Through a comprehensive account of the Socratic Club's history, Jim Stockton draws focus to the significant role that the club played in shaping mid-twentieth century philosophical and theological debate.

Although the Socratic Club is most often identified with its first club president, C. S. Lewis, Stockton demonstrates that the club was much more than an apologetic platform for Christocentric and conservative views. As an inter-disciplinary forum, with a preference for theological and philosophical arguments, the club's history is a microcosm of the debates that occurred between many of the more widely recognized intellectuals of the previous century. The book delves into the club's most prominent participants, such as G.E.M. Anscombe, A.J. Ayer, Austin Farrer, Philippa Foot, Richard M. Hare, Alasdair MacIntyre, Donald M. MacKinnon, Eric Mascall, Basil Mitchell, Iris Murdoch, Gilbert Ryle, Mary Warnock, Bernard Williams, Charles Williams, and many others. Through an exploration of the club's minutes and a wide variety of secondary material, each chapter of this book offers insight on the Socratic Club's role in addressing concerns related to the interaction of Christian ideology and academic philosophy.

• praxisorientierte, konzise Kommentierung
• verfasst von drei langjaehrigen anwaltlichen Praktikern
• besondere Beruecksichtigung der europarechtlichen Bezuege

A comprehensive and up-to-date overview of one of the most complex, interesting, and vibrant countries in Latin America.

Beyond what appears in the news or the facile explanations of political factions, Venezuelan history holds a wealth of knowledge that is largely unknown. With world-renowned figures such as Simon Bolivar, the largest oil reserves in the world, and enormous crises such as the one experienced between 2016 and 2022, Venezuela is a country of contrasts, great achievements, and great problems. It is not surprising that it was the country where magical realism was invented.

Historical Dictionary of Venezuela, Fourth Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section contains cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country's politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Venezuela.

Open Casket brings political and philosophical clarity to bear on the brutal murder of Emmitt Till and his mother's decision to show the world her son's body.


The open casket is a central motif, a political and ethical focal point, for thinking about Mamie Till-Mobley's pain and suffering and her profound act of truth-telling as she wanted the world to bear witness to the gratuitous, despicable, and atrocious dimensions of anti-Blackness. The critical and powerful essays within this book capture both the horror of Emmett Till's murder/lynching and the powerful agency and the indomitable Black maternal love and courage that Mamie Till-Mobley demonstrated. Through the open casket, Mamie Till-Mobley reclaimed her son's body, and re-signified his dignity and familial-relational meaning to white America, Black America, and the world. It was her agency-in spite of the horror of his disfigured body and the unbearable affective weight that she experienced by such a site/sight-that forced white America to witness the terror of anti-Blackness, to tarry with its own egregious systemic racism.


In solemn recognition of the 70th anniversary of Till's murder, George Yancy and A. Todd Franklin gather interdisciplinary voices to articulate the political, spiritual, and existential significance of Black hope in the face of seeming hopelessness.

This volume will focus on the locations in which pharmacy was practised and how practice varied with location. The emphasis will be on chemists' shops in the community and the emergence of chain pharmacies after 1880. It will also include primary sources illustrating the practice of pharmacy in military and naval hospitals, in prisons dispensaries, and in a wide range of voluntary and municipal hospitals and sanatoria, drawing on both national and local archival sources. Relevant sources will also be included relating to the activities of pharmacists employed in schools of pharmacy, colleges, and universities.

This is the pioneering book that investigates reputation laundering at an institutional - state - level. Theorising the nascent phenomenon by situating it within the state crime framework, offering both empirical and theoretical accounts of reputation laundering at length, this book reveals the ways corruption is facilitated by global institutions and powerful elites.

Drawing upon extensive empirical evidence, participant observations and interviews, Kleptocratic Reputation Laundering and State Crime inspects state violence, corruption and authoritarian repression and how competing narratives of change reflect these topics. It offers a critical exploration of the elite enablers of reputation laundering using the Uzbek state as a primary example. It interrogates their role and motivations in engaging in the coordinated campaigns and modes of justification in framing their own complicity. Building on Bourdieu, the book cultivates an original conceptual framework - elite technocratic habitus - to elucidate such forms of complicity within influential institutions and elite milieus.

This book is essential reading for those involved in research or activism on crimes of the powerful, state crime, human rights, global financial institutions and complicity in the development sector. It will benefit students of criminology, law, sociology, anthropology, politics and critical media studies, as well as policy communities and civil society organisations.

This volume explores the futures of transitional justice by presenting its multiple pasts and presents across nearly half a century. It canvasses the legacies of achievements and failures, of high hopes and expectations, and equally of disappointment and disillusion across a range of institutions, including the International Criminal Court, global regions, and local settings. The authors critically assess a range of different transitional justice mechanisms including prosecutions, reparations, truth-seeking, and institutional reform, as well as individual and public apologies for grave breaches of human rights. Their focus on local conditions foregrounds actors and networks, politics, and the political in transitional justice processes. The book presents evidence, critical facts and analyses through a multidisciplinary lens, featuring criminologists, international criminal law scholars, political scientists, sociologists, social psychologists, and anthropologists. It combines theoretical and empirical contributions to achieve fresh perspectives on transitional justice. The first part interrogates transitional justice's impact. The second examines how transitional justice mechanisms are embedded within social and political structures. The third explores voice and participation in transitional justice discourses and practices, identifying key lessons for the future. By integrating diverse disciplinary perspectives with both theoretical frameworks and empirical evidence, this comprehensive volume offers valuable insights into how societies address past traumas and (re)gain a future. The book serves as an essential resource for researchers, practitioners, and students seeking to explore innovative research avenues in transitional justice and understand the complex dynamics of post-conflict and post-authoritarian justice processes.

This book offers a rare behind-the-scenes account of successful multi-agency working at a major event - specifically, how Liverpool planned and delivered the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, one of the world's most high-profile live events. With 37 competing nations and more than 12,000 accredited staff, Eurovision represented the largest and most complex multi-agency operation the city had ever undertaken. Based on five months of exceptional access to planning meetings and nine days of live events, this book reveals how organisations, including Culture Liverpool, the BBC, the police, emergency services and event partners, worked together to manage a fast-moving operation during a period marked by global security concerns.

Using field observations, policy documents, interviews and surveys, the authors show how agencies coordinated to address potential challenges such as crowd safety, cyber threats and counter terrorism risks. The book highlights the relationships, leadership approaches and information sharing practices that shaped Liverpool's internationally recognised success in hosting major events. It also offers candid insights into moments of pressure, collaboration and critical decision-making, providing practical lessons for anyone involved in planning or managing large-scale operations.

By opening a normally closed world, the book presents a unique multi-perspective view of how Eurovision was "policed," the success behind the "Liverpool approach" and what its story reveals about effective partnership working today.

This book will therefore be of interest to practitioners, policymakers, academics and students across policing, public safety, event management and governance.

This book studies the multiple ways of breathing (in) and knowing (of) contemporary lifeworlds. It offers a collection of ethnographic and interdisciplinary essays articulating the politics and poetics of air, atmosphere, and the body across diverse geographical locations, historical moments, and theoretical approaches. The book argues that air, atmosphere, and the body are relational entities shaping and shaped by the very act of breathing. It shows how differences in air, atmosphere, and the body at the scales of neighborhoods, regions, nation-states, and the planet co-constitute breathing inequalities and respiratory conditions of possibilities in suffocating times.

As part of the Routledge Critical Perspectives on Breath and Breathing series, Ways of Breathing and Knowing will be an indispensable critical pedagogical companion for students and researchers of anthropology, gender studies, political sciences, science and technology studies, psychology, environmental studies, human geography, and philosophy. It will also be of interest to activists, artists, curators, and cultural and environmental institutions.

This book examines the intensification of fascist politics in contemporary America via an analysis of the fundamental shift in relationships between political fringes and institutions of power, situating the rise of contemporary fascist politics within a broader culture of pedagogy.

Employing an interpretive and theoretically synthetic approach, it brings together phenomenology, critical theory, moral philosophy, social theory, cultural analysis, and educational theory to interrogate the cultural politics of moral insensitivity. Informed by Elias Canetti's seminal work Crowds and Power, the authors explore how crowds, death, and menace have become central to American political culture, offering an essayist approach to understanding fascist crowd politics through four key analytical frameworks: Education as a battleground for defining American identity, crowd manipulation and social menace, the manufacturing of social and political death, and the weaponization of "anti-woke" rhetoric. Engaging with theorists including Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, Achille Mbembe, and Zygmunt Bauman, each chapter provides a standalone analysis while contributing to a comprehensive and sophisticated critique of American-style fascism's threat to pluralistic democracy.

An original, theoretically rigorous, and urgently needed contribution to understanding how fascism functions as a cultural and pedagogical project, it will hold strong appeal for scholars and upper-level students of sociology, political theory, and educational studies, with interest in morality, culture, right-wing extremism, and fascism.

Crime is a gendered phenomenon. Males make up over 90% of the prison population in most developed countries, and yet paradoxically, discussions about gender and male imprisonment, especially with regard to fathers, do not dominate academic discourse. This book examines the experiences of imprisoned fathers and provides insights into fathers' experiences of imprisonment and release within Victoria, Australia.

It offers new theoretical perspectives on masculinities, identity (and the self), and carceral space and argues that fathers continue to be largely overlooked throughout the criminal justice process. Fathers in Prison calls attention to the systemic, structural, and societal issues that act as barriers to fathers and their children who are looking to maintain contact during imprisonment and upon their release. In so doing, it reimagines the prison and post-release space and what these could look like if the policy approach was gender-responsive and focused on the whole family.

This book will be of interest to criminologists, penologists, and sociologists studying gender and imprisonment. It will also be useful for social workers, prison practitioners, and policymakers interested in family-focused rehabilitation measures.

This book project, arising from the Second Bucerius Conference on International Investment Law & Arbitration (BCILA), aims to explore diverse methodological approaches to address challenges in investment law and arbitration.

Featuring the work of emerging scholars and practitioners in the field, the book bridges the gap between academic analysis and legal practice in the field of investment arbitration. As a central pillar of international economic law, investment arbitration is extensively utilized worldwide. The book discusses the challenges of managing progressively intricate proceedings whilst investment arbitration undergoes intense public scrutiny amid fervent political discourse. It tackles investment arbitration's constant evolution and provides possible solutions in navigating this evolution.

With both academic and practical applications, this book will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners in international investment arbitration, public international and finance law.

Trade-Based Money Laundering (TBML) is a global threat that has emerged as one of the most sophisticated financial crimes that exploits global trade systems to conceal illicit funds. Understanding Trade-Based Money Laundering: A Practical Guide provides unique in-depth analysis of different types, techniques, and case studies, along with tools and strategies for prevention and detection. It explores how TBML distorts economies, undermines fair competition, and facilitates criminal activities, such as terrorism, drug trafficking, and human trafficking.

Providing a comprehensive overview of the mechanisms and techniques used in TBML, this book explores the global regulatory framework, underground financial systems, virtual currencies, and gold trade, among other topics. Drawing on a comparative study of anti-money laundering regulations in the Islamic banking systems of the UAE, Malaysia, Sudan, and Pakistan, it offers strategies for future preparedness and a framework for action in the technological era. Readers will gain an understanding of the challenges faced by law enforcement and the importance of international cooperation in addressing this global issue.

This book is an essential resource for students and practitioners with an interest in understanding the practical aspects of money laundering, as well as policymakers, law enforcement agencies, financial regulators, and researchers concerned with combating financial crimes that threaten global development and security.

This volume offers a set of theoretical frameworks for understanding the relationship between oppressive speech and the social structures within which it operates. Central to the volume is the fact that oppressive speech doesn't just harm the target during a conversation; it serves to establish and maintain oppressive norms and structures.

The chapters in this volume examines how linguistic acts can have adverse social effects. Additionally, it considers the linguistic and nonlinguistic actions that can undo or prevent conversational and social harms. The chapters are divided into three thematic parts. Part I explains the nature of slurs. These chapters define their conceptual boundaries, forms, and linguistic patterns, as well as the mechanisms via which conversational harm is brought about. Part II considers how oppressive speech changes social norms, establishes oppressive norms, and how long-term harm and cumulative harm emerge. Finally, Part III focuses on response and remedy, considering the actions available to speakers and hearers in addressing and countering oppressive speech.

Oppressive Speech and Society will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working at the intersection of philosophy of language and social and political philosophy.

What does it mean to flourish? This open access book serves as a call to action to reimagine and work towards a world where flourishing is a reality for all.

An international team of scholars, practitioners, wisdom keepers, and policymakers come together to construct alternative visions of what a flourishing life could encompass. Their inclusive approach integrates indigenous wisdom, happiness, care, and storytelling and broadens our ideas of what it means to flourish.

Where Western perspectives often emphasize individuality and wealth, here contributors look beyond individual achievement and material success as benchmarks of a successful life. Instead they foreground the intrinsic value of interpersonal relationships, community bonds, and spiritual fulfilment. Interweaving the threads of philosophical, scientific, indigenous, and political thought, they build a holistic understanding of human well-being and flourishing.

We see how spiritual and metaphysical beliefs can coexist with scientific validity and contribute meaningfully to our understanding of human aspiration. A foreword from former Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon lays the groundwork for new attainable utopias that will help shape future Sustainable Development Goals.

By encouraging us to rethink policies and our collective futures, this one-of-a-kind collection introduces us to a truly flourishing society where all dimensions of life are equally valued.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The New Institute.

• Kombination von systematischem Grundriss und Formularbuch
• mit vielen praktischen Tipps
• auf dem neuesten Stand von Rechtsprechung und Gesetzgebung
• Muster zum Download

The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War in 2020 was a major armed conflict between the two modern, regular armies of Armenia and Azerbaijan. This open access book examines the causes, and consequences of the war Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. The first part of the book includes chapters discussing why the ceasefire regime failed after long twenty-six years, international mediation and diplomacy, the geopolitical tensions, Armenia's failure to anticipate the coming war, and emergence of autocratic rule in Azerbaijan. The second part of the book looks at international actors, including the surprising behaviour of Russia, Turkish role and interests, and the lack of American Christian solidarity towards Armenians. The third part of the book looks at the consequences of the war, including the post-war diplomatic initiatives, the dramatic failure of the Russian peacekeeping mission leading to the ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh, and a comparative study of Nagorno-Karabakh with the Russia-Ukraine wars. Including specialists from various disciplines and from several countries, the book sheds light on the Second Karabakh War, the future of Armenian-Azerbaijani relations and placing it in the broader international context of a new era of inter-state wars.



The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

• kompakte und uebersichtliche Gesamtdarstellung des in viele Gesetze, Rechtsverordnungen und Europaeische Rechtsakte aufgespaltenen Kapitalanlagerechts
• systematische Gesamtdarstellung
• Verarbeitung der umfangreichen aktuellen Rechtsprechung.
• Wegweiser zu Einzel- und Spezialfragen des Kapitalanlagerechts.
• unverzichtbar fuer die Fachanwaltschaft

• von der Praxis fuer die Praxis
• fundiertes Wissen uebersichtlich aufbereitet
• Darstellung aller Rechtsfragen anhand der massgeblichen Literatur, stets ergaenzt durch einen Hinweis fuer die Praxis

• Beruecksichtigung der aktuellsten Rechtsprechung
• Beruecksichtigung der neuesten wissenschaftlichen Literatur
• Beruecksichtigung der neuesten Gesetze und Gesetzesaenderungen (u. a. DiGiJustG, PostModG, StiftRVEG, Aenderung des IfSG)

• die Vorschriften ueber die arbeitsgerichtliche Zustaendigkeit
• die Besonderheiten im Kosten- und Streitwertrecht
• das Gueteverfahren und die Befugnisse des Vorsitzenden
• die Beweisaufnahme
• die Beschleunigung des Verfahrens
• die Besonderheiten des Rechtsmittelverfahrens, insbesondere die Zulassung der Berufung und die Nichtzulassungsbeschwerde
• die Zwangsvollstreckung aus arbeitsgerichtlichen Urteilen

• mit allen relevanten Instanzurteilen und Entscheidungen des Bundesarbeitsgerichts
• ausfuehrliche Fachliteratur zu Verfahrensfragen
• ausfuehrliches Stichwortverzeichnis erleichtert den Zugang
• wertvolle Anhaenge zu speziellen Schlichtungsverfahren, wie z.B. Einigungsstelle

• Einleitung und Praeambel
• Rechte und Freiheiten der Konvention
• Rechte und Freiheiten der Zusatzprotokolle
• Allgemeine Schranken
• Verfahrensrecht
• Schlussvorschriften
• Anhang: Verfahrensordnung des EGMR

• Kommentierung auch der einschlaegigen Vorschriften der Zusatzprotokolle
• Beruecksichtigung der fuer den deutschen Rechtsraum relevanten Rechtsprechung
• preiswert und kompakt

Autoethnography and the Philosophy of Play examines the ways in which play can provide insight into important existential questions.

Using literary, autoethnographic methods that position the author as the central subject, the book shows how the philosophy of play can enrich our sense-making and meaning-making. With the themes of childhood play and cycling running through the book, the lived experiences of the author are used to explore a range of subjects, including post-feminist interpretations of play, the intergenerational impact of war trauma, and the ontology of play. The phenomenon of toys, for instance, is used to bridge childhood and adult play, offering tangible examples for understanding play's metaphysical aspects. The book also explores the concept that Eugen Fink referred to as 'masked play', uncovering hidden aspects of our play in adulthood and underscoring the view that the things which make us human are both familiar and elusive.

This book is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in the philosophy of play, sport, leisure, or education; existential philosophy; phenomenology; or gender studies.

• Verbindung von Praxisnaehe und Wissenschaftlichkeit
• hervorragende Verstaendlichkeit und Lesbarkeit
• handlich und kompakt

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