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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In barely forty years of life Martin Luther King (1929-1968) distinguished himself as one of the greatest social reformers of modern times: civil rights leader, defender of nonviolence in the struggle of desegregation, champion of the poor, anti-war proponent, and broad-minded visionary of an interrelated world of free people. His many verbal and written communications in the form of sermons, speeches, interviews, letters, essays, and several books are replete with Bible proverbs as «Love your enemies», «He who lives by the sword shall perish by the sword», and «Man does not live by bread alone» as well as folk proverbs as «Time and tide wait for no man», «Last hired, first fired», «No gain without pain», and «Making a way out of no way». He also delighted in citing quotations that have become proverbs, to wit «No man is an island», «All men are created equal», and «No lie can live forever». King recycles these bits of traditional wisdom in various contexts, varying his proverbial messages as he addresses the multifaceted issues of civil rights. His rhetorical prowess is thus informed to a considerable degree by his effective use of his repertoire of proverbs which he frequently uses as leitmotifs or amasses into set pieces of fixed phrases to be employed repeatedly.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 566 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book analyzes Web page design from a visual communication perspective. Visual communication is an emerging field which draws on numerous disciplines concerned with the creation, perception, and interpretation of visual messages. The transdisciplinary nature of the field allows us to see the sites examined from new visual vantage points ¿ metaphorical, cultural, and rhetorical; cognitive, perceptive, and evaluative. With an introduction and eight essays by visual communication scholars, the book also includes an insightful interview with Hillman Curtis, one of the foremost Web page designers in the world.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 216 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Change Matters, written by leading scholars committed to social justice in English education, provides researchers, university instructors, and preservice and inservice teachers with a framework that pivots social justice toward policy. The chapters in this volume detail rationales about generating social justice theory in what Freire calls «the revolutionary process» through essays that support research about teaching about the intersections between teaching for social change and teaching about social injustices, and directs us toward the significance of enacting social justice methodologies. The text unpacks how education, spiritual beliefs, ethnicity, age, gender, ability, social class, political beliefs, marital status, sexual orientation, gender expression, language, national origin, and education intersect with the principles by which we live and the multiple identities that we embody as we move from space to space. This book is critical reading for anyone who strives to cease inequitable schooling practices by conducting research in education to inform more just policies.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 290 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In this book, a group of researchers and educators consider in detail the possibilities and tensions of curriculum-making in early childhood education. The book discusses a wide range of issues related to postfoundational approaches to curriculum, such as the images of children and educators, pedagogical narrations, reflective practice, transitions and routines, the visual arts, social change, and family-educator involvement in the classroom.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 224 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Nowadays, politics is only one voice among many in the concert of social self-organization. Its function is to articulate the differentiated systems of our societies: it encourages their self-restraint, while at the same time restraining itself.Such a conception obviously threatens the primacy of the nation-state. While it is not necessarily disappearing, it must nevertheless cease to be thought of as a dominant principle of organization, and must assume its place in a system of regulation that proceeds on several levels. Distant from the anarchist or Marxist theories that herald the end of the state as it is from libertarian theories of the minimal state, the book illustrates that it is possible in the contemporary period to go beyond the alternatives of dirigisme and neoliberal spontaneity.However, such a transformation can only prove effective through two conditions: we must first reject the enduring opposition between Right and Left, and second, we must invent an anti-state social democracy that is able in its own right to glean the most it can out of the liberal legacy.This book combines philosophical technicality, clarity and elegance of writing in an attempt to provide politics with meaning again, particularly in an era where discourse about its powerlessness abounds. 158 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Based on the National Communication Association¿s conceptual model for teaching and evaluating undergraduate public speeches (as developed by the author and others), Sherwyn P. Morreale offers a highly accessible, easy-to-teach, easy-to-learn approach to public speaking. The approach adopted in the text includes eight public speaking competencies ¿ four on speech preparation and four on speech delivery ¿ which are enhanced by emphasizing the impact of technology, ethics, culture, and diversity on public speaking. A number of unique features designed to improve teaching and learning include:¿ Students used as examples in each chapter so that readers can follow them as they learn about public speaking;¿ Tables and boxed text to reinforce the most important learning points;¿ Checkpoint and self-assessment tools so that readers can determine their level of competence and find out whether they are ready to proceed to the next chapter;¿ Competence-building activities for students to apply chapter concepts and practice public speaking strategies in the classroom or as take-home assignments;¿ An accompanying website which is updated on a regular basis and offers a forum for students to contact the author.Designed for introductory-level public speaking courses taught at two- and four-year colleges and universities, this text offers a distinctively practical alternative for students and teachers to achieve consistency across multiple sections of the public speaking course. An instructor¿s manual is available on request.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 336 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -At the end of compulsory schooling, a quarter of European adolescents do not meet the minimal standards in reading literacy required for life-long learning and a satisfactory private and professional life (cf. the PISA-surveys). Funded by the European Commission (2006-2009), the ADORE Project «Teaching Struggling Adolescent Readers ¿ A Comparative Study of Good Practice in European Countries» involved researchers and practitioners from the following 11 European countries: Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Romania, Switzerland. During a 2-year-investigation period, transnational teams observed extraordinary examples of classroom instruction in all respective countries and identified key elements of good practice concerning reading instruction on different levels: classroom practice, schools, communities and national educational systems. The ADORE-book intends to be a guide for decision-makers and practitioners who want to improve the reading instruction for struggling adolescent readers. 304 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book provides an analysis of the representation of women¿s bodies and their monstrous metamorphoses in selected short stories by contemporary English writer Michèle Roberts. The author explores the relationship between traditional fairy tales such as the Grimm Brothers¿ and Charles Perrault¿s, the lives of female saints and Roberts¿s counter-narratives, focussing on the analysis of images of sublimed fleshliness and of acts of monstrous violence on the body. The book takes into account relevant Women¿s Studies criticism regarding the mother-daughter relationship, as Roberts¿s stories question the role of mother figures in traditional fairy tales and hagiography and at the same time rework the concept of motherhood itself.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 128 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Dieser Sammelband spannt einen Bogen von den ordnungstheoretischen und sozialphilosophischen Grundlagen wissenschaftlicher Politikberatung bis zur Anwendung ausgewählter Methoden. Die Autoren setzen sich mit unterschiedlichen Theorieangeboten für Politikberatung, Anforderungen an Politikberatung und Formen von Politikberatung auseinander. Thematisch bildet die Leitidee der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft, räumlich deren Nutzung bei der Politikberatung in den Transformationsländern Südosteuropas eine Klammer. Als Beispiele solcher Länder dienen Ungarn ¿ bereits ein EU-Mitglied ¿ und Albanien.This book runs the gamut of political economy from theoretical and philosophical principles to the application of selected methods in giving policy advice. Its authors compare the offerings of various disciplines, in particular economics and sociology, for policy advice. The demand and supply side of this activity are discussed. The leitmotif for the articles in this book is the Social Market Economy, and a further unifying theme is the application to transformation economies in South East Europe, both within the EU and beyond.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -As sectarian and political tensions rose after March of 2005, scholars and journalists began to speculate that Lebanon was heading back into civil war. Much academic literature, in fact showed that the probability of regressing into such a state was very high. Although tensions did escalate and violence broke out on a number of occasions (culminating in several days of fighting in May 2008) the Doha agreement provided a peaceful political solution to the country¿s crisis. This book offers an answer to the question of why no renewed civil war occurred in Lebanon as well as to the larger question of why civil wars do ¿ or do not ¿ break out. The author accomplishes this by developing and presenting a model of informal elite agreement, which he terms «consociational conflict». 168 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The quest motif forms the framework of the journeys undertaken by the three youthful protagonists of this study. In pursuit of selfhood, the non-conformist hero of the Post-World War II American South sets out on an uncertain path leading to confrontation and finally transformation. Joseph Campbell¿s ground-breaking analysis of the quest motif is the starting point for the patterns described in these journeys. The quest takes the hero through a perilous post-modern landscape often in conflict with the legacy of the past. It is a place where the optimistic mainstream of the American Dream is juxtaposed with the trauma of human suffering. Through a close textual analysis, the author elucidates multi-faceted characters and thematic while shedding new light on a reading of Southern fiction. Although significantly different novels, important common threads are revealed linking the quest motifs in these works. This study examines William Styron¿s Sophie¿s Choice, Flannery O¿Connor¿s The Violent Bear It Away and Bobbie Ann Mason¿s In Country. 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In light of attempts to trace the philosophical and historical foundations of educational administration as an academic field of study that is concerned with the management and operation of educational organisations, this book aims at reviewing important epistemological developments in this field since the early 1960s. Specifically, the author poses several questions, such as what counts as the field of educational administration and what is this field in each decade since the early 1960s What is the knowledge base of educational administration What is its unique identity And what are the types of publications and the methodological tools used throughout the years by the field¿s members Based on a qualitative content analysis of the field¿s various academic journals since the appearance of the first journal, the author identifies six legacies ¿ empirical, practical, evaluative, training, ideological and critical that the field leaves behind in our time. 210 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -While popular music and the mass media in France are firmly established areas of enquiry, there have been relatively few academic studies of the youth and popular music press. This book focuses on Salut les copains (Hi Buddies/Mates) (1962-76), which achieved a circulation of a million copies within its first year, at its peak sold around twice as many magazines as its nearest competitors, and has now become synonymous with the development of youth culture in 1960s France. In the few existing accounts of Salut les copains cultural commentators have tended to view the magazine as a neutral, apolitical vehicle for French yé-yé pop stars. However, this full-length study reveals how written texts in Salut les copains (editorial, letters and advertising) both supported and challenged dominant ideologies concerning culture, the nation, youth and gender during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 204 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -One of the most intriguing features of The Assembly of Ladies, an anonymous fifteenth-century Middle English poem, is that it has remained in print in anthologies for over 500 years. Why would a poem about courtly love remain so popular for so long This book analyses the literary and historical publishing evidence about The Assembly of Ladies, to show that the poem has remained in print not for its literary merit, but because its anonymity has allowed it to be appropriated by editors for their own particular social and political causes. The book draws together textual, contextual, and intertextual evidence about all twenty editions of The Assembly of Ladies. By examining closely how and why a single text is or has been included in canonical traditions over time, this study not only reveals the material presence of the text in various traditions but also brings to the foreground the categories scholars continue to use while defining or imagining those traditions.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 220 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This volume, which takes its title from an international conference held at the University of Cambridge in November 2006, aims to shed new light on Schnitzler¿s ¿uvre and his period by focusing on his as yet largely unpublished literary remains, his ¿hidden manuscripts¿. Among the key topics covered in this collection are: the reconstruction of the adventurous rescue of the manuscripts from Vienna in 1938 and a description of their current locations; an overview of the author¿s life, in its historical context, on the basis of such private documents as his diaries and letters; the plethora of existing variants, both published and unpublished, and their usefulness for our understanding of Schnitzler¿s work, from the Anatol cycle to the ¿scandalous¿ Reigen ¿ in the light of the discovery of its original manuscript ¿ and Schnitzler¿s planned (but never completed) work on the historical figure of Emperor Joseph II; Schnitzler¿s difficult relationship with one of the most influential journalists of his time, Karl Kraus, and his literary friendship with a close but hitherto neglected contemporary, Gustav Schwarzkopf; the network of intertextual references ¿hidden¿ in the revolutionary monologue novella Lieutenant Gustl against the background of Hermann Bahr¿s modernist theory of literature; and finally, Schnitzler¿s ¿hidden legacy¿ in our own epoch. This book contains contributions in both English and German. 222 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Growing educational ambitions, today raised to a historically unprecedented level and shared by parents, the state and educational professionals, seem to not always result in happier children. With more parents apparently becoming more uncertain about their educational capacities, the variety of categories of children at risk is increasing, alongside unprecedented growth in welfare, educational investment, laws on children¿s protection and rights, and knowledge about children and education. This book addresses the topic of educational ambitions and spaces in a European context from the 17th century to the present, paying special attention to the Dutch case, from three perspectives. Firstly, it looks at how educational ambitions have changed from the 17 century to the present. Secondly, it looks at the role of the educational space. Finally, it addresses the issue of how the educational ambition of acting in the children¿s best interests is connected with the phenomenon of children at risk. 228 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -How does good teamwork emerge Can we control mechanisms of teamwork The author has analyzed these questions in a study involving 227 participants of 55 software development teams. First, he empirically confirmed his teamwork model based on innovation research, goal setting and control theory. Second, he measured the impact of a wide selection of agile practices on these teamwork mechanisms. Third, he explained these impacts based on a thorough review of current psychological research. This book is intended for people working in agile contexts as they will gain insight into the complexity of how «good teamwork» emerges. This insight on team dynamics may also prove valuable for upper management for calibrating agile practices and «soft factors», thus increasing the effectiveness of software teams. 208 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Karl Barth never paid particular attention to the religions of the world. In fact he has often been stereotyped as the prime exponent of an exclusivist attitude toward other religions because of his belief that salvation comes through Christ alone. However a close analysis of his work suggests that it defies the rigid typology of exclusivism, inclusivism and pluralism so often used in inter-religious debate and instead allows for the possibility of discerning God¿s presence in the other Abrahamic faiths.This book asserts that a case can be made on the basis of Barth¿s theology for promoting a democratic society which respects freedom and difference. It shows how this argument can be extended to accommodate religious pluralism. Other faith groups can contribute to a just society and interact in ways which are theologically fruitful for the Church¿s own life. In particular, this book demonstrates how Barth¿s theology can help Christians relate to Muslims by showing that God¿s grace is at work in places it is not expected ¿ beyond the boundaries of the Church. The Church can be addressed through the presence and voice of the other. In today¿s context this includes address through the presence and voice of Islam.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 286 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Die Beiträge dieses Bandes, verfasst in deutscher und englischer Sprache aus den Bereichen der Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, der vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, der Musikwissenschaft, der Philosophie sowie der Kulturwissenschaften, widmen sich Fragen der Zensur, des Urheber- und Interpretenrechts sowie hochaktuellen Diskussionen um den Zusammenhang zwischen Intertextualitätstheorien und Plagiatsvorwürfen. Ferner behandelt werden (sub)kulturelle Gegenentwürfe zu gängigen Modellen der Informationsweitergabe, ökonomische Grundlagen des Schutzes kulturellen Eigentums sowie aktuelle Entwicklungen in der Internetkultur, die für Fragen des geistigen Eigentums von weitreichender Bedeutung sind. 242 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Ramón del Valle-Inclán (1866-1936) was undoubtedly the most controversial literary figure of his generation. Whilst his genius was recognised by fellow writers, the reading public was slow to accept his work, and his theatre taxed directors and audiences alike. One of the harshest criticisms levelled against him concerned his use of repetition. This study shows how the reuse, recycling and development of material becomes one of the hallmarks of Valle-Inclán¿s writing during the first three decades of his literary career, linking one genre with another and blurring the borders between different aesthetics. The repetition of themes and motifs, characters and stylistic devices reveals an underlying interdependence among works that on the surface appear unconnected or even contradictory.Many of Valle-Inclán¿s works have been studied in isolation, rather than as pieces of a whole. This book examines the elements that provide significant links in his writing between 1889 and 1922, most of which shares the common backdrop of Galicia, and demonstrates that apparently unrelated works are part of a larger picture. Despite changes in perspective and genre, there are constants that relate individual works to those that precede and follow, creating a unifying pattern of continuity. 250 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The French mathematician René Thom (Fields medal 1958) died in 2002. In this volume his contributions to biology, semiotics and linguistics are discussed by a group of scholars who have continued his work and have shaped the new paradigm of dynamic semiotics and linguistics. Thom¿s heritage is full of revolutionary ideas and deep insights which stem from a rich intuition and a sharp awareness of the current state of the sciences, including their potentials and risks. The contributions to this volume are elaborations of papers given at a colloquium at the International Center for Semiotics and Linguistics of the University of Urbino (Italy), in 2005.The central concern of this volume is semiogenesis, i.e. the evolution and differentiation of meaningful («pregnant») forms in the field of symbolic systems ¿ from bio-communication to language and cultural forms like music, art, architecture or urban forms. The basic questions are: How are meanings created and further differentiated Where do they come from What kind of forces drive their unfolding How can complex cultural forms be understood based on simple morphodynamic principles Applications concern the perception of forms by animals and humans, the categorization of forms e.g. in a lexicon, and predication or other complex symbolic behaviors which show up in grammar or in cultural artifacts like the unfolding of urban centers. 190 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The book offers a general and up-to-date overview of the wider discipline of Audiovisual Translation (AVT), including practices such as accessibility to the media. The innovative and exciting articles by well-known authors offer a comprehensive selection of topics for discussion and reflection that will appeal to students, lecturers, researchers and professionals alike, and indeed to anyone concerned about the way in which translation is carried out in the audiovisual media. 208 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Might people one day live for ever Would they want to What sense can be made of ideas commonly referred to in terms of an ¿afterlife¿ What about notions of Heaven and Hell, of Purgatory and reincarnation And in what sort of state are human beings expected to be during this ¿afterlife¿ ¿ immortal souls or resurrected bodies (and does either notion make sense) What about the fact that any ¿afterlife¿ concerns not just the fate of individuals but of society (¿communion of saints¿) and even the physical universe itself This book tries to survey some of the existing arguments about life ¿after¿ death, with chapters on material from Christian tradition (particularly the New Testament and the Early Church) and from the philosophy of religion. It then attempts to reach its own conclusions, drawing on Kant and Barth in order to suggest that death is to be overcome rather than survived.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 298 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In recent years, real estate investment has witnessed an unprecedented internationalisation. However, national markets largely continue to be shaped by domestic law and local business practices. This book provides a comparison of the British and German property markets, which are Europe¿s most important, and discusses key elements of the economics of leasing. Applying the theory of long-term contracts and the economic analysis of bankruptcy law to leases, it examines in detail the regulations pertaining to rent adjustment and tenant default, which can substantially impact investment performance. The prevailing rent adjustment mechanisms such as rent review and indexation are discussed. A comparison is made of the remedies available to landlords of defaulting tenants under both jurisdictions. 232 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Si completa l¿edizione delle lettere scambiate tra Muratori (1672-1750) e i suoi numerosi corrispondenti di area tedesca. I carteggi coi nomi più noti (come Imhof, i Mencke, i Fabricius) erano stati curati dagli stessi autori in due pubblicazioni di questa collana (L. A. Muratori und Deutschland, 1997; Die Glückseligkeit des gemeinen Wesens, 1999); vi si aggiunge qui, fra gli oltre 30 carteggi, quello inedito di ben 142 lettere (comprese due di Muratori, finora non attribuite) con Gottfried Philipp Spannagel, tedesco dalle origini misteriose che in Italia si presentò come «Goffredo Filippi». Sono incluse varie corrispondenze austriache, fino ad oggi edite solo in minima parte. I testi sono pubblicati dopo accurata revisione sugli originali, e preceduti da ampie introduzioni. 480 pp. Italienisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -L¿¿uvre littéraire de George Sand entretient un dialogue multiple, manifeste et soutenu avec d¿autres auteurs et d¿autres textes. Ce dialogue, engagé surtout avec des prédécesseurs et des contemporains tels que Rousseau, Shakespeare, Goethe, Mme de Genlis, Balzac et Flaubert, n¿est pas uniquement textuel ; il est aussi idéologique. Comme le soulignent les études réunies dans ce volume, la pratique sandienne d¿une intertextualité littéraire suggère une conception démocratique du champ littéraire, dans laquelle les hiérarchies verticales sont abolies, et des concepts tels que l¿imitation et l¿influence sont marginalisés dans une pratique de l¿écriture qui intègre une pluralité de voix et dans laquelle les ouvrages de ses prédécesseurs et de ses contemporains sont remémorés, absorbés, cités, contestés, retravaillés, transformés ou parodiés. Intégrer les voix d¿autrui dans le tissu du roman émerge ainsi comme un principe fondamental de l¿écriture sandienne. 366 pp. Englisch, Französisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This study deals with the organisation of innovation projects of multinational companies. The focus is on learning processes which occur within the company group as well as those taking place between the company and its regional environment. This work establishes a bridge between organisational and regional learning. Three dilemmas of innovation can thereby be identified: the dilemma between formalisation and flexibilisation mirrors that organisations are defined as stable and structured entities whilst innovation is a process of renewal and change. The configuration dilemma reflects the choice between a concentrated setting and international dispersal of innovation activities. The dilemma of regional (dis)embeddedness points at the tension between exploiting available resources and pursuing a regionally detached strategy. Qualitative case-studies of specific innovation projects provide empirical in-depth insights. This book was awarded the first prize in the catagory Dissertations of the Weser-Ems-Wissenschaftspreis 2011. 338 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The work of Niklas Luhmann is the most innovative and comprehensive attempt to describe modern society. His views, in turn, have triggered the most intensive criticism ever in social sciences. This book presents his extraordinarily complex theory in a step-by-step fashion and in a way understandable for those who are not familiar with his thought. It examines his views on politics, which, the author argues, is the best way to demonstrate the provocative character of his theory. The book not only facilitates the understanding of Luhmann¿s theory but is also useful for getting an insight into the methodological problems of the social sciences and the theoretical issues of modern society. Whether we agree with Luhmann or not, his thoughts on democracy, legitimacy, human rights, and the welfare state may help us understand the society we live in. The reader may consider his disillusioning findings as challenges that can contribute to the solution of the problems our society faces. 312 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book was shortlisted for the R.H. Gapper prize 2011.On 8 February 1937 the 23-year-old Albert Camus gave an inaugural lecture for a new Maison de la culture, or community arts centre, in Algiers. Entitled ¿La nouvelle culture méditerranéenne¿ (¿The New Mediterranean Culture¿), Camus¿s lecture has been interpreted in radically different ways: while some critics have dismissed it as an incoherent piece of juvenilia, others see it as key to understanding his future development as a thinker, whether as the first expression of his so-called ¿Mediterranean humanism¿ or as an early indication of what is seen as his essentially colonial mentality.These various interpretations are based on reading the text of ¿The New Mediterranean Culture¿ in a single context, whether that of Camus¿s life and work as a whole, of French discourses on the Mediterranean or of colonial Algeria (and French discourses on that country). By contrast, this study argues that Camus¿s lecture ¿ and in principle any historical text ¿ needs to be seen in a multiplicity of contexts, discursive and otherwise, if readers are to understand properly what its author was doing in writing it. Using Camus¿s lecture as a case study, the book provides a detailed theoretical and practical justification of this ¿multi-contextualist¿ approach. 360 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Justice as Equality makes a unique contribution to the philosophical and intellectual tradition of the English-speaking Caribbean by exploring the theory of justice underpinning the life, work, and writings of former Prime Minister of Jamaica and renowned Third World Statesman the late Michael Manley (1924-1997). Manley¿s singular Caribbean vision of justice was forged in a post-colonial context that he described as being too radically disfigured by inequalities to be improved by «mere tinkering». This book posits that equality has become unfashionable in social analysis and contemporary politics, in part due to the increased significance of values such as identity, diversity, and difference, in tandem with a misunderstanding of the concept of equality. It argues for a reclaiming of a multi-faceted and complex way of understanding equality in light of Manley¿s thought. Through an engagement with the norms of justice developed within the Catholic social teaching tradition, this book examines, clarifies, and deepens Manley¿s Caribbean account of «justice as equality». Manley¿s theory is a deeply relational theory one of justice and equality that roots fundamental human equality in the relationship to divine transcendence. It calls for the dismantling of all relationships of oppression and domination that result when the fundamental equality of all human beings is disregarded. It takes account of the multiple dimensions of the human person, and calls a society ¿just¿ when it allows for the flourishing of every member, specifically through full participation in the life of the society. 166 pp. Englisch.