examines the prospects for holistic adaptation of democratic and managerial systems going forward, identifying the most crucial directions and determinants for improving public sector performance in terms of outcomes, accountability, and agility. Accordingly, the ultimate aim of this initiative is to contribute to the formation of intellectual foundations for more systemic reforms of public sector governance in Canada and elsewhere, and to offer forward-looking trajectories for government adaptation in shifting from a traditional prism of 'machinery' to new organizational and institutional arrangements better suited for an era of 'mobility'

Personalized healthcare?or what the award-winning author Donna Dickenson calls ?Me Medicine"?is radically transforming our longstanding, ?one-size-fits-all" model. Technologies such as direct-to-consumer genetic testing, pharmacogenetics in cancer care, private umbilical cord blood banking, and neurocognitive enhancement claim to cater to an individual's specific biological character. In some cases, these technologies have shown powerful potential, yet in others, they have produced negligible or even negative results. Whatever is behind the rise of Me Medicine, it isn't just science. So w

"In Feminist, Queer, Crip Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a pre-determined limit. She juxtaposes theories, movements, and identities such as environmental justice, reproductive justice, cyborg theory, transgender politics, and disability that are typically discussed in isolation and envisions new possibilities for crip futures and feminist/queer/crip alliances. This bold book goes against the grain of normalization and promotes a political framework for a more just world."--Publisher's website

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: On Having Survived the Academic Moral Philosophy of the Twentieth Century -- Part I: Reading Alasdair MacIntyre -- Chapter 2: Keeping Philosophy Relevant and Humanistic -- Chapter 3: Ethics at the Limits -- Chapter 4: Alasdair MacIntyre's Revisionary Aristotelianism -- Chapter 5: Alasdair MacIntyre -- Chapter 6: Against the Self-Images of the Age -- Part II: Complementary and Competing Traditions -- Chapter 7: MacIntyre and the Emotivists -- Chapter 8: Naturalism, Nihilism, and Perfectionism -- Chapter 9: Marxism and the Ethos of the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 10: Parallel Projects -- Chapter 11: The Perfect Storm -- Chapter 12: Forgiveness at the Limit -- Part III: Thematic Analyses -- Chapter 13: Evolutionary Ethics -- Chapter 14: The Social Epistemological Normalization of Contestable Narratives -- Chapter 15: History, Fetishism, and Moral Change -- Chapter 16: Relativism, Coherence, and the Problems of Philosophy -- Chapter 17: Ethics and the Evil of Being -- Chapter 18: The Inescapability of Ethics -- Epilogue -- Contributors -- Index of Names.

This title explores and analyses the dynamic alliances and tensions between the nation's chief executive and the Supreme Court over time. Through primary source and other documents and insightful narratives, it discusses appointments, prerogative governance, and the role of time and regimes in the complex scheme of checks and balances