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In the first full length examination of the topic, Ethical Citizenship rediscovers a significant and distinctive contribution to how we might understand citizenship today. Leading international scholars bring together theory and practice to explore its...

The distinctly contemporary proliferation of pornography and hate speech poses a challenge to liberalism's traditional ideal of a 'marketplace of ideas' facilitated by state neutrality about the content of speech. This new study argues that the liberal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798990276840Author Philip BlackettFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Philip BlackettPublisher Philip BlackettWeight(grams) 240g

The work reimagines emancipatory possibilities in the face of reified capitalist modernity. The enlightenment resulted in a ‘disenchanted’ world, stripped of ‘anthropomorphised’ meaning and purpose. This world, in its capitalistic figuration, alienates...

I have been working on this book since leaving Russia in April of 1972. It was my wish to write this book in English, and there were what seemed to me to be serious reasons for doing so. In recent years there has appeared a wealth of literature, in...

The essays included in this volume are based on papers delivered at the International Symposium on Varieties of Marxism, held at the Van Leer Jerusalem Foundation on June 16-19,1974, and dedicated to the memory of George Lichtheim. When the idea of such...

Achieving climate justice is increasingly recognized as one of the key problems associated with climate change, helping us to determine how good or bad the effects of climate change are, and whether any harms are fairly distributed. The numerous and...

Countering the dystopic and the apocalyptic, Star Trek Philosophy introduces political philosophical reflections on peace, justice, and non-violence through dramatic plots in the utopian Star Trek Universe. By looking at a society where human beings have...

Conspiracy theories are a popular topic of conversation in everyday life but are often frowned upon in academic discussions. Looking at the recent spate of philosophical interest in conspiracy theories, The Philosophy of Conspiracy Theories looks at...

This book addresses the fate of intellectuals in modern culture and politics. Russell Jacoby's seminal The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe (1987, 2000) introduced the term "public intellectual" and gave rise to heated...

Dialectical Democracy through Christian Thought offers an accessible yet theologically groundbreaking intervention into the battle over the role of government in the market. This book shows that the fight over policy involves a fundamental disagreement...

This book reconstructs and compares the social theories of modernity of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, two classic thinkers in German social thought. The author focuses on five main topics: the historical-sociological method through which they...

A central task in contemporary political philosophy is to identify principles governing political life where citizens disagree deeply on important questions of value and, more generally, about the proper ends of life. The distinctively liberal response...

An interpretation of Xenophon's Anabasis of Cyrus, paralleling the text to Machiavelli's The Prince, and focusing on the question: How did the Socratic education help Xenophon reconcile morality with effectiveness, the noble with the good, as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788026863090Author Niccolo MachiavelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 612Imprint e-artnowPublisher e-artnowWeight(grams) 807gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 31mm

An original, comprehensive interpretation of Michel Foucault's analysis of biopolitics - situating biopolitics in the context of embodied histories of subjectivity, affective investments and structures of experience. Going beyond lamentation at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354624087Author Jack LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint True Sign Publishing HousePublisher True Sign Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 281g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798893560596Author Dr Alexander BarrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint ArpressPublisher ArpressWeight(grams) 363g

This book offers a new theoretical framework for free speech by critically analyzing the major justifications for free speech. Unlike most theories that justify free speech on single grounds, this book argues for a justification; namely the double...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944503727Author PlatoFormat PaperbackImprint Canon PressPublisher Canon Press

Following Spinoza’s lead and Latin American environmental thought, this book imagines an embodied environmental ethics based on the relations between sentient beings and sustained by affections, sensibility, the senses, and contact. Engaging embodied,...

This book advances a comprehensive moral defense of freedom of expression-one with implications for law and policy, but also for the choices of individuals and non-governmental institutions. Gary Chartier seeks to ground expressive freedom in mutually...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910761151Author Andityas Soares de Moura Costa MatosFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint CounterpressPublisher Counterpress

In this, the first major philosophical study of contingent pacifism, Larry May offers a new account of pacifism from within the Just War tradition. Written in a non-technical style, the book features real-life examples from contemporary wars and applies...

This book shows how modern political, economic and moral theory, including our ideas of liberty and individualism, are trapped in 17th century notions of intuitive reasoning and not informed by modern scientific understanding. Brian Ellis starts with a...

Is it allowable for your government, or anyone else, to influence or coerce you 'for your own sake'? This is a question about paternalism, or interference with a person's liberty or autonomy with the intention of promoting their good or averting harm,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783110100433Author Athanasios MoulakisFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint De GruyterPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 457g

Liberal neutrality has two underlying intuitions and therefore two distinct elements. On the one hand it refers to the intuition that there are matters the state has no business getting involved in. On the other hand it is motivated by the idea that the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438461076Author Douglas RobinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 337Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798886770933Author Romano GuardiniFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 345g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798230691143Author Joshua DouthettFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Joshua DouthettPublisher Joshua DouthettWeight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250338310Author John GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789367149577Author Terence MacswineyFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Double 9 Books LLPPublisher Double 9 Books LLPWeight(grams) 151g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798348309183Author Josef V StalinFormat HardbackPage Count 366Imprint Iskra BooksPublisher Iskra BooksWeight(grams) 612g

This volume focuses on religion from a trans-cultural and international perspective. Its aim is to open up new perspectives on how religions might coexist peacefully within 21st century societies and simultaneously contribute to global pacification. Can...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434404978Author Thomas JeffersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 82g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798330404315Author Torkil LauesenFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Iskra BooksPublisher Iskra BooksWeight(grams) 526g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782491251772Author Thomas HobbesFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint Les Prairies NumeriquesPublisher Les Prairies NumeriquesWeight(grams) 148g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781998621439Author Niccolò MachiavelliFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Revive ClassicsPublisher Revive ClassicsWeight(grams) 331g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788794559355Author Niccolò MachiavelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Filibooks ClassicsPublisher Filibooks ClassicsWeight(grams) 163g