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The justification of religious violence

The Justification of Religious Violence explores how justifications for religious violence are developed and how or if they differ from secular justifications of violence. Can liberal societies tolerate potentially violent religious groups? Can those who accept religious justifications for violence be dissuaded from acting violently ...

Wittgenstein

rules, grammar and necessity. Vol.2: Of an analytical commentary on the philosophical investigations, essays and exegesis 185-242

The Second Edition of Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity (the second volume of the landmark analytical commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations ) now includes extensively revised and supplemented coverage of the Wittgenstein's complex and controversial remarks on following rules. Includes thoroughly rewritten essays and ...

The global promise of federalism

The Global Promise of Federalism honours the life and work of Richard Simeon, one of Canada's foremost experts on federalism. It features a group of distinguished scholars of federalism from Canada and abroad who take up some of the fundamental questions at the heart ...

Constitutions in authoritarian regimes

Constitutions in authoritarian regimes are often denigrated as meaningless exercises in political theater. Yet the burgeoning literature on authoritarian regimes more broadly has produced a wealth of insights into particular institutions such as legislatures, courts and elections; into regime practices such as co-optation and repression ...

Why nudge?

the politics of libertarian paternalism

Based on a series of path breaking lectures given at Yale University in 2012, this powerful, thought-provoking work by national best-selling author Cass R. Sunstein combines legal theory with behavioural economics to make a fresh argument about the legitimate scope of government, bearing on obesity ...

Existentialism

an introduction

Existentialism: An Introduction provides an accessible and scholarly introduction to the core ideas of the existentialist tradition. Kevin Aho draws on a wide range of existentialist thinkers in chapters centering on the key themes of freedom, being-in-the-world, alienation, nihilism, anxiety and authenticity. He also addresses ...

El abogado 3.0

El otro día hablaba con una amiga mía abogada, madre de una niña de 9 años, cogió el código civil que tenía su madre encima de la mesa y le dijo: “Mami, esto ¿qué es? ¿Un libro de tweets?. Esta nueva generación a nacido ya ...

La agonía de la II República

del golpe de Casado al final de la Guerra

«En el día de hoy, cautivo y desarmado el Ejército Rojo, han alcanzado las tropas nacionales sus últimos objetivos militares. La guerra ha terminado». Franco comenzó a redactar este parte de la victoria del 1 de abril de 1939, el único que escribió de su ...

La muerte en el nordeste de la Corona de Castilla a finales de la Edad Media

estudios y documentos

Este libro es el resultado final del proyecto de investigación titulado «El discurso de la muerte en el Nordeste de la Corona de Castilla en la Edad Media» y financiado por la Universidad del País Vasco (EHU06/06). Ese nordeste de la Corona de Castilla ...

Costumbre democrática

debates liberales sobre fueros vascos, 1837-1868

Aunque la potencia que ha tenido el nacionalismo y el tradicionalismo en el País Vasco ha opacado históricamente su presencia, también hubo una tradición foral del progresismo que se transmitió al republicanismo y al federalismo y, posteriormente, al socialismo. Costumbre democrática es un sintagma que ...

'En tiempo de ruidos e bandos'

Nuevos textos para el estudio de los linajes vizcaínos: los Barroeta de la merindad de Marquina (1355-1547)

Este libro es un nuevo resultado del trabajo en equipo del grupo de investigación que, desde la Facultad de Letras de la Universidad del País Vasco en Vitoria, tiene el propósito de avanzar en el conocimiento histórico de las transformaciones económicas, sociales, políticas, ideológicas y ...

Discours et fragments

Carrefour de peuples et de cultures différentes, la cité de Gaza, à la veille de la conquête arabe (634), abrita une vie intellectuelle raffinée et créative, ouverte au dialogue entre traditions littéraires et religieuses hétérogènes. Premier d'une série dédiée à la redécouverte de ce ...

Principles of Equity

Henry Home, Lord Kames, was the complete 'Enlightenment man', concerned with the full spectrum of human knowledge and its social use. However, as a lawyer and, after 1752, as a judge on the Court of Session in Edinburgh, he made many of his most distinctive ...

Europe's contending identities

supranationalism, ethnoregionalism, religion, and new nationalism

How 'European' are Europeans? Is it possible to balance national citizenship with belonging to the European Union overall? Do feelings of citizenship and belonging respond to affiliations to regions, religions or reactionary politics? Unlike previous volumes about identity in Europe, this book offers a more ...

An environmental history of Medieval Europe

How did medieval Europeans use and change their environments, think about the natural world, and try to handle the natural forces affecting their lives? This groundbreaking environmental history examines medieval relationships with the natural world from the perspective of social ecology, viewing human society as ...

State, faith, and Nation in Ottoman and Post-ottoman Lands

Current standard narratives of Ottoman, Balkan, and Middle East history overemphasise the role of nationalism in the transformation of the region. Challenging these accounts, this book argues that religious affiliation was in fact the most influential shaper of communal identity in the Ottoman era, that ...

Holy warriors

the religious ideology of chivalry

The medieval code of chivalry demanded that warrior elites demonstrate fierce courage in battle, display prowess with weaponry, and avenge any strike against their honor. They were also required to be devout Christians. How, then, could knights pledge fealty to the Prince of Peace, who ...

The last trojan hero

a cultural history of Virgil's Aeneid

"I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores". The resonant opening lines of Virgil's Aeneid rank among the most ...

Derecho Civil Navarro Tomo II

Derecho de familia. Donaciones y sucesiones.

La Compilación del Derecho Privado Foral o Fuero Nuevo Navarro, recoge el vigente Derecho civil del Antiguo Reino , conforme a la tradición y la observancia práctica de sus costumbres, Fueros y Leyes. Así lo proclama su primera Ley reconociendo la propia actualidad y vigencia. El ...

Derecho internacional de los Derechos Humanos manifestaciones, violaciones y respuestas actuales

Si bien la temática de los Derechos Humanos, incluidos su necesario respeto y sus modalidades e instrumentos de tutela, constituye un área de estudio cada vez mas explorada, tanto la mayor visibilidad, conciencia y desarrollo de muchos derechos, como las nuevas posibilidades de vulneración propias ...