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Reading Speculative Futures in a Post-Truth World [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Faced with the threat of a “post-truth” world and a widening chasm of exchange between climate change deniers and environmentalists, I argue that future-orientated literary and media speculative fictions—which I term “speculative futures”—offer a means ...
Jekanowski, Rachel Webb
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Plato’s Political Thought

open access: yes, 2016
Plato’s political philosophy is the first great theoretical examination of political life and is arguably the core of Plato’s philosophy generally: his most comprehensive and well-known work, the Republic, centers on the basic political question of justice.
Mark Blitz, J. Michael Hoffpauir
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Nationhood and Constitutionalism in the Dutch Republic: An Examination of Grotius' Antiquity of the Batavian Republic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The emphasis in contemporary democratic theory and in the history of political thought on the ‘natural rights’ theory of popular sovereignty of Locke, precursors of which are found in the work of Hugo Grotius and others, obscures
Alexander-Davey, Ethan
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Abul A’la Maududi: Innovator or Restorer of the Islamic Caliphate? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This article reviews the political thought of one of the most important figures during the Islamic resurgence in the 20th century, Abul A’la Maududi.
Islam, Jaan
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Darwin and the Body Politic: Schaffle, Veblen, and the Shift of Biological Metaphor in Economics [PDF]

open access: yes
A long tradition of thought in Western political philosophy compares the body of man to the political body. This traditional cosmological frame of reference was, with the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species, overcome by the emergence of ...
Sophus A. Reinert
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The production of ideas: Notes on Austrian intellectual history from Bolzano to Wittgenstein [PDF]

open access: yes, 1981
This paper takes the form of a series of sketches of 19th century Austrian political and intellectual history, allied with a number of more general reflections designed to contribute to our understanding of some of the peculiar characteristics of ...
Smith, Barry
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The Progressive Ideas of Anna Letitia Barbauld [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In an age of Revolution, when the rights of the individual were being fought for, Anna Letitia Barbauld was at the centre of the ideological debate. This thesis focuses on her political writing; it argues that she was more radical than previously thought.
Trethewey, Rachel Hetty
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