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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2006

        Blair’s community

        Communitarian thought and New Labour

        by Sarah Hale, Chantal Hamill

        Blair's community is an exciting and timely book which challenges the accepted wisdom about the role of communitarian thought in the development of New Labour under Tony Blair. From the mid-1990s there has been a widespread view that Labour policies have reflected, or even been influenced by, the work of communitarian writers like Amitai Etzioni and John Macmurray, and philosophers such as Alasdair MacIntyre and Michael Sandel. The book begins by establishing that such a view was widely, and frequently unquestioningly, held, in both popular and academic forums. It then identifies reasons for the persistence of this impression, the evidence on which it was based, and the understandings of communitarianism used by commentators. The book argues that existing accounts of 'New Labour's communitarianism' fail to present an accurate picture because they are - in some cases explicitly - working with a generic or composite conception of communitarianism which bears little relation to the work of the communitarian writers whose names have been associated with the party. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2008

        Political responsibility and the European Union

        by Myrto Tsakatika

        This book addresses the question of political legitimacy in the European Union from the much neglected angle of political responsibility. It develops an original communitarian approach to legitimacy based on Alasdair MacIntyre's ethics of virtues and practices, that can be contrasted with prevalent liberal-egalitarian and neo-republican approaches. Tsakatika argues that a 'responsibility deficit', quite distinct from the often discussed 'democratic deficit', can be diagnosed in the European Union. This is documented in chapters that provide in-depth analysis of accountability, transparency and the difficulties associated with identifying responsibility in European governance. Closing this gap requires going beyond institutional engineering. It calls for gradual convergence towards certain core social and political practices and for the flourishing of the virtues of political responsibility in Europe's nascent political community. Throughout the book, normative political theory is brought to bear on concrete dilemmas of institutional choice faced by the EU during the recent constitutional debates. 'Political responsibility and the European Union' will be of interest to specialists and postgraduate students of political theory, constitutional law and European Union Studies. ;

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        1968

        Das Unbewusste

        Eine Begriffsanalyse. Mit einem Abriss 'Freuds Theorie'

        by Alasdair MacIntyre, Richard S Peters, Gudrun Sauter

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        June 2002

        Philosophie der Gerechtigkeit

        Texte von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart

        by Christoph Horn, Nico Scarano, Platon, Aristoteles, Epikur, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Augustinus, Anselm Canterbury, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquin, Dante Alighieri, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch de Spinoza, Samuel Pufendorf, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Stuart Mill, Henry Sidgwick, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gustav Radbruch, Chaïm Perelman, Hans Kelsen, H. L. A. Hart, John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Alasdair C. MacIntyre, Jacques Derrida, Iris Marion Young, Jürgen Habermas, Otfried Höffe, Amartya Sen

        Was ist im eigentlichen Sinn gerecht oder ungerecht? Sind es verteilende Personen oder Institutionen, abstrakte Verteilungstheorien, -prozeduren, -resultate oder -zustände? In der Theoriegeschichte der Gerechtigkeit wurden dazu äußerst unterschiedliche Auffassungen vertreten. Erst recht unterschiedlich sind die jeweiligen Theorien dessen, was Gerechtigkeit selbst sein könnte. Nicht alle wichtigen Aspekte werden in der zeitgenössischen Debatte angemessen berücksichtigt. Diese (verlorene) Aspektvielfalt verdeutlicht der Band, der die maßgeblichen und theoriegeschichtlich bedeutenden Texte zur Theorie der Gerechtigkeit von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart zusammenstellt und präsentiert.

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