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32 produkter
Matter of Interpretation
Federal Courts and the Law - New Edition
Av Antonin Scalia, Amy Gutmann
Häftad, 2018
172 kr
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We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. According to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a judge like this can maneuver through earlier cases to achieve the desired aim--"distinguishing one prior case on …
Lives of Animals
Häftad, 2016
161 kr
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The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses, …
Color Conscious
The Political Morality of Race
Av Kwame Anthony Appiah, Amy Gutmann
Häftad, 1998
435 kr
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In America today, the problem of achieving racial justice--whether through "color-blind" policies or through affirmative action--provokes more noisy name-calling than fruitful deliberation. In Color Conscious, K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, two eminent moral and political philosophers, seek to …
Liberal Equality
Av Amy Gutmann
Häftad, 1980
569 kr
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This book makes a significant contribution to the tradition of liberal political theory: it explores the foundations and limits of the idea of equality within that theory and offers a sustained argument for a persuasive new view of liberalism. Liberal thinking has always displayed a tension between …
Democracy and Disagreement
Av Amy Gutmann, Dennis F. Thompson
Häftad, 1998
375 kr
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The din and deadlock of public life in America—where insults are traded, slogans proclaimed, and self-serving deals made and unmade—reveal the deep disagreement that pervades our democracy. The disagreement is not only political but also moral, as citizens and their representatives increasingly …
Democratic Education
Revised Edition
Av Amy Gutmann
Häftad, 1999
515 kr
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Who should have the authority to shape the education of citizens in a democracy? This is the central question posed by Amy Gutmann in the first book-length study of the democratic theory of education. The author tackles a wide range of issues, from the democratic case against book banning to the …
Democracy and the Welfare State
Av Amy Gutmann
Häftad, 1988
1129 kr
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The essays in this volume explore the moral foundations and the political prospects of the welfare state in the United States. Among the questions addressed are the following: Has public support for the welfare state faded? Can a democratic state provide welfare without producing dependency on …
Multiculturalism
Expanded Paperback Edition
Av Charles Taylor, Amy Gutmann
Häftad, 1994
324 kr
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A new edition of the highly acclaimed book Multiculturalism and "The Politics of Recognition," this paperback brings together an even wider range of leading philosophers and social scientists to probe the political controversy surrounding multiculturalism. Charles Taylor's initial inquiry, which …
Freedom of Association
Av Amy Gutmann
Häftad, 1998
1042 kr
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Americans are joiners. They are members of churches, fraternal and sororal orders, sports leagues, community centers, parent-teacher associations, professional associations, residential associations, literary societies, national and international charities, and service organizations of seemingly …
Work and Welfare
Av Robert M. Solow, Amy Gutmann
Inbunden, 1998
1391 kr
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The Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Solow directs his attention here to one of today's most controversial social issues: how to get people off welfare and into jobs. With characteristic eloquence, wit, and rigor, Solow condemns the welfare reforms recently passed by Congress and President …
Goodness and Advice
Av Judith Jarvis Thomson, Amy Gutmann
Häftad, 2003
384 kr
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How 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 doing so, she makes major advances in moral philosophy, pointing to some deep problems for influential …
Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry
Av Michael Ignatieff, Amy Gutmann
Häftad, 2003
349 kr
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Michael Ignatieff draws on his extensive experience as a writer and commentator on world affairs to present a penetrating account of the successes, failures, and prospects of the human rights revolution. Since the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, this …
Why Deliberative Democracy?
Av Amy Gutmann, Dennis F. Thompson
Häftad, 2004
620 kr
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The most widely debated conception of democracy in recent years is deliberative democracy--the idea that citizens or their representatives owe each other mutually acceptable reasons for the laws they enact. Two prominent voices in the ongoing discussion are Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson. In Why …
Identity in Democracy
Av Amy Gutmann
Häftad, 2004
393 kr
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Written by one of America's leading political thinkers, this is a book about the good, the bad, and the ugly of identity politics.Amy Gutmann rises above the raging polemics that often characterize discussions of identity groups and offers a fair-minded assessment of the role they play in …
Spirit of Compromise
Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It - Updated Edition
Av Amy Gutmann, Dennis F. Thompson
Häftad, 2014
238 kr
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To govern in a democracy, political leaders have to compromise. When they do not, the result is political paralysis--dramatically demonstrated by the gridlock in Congress in recent years. In The Spirit of Compromise, eminent political thinkers Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson show why compromise is …
Democracy and the Welfare State
Av Amy Gutmann
E-bok, 2020
856 kr
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The essays in this volume explore the moral foundations and the political prospects of the welfare state in the United States. Among the questions addressed are the following: Has public support for the welfare state faded? Can a democratic state provide welfare without producing dependency on …
Freedom of Association
Av Amy Gutmann
E-bok, 2020
785 kr
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Americans are joiners. They are members of churches, fraternal and sororal orders, sports leagues, community centers, parent-teacher associations, professional associations, residential associations, literary societies, national and international charities, and service organizations of seemingly …
Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die
Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America
Av Amy Gutmann, Jonathan D. Moreno
Inbunden, 2019
280 kr
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An eye-opening look at the inevitable moral choices that come along with tremendous medical progress, Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die is a primer for all Americans to talk more honestly about health care. Beginning in the 1950s when doctors still paid house calls but …
Multiculturalism
Expanded Paperback Edition
Av Charles Taylor, Amy Gutmann
E-bok, 1994
415 kr
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A new edition of the highly acclaimed book Multiculturalism and "The Politics of Recognition," this paperback brings together an even wider range of leading philosophers and social scientists to probe the political controversy surrounding multiculturalism. Charles Taylor''s initial inquiry, which …
Color Conscious
The Political Morality of Race
Av Amy Gutmann, Kwame Anthony Appiah
E-bok, 1998
582 kr
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In America today, the problem of achieving racial justice--whether through "color-blind" policies or through affirmative action--provokes more noisy name-calling than fruitful deliberation. In Color Conscious , K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, two eminent moral and political philosophers, seek to …
Work and Welfare
Av Robert M. Solow, Amy Gutmann
E-bok, 2009
1102 kr
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The Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Solow directs his attention here to one of today''s most controversial social issues: how to get people off welfare and into jobs. With characteristic eloquence, wit, and rigor, Solow condemns the welfare reforms recently passed by Congress and President …
Democratic Education
Revised Edition
Av Amy Gutmann
E-bok, 1999
693 kr
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A groundbreaking classic that lays out and defends a democratic theory of education Who should have the authority to shape the education of citizens in a democracy? This is the central question posed by Amy Gutmann in the first book-length study of the democratic theory of education. The author …
Goodness and Advice
Av Judith Jarvis Thomson, Amy Gutmann
E-bok, 2009
500 kr
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How 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 doing so, she makes major advances in moral philosophy, pointing to some deep problems for influential …
Identity in Democracy
Av Amy Gutmann
E-bok, 2009
542 kr
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Written by one of America''s leading political thinkers, this is a book about the good, the bad, and the ugly of identity politics.Amy Gutmann rises above the raging polemics that often characterize discussions of identity groups and offers a fair-minded assessment of the role they play in …
Why Deliberative Democracy?
Av Dennis F. Thompson, Amy Gutmann
E-bok, 2009
500 kr
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The most widely debated conception of democracy in recent years is deliberative democracy--the idea that citizens or their representatives owe each other mutually acceptable reasons for the laws they enact. Two prominent voices in the ongoing discussion are Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson. In Why …
Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry
Av Michael Ignatieff, Amy Gutmann
E-bok, 2011
500 kr
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Michael Ignatieff draws on his extensive experience as a writer and commentator on world affairs to present a penetrating account of the successes, failures, and prospects of the human rights revolution. Since the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, this …
Spirit of Compromise
Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It - Updated Edition
Av Dennis F. Thompson, Amy Gutmann
E-bok, 2014
257 kr
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Why compromise is essential for effective government and why it is missing in politics today To govern in a democracy, political leaders have to compromise. When they do not, the result is political paralysis—dramatically demonstrated by the gridlock in Congress in recent years. In The Spirit of …
Matter of Interpretation
Federal Courts and the Law - New Edition
Av Antonin Scalia, Amy Gutmann
E-bok, 2018
236 kr
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We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. According to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a judge like this can maneuver through earlier cases to achieve the desired aim—“distinguishing one prior case on …
Lives of Animals
E-bok, 2016
246 kr
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The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses, …
Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die
Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America
Av Amy Gutmann, Jonathan D. Moreno
Häftad, 2020
188 kr
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An eye-opening look at the inevitable moral choices that come along with tremendous medical progress, Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die is a primer for all Americans to talk more honestly about health care. Beginning in the 1950s when doctors still paid house calls but …
