Landmark analysis of authority written in Nazi-occupied France In The Notion of Authority, written in the 1940s in Nazi-occupied France, Alexandre Kojève uncovers the conceptual premises of four primary models of authority, examining the practical application of their derivative variations from the Enlightenment to Vichy France. This foundational text, translated here into Engl...(展开全部)

Landmark analysis of authority written in Nazi-occupied France In The Notion of Authority, written in the 1940s in Nazi-occupied France, Alexandre Kojève uncovers the conceptual premises of four primary models of authority, examining the practical application of their derivative variations from the Enlightenment to Vichy France. This foundational text, translated here into Engl...(展开全部)

The Nature of Authority provides a comprehensive theory of the nature of authoritative guidance. It argues that the following claims exhaust the constitutive properties of authoritative tellings: authoritative tellings (1) tell subjects what to do; (2) give rise to reasons to comply; (3) are issued by personal beings and govern the behavior of personal beings; (4) are issued by...(展开全部)

Dale Dorsey considers one of the most fundamental questions in philosophical ethics: to what extent do the demands of morality have normative authority over us and our lives? Must we conform to moral requirements? Most who have addressed this question have treated the normative significance of morality as simply a fact to be explained. But Dorsey argues that this traditional as...(展开全部)

Authority is one of the key issues in political studies, for the question of by what right one person or several persons govern others is at the very root of political activity. In selecting key readings for this volume Joseph Raz concerns himself primarily with the moral aspect of political authority, choosing pieces that examine its justification, determine who is subject to ...(展开全部)

A bold, provocative collection of essays on one of the most urgent questions of our time: What is authority when everyone has an opinion on everything? Since her canonical 2017 essay “On Liking Women,” the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Andrea Long Chu has established herself as a public intellectual straight out of the 1960s. With devastating wit and polemical clarity, she defi...(展开全部)

This classic collection of essays, first published in 1979, has had an enduring influence on philosophical work on the nature of law and its relation to morality. Raz begins by presenting an analysis of the concept of authority and what is involved in law's claim to moral authority. He then develops a detailed explanation of the nature of law and legal systems, presenting a s...(展开全部)

Combining literary, cultural, and political history, and based on extensive archival research, including previously unseen FBI and CIA documents, "Archives of Authority" argues that cultural politics - specifically America's often covert patronage of the arts - played a highly important role in the transfer of imperial authority from Britain to the United States during a critic...(展开全部)

约瑟夫．拉兹（Joseph Raz），牛津大学法哲学教授、巴利奥尔学院（Balliol College）研究员，哥伦比亚大学法学院法理学访问教授。主要从事法律、道德和政治哲学教学与研究工作，在法理学、政治哲学、道德与实践理性领域颇有建树。拉兹是当代道德、法律与政治领域最杰出的学者之一。 拉兹1963年毕业于耶路撒冷希伯来大学；1967年获牛津大学哲学博士学位；1972年成为牛津大学巴利奥尔学院法学研究员和导师；自1977年在哲学系工作，1985年牛津大学为了表彰拉兹在法哲学领域的杰出贡献，专门为他新设了一个学术职位：法哲学教授。拉兹曾先后在多所著名大学做过访问教授，如洛克菲勒大学，加利福尼亚大学，耶鲁大学，普林斯顿大学，密歇根大学，澳大利亚国家学院，等。 拉兹是英国研究院研究员、美国人文与自然科学院名誉会员。主要著作有：《法律体系的概念——一种法律体...(展开全部)

Some of the best interpretations and evaluations of Merleau-Ponty's innovative notions of chiasm and flesh are presented here by prominent scholars from the United States and Europe. Divided into three sections, the book first establishes the notion of the flesh as a consistent concept and unfolds the nuances of flesh that make it a compelling idea. The second section adds to t...(展开全部)