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This book examines the origins of philosophy in Greek Antiquity and considers key moments of philosophic history as related to revolutionary change, from the French Revolution of 1789 to the May Events of 1968 and beyond. David Black reads Hegel's philosophy-which seems to come to the fore at various "birthtimes in history"-as anticipating Marx's critique of capital, in which the logic of the system intimates a realm beyond it.

AbstractMotivationOwnership and partnership are ubiquitous concepts in development co‐operation and are often treated as symbiotic. Yet, given their multiple forms and meanings, they have always been in tension. This tension is heightened as partnerships diversify in ways that strain traditional bilateral country relationships.PurposeThis article probes how the proliferation of development actors and new forms of multi‐stakeholder partnership are affecting long‐standing bilateral government‐to‐government ties, and generating new challenges to ownership within them. It highlights the salience of thematic specialization as a response to these challenges.Approach and MethodsThe article distinguishes between instrumental and normative conceptions of partnership and ownership, situating bilateral country partnership in relation to this distinction. It illustrates the difficulties of fostering bilateral partnership/ownership through a "best case" study of the Canada–Ghana development relationship. Analysis is based on secondary and primary sources, as well as 18 semi‐structured interviews and consultations with participants and close observers of the relationship.FindingsThe Ghana–Canada case highlights several challenges to effective bilateral country ownership in a context of proliferating and diversifying partnerships. Some are familiar but deepening; others are more novel. They include renewed challenges of donor proliferation and co‐ordination; problems of recipient capacity and competition; and adapting to recipient "failure" and "success." Most significantly, the trend towards more disciplined thematic focus in development co‐operation policies, manifested in Canada's Feminist International Assistance Policy, has complicated and compromised country ownership.Policy implicationsIn their pursuit of innovative development partnerships and thematic specialization, donors face new challenges in negotiating bilateral relationships and country ownership. Systematic efforts are required to connect thematic priorities with those of groups and governments in recipient countries.

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is widely used in the manufacture of food and beverage containers, in addition to a variety of fibres. PET is considered to be 100% recyclable and can be recycled into a number of different end-use streams: bottle-to-bottle; bottle-to-foodgrade, or bottle-to-fibre. In South Africa, the PET Recycling Company (trading as PETCO) was established to avoid the possibility of government-imposed punitive legislation and to alleviate the impact of PET-based litter. PETCO generates revenue through the collection of voluntary levies from PET manufacturers and supports the recycling of PET through the administration of recycling subsidies and the unlocking of constraints in the PET recycling value chain. This study sets out to describe the PET recycling industry and empirically assess the effectiveness of PETCO's recycling subsidies through regression analysis. As a background to the regression analysis, the study builds the theory behind production and cost function analysis (in addition to the associated duality theory). However, due to the combination of the research question and the limited data availability, an alternative model was adopted, in order to explain as much variation in production tonnages as possible.