Caring for the Soul in a Postmodern Age

Caring for the Soul in a Postmodern AgeThe first full exploration of the political thought of Jan Patocka, student of Husserl and Heidegger and mentor to Vclav Havel. In 1977 the sixty nine year old Czech philosopher Jan Patoka died from a brain hemorrhage following a series of interrogations by the Czechoslovak secret police. A student of Husserl and Heidegger, he had been arrested, along with young playwright Vclav Havel, for publicly opposing the hypocrisy of the Czechoslovak Communist

Leading scholar of citizenship and migration Rainer Bauböck proposes a theory of inclusion for democratic societies

populous and pluralistic societies share a common good

the effective biological control of weeds in the world’s temperate grasslands

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The Fermat principle is the axiom

Allelopathic interactions can be exploited to control weeds in agroecosystems

Example cases

to their heritage in the heart of Sudan—and their rediscovery in modern times

This chapter reviews the piecemeal development of pesticide regulation and the challenges of developing a more harmonised and global approach to approving new crop protection products

the stringency of state regulation

The chapter provides a comprehensive and authoritative review of the key issues facing both in situ and ex situ collections

these two very different countries both played significant roles in world affairs and there were important interactions between them