Richard T Peterson
Biographic Data
| ID | 365789 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard T Peterson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard T |
| FAMILY NAME | Peterson |
| SIGNATURE | PETERSON R T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Agamben
Thinking about Violence in a Violent World
Human Rights
A bstract This paper emphasizes the historical dimension of human rights understood as a social ethic. Rather than timeless principles, human rights and the universality proper to them emerge in a process of suffering, conflict, political assertion, and institutional change. We can understand them as historical yet also universal by seeing that human rights arise in processes of social learning that take place in an increasingly globalized world.…
Globalization and Violence
D espite its many benefits, globalization has proven to harbor a good deal of violence. This is not only a matter of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction inaugurated by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, but includes many forms of indirect or “structural violence” resulting from the routine of economic and political institutions on the global scale. In this essay, the multifaceted phenomena of violence are approached from the standpoint…
Human rights and cultural conflict
Democratic Philosophy
Democratic Philosophy and the Politics of Knowledge
The Original Position as Social Practice
Kaelin on Philosophical Literature
Philosophy, Children, and the Family
Science and the Question of Human Equality
Multi-Dimensional Sociology
Facing Up to Modernity
Facing Up to Modernity
Multi-Dimensional Sociology
Philosophy, Children, and the Family
Science and the Question of Human Equality
Kaelin on Philosophical Literature
The Original Position as Social Practice
Democratic Philosophy and the Politics of Knowledge
Human rights and cultural conflict
Democratic Philosophy
Human Rights
A bstract This paper emphasizes the historical dimension of human rights understood as a social ethic. Rather than timeless principles, human rights and the universality proper to them emerge in a process of suffering, conflict, political assertion, and institutional change. We can understand them as historical yet also universal by seeing that human rights arise in processes of social learning that take place in an increasingly globalized world.…
Globalization and Violence
D espite its many benefits, globalization has proven to harbor a good deal of violence. This is not only a matter of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction inaugurated by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, but includes many forms of indirect or “structural violence” resulting from the routine of economic and political institutions on the global scale. In this essay, the multifaceted phenomena of violence are approached from the standpoint…
Thinking about Violence in a Violent World
Agamben
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (3 works) · Assertion (2 works)