The Tyranny Of Ordinary Meaning

Author : Christopher Hutton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030202712
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tyranny of Ordinary Meaning written by Christopher Hutton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an in-depth analysis of the case of Corbett v Corbett, a landmark in terms of law’s engagement with sexual identity, marriage, and transgender rights. The judgement was handed down in 1970, but the decision has shaped decades of debate about the law’s control and recognition of non-normative gender identities. The decision in this case – that the marriage between the Hon. Arthur Corbett and April Ashley was void on the grounds that April Ashley had been born male – has been profoundly influential across the common law world, and came as a dramatic and intolerant intervention in developing discussions about the relationships between medicine, law, questions of sex versus gender, and personal identity. The case raises fundamental questions concerning law in its historical and intellectual context, in particular relating to the centrality of ordinary language for legal interpretation, and this book will be of interest to students and scholars of language and law, legal history, gender and sexuality.

Author : Timothy Snyder
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0804190119
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Tyranny written by Timothy Snyder and published by Crown. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” (The New York Times) “Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He has written the rare kind of book that can be read in one sitting but will keep you coming back to help regain your bearings.”—Masha Gessen The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. On Tyranny is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come.

Author : Robert Edgar Carter
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773514102
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming Bamboo written by Robert Edgar Carter and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1992 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The many problems we face in today's world -- among them war, environmental destruction, religious and racial intolerance, and inappropriate technologies -- demand that we carefully re-evaluate such issues as our relation to the environment, the nature of progress, ultimate purposes, and human values. These are all issues, Robert Carter explains, that are intimately linked to our perception of life's meaning. While many books discuss life's meaning either analytically or prescriptively, Carter addresses values and ways of meaningful living from a broader perspective, using Japanese philosophy to augment his investigation. He examines Martin Heidegger's distinction between "dwelling" and existing in the world, Lawrence Kohlberg's "stage seven" of human moral development, and the works of Viktor Frankl, Carol Gilligan, and Nel Noddings. He applies hermeneutic and deconstructionist theory to the question of meaning, and explores the feminist contribution to ethics and its relation to the interconnectedness of things celebrated in Zen and Shinto thought. Bridging various dichotomies such as East/West, reason/emotion, male/female, and caring/justice, Carter shows that ethics, environmental concern, caring, and joy in living are dependent on the growth and transformation of the self. Only by becoming aware of the interrelatedness of things, Carter reveals, can we become as supple and as strong as the bamboo tree, long the symbol of longevity and constancy.

Author : Don Crewe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134034334
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Existentialist Criminology written by Don Crewe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Existentialist Criminology captures an emerging interest in the value of existentialist thought and concepts for criminological work on crime, deviance, crime control, and criminal justice. This emerging interest chimes with recent social and cultural developments - as well as shifts in their theoretical consideration - that are oriented around contingency and unpredictability. But whilst these conditions have largely been described and analysed through the lens of complexity theory, post-structuralist theory and postmodernism, there exploration by critical criminologists in existentialist terms offers a richer and more productive approach to the social and cultural dimensions of crime, deviance, crime control and, more broadly, of regulation and governance. Covering a range of topics that lend themselves quite naturally to existentialist analysis - crime and deviance as becoming and will, the existential openness of symbolic exchange, the internal conversations that take place within criminal justice practices, and the contingent and finite character of resistance - the contributions to this volume set out to explore a largely untapped reservoir of critical potential.

Author : David Shephard Garland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1C/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American and English Encyclopædia of Law written by David Shephard Garland and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Matza
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351297627
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming Deviant written by David Matza and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming Deviant describes a process by which people move from an affinity for certain prohibited behaviors to full-blown deviance. This process includes affiliation with circles and settings that include or sponsor offenses, followed by understanding and identification of the offenses as prohibited behavior by the transgressor. The process can be summarized as affinity, affiliation, and signification. The sequential process Matza describes allows for non-recurrent offending behavior, recidivism, and offending again. His perspective is motivated by the view that criminological theories do not explain a number of the fundamental empirical features and nuances known to be associated with delinquency. This includes the frequent termination of delinquent behavior at the onset of adulthood, the often conformist nature of delinquent behavior, and the large numbers of non-delinquents that are often found in otherwise "high-delinquency areas." In Becoming Deviant Matza reasons that most, though not all, delinquent behavior constitutes relatively uniform phenomena that is developmental in character. Individuals proceed from trivial to more serious infractions. He argues that delinquent behavior represents youths searching for adventure and is accompanied by withdrawal from conventional values and associated behavior. Matza further claims that many delinquents are not fully committed to a delinquent lifestyle, and this explains why delinquent behavior often ends with adulthood. Matza's compelling and integrated theoretical explanation makes this a classic in the increasingly sophisticated criminological literature. Thomas Blomberg's new introduction shows why Becoming Deviant remains of central importance to the field.

Author : John Houston Merrill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1210 pages
Book Rating : 4.KP/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American and English Encyclopedia of Law written by John Houston Merrill and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph J. Tanke
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441138269
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Anthology of Aesthetics written by Joseph J. Tanke and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary sources, this textbook offers a comprehensive and systematic historical overview of aesthetic theory.

Author : David Shephard Garland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1296 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American and English Encyclopaedia of Law written by David Shephard Garland and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Common Sense written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: