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John Gray: ‘Americanism’ and the Perversion of Post‐liberalism

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article will make the case for John Gray's inclusion in the canon of post‐liberals despite his protests to the contrary, and will argue that his peculiar post‐liberalism is important for its challenges to the dominance of liberalism as both a political culture and way of theorising the ends of politics based on the model of the American ...
Paul Kelly
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Torture and scepticism in Papua New Guinea witch hunts Torture et scepticisme dans les chasses aux sorcières en Papouasie‐Nouvelle‐Guinée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
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“Nothingness or a God”: Nihilism, Enlightenment, and “Natural Reason” in Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi’s Works [PDF]

Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy, 2013
Our paper analyzes one of the most important philosophical problems of the philosophies of the Enlightenment: the problem of the emergence and the justification of the autonomy of reason. Our study will reflect on the critique of the autonomous reason, a
STEFAN-SEBASTIAN MAFTEI
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PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION AND THE STATUS OF THE WOMAN IN SOCIETY OF THE XVIII CENTURY

Antropologìčnì Vimìri Fìlosofsʹkih Doslìdžen', 2015
The purpose. The objective of this paper is to illustrate how the biological basis of the “natural” male and female characteristics is subjected to doubt in the books of the women-writers - “feminists before feminism” despite the dictatorship of the ...
Olha P. Vlasova, Nataliia P. Kostyuk
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‘Mere Amateurs’? Elementary Teachers and the Making of Scientific Authority in the British Child Study Movement

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers new perspectives on the relationship between elementary teaching, scientific expertise and the professionalization of the human sciences. Previous scholarship has demonstrated the ready existence of ‘amateur’ science societies in the nineteenth century where cross‐class exchanges were common.
Julia Gustavsson
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Revisiting the Political Economy of Agriculture in 21st Century Food Systems

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1932, Joseph Duncan argued in the Journal of Agricultural Economics that agricultural economists should engage more explicitly with politics. Nearly a century later, the political economy of food and agriculture has expanded in both scope and complexity.
Danielle Resnick, Johan Swinnen
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Double‐Edged Bandwagon Effects in International Law—Rationalist and Behavioral Explanations

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines bandwagon effects in international law by integrating rationalist and behavioral perspectives. While the diffusion of treaties and norms has often been understood as a progressive process leading to broader participation and compliance, states also imitate negative examples, resulting in treaty withdrawals, non‐compliance,
Anne van Aaken
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Christian truth and political power in Evelyn Waugh’s Helena [PDF]

Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Серия Филология, Журналистика
The novel Helena (1950) is analyzed as Evelyn Waugh’s profound statement on his most significant problems: the possibility to resolve the crises of the 20th-century consciousness through Christianity and on the nature of power.
Kabanova, Irina Valeryevna
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Why did Putin invade Ukraine? A theory of degenerate autocracy

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Many dictatorships end up with a series of disastrous decisions such as Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union or Saddam Hussein's aggression against Kuwait. Even if a certain policy choice is not ultimately fatal for the regime, such as Mao's Big Leap Forward or the Pol Pot's collectivization drive, they typically involve both a miscalculation ...
Georgy Egorov, Konstantin Sonin
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“For REASON […] is nothing but Reckoning” : the Postulates of Hobbes’s and Descartes’s Rationalism

Revue LISA, 2014
Thomas Hobbes and René Descartes are contemporary authors whose rationalistic approach means to emancipate science from theology. Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651) and Descartes’s Discours de la méthode (1637) expound a method which is supposed to account for ...
Jean-Marc Chadelat
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