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On Betrayal by Avishai Margalit 9780674048263
RRP: $70.10Booksplease Price: $59.01Adultery, treason, and apostasy no longer carry the weight they once did. Yet we constantly see and hear stories of betrayal, and many people have personally experienced a destructive breach of... -
On Compromise and Rotten Compromises by Avishai Margalit
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $33.25When is political compromise acceptable--and when is it fundamentally rotten, something we should never accept, come what may? What if a rotten compromise is politically necessary? Compromise is a... -
The Decent Society by Avishai Margalit 9780674194373
RRP: $52.55Booksplease Price: $45.40Avishai Margalit builds his social philosophy on this foundation: a decent society, or a civilized society, is one whose institutions do not humiliate the people under their authority, and whose... -
The Ethics of Memory by Avishai Margalit 9780674013780
RRP: $52.55Booksplease Price: $45.40Much of the intense current interest in collective memory concerns the politics of memory. In a book that asks, "Is there an ethics of memory?" Avishai Margalit addresses a separate, perhaps more... -
Captive Minds: A Study of Manipulation Avishai Margalit 9780674303102
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $37.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674303102Author Avishai MargalitFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Harvard University... -
Reading Walzer Yitzhak Benbaji 9780415780315
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $97.29Michael Walzer is one of the world's leading philosophers and political theorists. In addition to his best-known books such as Spheres of Justice, and Just and Unjust Wars, he has contributed to... -
Concealment and Revelation: Esotericism in Jewish Thought and its Philosophical Implications by Moshe Halbertal 9780691125718
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $90.75During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, great new trends of Jewish thought emerged whose widely varied representatives--Kabbalists, philosophers, and astrologers--each claimed that their... -
A Just Zionism: On the Morality of the Jewish State by Chaim Gans 9780199812066
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $64.35The legitimacy of the Zionist project--establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine--has been questioned since its inception. In recent years, the voices challenging the legitimacy of the State of... -
A Just Zionism: On the Morality of the Jewish State by Chaim Gans 9780195340686
Booksplease Price: $81.06For over half a century, the legitimacy of Israel's existence has been questioned, and Zionism has been the subject of an immense array of objections and criticism. Here, Chaim Gans considers the... -
Understanding Humanity with Isaiah Berlin by Johnny Lyons 9781009620390
Booksplease Price: $186.21The central ideas of Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) remain as alive for our century as they did for his, and his enduring importance as a thinker is matched by his reputation as an essayist of the first... -
Normal Rationality: Decisions and Social Order by Edna Ullmann-Margalit 9780198802433
Booksplease Price: $162.08Normal Rationality is a selection of the most important work of Edna Ullmann-Margalit, presenting some influential and widely admired essays alongside some that are not well known. She was an... -
Beyond the Mushroom Cloud: Commemoration, Religion, and Responsibility after Hiroshima by Yuki Miyamoto
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $54.37This monograph explores the ethics and religious sensibilities of a group of the hibakusha (survivors) of 1945's atomic bombings. Unfortunately, their ethic of "not retaliation, but reconciliation"... -
Ambivalence: A Philosophical Exploration by Hili Razinsky 9781786601537
Booksplease Price: $80.65Ambivalence (as in practical conflicts, moral dilemmas, conflicting beliefs, and mixed feelings) is a central phenomenon of human life. Yet ambivalence is incompatible with entrenched philosophical... -
Beyond the Mushroom Cloud: Commemoration, Religion, and Responsibility after Hiroshima by Yuki Miyamoto 9780823240500
RRP: $140.40Booksplease Price: $123.88This monograph explores the ethics and religious sensibilities of a group of the hibakusha (survivors) of 1945's atomic bombings. Unfortunately, their ethic of "not retaliation, but reconciliation"... -
Spinoza: Freedom's Messiah Ian Buruma 9780300281866
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $21.18Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time "An elegant, relevant biography of a vital... -
The Power of Ideas: Second Edition by Isaiah Berlin 9780691157603
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $36.45The essays collected in this new volume reveal Isaiah Berlin at his most lucid and accessible. He was constitutionally incapable of writing with the opacity of the specialist, but these shorter, more... -
Democracy and the Limits of Self-Government by Adam Przeworski 9780521140119
RRP: $44.85Booksplease Price: $41.44The political institutions under which we live today evolved from a revolutionary idea that shook the world in the second part of the eighteenth century: that a people should govern itself. Yet if we... -
Democracy and the Limits of Self-Government by Adam Przeworski
RRP: $146.25Booksplease Price: $140.34The political institutions under which we live today evolved from a revolutionary idea that shook the world in the second part of the eighteenth century: that a people should govern itself. Yet if we... -
Talking about Evil: Psychoanalytic, Social, and Cultural Perspectives Rina Lazar (lecturer and supervisor at the Psychotherapy Program, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University) 9781138100596
RRP: $113.08Booksplease Price: $105.57How can we talk about evil? How can we make sense of its presence all around us? How can we come to terms with the sad fact that our involvement in doing or enabling evil is an interminable aspect of... -
The Moral Target: Aiming at Right Conduct in War and Other Conflicts by F. M. Kamm 9780190490638
RRP: $55.56Booksplease Price: $47.07The Moral Target: Aiming at Right Conduct in War and Other Conflicts comprises essays that discuss aspects of war and other conflicts in the light of both nonconsequentialist ethical theory and the...