This collection of original essays brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the influence and importance of Parmenides to Heidegger's quest to bring about the end of philosophy according to its own beginning.
While the significance of Plato and Aristotle to Martin Heidegger's philosophical development in the 1920s and 1930s is well documented, the role of Parmenides remains relatively obscure. From Heidegger's thinking prior to Being and Time and after it, toward his thought of The Event, Parmenides is a constant presence within Heidegger's developing concern to overcome metaphysics, and so restore for thinking the original question of being. This book makes the case that, without Parmenides, philosophy could not be philosophy, and Heidegger could not be Heidegger.

What is the reality of what it is to participate in associations, such as sports clubs, charities, trade unions, or political parties? This book explores the complexities surrounding the right of association from a legal and philosophical perspective.

Legal chapters explore how the right is protected in jurisdictions as diverse as Chile, Germany, Indonesia, Kenya, Slovenia, Tuerkiye and the United Kingdom, alongside thematic chapters on judicial review, associational schism and the lived experience of associational participation. Philosophical chapters employ social ontology to illuminate the nature of group interaction and the reality of associational life.

Offering the first interdisciplinary examination of freedom of association, this collection contributes significantly to our understanding of this fundamental right.

This book critically analyses and documents a shift of ethical consumption patterns through Western yoga commodities, services, and transformational experiences that affect women within consumer culture. Western yoga uses fashion and luxury branding strategies to promote commodities that support an individualised, exclusive, and privatised quest for meaning, ritual, belonging, and community. These new status signifiers demonstrate how Western yoga has become an essential contemporary sign and symbol of the aspirational class. This book thus discusses how aspirational Western yoga brands, yoga studios, and social media influencers commodify wellness by distributing cultural capital as postfeminist spiritual capital through the promotion of exclusive and consciously minded aesthetic and ethical transformational experiences within the wellness industry.

Through the contemporary case studies presented in this book, the reader will be exposed to the complex tactics that yoga brands, yoga studios, and 'yogalebrities' use to generate aspirational conscious luxury commodities that promise entangled physical and spiritual distinction. This book reveals how yoga practitioners are encouraged to arrive at self-optimisation and self-empowerment not after the trials and tribulations of the human experience but after a highly controlled and exclusive experiential economic transaction that anchors the ego to bodily labour and elitist luxury fashion design ideals. These case studies will expose the reader to how these new consumption patterns converge, stylising and commodifying the psychic life of women.

This book will appeal to an academic audience with an interest in fashion and luxury studies, luxury management, consumer culture, gender studies, and critical spiritual practices.

This book champions the work of women in legal history, and their contributions to both the discipline and feminist activism over nearly two centuries.

It considers women in academia, which was, in theory, open to women before they could become lawyers in most European countries. And it considers women working beyond the academy: many studied legal history in other ways; in local history societies, through archival work, and via activism.

Women legal historians have been under-recognised or forgotten altogether, even where they made substantial scholarly contributions. In focusing on the work of women in legal history, this book lays the foundations for a transformational reassessment of the discipline. It asks searching questions about what counts as legal history. It demonstrates that work by and about women should appear in our legal history courses, be discussed in our seminars, and be cited in our academic work. If the field of legal history is lively, innovative, and wide-ranging, everyone working in it benefits. By shining a light on undervalued scholarship, and areas which have received insufficient attention, we challenge assumptions in our discipline and advance its methods.

Whilst some women were pioneers and worked to change gendered aspects of the law, others led more ordinary lives, disappearing from the gaze of legal history even as they contributed to it. This book tells some of their stories.

In this compelling study John Paetsch explores the overlooked relationship between time and logic in Gilles Deleuze's philosophy.

Drawing on the work of philosophers and mathematicians, from Kant and Peirce to Bergson and Brandom, this book plots an original path through Deleuze's thought and transcendental empiricism.

Divided into 2 parts, each with a transcendental and a logical focus respectively, Part I introduces the concept of time in Deleuze's philosophy. Having dismissed all previous philosophies of time as deficient, with the notable exception of Bergson, Paetsch reveals how, in critiquing theories of temporality, Deleuze turns in particular to Kant. In doing so, Deleuze innovatively reconsiders transcendental philosophy in light of Bergson's theses on duree (lived duration). Building on the first part, Part II then investigates Deleuze's understanding of logic and its relation to time. Both Deleuze and Bergson claimed that time undermines the central principles of every logical system. And yet, this book examines how Deleuze steps beyond logic, contending that a mathematical expression of 'durative continuity' could inaugurate a novel philosophy of physics.

Engaging with key Deleuzian texts, including Logic of Sense, Difference and Repetition, and A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze's Philosophy of Time and Logic provides a bold new interpretation of fundamental questions concerning time, how we understand it, and how it affects what we think. It will be of interest to scholars across continental philosophy, logic, philosophy of mathematics, and metaphysics.

This book explores one of the most pressing questions of our time: What happens to law when technological systems-algorithms, smart contracts, digital platforms-begin to regulate our lives as effectively as, or even more effectively than, traditional legal rules?

While many scholars have framed this debate in terms of efficiency, compliance, and enforcement, this book takes a step back to ask a deeper question: What is law, and what distinguishes it from mere technological control? Through three interconnected chapters, the book moves across theory, contemporary issues, and history. It critiques the popular thesis of the "death of law" under conditions of algorithmic regulation, arguing that law itself can be seen as a technology of a special kind. The book's central argument is that technological regulation does not "perfect" the law by guaranteeing compliance. Instead, it abolishes the normative dimension that defines law: the distinction between what is and what ought to be. When algorithms collapse this gap-by making non-compliance impossible-the unique reality that law creates disappears. Accessible, provocative, and interdisciplinary, this is not simply a book about legal theory. It is a book about the future of human freedom, responsibility, and political life in a world increasingly governed by technology.

This book will appeal primarily to scholars and high-level students working in the areas of legal theory, the philosophy of law, and law and technology.

This thematic commentary analyses the core provisions and overarching themes of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act to provide readers with the information needed to understand, situate and implement this new piece of legislation in their practice.

The book offers a rich variety of views on one of the most challenging legal innovations of EU law. It analyses individual provisions exhaustively, where their relevance and complexity require specific analysis to guide their implementation, and thematically, where beneficial for a broader view of some of the strategic axes of the Act. Importantly, the chapters unpack connections both within the various components of the EU AI Act itself, as well as with other key instruments such as the Digital Services Act (DSA), the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The Thematic Commentary thus provides in-depth coverage of key aspects of the EU AI Act, including detailed reviews of rules on prohibited practices, high-risk AI systems, governance structures, measures to support innovation such as regulatory sandboxes, or codes of conduct.

A companion website (bloomsbury.pub/eu-artificial-intelligence-act) provides updates and supplementary resources, including essential policy developments (such as the EU Digital Omnibus AI and related implementing measures), to help readers keep the Commentary aligned with the evolving EU AI governance framework.

Written by a curated selection of authors that include renowned academics, global practitioners, and institutional experts involved in the drafting process, this Commentary is a key authoritative source bringing together many different voices. Whether for legal practitioners seeking insights into the practical implementation of the EU AI Act, scholars, regulators and policymakers who need to understand the theoretical and policy implications of the Act, or students looking for an advanced analysis of the EU AI Act in context, this Thematic Commentary is the guiding reference on AI regulation in the EU.

This book explores and discusses the different perspectives stemming from the visa as a tool of international mobility. A visa has a multifaced nature. It is a `key' which allows foreign nationals to reach the door of the State. It is also a tool for the State to govern migration and border control. In humanitarian and international protection terms, it is also a tool for human rights protection. Against this background, this book assesses the legal and socio-political implications arising from the multipurpose nature and scope of visas. It is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on the visa as an instrument for migration control, contextualizing the rationale behind its invention and the legal challenges it raises. The second part focuses on the visa as a tool for asylum, examining its use for humanitarian purposes, including resettlement schemes and emergency-related evacuation initiatives put in place in different legal systems. It will be of interest to academics, researchers and policy-makers working in the areas of Migration and Asylum Law, International Human Rights Law and Political Science.

This book explores the fascinating backstories and unexpected sequels of bigamous marriages from the 17th century to the present day.

A woman remarries after hearing that her husband has drowned, only for him to turn up alive and well. Is she now a criminal? A deserted husband, unable to afford a divorce, finds happiness in a new union. How many did the same? A conman advertises for a wife and then disappears with her lifesavings; he has already done the same to many other women. How was he brought to justice?

These are just a few of the hundreds of bigamous remarriages put under the microscope in Double Lives. As a companion volume to Double Trouble: Bigamy and the Law in England and Wales, 1604-2024, this book goes behind the law reports to reconstruct the stories of those involved. Drawing on archival sources, pamphlets, newspapers, census data, parish registers, divorce petitions and family histories, it shows the different forms that bigamy might take - accidental, consensual, deceptive or exploitative - and how bigamists' stories in turn helped to shape the law.

Double Lives shows how bigamy should not be dismissed as a comical or victimless crime. Every case had its own complex mix of desire and deception, and, all too often, heartbreak for someone.

In the fourth volume of the Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy, scholars in contemporary jurisprudence and constitutional theory discuss who gets to decide and who gets to act when constitutional law is silent or fundamentally controversial.

It is the very purpose of Constitutions to settle disagreements: to determine who gets to decide and who gets to act when it comes to the polity and its members. But what if, instead of settling disagreements among those subjected to it, the Constitution itself, its end, its functions, its meaning, its existence, becomes the subject of disagreements? What if the Constitution raises issues it is unable to address from the very outset? Who gets to decide then and who gets to act?

In a time in which constitutional crises seem to be too ubiquitous to still count as exceptions, questions such as these are asked with ever-increasing urgency. The answers to these questions cannot be found in arguments based on contingent legal stipulations but have to reach beyond the vague and fleeting instructions of positive law.

This book defends the relational approach to law.

It begins by exploring how law is constituted in the context of either rational or reasonable conduct. Having identified reasonableness as the unifying theme of natural law theories, it argues that the form and authority of law originate in the practical resolution of a moral antinomy that these theories leave unaddressed.

The reasonableness of law lies in the structure and principles of relations in which rights are correlated with obligations and powers with liabilities. Rather than descending upon us from above in the form of directives, law emerges from our interactive efforts to cope with persistent moral disagreements.

Ultimately, the relational approach views the legal rules governing our interactions as expressions of a common will. The book concludes that, unsurprisingly, modern constitutionalism represents a thoroughly pragmatic and most defensible conception of the authority of law.

This open access anthology explores intersections and boundaries between public procurement and contract law, examining how these legal regimes diverge, influence, and occasionally overlap during the performance stage of public contracts.

While public procurement processes are largely harmonised across Europe through the EU Public Procurement Directives, the performance phase is only partially regulated. A sizeable part of public contract implementation remains subject to national laws, governed through a combination of administrative and contract law. This gives rise to a set of foundational questions: Does public procurement law fully occupy the legal space of public contract performance? In which instances-if any-does contract law retain relevance? Are classical contract law concepts transformed or distorted when applied to public contracts, and how does this affect mechanisms such as arbitration? To what extent do the answers to these questions vary depending on the regulatory model adopted by a given jurisdiction?

Part 1 introduces the topic, covering regulatory models for public contracts from procurement and contract law perspectives. Part 2 examines general issues such as legal review asymmetries, tacit modifications, due diligence, loyalty obligations, and the doctrine of hardship under EU law. Part 3 explores contemporary challenges, including digitalisation and sustainability. Part 4 analyses arbitration in public contract disputes.
This book is an essential resource for scholars, lawyers, practitioners, policymakers, and students, providing analytical depth and practical guidance to help navigate the complexities of public contracts.

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

• Wesen und Inhalt des Arztrechts
• Aerztliches Berufsrecht
• Der Behandlungsvertrag
• Die aerztliche Hilfspflicht
• Aufklaerungspflicht und Einwilligung
• Sterilisation, Schwangerschaftsabbruch und Sexualmedizin
• Fortpflanzungsmedizin und Humangenetik
• Berufsgeheimnis und Dokumentation
• Arztfehler und Haftpflicht
• Passivlegitimation und Beweisrecht
• Arzt als medizinischer Sachverstaendiger
• Sektion, Transplantations- und Intensivmedizin
• Heilversuch und medizinische Forschung

• Standardwerk
• tiefgehende systematische Darstellung
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In this book, leading commentators explore the new concept of 'crisis governance constitutionalism' in order to better understand how the EU is changed by times of crisis management.

European integration has become controversial due to the many crises: Brexit, the pandemic, migrations, energy crisis, the Ukraine war. Drawing on historical resources, the collection's expert essays show that rather than offer something completely new, crisis governance constitutionalism coexists with long-established constitutionalist narratives of EU integration.

This book highlights the pressing issue of marketplace accessibility for over a billion people worldwide living with disabilities-a number that is expected to grow due to aging demographics. Despite this significant population, our societies and marketplaces remain predominantly designed for the non-disabled.

This volume brings together a collection of studies from leading scholars that critically examine the barriers to accessibility in marketplaces. It explores the pervasive forces of ableism embedded in marketplace practices and environments that often exclude, stigmatize, and disempower individuals with disabilities. By interrogating these barriers and ableist practices, the book aims to inspire scholars and practitioners to take responsibility for creating transformative, inclusive markets. Ultimately, it advocates for a future where marketplaces are 'enabling' rather than 'disabling.'

This book will be beneficial for students, researchers and practitioners in marketing, disability studies, and social policy. This book will also appeal to those interested in social justice and inclusive design. It contributes to the broad subject areas of marketing, accessibility, and equity, offering valuable insights for fostering inclusive and empowering marketplaces.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Marketing Management.

Research methodology is a well-known course designed to train students in the process of conducting research. After teaching research methodology in various universities, supervising both undergraduate and postgraduate students, and engaging in discussions with researchers from around the world, the book's authors recognized that university students and novice researchers face challenges when it comes to writing dissertations and scientific papers.

This book provides the guidance needed for crafting dissertations and scientific articles. It serves as a step-by-step guide for those interested in learning about academic writing and publishing. One of the main challenges for novice researchers and scientists in the realm of academic writing is understanding how to publish and what to publish. The authors of this book have personally faced these challenges and have created this book as a solution for fellow young researchers.

The book focuses on the various components of dissertations and scientific papers, detailing how they should be written, formatted, and what key elements should be included in each section, which sets the book apart from others that have been published. It offers insights into the research process and provides a thorough explanation of each part of a dissertation, from the research title to the results and discussion of findings.

This volume will be a valuable resource for university students working on their dissertations as well as for researchers and lecturers who teach research methodology courses or prepare scientific papers for publication in peer-reviewed journals.

Drawing on 25 years of research, consultancy, and teaching experience in the fast-moving consumer goods sector, Primal Marketing reveals the hard-wired motives driving customer behaviour and the secrets of leveraging these to craft higher-impact marketing strategies.

While markets, technologies, and media channels have transformed rapidly, the human mind that buys, chooses, and connects has remained fundamentally the same. By introducing an evolutionary approach to marketing, the book argues that effective marketing works not by manipulating desire but by aligning brands with deep, enduring human needs. Structured around ten major product categories - including food, fashion, health, home, play, technology, transport, and finance - the book shows how everyday consumption reflects primal drives related to survival, belonging, status, attraction, care, and learning. These insights are organised through the PRIMAL framework, a practical strategic tool designed to help marketers diagnose what truly motivates their audiences and translate insight into clear positioning, storytelling, and brand decisions.

Written primarily for marketing practitioners, brand leaders, and strategists, and supported by examples suitable for students and educators, the book bridges theory and application. Readers will gain a powerful lens for understanding consumer behaviour, sharpening brand strategy, and future-proofing marketing decisions by grounding innovation in timeless human psychology.

Explaining U.S. administrative law in nontechnical terms while also demonstrating its central position in the American political system, this comprehensive textbook emphasizes the fundamental challenge in government of making decisions that are both legal and politically acceptable. Author Kenneth F. Warren explores all of the most important and emerging administrative law topics, including the relationship between Congress, the president, the courts, and administrative agencies, as well as rulemaking, ordermaking, discretionary agency actions, public tort law, judicial review of agency actions, and administrative searches, seizures, and detentions.

Substantially expanded and revised, through the presentation and analysis of recent case law, this seventh edition documents and evaluates an ongoing "sea change" in U.S. public policy, including policies designed to deconstruct the administrative state. It further examines the growing role of executive orders on constitutional and administrative law and the balance of powers in American government, demonstrating the ways in which a weakened rule of law jeopardizes our democracy. Administrative Law in the Political System: Law, Politics, and Regulatory Policy, Seventh Edition is a sophisticated but accessible administrative law textbook written by a thoughtful social scientist for thoughtful social science students, especially upper division undergraduate and graduate students in political science, public administration, public management, and public policy programs.

Everything seems to be in 'a state of crisis' these days: democracy and the economy, the arts and humanities, how we deal with others and nature and the human condition itself. Things have become so critical that the word 'crisis' no longer suffices-we now speak of 'polycrisis' and 'metacrisis,' signalling both our predicament's severity and our inability to address it properly.

This interdisciplinary volume proposes a more nuanced framing of our current situation through complementary standpoints and disciplinary angles. Political theorists, philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists, and scholars of religion, film, and literature examine crisis from their unique perspectives. The essays range from Western humanism's crisis and philosophical treatments of crisis to representations in contemporary cinema and literature, exploring how crises manifest in localised contexts like Kuwait and Nigeria alongside global phenomena such as the water crisis.

The collection will be of great interest to academics, researchers, and advanced students of philosophy, political theory, sociology, cultural studies, crisis studies, critical theory, and interdisciplinary approaches to understanding contemporary political thought and modern predicaments. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities.

This text examines the ongoing convergence of marketing and media across industries and formats and offers an authoritative analysis of branded content and forms of media- marketing integration.

Drawing on the findings of the three- year Branded Content Governance Project, this book outlines the expansion of mediamarketing ecologies , from marketers, agencies, and media to include platforms, creators, and advertising technology (adtech). It charts the rapid take- up of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning tools, the role of platforms, and the expansion of actor- types across the creator economy. The authors define and analyse key concepts including polycentric governance, governance- in- practice, and ethics, and map 'problems' and 'mitigations' concerning branded content practices and governance.

Providing an authoritative taxonomy for branded content advertising forms and formats, this book provides a guide for students as well as useful reading for researchers and advanced scholars of advertising and marketing communications.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

This volume is a study of previously unexplored theoretical convergences between John Dewey's social pragmatism and the sociology of knowledge.

It demonstrates how these convergences, combined with the social psychology of G. H. Mead and Kenneth Burke, create a framework for the construction of a new and more comprehensive approach to the social analysis of knowledge, the social theory of thought. Dunn indicates in what respects Dewey's philosophy and this theory represent forms of social critique that reorient sociology in a critical direction. He offers an original interpretation of Dewey's pragmatism and the significance of his work for social theory, sociology, and the sociological analysis of knowledge. The work introduces readers to a new approach to social critique that highlights Dewey's emphasis on the connection between theory and practice and the close relationships among inquiry, agency, and democracy.

With carefully organized chapters and accessible language relatively free of jargon, this book will be of value to scholars and students in social theory, sociology, social psychology, and philosophy who are interested in pragmatism and the contributions of Dewey, Mead, and Burke to the social sciences.

This book is a comparative study of state-based film censorship laws and practices in the Asia-Pacific region.

It provides crucial historical context for each of the common law traditions in Malaysia, Hong Kong and Australia - all former British colonies - and compares it to the tradition of civil law and the lese majeste law in Thailand. The book sets out to analyse the approach to film censorship of four Asian-Pacific countries. It does so largely from a doctrinal perspective, reviewing each country's legal history and impact on the local film industry. Chapters detail censorship practices in each jurisdiction, key opinions and issues within individual states, and conclude with options for judicial review and insights relevant to the Malaysian film industry. The book also contains interviews with prominent film practitioners and censorship authorities. Their range of opinions contextualises the doctrinal research and demonstrates the effects of film censorship on artistic vibrancy and commercial viability of the film industries.

With its comparative approach to exploring how censorship and state regulation impact local film industries, this book will interest scholars of film studies, Asian studies and media law.