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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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What do you call it when Jeremy Corbyn walks into a Seder? Jewishness, Gustav Landauer (1870–1919) and ethical subject-formation:

TL;DR: Then UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn's attendance at a Passover Seder organised by the radical leftist group, Jewdas, led to a brief but vitriolic controversy involving Anglo-Je...
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Derrida’s The Purveyor of Truth and Constitutional Reading

TL;DR: In this paper, the author explores Jacques Derrida's reading in The Purveyor of Truth of Edgar Allan Poe's The Purloined Letter, which differs markedly from the interpretation proposed by Lacan in his Seminar on ‘The Purloining Letter' and investigates the importance of the "notion" of the death drive as elaborated on by Freud in Beyond the Pleasure Principle.
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Derrida and the Problem of History 1964-1965

Sean Gaston
- 01 Jan 2017 - 
TL;DR: The authors examines Derrida's treatment of history in his recently published 1964-1965 seminar on Heidegger and concludes that being and time signals a commendable break with the treatment of nonhistoricity by Hegel and Husserl.
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On the Use of Animals in Contemporary Art: Damien Hirst's "Abject Art" as a Point of Departure

TL;DR: In this article, the function of animal death in contemporary art is discussed, and it is debatable whether the juxtaposition of animal and art is simply a gimmick or does the auratic perception they evoke serve to catalyze reflexive thoughts on ethics.
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Multiculturalism, minoritization and the War on Terror: The politicization of Hinduism in North America

TL;DR: This article examined the relationship between the discourses of the War on Terror and processes of minoritization, and examined recent assertions of Hindu political interests in North America that invoke notions of terrorist threats to make public claims about Hindus as nonthreatening "model minorities".