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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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The Most Interesting Thing in the World

Jonathan Culler
- 01 Jan 2009 - 
TL;DR: The relation between literature and democracy in Derrida's thinking is introduced in this paper, focusing especially on the problem of the secret, which has loomed large in late discussions of both literature and politics.
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Messianism, Teleology, and Futural Justice in Raúl Zurita's Anteparaíso

TL;DR: Anteparadise was conceived as a total structure, a trajectory beginning with the experience of everything precarious and painful in our lives and concluding with a glimmer of happiness.
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The crisis of higher education and the rhetorical vicissitudes of the common good

TL;DR: This paper argued that today's crisis in the humanities is real and also manufactured, and that a jettisoned arc of arc can be traced back to the 1970s and 1980s.

Ubuntu between tradition and modernity: on A report on Ubuntu by Leonard Praeg

TL;DR: Praeg's points of departure include critical humanism, the openness of the norms of justice, the importance of potential, his conception of modernity, a violent ontology, and the state as locus of politics as mentioned in this paper.
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The acts of faith : on witnessing in Derrida and Arendt

TL;DR: In a brief comment in this paper, Derrida criticizes the absence of any reference to the "problematic of testimony, witnessing, or bearing witn" in the history of the lie.