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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838216096Author Piotr PietrzakFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Ibidem PressPublisher Ibidem Press

This is the first exposition of how Enlightenment thinkers viewed this idea that shapes the world today. The Scottish Enlightenment was the first intellectual movement to view commercial society as a distinct and distinctive social formation - one that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487591687Author John Stuart MillFormat PaperbackPage Count 744Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 1161g

Being literate in the twenty-first century means being an empowered receiver, user and creator of diverse text types communicated across multiple and rapidly changing modalities. English and Literacies: Learning to make meaning in primary classrooms is...

This book restores to us an understanding that was once settled in the "moral sciences": that there are propositions, in morals and law, which are not only true but which cannot be otherwise. It was understood in the past that, in morals or in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487598204Author George P GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 540Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 785g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442639287Author Frank M ColemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783506791245Author Kurt AppelFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Brill SchoninghPublisher Brill SchoninghWeight(grams) 4670g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438479576Author Pierre PellegrinFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint 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 9780375759185Author John Stuart MillFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm)...

A groundbreaking cooperative effort by Russian and Western philosophers to analyze the developing new world order.-Robert L. Homes, University of RochesterBook InformationISBN 9780847678303Author William C. GayFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Rowman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474489041Author Francois ZourabichviliFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

In this book, the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy examines the nature of catastrophes in the era of globalization and technology. Can a catastrophe be an isolated occurrence? Is there such a thing as a "natural" catastrophe when all of our...

In this new book, Dimitris Vardoulakis asks how it is possible to think of a politics that is not commensurate with sovereignty. For such a politics, he argues, sovereignty is defined not in terms of the exception but as the different ways in which...

First published in French in 2010, Equaliberty brings together essays by Etienne Balibar, one of the preeminent political theorists of our time. The book is organized around equaliberty, a term coined by Balibar to connote the tension between the two...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438466750Author Jeremy ArnoldFormat HardbackPage Count 214Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York Press

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This book moves beyond traditional readings of Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) and his relevance to contemporary democracy by emphasizing the relationship of his life and work to modern feminist thought. Within the resurgence of political interest in...

Derrida and the Inheritance of Democracy provides a theoretically rich and accessible account of Derrida's political philosophy. Demonstrating the key role inheritance plays in Derrida's thinking, Samir Haddad develops a general theory of inheritance and...

Judith Butler follows Edward Said's late suggestion that through a consideration of Palestinian dispossession in relation to Jewish diasporic traditions a new ethos can be forged for a one-state solution. Butler engages Jewish philosophical positions to...

Over the last few decades, skepticism about political and moral experts has grown into a serious social problem, undermining the functioning of liberal democratic regimes. Indeed, meritocracy-that is, government by hard working, public-spirited people...

A persuasive argument against "forgive and forget"A persuasive argument against "forgive and forget"About the AuthorThomas Brudholm is Research Fellow at the Danish Institute for International Studies.Reviews"Resentment's Virtue represents an important...

In the world neoliberalism has made, the pervasiveness of injustice and the scale of inequality can be so overwhelming that meaningful resistance seems impossible. Disorienting Neoliberalism argues that combatting the injustices of today's global economy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438448404Author Andrew J. DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 183Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

All over the world secular rationalist governments and judicial authorities have been challenged by increasingly forceful claims made on behalf of divine law. For those who believe that reason-not faith-should be the basis of politics and the law,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789500392532Author Thomas HobbesFormat PaperbackImprint LosadaPublisher Losada

An examination of the intertwined lives and writings of a group of prominent twentieth-century Jewish thinkers who experienced exile and migration Exile, Statelessness, and Migration explores the intertwined lives, careers, and writings of a group of...

The problem of trust in social relationships was central to the emergence of the modern form of civil society and much discussed by social and political philosophers of the early modern period. Over the past few years, in response to the profound changes...

The Marxist conception of the division between mental and manual labor is a critical yet unrecognized aspect of contemporary political struggles. Departing from this novel argument, Michael Bray traces the conceptual and socio-political history of this...

This is a defence of libertarian anarchy, presenting a novel perspective on political philosophy and a history of the concept of anarchy. Political philosophy is dominated by a myth, the myth of the necessity of the state. The state is considered...

David Michael Levin's ongoing exploration of the moral character and enlightenment-potential of vision takes a new direction in The Philosopher's Gaze. Levin examines texts by Descartes, Husserl, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Benjamin,...

Is liberal democracy appropriate for East Asia? In this provocative book, Daniel Bell argues for morally legitimate alternatives to Western-style liberal democracy in the region. Beyond Liberal Democracy, which continues the author's influential earlier...

Within the popular consciousness, Emma Goldman has become something of an icon, a symbol for rebellion and women's rights. But there has been surprisingly little substantive analysis of her influence on social, political, and feminist theory. In Feminist...

The essays in this volume take off from themes in the work of eminent philosopher and political scientist Joshua Cohen. Cohen is a deeply influential thinker who has written on deliberative democracy, freedom of expression, Rawlsian theory, global...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487592424Author Alkis KontosFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 281g

Around the world, faith in democracy is falling. Russia, Turkey, and Venezuela have moved from flawed democracies to authoritarian regimes. Brexit and the rise of far-right parties show that even stable Western democracies are struggling. Partisanship...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815739302Author William A. GalstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

American political thought was shaped by a unique combination of theoretical influences: republicanism, liberalism, and covenant theology. This reader shows how these influences came together. Organized chronologically from the Puritans' arrival in the...

By executive order, the US has adopted an immigration policy that looks remarkably similar to a Muslim ban, and there are new threats to deport long-settled residents, such as the so-called Dreamers. Our defunct refugee system has not dealt adequately...

This is a theoretical and practical interrogation of how the post-political has come to dominate governance. We are told that we live in a 'post-ideological' era - that we have moved 'beyond Left and Right' and that we are 'all in it together'. Democracy...