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Encyclopedia of Global Justice

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-4020-9161-2
Verlag: Springer
Erscheinungstermin: 31.01.2012
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This two-volume Encyclopedia of Global Justice, published by Springer, along with Springer's book series, Studies in Global Justice, is a major publication venture toward a comprehensive coverage of this timely topic. The Encyclopedia is an international, interdisciplinary, and collaborative project, spanning all the relevant areas of scholarship related to issues of global justice, and edited and advised by leading scholars from around the world. The wide-ranging entries present the latest ideas on this complex subject by authors who are at the cutting edge of inquiry.

The Encyclopedia sets the tone and direction of this increasingly important area of scholarship for years to come. The entries number around 500 and consist of essays of 300 to 5000 words. The inclusion and length of entries are based on their significance to the topic of global justice, regardless of their importance in other areas.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781402091612
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-4020-9161-2
  • Verlag: Springer
  • Erscheinungstermin: 31.01.2012
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 2011
  • Produktform: Kartoniert, Book + Online Access
  • Seiten: 1200
  • Format (B x H): 193 x 260 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Herausgeber

Editor-in-Chief Deen K. Chatterjee (from Sanskrit Dee(pa)n Kar, which means "the light giver") holds a Ph.D. from the University of Washington and is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. His visiting professorships include appointments at the University of Washington, the New School for Social Research, and the University of Pittsburgh's Institute for Shipboard Education. He has been Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Center for Values and Social Policy at the University of Colorado at Boulder; Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Oregon Humanities Center; NEH Faculty Fellow at the Institute on War and Morality at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis; Eccles Faculty Fellow at the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah; and Visiting Scholar at Harvard University on a David P. Gardner Faculty Fellowship. His areas of specialization are political philosophy, applied ethics, and philosophy of religion and culture.

Concepts/Theories.- Basic Needs.- Capabilities Ethics.- Environmental Justice.- Retribution.- Social Contract.- Persons/Thinkers.- Arendt, Hannah.- Habermas, Jürgen.- Laozi.- Rawls, John.- Sen, Amartya.- Institutions/Organizations.- European Union (EU).- High Road for Human Rights.- International Criminal Court (ICC).- The Pax Natura Foundation.- TheWorld Bank.- Trends/Movements/Policies/Treaties.- Ecofeminism Foreign Aid.- Population Politics.- Truth Commissions.- Vienna Declaration on Human Rights.