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  • Constitutional Law and Regionalism

    A Comparative Analysis of Regionalist Negotiations

    by Vito Breda ...
    Series series Elgar Monographs in Constitutional and Administrative Law
    Constitutions and their systems are increasingly under pressure from identity groups such as regional and national minorities. Presenting the first comparative analysis of the negotiation of constitutional demands by these groups, Vito Breda uses an innovative methodology to create a richer understanding of the pluralistic nature of modern states.Combining both political and constitutional ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Legal Transplants in East Asia and Oceania

    Edited by Vito Breda ...
    This volume provides a unique overview of methodologies that are conducive to a successful legal transplant in East Asia and Oceania. Each chapter is drafted by a scholar who holds direct professional experience on the legal transplant considered and has a distinctive insight into the pragmatic difficulties related to grafting an alien institution into a legal tradition. The range of transplants ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Objectivity of Judicial Decisions

    A Comparative Analysis of Nine Jurisdictions

    by Vito Breda ...
    Series Book 7 - Studies in Politics, Security and Society
    This book discusses how judges qualify their activities as objective. The data for this project was retrieved from a large sample of cases using Langacker’s methodology. The sample included over a thousand decisions from Brazil, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Romania and the UK. The decisions considered allegations of judicial bias, unfairness, and injustice. Pre-judices are ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Diverse Narratives of Legal Objectivity

    An Interdisciplinary Perspective

    Edited by Vito Breda, Lidia Rodak ...
    Series Book 19 - DIA-LOGOS
    This volume presents a collection of essays on objectivity in legal discourse. Has law a distinctive type of objectivity? Is there one specific type of legal objectivity or many, depending on the observatory language utilized? Is objectivity fit for law? The analyses in the various contributions show that the Cartesian paradigm of objectivity is not relevant to the current legal discourse, and new ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory

    Edited by Paul Wake, Simon Malpas ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    Now in a fully updated second edition The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory is an indispensible guide for anyone approaching the field for the first time. Exploring ideas from a diverse range of disciplines through a series of 11 critical essays and a dictionary of key names and terms, this book examines some of the most complex and fundamental theories in modern scholarship ... Read more

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  • Giving an Account of Oneself

    Twentieth Anniversary Edition, with a new preface by the author

    by Judith Butler ...
    What does it mean to lead a moral life?In their first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice—one responsive to the need for critical autonomy yet grounded in the opacity of the human subject.Butler takes as their starting point one’s ability to answer the questions “What have I done?” and “What ought I to do?” They show that these ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Literary Theory Handbook

    by Gregory Castle ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks
    The Literary Theory Handbook introduces students to the history and scope of literary theory, showing them how to perform literary analysis, and providing a greater understanding of the historical contexts for different theories.A new edition of this highly successful text, which includes updated and refined chapters, and new sections on contemporary theoriesFar reaching in its inclusion of a ... Read more

    $34.00 USD

  • Time and the Other

    How Anthropology Makes Its Object

    by Johannes Fabian ...
    Time and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship between anthropologists and their subjects and reoriented the approach literary critics, philosophers, and historians took to the study of humankind. Johannes Fabian challenges the assumption that anthropologists live in the "here and now," that their subjects live in the "there and then," and that the "other" exists ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A Dictionary of Critical Theory

    by Ian Buchanan ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    Containing over 750 in-depth entries, this is the most wide-ranging and up-to-date dictionary of critical theory available. This authoritative guide covers the whole range of critical theory, including the Frankfurt school, cultural materialism, cultural studies, gender studies, film studies, literary theory, hermeneutics, historical materialism, and socio-political critical theory. Entries ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Foucault

    Edited by Gary Gutting ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    For Michel Foucault, philosophy was a way of questioning the allegedly necessary truths that underpin the practices and institutions of modern society. He carried this out in a series of deeply original and strikingly controversial studies on the origins of modern medical and social scientific disciplines. These studies have raised fundamental questions about the nature of human knowledge and its ... Read more

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  • We Are Not Born Submissive

    How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives

    by Manon Garcia ...
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