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Steven B. Smith: Your Mountain is Waiting by Steven B. Smith
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €34.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942185642Author Steven B. SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Radius BooksPublisher Radius... -
Political Philosophy by Steven B. Smith
Booksplease Price: €27.85Who ought to govern? Why should I obey the law? How should conflict be controlled? What is the proper education for a citizen and a statesman? These questions probe some of the deepest and most... -
On Statesmanship Steven B. Smith 9780300281743
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €26.78Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Meaning and Negation by Steven B. Smith 9789027932778
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €81.21No detailed description available for "Meaning and Negation".Book InformationISBN 9789027932778Author Steven B. SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 91Imprint De Gruyter MoutonPublisher De... -
Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes by Steven B. Smith
RRP: €32.73Booksplease Price: €20.22A rediscovery of patriotism as a virtue in line with the core values of democracy in an extremist age "Like you perhaps, I still regard myself as an extremely patriotic person. Which is why I so... -
The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss by Steven B. Smith
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €36.24Leo Strauss was a central figure in the twentieth century renaissance of political philosophy. The essays of The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss provide a comprehensive and non-partisan survey of... -
The Writings of Abraham Lincoln by Steven B. Smith 9780300181234
Booksplease Price: €24.28Abraham Lincoln never wrote a book: his ideas are contained in speeches, letters, and various occasional writings. By bringing these works together into a single anthology, this book shows that... -
Reading Leo Strauss by Steven B. Smith 9780226764023
Booksplease Price: €58.63Interest in Leo Strauss is greater now than at any time since his death, mostly because of the purported link between his thought and the political movement known as neoconservatism. Steven B. Smith,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss by Steven B. Smith 9780521879026
RRP: €99.96Booksplease Price: €95.14Leo Strauss was a central figure in the twentieth century renaissance of political philosophy. The essays of The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss provide a comprehensive and non-partisan survey of... -
Reading Leo Strauss: Politics, Philosophy, Judaism by Steven B. Smith
RRP: €21.42Booksplease Price: €19.71Interest in Leo Strauss is greater now than at any time since his death, mostly because of the purported link between his thought and the political movement known as neoconservatism. Steven B. Smith,... -
Hegel's Critique of Liberalism: Rights in Context Steven B. Smith 9780226763507
Booksplease Price: €36.21In Hegel's Critique of Liberalism, Steven B. Smith examines Hegel's critique of rights-based liberalism and its relevance to contemporary political concerns. Smith argues that Hegel reformulated... -
Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity by Steven B. Smith 9780300076653
Booksplease Price: €36.64"Steven Smith's lucid and compelling argument for writing Spinoza into the political theory canon is also a profound meditation on the Spinozan theme of religion and republican liberty... -
Spinoza's Book of Life: Freedom and Redemption in the Ethics Steven B. Smith 9780300100198
RRP: €77.35Booksplease Price: €75.26Most readers of Spinoza treat him as a pure metaphysician, a grim determinist, or a stoic moralist, but none of these descriptions captures the author of the Ethics, argues Steven B. Smith in this... -
Modernity and Its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow by Steven B. Smith 9780300240238
Booksplease Price: €64.66Steven B. Smith examines the concept of modernity, not as the end product of historical developments but as a state of mind. He explores modernism as a source of both pride and anxiety, suggesting... -
Michael Oakeshott: An Introduction by Paul Franco 9780300215274
Booksplease Price: €31.38In this book Paul Franco provides an authoritative introduction to the life and thought of Michael Oakeshott, one of the most important philosophical voices of the twentieth century. After sketching... -
Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict by John Burt
RRP: €42.78Booksplease Price: €36.01A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceIn 1858, challenger Abraham Lincoln debated incumbent Stephen Douglas seven times in the race for a U.S. Senate seat from Illinois. More was at stake than... -
G.W.F. Hegel Dudley Knowles 9780754627265
RRP: €113.04Booksplease Price: €108.86Hegel is notable for his distinctive contribution to the perennial concerns of political philosophy. He outlines a powerful account of freedom as both a personal and social achievement, discussing... -
Leo Strauss: An Introduction by Neil Robertson
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €20.27Leo Strauss's lifelong intellectual mission was to recover 'classical rationalism', a pursuit that has made him a controversial figure to this day. While his critics see him as responsible for a... -
Leo Strauss: An Introduction by Neil Robertson 9781509516308
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €58.37Leo Strauss's lifelong intellectual mission was to recover 'classical rationalism', a pursuit that has made him a controversial figure to this day. While his critics see him as responsible for a... -
Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology: Political and Social Theory from Nietzsche to Habermas by John P. McCormick 9780822327882
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.68With a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary approach to German political and social theory, Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology provides fresh insight into the thought of many of the... -
The Anti-Pelagian Imagination in Political Theory and International Relations: Dealing in Darkness by Nicholas Rengger
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23This volume draws together some of the key works of Nicholas Rengger, focusing on the theme of the 'anti-Pelagian imagination' in political theory and international relations. Rengger frames the... -
![Toward "Natural Right and History": Lectures and Essays by Leo Strauss, 1937-1946 by Leo Strauss](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/285132/284850/9780226512105__26418.1686940991.jpg?c=1 "Toward "Natural Right and History": Lectures and Essays by Leo Strauss, 1937-1946 by Leo Strauss")
Toward "Natural Right and History": Lectures and Essays by Leo Strauss, 1937-1946 by Leo Strauss
Booksplease Price: €56.29Natural Right and History is widely recognized as Strauss's most influential work. The six lectures, written while Strauss was at the New School, and a full transcript of the 1949 Walgreen Lectures... -
Foundations of American Political Thought: Readings and Commentary by Alin Fumurescu 9781108733557
Booksplease Price: €30.86American political thought was shaped by a unique combination of theoretical influences: republicanism, liberalism, and covenant theology. This reader shows how these influences came together... -
Protagoras by Daniel Silvermintz 9781472510921
Booksplease Price: €37.26The presocratic philosopher Protagoras of Abdera (490-420 BC), founder of the sophistic movement, was famously agnostic towards the existence and nature of the gods, and was the proponent of the... -
Foundations of American Political Thought: Readings and Commentary by Alin Fumurescu
Booksplease Price: €133.21American political thought was shaped by a unique combination of theoretical influences: republicanism, liberalism, and covenant theology. This reader shows how these influences came together... -
Classics of Political and Moral Philosophy by Steven M. Cahn 9780199791156
RRP: €115.42Booksplease Price: €114.06Classics of Political and Moral Philosophy provides in one volume the major writings from nearly 2,500 years of political and moral philosophy, from Plato through the twentieth century. The most... -
The Hero Returns: Lafayette and the Legacy of Revolution Richard Brookhiser 9780300280906
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €24.56The return of a revered revolutionary and the meaning of independence in a divided nation-in the 1820s and todayIn 1824, the legendary French hero of the American Revolution, Gilbert du Motier de... -
Rousseau, Nietzsche, and the Image of the Human by Paul Franco
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €33.06In Rousseau, Nietzsche, and the Image of the Human, Paul Franco examines the relationship between Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Friedrich Nietzsche, arguably the two most influential shapers and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Isaiah Berlin by Joshua L. Cherniss
RRP: €30.94Booksplease Price: €28.27Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was a central figure in twentieth-century political thought. This volume highlights Berlin's significance for contemporary readers, covering not only his writings on liberty... -
Understanding Humanity with Isaiah Berlin by Johnny Lyons 9781009620390
Booksplease Price: €113.63The 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... -
Hiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are by John Kaag 9781783784950
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Hiking with Nietzsche is a tale of two philosophical journeys in the Swiss Alps: one made by John Kaag as an introspective teenager, the other seventeen years later in radically different... -
![The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On "Liberal" as an Adjective by Michael Walzer](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/549211/548927/9780300267235__06988.1687303769.jpg?c=1 "The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On "Liberal" as an Adjective by Michael Walzer")
The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On "Liberal" as an Adjective by Michael Walzer
Booksplease Price: €25.05A testament to what it means to be liberal by one of the most prominent political philosophers of our era "Walzer is perhaps our foremost pilot on these rocky shoals. In his preface, he writes that... -
The Companion to Raymond Aron by Jose Colen 9781137522429
Booksplease Price: €108.12This edited collection brings to light the rare virtues and uncommon merits of Raymond Aron, the main figure of French twentieth-century liberalism. The Companion to Raymond Aron is an essential... -
The City of Man by Pierre Manent
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €43.59The "City of God" or the "City of Man"? This is the choice St. Augustine offered 1500 years ago--and according to Pierre Manent the modern West has decisively and irreversibly chosen the latter. In... -
Montesquieu's Science of Politics: Essays on The Spirit of Laws by David W. Carrithers 9780742511811
Booksplease Price: €61.29Montesquieu's The Spirit of Laws is one of a handful of classic works of political philosophy deserving a fresh reading every generation. The product of immense erudition, Montesquieu's treatise has... -
A World beyond Politics?: A Defense of the Nation-State by Pierre Manent 9780691125121
RRP: €73.78Booksplease Price: €61.73We live in the grip of a great illusion about politics, Pierre Manent argues in A World beyond Politics? It's the illusion that we would be better off without politics--at least national politics,... -
Moderate Liberalism and the Scottish Enlightenment: Montesquieu, Hume, Smith and Ferguson by Constantine Christos Vassiliou 9781399521208
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €26.89Moderate Liberalism and the Scottish Enlightenment responds to a perennial problem in political theory: how to balance commercial considerations with the public good. It investigates this dilemma... -
Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality by Danielle Allen 9781324097976
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.79Our Declaration has already come to be regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration and with... -
How to Think Politically: Sages, Scholars and Statesmen Whose Ideas Have Shaped the World by James Bernard Murphy
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.02'A wonderful introduction to history's most influential scribblers' - Steven Pinker What is truly at stake in politics? Nothing less than how we should live, as individuals and as communities... -
Crisis of Modern Times: Perspectives from The Review of Politics, 1939-1962 by A. James McAdams
RRP: €142.80Booksplease Price: €101.97In the 1940s and 1950s The Review of Politics, under the dynamic leadership of Waldemar Gurian, emerged as one of the leading journals of political and social theory in the United States. This volume...