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"This book takes up the problem of judging works of art using moral standards. When we say that a work is racist, or morally dangerous, what do we mean? The book is divided into two parts. The first part takes up the moral question on its own. What could it mean to say that a work of art (rather than, say, a human being) is immoral? The second part steps back and asks about how moral evaluation fits into the larger task of evaluating artworks. If an artwork is immoral, what does that tell us about how to value the artwork? The overall approach of the book is moderately skeptical. The book argues that many of the reasons given for thinking that works of art are immoral do not stand up to careful scrutiny. It further tries to show that even when works of art are rightly condemned from a moral point of view, the relationship between that moral flaw and their value as artworks is complex. The book defends a moderate version of autonomism between morality and aesthetics. But the real purpose of the book is to highlight the complexities and difficulties in evaluating artworks morally - many philosophers of art have simply assumed that artworks can be evaluated morally and proceeded as though such assessments were unproblematic"--

Front Cover -- Praise for Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Introduction - Ruth Kinna and Alex Prichard -- 2. Freedom and Democracy: Marxism, Anarchism and the Problem of Human Nature - Paul Blackledge -- 3. Anarchism, Individualism and Communism: William Morris's Critique of Anarcho-communism - Ruth Kinna -- 4. The Syndicalist Challenge in the Durham Coalfield before 1914 - Lewis H. Mates -- 5. Georges Sorel's Anarcho-Marxism - Renzo Llorente -- 6. Antonio Gramsci, Anarchism, Syndicalism and Sovversivismo - Carl Levy -- 7. Council Communist Perspectives on the Spanish Civil War and Revolution, 1936-1939 - Saku Pinta -- 8. A 'Bohemian Freelancer'? C.L.R. James, His Early Relationship to Anarchism and the Intellectual Origins of Autonomism - Christian Høgsbjerg -- 9. 'White Skin, Black Masks': Marxist and Anti-racist Roots of Contemporary US Anarchism - Andrew Cornell -- 10. The Search for a Libertarian Communism: Daniel Guérin and the 'Synthesis' of Marxism and Anarchism - David Berry -- 11. Socialisme ou Barbarie or the Partial Encounters between Critical Marxism and Libertarianism - Benoît Challand -- 12. Beyond Black and Red: The Situationists and the Legacy of the Workers' Movement - Jean-Christophe Angaut -- 13. Carnival and Class: Anarchism and Councilism in Australasia during the 1970s - Toby Boraman -- 14. Situating Hardt and Negri - David Bates -- 15. Conclusion: Towards a Libertarian Socialism for the Twenty-First Century? - Saku Pinta and David Berry -- Bibliography -- Index.

What are territorial autonomies and why the handbook? / Atsuko Ichijo -- Constitutional frameworks of territorial autonomies : global legal observations / Markku Suksi -- Territorial autonomies as a form of self-determination : the legal right to internal self-determination / Hurst Hannum -- Territorial or non-territorial autonomy : the tools for governing diversity / Tove H. Malloy -- Autonomous belonging : the politics of stateless nationalism / David McCrone -- Societal minorities and legislatures in territorial autonomies : a critical introduction / Félix Mathieu and Guy Laforest -- Electoral and party politics in territorial autonomies : dynamics between state and peripheral parties / Klaus Detterbeck -- Åland Islands : 100 years of stability / Maria Ackrén -- Aceh : fading autonomy / Danil Akbar Taqwadin and Riadi Husaini -- Basques : history and autonomy / Víctor Aparicio Rodríguez -- Catalonia : from autonomy to self-determination / Marta Soler Alemany -- Gibraltar : democracy without decolonisation / Christian Menage -- Greenland : autonomy in the Arctic region / Benedikte Brincker -- Guam : the place where America's day begins / Kevin K.W. Ho -- Hong Kong : autonomy in crisis / Hoi-yu Ng -- Jammu and Kashmir : contested autonomy / Chietigj Bajpaee -- Macao : undemocratic autonomy in harmony / Ying-Ho Kwong -- Northern Ireland : a place apart? / Henry Jarrett -- Quebec : from autonomism to sovereignism, and back again / Jean-François Dupré -- Scotland : a distinct political community in the United Kingdom / Justin Chun-ting Ho -- Sarawak : quest for autonomy / Arnold Puyok -- Sabah : autonomy and integration within the Malaysian Federation / Yew-meng Lai -- South tyrol : from conflict to consociationalism / Verena Wisthaler, Josef Prackwieser and Marc Röggla -- Tatarstan : a landlocked republic / Mustafa Gökcan Kösen -- Rethinking territorial autonomies : towards transcontinental comparative political studies / Brian C.H. Fong.

In his three-volume history, Antony Polonsky provides a comprehensive survey - socio-political, economic, and religious - of the Jewish communities of eastern Europe from 1350 to the present. Until the Second World War, this was the heartland of the Jewish world: nearly three and a half million Jews lived in Poland alone, while nearly three million more lived in the Soviet Union. Although the majority of the Jews of Europe and the United States, and many of the Jews of Israel, originate from these lands, their history there is not well known. Rather, it is the subject of mythologizing and stereotypes that fail both to bring out the specific features of the Jewish civilization which emerged there and to illustrate what was lost. Jewish life, though often poor materially, was marked by a high degree of spiritual and ideological intensity and creativity. Antony Polonsky recreates this lost world - brutally cut down by the Holocaust and less brutally but still seriously damaged by the Soviet attempt to destroy Jewish culture. Wherever possible, the unfolding of history is illustrated by contemporary Jewish writings to show how Jews felt and reacted to the complex and difficult situations in which they found themselves. This second volume covers the period from 1881 to 1914. It considers the deterioration of the position of the Jews during that period and the new political and cultural movements that developed as a consequence: Zionism, socialism, autonomism, the emergence of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature, Jewish urbanization, and the rise of popular Jewish culture. Galicia, Prussian Poland, the Kingdom of Poland, and the Tsarist Empire are all treated individually, as are the main towns of these areas. Volume 1 covers the period 1350-1881; Volume 3 covers 1914-2008.

"Canonical theorists of sovereignty (Hobbes, Rousseau, and others) put the monopoly of power at the center of their definitions. These thinkers abstracted from western European experiences to universal norms. In the wake of their transformative contributions, states that did not fit the model appeared to be underdeveloped or deviant. Labels such as "provisional" or "irregular" rendered them irrelevant to theorizing and, worse, political problems that needed to be solved. One early "anomaly," says historian Natasha Wheatley, was the Habsburg Empire. Layered as it was with imperial, national, and regional sovereignty, its trajectory was not one of progress toward a unitary state. Instead, it encompassed compound polities, or states bundled together under experimental constitutional orders. Wheatley's aim in this book is to theorize from Central Europe to see how sovereignty can be produced in a complex world. In reconstructing this political and legal history, Wheatley treats Austria-Hungary as a crucible for modern legal theory. The serial remaking and eventual unmaking of imperial sovereigny in Central Europe showed how old-world dynastic conceptions of sovereignty were translated into abstract categories of modern legal thought. In so doing, she uncovers the irresolvable tensions and strategic silences in modern political theory: the presumed unity and timelessness of states. Eschewing explanations of "failure," she instead uncovers how the Central European experience crystallized legal questions that would arise again in the era of global decolonization, connecting the story of the end of empire to the birth of new nations throughout the twentieth century. In this respect, the work serves not only as a history of Central Europe but also a "prehistory" of the era of decolonization"--