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The State by Philip Pettit
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02A 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: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05A 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
Booksplease Price: £51.93Philip 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: £53.67Are 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
Booksplease Price: £54.74This 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,... -
On the People's Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy by Philip Pettit
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £21.20According 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: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05This 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: £25.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393264289Author Philip PettitFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
Just Freedom: A Moral Compass for a Complex World by Philip Pettit 9780393063974
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.80In 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
Booksplease Price: £44.06Imagine 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
Booksplease Price: £28.50Imagine 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
Booksplease Price: £68.61Pettit 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,... -
On the People's Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy by Philip Pettit 9781107005112
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £46.59According 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... -
The Robust Demands of the Good: Ethics with Attachment, Virtue, and Respect by Philip Pettit 9780198801306
Booksplease Price: £32.53Philip 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: £64.72Some 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... -
When Minds Converse: A Social Genealogy of the Human Soul Philip Pettit 9780198863113
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £85.25When 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: £36.95Booksplease Price: £35.41This 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: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Cultural, 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: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94For 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: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.54Over 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... -
Exploring Republican Freedom: Freedom and Domination by Keith Breen 9780367892807
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Recent 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... -
Political Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century: Essential Essays Steven M. Cahn 9780813346908
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Moving 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: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.82A 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,... -
Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic by Camila Vergara
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.40A 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,... -
Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us about Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living by Melissa Lane 9780691151243
Booksplease Price: £69.22An 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: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.84When 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: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02This 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... -
Goodness and Advice by Judith Jarvis Thomson 9780691114736
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02How 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... -
Blessed Are the Organized: Grassroots Democracy in America by Jeffrey Stout
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69In 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... -
In Our Name: The Ethics of Democracy by Eric Anthony Beerbohm 9780691168159
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.73When 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... -
Attention Deficit Democracy: The Paradox of Civic Engagement by Ben Berger 9780691144689
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.93Handwringing 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: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.82Recent 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: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Originally 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,... -
Free Time by Julie Rose 9780691183442
Booksplease Price: £24.18Recent 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... -
From Social Justice to Criminal Justice: Poverty and the Administration of Criminal Law by William C. Heffernan 9780195129854
Booksplease Price: £98.21The 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... -
The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality by Marija Jankovic 9780367572747
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.34The 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... -
Group Agency: The Possibility, Design, and Status of Corporate Agents by Christian List 9780199591565
Booksplease Price: £86.85Are companies, churches, and states genuine agents? Or are they just collections of individual agents that give a misleading impression of unity? This question is important, since the answer dictates... -
Group Agency: The Possibility, Design, and Status of Corporate Agents by Christian List 9780199679676
Booksplease Price: £39.21Are companies, churches, and states genuine agents? Or are they just collections of individual agents that give a misleading impression of unity? This question is important, since the answer dictates... -
Republican Democracy: Liberty, Law and Politics by Andreas Niederberger 9781474403047
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.98This book critically assesses conceptions of democracy in different republican traditions. This book explores the historical and theoretical relationships between democracy and republicanism, and... -
Republican Democracy: Liberty, Law and Politics by Andreas Niederberger
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.60Explores the relationship between democracy and republicanism, and its consequences. Can republican thought offer a conception of democracy that addresses the challenges it faces within contemporary...