Author: Tuesday Reitano File Type: pdf This edited volume examines the use of militarised responses to different forms of criminal activity, discussing the outcomes and unintended consequences. Politicians and policymakers frequently use militarised responses to look tough on crime. The deployment of armies, navies, military assets and militarised approaches can send a powerful message, but have produced mixed results. While they generate the perception that governments are actively engaged on issues of concern to the public, and in some cases have resulted in notable successes, on the downside they have frequently also increased the loss of life, exacerbated the humanitarian consequences of a particular crime and entrenched divides between security and state institutions and the criminal proponents, narrowing the possibilities for future negotiated solutions. By focusing on four different areas of criminality wildlife crime, piracy, migration and drug trafficking the book allows context and evidence-based conclusions to be drawn on the strategic value and commonality of responses and their outcomes. **

Author: Raymond Plant File Type: pdf Politics, Theology and History is a major new book by a prominent academic and an active politician. It ranges widely across the disciplines of theology, political theory and philosophy and poses acute questions about the basic moral foundations of liberal societies. Lord Plant focuses on the role that religious belief can and ought to play in argument about public policy in a pluralistic society. He examines the potential political implications of Christian belief and the ways in which it may be deployed in political debate. The book discusses the place of religious belief in the formation of policy and asks what issues in modern society might be the legitimate objects of a Christian social and political concern. This important study of the relationship between religion and politics will be of value to students, academics, politicians, church professionals, policy makers and all concerned with the moral fabric of contemporary life.

Author: Roger S. Foster File Type: pdf This book offers an original interpretation and vigorous defense of Theodor Adornos idea of philosophy as the practice of what Roger Foster calls philosophical modernism. Adornos philosophical writings, from the early 1930s through to the mature works of the late 1960s, are deeply informed by a distinctively modernist vision of human experience. This book seeks to establish that Adornos unique and lasting contribution to philosophy consists in his sustained and rigorous development of this modernist vision into an encompassing practice of philosophical interpretation. The essential features of this vision can be discerned in all of Adornos major writings in philosophy, social theory and aesthetics. Its defining element is the idea of a patterning underlying ordinary experience which, although not accessible directly, can be disclosed by the reconstructive work of philosophical or literary language. This vision, Foster argues, can be discerned in the major works of literary modernism (including Woolf, Proust, and Musil) as well as the interpretive technique of psychoanalysis developed by Sigmund Freud. The importance of Adornos contribution to twentieth-century philosophy can only be fully appreciated by understanding how he develops this vision into an overarching practice of philosophical interpretation that furnishes a coherent and profound response to the decay of experience afflicting late-modern societies. In this book, Foster sets out to achieve this by expounding that interpretive practice, exploring its ramifications and in particular its relation with literary modernism, and by setting it into critical dialogue with alternative philosophical responses.**ReviewIn complex yet stimulating and often path-breaking readings of Adornos philosophy, and with breathtaking accounts of such writers as Bonnefoy, Musil, and Woolf, Foster addresses the late modern condition from the vantage-point of experience. As our lifeworld gets increasingly commodified, digitalized and instrumentalized, the need for a reconsideration of what authentic experience demands has never seemed more timely. For readers interested in the intersection between philosophy, literature and the question of modernity, this book is bound to be a unique resource. (Espen Hammer, Temple University) About the Author Roger Foster teaches philosophy at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY.

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