Author: Jeroen van Dongen File Type: pdf This book explores how physicists, astronomers, chemists, and historians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries employed epistemic virtues such as accuracy, objectivity, and intellectual courage. In doing so, it takes the first step in providing an integrated history of the sciences and humanities. It assists in addressing such questions asWhat kind of perspective would enable us to compare organic chemists in their labs with paleographers in the Vatican Archives, or anthropologists on a field trip with mathematicians poring over their formulas?While the concept of epistemic virtues has previously been discussed, primarily in the contexts of the history and philosophy of science, this volume is the first to enlist the concept in bridging the gap between the histories of the sciences and the humanities. Chapters research whether epistemic virtues can serve as a tool to transcend the institutional disciplinary boundaries and thus help to attain a post-disciplinary historiography of modern knowledge. Readers will gain a contextualization of epistemic virtues in time and space as the book shows that scholars themselves often spoke in terms of virtue and vice about their tasks and accomplishments.This collection of essays opens up new perspectives on questions, discourses, and practices shared across the disciplines, even at a time when the neo-Kantian distinction between sciences and humanities enjoyed its greatest authority. Scholars including historians of science and of the humanities, intellectual historians, virtue epistemologists, and philosophers of science will all find this book of particular interest and value.**From the Back CoverThis book explores how physicists, astronomers, chemists, and historians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries employed epistemic virtues such as accuracy, objectivity, and intellectual courage. In doing so, it takes the first step in providing an integrated history of the sciences and humanities. It assists in addressing such questions asWhat kind of perspective would enable us to compare organic chemists in their labs with paleographers in the Vatican Archives, or anthropologists on a field trip with mathematicians poring over their formulas?While the concept of epistemic virtues has previously been discussed, primarily in the contexts of the history and philosophy of science, this volume is the first to enlist the concept in bridging the gap between the histories of the sciences and the humanities. Chapters research whether epistemic virtues can serve as a tool to transcend the institutional disciplinary boundaries and thus help to attain a post-disciplinary historiography of modern knowledge. Readers will gain a contextualization of epistemic virtues in time and space as the book shows that scholars themselves often spoke in terms of virtue and vice about their tasks and accomplishments.This collection of essays opens up new perspectives on questions, discourses, and practices shared across the disciplines, even at a time when the neo-Kantian distinction between sciences and humanities enjoyed its greatest authority. Scholars including historians of science and of the humanities, intellectual historians, virtue epistemologists, and philosophers of science will all find this book of particular interest and value.About the AuthorJeroen van Dongen is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Einsteins Unification (Cambridge University Press, 2010). He has served as Editor and Associate Editor of the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein at Caltech and recently edited the volume Cold War Science and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge (Brill, 2015). Van Dongen has published extensively in journals as Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, Centaurus and Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences. Herman Paul is Associate Professor of Historical Theory and Historiography at Leiden University. He is the author of Key Issues in Historical Theory (Routledge, 2015) and Hayden White The Historical Imagination (Polity Press, 2011) and project leader of The Scholarly Self Character, Habit, and Virtue in the Humanities, 1860-1930. Out of this project emerged several articles that are of immediate relevance to the proposed volume, including Virtue Language in Nineteenth-Century Orientalism A Case Study in Historical Epistemology, Modern Intellectual History (forthcoming) What Is a Scholarly Persona? Ten Theses on Virtues, Skills, and Desires, History and Theory 53 (2014), 348-371 Weak Historicism On Hierarchies of Intellectual Virtues and Goods, Journal of the Philosophy of History6 (2012), 369-388 and Performing History How Historical Scholarship is Shaped by Epistemic Virtues, History and Theory 50 (2011), 1-19.

Author: Benjamin Moffitt File Type: epub Once seen as a fringe phenomenon, populism is back. While some politicians and media outlets present it as dangerous to the U.S., Europe, and Latin America, others hail it as the fix for broken democracies. Not surprisingly, questions about populism abound. Does it really threaten democracy? Why the sudden rise in populism? And what are we talking about when we talk about populism? The Global Rise of Populism argues for the need to rethink this concept. While still based on the classic divide between the people and the elite, populisms reliance on new media technologies, its shifting relationship to political representation, and its increasing ubiquity have seen it transform in nuanced ways that demand explaining. Benjamin Moffitt contends that populism is not one entity, but a political style that is performed, embodied, and enacted across different political and cultural contexts. This new understanding makes sense of populism in a time when media pervades political life, a sense of crisis prevails, and populism has gone truly global. **Review Everybody must have heard by now that the so-called specter of populism is once again haunting Europe, the US, the whole world! Obviously, something other than banal paraphrases of Marx is urgently needed to explain populisms complexity. Benjamin Moffitt provides exactly that. His innovative ideas will undoubtedly fuel academic debate for years to come. (Yannis Stavrakakis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) In the increasingly crowded field of populism studies, The Global Rise of Populism develops a fresh approach. It is a must-read for researchers and students of global populism, the media, and politics. (Carlos de la Torre University of Kentucky) About the Author Benjamin Moffitt is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Government at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Author: Peter H. Juviler File Type: pdf Freedoms Ordeal The Struggle for Human Rights and Democracy in Post-Soviet States Peter Juviler This is an extremely valuable survey of the tortuous struggle for human rights in post-Soviet states. . . . Highly recommended.--Choice While one often hears how bad the situation in Russia is, Juvilers grand survey of it from the perspective of democratic institutions and human rights brings a wide array of facts and little-known details that give a truly illuminating picture of a country in strikingly poor condition.--Journal of Law and Society Informative and interesting.--Slavic Review Fifteen countries have emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union. Freedoms Ordeal recounts the struggles of these newly independent nations to achieve freedom and to establish support for fundamental human rights. Although history has shown that states emerging from collapsed empires rarely achieve full democracy in their first try, Peter Juviler analyzes these successor states as crucial and not always unpromising tests of democracys viability in postcommunist countries. Taking into account the particularly difficult legacies of Soviet communism, Freedoms Ordeal is distinguished by its careful tracing of the historical background, with special attention to human rights before, during, and after communism. Juviler suggests that the culture and practices of despotism may wither wherever modernization conflicts with tyranny and with the curtailment or denial of democratic rights and freedoms. Peter Juviler is Professor of Political Science at Barnard College and Codirector of the Human Rights Center at Columbia University. Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights 1997 312 pages World Rights Political Science

Author: Mark Fortier File Type: pdf The fields of literature and law intersect in frequent, and often surprising ways. This clear and concise book offers an introduction to the area, covering the history, key thinkers and ideas as well as detailed and fascinating studies into areas such as evidence and truth, inheritance, sex, vigilantism and justice. Each chapter examines a number of familiar authors and texts including Shakespeare, Brecht, Austen, Dickens, Ishiguro, Beecher-Stowe, Atwood, Miller. The book also opens up the broader study of law as it relates to culture in such areas as film, television, and digital media and how they affect such issues as a right to privacy, copyright and creative reworking, and censorship. Mark Fortier offers a concise, systemic introduction to the law and legal system for the lay person, covering basic notions of justice and law (fundamental justice, natural law, positive law) and the legal system (common law vs civil law, case law, statute, constitutional law, private law [tort, contract, property], criminal law, equity, basic rules of evidence, stare decisis , the adversarial system) as well as a very handy glossary of legal terms. This is a fascinating guide to a very topical and increasingly relevant area of literary studies.