Kimberley Brownlee

Broschiertes Buch

Conscience and Conviction

The Case for Civil Disobedience

Beschreibung

When is it justified to disobey the law? How should the law respond to instances of conscientious disobedience? This book presents the first full-length philosophical examination of the morality and legality of civil disobedience, and the legitimate responses to civil dissent open to the state.

Autor

Kimberley Brownlee is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Her current research focuses on sociability, social rights, loneliness, and freedom of association. She is the author of Being Sure of Each Other: An Essay on Social Rights and Freedoms (Oxford 2020), Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience (Oxford 2012), co-editor of Disability and Disadvantage (Oxford 2009, with Adam Cureton), and co-editor of The Blackwell Companion to Applied Philosophy (Wiley 2016, with David Coady and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9780198759461
• ISBN-10: 0198759460
• Artikelnr.: 43286397