George Kateb’s writings have been innovatory in exploring the fundamental quandary of how modern democracy—sovereignty vested in the many—might nevertheless protect, respect, promote, even celebrate the singular, albeit ordinary individual. His essays, often leading to unexpected results, have focused on many inter-related topics: rights, representation, constitutionalism, war, evil, extinction, punishment, privacy, patriotism, and more. This book focuses in particular on his thought in three key areas: Dignity These essays exhibit the breadth and complexity of Kateb’s notion of dignity and outline some implications for political theory. Rather than a solely moral approach to the theory of human rights, he elaborates a human-dignity rationale for the very worth of the human species Morality Here Kateb challenges the position that moral considerations are often too demanding to have a place in the rough-and-tumble of modern politics and political analysis. Rejecting common justifications for the propriety of punishment, he insists that state-based punishment is a perplexing moral problem that cannot be allayed by repairing to theories of state legitimacy. Individuality These essays gather some of Kateb’s rejoinders and correctives to common conceptions and customary critiques of the theory of democratic individuality. He explains that Locke’s hesitations and religious backtracking are instructive, perhaps as precursors for the ways in which vestigial beliefs can still cloud moral reasoning.

She’s off-limits. She’s his best friend’s little sister. But his inner grizzly wants nothing more than to claim her as his mate. Octavia doesn’t belong anywhere. Not with the witches, what with her dwindling powers. And not with the shifters, not when she can’t shift into her cougar. When she earns the wrath of her old pride, she needs somewhere to hide out. Her brother thinks the Junkyard prison for misbehaving shifters is the best place for her. Awkward, because this means she’ll be stuck with Dallas, her childhood crush. Dallas has wanted Octavia for years. Unfortunately, she’s still under the watchful eye of her very protective brother, who also happens to be Dallas’s best friend. But when said brother requests Dallas’s help with Octavia’s protection—in Dallas’s territory and in Dallas’s house—it’s going to be a whole helluva lot harder for Dallas to keep his gruff, grizzly hands off of her. Love bossy shifters and forbidden romance? USA Today bestselling author Liza Street heaps them into Filthy Grizzly, the sixth standalone novel in the Junkyard Shifters series. Get your copy today and embrace the “trash” in “trashy romance!” Additional keywords: brother's best friend, May December, magic, sorcery, California, prison

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