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Estudios sobre la libertad en América

de la Federación Republicana al desafío igualitario de la democracia

Ricardo Cueva Fernández es doctor en Derecho por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) con la tesis "De los niveladores a Marbury vs. Madison: la genésis de la democracia constitucional", publicada por el Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales (CEPC) en el año 2011 y ...

La nueva Jerusalén

La Nueva Jerusalén es uno de los libros de viajes de Chesterton, junto a “Lo que vi en los Estados Unidos” e “Impresiones irlandesas”, publicado en esta editorial. Chesterton fue un viajero singular. Más que comentar lo que veía, como si fuera un guía de ...

Self-consciousness and objectivity

an introduction to absolute idealism

Self-Consciousness and Objectivity undermines a foundational dogma of contemporary philosophy: that knowledge, in order to be objective, must be knowledge of something that is as it is, independent of being known to be so. Sebastian Rödl revives the thought—as ancient as philosophy but largely ...

The origins of happiness

the science of well-being over the life course

What makes people happy? Why should governments care about people's well-being? How would policy change if well-being was the main objective? The Origins of Happiness seeks to revolutionize how we think about human priorities and to promote public policy changes that are based on ...

The Age of Machinery

engineering the Industrial Revolution, 1770-1850

The engineers who built the first generations of modern textile machines, between 1770 and 1850, pushed at the boundaries of possibility. This book investigates these pioneering machine-makers, almost all working within textile communities in northern England, and the industry they created. It probes their origins ...

Law and legitimacy in the Supreme Court

Why do self-proclaimed constitutional "originalists" so regularly reach decisions with a politically conservative valence? Do "living constitutionalists" claim a license to reach whatever results they prefer, without regard to the Constitution’s language and history? In confronting these questions, Richard H. Fallon reframes and ultimately ...

The truth machine

the blockchain and the future of everything

The co-authors of The Age of Cryptocurrency demystify the blockchain, a new kind of operating system with the potential to revolutionize the vast swaths of our economy, explaining the ways in which it can restore personal control over our data, assets and identities and shift ...

Skin in the game

hidden asymmetries in daily life

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost ...

A new politics from the left

Millions passionately desire a viable alternative to austerity and neoliberalism, but they are sceptical of traditional leftist top-down state solutions. In this urgent polemic, Hilary Wainwright argues that this requires a new politics for the left that comes from the bottom up, based on participatory ...

Rethinking Holocaust justice

essays across disciplines

Since the end of World War II, the ongoing efforts aimed at criminal prosecution, restitution, and other forms of justice in the wake of the Holocaust have constituted one of the most significant episodes in the history of human rights and international law. As such ...

Causalidad y normatividad

Los filósofos analíticos que desde Hume guillotinan la realidad afirmando la irrelación entre ser y deber ser, en tanto que gran división que deja al descubierto la falacia naturalista consistente en inferir normas de hechos, no suelen tener presente la complejidad y heterogenidad del universo ...

La polémica sobre la codificación

Si bien las nociones vertidas por Savigny se dirigen hacia un tiempo anterior al del finalmente Burgerliche Gesetzbuc aleman de 1896.

El Derecho como hecho

El Derecho, como conjunto de normas obligatorias para los miembros de una comunidad, parece ser la definicion mas generalizada.

Personas con discapacidad

miradas jurídicas en clave convencional

Creo que esta obra contribuirá al propósito que ha animado a los Estados al adoptar la Convención sobre los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad, ya que da a conocer la situación de estas personas en la actualidad de la mano de los autores, que ...

A Macat analysis of Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: economic change and military conflict from 1500-2000

Paul Kennedy owes a great deal to the editor who persuaded him to add a final chapter to this study of the factors that contributed to the rise and fall of European powers since the age of Spain's Philip II. This tailpiece indulged in ...

A Macat analysis of Robert D. Putnam's Bowling alone: the collapse and revival of american community

American political scientist Robert Putnam wasn't the first person to recognize that social capital - the relationships between people that allow communities to function well - is the grease that oils the wheels of society. But by publishing Bowling Alone, he moved the debate from one ...

A Macat analysis of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract

Few people can claim to have had minds as fertile and creative as the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. One of the most influential political theorists of the modern age, he was also a composer and writer of opera, a novelist, and a memoirist whose Confessions ...

A Macat analysis of John Locke's Two Treatises of Government

John Locke's 1689 Two Treatises of Government is a key text in the history of political theory - one whose influence remains marked on modern politics, the American Constitution and beyond. Two Treatises is more than a seminal work on the nature and legitimacy of ...

A Macat analysis of Bernard Bailyn's The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Historians of the American Revolution had always seen the struggle for independence either as a conflict sparked by heavyweight ideology, or as a war between opposing social groups acting out of self-interest. In The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, Bernard Bailyn begged to differ ...

A Macat analysis of Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience

In Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau looks at old issues in new ways, asking: is there ever a time when individuals should actively oppose their government and its justice system? After a thorough review of the evidence, Thoreau comes to the conclusion that opposition is ...