The Autonomous Animal: Self-Governance and the Modern Subject
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Conceiving a Human Being 1. The Choice of Law: Autonomy between Norm and Creation 2. Mature Subjects: Physical Education and the Political Child 3. Intoxicated Citizens: America's Drug War and the Body Politic 4. Man Is a Political Animal: Self-Discipline and Its Beastly Other 5. Fit to Be Tied: Exercise Fads and Our Addiction to Autonomy Conclusion: Freedom and Self-Governance Notes Bibliography Index
The Alchemy of Race and Rights
PART I: Excluding Voices: A Necklace of Thoughts on the Ideology of Style 1. The Brass Ring and the Deep Blue Sea 2. Gilded Lilies and Liberal Guilt 3. The Death of the Profane PART II: Trial by Text: A Sequence of Sublimation 4. Teleology on the Rocks 5. Crimes Without Passion 6. The Obliging Shell PART III: Ladder to the Light: A Series of Hinged Turning Points 7. Fire and Ice 8. The Pain of Word Bondage 9. Mirrors and Windows PART IV: The Incorruptible Simplicity of Being: A String of Crystalline Paroles 10. Owning the Self in a Disowned World 11. Arm's-Length Intimacies 12. On Being the Object of Property Notes A Word on Categories Acknowledgments Index
The Internet and the Changing Beijing-Taipei Relations: Toward Unification or Fragmentation?
Information and its technologies facilitate the exercise of what has been called “soft power,” a concept that differentiates information from the conventional dimensions of “hard power,” which is mainly associated with military force and economic influence. Soft power, according to Nye, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense of the United States, means that “A country may obtain the outcomes it wants in world politics because other countries want to follow it, admiring its values, emulating its example, aspiring to its level of prosperity and openness. In this sense it is just as important to set the agenda in world politics and attract others as it is to force them to change through the threat or use of military or economic weapons.”1