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The State by Philip Pettit
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.44A major new account of the state and its importance by a leading political philosopherThe future of our species depends on the state. Can states resist corporate capture, religious zealotry, and... -
The State by Philip Pettit 9780691244402
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $21.99A major new account of the state and its importance by a leading political philosopherThe future of our species depends on the state. Can states resist corporate capture, religious zealotry, and... -
Rules, Reasons, and Norms by Philip Pettit 9780199251872
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $52.95Philip Pettit has drawn together here a series of interconnected essays on three subjects to which he has made notable contributions. The first part of the book deals with the rule-following... -
Subject, Thought, and Context by Philip Pettit 9780198249443
Booksplease Price: $69.23Are mental states "in the head"? Or do they intrinsically involve aspects of the subject's physical and social context? This volume presents a number of essays dealing with the compass of the mind... -
Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government by Philip Pettit 9780198296423
RRP: $65.79Booksplease Price: $48.27This is the first full-length presentation of a republican alternative to the liberal and communitarian theories that have dominated political philosophy in recent years. The author's eloquent,... -
Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government by Philip Pettit 9780198290834
RRP: $158.03Booksplease Price: $122.94This is the first full-length presentation of a republican alternative to the liberal and communitarian theories that have dominated political philosophy in recent years. Professor Pettit's eloquent,... -
Made with Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics by Philip Pettit
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $36.83Hobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. But this work is of immense... -
On the People's Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy by Philip Pettit
RRP: $30.96Booksplease Price: $27.76According to republican theory, we are free persons to the extent that we are protected and secured in the same fundamental choices, on the same public basis, as one another. But there is no public... -
A Theory of Freedom: From the Psychology to the Politics of Agency by Philip Pettit 9780745620930
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $63.27This innovative approach to freedom starts from an account of what we mean by describing someone, in a psychological vein, as a free subject. Pettit develops an argument as to what it is that makes... -
Just Freedom: A Moral Compass for a Complex World by Philip Pettit 9780393264289
Booksplease Price: $33.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393264289Author Philip PettitFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher... -
On the People's Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy by Philip Pettit 9781107005112
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $60.10According to republican theory, we are free persons to the extent that we are protected and secured in the same fundamental choices, on the same public basis, as one another. But there is no public... -
Just Freedom: A Moral Compass for a Complex World by Philip Pettit 9780393063974
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $24.25In this rigorous distillation of his political philosophy, Philip Pettit, author of the landmark work Republicanism, champions a simple standard for our most complex political judgments, offering a... -
The Birth of Ethics: Reconstructing the Role and Nature of Morality by Philip Pettit 9780190904913
RRP: $52.23Booksplease Price: $35.58Imagine a human society, perhaps in pre-history, in which people were generally of a psychological kind with us, had the use of natural language to communicate with one another, but did not have any... -
The Birth of Ethics: Reconstructing the Role and Nature of Morality by Philip Pettit 9780197567449
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $26.86Imagine a human society, perhaps in pre-history, in which people were generally of a psychological kind with us, had the use of natural language to communicate with one another, but did not have any... -
The Common Mind: An Essay on Psychology, Society, and Politics by Philip Pettit 9780195106459
RRP: $74.82Booksplease Price: $50.57Pettit argues for an original way of marking off thinking subjects, in particular human beings, from other intentional systems, natural and artificial.Reviews`a book to dip into for good ideas,... -
The Robust Demands of the Good: Ethics with Attachment, Virtue, and Respect by Philip Pettit 9780198801306
Booksplease Price: $41.96Philip Pettit offers a new insight into moral psychology. He shows that attachments such as love, and certain virtues such as honesty, require not only their characteristic positive behaviours in the... -
The Robust Demands of the Good: Ethics with Attachment, Virtue, and Respect by Philip Pettit 9780198732600
Booksplease Price: $76.86Some goods that we generate for others, as when we give them attention or help or encouragement, require us to provide that benefit under the actual circumstances where we interact. Other goods that... -
Common Minds: Themes from the Philosophy of Philip Pettit by Michael Smith 9780199218165
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $128.65During a career spanning over thirty years Philip Pettit has made seminal contributions in moral philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of the social sciences, philosophy of mind and action,... -
When Minds Converse: A Social Genealogy of the Human Soul Philip Pettit 9780198863113
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $109.97When Minds Converse argues that we do not speak because our human minds are special; our minds are special because we can speak. It maintains that six capacities characteristic of our species emerge... -
The Good Polity: Normative Analysis of the State Alan Hamlin (University of Southampton) 9780631158042
RRP: $47.67Booksplease Price: $45.68This volume presents a set of new essays by leading economists, philosophers and political scientists concerned with the normative underpinnings of the state. "The Good Polity" is devoted to the... -
Pluralism: The Philosophy and Politics of Diversity Maria Baghramian 9780415227148
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.50Cultural, moral and religious diversity is a pervasive feature of modern life, yet has only recently become the focus of intellectual debate. Pluralism is the first book to tackle philosophical... -
Liberty Reader David Miller 9781594511653
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $56.68For centuries past, the quest for liberty has driven political movements across the globe, inspiring revolutions in America, France, China and many other countries. Now, we have Iraq and the idea of... -
Realism in Political Theory by Rahul Sagar 9780367530587
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $53.20Over the past decade, an intellectual movement known as "realism" has challenged the reigning orthodoxy in political theory and political philosophy. Realists take issue with what they see as the... -
Political Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century: Essential Essays Steven M. Cahn 9780813346908
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $57.24Moving beyond the work of Rawls and his critics, this concise collection contains critical essays in contemporary political philosophy. All have been chosen for their importance and accessibility,... -
Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic by Camila Vergara 9780691207537
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $40.38A bold new approach to combatting the inherent corruption of representative democracyThis provocative book reveals how the majority of modern liberal democracies have become increasingly oligarchic,... -
Reasons for Welfare: The Political Theory of the Welfare State by Robert E. Goodin
RRP: $92.88Booksplease Price: $74.18Robert Goodin passionately and cogently defends the welfare state from current attacks by the New Right. But he contends that the welfare state finds false friends in those on the Old Left who would... -
In Our Name: The Ethics of Democracy by Eric Anthony Beerbohm 9780691168159
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.52When a government in a democracy acts in our name, are we, as citizens, responsible for those acts? What if the government commits a moral crime? The protestor's slogan--"Not in our name!"--testifies... -
Exploring Republican Freedom: Freedom and Domination by Keith Breen 9780367892807
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $55.03Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in republican political theory and, in particular, the republican conception of freedom as non-domination developed by Philip Pettit. This collection... -
Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us about Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living by Melissa Lane 9780691151243
Booksplease Price: $86.64An ecologically sustainable society cannot be achieved without citizens who possess the virtues and values that will foster it, and who believe that individual actions can indeed make a difference... -
In Our Name: The Ethics of Democracy by Eric Anthony Beerbohm 9780691154619
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $57.47When a government in a democracy acts in our name, are we, as citizens, responsible for those acts? What if the government commits a moral crime? The protestor's slogan--"Not in our name!"--testifies... -
Having Reasons: An Essay on Rationality and Sociality by Frederic Schick 9780691612959
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $34.48This important contribution to choice theory examines two theories of motivation and two kinds of explanation of behavior that they support. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy... -
Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic by Camila Vergara
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $23.96A bold new approach to combatting the inherent corruption of representative democracyThis provocative book reveals how the majority of modern liberal democracies have become increasingly oligarchic,... -
Goodness and Advice by Judith Jarvis Thomson 9780691114736
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.44How should we live? What do we owe to other people? In Goodness and Advice, the eminent philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson explores how we should go about answering such fundamental questions. In... -
Free Time by Julie Rose 9780691183442
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $23.96Recent debates about inequality have focused almost exclusively on the distribution of wealth and disparities in income, but little notice has been paid to the distribution of free time. Free time is... -
Blessed Are the Organized: Grassroots Democracy in America by Jeffrey Stout
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $31.54In an America where the rich and fortunate have free rein to do as they please, can the ideal of liberty and justice for all be anything but an empty slogan? Many Americans are doubtful, and have... -
Attention Deficit Democracy: The Paradox of Civic Engagement by Ben Berger 9780691144689
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $47.25Handwringing about political apathy is as old as democracy itself. As early as 425 BC, the playwright Aristophanes ridiculed his fellow Athenians for gossiping in the market instead of voting. In... -
Free Time by Julie Rose 9780691163451
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $40.38Recent debates about inequality have focused almost exclusively on the distribution of wealth and disparities in income, but little notice has been paid to the distribution of free time. Free time is... -
Semantics and Social Science by Graham MacDonald
RRP: $76.10Booksplease Price: $68.29Originally published in 1980, this book examines the major issues in the philosophy of social science, paying specific attention to cross-cultural understanding, humanism versus scientism,... -
The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality by Marija Jankovic 9780367572747
RRP: $67.07Booksplease Price: $60.94The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality provides a wide-ranging survey of topics in a rapidly expanding area of interdisciplinary research. It consists of 36 chapters, written exclusively... -
From Social Justice to Criminal Justice: Poverty and the Administration of Criminal Law by William C. Heffernan 9780195129854
RRP: $79.98Booksplease Price: $64.37The economically deprived come into contact with the criminal court system in disproportionate numbers. This collection of original, interactive essays, written from a variety of ideological...