Nina Scholz studierte Politikwissenschaften an der Freien Universität Berlin und arbeitete u.a. am Ludwig Boltzmann-Institut für historische Sozialwissenschaft in Wien. Heiko Heinisch studierte Geschichte und arbeitete am Institut für Islamische Studien der Universität Wien. 2017 war er Koautor des ÖIF-Forschungsberichts zur Rolle der Moscheen im Integrationsprozess. Beide forschten und publizierten zu den Themen Nationalsozialismus und Antisemitismus. Seit mehreren Jahren widmen sich die...
Friedrich Carl von Savigny gilt als der bedeutendste deutsche Rechtsgelehrte. Die adlige Herkunft ermöglichte ihm den Zugang zu den höchsten Staatsämtern, sein feinsinniger Intellekt brachte ihn in enge Verbindung zu den maßgeblichen Dichtern der Zeit. Seine Lehre vom Volksgeist als dem Ursprung allen Rechts verband diese beiden Welten: Aus dem Gedankengut der Romantik entwarf er ein Programm, mit dem das alte Naturrecht überwunden und der Weg für eine neue Rechtsordnung gebahnt werden sollte....
Amartya Sen is one of the world’s best-known voices for the poor, the destitute and the downtrodden and an inspiration for policy makers and activists across the globe. He has also contributed almost without peer to the study of economics, philosophy and politics, transforming social choice theory, development economics, ethics, political philosophy and Indian political economy, to list but a few. This book offers a much-needed introduction to Amartya Sen’s extraordinary variety of ideas....
Controversial manifesto by acclaimed cultural theorist debated by leading writers Fredric Jameson’s pathbreaking essay “An American Utopia” radically questions standard leftist notions of what constitutes an emancipated society. Advocated here are—among other things—universal conscription, the full acknowledgment of envy and resentment as a fundamental challenge to any communist society, and the acceptance that the division between work and leisure cannot be overcome. To create a new world, we...
Disappointed by the public reception to “A Treatise of Human Nature”, published anonymously between 1739 and 1740, David Hume decided to produce a shorter more polemic version of that work nearly ten years later. That revision, which was published in 1748, would be entitled “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”. Dispensing with much of the extraneous material from the “Treatise”, Hume focuses on his more vital propositions in the “Enquiry”. Proceeding in incremental steps Hume discusses...
Laid out in four books, «An Essay Concerning Human Understanding» is John Locke's exposition on the foundation of human knowledge and understanding. In the first and second books Locke begins by rejecting the notion of innate ideas proposed by Descartes and proposes instead that humans are born as blank slates and that all knowledge is derived from experience. The discussion is continued in books three and four with a discussion of the theory as it relates to language, intuition,...
Francis Hutcheson’s first book, An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, was published in 1725, when its author was only thirty-one, and went through four editions during his lifetime. This seminal text of the Scottish Enlightenment is now available for the first time in a variorum edition based on the 1726 edition.The Inquiry was written as a critical response to the work of Bernard Mandeville and as a defense of the ideas of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Shaftesbury. It...
Der Titel des Bandes greift eine Frage auf, die im alltäglichen Umgang aufkam: die Frage nach analytischer Philosophie, vom Rücksitz eines Autos gestellt. Dieser Kontext bot den Anlass, eine Herangehensweise zu wählen, die bislang nicht üblich war: auszuprobieren, was eine Einbeziehung des Alltags und Umgangs erbringen könnte, ohne auf Komplexität zu verzichten. Diese Öffnung hat zu überraschenden Ergebnissen geführt, die eine Weiterentwicklung der analytischen Philosophie erlauben, auch und...
Is it possible to abolish coercion and hierarchy and build a stateless, egalitarian social order based on non-domination? There is one political tradition that answers these questions with a resounding yes: anarchism. <br /><br />In this book, Carissa Honeywell offers an accessible introduction to major anarchist thinkers and principles, from Proudhon to Goldman, non-domination to prefiguration. She helps students understand the nature of anarchism by examining how its core ideas...
Anarchy, State, and Utopia: An Advanced Guide presents a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the ideas expressed in Robert Nozick’s highly influential 1974 work on free-market libertarianism—considered one of the most important and influential works of political philosophy published in the latter half of the 20th-century. Makes accessible all the major ideas and arguments presented in Nozick’s complex masterpiece Explains, as well as critiques, Robert Nozick’s theory of free market...