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Selected Writings by Alan Shelston 9780141396767
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54The most important writings by the great and controversial Victorian polemicist.Carlyle was one of the great figures of his age: thunderous, passionate, irascible, sceptical and idealistic. This... -
The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism by Professor S. Pearl Brilmyer 9780226815770
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $202.34The Science of Character makes a bold new claim for the power of the literary by showing how Victorian novelists used fiction to theorize how character forms. In 1843, the Victorian philosopher... -
History of Philosophy: Vol 8: Utilitarianism to Early Analytic Philosophy by Frederick C. Copleston
Booksplease Price: $61.26Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit and specialist in the history of philosophy, first created his history as an introduction for Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries. However, since its first publication (the... -
The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism by Professor S. Pearl Brilmyer
Booksplease Price: $58.00The Science of Character makes a bold new claim for the power of the literary by showing how Victorian novelists used fiction to theorize how character forms. In 1843, the Victorian philosopher... -
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and Legal Logic by Frederic R. Kellogg
Booksplease Price: $90.99With Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Legal Logic, Frederic R. Kellogg examines the early diaries, reading, and writings of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) to assess his contribution to... -
The Moment of Racial Sight: A History by Irene Tucker 9780226922935
Booksplease Price: $115.46"The Moment of Racial Sight" overturns the most familiar form of racial analysis in contemporary culture: the idea that race is constructed, that it operates by attaching visible marks of difference... -
The Great Forgetting: The Past, Present and Future of Social Democracy and the Welfare State by Jack Lawrence Luzkow 9780719096396
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $41.03Today the US and the UK are at a crossroads. Millions are out of work, millions (in the US) are still deprived of health care, millions have lost their homes, and we are collectively more unequal... -
The Great Forgetting: The Past, Present and Future of Social Democracy and the Welfare State by Jack Lawrence Luzkow 9780719096389
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $158.87Today the US and the UK are at a crossroads. Millions are out of work, millions (in the US) are still deprived of health care, millions have lost their homes, and we are collectively more unequal... -
The Natural Origins of Economics by Margaret Schabas 9780226735696
Booksplease Price: $197.48References to the economy are ubiquitous in modern life, and virtually every facet of human activity has capitulated to market mechanisms. In the early modern period, however, there was no common... -
Philosophy of Law: Classic and Contemporary Readings by Larry May 9781405183888
RRP: $201.50Booksplease Price: $186.71Philosophy of Law provides a rich overview of the diverse theoretical justifications for our legal rules, systems, and practices. Utilizes the work of both classical and contemporary philosophers to... -
Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering: What Philosophy Can Tell Us about the Hardest Mystery of All by Scott Samuelson
Booksplease Price: $48.78It's right there in the Book of Job: "Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward." Suffering is an inescapable part of the human condition--which leads to a question that has proved just as... -
History of Political Philosophy by Leo Strauss 9780226777108
Booksplease Price: $67.56This volume provides an unequaled introduction to the thought of chief contributors to the Western tradition of political philosophy from classical Greek antiquity to the twentieth century. Written... -
Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering: What Philosophy Can Tell Us about the Hardest Mystery of All Scott Samuelson 9780226845654
RRP: $33.60Booksplease Price: $30.98A reflection on the role of suffering in human existence. It's right there in the Book of Job: "Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward." Suffering is an inescapable part of the human... -
Three Essays on Religion (1874) by 9781551117683
RRP: $58.70Booksplease Price: $47.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551117683Author John Stuart MillFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher... -
Helen Taylor and her Fight for the People: Education Reformer, Feminist and Pioneer of the Labour Movement by Janet Smith 9781036125714
Booksplease Price: $54.24Despite being hailed as 'the foremost woman of her time' in the 1880s, Helen Taylor's legacy has largely been overshadowed, often reduced to her role as John Stuart Mill's stepdaughter and a divisive... -
The Natural Origins of Economics by Margaret Schabas
Booksplease Price: $59.96References to the economy are ubiquitous in modern life, and virtually every facet of human activity has capitulated to market mechanisms. In the early modern period, however, there was no common... -
Hayek on Mill: The Mill-Taylor Friendship and Related Writings Volume 16 by F a Hayek 9780226106397
RRP: $147.00Booksplease Price: $144.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226106397Author F a HayekFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher... -
Putting Jurisprudence Back Into Economics: What is Really Wrong With Today's Neoclassical Theory by David Ellerman 9783030760984
Booksplease Price: $190.18This book presents an integrated jurisprudential critique of neoclassical microeconomic theory. It explains what is 'really wrong' with the theory both descriptively, as well as normatively. The... -
Introduction to International Political Economy David N. Balaam 9781138206991
RRP: $220.50Booksplease Price: $192.89In a revolutionary revision of this best-selling text, David Balaam and Bradford Dillman show how the postwar world order is at once under threat and yet resilient. This classic text surveys the... -
The Victorian Age: An Anthology of Sources and Documents Josephine Guy 9780415271141
RRP: $86.08Booksplease Price: $80.47The Victorian Age introduces students of nineteenth-century literary and cultural history to the main areas of intellectual debate in the Victorian period. Bringing together for the first time in one... -
Hayek On Mill: The Mill-Taylor Friendship and Related Writings by Sandra J. Peart
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $86.60Best known for reviving the tradition of classical liberalism, F. A. Hayek was also a prominent scholar of the philosopher John Stuart Mill. One of his greatest undertakings was a collection of... -
Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform by Leslie Butler 9780807857922
Booksplease Price: $86.94In this intellectual history of American liberalism during the second half of the nineteenth century, Leslie Butler examines a group of nationally prominent and internationally oriented writers who... -
Liberalism and Transformation: The Global Politics of Violence and Intervention by Dillon S. Tatum 9780472075058
Booksplease Price: $141.23Liberalism and Transformation is the first scholarly work that explores the historical, philosophical, and intellectual development of global liberalism since the nineteenth century in the context of... -
Liberalism and Transformation: The Global Politics of Violence and Intervention by Dillon S. Tatum 9780472055050
RRP: $60.80Booksplease Price: $58.46Liberalism and Transformation is the first scholarly work that explores the historical, philosophical, and intellectual development of global liberalism since the nineteenth century in the context of... -
The Subjection of Women by John Mill 9780765807663
RRP: $107.08Booksplease Price: $96.77The Subjection of Women, which Mill wrote in 1861 but did not publish until 1869, is one of the seminal texts of feminism and aroused more antagonism than anything Mill ever wrote. Conservatives... -
Fifty Major Thinkers on Education: From Confucius to Dewey by Joy Palmer
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $55.40In this unique work some of today's greatest educators present concise, accessible summaries of the great educators of the past. Covering a time-span from 500 BC to the early twentieth century each... -
Principles of Social Reconstruction Bertrand Russell 9780415143493
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $58.99This book, originally entitled Why Men Fight, is generally seen as the fullest expression of Russell's political philosophy. Russell argues that after the experience of the Great War the... -
Philosophers on Education: New Historical Perspectives by Amelie Oksenberg Rorty
RRP: $117.58Booksplease Price: $106.41Philosophers on Education offers us the most comprehensive available history of philosopher's views and impacts on the directions of education. As Amelie Rorty explains, in describing a history of... -
Mill on Justice by L. Kahn 9781349366811
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $85.58John Stuart Mill was one of the most important figures in political philosophy but little has been published on his ideas on justice. This impressive collection by renowned Mill scholars addresses... -
The Quality of Government: Corruption, Social Trust, and Inequality in International Perspective by Bo Rothstein
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $203.49The relationship between government, virtue, and wealth has held a special fascination since Aristotle, and the importance of each frames policy debates today in both developed and developing... -
Encyclopaedia of Nationalism Athena Leoussi 9781138509559
RRP: $123.88Booksplease Price: $110.75Since the end of the internationalist Soviet experiment in 1989, nationalism is now recognized as a positive, vital force in modern political, cultural, and social life-if kept in check from excess... -
An Enquiry into the Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain by Henry Thornton
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $85.13This book, first edited with an introduction by F. A. v. Hayek in 1939, explores some of the popular errors which related to the suspension of the cash payments of the Bank of England, and to the... -
The Lesson of this Century: With Two Talks on Freedom and the Democratic State by Sir Karl Popper
RRP: $86.08Booksplease Price: $78.79One of the century's greatest and most influential thinkers, Karl Popper reminds us that we must recognize our responsibilities in preserving the democratic system we enjoy: it is our actions which... -
How to Think Politically: Sages, Scholars and Statesmen Whose Ideas Have Shaped the World by James Bernard Murphy
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.74'A wonderful introduction to history's most influential scribblers' - Steven Pinker What is truly at stake in politics? Nothing less than how we should live, as individuals and as communities... -
A History of Western Thought: From Ancient Greece to the Twentieth Century by Nils Gilje
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $95.61This is a comprehensive introduction to the history of Western Philosophy from the Pre-Socratics to Twentieth Century thought. In addition to all the key figures, the book covers figures whose... -
Understanding the Political Philosophers: From Ancient to Modern Times Alan Haworth (London Metropolitan University, UK) 9780415685375
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $87.78Understanding the Political Philosophers is an absorbing and accessible introduction to the major philosophers and core texts of western political philosophy.Organised historically - beginning with... -
Democracy and its Critics: Anglo-American Democratic Thought in the Nineteenth Century by Jon Roper 9780415608879
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $62.60Originally published in 1989, a guide for students coming for the first time to the study of democracy, who often find it difficult to trace the developement of the idea and to place it in historical... -
Fifty Major Thinkers on Education: From Confucius to Dewey by Joy Palmer 9780415231251
RRP: $252.00Booksplease Price: $224.76In this unique work some of today's greatest educators present concise, accessible summaries of the great educators of the past. Covering a time-span from 500 BC to the early twentieth century each... -
Conceptions of Inquiry Stuart Brown 9780415045650
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $39.84A number of significant contributions have been made, both to specific intellectual disciplines and on the broader philosophical front. by researches into the nature of inquiry. The papers in this... -
Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll by Gillian Beer
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $162.33In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll created fantastic worlds that continue to delight and trouble readers of all ages today. What is often overlooked,...