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The Problem of Trust by Adam B. Seligman
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $81.56The 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 Idea of Civil Society by Adam B. Seligman
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $87.99As the countries of East-Central Europe struggle to create liberal democracy and the United States and other Western nations attempt to rediscover their own tarnished civil institutions, Adam... -
Religious Education and the Challenge of Pluralism by Adam B. Seligman 9780199359486
RRP: $71.38Booksplease Price: $66.97The essays in this volume offer a groundbreaking comparative analysis of religious education, and state policies towards religious education in seven different countries and in the European Union as... -
Religious Education and the Challenge of Pluralism by Adam B. Seligman 9780199359479
Booksplease Price: $247.17The essays in this volume offer a groundbreaking comparative analysis of religious education, and state policies towards religious education, in seven different countries and in the European Union as... -
Boundaries and Community: Rules for Re-Engagement Adam B. Seligman 9781049805313
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.55This book offers tools for building and sustaining communities in a world torn by division and irreconcilable differences. -
Rethinking Pluralism: Ritual, Experience, and Ambiguity by Adam B. Seligman 9780199915262
Booksplease Price: $119.28How can we order the world while accepting its enduring ambiguities? Rethinking Pluralism suggests a new approach to the problem of ambiguity and social order, which goes beyond the default modern... -
Modernity's Wager: Authority, the Self, and Transcendence by Adam B. Seligman 9780691116365
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $68.73Adam Seligman, one of our most important social thinkers, continues the incisive critique of modernity he began in his previously acclaimed The Idea of Civil Society and The Problem of Trust. In this... -
Rethinking Pluralism: Ritual, Experience, and Ambiguity by Adam B. Seligman 9780199915286
RRP: $93.43Booksplease Price: $61.03How can we order the world while accepting its enduring ambiguities? Rethinking Pluralism suggests a new approach to the problem of ambiguity and social order, which goes beyond the default modern... -
Ritual and its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity by Adam B. Seligman 9780195336016
RRP: $65.08Booksplease Price: $43.47Ritual is usually understood as pointing to some essence beyond the ritual act itself. This ambitious interdisciplinary study offers a convincing challenge to this understanding. The authors begin by... -
Ritual and Its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity by Adam B. Seligman 9780195336009
Booksplease Price: $188.73This pioneering, interdisciplinary work shows how rituals allow us to live in a perennially imperfect world. Drawing on a variety of cultural settings, the authors utilize psychoanalytic and... -
Order and Transcendence: The Role of Utopias and the Dynamics of Civilization by Adam B. Seligman 9789004089754
Booksplease Price: $149.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789004089754Author Adam B. SeligmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint BrillPublisher... -
Innerworldly Individualism: Charismatic Community and its Institutionalization by Adam B. Seligman 9781412862936
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $94.98Inner worldly Individualism looks to colonial history, in particular, seventeenth-century New England, to understand the sources of modern nation building. Seligman analyses how cultural assumptions... -
Living with Difference: How to Build Community in a Divided World by Adam B. Seligman 9780520284111
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $153.22Whether looking at divided cities or working with populations on the margins of society, a growing number of engaged academics have reached out to communities around the world to address the... -
Living with Difference: How to Build Community in a Divided World by Adam B. Seligman 9780520284128
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $30.58Whether looking at divided cities or working with populations on the margins of society, a growing number of engaged academics have reached out to communities around the world to address the... -
How Things Count as the Same: Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor by Adam B. Seligman 9780190888718
RRP: $215.25Booksplease Price: $169.28In their third book together, Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller address a seemingly simple question: What counts as the same? Given the myriad differences that divide one individual from another,... -
How Things Count as the Same: Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor by Adam B. Seligman 9780197546253
Booksplease Price: $76.57In their third book together, Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller address a seemingly simple question: What counts as the same? Given the myriad differences that divide one individual from another,... -
Democratic Civility: The History and Cross Cultural Possibility of a Modern Political Ideal by Robert W. Hefner 9781560003649
RRP: $199.48Booksplease Price: $176.57In the aftermath of the cold war, political commentators spoke ebulliently of the triumph of liberal democracy over its ideological rivals. Shortly thereafter, however, a surge of ethnic and... -
Modest Claims: Dialogues and Essays on Tolerance and Tradition by Adam Seligman 9780268041076
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.64Many of the critical political issues of our time-from the 1992-1995 Balkan Wars to the continuing crisis in the Middle East to the role of Muslim immigrants in Western Europe-revolve around issues... -
Trust and Civil Society by Fran Tonkiss 9780312235895
Booksplease Price: $192.57Trust and Civil Society offers an original and accessible analysis of the meaning of 'trust' in a range of critical contexts: voluntary organizations, faith associations, the economy, the state and... -
Law, Politics, and Morality in Judaism by Michael Walzer 9780691125084
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $60.69Jewish legal and political thought developed in conditions of exile, where Jews had neither a state of their own nor citizenship in any other. What use, then, can this body of thought be today to... -
Democratic Civility: The History and Cross Cultural Possibility of a Modern Political Ideal by Robert Hefner
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $63.23In the aftermath of the cold war, political commentators spoke ebulliently of the triumph of liberal democracy over its ideological rivals. Shortly thereafter, however, a surge of ethnic and... -
Wounds Not Healed by Time: The Power of Repentance and Forgiveness by Solomon Schimmel 9780195176124
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $23.73How should we respond to injuries done to us and to the hurts that we inflict on others? In this thoughtful book, Wounds Not Healed By Time, Solomon Schimmel guides us through the meanings of...