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    Collateral Damage

    Collateral Damage

    Mooi exemplaar. Paperback als nieuw. Engelstalig.

    The term ‘collateral damage' has recently been added to the vocabulary of military forces to refer to the unintended consequences of armed interventions, consequences that are unplanned but nevertheless damaging and often very costly in human and personal terms. But collateral damage is not unique to the world of armed intervention - it is also one of the most salient and striking dimensions of contemporary social inequality. The inflammable mixture of growing social inequality and the rising volume of human suffering marginalized as ‘collateral' is becoming one of the most cataclysmic problems of our time.

    For the political class, poverty is commonly seen as a problem of law and order - a matter of how to deal with individuals, such as unemployed youths, who fall foul of the law. But treating poverty as a criminal problem obscures the social roots of inequality, which lie in the combination of a consumerist life philosophy propagated and instilled by a consumer-oriented economy, on the one hand, and the rapid shrinking of life chances available to the poor, on the other. In our contemporary, liquid-modern world, the poor are the collateral damage of a profit-driven, consumer-oriented society - ‘aliens inside' who are deprived of the rights enjoyed by other members of the social order.

    In this new book Zygmunt Bauman - one of the most original and influential social thinkers of our time - examines the selective affinity between the growth of social inequality and the rise in the volume of ‘collateral damage' and considers its implications and its costs.

    Zygmunt Bauman;

    € 12,50

    Gedachtevrijheid...

    Gedachtevrijheid versus godsdienstvrijheid

    Paperback in goede staat. Lichte gebruikssporen.

    De Nederlandse filosoof Spinoza is volgens Jonathan Israel de eerste en meest radicale verlichtingsdenker. Met Spinoza startte een nieuwe periode in het denken over de verhouding van godsdienstvrijheid en de vrijheid van meningsuiting. Israel keert zich fel tegen de opvatting dat de vroege Nederlandse verlichting van Spinoza meer in harmonie met de godsdienst was, dan de verlichting van de Franse philosophes. Als ideeenhistoricus ziet hij het als zijn plicht dit soort uitspraken over de verlichting tegen te spreken. Ze zijn volgens Israel niet alleen geschiedkundig volslagen verward en onjuist, maar ook politiek en sociaal uiterst schadelijk .


    Jonathan Israel is hoogleraar Vroegmoderne Geschiedenis in Princeton en schreef onder meer The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness and Fall 1477-1806 en Radical Enlightenment; Philosophy and the making of modernity 1650-1750.


    Inger Leemans, docent Cultuurgeschiedenis aan de Faculteit Letteren van de Radboud Universiteit, Siep Stuurman, hoogleraar Europese geschiedenis aan de Faculteit der Historische en kunstwetenschappen van de Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam, en Marin Terpstra, docent sociale en politieke filosofie aan de Radboud Universiteit, reageren in essays op de ideeen van Jonathan Israel.
    De bundel verschijnt naar aanleiding van de Thomas More Lezing, een initiatief van het Soeterbeeck Programma van de Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen.

    Jonathan Israel; Inger Leemans; Siep Stuurman;

    € 6,00

    Black Mass

    Black Mass

    Engelstalige paperback, in goede staat

    A prophetic warning against the foolishness of crusades, John Gray's Black Mass challenges our belief in human progress.

    Our conventional view of history is wrong. It is founded on a pernicious myth of an achievable utopia that in the last century alone caused the murder of tens of millions.

    In Black Mass John Gray tears down the religious, political and secular beliefs that we insist are fundamental to the human project, examines the interaction of terrorism, declining world resources, environmental change, human myths of redemption and a flawed belief in Western democracy, and shows us how a misplaced faith in our ability to improve the world has actually made it far worse.

    'Brilliant, frightening, devastating'
    John Banville, Guardian

    'A brilliant polemic ... Gray's most powerful argument yet'
    J.G. Ballard, Guardian, Books of the Year

    'Causes vertigo when it does not cause outrage'
    Sunday Times

    'Exhilarating, invigorating'
    Literary Review

    'Savage. Gray raises profound and valid doubts about the conventional "plot" of modern history'
    Financial Times

    'A load of bollocks ... could hardly be more bonkers if it was crawling with lizards'
    Sunday Telegraph

    John Gray has been Professor of Politics at Oxford University, Visiting Professor at Harvard and Yale and Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics. His books include False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals and The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death. His selected writings, Gray's Anatomy, was published in 2009.

    John Gray ;

    € 6,50
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