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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934568521Author George W. Friedrich HegelFormat HardbackPage Count 566Imprint Frederick EllisPublisher Frederick EllisWeight(grams) 997gDimensions(mm)...

This book explores the relevance of utopia in relation to contemporary criminology. The range of contributors explore the application of a utopian method for uncovering the potential within criminology and criminal justice, as well as the relevance of...

This book contributes to both the internal debate in liberalism and the application of political liberalism to the process of democratization in East Asia. Beyond John Rawls' original intention to limit the scope of political liberalism to only existing...

In this book, Ben Lazare Mijuskovic uses both an interdisciplinary and History of Ideas approach to discuss four forms of intertwined theories of human consciousness and reflexive self-consciousness (Plato, Augustine, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, and Hegel;...

No one in this world truly understands what democracy means. We operate democracy only through best guesses. This uncertainty has caused, and continues to cause, significant political troubles. This book offers a way forward. It provides a new tool that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528705646Author John LockeFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Classic Books LibraryPublisher Classic Books LibraryWeight(grams) 222g

Philosophy typically ignores biographical, historical, and cultural aspects of theoriss' lives in an attempt to take a supposedly abstract and objective view of their work. This book makes some new conclusions about Arendt's theory by emphasizing how her...

This book is the first systematic scientific study of global quasi-legislation. Taking public opinion and multilateral agreements as the international equivalent to national election and passing laws on the national scale, and extending nation-state...

Arguing that the suffering of combatants is better understood through philosophy than psychology, as not trauma, but exile, this book investigates the experiences of torturers, UAV operators, cyberwarriors, and veterans to reveal not only the exile at...

Central European dissidents gained global fame by serving as key protagonists in the collapse of communism in 1989. As writers, philosophers, and artists, they should be remembered for their ideas as much as for their political actions. This book takes...

This book makes a relevant contribution to a Marxist critical explanation of social conflicts, social movements and protests. There is abundant literature on social conflict and social movements from Marxist perspectives. However, rigorous criticism,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906948429Author Toni RuuskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Mayflybooks/EphemeraPublisher Mayflybooks/EphemeraWeight(grams) 286g

This is the first comprehensive exploration of ancient and modern tyranny in the history of political thought. Waller R. Newell argues that modern tyranny and statecraft differ fundamentally from the classical understanding. Newell demonstrates a...

The Defence of Natural Law comprises a study of the philosophies of law expounded by Lon L. Fuller, Michael Oakeshott, F.A. Hayek, Ronald Dworkin and John Finnis. The work of these theorists is situated in relation to the modern tradition in legal...

Originally published in 1957, this book collects together large sections of important tracts from a variety of political documents, particularly those concerned with democracy, communism, Protestantism or Catholicism. The extracts come from a wide range...

John Rawls' text The Law of Peoples has inspired extensive scholarly debate in the field of international political theory, since its publication in 1999. Responding to the arguments of cosmopolitan theorists and Amartya Sen's recent critique, this new...

Just as China is called the world factory for manufactured goods, it is also a world factory for manufactured animal cruelty in a new phenomenon of globalized animal cruelty. Animals in China examines animal protection in China in its legal, social and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605203232Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 390g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642641356Author Greg JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Counter-Currents PublishingPublisher Counter-Currents PublishingWeight(grams) 331g

In recent writings on Marx one finds an increasing interest in his humanism. This phenomenon began in the third decade of our century as a reaction against the mechanistic and stereotyped image of Marx 1 characteristic of the Second International and of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789769678798Author Daurius FigueiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Daurius FigueiraPublisher Daurius FigueiraWeight(grams) 286g

Over the last four decades Jurgen Habermas has forged an innovative and much-discussed theory of contemporary capitalist society. Building on Max Weber's thesis that the dynamic of capitalism actually erodes individual freedom and the meaningfulness of...

This book is a work of historical critical exegesis. It aims to establish the influence ofG.W.F. Hegel's Science of Logic (SL) on the Grundrisse of Karl Marx. I demonstrate that the Hegelian logic guided Marx's doctrinal development, and that the...

Many environmental scientists, scholars and activists characterise our situation as one of alienation from nature, but this notion can easily seem meaningless or irrational. In this book, Simon Hailwood critically analyses the idea of alienation from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940849652Author Niccolo MachiavelliFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint Ancient Wisdom PublicationsPublisher Ancient Wisdom PublicationsWeight(grams) 349g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781490709987Author Jack B WaltersFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

This book argues that John Dewey should be read not as a 'local' American thinker but rather as a philosopher of globalisation. Although his work is rooted in late-nineteenth and early twentieth century America, its principal concern is with the role of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889869535Author Ramakrishna CheboliFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 295g

Against the Personification of Democracy offers a new theory of political subjectivity that puts the dilemma of desire into the forefront. By using Lacan to read key figures in political philosophy, the book demonstrates why democratic theory --...

In her new book, Corine Pelluchon argues that the dichotomy between nature and culture privileges the latter. She laments that the political system protects the sovereignty of the human and leaves them immune to impending environmental disaster. Using...

Since the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, two of the most significant but at the same time least understood areas of that revolution's cultural impact have been philosophy and religion. The impact has of course been massive, not only in the Soviet Union...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584772903Author Tunis WortmanFormat HardbackPage Count 298Imprint Lawbook ExchangePublisher Lawbook ExchangeWeight(grams) 608g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771701273Author Howard BurtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Ideas RoadshowPublisher Ideas RoadshowWeight(grams) 152g

This book examines the history of cosmopolitanism from its origins in the ancient world up to its use in Kantian political philosophy. Taking the idea of 'common property of the land' as a starting point, the author makes the original case that attention...

Contemporary critical thinking was founded by Karl Marx approximately a century and a half ago. Later, in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, various critical thinkers (some Marxist, others not) further developed this perspective in studying the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845493752Author John WakelinFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint arima publishingPublisher arima publishingWeight(grams) 495g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987849019Author Michael Quinn SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Cng PublishingPublisher Cng PublishingWeight(grams) 195g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788026858706Author Niccolo MachiavelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint E-ArtnowPublisher E-ArtnowWeight(grams) 68g

This book explores human dignity, human rights and social justice based on a Chinese interdisciplinary dialogue and global perspectives. In the Chinese and other global contexts today, social justice has been a significant topic among many disciplines...