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Contemporary Political Philosophy. An Introduction. Will Kymlicka. 2nd ed. OUP. 450 pages.
This edition of Will Kymlicka’s best selling critical introduction to contemporary political theory has been fully revised to include many of the most significant developments in Anglo-American political philosophy in the last 11 years, particularly the new debates on political liberalism, deliberative democracy, civic [...]
New version is out since a few days ago. Time to upgrade.
New features include, but are not limited to, GIF support for GD, exif manager, advanced user management, bridge support and manager, password protected albums and a plugin API. The theme system seems to be improved slightly as well with better XHTML compliance among other [...]
Silent Nation got attacked by some sort of worm or exploit last night. Don’t know if it is Wordpress specific or not. The details are described by other users so there is no point reiterating the whole thing.
Basically, and as far as I can tell, it attacks files chmodded 666 or better on the server. [...]
An Introduction to Political Philosophy. Jonathan Wolff. 237 pages. Oxford University Press (1996).
What would life be like without the state? What justifies the state? Who should rule? How much liberty should the citizen enjoy? How should property be justly distributed? This book examines the central problems involved in political philosophy and the past attempts to [...]
I’ve been putting in lots of work organizing and archiving the music that has been stacking up on my HD since the past six months or so. Not to mention re-tagging and renaming.
Added a bunch of records to the list, which sadly remains … very flat and textish.
Försvenskningen av Sverige. Jonas Frykman, Orvar Löfgren, Billy Ehn. 294 sidor. Natur och Kultur.
Vi lever i en värld där det nationella verkar upplösas i globala kulturströmningar samtidigt som det dramatiseras i våldsamma konflikter. Vad är det som ger nationella känslor en sådan kraft och mångtydighet i växlingen mellan hemlängtan och främlingsrädsla, mellan kärlek och hat?
Försvenskningen [...]
Att se sig själv i andra. Om solidaritet. Sven-Eric Liedman. 124 sidor. Albert Bonniers förlag.
Ordet “solidaritet” har gjort en lång resa sedan det tog plats i Napoleons berömda civillag. Det har befunnit sig på revolutionens barrikader samtidigt som Roms påvar med välbehag tagit det i sin mun. Det har varit en trogen kamrat för fattiga [...]
The Symbolic Construction of Community (Key Ideas). Anthony P. Cohen. 128 pages. Routledge
Anthony Cohen makes a distinct break with earlier approaches to the study of community, which treated the subject in largely structural terms. His view is interpretive and experiential, seeing the community as a cultural field with a complex of symbols whose meanings vary [...]
Salty frizzled pork (bacon) in onion sauce with boiled unpeeled potatoes. It has always marked the turn of winter around here. It’s primitive, rural and yet so ineffably irresistible.
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