All Outputs (3)

On the concept of humanitarian intervention, with particular reference to New Labour theorising about an ethical dimension to foreign policy (2010)
Thesis
Hunter, L. S. C. On the concept of humanitarian intervention, with particular reference to New Labour theorising about an ethical dimension to foreign policy. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4211364

This dissertation explores the moral and political assumptions contained within the concept of humanitarian intervention in the three areas of political science, political philosophy and politics itself.

It is argued that far from shedding light on... Read More about On the concept of humanitarian intervention, with particular reference to New Labour theorising about an ethical dimension to foreign policy.

The conception of human nature in modern political thought : with special reference to the work of Charles Taylor (2000)
Thesis
Hounslow, A. P. The conception of human nature in modern political thought : with special reference to the work of Charles Taylor. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4214372

[From the introduction:]
This thesis will analyse and advocate a 'contextualist' reading of human nature. By reference to the work of Charles Taylor it will be argued that Modern conceptions of human nature are (to echo Nietzsche) 'dead'. This is to... Read More about The conception of human nature in modern political thought : with special reference to the work of Charles Taylor.

The postmodern debate and the search for emancipation : rationality, the self and politics in the thought of Foucault, Derrida, Rorty and MacIntyre (1996)
Thesis
Kelly, A. J. The postmodern debate and the search for emancipation : rationality, the self and politics in the thought of Foucault, Derrida, Rorty and MacIntyre. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4210806

The postmodern philosophical project, which aims to undermine the universalistic, metanarrational and transcendental aspects of traditional Western thought and to bring about an awareness of 'otherness' through deconstruction, has been dismissed out... Read More about The postmodern debate and the search for emancipation : rationality, the self and politics in the thought of Foucault, Derrida, Rorty and MacIntyre.