Erudite and timely, this book is a key contribution to the renewal of radical theory and politics. Addressing the paradox of a contemporary humanitarianism that has abandoned politics in favour of combating evil, Douzinas, a leading scholar and author in the field of human rights and legal theory, considers the most pressing international questions. Asking whether there ‘is an ...(展开全部)

Globalization promises to bring people around the world together, to unite them as members of the human community. To such sanguine expectations, Pheng Cheah responds deftly with a sobering account of how the “inhuman” imperatives of capitalism and technology are transforming our understanding of humanity and its prerogatives. Through an examination of debates about cosmopolita...(展开全部)

The volume brings together a collection of original papers on some of the main tenets of Joseph Raz's legal and political philosophy: Legal positivism and the nature of law, practical reason, authority, the value of equality, incommensurability, harm, group rights, and multiculturalism. James Griffin and Yael Tamir raise questions concerning Raz's notion of group rights and its...(展开全部)

卡尔·威尔曼，美国华盛顿大学圣路易分校法哲学资深教授，美国当代著名法律哲学家，享誉全球的人权理论专家。曾任美国心理协会法律与哲学委员会主席，现担任国际法哲学与社会哲学学会名誉会长。先后撰写了《真正的权利》(Real Rights)，《回应与挑战》(Challenge and Response:Justification in Ethics)，《权利理论》(ATheory of Rights)等多部著作及多篇论文。 肖君拥，湖南邵阳人，法学博士，国际关系学院法律系教授，兼任中国人权研究会理事、中国宪法学研究会理事等。曾出版《人民主权论》《国际人权法讲义》《法治思维》等多部著作，主持《外国宪法选译》等书的译介工作。

This book provides a unique discussion of human evolution from a philosophical viewpoint, looking at the facts and interpretations since Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man. Michael Ruse explores such topics as the nature of scientific theories, the relationships between culture and biology, the problem of progress and the extent to which evolutionary issues pose problems for r...(展开全部)