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The Legacy of Positivism by Michael Singer 9781403994028
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book gives a unique historical and interpretive analysis of a widely pervasive mode of thought that it describes as the legacy of positivism. Viewing Auguste Comte as a pivotal figure, it charts... -
Good Form: The Ethical Experience of the Victorian Novel by Jesse Rosenthal
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.73What do we mean when we say that a novel's conclusion "feels right"? How did feeling, form, and the sense of right and wrong get mixed up, during the nineteenth century, in the experience of reading... -
Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism by Karuna Mantena 9780691128160
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £49.59Alibis of Empire presents a novel account of the origins, substance, and afterlife of late imperial ideology. Karuna Mantena challenges the idea that Victorian empire was primarily legitimated by... -
The Tyranny of the Ideal: Justice in a Diverse Society by Gerald Gaus 9780691158808
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.12In his provocative new book, The Tyranny of the Ideal, Gerald Gaus lays out a vision for how we should theorize about justice in a diverse society. Gaus shows how free and equal people, faced with... -
Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire by Duncan Bell 9780691197173
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69A leading scholar of British political thought explores the relationship between liberalism and empireReordering the World is a penetrating account of the complexity and contradictions found in... -
On Freedom by Cass R. Sunstein 9780691191157
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.56From 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... -
Victorian Political Thought on France and the French by Georgios Varouxakis 9781349422180
Booksplease Price: £90.56By scrutinizing the major Victorian political thinkers' perceptions and representations of France this book shows how comparisons with the country on the other side of the Channel, its politics,... -
Parting at the Crossroads: The Emergence of Health Insurance in the United States and Canada by Antonia Maioni
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £86.19As almost all newspaper or magazine readers know, Canada figured prominently in the turbulent U.S. debates over health care reform in the early Clinton presidency. Furthermore, future news analysts... -
Essays on Aristotle's Poetics by Amelie Oksenberg Rorty
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.93Aimed at deepening our understanding of the Poetics, this collection places Aristotle's analysis of tragedy in its larger philosophical context. In these twenty-one essays, philosophers and... -
Complexity and the Art of Public Policy: Solving Society's Problems from the Bottom Up by David Colander
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.87Complexity science--made possible by modern analytical and computational advances--is changing the way we think about social systems and social theory. Unfortunately, economists' policy models have... -
Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire by Duncan Bell 9780691138787
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.12Reordering the World is a penetrating account of the complexity and contradictions found in liberal visions of empire. Focusing mainly on nineteenth-century Britain--at the time the largest empire in... -
The Tyranny of the Ideal: Justice in a Diverse Society by Gerald Gaus 9780691183428
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21In his provocative new book, The Tyranny of the Ideal, Gerald Gaus lays out a vision for how we should theorize about justice in a diverse society. Gaus shows how free and equal people, faced with... -
Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England by Sharon Marcus
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.18Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal... -
The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century by Helena Rosenblatt 9780691203966
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.59The changing face of the liberal creed from the ancient world to todayThe Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry-and a... -
Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siecle by Amanda Anderson
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £49.59Contemporary celebrations of interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities and social sciences often harbor a distrust of traditional disciplines, which are seen as at best narrow and... -
The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860-1900 by Duncan Bell 9780691151168
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.60During the tumultuous closing decades of the nineteenth century, as the prospect of democracy loomed and as intensified global economic and strategic competition reshaped the political imagination,... -
Punishment: A Philosophy and Public Affairs Reader by A. John Simmons 9780691029559
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £41.96The problem of justifying legal punishment has been at the heart of legal and social philosophy from the very earliest recorded philosophical texts. However, despite several hundred years of debate,... -
A Philosophy of Culture: The Scope of Holistic Pragmatism by Morton White 9780691123981
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02In this book, one of America's leading philosophers offers a sweeping reconsideration of the philosophy of culture in the twentieth century. Morton White argues that the discipline is much more... -
Faith in Schools?: Autonomy, Citizenship, and Religious Education in the Liberal State by Ian MacMullen 9780691171388
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40Should a liberal democratic state permit religious schools? Should it fund them? What principles should govern these decisions in a society marked by religious and cultural pluralism? In Faith in... -
The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy by Daniel A. Bell 9780691173047
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.51Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and "bad" authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three... -
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk 9780895261717
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £17.96"It is inconceivable even to imagine, let alone hope for, a dominant conservative movement in America without Kirk's labor." - WILLIAM F BUCKLEY "A profound critique of contemporary mass society,... -
After Adam Smith: A Century of Transformation in Politics and Political Economy by Murray Milgate
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Few issues are more central to our present predicaments than the relationship between economics and politics. In the century after Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations the British economy was transformed... -
Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain by Peter van der Veer 9780691074788
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Picking up on Edward Said's claim that the historical experience of empire is common to both the colonizer and the colonized, Peter van der Veer takes the case of religion to examine the mutual... -
Rousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies by Robert Wokler 9780691147895
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £44.55Robert Wokler was one of the world's leading experts on Rousseau and the Enlightenment, but some of his best work was published in the form of widely scattered and difficult-to-find essays. This book... -
Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech by Keith E. Whittington 9780691191522
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.70Why colleges and universities live or die by free speechFree speech is under attack at colleges and universities today, as critics on and off campus challenge the value of freewheeling debate. In... -
Rethinking Diversity Frameworks in Higher Education by Edna B. Chun
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80With the goal of building more inclusive working, learning, and living environments in higher education, this book seeks to reframe understandings of forms of everyday exclusion that affect members... -
Shifting Involvements: Private Interest and Public Action - Twentieth-Anniversary Edition by Albert O. Hirschman
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Why does society oscillate between intense interest in public issues and almost total concentration on private goals? In this classic work, Albert O. Hirschman offers a stimulating social, political,... -
Good Form: The Ethical Experience of the Victorian Novel by Jesse Rosenthal 9780691171708
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £38.93What do we mean when we say that a novel's conclusion "feels right"? How did feeling, form, and the sense of right and wrong get mixed up, during the nineteenth century, in the experience of reading... -
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Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? by Susan Moller Okin 9780691004327 [USED COPY]
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £2.73Polygamy, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, punishing women for being raped, differential access for men and women to health care and education, unequal rights of ownership, assembly, and... -
Nishi Amane and Modern Japanese Thought by Thomas R. H. Havens 9780691621357
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £39.35A nineteenth-century aristocrat, Nishi Amane (1829-1897) was one of the first Japanese to assert the supremacy of Western culture. He was sent by his government to Leiden to study the European social... -
War in Social Thought: Hobbes to the Present by Hans Joas 9780691150840
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £39.75This book, the first of its kind, provides a sweeping critical history of social theories about war and peace from Hobbes to the present. Distinguished social theorists Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knobl... -
Philosophical Approaches to Proper Names by Piotr Stalmaszczyk 9783631662656
RRP: £49.05Booksplease Price: £44.25The articles in this collection focus on philosophical approaches to proper names. The issues discussed include abstract names, empty names, naming and name-using practices, definite descriptions,... -
Mill's Utilitarianism: Critical Essays by David Lyons 9780847687831
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £105.31John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism continues to serve as a rich source of moral and theoretical insight. This collection of articles by top scholars offers fresh interpretations of Mill's ideas about... -
: The Greatest Happiness Principle (1986): An Examination of Utilitarianism by Lanny O. Ebenstein
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £33.23First published in 1991, The Greatest Happiness Principle traces the history of the theory of utility, starting with the Bible, and running through Plato, Aristotle, and Epicurus. It goes on to... -
Mill's Utilitarianism: Critical Essays by David Lyons 9780847687848
Booksplease Price: £51.20John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism continues to serve as a rich source of moral and theoretical insight. This collection of articles by top scholars offers fresh interpretations of Mill's ideas about... -
Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England, 1850-1895 by Mary Lyndon Shanley
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Bridging the fields of political theory and history, this comprehensive study of Victorian reforms in marriage law reshapes our understanding of the feminist movement of that period. As Mary Shanley... -
The Religious Left and Church-State Relations by Steven H. Shiffrin 9780691156194
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69In The Religious Left and Church-State Relations, noted constitutional law scholar Steven Shiffrin argues that the religious left, not the secular left, is best equipped to lead the battle against... -
The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism Matt Zwolinski 9780691241036
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05A sweeping history of libertarian thought, from radical anarchists to conservative defenders of the status quoLibertarianism emerged in the mid-nineteenth century with an unwavering commitment to... -
Liberalism's Crooked Circle: Letters to Adam Michnik by Ira Katznelson
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £39.35This book is a profoundly moving and analytically incisive attempt to shift the terms of discussion in American politics. It speaks to the intellectual and political weaknesses within the liberal... -
The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters - Revised Edition by Diane Coyle
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.51For many, Thomas Carlyle's put-down of economics as "the dismal science" rings true--especially in the aftermath of the crash of 2008. But Diane Coyle argues that economics today is more soulful than...