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Juridification and politics From the dilemma of juridification to the paradoxes of rights
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The ambivalence inherent to the politics of juridification is explored in this article, where it is observed that some spheres of the life-world such as the family and the school are often pla...Abstract:
The article starts with the observation of an ambivalence inherent to the politics of juridification. On the one hand, some spheres of the life-world such as the family and the school are often pla...read more
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Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy
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Book Review: The Theory of Communicative Action Vol. Two, Lifeworld and System: A Critique of Functionalist ReasonThe Theory of Communicative Action Vol. Two, Lifeworld and System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason By: HabermasJurgen Translated by: McCarthyThomasBoston: Beacon Press. 1987. 457 pp. $37.50.
Suffering Rights as Paradoxes
TL;DR: In this article, a translation into Spanish of Wendy Brown's article "Suffering rights as paradoxes", originally published in Constellations in 2000, is presented, which considers the difficult relation between selected feminist ambitions and rights discourse in the United States.
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The Struggle for Recognition. The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts
Thelma McCormack,Axel Honneth +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider a situation where a subject's only appropriate response to an injury to its own person is to defend itself actively against its assailant, which they call a "struggle".
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Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy
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States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity
TL;DR: Brown argues that efforts to outlaw hate speech and pornography powerfully legitimize the state: such apparently well-intentioned attempts harm victims further by portraying them as so helpless as to be in continuing need of governmental protection as mentioned in this paper.
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Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
TL;DR: A Feminist Critique of Marx and Engels as discussed by the authors is an attempt to synthesize a Marxist critique of Feminism with respect to the problem of women's empowerment and sexual autonomy in the state.
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The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
TL;DR: In The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, Shulamith Firestone cuts into the prejudice against women (and children) - amplified through the modern media-that pervades our society as discussed by the authors.