At the center of Slovak linguistic pragmatics there is Dr. Juraj Dolník, who currently works as an emeritus professor at Comenius University in Bratislava.
This book offers an empirical and theoretical study of the Koizumi administration, covering such issues as the characteristics of its political style, its domestic and foreign policies, and its ...larger historical significance. The key questions that guide its approach are: what enabled Koizumi to exercise unusually strong leadership, and what structural transformations of Japanese politics did he achieve?
Uchiyama looks at policy-making processes, newly created institutional arenas such as the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy, Koizumi’s populist strategy, foreign policy, and neo-liberal convictions to assess the historical significance of his administration and seek out the basis for its wide public support.
Finally, the book undertakes a normative evaluation of the merits and demerits of the Koizumi administration’s political style, and compares it with the Abe and Fukuda administrations that came after. This book will be of interest to scholars and students with an interest in comparative politics, administrative reform, and contemporary Japan.
Yu Uchiyama is Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Japan.
"Uchiyama sees Koizumi's ability to seize upon the expanded prerogatives of the prime minister as a function of his political orientation, a Japanese-style Thatcherism, and his leadership style. Koizumi's call for reform of Japan's financial and health care systems and the privatization of significant government-run enterprises tapped into the public's search for an alternative solution to existing social and economic ills. This work is highly recommended for private collections and library collections on Japan. Highly recommended. Graduate, research, and professional collections." J. M. Peek, Glenville State College, Choice Reviews Online, www.cro2.org
"Detail is quite literally the word for this book as, throughout the chapters, there is an immense amount of information... the book's strongest features are its detailed description of the Koizumi era and its perceptive analysis of the outcome of his time in power... Its value is in its detail and the way it attempts to explain Koizumi." - Sarah Hyde, Asian Affairs, Nov 2011
1. Koizumi’s Management of Politics 2. Domestic Affairs: The Battle over Neoliberal Reform 3. Foreign Relations: Closer to America, Farther from East Asia 4. The Koizumi Administration in Historical and Theoretical Perspective 5. Legacies of the Koizumi Administration Postscript: The Koizumi and Abe Administrations
Populism in politics and policy orientations in law have thrown the jurisdiction of the academy and the disciplines of interpretation into disarray. Critique flounders in abstraction and negativity, ...law loses itself in particularity. Administering Interpretation brings together philosophers, humanists, and jurists from both continental and Anglophone jurisdictions to reassess the status and trajectory of interpretative theory as applied in the art of law. Tracking the thread of philosophical influences upon the community of legal interpretation, the essays move from the translation and wake of Derrida to the work of Agamben, from deconstruction to oikononmia. Sharing roots in the philological excavation of the political theology of modern law, contributors assess the failure of secularism and the continuing theological borrowings of juridical interpretation. The book brings contemporary critique to bear upon the interpretative apparatuses of exclusion, the law of spectacular sovereignty, and the bodies that lie in its wake.
Contributors: Giovanna Borradori, Marinos Diamantides, Allen Feldman, Stanley Fish, Pierre Legrand, Bernadette Meyler, Michel Rosenfeld, Bernhard Schlink, Jeanne Schroeder, Laurent de Sutter, Katrin Trüstedt, Marco Wan Shows how principles of legal interpretation and legal practice have been affected by developments in philosophy in the wake of two major thinkers whose influence upon other fields is better known.Features original pieces by an international group of major scholars, including such prominent figures as Stanley Fish and Bernhard Schlink (author of the bestselling novel The Reader, in addition to being a prominent legal scholar).
More Than Heavy Rain brings together poems of intense observation culled from a life lived mostly outside. Set mostly around the poet's home along the Watauga River in northeast Tennessee, the poems ...also reach out to such distant locations as Montana, Alaska, and post-war Germany. Some of them reconstruct the poet's childhood in rural West Virginia. Some examine his family history, the events and relatives who helped determine the way he views the world.LIKE TURNING ON A SWITCHIn a day and a night the leaves of all fourGingko trees in the courtyard fell,Fanned out in one direction by a south windAs if they had been deliberately laid.Even in half-light they glowedAs if a door had been opened at mid-courtSpilling brightness onto the grass.But there was no door, no room into whichOne might lead, no light to shine out,Just yellow leaves, four shadow-anchoredBoats, straining to pull away with the tide.
In the early years of World War II, Germany shocked the world with a devastating blitzkrieg, rapidly conquered most of Europe, and pushed into North Africa. As the Allies scrambled to counter the ...Axis armies, the British Eighth Army confronted the experienced Afrika Corps, led by German field marshal Erwin Rommel, in three battles at El Alamein. In the first battle, the Eighth Army narrowly halted the advance of the Germans during the summer of 1942. However, the stalemate left Nazi troops within striking distance of the Suez Canal, which would provide a critical tactical advantage to the controlling force. War historian Glyn Harper dives into the story, vividly narrating the events, strategies, and personalities surrounding the battles and paying particular attention to the Second Battle of El Alamein, a crucial turning point in the war that would be described by Winston Churchill as "the end of the beginning." Moving beyond a simple narrative of the conflict, The Battle for North Africa tackles critical themes, such as the problems of coalition warfare, the use of military intelligence, the role of celebrity generals, and the importance of an all-arms approach to modern warfare.
This book offers a defence of Wrightean epistemic entitlement, one of the most prominent approaches to hinge epistemology. It also systematically explores the connections between virtue epistemology ...and hinge epistemology. According to hinge epistemology, any human belief set is built within and upon a framework of pre-evidential propositions – hinges – that cannot be justified. Epistemic entitlement argues that we are entitled to trust our hinges. But there remains a problem. Entitlement is inherently unconstrained and arbitrary: We can be entitled to any hinge proposition under the right circumstances. In this book, the author argues that we need a non-arbitrariness clause that protects entitlement from defeat. This clause, he argues, is to require epistemic virtue. Virtuous cognitive dispositions provide the non-arbitrariness clause that protects entitlement from defeat. The epistemic character of the agent who holds a particular set of hinges tells us something about the hinges’ epistemic status. Conversely, epistemic virtues are cognitive dispositions and capacities that rely on hinge propositions – without trusting in some hinges, we would be unable to exercise our virtues. Trust Responsibly will appeal to scholars and advanced students working on epistemology, Wittgenstein, and virtues.
During the Khmer Rouge's brutal reign in Cambodia during the mid-to-late 1970s, a former math teacher named Duch served as the commandant of the S-21 security center, where as many as 20,000 victims ...were interrogated, tortured, and executed. In 2009 Duch stood trial for these crimes against humanity. While the prosecution painted Duch as evil, his defense lawyers claimed he simply followed orders. In Man or Monster? Alexander Hinton uses creative ethnographic writing, extensive fieldwork, hundreds of interviews, and his experience attending Duch's trial to create a nuanced analysis of Duch, the tribunal, the Khmer Rouge, and the after-effects of Cambodia's genocide. Interested in how a person becomes a torturer and executioner as well as the law's ability to grapple with crimes against humanity, Hinton adapts Hannah Arendt's notion of the "banality of evil" to consider how the potential for violence is embedded in the everyday ways people articulate meaning and comprehend the world. Man or Monster? provides novel ways to consider justice, terror, genocide, memory, truth, and humanity.
Essential for students of Theatre Studies, this series of six decadal volumes provides a critical survey and reassessment of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to the present. Each ...volume equips readers with an understanding of the context from which work emerged, a detailed overview of the range of theatrical activity and a close study of the work of four of the major playwrights by a team of leading scholars. Chris Megson's comprehensive survey of the theatre of the 1970s examines the work of four playwrights who came to promience in the decade and whose work remains undiminished today: Caryl Churchill (by Paola Botham), David Hare (Chris Megson), Howard Brenton (Richard Boon) and David Edgar (Janelle Reinelt). It analyses their work then, its legacy today and provides a fresh assessment of their contribution to British theatre. Interviews with the playwrights, with directors and with actors provides an invaluable collection of documents offering new perspectives on the work. Revisiting the decade from the perspective of the twenty-first century, Chris Megson provides an authoritative and stimulating reassessment of British playwriting in the 1970s.
