Agency and the Foundations of Ethics: Nietzschean Constitutivism
Constitutivism is the view that we can derive substantive normative conclusions from an account of the nature of action. Agency and the Foundations of Ethics explains the constitutivist strategy and...
View ArticleSymbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals: The Political Sociology of...
David L. Swartz is Assistant Professor of Sociology and teaches in the Social Sciences Division of the Core Curriculum and in the Department of Sociology at BU. He is the author of Culture & Power:...
View ArticleBeing Cool: The Work of Elmore Leonard
Widely known as the crime fiction writer whose work led to the movies Get Shorty and Out of Sight, Elmore Leonard had a special knack for creating “cool” characters. In Being Cool, Charles J. Rzepka...
View ArticleResilient Liberalism in Europe’s Political Economy
Why have neo-liberal economic ideas been so resilient since the 1980s, despite major intellectual challenges, crippling financial and political crises, and failure to deliver on their promises? Why do...
View ArticleAccountability for Killing: Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in...
The unintended deaths of civilians in war are too often dismissed as unavoidable, inevitable, and accidental. And despite the best efforts of the U.S. to avoid them, civilian casualties in Afghanistan,...
View ArticleWalden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Woods
In his meticulous notes on the natural history of Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau records the first open flowers of highbush blueberry on May 11, 1853. If he were to look for the first...
View ArticleUS Cultural Diplomacy and Archaeology: Soft Power, Hard Heritage
Archaeology’s links to international relations are well known: launching and sustaining international expeditions requires the honed diplomatic skills of ambassadors. U.S. foreign policy depends on...
View ArticleQueen Anne: Patroness of Arts
As the last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne (1665-1714) received the education thought proper for a princess, reading plays and poetry in English and French while learning dancing, singing, acting, drawing,...
View ArticlePlastic Money: Constructing Markets for Credit Cards in Eight Postcommunist...
In the United States, we now take our ability to pay with plastic for granted. Yes, building credit card markets requires solutions to difficult puzzles. In countries without a history of economic...
View ArticleHold the Dark
A terrifying literary thriller set on the Alaskan tundra, about the mystery of evil and mankind’s losing battle with nature. At the start of another pitiless winter, the wolves have come for the...
View ArticleThe Invisible Satirist: Juvenal and Second-Century Rome
The Invisible Satirist offers a fresh new reading of the Satires of Juvenal, rediscovering the poet as a smart and scathing commentator on the cultural and political world of second-century Rome....
View ArticleA Map of Betrayal: A Novel
From the award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash: a riveting tale of espionage and conflicted loyalties that spans half a century in the entwined histories of two countries—China and the United...
View ArticleThe Lives of Muhammad
Recent outbursts sparked by a viral video and controversial cartoons powerfully illustrate the passions and sensitivities that continue to surround the depiction of the seventh-century founder of...
View ArticleThe Chinese Political Novel: Migration of a World Genre
The political novel, which enjoyed a steep yet short rise to international renown between the 1830s and the 1910s, is primarily concerned with the nation¹s political future. It offers a...
View ArticleMisremembering Dr. King: Revisiting the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
We all know the name. Martin Luther King Jr., the great American civil rights leader. But most people today know relatively little about King, the campaigner against militarism, materialism, and...
View ArticleReligious Education and the Challenge of Pluralism
The essays in this volume offer a groundbreaking comparative analysis of religious education, and state policies towards religious education in seven different countries and in the European Union as a...
View ArticleSchool’s Out: Gay and Lesbian Teachers In the Classroom
How do gay and lesbian teachers negotiate their professional and sexual identities at work, given that these identities are constructed as mutually exclusive, even as mutually opposed? Using interviews...
View ArticleAfrican Americans in U.S. Foreign Policy: From the Era of Frederick Douglass...
Edited by Linda Heywood, Allison Blakely, Charles Stith, and Joshua C. Yesnowitz Bookended by remarks from African American diplomats Walter C. Carrington and Charles Stith, the essays in this volume...
View ArticleAgainst Self-Reliance: The Arts of Dependence in the Early United States
Individualism is arguably the most vital tenet of American national identity: American cultural heroes tend to be mavericks and nonconformists, and independence is the fulcrum of the American origin...
View ArticleDemocracy in Europe: The EU and National Polities
Democracy in Europe is about the impact of European integration on national democracies. It argues that the oft-cited democratic deficit is indeed a problem, but not so much at the level of the...
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