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This book sets out a new reading of the much-neglected philosophy of Karl Jaspers. By questioning the common perception of Jaspers either as a proponent of irrationalist cultural philosophy or as an early, peripheral disciple of Martin Heidegger, it re-establishes him as a central figure in modern European philosophy. Giving particular consideration to his position in epistemological, metaphysical and political debate, the author argues that Jaspers's work deserves renewed consideration in a number of important discussions, particularly in hermeneutics, anthropological reflections on religion, the critique of idealism, and debates on the end of metaphysics.

This book analyses the relationship between law and violence, the utility of law over violence and whether legality as an approach has an inherent disability in addressing mass violence as a crime. The study is located within international law and assesses whether prosecuting political violence would necessarily entail an abuse of the legal process. The intention is to encourage definition of criminal aggression via legal processes laid down by the International Criminal Court, rather than giving favour to political action under the United Nations Charter. Issues discussed in the book include the controversies over the location of the crime of aggression in either law or politics, taking a legal approach to the problems outlined. Using examples from Libya, the Ivory Coast, and Kenya, the work will be of interest to those working in the areas of international criminal justice, international law, legal theory, and international relations.

This book demonstrates the empirical gains and integrative potential of social systems theory for the sociology of law. The study observes judicial review as an instrument for the self-steering of a functionally differentiated legal system. This approach allows close investigation of the US Supreme Court’s jurisprudence of rights, both in legal terms and in relation to structural transformations of modern society, and of the European Court of Human Rights’ privacy jurisprudence, which suggests the pertinence of the analytic framework to other rights and jurisdictions.

The New Principia Book 1 deals with the start of the New Principia — important scientific work — related to questions such as “How to find God,” “How to travel in Time”, “Travels in Outer Space” plus "Resolving the Andromeda Paradox" and more with proper explanations and some working methods for handling Ouija Boards, Near Death Experiences, Astral Projection, Hypnosis, Consciousness, Super-intelligent Machines and others. With The New Principia, the sky is not the limit.

Sejak terkodifikasinya kitab-kitab hadits, perkembangan ijtihad dalam hukum Islam tidak menggembirakan, untuk tidak mengatakan mengalami kemandegan. Bahkan, hingga saat ini, para ulama masih terbelenggu dengan referensi hadits yang tersekat-sekat, juga dengan hierarkinya. Bukan hanya itu, dalam melakukan ijtihad dan mengambil istinbath hukum, para ulama masih merujuk pada kitab karya ulama berabad lampau, tanpa melihat konteks saat ini yang berbeda tempat dan waktu. Akibatnya, dinamika sosial yang melaju pesat dengan berbagai persoalan kemasyarakatan yang terkadang membutuhkan "jawaban hukum menurut Islam", justru tidak menemukan solusi hukumnya dalam fatwa dan ijtihad ulama masa kini. Oleh karena itu, dibutuhkan bahasan yang mengaitkan antara kodifikasi hadits dan kreativitas berijtihad dalam kajian-kajian fiqh. Kodifisi hadits, khususnya al-kutub as-sittah, dianggap menghambat perkembangan ijtihad karena hierarkinya yang membelenggu. Lebih jauh, teks-teks nash yang sudah ada perlu dikembangkan dengan pamahaman-pemahaman dan perspektif baru sehingga menjadi energi yang luar biasa bagi dinamika ijtihad sekaligus kemampuan Islam untuk menjawab persoalan kekinian.

Memahami teks hukum (termasuk undang-undang), secara komprehensif tidaklah “mudah”, seringkali mengundang berbagai perdebatan dan penafsiran. Karena adanya jarak horizon antara pembuat aturan dan penafsir, apalagi jika aturan itu sudah lama dibuat. Buku ini menyajikan teori-teori penafsiran hukum dan memperkenalkan metode penafsiran hukum yang komprehensif berdasarkan teori Hermeneutic Circle yang digagas oleh Hans Georg Gadamer. Penafsiran hukum ada 2 (dua) yakni prospective interpretation (hukum ditemukan maknanya sebelum diterapkan) dan concurrent/operative interpretation (hukum dimaknai pada saat menghadapi kasus). Buku ini lebih bertujuan pada penafsiran hukum dalam arti yang pertama, yakni prospective interpretation bukan menyelesaikan kasus, yang merupakan langkah lanjutan dari pemahaman yang harus ada terlebih dahulu. Buku ini sangat berguna untuk memperluas wawasan dan pengetahuan bagi akademisi, praktisi hukum, dan mahasiswa hukum serta memperkaya khasanah referensi hukum yang berfokus pada penalaran dan hermenuetika hukum untuk kepentingan dunia akademik maupun praktikal.

Science and Religious Anthropology explores the convergence of the biological sciences, human sciences, and humanities around a spiritually evocative, naturalistic vision of human life. The disciplinary contributions are at different levels of complexity, from evolution of brains to existential longings, and from embodied sociality to ecosystem habitat. The resulting interpretation of the human condition supports some aspects of traditional theological thinking in the world's religious traditions while seriously challenging other aspects. Wesley Wildman draws out these implications for philosophical and religious anthropology and argues that the modern secular interpretation of humanity is most compatible with a religious form of naturalistic humanism. This book resists the reduction of meaning and value questions while taking scientific theories about human life with full seriousness. It argues for a religious interpretation of human beings as bodily creatures emerging within a natural environment that permits engagement with the valuational potentials of reality. This engagement promotes socially borne spiritual quests to realize and harmonize values in everything human beings do, from the forging of cultures to the crafting of personal convictions.

This book sets out a new reading of the much-neglected philosophy of Karl Jaspers. By questioning the common perception of Jaspers either as a proponent of irrationalist cultural philosophy or as an early, peripheral disciple of Martin Heidegger, it re-establishes him as a central figure in modern European philosophy. Giving particular consideration to his position in epistemological, metaphysical and political debate, the author argues that Jaspers's work deserves renewed consideration in a number of important discussions, particularly in hermeneutics, anthropological reflections on religion, the critique of idealism, and debates on the end of metaphysics.