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Rogues: Two Essays on Reason

James Liner
- Vol. 40, pp 187-190
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What Is a Question

TL;DR: In this paper, the lattice structure of the space of assertions and questions is examined, and it is shown that the symmetries between the logical relations in each of the spaces derive directly from lattice structures.
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Between Decision and Deliberation: Political Paradox in Democratic Theory

TL;DR: Benhabib and Habermas as discussed by the authors examine the promise and limits of these various efforts by way of a third paradox: Rousseau's paradox of politics, whose many workings are traced through Book II, Chapter 7 of the Social Contract.
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Migration management for the benefit of whom? Interrogating the work of the International Organization for Migration

TL;DR: This article examined the relationship between the nation-state and migration through the activities of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and found that the IOM enforces the exclusions of asylum seekers and maintains the central role of nation-states in ordering global flows of migration.
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The Inclusion of the Other?: Habermas and the Paradox of Tolerance

Lasse Thomassen
- 01 Aug 2006 - 
TL;DR: The authors argue that Habermas is ultimately unable to provide a rational foundation for tolerance and that his conception of tolerance encounters the same problems he is trying to avoid, namely, the contingency of the threshold of tolerance and a paternalistic relation between tolerating and tolerated.
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Democratic Business Ethics: Volkswagen’s Emissions Scandal and the Disruption of Corporate Sovereignty

TL;DR: The case of the 2015 Volkswagen emissions scandal was used as an illustrative example of corporate business ethics as a form of organizing that acts as a subterfuge to facilitate the expansion of corporate sovereignty.
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Bordering care: the care of foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong

TL;DR: The story of the migrant worker population has always been told as a story of host/guest relations as mentioned in this paper, and it is a powerful tool, as a way of making sense of the world.
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Derrida and the Autoimmunity of Democracy

TL;DR: This article argued that Derrida's auto-immunity is derived from a different and overlooked aspect of his thinking and its implications for three political virtues that he also favors: solidarity, heterogeneity, and fecundity or the creation of new voices.
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Authoritarian and Anthropocentric: Examining Derrida's Critique of Heidegger

TL;DR: In Of Spirit, Derrida claims that Heidegger's attempted deconstruction of metaphysical anthropocentrism remains anthropocentric and, as such, is inherently authoritarian as discussed by the authors.
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Fear, sovereignty and the right to die

TL;DR: In this article, the right to die is examined through the lens of Derrida's The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume One, focusing on the case of Tony Nicklinson v. Ministry of Justice, 2012.
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Writing Time: The (Late) Oeuvres of Jacques Derrida and William Kentridge

TL;DR: The authors investigates the ways in which the late oeuvres of Jacques Derrida and William Kentridge engage with time in contemporary thought, in order to respond to the provocative interrogation of time.