Browsing by Keyword "political"

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    • The Delicate Dance of Immersion and Insulation: The Politicization of the FDA Commissioner 

      Gordon, Alex S. (2003)
      The Food and Drug Administration never has been and never will be completely insulated from politics; it exists and operates as an integral part of the federal government in Washington, DC, not in a vacuum. Nevertheless, ...

    • Taking the Law into Our Own Hands: Kant on the Right to Revolution 

      Korsgaard, Christine (Oxford University Press, 2008)
      Kant condemned revolution as a violation of a duty of justice, yet was a supporter of the French Revolution. This chapter defends Kant's view that revolution is a violation of a duty of justice by appeal to the fact that ...

    • Taming the Gypsy: How French Romantics Recaptured a Past 

      Carter, Elizabeth Lee (2014-10-21)
      In this dissertation, I examine the evolution of the Gypsy trope in Romantic French literature at a time when nostalgia became a powerful aesthetic and political tool used by varying sides of an ideological war. Long ...

    • The General Will: Rousseau, Kant, and Hegel 

      Hatch, Chandler Abram (2022-03-17)
      This dissertation argues that a central, guiding aim in the political philosophy of Rousseau, Kant, and Hegel was to produce an account of the general will, and that the accounts of the general will in Kant and Hegel are ...