Hans-Georg Moeller
The Radical Luhmann
Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998) was a German sociologist and system theorist who wrote on law, economics, politics, art, religion, ecology, mass media, and love. Luhmann advocated a radical constructivism and antihumanism, or "grand theory," to explain society within a universal theoretical framework. Nevertheless, despite being an iconoclast, Luhmann is viewed as a political conservative. Hans-Georg Moeller challenges this legacy, repositioning Luhmann as an explosive thinker critical of Western humanism.
Publishers website:
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-15378-2/the-radical-luhmann
Hans-Georg Moeller
The Moral Fool: A Case for Amorality
Justice, equality, and righteousness—these are some of our greatest moral convictions. Yet in times of social conflict, morals can become rigid, making religious war, ethnic cleansing, and political purges possible. Morality, therefore, can be viewed as pathology-a rhetorical, psychological, and social tool that is used and abused as a weapon.
Publishers website:
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14508-4/the-moral-fool
Hans-Georg Moeller
The Philosophy of the Daodejing
Hans-Georg Moeller presents a clear and coherent description and analysis of this vaguely understood Chinese classic. He explores the recurring images and ideas that shape the work and offers a variety of useful approaches to understanding and appreciating this canonical text.
Publishers website:
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-13678-5/the-philosophy-of-the-daodejing
Hans-Georg Moeller
Luhmann Explained
From Souls to Systems
What are systems? What is society? What happens to human beings in a hypermodern world? This book is an introduction to Niklas Luhmann's social system theory which explains specific functions like economy and mass media from a cybernetic perspective. Special attention is given to the present-day relevance of Luhmann's theory with respect to globalization, electronic mass media, ethics, and new forms of protest.
Publishers website:
http://www.opencourtbooks.com/books_n/luhmann.htm
Hans-Georg Moeller
Daoism Explained
From the Dream of the Butterfly to the Fishnet Allegory
Volume 1 in the Ideas Explained™ series
Daoism Explained offers an interpretation of the tenets of Daoist philosophy on the basis of the imagery employed in various Daoist texts. The author explains the significance of such images as water and the female and allegories such as the "Dream of the Butterfly," and shows how they connect to each other and how ancient Chinese philosophers understood them
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http://www.opencourtbooks.com/books_n/daoism.htm
Laozi. Translated and with Commentaries by Hans-Georg Moeller
Daodejing
The New, Highly Readable Translation of the Life-Changing Ancient Scripture Formerly Known as the Tao Te Ching
The terse, haunting verses of the Daodejing have fascinated, inspired, and mystified millions of readers down through the centuries. In sharp contrast to the Western preoccupation with remaking the world and other people as we would wish them to be, the Daodejing preaches the virtue of noninterference and letting things evolve naturally. ly," and shows how they connect to each other and how ancient Chinese philosophers understood them
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http://www.opencourtbooks.com/books_n/daodejing.htm
Vittorio Bufacchi
Social Injustice:
Essays in Political Philosophy
2012 Basingstoke: Palgrave.
The idea of social injustice is pivotal to much contemporary moral and political philosophy, and yet this concept has repeatedly failed to attract the detailed analysis it deserves. How could so much be written about social justice, and so little about social injustice? The essays in this book are an attempt to rebalance this anomaly.
Publishers website:
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=406668
Vittorio Bufacchi (ed.)
Rethinking Violence
2011 London: Routledge.
This book promotes the merits of an interdisciplinary agenda. By bringing together scholars of violence working in political science, political theory, international relations, economics, philosophy, sociology, psychology and public health, this book explores the complexity of violence and the interface between the empirical and normative dimensions central to this problem. The aim is to investigate the ways in which a correct understanding of this phenomenon must deal with both empirical and normative issues.
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Vittorio Bufacchi (ed.)
Violence: A Philosophical Anthology
2009 Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Violence holds considerable philosophical interest, especially today, and yet this concept has not been given sufficient attention by contemporary philosophers. This is the first anthology of philosophical essays on the nature and justifiability of violence. The essays in this volume, taken from the last 100 years, explore a range of philosophical issues pertaining to violence.
website:
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=281105
Vittorio Bufacchi
Violence and Social Justice
2007 Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Violence and injustice are the two major political problems the world is facing today. By offering a fresh, innovative analysis of the concept of violence, this book presents an original insight into the nature of injustice, which forces us to rethink the scope and aims of a theory of social justice. More specifically, the book explores three closely related questions: What is violence? What is the relationship between violence and social justice? Can social justice be promoted through violence?
website:
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=280554
Vittorio Bufacchi and Simon Burgess
Italy Since 1989: Events and Interpretations
Vittorio Bufacchi and Simon Burgess
2001 Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Italy Since 1989 provides the first in-depth, fully documented account in English of the extraordinary last eleven years in Italian politics. Bufacchi and Burgess take the transition to a new Italy as their point of departure, and conduct a guided tour through the massive changes that the country has recently undergone with the collapse of the party-state, attempting to explain as well as understand events along the way.
website:
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=263184
Vittorio Bufacchi, R.Bellamy and D.Castiglione (eds)
Democracy and Constitutional Culture in the Union of Europe
1994 London: Lothian Foundation Press.
website:
http://lothianfoundationpress.com/catalogo.php?id=5
