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Norman Geras
Researcher at University of Manchester
Publications - 4
Citations - 11
Norman Geras is an academic researcher from University of Manchester. The author has contributed to research in topics: Impunity & Lawlessness. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 4 publications receiving 11 citations.
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Staying home: G.A. Cohen and the motivational basis of socialism
TL;DR: The authors consider the motivational supports that might be thought necessary and also possible for socialism and present a critique of G.A. Cohen's Why not socialism? The article begins by briefly summarizing the argument of that book, then goes on to identify a logical tension in Cohen's presentation of the socialist ethos of the camping trip (as assessed against a sixfold typology of person-to-person relations), and from this tension, as well as from independent evidence, it calls into question Cohen's hope that people might come to regard and treat each other on a society-wide scale
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The True Wilkomirski
TL;DR: The authors consider whether it matters that Binjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments is not, as he presented it, a genuine survivor account, but rather a fabrication or fiction.
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Social Hope and State Lawlessness
TL;DR: The world has travelled some way from the time when tyrannical governments could act with impunity in dealing with those under their jurisdiction as mentioned in this paper. But it has not travelled far enough. And there remain a number of deficits in the system of international law: "thresholds of inhumanity".