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Free Speech and the State

An Unprincipled Approach

By: David van Mill

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Free Speech and the State

An Unprincipled Approach

By: David van Mill

This book addresses the question: “What should be the appropriate limits to free speech?” The author claims that it is the state, rather than abstract principles, that must provide the answer. The book defends a version of Hobbesian absolutism and rejects the dominant liberal idea that there is a right (human or civil) setting the boundaries of free speech. This liberal view can be known as the “principled defence of free speech”, in which speech is established as a constitutional principle that has priority over the state. The author instead offers an “unprincipled approach to free speech”, suggesting that the boundaries of speech must necessarily be set by the state, which in liberal democracies means through social and political contestation. The final chapter applies the argument to the topic of hate speech and argues that it is appropriate to limit such speech when it causes harm and offense. The book will be of use to students and scholars across political theory, political science, sociology, philosophy and law.

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Deliberation, Social Choice and Absolutist Democracy

By: David van Mill

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Deliberation, Social Choice and Absolutist Democracy

By: David van Mill

Social choice theory and theories of deliberative discourse have deeply impacted on the way political scientists understand the dynamics of democratic politics and decision-making. Deliberation, Social Choice and Absolutist Democracy addresses the dispute between these competing schools of thought. Deliberative democracy and social choice theorists offer the two dominant and competing conceptions of participation in contemporary democratic theory. With the former holding that theories of discourse tell us that through the democratic process we can arrive at consensus, rational outcomes and even principles of justice, while the latter suggest that fair and equal participation is more likely to lead to instability and irrational outcomes. With an in-depth examination of social choice theory and deliberative democracy, David van Mill: presents two case studies on the American Continental Congress 1774-1789 provides an assessment of the types of institutions that will promote radical democracy and create stable outcomes with the minimum sacrifice of the freedom and equality of participants defends a more radical idea of absolutist democracy, gleaned from the writings of Hobbes, against the claims made in favour of limited constitutional government. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of political theory, particularly those with an interest in democracy and social choice theory.

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1134166842

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Deliberation, Social Choice and Absolutist Democracy

By: David van Mill

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Ethnic Diversity and the Nation State

National Cultural Autonomy Revisited

By: David James Smith,John Hiden

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Ethnic Diversity and the Nation State

National Cultural Autonomy Revisited

By: David James Smith,John Hiden

This book explores a largely forgotten legacy of multicultural political thought and practice from within Eastern Europe and examines its relevance to post-Cold War debates on state and nationhood. Featuring a Preface by former UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke, it weaves theory and practice to challenge established understandings of the nation state. Eastern Europe is still too often viewed through the prism of ethnic conflict, which overlooks the region’s positive contribution to modern debates on the political management of ethno-cultural diversity, and towards the construction of a united Europe ‘beyond the nation-state’. Based on extensive archival research in Estonia, Latvia, Germany, Russia, as well as the League of Nations Archive in Geneva, this book explores this neglected multicultural legacy and assesses its significance in the post-Cold War era, which has seen the reappearance of national cultural autonomy laws in several states of Eastern Europe. Ethnic Diversity and the Nation Stateis invaluable reading for students and scholars of political science, history, sociology and European studies, and also for policy makers and others interested in minority rights and ethnic conflict regulation.

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0415696909

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Liberty, Rationality, and Agency in Hobbes's Leviathan

By: David van Mill

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Liberty, Rationality, and Agency in Hobbes's Leviathan

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A new interpretation of the theory of Hobbes.

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SUNY Press

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079145035X

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9780791450352

Non-metrisable Manifolds

By: David Gauld

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Non-metrisable Manifolds

By: David Gauld

Manifolds fall naturally into two classes depending on whether they can be fitted with a distance measuring function or not. The former, metrisable manifolds, and especially compact manifolds, have been intensively studied by topologists for over a century, whereas the latter, non-metrisable manifolds, are much more abundant but have a more modest history, having become of increasing interest only over the past 40 years or so. The first book on this topic, this book ranges from criteria for metrisability, dynamics on non-metrisable manifolds, Nyikos’s Bagpipe Theorem and whether perfectly normal manifolds are metrisable to structures on manifolds, especially the abundance of exotic differential structures and the dearth of foliations on the long plane. A rigid foliation of the Euclidean plane is described. This book is intended for graduate students and mathematicians who are curious about manifolds beyond the metrisability wall, and especially the use of Set Theory as a tool.

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9812872574

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Free Speech and the State

An Unprincipled Approach

By: David van Mill

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An Unprincipled Approach

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Nanoparticle- and Microparticle-based Delivery Systems

Encapsulation, Protection and Release of Active Compounds

By: David Julian McClements

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Nanoparticle- and Microparticle-based Delivery Systems

Encapsulation, Protection and Release of Active Compounds

By: David Julian McClements

Recent developments in nanoparticle and microparticle delivery systems are revolutionizing delivery systems in the food industry. These developments have the potential to solve many of the technical challenges involved in creating encapsulation, protection, and delivery of active ingredients, such as colors, flavors, preservatives, vitamins, minera

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CRC Press

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1482233169

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Towards a Philosophy of Real Mathematics

By: David Corfield

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Towards a Philosophy of Real Mathematics

By: David Corfield

In this ambitious study, David Corfield attacks the widely held view that it is the nature of mathematical knowledge which has shaped the way in which mathematics is treated philosophically and claims that contingent factors have brought us to the present thematically limited discipline. Illustrating his discussion with a wealth of examples, he sets out a variety of approaches to new thinking about the philosophy of mathematics, ranging from an exploration of whether computers producing mathematical proofs or conjectures are doing real mathematics, to the use of analogy, the prospects for a Bayesian confirmation theory, the notion of a mathematical research programme and the ways in which new concepts are justified. His inspiring book challenges both philosophers and mathematicians to develop the broadest and richest philosophical resources for work in their disciplines and points clearly to the ways in which this can be done.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139436392

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Religious Pluralism and Political Stability

Obligations in Agreement

By: David Golemboski

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Religious Pluralism and Political Stability

Obligations in Agreement

By: David Golemboski

This book argues that the principles and institutions of political liberalism are necessary conditions for achieving reliable stability amid conditions of pluralism. Only a political system of this sort can bring citizens’ moral, religious, and political loyalties into robust agreement. Through an analysis that encompasses normative political theory and American constitutional law, David Golemboski illustrates the implications of this conclusion by examining contemporary legal debates in law and religion. By developing a fresh perspective on how legal frameworks for religious exercise and establishment can ameliorate conflict and enhance the stability of a liberal constitution, this book demonstrates that political systems need not subordinate or sacrifice important liberal priorities in favor of stability. Rather, those liberal priorities are themselves necessary components of a stable order. Religious Pluralism and Political Stability will be of interest to scholars across the fields of political philosophy, legal theory, and constitutional law who have an interest in religion.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000618234

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Blown by the Spirit

Puritanism and the Emergence of an Antinomian Underground in Pre-Civil-War England

By: David R. Como

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Blown by the Spirit

Puritanism and the Emergence of an Antinomian Underground in Pre-Civil-War England

By: David R. Como

This study explores the intersection of politics, religious thought, and religious culture in pre-revolutionary England, using hitherto unknown or overlooked manuscripts and printed material to reconstruct and contextualize a forgotten but highly significant antinomian religious subculture that evolved at the margins of the early seventeenth-century puritan community. By reconstructing this story, Blown by the Spirit offers a major revision of current understanding of Puritanism and the puritan community. In the process, the author illuminates the obscure and tangled question of the origins of civil-war radicalism, thereby helping to explain the course, consequences, and ultimate failure of the English revolution.

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Stanford University Press

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080478812X

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Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory

By: Jason Glynos,David Howarth

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Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory

By: Jason Glynos,David Howarth

This book develops a novel approach to critical explanation as a function of logics, taking a distinctive approach to social science explanation, and political studies more specifically, which avoids the problem of scientism.

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Routledge

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1134138369

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Citizenship and National Identity

By: David l. Miller

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Citizenship and National Identity

By: David l. Miller

A good political community is one whose citizens are actively engaged in deciding their common future together. Bound together by ties of national solidarity, they discover and implement principles of justice that all can share, and in doing so they respect the separate identities of minority groups within the community. In the essays collected in this book, David Miller shows that such an ideal is not only desirable, but feasible. He explains how active citizenship on the republican model differs from liberal citizenship, and why it serves disadvantaged groups better than currently fashionable forms of identity politics. By deliberating freely with one another, citizens can reach decisions on matters of public policy that are both rational and fair. He couples this with a robust defence of the principle of nationality, arguing that a shared national identity is necessary to motivate citizens to work together in the name of justice. Attempts to create transnational forms of citizenship, in Europe and elsewhere, are therefore misguided. He shows that the principle of nationality can accommodate the demands of minority nations, and does not lead to a secessionist free-for-all. And finally he demonstrates that national self-determination need not be achieved at the expense of global justice. This is a powerful statement from a leading political theorist that not only extends our understanding of citizenship, nationality and deliberative democracy, but engages with current political debates about identity politics, minority nationalisms and European integration.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745667937

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Liberty Reader

By: David Miller

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Liberty Reader

By: David Miller

For centuries past, the quest for liberty has driven political movements across the globe, inspiring revolutions in America, France, China and many other countries. Now, we have Iraq and the idea of liberation through preemption. What is this liberty that is so fervently pursued? Does it mean a private space for individuals, the capacity for free and rational choice, or collective self-rule? What is the difference between positive and negative liberty, or the relationship between freedom and coercion? Reflecting on these questions reveals a surprisingly rich landscape of ideas - and further questions. "The Liberty Reader" collects twelve of the most important and insightful essays on issues of freedom currently available. It is essential reading for students of social and political theory, political philosophy, and anyone who wants a deeper understanding of the variety of ideas and ideals behind perennial human strivings for liberty.

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1351560255

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Power, Pleasure, and Profit

Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison

By: David Wootton

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Power, Pleasure, and Profit

Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison

By: David Wootton

A provocative history of the changing values that have given rise to our present discontents. We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much as we can get, and we deploy instrumental reasoning—cost-benefit analysis—to get it. We judge ourselves and others by how well we succeed. It is a way of life and thought that seems natural, inevitable, and inescapable. As David Wootton shows, it is anything but. In Power, Pleasure, and Profit, he traces an intellectual and cultural revolution that replaced the older systems of Aristotelian ethics and Christian morality with the iron cage of instrumental reasoning that now gives shape and purpose to our lives. Wootton guides us through four centuries of Western thought—from Machiavelli to Madison—to show how new ideas about politics, ethics, and economics stepped into a gap opened up by religious conflict and the Scientific Revolution. As ideas about godliness and Aristotelian virtue faded, theories about the rational pursuit of power, pleasure, and profit moved to the fore in the work of writers both obscure and as famous as Hobbes, Locke, and Adam Smith. The new instrumental reasoning cut through old codes of status and rank, enabling the emergence of movements for liberty and equality. But it also helped to create a world in which virtue, honor, shame, and guilt count for almost nothing, and what matters is success. Is our world better for the rise of instrumental reasoning? To answer that question, Wootton writes, we must first recognize that we live in its grip.

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Belknap Press

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0674976673

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Liberty, Rationality, and Agency in Hobbes's Leviathan

By: David Van Mill

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Liberty, Rationality, and Agency in Hobbes's Leviathan

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A new interpretation of the theory of Hobbes.

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Free Speech and the State

Free Speech and the State

Deliberation, Social Choice and Absolutist Democracy

Deliberation, Social Choice and Absolutist Democracy

Deliberation, Social Choice and Absolutist Democracy

Deliberation, Social Choice and Absolutist Democracy

Ethnic Diversity and the Nation State

Ethnic Diversity and the Nation State

Liberty, Rationality, and Agency in Hobbes's Leviathan

Liberty, Rationality, and Agency in Hobbes's Leviathan

Non-metrisable Manifolds

Non-metrisable Manifolds

Free Speech and the State

Free Speech and the State

Nanoparticle- and Microparticle-based Delivery Systems

Nanoparticle- and Microparticle-based Delivery Systems

Towards a Philosophy of Real Mathematics

Towards a Philosophy of Real Mathematics

Religious Pluralism and Political Stability

Religious Pluralism and Political Stability

Blown by the Spirit

Blown by the Spirit

Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory

Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory

Citizenship and National Identity

Citizenship and National Identity

Liberty Reader

Liberty Reader

Power, Pleasure, and Profit

Power, Pleasure, and Profit

Liberty, Rationality, and Agency in Hobbes's Leviathan

Liberty, Rationality, and Agency in Hobbes's Leviathan

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