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Democracy establishes relationships of political equality, ones in which citizens equally share authority over what they do together and respect one another as equals. But in today's divided public square, democracy is challenged by political thinkers...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557788696Author Thomas PoggeFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Paragon House PublishersPublisher Paragon House Publishers

After Sept. 11, 2001, George W. Bush declared, "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." Bush's assertion was not simply jingoist bravado-it encapsulates the civilizationalist moralism that has motivated and defined the United States...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557788863Author Gordon AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Paragon House PublishersPublisher Paragon House PublishersWeight(grams)...

The recent past has seen striking advances in our understanding of both moral responsibility and distributive justice. S. L. Hurley's ambitious work brings these two areas of lively debate into overdue contact with each other.Key contemporary discussions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557789426Author Steve McIntoshFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Paragon House PublishersPublisher Paragon House PublishersWeight(grams)...

What are the aims of education? What role can education play in responding to the climate crisis, or to the mental health crisis among young people today? Are educators responsible for teaching students how to build healthy relationships? How can we...

Do politicians have to get dirty hands – and what does that mean? Is it okay to be corrupt, when corruption is systemic? When is it a good thing to make compromises in politics? These are questions about political conduct that are raised in political...

Do politicians have to get dirty hands – and what does that mean? Is it okay to be corrupt, when corruption is systemic? When is it a good thing to make compromises in politics? These are questions about political conduct that are raised in political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798897360284Author Robert K FaulknerFormat PaperbackPage Count 452Imprint Mercer University PressPublisher Mercer University Press

To probe the underlying premises of a liberal political order, John Rawls felt obliged to use a philosophical method that abstracted from many of the details of ordinary life. But this very abstraction became a point of criticism, as it left unclear the...

Recent philosophical debates have moved beyond proclamations of the ""death of philosophy"" and the ""death of the subject"" to consider more positively how philosophy can be practiced and the human self can be...

According to the commonly accepted view, Thomas Hobbes began his intellectual career as a humanist, but his discovery, in midlife, of the wonders of geometry initiated a critical transition from humanism to the scientific study of politics. In Mortal...

For nearly four decades, the writings of Carole Pateman have been regarded as major contributions to debates within political philosophy and feminist theory. She is the recipient of the 2012 Johan Skytte Prize in political science for "in a...

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...

In 1980 Alvin Gouldner identified two traditions of Marxist thought-Marxism as science and Marxism as critique. This book is concerned with the first and by far the most politically influential of those traditions-Marxism as science. It analyzes the...

Human beings are restless souls, ever driven by an insistent inner force not only to have more but to be more - to be infinitely more. Various philosophers have emphasized this type of ceaseless striving in their accounts of humanity, as in Spinoza's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143037491Author Jean-Jacques RousseauFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 180mm...

Poverty violates fundamental human values through its impact on individuals and human environments. Poverty also goes against the core values of democratic societies. This title describes poverty in ways that depict this devastating human condition. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913851453Author James WardFormat HardbackPage Count 118Imprint Cool MillenniumPublisher Cool MillenniumWeight(grams) 331g

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Offering a political epistemology of collective mourning Focusing on forms of improper burial in Turkey and Latin America, Ege Selin Islekel argues that a political technology of mourning is fundamental to contemporary politics. This technology of...

Grounded in the history of political thought, and illuminated by legal studies and feminist theory, this book offers a challenging new approach to thinking about liberty in the wake of decades of criticism of liberalism from feminists, communitarians,...

An urgent declaration that advances an internationalism from below focused on people and movements as agents of our collective liberation We belong to a single transnational struggle—and we stand against an internationally organized elite. We know that...

What relevance does Mary Wollstonecraft's thought have today? In this insightful book, Sandrine Bergès engages Wollstonecraft with contemporary social and political issues, demonstrating how this pioneering eighteenth-century feminist philosopher...

What relevance does Mary Wollstonecraft's thought have today? In this insightful book, Sandrine Bergès engages Wollstonecraft with contemporary social and political issues, demonstrating how this pioneering eighteenth-century feminist philosopher...

This book examines Jean Luc Nancy's latest contributions to the study of the political. Finding its orientation in Nancy's ontology, event and praxis of sense, this collection of 11 essays connects and develops the fundamental themes and concepts that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798897360239Author Charlotte C S ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Mercer University PressPublisher Mercer University Press

Argues for a closer connection between memories of injustice and promises of justice as a means to overcome violence.Rereading Marx through Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, The Promise of Memory attempts to establish a philosophy of liberation...

For thousands of years, political leaders have unified communities by aligning them against common enemies. However, today more than ever, the search for "common" enemies results in anything but unanimity. Scapegoats like Saddam Hussein, for example, led...

In his most recent book, Ermanno Bencivenga offers a stylistically and conceptually exciting investigation of the nature of language, mind, and personhood and the many ways the three connect. Bencivenga, one of the most iconoclastic voices to emerge in...

In this significant addition to moral theory, George W. Harris challenges a view of the dignity and worth of persons that goes back through Kant and Christianity to the Stoics. He argues that we do not, in fact, believe this view, which traces any...

Practical Inferences is an essential collection of papers by R. M. Hare, the leading advocate of prescriptivism, an influential ethical theory that examines the logical nature of moral language. Expanding upon the ideas presented in The Language of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312203603Author Michel FoucaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

The first comprehensive examination of the debate between Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojeve on the subject of philosophy and tyranny.On Tyranny remains a perennial favorite, possessing a timelessness that few philosophical or scholarly debates have ever...

The political statesman, Machiavelli tells us, must love his country more than his own soul. Political leaders must often transgress clear moral principles, using means that are typically wrong, even horrifying. What sort of inner life does a leader who...

Giorgio Agamben has come to be recognized in recent years as one of the most provocative and imaginative thinkers in contemporary philosophy and political theory. The essays gathered together in this volume shed light on his extensive body of writings...

Sufficientarianism is the view that justice is fulfilled when everyone has enough. But how should we interpret this view as an ideal of distributive justice? This book develops and defends the umbel view as a new theory of sufficientarian justice. The...