Libros de

Reflexiones del señor Z

o migajas que dejaba caer, recogidas por sus oyentes

¿Quién es ese tipo con bombín y nombre enigmático que, a lo largo de casi un año entero, se presenta todas las tardes en el mismo rincón del parque para enzarzar a los transeúntes en animadas discusiones? ¿Un sabio? ¿Un charlatán? ¿Un filósofo a la ...

París D.F.

En París D. F. todo empieza con un mapa, mejor, con dos mapas superpuestos. Arturo, el protagonista, es un joven que lleva una vida anodina y que pasea por las calles del Distrito Federal buscando la superficie de los 105 kilómetros cuadrados de París, ese ...

The constitutional foundations of european contract Law

a comparative analysis

Situated within the context of the ongoing debate about European contract law, this book provides a detailed examination of the European Union's competence in the field of contract law. It analyses the limits of Union competence in relation to several relevant Treaty provisions which ...

European foundations of the Welfare State

While social welfare programs, often inspired by international organizations, are spreading throughout the world, the more far-reaching notion of governmental responsibility for the basic well-being of all members of a political society is not, although it remains a feature of Europe and the former British ...

Walls, borders, boundaries

spatial and cultural practices in Europe

How is it that walls, borders, boundaries - and their material and symbolic architectures of division and exclusion - engender their very opposite? This edited volume explores the crossings, permeations, and constructions of cultural and political borders between peoples and territories, examining how walls, borders, and boundaries ...

Shared authority

Courts and legislatures in legal theory

This important new book advances a fresh philosophical account of the relationship between the legislature and courts, opposing the common conception of law, in which it is legislatures that primarily create the law, and courts that primarily apply it. This conception has eclectic affinities with ...

Human Rights in contemporary european Law

This is volume 6 in the series Swedish Studies in European Law. Arising from the work of two well-attended seminars, this new volume concentrates on highly topical issues in European Law - current problems in the enforcement of human rights in Europe, and the Accession of ...

Inclusive economic theory

The goal of "Inclusive Economics" is to tie together various authoritative strands of contemporary economic theory into an easily comprehensible whole that illuminates the need for a broader approach to contemporary economic policymaking undistorted by obsolete 18th century rationalist assumptions about utility, ethics, worthiness and ...

Lobbying

the art of political persuasion

This is a fully revised, updated and expanded third edition. Lobbying is a global industry which thrives wherever democracy is established. This third edition of Lobbying by Lionel Zetter straddles the globe, from the USA to Japan. It covers the Westminster and Scottish Parliaments, and ...

Back to the future of socialism

What's gone wrong with capitalism and how should governments respond? Did Big Government or Big Banking cause the global financial crisis? Is the answer austerity or investment in growth; untrammelled market forces or regulating for the common good? Anthony Crosland's The Future of ...

Alf Ross

a life

On the surface, the life of Alf Ross was a fairy tale; at least he had to go through an awful lot of hardship both in relation to love and work before he became an internationally known and recognized philosopher and legal scholar. But the ...

One-month money

why money ruins our economy - and how reinventing it could end unemployment and inflation forever

Money makes the world go round - until it doesn't. Bankers blunder, governments turn a blind eye and investors just get it plain wrong. But what if there's something else lurking behind all our great recessions and depressions, something operating in the shadows that ...

Don't start from here

we need a banking revolution

MANY OF US FEEL ANGRY about banks and bankers. But why publish a book when there are so many learned papers on bank reform freely available on the web? Answer: To combat white noise and cut to the chase. This little guide is intended as ...

Woman's consciousness, man's world

A groundbreaking contribution to debates on women's oppression and consciousness, and the connections between socialism and feminism. Examining feminist consciousness from various vantage points - social, sexual, cultural and economic - Sheila Rowbotham identifies the social conditions under which it developed, showing how the roles women ...

The next revolution

popular assemblies and the promise of direct democracy

From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy. For more than forty years, Murray Bookchin developed these democratic aspirations into a new left politics based on popular assemblies, influencing a wide range ...

La institucionalización de la razón

la filosofía del Derecho de Robert Alexy

Este libro presenta una reconstrucción integral de la filosofía del derecho de Robert Alexy, entendida como una concepción no-positivista del derecho. Más que el de ningún otro filósofo del derecho contemporáneo, el pensamiento de Alexy, sobre el cual giran la mayoría de las discusiones especializadas ...

La transparencia engaña

El tema es abordado desde una perspectiva abierta a diferentes disciplinas: periodismo, sociología, medios de comunicación, derecho, semiótica, etc. La heterogeneidad de los puntos de vista ha permitido ofrecer una visión extraordinariamente amplia acerca de este concepto desde el espectro de la escritura más científica ...

Alambre de púas

una ecología de la modernidad

Este libro original y polémico rastrea la evolución de una tecnología de control y dolor: el alambre de púas. El historiador y filósofo Reviel Netz describe su uso desde sus inicios para vigilar y custodiar el ganado en el Oeste norteamericano hasta su utilización militar ...

El espacio público como ideología

Urbanistas, arquitectos y diseñadores pueden concebir el espacio público como un vacío entre construcciones que hay que llenar de forma adecuada.

Democracia de papel

crítica al poder, desde la transición hasta la corrupción

La transición —con minúscula, como prefiere el autor— está siendo reconstruida desde diversas perspectivas que, mirando hacia atrás, interpretan cómo ocurrió y lo que significó, pero corren siempre el peligro de dejarse llevar por la fragilidad de la memoria o por la tentación de adaptarlo ...