The paradox Works of Love approaches is that love is commanded. Taking up the description of love as fulfilling the law, Kierkegaard presents an account of law that is never actualized except in the decision that is love, and an account of love that is continuously called or goaded into becoming by the law. The ambivalence of this temporal “sequence” is of the kind that Kafka would later portray in his story “Before the Law.” This chapter argues that Kierkegaard’s law cannot appear for us except through a political reading in which I ask in my specific historical context, “what is justice”? Works of Love thus opens a reading of the paradoxical Christian commandment which would allow philosophers like Levinas to articulate a radical ethics of response. To read Kierkegaard’s Works of Love faithfully is to be charged to love.

In a time of great contest and confusion over the future of democracy as a governing principle, the example of Abraham Lincoln continues to provide encouragement and direction about democracy’s viability in the face of immense challenges. In The Political Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Allen Guelzo brings into one volume Lincoln’s most famous political documents and speeches from his earliest days as a political candidate under the banner of the Whig Party, to his election and service as the first anti-slavery Republican president, from 1861 to 1865, and the nation’s leader in the fiery trial of civil war. While many anthologies of Lincoln’s political documents routinely concentrate on his presidential years or only on his anti-slavery writings, Guelzo concentrates on documents from Lincoln’s earliest political activity as an Illinois state legislator in the 1830s up through his presidency. The result is an accessible resource for students, researchers, and general readers.

Given strong common interests in avoiding mass killing and economic devastation, or even the relatively small negative economic effects of some low-level internal conflicts, why do these conflicts occur? Human affairs are too complex, messy, and interesting for any one angle to provide a fully satisfactory answer, and particularly an angle as schematic and bloodless as game theory. Even so, work using game-theoretic methods has developed answers that provide useful insights into important strategic dimensions, and that provide plausible explanations for some of the more striking empirical patterns concerning armed conflict in this period. This chapter reviews game-theoretic models of the outbreak and prosecution of large-scale armed conflict as they have developed in particular over the last forty years.

Describes the Economic Section’s role in implementing Labour government policies.

In a time of great contest and confusion over the future of democracy as a governing principle, the example of Abraham Lincoln continues to provide encouragement and direction about democracy’s viability in the face of immense challenges. In The Political Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Allen Guelzo brings into one volume Lincoln’s most famous political documents and speeches from his earliest days as a political candidate under the banner of the Whig Party, to his election and service as the first anti-slavery Republican president, from 1861 to 1865, and the nation’s leader in the fiery trial of civil war. While many anthologies of Lincoln’s political documents routinely concentrate on his presidential years or only on his anti-slavery writings, Guelzo concentrates on documents from Lincoln’s earliest political activity as an Illinois state legislator in the 1830s up through his presidency. The result is an accessible resource for students, researchers, and general readers.

In a time of great contest and confusion over the future of democracy as a governing principle, the example of Abraham Lincoln continues to provide encouragement and direction about democracy’s viability in the face of immense challenges. In The Political Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Allen Guelzo brings into one volume Lincoln’s most famous political documents and speeches from his earliest days as a political candidate under the banner of the Whig Party, to his election and service as the first anti-slavery Republican president, from 1861 to 1865, and the nation’s leader in the fiery trial of civil war. While many anthologies of Lincoln’s political documents routinely concentrate on his presidential years or only on his anti-slavery writings, Guelzo concentrates on documents from Lincoln’s earliest political activity as an Illinois state legislator in the 1830s up through his presidency. The result is an accessible resource for students, researchers, and general readers.

This manifesto explores the biological effects of toxic stress, triggered by strong, frequent or prolonged adversity, on childhood development and long-term health. It highlights how emotion coaching, a form of responsive relationship, can mitigate those effects, support the healthy development of children and improve outcomes for children, young people and families. Emotion coaching involves being present, validating the child’s feelings and helping them understand and manage their emotions. The manifesto advocates for integrating the science of stress and the practice of emotion coaching into educational systems and communities, including strengthening skills and capabilities in the core life skills of adult caregivers. In this way, educators and communities can help children thrive.

Articulates some general features of Jewish philosophy that emerge from our discussion of specific issues, features such as disagreement and systematicity.

Middle Dutch Arthurian romances often are translated from French sources, yet Flemish and Dutch poets also created their own Arthurian tales. What do these ‘Dutch originals’ contribute to European Arthuriana? They may, with a modern term, be seen as ‘speculative fiction’, exploring new and unexpected narrative possibilities. The source issue of the Torec romance and its meaning for the French tradition is discussed first, followed by an explanation of what speculative fiction entails. Three examples then demonstrate the ‘What if…?’ nature of the Middle Dutch Arthurian tales: (1) the threefold, rather than single, quest in the Roman van Walewein, (2) the appearance of, and reactions to, a black-skinned knight in the Arthurian setting (Moriaen), and (3) the experiment of creating a cyclic narrative from different kinds of romances (originating in prose and verse), with special attention to the development of the (emotional) self of main characters like Lancelot and Gawain in the consecutive stories of the cycle.

This essay brings together the Jamesian will to believe with Coleridge’s famous description of the willing suspension of disbelief to offer a theory of fiction as a real-making practice. It begins by situating James’s writing on belief in relation to his thoughts on the “sense of reality” and then drawing out some distinctive features of his approach: For instance, instead of treating reality like an on/off switch (something is either real or it’s not), he treats it like a dial that can be turned up and down in volume. Belief is less about specific doctrines, for James, and more about the fundamental stance through which reality is perceived or rendered. The second part of the essay tests this Jamesian perspective against a novel that is itself about the relation between fiction and belief: J.M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello. It ends by specifying the particular place of literary fictions within the broader category of belief and asking if literary critics are best thought of as believers, knowers, or both.

In a time of great contest and confusion over the future of democracy as a governing principle, the example of Abraham Lincoln continues to provide encouragement and direction about democracy’s viability in the face of immense challenges. In The Political Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Allen Guelzo brings into one volume Lincoln’s most famous political documents and speeches from his earliest days as a political candidate under the banner of the Whig Party, to his election and service as the first anti-slavery Republican president, from 1861 to 1865, and the nation’s leader in the fiery trial of civil war. While many anthologies of Lincoln’s political documents routinely concentrate on his presidential years or only on his anti-slavery writings, Guelzo concentrates on documents from Lincoln’s earliest political activity as an Illinois state legislator in the 1830s up through his presidency. The result is an accessible resource for students, researchers, and general readers.