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Description:: Does race matter globally, beyond national and regional contexts? If yes, then how exactly? I argue that race matters globally and develop an account for understanding that significance. I call the account “global racial capitalism.” In chapter 1, I offer background to motivate and defend the thesis that race matters...
Keyword:: Race, Global Justice, Racism, Justice, Capitalism, and Racial Capitalism
Subject:: Philosophy, Ethics, and Political science
Creator:: Alnusf, Marzouq
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_897062 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16000

Description:: This dissertation reorients political theory to the concepts of use and utility for a more critical and emancipatory perspective on contemporary communal life. The reorientation entails a recovery of Aristotle’s and Marx’s overlapping approaches to use, whose contemporary reception indexes the surprising alignment of critical political theory with economics. That...
Keyword:: Democracy, Critical Theory, Aristotle, Marx, Indeterminacy, and Utility
Subject:: Philosophy, Classical studies, and Political science
Creator:: Bradshaw, Tristan
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/02/2022
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15868 and etdadmin_upload_863374

Description:: This dissertation addresses inter alia the problem of certain intertextual discontinuities across Thomas Hobbes’s oeuvre regarding the issue of ecclesiology. I find that these disparities did not result from a change in Hobbes’s private opinions, but from the regicide of 1649 as an event that liberated Hobbes to unveil his...
Keyword:: Liberty, Religion, Hobbes, Theology, Ecclesiology, and Hermeneutics
Subject:: History, Philosophy, and Political science
Creator:: Day, Andrew
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 10/07/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15763 and etdadmin_upload_845265

Description:: In the Nicomachean Ethics and Politics, I find that Aristotle endorses two distinct forms of political activity. The first form, which I term statesman activity, is intrinsically valuable. Aristotle thinks that we should value this kind of political activity because it is constitutive of human well-being. The second form, which...
Keyword:: experience, education, political activity, Aristotle, and ethics
Subject:: Philosophy, Classical literature, and Political science
Creator:: Cumella, Giuseppe Angelo
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14472 and etdadmin_upload_627287

Description:: This dissertation explores the role and relation of capitalism in contemporary political life, with the aim to reveal the inherent oppression of what I refer to as capitalist culture. To this end, the project follows three main objectives: (1) to identify the widespread and pervasive nature of capitalist culture (2)...
Keyword:: feminist, culture, oppression, social, politics, and capitalism
Subject:: Philosophy, Gender studies, and Political science
Creator:: LoTempio, Christina Frances
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_673759 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14733

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