Social & politisk filosofi

This is a very short introduction to ethics. It divides into three parts: first, introducing and discussing reasons for skepticism about ethics; second introducing themes of birth, death, happiness, desire and freedom to show how deeply our lives ...

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No other Marxist text has come close to achieving the fame and influence of The Communist Manifesto. Translated into over 100 languages, this clarion call to the workers of the world radically shaped the events of the twentieth century. But what r...

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The unabridged version of this definitive work is now available in this highly designed jacketed hardcover with a new introduction by Odysseus Makridis. Published around 380 BCE, Platos most famous work explores the idea of justness, among other t...

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Det öppna samhället och dess fiender är en av 1900-¿talets viktigaste böcker - på samma gång en kraftfull kritik av de totalitära ideologiernas intellektuella ursprung och ett kompromisslöst försvar för de demokratiska institutionerna och det öppn...

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There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. But if the end of capitalism seems to many like the end of the world, how is it possible for Western society to face up to the end times? In a major ne...

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År 1972 utkom en bok med titeln "Från Platon till Lenin: de politiska idéernas historia" skriven av idéhistorikern Sven-Eric Liedman, sedermera känd professor och författare till uppmärksammade böcker som "I skuggan av framtiden: mo...

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The present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty years. This could explain the deadly cocktail of exploding inequalities, massive deregulation, and conversion of the dream of globalization into a nigh...

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Om friheten , utgiven 1859, anses av många vara liberalismens mest centrala verk och har haft oöverskådligt inflytande på det politiska tänkandet. Här diskuterar John Stuart Mill hur statens makt över individe...

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The inspirational sequel to 12 RULES FOR LIFE, which has sold over 10 million copies around the world - now in paperback In 12 Rules for Life, acclaimed public thinker and clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson offered an antidote to the chaos i...

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Nina Björk har i olika sammanhang skrivit utmanande om politik i tjugofem år. Inte sällan har hennes åsikter väckt starka reaktioner. Över tid går det att se att argumentationen har haft en kärna: hennes meningsmotståndare har hävdat att hon vill ...

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Det "Kommunistiska manifestet", som egentligen heter "Det kommunistiska partiets manifest", är ett av världens mest kända politiska dokument. Det skrevs av kommunismens grundare Karl Marx och Friedrich Engels år 1848 och är den...

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In 'Combining', Nora Bateson invites us into an ecology of communication where nothing stands alone, and every action sets off a chain of incalculable consequences. She challenges conventional fixes for our problems, highlighting the nee...

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"Att vara liberal är att vara kluven", brukar det sägas. Är det alltså för att ingen vet vad som är rätt och sant som vi bör vara fria enligt liberalismen? I så fall lever friheten farligt. I denna skrift argumenterar jag för motsatsen. ...

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A LANDMARK WORK OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. A GLOBAL BESTSELLER. STILL AS RELEVANT TODAY. With the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 the threat of the Cold War which had dominated the second half of the twentieth century vanished. And with it the West look...

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Boken innehåller följande texter: Förslag till skilsmässolag. Brev till Arnold Ruge. Om judefrågan. Utdrag ur De ekonomisk-filosofiska manuskripten. Teser om Feuerbach. Utdrag ur Den tyska filosofin. Utdrag ur Kommunistiska manifestet. "Urval...

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In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the constrained" vision, which sees human nature as unchanging and selfish, and the uncons...

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Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching is the source of Zen Buddhism, and is probably the most broadly influential spiritual text in human history. Complete & Unabridged. Part of the Macmillan Collectors Library; a series of stunning, cloth-bound, pocket...

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'A gripping work, and a gripping translation' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian Niccol Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, The Prince is translated and edited with an introduction by Tim Parks in Penguin Classics As ...

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The physiologist Benjamin Libet famously demonstrated that activity in the brain's motor regions can be detected some 300 milliseconds before a person feels that he has decided to move. Another lab recently used fMRI data to show that some &q...

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'One of the most important thinkers alive' The Times 'Britain's best philosopher' The Telegraph Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world. Co...

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A philosophy still relevant in the modern world, Pigliucci, one of the top philosophers on Twitter and a regular contributor to the New York Times, Newsweek, Washington and Huffington Posts, shows how you can apply stoicism to your everyday life a...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Plato's Republic has influenced Western philosophers for centuries, with its main focus on what makes a well-balanced society and individual.

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Chiltern Publishing creates the most beautiful editions of the world's finest literature. Your favorite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colors of these remarkable covers make ...

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Originating as a response to the 2020 publication of "A Letter on Justice and Open Debate" in Harper's, Finkelstein's new book I'll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It takes aim at both "cancel culture" and "identity politic...

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Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault's biopower, has discovered the productive force of the ...

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Det moderna informations- och prestationssamhället med sina oändliga lockelser och möjligheter betraktas vanligtvis som ett framsteg. Men enligt den koreanske filosofen Byung-Chul Han, som skriver på tyska och är verksam i Karlsruhe, är det snarar...

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The classic translation of the cornerstone work of western philosophy Plato's Republic is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three di...

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'The Debordian analysis of modern life resonates more deeply and darkly than perhaps even its creator thought possible...' - The New Yorker 'Never before has Debord's work seemed quite as relevant as it does now' - The Guardian 'Guy Debord is a ti...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We have declared before that it is not only expedient but necessary for a prince to take care his foundations be good, otherwise his fabric will be sure to fail.' ...

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Som man frågar får man svar. Den här boken handlar om den mänskliga nyfikenheten, hur den uppkommit, vad som skiljer oss från djuren. Frågor ramar in våra liv. Det är med frågor vi orienterar oss i världen. De utgör vårt viktigaste verktyg, förmåg...

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