Cash and Care gathers reflective overview pieces and findings from new empirical research by a group of distinguished international experts. The study links the twin themes of cashearnings from paid work, social security benefits, access to credit, direct payments to service users, etc.and care within the broader contexts of disability, carework, and disadvantage, and locates these within recent social trends. By drawing on the latest research and policy developments, the book offers distinctive insights into the way in which the welfare state addresses the related issues of cash and care in...
Cash and Care gathers reflective overview pieces and findings from new empirical research by a group of distinguished international experts. The study...
In this book philosophers try to answer the following question: What is globalization and what does "globe" or "world" (monde) signify? Remi Brague returns to the Greek idea of the cosmos in order to track the worldhood (mondaneite) of the world, that is, the process by which the idea of the world is formed. Don Ihde shows how a world has developed, in which technologies are no longer considered neutral means serving the ends of human action, but become the very means by which people exist in the world. Vittorio Mathieu describes the economical world at two levels that of the individual...
In this book philosophers try to answer the following question: What is globalization and what does "globe" or "world" (monde) signify? Remi Brague...
This book considers the ways in which a cosmopolitan vision might constitute the ethical basis for the validity criteria of a new world order, and thus the basis for the validity of international law in a future global political reality. It examines the transformation of some of the fundamental pairs of concepts associated with the change of the concept of the state in our post-national epoch, and it analyzes the change of the perception of the legal subject and the new role of the individual person in international law after the Second World War.
This book considers the ways in which a cosmopolitan vision might constitute the ethical basis for the validity criteria of a new world order, and...
