1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787453203321

Titolo

Humankind and nature : an endangered system of interdependence in today's globalising world / / edited by Albert Wong and Artur K. Wardega

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4438-7352-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 p.)

Disciplina

201.77

Soggetti

Human ecology - Religious aspects

Human ecology - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; NOTES ON EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; II; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; III; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; IV; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; AFTERWORD; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

As climate change continues to batter the coastlines of North America and elsewhere, and as extreme weather events provide abundant proof of its reality, religious leaders can no longer ignore the fact that the human has become a geologic force, a force that must be re-educated and re-formed in order to guarantee safe passage into a sustainable future. Hopefully, Jesuits and their lay partners can continue to provide leadership in regard to this issue, correctly identified by Fr Adolfo Nicolás, SJ, as a top priority.In this particular context, the role of religions and their valuable contribut



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910795283403321

Autore

Sonenscher Michael

Titolo

Jean-Jacques Rousseau : the division of labour, the politics of the imagination and the concept of federal government / / by Michael Sonenscher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

90-04-42033-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

History of European political and constitutional thought ; ; Volume 2

Disciplina

320.01

Soggetti

Political science - History - 18th century

General will

Social contract

Civil society

Federal government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations Used in Footnotes and a Note on Citations -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Marvellous in Life -- The Fénelon Problem -- The Division of Labour and the Political Economy of the General Will -- The Politics of the Imagination -- Conscience and the Structure of Federal Government -- Rousseau’s Legacy -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This is a book about the political thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Its aim is to explain why, for Rousseau, thinking about politics – whether as democratic sovereignty, representative government, institutionalised power, imaginative vision or a moment of decision – lay at the heart of what he called his “grand, sad system.” This book tracks the gradual emergence of the various components of that system and describes the connections between them. The result is a new and fresh interpretation of one of Europe’s most famous political thinkers, showing why Rousseau can be seen as one of the first theorists of the modern concept of civil society and a key source of the problematic modern



idea of a federal system.