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The First German Philosopher : The Mysticism of Jakob Böhme as Interpreted by Hegel
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ISBN: 9401773386 9401773394 Year: 2016 Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,

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This book investigates Hegel’s interpretation of the mystical philosophy of Jakob Böhme (1575-1624), considered in the context of the reception of Böhme in the 18th and 19th centuries, and of Hegel’s own understanding of mysticism as a philosophical approach. The three sections of this book present: the historical background of Hegel’s encounter with Böhme’s writings; the development of two different conceptions of mysticism in Hegel’s work; and finally Hegel’s approach to Böhme’s philosophy, discussing in detail the references to Böhme both in published writings and manuscripts. According to Hegel, Böhme is “the first German philosopher”. The reason for placing Böhme at the very beginning of German philosophy is that Hegel considers him to be a profound thinker, despite his rudimentary education. Hegel’s fascination with Böhme mainly concerns the mystic’s understanding of the symbiotic relation between God and his opposite, the Devil: he considers this to be the true speculative core of Böhme’s thought. By interpreting Böhme, Hegel intends to free the speculative content of his thought from the limitations of the inadequate, barbarous form in which the mystic expressed it, and also to liberate Böhme from the prejudices surrounding his writings, placing him firmly in the territory of philosophy and detaching him from the obscurity of esotericism. Combining historical reconstructions and philosophical argumentation, this book guides the reader through an important phase in German philosophy, and ultimately into an inquiry about the relationship between mysticism and philosophy itself.


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Molière et le théâtre arabe : Réception moliéresque et identités nationales arabes
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ISBN: 3110578654 3110436841 3110434458 3110442345 311043685X Year: 2016 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,

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Aucun pays n'est resté indifférent au génie de Molière, ses pièces ne cessant d'être traduites, adaptées et jouées de par le monde. Plus qu'ailleurs, ses oeuvres ont eu un impact décisif dans le polysystème culturel du monde arabe puisque l'introduction du théâtre occidental dans les pays arabes s'est faite essentiellement par le biais des adaptations du répertoire moliéresque. Considéré encore aujourd'hui par certains comme le «parrain du théâtre arabe», Molière arrive dans la culture arabe grâce à une adaptation de L'Avare en 1847 par le libanais Marun Naqqaš: à partir de ce moment, la dramaturgie arabe ne manquera de puiser largement à la production moliéresque. À travers un corpus de pièces arabes provenant du Liban, de l'Egypte, de la Tunisie et du Maroc, composées pour la plupart en arabe dialectal, ce travail entend définir la place de Molière dans la genèse du théâtre arabe moderne et vérifier si les adaptations ont joué un rôle politique en contribuant à forger l'identité nationale dans les pays arabes. Est-ce un simple fruit du hasard si le nationalisme émerge dans le monde arabe presque parallèlement au théâtre? Molière et le théâtre arabe a reçu en 2016 le Prix d'encouragement à la recherche de l'Académie des sciences d'outre-mer (Paris).


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Global Bioethics: The Impact of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee
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ISBN: 3319226495 3319226509 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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The UNESCO International Bioethics Committee is an international body that sets standards in the field of bioethics. This collection represents the contributions of the IBC to global bioethics. The IBC is a body of 36 independent experts that follows progress in the life sciences and its applications in order to ensure respect for human dignity and freedom. Currently, some of the topics of the IBC contributions have been discussed in the bioethics literature, mostly journal articles. However, this is a unique contribution by the scholars who developed these universal declarations and reports. The contributors have not only provided a scholarly up to date discussion of their research topics, but as members of the IBC they have also discussed specific practical challenges in the development of such international documents. This book will be suited to academics within bioethics, health care policy and international law.

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Ethics Committees --- Bioethics --- International Cooperation --- Professional Staff Committees --- Ethics --- Internationality --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Professional Practice --- Humanities --- Social Sciences --- Quality Assurance, Health Care --- Health Care --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Organization and Administration --- Health Services Administration --- Biology - General --- Biology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Bioethics. --- Globalization. --- World health. --- Unesco. --- Global health --- International health --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- Biomedical ethics --- Life sciences --- Life sciences ethics --- Moral and ethical aspects --- International Bioethics Committee of Unesco --- IBC --- I.B.C. --- CIB --- C.I.B. --- Public health --- Medical geography --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Science --- International cooperation --- Ethics. --- Medical ethics. --- Theory of Medicine/Bioethics. --- Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law . --- Clinical ethics --- Ethics, Medical --- Health care ethics --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Professional ethics --- Nursing ethics --- Social medicine --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- Private international law. --- Conflict of laws. --- Choice of law --- Conflict of laws --- Intermunicipal law --- International law, Private --- International private law --- Private international law --- Law --- Legal polycentricity --- Civil law


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The sleeping sovereign : the invention of modern democracy
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ISBN: 9781107570580 9781107130142 1107570581 9781316417782 110713014X 1316427064 1316424332 1316417786 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Richard Tuck traces the history of the distinction between sovereignty and government and its relevance to the development of democratic thought. Tuck shows that this was a central issue in the political debates of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and provides a new interpretation of the political thought of Bodin, Hobbes and Rousseau. Integrating legal theory and the history of political thought, he also provides one of the first modern histories of the constitutional referendum, and shows the importance of the United States in the history of the referendum. The book derives from the John Robert Seeley Lectures delivered by Richard Tuck at the University of Cambridge in 2012, and will appeal to students and scholars of the history of ideas, political theory and political philosophy.

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Democracy --- Sovereignty --- Referendum --- Ballot initiatives --- Ballot measures --- Initiative and referendum --- Initiatives, Ballot --- Propositions (Referendum) --- Referenda --- Referendums --- Elections --- Representative government and representation --- Direct democracy --- Plebiscite --- State sovereignty (International relations) --- International law --- Political science --- Common heritage of mankind (International law) --- International relations --- Self-determination, National --- Philosophy. --- History. --- Law and legislation --- Bodin, Jean, --- Hobbes, Thomas, --- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, --- Rouseau, Jan Jakub, --- Russo, Zhan Zhak, --- Rousseau, John James, --- Rūssū, Jān Jāk, --- Lu-so, --- Ru-xô, Giăng-Giá̆c, --- Rousseau, Jean Jaques, --- Rousseau, Jean Jeacques, --- Rousseau, J. J. --- Rusō, Jan Jakku, --- Rousseau, Gian Giacomo, --- Ruso, Z'an Z'aḳ, --- Rūcō, --- Citoyen de Genève, --- Citizen of Geneva, --- Roussō, --- Rousseau, --- Rūssō, --- Rousseau, Johann Jacob, --- Руссо, Жан-Жак, --- רוסא, זשאן־זשאק --- רוסא, י׳ן י׳ק, --- רוסו, זאאן זאאק, --- רוסו, ז׳אן־ז׳אק, --- روسو، چان چاك --- روسو، ژان ژاك --- 卢梭, --- Rousseau, Juan Jacobo, --- Rousseau, G. G. --- Ruso, Jan Jak, --- Gobbs, Tomas, --- Hobbs, Thomas, --- Gobbes, Tomas, --- T. H. --- H., T. --- Hobs, Thomas, --- Hobbes, --- Hobbes, Thom. --- Hobbius, Thomas, --- Hobbuzu, Tomasu, --- Huobusi, --- Hobbs, Tho. --- הובס, תומס, --- 霍布斯, --- ホッブズ, トマス, --- I. B. --- Bodin, Johann, --- Bodin, John, --- Bodino, Giovanni, --- Bodinus, Ioannes, --- Bodino, J. --- Bodino, Juan, --- Bodinus, Johannes, --- Bodinus, Joannes, --- Herpin, René, --- Bodin, Iean, --- Bodinus, I. --- Philosophy --- Bodin, Jean, 1530-1596 --- Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 --- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 --- United States --- History --- Hobbes, Thomas --- Rousseau, Jean Jacques --- Rūsaw, Zhān Zhāk, --- Rūsū, Zhān Zhāk, --- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques


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The new confessions of an economic hit man
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ISBN: 1626566763 1626566755 9781626566750 9781626566767 9781626566743 Year: 2016 Publisher: Oakland, CA : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.,

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Shocking Bestseller: The original version of this astonishing tell-all book spent 73 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has sold more than 1.25 million copies, and has been translated into 32 languages. New Revelations: Featuring 15 explosive new chapters, this expanded edition of Perkins's classic bestseller brings the story of economic hit men (EHMs) up to date and, chillingly, home to the US. Over 40 percent of the book is new, including chapters identifying today's EHMs and a detailed chronology extensively documenting EHM activity since the first edition was published in 2004. Former economic hit man John Perkins shares new details about the ways he and others cheated countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Then he reveals how the deadly EHM cancer he helped create has spread far more widely and deeply than ever in the US and everywhere else—to become the dominant system of business, government, and society today. Finally, he gives an insider view of what we each can do to change it. Economic hit men are the shock troops of what Perkins calls the corporatocracy, a vast network of corporations, banks, colluding governments, and the rich and powerful people tied to them. If the EHMs can't maintain the corrupt status quo through nonviolent coercion, the jackal assassins swoop in. The heart of this book is a completely new section, over 100 pages long, that exposes the fact that all the EHM and jackal tools—false economics, false promises, threats, bribes, extortion, debt, deception, coups, assassinations, unbridled military power—are used around the world today exponentially more than during the era Perkins exposed over a decade ago. The material in this new section ranges from the Seychelles, Honduras, Ecuador, and Libya to Turkey, Western Europe, Vietnam, China, and, in perhaps the most unexpected and sinister development, the United States, where the new EHMs—bankers, lobbyists, corporate executives, and others—“con governments and the public into submitting to policies that make the rich richer and the poor poorer.” But as dark as the story gets, this reformed EHM also provides hope. Perkins offers a detailed list of specific actions each of us can take to transform what he calls a failing Death Economy into a Life Economy that provides sustainable abundance for all.

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Intelligence officers --- Economists --- Energy consultants --- Corporations, American --- Imperialism --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Consultants --- Corrupt practices. --- History --- Perkins, John, --- Perkins, John M., --- Perkkin̲s, Jān̲, --- Perkin̲s, Jān̲, --- Jōn, Parkins, --- Перкинс, Джон, --- Perkins, Dzhon, --- United States. --- Chas. T. Main, Inc. --- World Bank --- Main (Chas. T.) inc. --- Main, Inc. --- Charles T. Main, Inc. --- National Security Agency --- NSA --- N.S.A. --- Corrupt practices --- E-books --- Világbank --- Banque internationale pour la reconstruction et le développement --- Mezhdunarodnyĭ bank dli︠a︡ rekonstrukt︠s︡ii i razvitii︠a︡ --- MBRR --- Sekai Ginkō --- Kokusai Fukkō Kaihatsu Ginkō --- Kukche Puhŭng Kaebal Ŭnhaeng --- Segye Ŭnhaeng --- IBRD --- Welt Bank --- Weltbank --- Banque mondiale --- Internationale Bank für Wiederaufbau und Entwicklung --- Banco Internacional de Reconstrucción y Fomento --- Banco Mundial --- B.I.R.D. --- BIRD --- Banca Internațională pentru Reconstrucție și Dezvoltare --- Mirovoĭ Bank --- Svitovyĭ Bank --- Svitovyĭ bank rekonstrukt︠s︡iï i rozvytku --- Verdensbanken --- Międzynarodowy Bank Rozwoju i Odbudowy --- Bank al-Dawlī lil-Inshāʼ wa-al-Taʻmīr --- Bank al-Dawlī --- Världsbanken --- Banca ricostruzione e sviluppo --- Banca di ricostruzione e sviluppo --- BIRF --- I.B.R.D. --- B.I.R.F. --- Shih chieh yin hang --- Shi jie yin hang --- International Bank for Reconstruction and Development --- World Bank Group. World Bank --- Thanākhān Lōk --- Bank Światowy --- Viśva Baiṅka --- Lōka Băṅkuva --- Ngân hàng Thế giới --- Vsemirnyĭ Bank --- Bank Dunia --- Msopʻlio Bankis --- Banca Mondială --- BM --- Prapañca Byāṅku --- Banca mondiale --- Banca internazionale per la ricostruzione e lo sviluppo --- Dhanāgār Bibhab Lok --- البنك الدولي --- بنك الدولي --- 世界銀行 --- 世界银行 --- 国際復興開発銀行 --- Dėlkhiĭn Bank --- Дэлхийн Банк --- Hamashkharhayin Banki --- Svetska Banka --- Wereldbank --- Internationale bank voor herstel en ontwikkeling

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