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This book offers a new theoretical framework for free speech by critically analyzing the major justifications for free speech.

The book examines the meaning of justice in African political philosophy, building on the use-theoretical approach. Currently, most of the philosophical works in this context advocate for a communal interpretation of the meaning of justice, such as the 'relational theory of justice' and 'Ubuntu justice as fairness.' The author argues that this foundation of justice in the community undermines the self, which is a major problem with these theories. As an attempt to go beyond communitarianism in African thought, the book recognizes other philosophical frameworks for elaborating the meaning of justice in ordinary people's experience, such as vitalism, theism, ubuntuism, and semantic framework. The author opts for a reconstructed ubuntu-based theory of the meaning of justice that reflects the traditional African experience and recuperates 'valuing self-existence' and 'valuing other-existence' as its foundations. The book further identifies the centrality of rights in defining justice intraditional African communities.

This book offers an account of ten crucial moments in the history of ideas, which represent ten key moments of the discovery of pluralism. From the Indian emperor Ashoka to Origen and from Nicola Cusano to Las Casas, Montaigne, Lessing, giants who opened the way to the thought of tolerance, challenging the dogma of a unique truth dictated by authority, followed in this reconstruction by other glowing thinkers of the twentieth century, such as Horace Kallen, Margaret Mead, and Jacques Dupuis. These protagonists, each in their own way, battled against monism for the respect of differences and for the knowledge of otherness. This kind of hall of fame of pluralist thinkers ends with the most important figure of the pluralism of values, Isaiah Berlin, of whom an unpublished interview appears here for the first time in English. The volume is unique in this two-thousand-year-old variety of voices gathered under the denominator of cultural pluralism that they embody in the deepest andmost challenging sense, often at the limits and beyond the limits of heresy. It is of great value and interest to scholars and students of theoretical, moral, political philosophy, sociology, comparative studies, comparative literature, religious diversity, religious studies, anthropology, and all those interested in the history of tolerance.

This book investigates the unresolved issue of democratic legitimacy in contexts of pervasive disagreement and contributes to this debate by defending a relational version of political liberalism that rests on the ideal of co-authorship. According to this proposal, democratic legitimacy depends upon establishing appropriate interactions among citizens who ought to ascribe to one another the status of putative practical and epistemic authorities. To support this relational reading of political liberalism, the book proposes a revised account of the civic virtue of reasonableness along with an investigation of the epistemic-specific dimension of political equality. By engaging with political epistemology and social theory, this book explores ways to address inherent tensions within the liberal paradigm, using the following strategies of addressing these tensions: first, it defends a twofold model of legitimacy that distinguishes the goals, methodologies, and justificatory tasks of both ideal and nonideal phases of the two-level justificatory framework; second, it contends that democratic legitimacy requires an engaged and contextual critical appraisal of the injustices that characterize our daily social lives, illustrating how structural forms of injustice represent a profound betrayal of the liberal ideal of democratic legitimacy.

This book critically analyzes the current historical conjuncture of neoliberal capitalism with an eye to its emergent alternatives. Can democracy and capitalism thrive together? Is socialism a viable and a desirable alternative? What are the forms of emancipatory action and critical thought that can effectively chart a way forward?Focusing on nine "e;critical debates"e; it provides a uniquely comprehensive overview of the tensions, contradictions, and latent emancipatory potential of contemporary global capitalism. The specific debates are as follows: capitalism's relationship with democracy; privatization and governance of the commons; the financialization of capitalism; technology and the future of work; varieties of neoliberal capitalism; cosmopolitanism, international development, and human rights; feminist theory and social solidarity; sustainability and climate change; and theories of capitalist crisis.

In scholarly terms, he evaluates the benefits and drawbacks of theological-political renovation, neo-reformism, legal reformism, mystical reformism, radical criticism, comprehensive history and new approaches within the study of Islam.

This book provides a comprehensive account of the phenomenon of identity in politics, featuring for the first time the question of individual emancipation.

This volume assembles renowned scholars to address, for the first time, the relationship between minorities and populism in South Asia and Europe from a critical perspective.

This book offers a critical examination of certain ideas and values-such as remembering, forgiveness, story-telling through Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, etc.-that under-gird the transitional practices and mechanisms of societies emerging from conflicts.

This volume assembles renowned scholars to address, for the first time, the relationship between minorities and populism in South Asia and Europe from a critical perspective.

This book brings together international scholars of Islamic philosophy, theology and politics to examine these current major questions: What is the place of pluralism in the Islamic founding texts?

Part I: An Overview of Human Rights in Turkey.- Chapter1. Introducing Human Rights in Turkey.- Chapter 2. Human Rights in Turkey: Past, Present, and Future.- Part II: Freedom and Non-discrimination.- Chapter 3. Freedom of the Media in Turkey under the AKP Government.- Chapter 4. Discrimination Based on Religion: A Complex Story in Turkey.- Chapter 5. Non-Discrimination, Minority Rights and Self-Determination: Turkey''s Post-Coup State of Emergency and the Position of Turkey''s Kurds.- Chapter 6.- Justice and Development (AKP) Attitudes Towards the LGBTI Community in Turkey.- Chapter 7. LGBTQ Rights in Turkey: Do not Touch my Body!.- Part III: The Rights of the Displaced.- Chapter 8. Syrian Refugees in Turkey: (Un)Equal Opportunities in Education.- Part IV: State of Emergency(OHAL).- Chapter 9. Authoritarianization and Human Rights in Turkey: How the AKP Legitimizes Human Rights Violations.- Chapter 10. Shunned and Purged: Turkey''s Crackdown on the Hizmet (G├╝len) Movement.- Chapter 11. The Cases of Dismissal under State of Emergency (OHAL): The Right to a Fair Trial as a Human Right.- Chapter 12. Intellectuals on Hunger Strike for Reinstatement to their Job: The Case of the "Yuksel Resistance".- Chapter 13. Human Rights Violations and Medicolegal Approach.- Part V: Social and Economic Rights.- Chapter 14. Right to Education: Challenges and Issues under the Justice and Development Party Era.- Chapter 15. Academic Freedom and Living in Exile: Experiences of Academics in Turkey.- Chapter 16. The Effects of Democratic Regression on Turkish Economy and the Brain Drain.- Chapter 17. Neoliberal De-Development in Turkey and the AKP''s Socioeconomic War on the Counterhegemony.- Part VI: Women and Children Rights.- Chapter 18. Imprisoned Women and Children in Turkey: Human Rights Violations under the State of Emergency (OHAL).- Chapter 19. The Trauma of Turkish Women and Children in an Era of Political Unrest.- Part VII: Foreign Policy Initiative: A Case Review.- Chapter 20. Turkey''s Accession to the European Union in Context of Its Human Rights Violations: Observations of a Journalist from Brussels.

Offering the first developed account of political liberal education, this book combines a thorough analysis of the theoretical groundwork of political liberal education with application-oriented approaches to contemporary educational challenges.

Whistleblowing is the public disclosure of information with the purpose of revealing wrongdoings and abuses of power that harm the public interest.

This volume contributes to the ongoing interdisciplinary controversies about the moral, legal and political status of children and childhood.

This volume combines rigorous empirical and theoretical analyses with political engagement to look beyond reductive short-hands that ignore the historical evolution and varieties of Islamic doctrine and that deny the complexities of Muslim societies' encounters with modernity itself.

And is militant democracy evolving into an internationalized legal and political concept?Bringing together experts and perspectives from political science, law and philosophy, this volume advances our understanding of the current threats to democracy, a political system once thought almost invincible.