Exile, statelessness, and migration : playing chess with history from Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Intertwined Lives and Themes among Jewish Exiles -- Equality and Difference: Human Dignity and Popular Sovereignty in the Mirror of Political Modernity -- The Elusiveness of the Particular: Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor Adorno -- Whose Trial? Adolf Eichmann's or Hannah Arendt's? The Eichmann Controversy Revisited -- Ethics Without Normativity and Politics without Historicity: On Judith Butler's Parting ways. Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism -- From the "Right to Have Rights" to the "Critique of Humanitarian Reason" -- Legalism and Its Paradoxes in Judith Shklar's Work -- Exile and Social Science on Albert Hirschman -- Isaiah Berlin: A Judaism between Decisionism and Pluralism -- Conclusion: The Universal and the Particular. Then and Now -- Notes -- References -- Index

Climate change science and policy

Climate change science overview / Detection and attribution / Wild species and extinction / Ecosystems / Marine ecosystems / Water / Hurricanes / Wildfires / Tropical forests of Amazonia / Global crop production and food security / Human health / Unique and valued places / Assessing economic impacts / Integrated assessment modeling / Risk, uncertainty, and assessing dangerous climate change / Risk perceptions and behavior / What is the economic cost of climate change? / Cost-efficiency and political feasibility / Carbon taxes, trading, and offsets / The cost of reducing CO₂ emissions / International treaties / EU climate policy / Population / Inequalities and imbalances / Ethics, rights, and responsibilities / Developing country perspectives / CDM and mitigation in developing countries / Measuring the clean development mechanism's performance and potential / Understanding the climate challenge in China / Climate change and the new China / India / Australia / National policy / Policy in California / California's battle for clean cars / U.S. state climate action / Policies to stimulate corporate action / Corporate initiatives / Carbonundrums : the role of the media / Newspaper and television coverage / Media and public education / The road forward / Energy efficiency / Renewable energy / Designing energy supply chains based on hydrogen / Nuclear energy / Coal capture and storage / Tropical forests / Engineering the planet

Climate change science and policy

Climate change science overview / Detection and attribution / Wild species and extinction / Ecosystems / Marine ecosystems / Water / Hurricanes / Wildfires / Tropical forests of Amazonia / Global crop production and food security / Human health / Unique and valued places / Assessing economic impacts / Integrated assessment modeling / Risk, uncertainty, and assessing dangerous climate change / Risk perceptions and behavior / What is the economic cost of climate change? / Cost-efficiency and political feasibility / Carbon taxes, trading, and offsets / The cost of reducing CO₂ emissions / International treaties / EU climate policy / Population / Inequalities and imbalances / Ethics, rights, and responsibilities / Developing country perspectives / CDM and mitigation in developing countries / Measuring the clean development mechanism's performance and potential / Understanding the climate challenge in China / Climate change and the new China / India / Australia / National policy / Policy in California / California's battle for clean cars / U.S. state climate action / Policies to stimulate corporate action / Corporate initiatives / Carbonundrums : the role of the media / Newspaper and television coverage / Media and public education / The road forward / Energy efficiency / Renewable energy / Designing energy supply chains based on hydrogen / Nuclear energy / Coal capture and storage / Tropical forests / Engineering the planet

HushHush : the dark secrets of scientific research

Hush hush

The Secret of Success: Big business keeping the public in the dark -- The Bhopal Chemical Disaster -- Asbestos -- Tobacco, Health and Lies -- Chlorpyrifos: A Killer With a Secret -- Cell Phones: How Safe Are We? -- Deep Vein Thrombosis in Economy Class -- Vehicle Safety Secrets -- Doctor Knows Best: Medical ethics under the knife -- The Thalidomide Tragedy -- Dow Corning Breast Implants -- Superbugs and Antibiotics -- Ritalin and Hyperactivity -- Gulf War Syndrome -- Fluoride: Are We Being Conned? -- A Question of National Security: "Top secret" coverups -- The Mull of Kintyre Disaster -- The Manhattan Project -- Smallpox: How Ready Are We? -- Agent Orange -- Radiation Exposure -- UFOs -- A Government Fabrication? -- Power Corrupts: Political gain takes precedence over public interests -- Nuclear Power Plant Disasters -- Is There a Nuclear Power Plant Coverup? -- PCB Poisoning of North America -- The Love Canal -- The GM Food Debate -- A Green and Red Herring: The separate truths of governments and greens -- Global Warming -- The Silencing of Bjorn Lomborg -- Sweden's Biggest Environmental Disaster -- Deforestation -- The Minke Whale Deception -- Atomflot: A Catastrophe-in-Waiting -- Space Debris -- Saving Face: When professional pride comes before public safety -- Ferry Disasters -- X-Ray Secrecy -- Concorde -- The Human Cost: Violating human rights in the name of science -- Porton Down -- Unit 731 -- Shell in the Niger Delta -- The Tuskegee Syphilis Study -- Human Testing at Holmesburg Prison -- The Alder Hey Children's Hospital Scandal -- What Does the Future Hold?

Scientific freedom : an anthology on freedom of scientific research

Introduction / Scientific freedom -- The structure of the book -- Synergies, tensions, and the road ahead -- Can Research Be Forbidden? / Sex and reproduction as relevant examples -- The divorce of sex from reproduction -- Science-in-theatre as a means of information transmittal -- Another case history from science-in-theatre -- Is Science Dangerous? / Technology -- Social responsibilities -- Eugenics -- Reproduction: cloning, genes, and stem cells -- Politics -- The Cosmos Above Me, and the Moral Maze Within Me: Astrophysics and Base Research -- Some Reflections / Introduction -- Organization of science -- Relationship between science and technology -- The importance of basic research -- Moral responsibility.

Can Freedom Help to Tackle Global Climate Warming? A View from Biogeochemical Research / The climate we live in -- Drivers of climate warming -- Future climatic scenarios -- A helping hand from planet earth -- Open questions and priorities in the carbon cycle science -- The relevance of ethical and intellectual freedom in tackling global climate warming -- Scientific Freedom in an Evolving World / Nuclear power and Fukushima -- challenges of governance -- Science, governance, and the holoreflexive challenge -- Science and Society: Law and Regulation. Freedom of Research and Constitutional Law: Some Critical Points / Introduction -- Modern constitutions and freedom of science: An overview -- Freedom of science and freedom of speech in the United States -- Observation vs. manipulation.

Balancing freedom of science in the EU: The case of human dignity -- Rights from wrongs and a wrong theory about eugenics -- Patents at the crossroad between IPR, Fundamental rights and scientific research -- An endless story -- Legal Methodologies for Maximizing Freedom of Scientific Research -- Human Tissue Providers for Stem Cell Research: Freedom, Fairness and Financial Recompense / Recompense for ova in SC research -- The impairment of voluntariness -- Undue inducement -- Conclusion -- Ideology, Fundamentalism and Scientific Research / The Future of Scientific Research: Compromises or Ways Forward? / Introduction -- On the freedom of scientific research -- Sensitive areas of science: The case of cell nuclear transfer -- The value of pluralism -- Pluralism and information -- How political initiatives may change the direction of science.

Science, Ethics and the Politics of Scientific Research. Science, Society and Democracy: Freedom of Science as a Catalyzer of Liberty / Science on Western trial -- The Italian nightmare -- The Di Bella affair (1997-98) -- Animal cloning: A five-year ban (1997-2001) -- GMO research and commercialization boycotts (2000-2005) -- Assisted fertilization bad practices and stem cell research prohibitions (2004-2010) -- Science gave rise to liberal democracy: A defense of the right to research -- Conclusions -- Religion and Scientific Freedom / The justification, scope and limits of scientific freedom -- The role of religion in determining policy -- Does religion have a legitimate role in policy making in such a society? -- The religious person -- The religious politician -- The religious organisation -- Real politics? -- Religion and science policy -- Take 2 -- Conclusions.

Should We Strive for Total Scientific Freedom? / What might total scientific freedom look like? -- Reasons to enable scientific freedom -- Braben's reasoning -- Economic arguments -- Reasons to constrain scientific freedom -- Economic arguments -- Ethical reasons -- Weighing the arguments -- The Principle of Plenitude -- The limits of science -- What's Special about Scientific Freedom? / Introduction -- Science ethics and general morality -- Values in science -- Valuing science -- Valuing science and values beyond science -- Protecting scientific freedom -- Conclusions -- Conclusion: A Short History of This Anthology / The journey to this book -- Freedom and science.

Theories of ideology : the powers of alienation and subjection

Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ;

Twisted Preliminaries: The `Ideologistes' and Napoleon -- Ideology as a `natural science' of ideas -- A post-Jacobin state-ideology -- Napoleon's pejorative concept of ideology -- Ideology-Critique and Ideology-Theory According to Marx and Engels -- From `inverted consciousness' to `idealistic superstructures' -- The camera obscura and its critics -- A `naive sensuous empiricism'? -- Excursus to the young Marx's critique of religion -- Camera obscura as metaphor for `idealistic superstructure' -- `Ruling ideas' and `conceptive ideologists' -- The critique of fetishism in the Critique of Political Economy -- From the critique of religion to the critique of fetishism -- From ideology-critique to the critique of `objective thought-forms' -- The wage-form and the `true Eden' of human rights -- Capital-fetishism, the `trinity formula' and the `religion of everyday life' -- The `silent compulsion' of economic rule as ideology? -- `Science' between ideology and ideology-critique -- Did Marx develop a `neutral' concept of ideology? -- Engels's concept of `ideological powers' -- The Concept of Ideology from the Second International to `Marxism-Leninism' -- The repression of a critical concept of ideology -- Lenin: bourgeois or socialist ideology? -- Lenin's `operative' approach: self-determination and hegemony -- Ideology in `Marxist-Leninist' state-philosophy -- `Ideological relationships' in the philosophy of East Germany -- The Concept of Ideology from Lukacs to the Frankfurt School -- Gyorgy Lukacs: ideology as reification -- Horkheimer's and Adorno's critique of the `culture-industry' -- Abandoning the concept of ideology? -- The `gears of an irresistible praxis' -- Ideology as `instrumental reason' and `identitarian thought' -- From Marcuse to Habermas -- and back to Max Weber? -- Taking the sting out of critical theory -- `Commodity-aesthetics' as ideological promise of happiness -- The Concept of Ideology in Gramsci's Theory of Hegemony -- A significant shift in translation -- Gramsci's critical concept of ideology -- The critique of common sense as ideology-critique -- Gramsci's concept of `organic ideology' -- `Ideology' as a category of transition toward a theory of hegemony -- The critique of corporatism and Fordism -- A new type of ideology-critique on the basis of a theory of hegemony -- Louis Althusser: Ideological State-Apparatuses and Subjection -- The relationship to Gramsci -- The theory of ideological state-apparatuses (ISA) -- A debate on `functionalism' -- `Ideology in general' and subject-constitution -- The derivation of the `imaginary' from Spinoza and Lacan -- Lacan's universalisation of subjection and alienation -- Can subjects talk back at interpellations? -- From the Collapse of the Althusser School to Poststructuralism and Postmodernism -- Michel Pecheux's discourse-theoretical development of Althusser's ideology-theory -- The post-Marxist turn of Ernest Laclau and Chantal Mouffe -- Stuart Hall: bridging the theory of hegemony and discourse-analysis -- Michel Foucault's neo-Nietzschean trajectory from ideology to discourse to power -- A peculiar Nietzschean-Heideggerian strand of `anti-humanism' -- The dissolution of Althusser's concept of ideology into `knowledge' -- The substitution of ideology-critique by `fictionalism' -- The introduction of a neo-Nietzschean concept of power -- `Relational power' or `phagocytic essence'? -- Foucault's `dispositif' and the `technologies' of power -- a re-interpretation -- Poststructuralism and postmodernism -- Questions of definition -- Postmodernism's essentialist definition of modernity -- A component of neoliberal ideology? -- Theoretical loss: the dematerialisation of social life -- Pierre Bourdieu: `Field', `Habitus' and `Symbolic Violence' -- The development of the concept of field from the German Ideology -- Field against apparatus? -- Ideology, symbolic violence, habitus -- disentangling a confused arrangement -- Bourdieu's contribution to the development of Althusser's model of interpellation -- A new determinism? -- Ideology-Critique with the Hinterland of a Theory of the Ideological: The `Projekt Ideologietheorie' (PIT) -- The resumption of Marx and Engels's critical concept of ideology -- The ideological at the crossroads of class-domination, state and patriarchy -- `Vergesellschaftung' -- vertical, horizontal, and proto-ideological -- The dialectics of the ideological: compromise-formation, complementarity and antagonistic reclamation of the common -- Fascistic modifications of the ideological -- Policies of extermination and church-struggle in Nazi Germany -- Further ideology-theoretical studies -- Friedrich Hayek and the Ideological Dispositif of Neoliberalism -- The formation of neoliberal hegemony -- Hayek's frontal attack on `social justice' -- Overcoming `economy' by the game of `catallaxy' -- Hayek's construct of `negative' justice -- The religious structure of Hayek's market-radicalism -- A symptomatic contradiction between market-destiny and subject-mobilisation -- State and liberty: neoliberal discourse is permeated by its opposite -- The road to `disciplinary neoliberalism' -- Is the hegemony of neoliberal capitalism exhausted? -- The Unfulfilled Promises of the Late Foucault and Foucauldian `Governmentality-Studies' -- Foucault's mediation of the techniques of domination and of the self -- The enigmatic content of the concept of governmentality -- Eliminating the inner contradictions of neoliberal ideology -- A problematic equation of subjectivation and subjection -- Towards an ideology-theoretical re-interpretation of `governmentality-studies'.

Philosophy and public policy

Say it forward : a guide to social justice storytelling

The Cambridge handbook of human dignity : interdisciplinary perspectives

Philosophy and public policy

Refusal to eat : a century of prison hunger strikes

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