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At the First International Spring Colloquium "Humanity under threat: Who is in charge of the future?", 38 specialists such as Noam Chomsky, Rigoberta Menchú and Tawakkol Karman, from 11 countries, met to analyze and project the future of humanity. The discussions addressed crucial issues in what ended up being a deep inquiry into humanity's responsibility in building and caring for the future. The book Threatened humanity brings together these...

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This book calls for a philosophical consideration of the development, challenges and successes of the European Union. The author argues that conceptual innovation is essential if progress on the European project is to be made, new meanings, rather than financial or institutional engineering solutions, will help solve the crisis. By applying a philosophical approach to diagnosing the EU crisis, the book reconsiders the basic concepts of democra...

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This book addresses the legal, philosophical and political question of an ethics of hospitality: an ethics engaged by the confrontation with what is different or new. The ethics of hospitality articulated here is based on the experience that human life is less a bundle of sovereign initiatives than a series of responses - often without our consent - to the world's invitations. As such, it is argued, this ethics means leaving open the possibili...

This book calls for a philosophical consideration of the development, challenges and successes of the European Union. The author argues that conceptual innovation is essential if progress on the European project is to be made, new meanings, rather than financial or institutional engineering solutions, will help solve the crisis. By applying a philosophical approach to diagnosing the EU crisis, the book reconsiders the basic concepts of democra...

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Nowadays, politics is only one voice among many in the concert of social self-organization. Its function is to articulate the differentiated systems of our societies: it encourages their self-restraint, while at the same time restraining itself. Such a conception obviously threatens the primacy of the nation-state. While it is not necessarily disappearing, it must nevertheless cease to be thought of as a dominant principle of organization, a...

Humanity at Risk is the most complete consideration of political risk-taking and risk-aversion yet written.

Humanity at Risk compares diverse approaches to the theme of global threats using the tools of philosophy, critical theory, and political thought alongside more practical, socio-political observations. By defining the idea of "global risk" more specifically, Editors Innerarity and Solana, and their contributors, believe we can understand how these risks should be evaluated, predicted, and managed within the framework of democratic societies.Th...

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Los riesgos globales son uno de los problemas centrales de la humanidad: desde el 11-S habíamos adquirido una clara conciencia de la vulnerabilidad de nuestras sociedades, muchos desastres ecológicos eran un hecho cumplido y otros se asomaban a nuestra vida, como el cambio climático o los desastres sociales provocados por la crisis económica. Sin embargo, diversos acontecimientos recientes, como las catástrofes recientemente sucedidas en Japón...