Dan Zahavi engages with classical phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and a range of empirical disciplines to explore the nature of selfhood. He argues that the most fundamental level of selfhood is not socially constructed or dependent upon others, but accepts that certain dimensions of the self and types of self-experience are other-mediated.

Until recently, struggles for justice proceeded against the background of a taken-for-granted frame: the bounded territorial state. With that "Westphalian" picture of political space assumed by default, the scope of justice was rarely subject to open dispute. Today, however, human-rights activists and international feminists join critics of structural adjustment and the World Trade Organization in challenging the view that justice can only be a domestic relation among fellow citizens. Targeting injustices that cut across borders, they are making the scale of (...) justice an object of explicit struggle. Inspired by these efforts, Nancy Fraser asks: What is the proper frame for theorizing justice? Faced with a plurality of competing scales, how do we know which one is truly just? In exploring these questions, Fraser revises her widely discussed theory of redistribution and recognition. She introduces a third, "political" dimension of justice—representation—and elaborates a new, reflexive type of critical theory that foregrounds injustices of "misframing." Engaging with thinkers such as Jürgen Habermas, John Rawls, Michel Foucault, and Hannah Arendt, she envisions a "postwestphalian" mapping of political space that accommodates transnational solidarity, transborder publicity, and democratic frame-setting, as well as emancipatory projects that cross borders. The result is a sustained reflection on who should count with respect to what in a globalizing world. (shrink)

Strangers, Gods and Monster is a fascinating look at how human identity is shaped by three powerful but enigmatic forces. Often overlooked in accounts of how we think about ourselves and others, Richard Kearney skillfully shows, with the help of vivid examples and illustrations, how the human outlook on the world is formed by the mysterious triumvirate of strangers, gods and monsters. Throughout, Richard Kearney shows how strangers, gods and monsters do not merely reside in myths or fantasies but constitute (...) a central part of our cultural unconscious. Above all, he argues that until we understand better that the Other resides deep within ourselves, we can have little hope of understanding how our most basic fears and desires manifest themselves in the external world and how we can learn to live with them. (shrink)

One of America's foremost philosophers challenges the lost generation of the American Left to understand the role it might play in the great tradition of democratic intellectual labor that started with writers such as Walt Whitman and John Dewey.

У статті проведено культуро філософський аналіз феномену особистості як визначального в соціокультурному та освітньому просторі сучасного особистого суспільства у порівнянні з особливостями філософського розуміння цього феномену в освітньому контексті епохи модерну, співзвучної сьогоденню. Виявлення типових проекцій минулих епох, традиційною з яких є усвідомлення змісту понять «людина» та «особистість», на фоні складності і неоднозначності сучасної соціокультурної ситуації сприятиме подальшим пошукам ефективних чинників взаємодії особистості і суспільства в освітньому просторі, що динамічно трансформується.

This article on "Features and technology adoption and implementation of political decisions in today's conditions," the essence and nature of political decisions. The conditions policy decisions. Considered kinds of political decisions, the main phase of the cycle policy and technology adoption. Isolate basic qualities political solution. The dependence of the quality and efficiency of policy decisions on social and political factors. The purpose of the article is therefore to review the features and technology adoption and implementation of political decisions in (...) today's conditions. The subject of research is the process of developing modern political decisions. Regarding the methodology of scientific research, the research process used general scientific and special methods. In particular, the use of structural and functional method and the method of logical generalization possible to clarify the nature of political decisions, clarify their constituents and role in the formation. Scientifically proven that political decision is a conscious choice of one of several possible options for political action. It is proved that a political decision is a concrete manifestation of social action and political behavior. (shrink)