Political

This rich study explores the elements of Hegel's social and political thought that are most relevant to our society today. Combating the prevailing post-World War II stereotype of Hegel as a proto-fascist, Charles Taylor argues that Hegel aimed not to...

This clear and thorough introduction provides students with the skills necessary to understand the main thinkers, texts and arguments of political philosophy and thought. Each chapter comprises a brief overview of a major political thinker, followed by...

From the earliest times, societies have been seduced by the temptation of unitary thinking. Recognizing the vulnerability of existence, people and cultures privilege regimes that confer authority on a single entity, a sovereign ruler, a transcendental...

Why should anybody take an interest in philosophy? Is it just another detailed study like metallurgy? Or is it similar to history, literature and even religion: a study meant to do some personal good and influence our lives? "Engaging and accessible,...

Increasingly age appears to be the key dividing line in contemporary politics. Young people across the globe are embracing left-wing ideas and supporting figures such as Corbyn and Sanders. Where has this 'Generation Left' come from? How can it change...

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While the past 300 years have witnessed immense growth in productive capacity, the 'logic' of capitalist production is now pushing progress in all the wrong directions. We've passed the point where our biggest enemy is material scarcity. Our problems no...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783241453Author Patrick John RocheFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Wordzworth PublishingPublisher Wordzworth PublishingWeight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845400934Author Luke O'SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 600gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

This book presents G. A. Cohen's Gifford Lectures, delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 1996. Focusing on Marxism and Rawlsian liberalism, Cohen draws a connection between these thought systems and the choices that shape a person's life. In the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351153Author Maurizio LazzaratoFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 114mm...

Is it ever right to target civilians in a time of war? Or do the ends sometimes justify the means? The twentieth century - the age of 'total war' - marked the first time that civilian populations came to be seen as legitimate military targets. At this...

No theme has been more central to international philosophical debates than that of community: from American communitarianism to Habermas's ethic of communication to the French deconstruction of community in the work of Derrida and Nancy. Nevertheless, in...

Modern India is the world's largest democracy, a sprawling, polyglot nation containing one-sixth of all humankind. The existence of such a complex and distinctive democratic regime qualifies as one of the world's bona fide political miracles...

A trenchant case for a novel philosophical position: that our political thinking is driven less by commitments to freedom or fairness than by an aversion to hierarchy.Niko Kolodny argues that, to a far greater extent than we recognize, our political...

Providing a capstone to Philip Selznick's influential body of scholarly work, A Humanist Science insightfully brings to light the value-centered nature of the social sciences. The work clearly challenges the supposed separation of fact and value, and...

During the Scottish Revolution (1637-1651), royalists and Covenanters appealed to Scottish law, custom and traditional views on kingship to debate the limits of King Charles I's authority. But they also engaged with the political ideas of sixteenth- and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583672075Author Samir AminFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.

Butterworth richly deserves to be congratulated for providing advanced students and scholars with authoritative, reliable, and readable translations of Alfarabi's important political writings. Choice Alfarabi (ca. 870-950) founded the great tradition...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789076660141Author Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelFormat PaperbackPage Count 442Imprint Wordbridge PubPublisher Wordbridge PubWeight(grams) 644gDimensions(mm)...

Equal opportunity is a powerful idea, and one with extremely broad appeal in contemporary politics, political theory, and law. But what does it mean? On close examination, the most attractive existing conceptions of equal opportunity turn out to be...

The Panopticon project for a model prison obsessed the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham for almost 20 years. In the end, the project came to nothing; the Panopticon was never built. But it is precisely this that makes the Panopticon project the best...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420966435Author Sigmund FreudFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 5mm

How can we achieve and sustain a "decent" liberal society, one that aspires to justice and equal opportunity for all and inspires individuals to sacrifice for the common good? In this book, a continuation of her explorations of emotions and the nature of...

Guiding principles for ensuring that central bankers and other unelected policymakers remain stewards of the common goodCentral bankers have emerged from the financial crisis as the third great pillar of unelected power alongside the judiciary and the...

This book shows that a dialectical conceptual model underpins Georg Simmel's writings. The book provides key examples of social forms - including fashion, the secret and money - as exemplifications of this method. The volume concludes with a reassessment...

Record unemployment and rampant corporate avarice, empty houses but homeless families, dwindling opportunities in an increasingly paralyzed nation-these are the realities of 21st-century America, land of the free and home of the new middle class poor...

As well as providing a clear and critical introduction to the theory, this refreshing overview focuses on the practice of feminism with coverage of actions and activism, bringing the subject to life for newcomers as well as offering fresh perspectives...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615691855Author Stef DelargeFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Quantum CapitalismPublisher Quantum CapitalismWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

From New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein, a brisk, provocative book that shows what freedom really means-and requires-todayIn this pathbreaking book, New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein asks us to rethink freedom. He shows that...

Is there a concept of the enemy? To what discursive sphere would it belong? Or, if there is no concept of the enemy, what are the factors that could have prevented its articulation? Following the reflections of Carl Schmitt and Jacques Derrida on the...

This is a concise introduction to the life and work of the Italian militant and political thinker, Antonio Gramsci. As head of the Italian Communist Party in the 1920s, Gramsci was arrested and condemned to 20 years' imprisonment by Mussolini's fascist...

A new wave of aspiring neo-Nazi terrorists has arisen-including the infamous Atomwaffen Division. And they have a bible: James Mason's Siege, which praises terrorism, serial killers, and Charles Manson. Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism,...

Baudrillard sees the power of the terrorists as lying in the symbolism of slaughter-not merely the reality of death, but in a sacrifice that challenges the whole system. Where previously the old revolutionary sought to conduct a struggle between real...

This remarkable text, first published in 1964, was a landmark of its era and remains, in the words of Michael Loewy, a work of "remarkable richness." Drawing on Georg Lukacs' History and Class Consciousness, Lucien Goldmann applies the concept of "world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774641996Author Russell KirkFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must Have BooksWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

We live in a culture of apology and forgiveness. But while there are a few thinkers who are critical of forgiveness as being too supine, and extol the virtues of retribution and 'getting even,' philosopher and intellectual Martha C. Nussbaum criticizes...

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy presents fifty original essays, each specially written by a leading figure in the field, covering the entire subject of the history of political philosophy. They provide not only surveys of the...

The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote the next chapter in...