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Richard Rose: Connections Over 60 Years
From E. M. Forster’s Howard’s End, Richard Rose borrowed the epigram ‘Only Connect’ for at least two of his books, including his first major one,...
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The Rise and Presidency of Richard Milhous Nixon
The life and career of Richard Nixon are examined in this chapter. We open with a brief biographical sketch of Nixon’s life, from his humble...
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On Religion and Social Criticism
In an effort to understand how religious ethicists carry the practice and tradition of social criticism forward, the contributors to this volume...
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Normativity and Solidarity
What methodologies should characterize religious ethics? How should religious ethics relate (or not relate) to religious studies? These questions...
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The Grieving Storyteller: Grief Narratives as a Source of Moral Reflection
In one of his most important books, Children, Ethics, and Modern Medicine, Richard B. Miller argues that medical ethicists have too frequently...
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Recognition on Demand: A Study of Religion in Conscience Protection Clauses
In Children, Ethics, and Modern Medicine (2003), Richard B. Miller studies the motives of parents when they refuse medical treatments for their...
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Political Polarization and Tending the Flames of Hostility
An important role of social criticism is to call out social and political policies and actions that disrespect the dignity of persons, wrongfully...
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Which Criticism and Whose Humanism?
Richard Miller throughout his works has made an argument for the importance of social and cultural criticism in the work of ethics and drawn...
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Prophetic Social Criticism, Solidarity, and Just War
Richard B. Miller’s account of liberal social criticism strikingly finds in the prophetic voices of religious traditions moral resources for...
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“This Is Our Town”: Political Community in High Noon and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
According to Richard Brody, film critic for The New Yorker, “The Western is intrinsically the most political movie genre, because, like Plato’s...
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Einleitung
„It was TV more than anything else that turned the tide“ (Kennedy, zitiert nach White 1961: 294), sagte der 35. Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten von...
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Inhuman Weapons: Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles and the Moral Salience of Culture to Their Use in Central Asia
Just war literature largely rejects asymmetry of military capability between combatants as a valid moral ground for prohibiting the use of lethal...
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Moral Distress and the Intrapsychic Hazards of Medical Practice
In this chapter, I will consider Miller’s reading of Augustine on the emotions that should arise in a person who, in pursuing justifiable ends,...
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Pragmatismus in den Internationalen Beziehungen
Der vorliegende Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die grundlegenden Prämissen und Aussagen der sozialtheoretischen Tradition des Pragmatismus und...
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Nation Branding, Public Diplomacy, and the Dirty Business of Sportswashing
The use of sports for nation branding and public diplomacy goes back to antiquity, not only to the city-states and the athletic competitions in...
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American Sports Diplomacy Amid the 50 Years Anniversary of Title IX
The purpose of this chapter is to explore and discuss the role of Title IX on nation branding and country image 50 years after the legislation came...
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Self-Staging: Aura and Appearance
Meeting Hitler and looking into his eyes—the erstwhile Nazi supporter Fridolin von Spaun recalled in an interview with the BBC—“was one of the most...
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Moralischer Intuitionismus
Es ist ein Gemeinplatz, dass die Auseinandersetzung mit dem moralischen Intuitionismus ein Leitmotiv in Mills Werk ist und ihm persönlich viel...
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Pragmatismus in den Internationalen Beziehungen
Der vorliegende Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die grundlegenden Prämissen und Aussagen der sozialtheoretischen Tradition des Pragmatismus und...
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Looking Ahead
In 2020 Ambassadors William Burns and Linda Thomas-Greenfield wrote in the journal Foreign Affairs about a “badly broken US diplomacy” brought by...