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Should We Control World Population?

By: Diana Coole

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Should We Control World Population?

By: Diana Coole

By 2100, the human population may exceed 11 billion. Having recently surpassed 7.5 billion, it has trebled since 1950. Are such numbers sustainable, given a deepening environmental crisis? Can so many live well? Or should world population be controlled? The population question, one of the twentieth century’s most bitterly contested issues, is being debated once again. In this compelling book, Diana Coole examines some of the profound political and ethical questions involved. Are ethical objections to government interference with individuals’ reproductive freedom definitive? Is it possible to limit population in a non-coercive way that is consistent with liberal-democratic values? Interweaving erudite original analysis with an accessible overview of the crucial debates, Coole argues that a case can be made for reducing our numbers in ways that are compatible with human rights. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in one of the most important questions facing our planet, from concerned citizens to students of politics, sociology, political economy, gender studies and environmental studies.

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1509523448

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Negativity and Politics

Dionysus and Dialectics from Kant to Poststructuralism

By: Diana Coole

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Negativity and Politics

Dionysus and Dialectics from Kant to Poststructuralism

By: Diana Coole

First published in 2000. Although frequently invoked by philosophers and political theorists, the theory of negativity has received remarkably little sustained attention. Negativity and Politics: Dionysus and dialectics from Kant to poststructuralism is the first full length study of this crucial problematic within philosophy and political theory. Diana Coole clearly and skilfully shows how the problem of negativity lies at the heart of philosophical and political debate. First, she explores the meaning of negativity as it appears in modern and postmodern thinking. Second, she sets out the significance of negativity for politics and our understanding of what constitutes the political. A key theme of Negativity and Politics is the recurring hostility between the dialectical use of negativity found in Hegel and running through Marxism and critical theory, and the Dionysian use of negativity as developed by Nietzsche and found in important strands of French thought. Diana Coole shows how the appropriation of negativity in both cases threatens but also informs our understanding of politics and the political. A fascinating and bold intervention in political theory and philosophy, Negativity and Politics will be of interest to all those in politics, philosophy and contemporary social theory.

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Routledge

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1134969198

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Merleau-Ponty and Modern Politics After Anti-Humanism

By: Diana Coole

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Merleau-Ponty and Modern Politics After Anti-Humanism

By: Diana Coole

In this important new book, Diana Coole shows how existential phenomenology illuminates and enlivens our understanding of politics. Merleau-Ponty’s focus on embodied experience allows us to approach political life in a manner that is both critical and engaged. With breadth of vision and penetrating insight, Coole demonstrates that political questions were always central to Merleau-Ponty’s philosophical project. Her examination of his complete body of work presents us with a rigorous philosophy that maintains our capacities for agency despite moving beyond a philosophy of the subject. Merleau-Ponty and Modern Politics after Anti-humanism is the first major work on Merleau-Ponty’s political philosophy in over two decades. Coole presents his later philosophy of flesh as the outline for a new understanding of the political, which forms the basis for reconsidering humanism after, but also through, anti-humanism. She also shows how Merleau-Ponty’s concern with contingency anticipated arguments by thinkers such as Derrida, Foucault and Deleuze, while sustaining a robust sense of politics as the domain of collective life. The result is a philosophical analysis that speaks to our contemporary concerns in which we seek a coherent account of our actions, our environment and ourselves, such that we might become exemplary political actors within a complex and uncertain world.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1461640121

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Should We Control World Population?

By: Diana Coole

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Spirited Histories

Technologies, Media, and Trauma in Paranormal Chile

By: Diana Espírito Santo

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Spirited Histories

Technologies, Media, and Trauma in Paranormal Chile

By: Diana Espírito Santo

Spirited Histories combines ethnography with critical theory to provide a sophisticated exploration of the intersection of haunting and the paranormal with technology, media, and history. Retrieving the past in places of trauma and death can take on many facets. One of these is an attention to hauntings, ghosts, and absences that go with the collective experience of loss and disappearance. People memorialize the dead and their stories in myriad ways. But what about the untold stories, or the forgotten, unnamed? This book explores the ways groups of Chilean paranormal investigators and ghost tour operators produce alternate histories using paranormal machinery, rather than simply theatricalizing pain. It offers a look at technologies, machines, and apparatuses – themselves imbued with a long history of supernatural and scientific expectations – and a social analysis of how certain groups of people marshal the voices of the dead to generate particular micro-histories. This fascinating volume will be of interest to a range of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, history, religious studies, and scholars of technology and new media.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000606384

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The Legere Family of Nova Scotia and France

By: Diana J Muir

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The Legere Family of Nova Scotia and France

By: Diana J Muir

The LeGere family orginally came from the Dijon and Normandy areas of France; descendants of the Merovingian kings and lords of the surrounding region ... the Legere family is spread across the Americas, both in Canada and the United States ..."--Back cover

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Lulu.com

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0359337090

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Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in the Medieval West

By: Diana Webb

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Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in the Medieval West

By: Diana Webb

Pilgrimage was an integral part not only of medieval religion but medieval life, and from its origins in the 4th-century Meditteranean world rapidly spread to northern Europe as a pan-European devotional phenomenon. Drawing upon original source materials, this text seeks to uncover the motives of pilgrims and the details of their preparation, maintenance, hazards on the route, and their ideas about pilgrimage sites - especially Jerusalem, Compostela and Rome - and gives an account of the multiplicity of interest which grew up around the many shrines along the way. The period covered is from about 1000 AD to 1500 AD - before the first crusade and the beginning of the great growth in pilgrimage in the Orthodox church, Byzantine of Russia. The bibliography includes printed sources and a listing of secondary works.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857715666

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Ancestors of Walter Franks and Veola Hill

By: Diana Muir

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Ancestors of Walter Franks and Veola Hill

By: Diana Muir

From the pastrues of Hampshire, England and castles of Bayern, Germany to the hills of North Carolina, the Franks and Hill families sought out new beginnings as they came to the Americas in the 1700s. They fought in every battle in their new home; the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the Korean War and WWI andWW2. Amongst them was John Sevier, originally Xavier from France, his father and uncle stowed away on board a ship and came to the Americas before the Revolution. John Sevier became a leading member of the new westward movement and in 1784 petitioned Congress to create the State of Franklin out of property in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee.

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1387852736

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Merleau-Ponty and Modern Politics After Anti-humanism

By: Diana H. Coole

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Merleau-Ponty and Modern Politics After Anti-humanism

By: Diana H. Coole

In this book, Diana Coole shows how existential phenomenology illuminates and enlivens our understanding of polities. With breadth of vision and penetrating insight, Coole demonstrates that political questions were always central to Merleau-Ponty's philosophical project. She also shows how Merleau-Ponty's concern with contingency anticipated arguments by thinkers such as Derrida, Foucault, and Deleuze, while sustaining a robust sense of politics as the domain of collective life"--Jacket.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742533387

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Negativity and Politics

Dionysus and Dialectics from Kant to Poststructuralism

By: Diana H. Coole

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Negativity and Politics

Dionysus and Dialectics from Kant to Poststructuralism

By: Diana H. Coole

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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0415031761

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9780415031769

The Rainbow Comes and Goes

By: Diana Cooper

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The Rainbow Comes and Goes

By: Diana Cooper

Lady Diana Cooper was a star of the early twentieth stage, screen and social scene. This first instalment of her sparkling autobiography tells of her upbringing, her beautiful artistic mother and aristocratic father, her debut into high society and the glittering parties - 'dancing and extravagance and lashing of wine, and charades and moonlit balconies and kisses' - which were interrupted with the outbreak of the First World War. This volume ends with Diana's marriage to the 'love of her life', diplomat and politician Duff Cooper.

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Random House

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1473549108

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9781473549104

The Light of Common Day

By: Diana Cooper

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The Light of Common Day

By: Diana Cooper

Lady Diana Cooper had been famous from her earliest youth, the subject of gossip and adoration as the queen of the 'Coterie', an exclusive high society set. Her marriage to Duff Cooper, a rising political star, and her career on the stage and in early silent films only increased her notoriety. Her second volume of autobiography chronicles these years in the run-up to the Second World War, and her adventures as an unconventional hostess, actress, wife and mother are told in typically fast-paced, witty and brilliant style.

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1473549086

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Trumpets from the Steep

By: Diana Cooper

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Trumpets from the Steep

By: Diana Cooper

This last volume of Lady Diana Cooper's memoirs covers the years of the Second World War and its aftermath, when her husband Duff Cooper served as Minister of Information and then in various diplomat posts around the world. We accompany the Coopers on their travels from the Dorchester Hotel during the breathless days of the Blitz, to a happy sojourn farming in Sussex, to Singapore and Algiers and eventual retirement to France, all told with Diana's unique perspective and enchanting style.

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1473549094

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In the Wings

A Memoir

By: Diana Douglas

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In the Wings

A Memoir

By: Diana Douglas

An autobiography by the stage actress, ex-wife of Kirk Douglas and mother of Michael Douglas.

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1569801517

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Autobiography

By: Diana Cooper

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Autobiography

By: Diana Cooper

Lady Diana Cooper recounts her childhood, marriage, and experiences during both World Wars, and describes her friendships with Churchill, Edward VIII, and other prominent Britons

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Carroll & Graf Pub

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0881841315

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9780881841312

Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter

A Biography

By: Diana Souhami

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Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter

A Biography

By: Diana Souhami

Alice Keppel, the married lover of Queen Victoria's eldest son and great-grandmother to Camilla Parker-Bowles, was a key figure in Edwardian society. Hers was the acceptable face of adultery. Discretion was her hallmark. It was her art to be the king's mistress and yet to laud the Royal Family and the institution of marriage. Formidable and manipulative, her attentions to the king brought her wealth, power, and status. Her daughter Violet Trefusis had a long tempestuous affair with the author and aristocrat Vita Sackville-West, during which Vita left her husband and two sons to travel abroad with Violet. It was a liaison that threatened the fabric of Violet's social world, and her passion and recalcitrance in pursuit of it pitted her against her mother and society. From memoirs, diaries, and letters, Diana Souhami portrays this fascinating and intense mother/daughter relationship in Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Her story of these women, their lovers, and their lovers' mothers, highlights Edwardian - and contemporary - duplicity and double standards and goes to the heart of questions about sexual freedoms.

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1466883502

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Book's by Diana Coole

Should We Control World Population?

Should We Control World Population?

Negativity and Politics

Negativity and Politics

Merleau-Ponty and Modern Politics After Anti-Humanism

Merleau-Ponty and Modern Politics After Anti-Humanism

Should We Control World Population?

Should We Control World Population?

Spirited Histories

Spirited Histories

The Legere Family of Nova Scotia and France

The Legere Family of Nova Scotia and France

Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in the Medieval West

Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in the Medieval West

Ancestors of Walter Franks and Veola Hill

Ancestors of Walter Franks and Veola Hill

Merleau-Ponty and Modern Politics After Anti-humanism

Merleau-Ponty and Modern Politics After Anti-humanism

Negativity and Politics

Negativity and Politics

The Rainbow Comes and Goes

The Rainbow Comes and Goes

The Light of Common Day

The Light of Common Day

Trumpets from the Steep

Trumpets from the Steep

In the Wings

In the Wings

Autobiography

Autobiography

Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter

Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter

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