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Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth--And What to Do about It
Av Samuel Moyn
Inbunden, 2026
329 kr
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Last Utopia
Human Rights in History
Av Samuel Moyn
Häftad, 2012
228 kr
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Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates …
Not Enough
Human Rights in an Unequal World
Av Samuel Moyn
Häftad, 2019
212 kr
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“No one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights.”—Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal“Moyn breaks new ground in examining the relationship between human rights and economic fairness.”—George SorosThe age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. While state …
Civilization and Its Discontents
A Norton Critical Edition
Häftad, 2023
214 kr
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This Norton Critical Edition includes: The Standard Edition of Sigmund Freud’s most famous work, under the general editorship of James Strachey and authorized by Freud. Editorial matter by Samuel Moyn. Carefully chosen and thematically organized commentaries, including letters between Albert …
Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History
Av Samuel Moyn, Darrin M. McMahon
E-bok, 2013
737 kr
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Modern European intellectual history is thriving as never before. It has recovered from an era in which other trends like social and cultural history threatened to marginalize it. But in spite of enjoying a contemporary renaissance, the field has lost touch with the tradition of debating why and …
Right to Have Rights
Av Stephanie DeGooyer, Samuel Moyn m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
161 kr
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Sixty years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, an exiled Jew deprived of her German citizenship, observed that before people can enjoy any of the "inalienable" Rights of Man-before there can be any specific rights to education, work, voting, and so on-there must first be such a thing as …
Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History
Av Samuel Moyn, Darrin M. McMahon
E-bok, 2014
737 kr
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Modern European intellectual history is thriving as never before. It has recovered from an era in which other trends like social and cultural history threatened to marginalize it. But in spite of enjoying a contemporary renaissance, the field has lost touch with the tradition of debating why and …
Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History
Av MCMAHON, Darrin M. McMahon m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
2375 kr
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In relative terms, intellectual history is currently enjoying a moment of prominence and self-confidence greater than it has known in decades. Yet surprisingly for a field whose practitioners pride themselves on intellectual self-awareness, its star may have risen along with a decline in …
Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History
Av Darrin M. McMahon, Samuel Moyn
Häftad, 2014
1054 kr
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In relative terms, intellectual history is currently enjoying a moment of prominence and self-confidence greater than it has known in decades. Yet surprisingly for a field whose practitioners pride themselves on intellectual self-awareness, its star may have risen along with a decline in …
Democracy Past and Future
Av Pierre Rosanvallon, Samuel Moyn
Inbunden, 2006
2227 kr
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Democracy Past and Future is the first English-language collection of Pierre Rosanvallon's most important essays on the historical origins, contemporary difficulties, and future prospects of democratic life. One of Europe's leading political thinkers, Rosanvallon proposes in these essays new …
Democracy Past and Future
Av Pierre Rosanvallon, Samuel Moyn
Häftad, 2007
296 kr
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Democracy Past and Future is the first English-language collection of Pierre Rosanvallon's most important essays on the historical origins, contemporary difficulties, and future prospects of democratic life. One of Europe's leading political thinkers, Rosanvallon proposes in these essays new …
Global Intellectual History
Av Samuel Moyn, Andrew Sartori
Inbunden, 2013
1232 kr
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Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual history to incorporate transnational perspectives into their work, while also recommending how to confront the challenges and controversies that may …
Global Intellectual History
Av Samuel Moyn, Andrew Sartori
Häftad, 2015
314 kr
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Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual history to incorporate transnational perspectives into their work, while also recommending how to confront the challenges and controversies that may …
Liberalism against Itself
Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times
Av Samuel Moyn
Häftad, 2024
161 kr
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The Cold War roots of liberalism’s present crisis “[A] daring new book.”—Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post “A fascinating and combative intellectual history.”—Gideon Rachman, Financial Times By the middle of the twentieth century, many liberals looked glumly at the world modernity had brought about, …
Gerontocracy in America
How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth-and What to Do About It
Av Samuel Moyn
E-bok, 2026
287 kr
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A leading social critic identifies our least discussed major crisis, and sets out to solve it.As Americans debate President Biden's infirmities and President Trump's erratic behavior, we've neglected the bigger problem before us: a massive transfer of power and wealth to the oldest among us, and …
Origins of the Other
Emmanuel Levinas Between Revelation and Ethics
Av Samuel Moyn
Inbunden, 2005
798 kr
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The French-Jewish thinker Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995) is today remembered as the central moralist of the twentieth century and remains a major presence in the contemporary humanities. In this book, written in lucid and jargon-free prose, Samuel Moyn provides a first and controversial history of …
Origins of the Other
Emmanuel Levinas Between Revelation and Ethics
Av Samuel Moyn
Häftad, 2007
262 kr
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The French-Jewish thinker Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995) is today remembered as the central moralist of the twentieth century and remains a major presence in the contemporary humanities. In this book, written in lucid and jargon-free prose, Samuel Moyn provides a first and controversial history of …
Breakthrough
Human Rights in the 1970s
Av Jan Eckel, Samuel Moyn
E-bok, 2013
450 kr
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Between the 1960s and the 1980s, the human rights movement achieved unprecedented global prominence. Amnesty International attained striking visibility with its Campaign Against Torture; Soviet dissidents attracted a worldwide audience for their heroism in facing down a totalitarian state; the …
Breakthrough
Human Rights in the 1970s
Av Jan Eckel, Samuel Moyn
Häftad, 2015
357 kr
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Between the 1960s and the 1980s, the human rights movement achieved unprecedented global prominence. Amnesty International attained striking visibility with its Campaign Against Torture; Soviet dissidents attracted a worldwide audience for their heroism in facing down a totalitarian state; the …
Christian Human Rights
Av Samuel Moyn
Inbunden, 2015
347 kr
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In Christian Human Rights, Samuel Moyn asserts that the rise of human rights after World War II was prefigured and inspired by a defense of the dignity of the human person that first arose in Christian churches and religious thought in the years just prior to the outbreak of the war. The Roman …
Christian Human Rights
Av Samuel Moyn
E-bok, 2015
415 kr
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In Christian Human Rights, Samuel Moyn asserts that the rise of human rights after World War II was prefigured and inspired by a defense of the dignity of the human person that first arose in Christian churches and religious thought in the years just prior to the outbreak of the war. The Roman …
Modernist Imagination
Intellectual History and Critical Theory
Av Warren Breckman, Peter E. Gordon m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
695 kr
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Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities currently takes place at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. Just as critical theorists are becoming more aware of the historicity of theory, contemporary practitioners of modern intellectual history are …
Plough Quarterly No. 24 – Faith and Politics
Av Cornel West, Robert P. Geroge m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
104 kr
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No matter who wins the next election, Caesar will remain Caesar, doing some good and some bad. But Christians report to a different king.This issue starts with a provocation. In his opening letter, editor Peter Mommsen suggests Christians are too excited about the wrong politics: “Questions of …
The Cambridge History of Rights: Volume 5, The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Av Samuel Moyn, Meredith Terretta
Inbunden, 2025
1681 kr
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The concept of a right, and the idea of human rights, were familiar abstractions on the brink of the twentieth century. But the history of political mobilization since shows that human rights had a transformative capacity in that century that no prior age had demonstrated. Through the twentieth …
Cambridge History of Rights: Volume 5, The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Av Meredith Terretta, Samuel Moyn
E-bok, 2025
1914 kr
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Cambridge History of Rights: Volume 5, The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Av Meredith Terretta, Samuel Moyn
E-bok, 2025
1914 kr
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Humane
How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
Av Samuel Moyn
Häftad, 2022
275 kr
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Holocaust Controversy
Av Samuel Moyn
Häftad, 2005
357 kr
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How has the world come to focus on the Holocaust and why has it invariably done so in the heat of controversy, scandal, and polemics about the past? These questions are at the heart of this unique investigation of the Treblinka affair that occurred in France in 1966 when Jean-Francois Steiner, a …
Hermann Cohen – Writings on Neo–Kantianism and Jewish Philosophy
Av Samuel Moyn, Robert S. Schine m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
772 kr
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Hermann Cohen (1842–1918) was among the most accomplished Jewish philosophers of modern times—if not the single most significant. But his work has not yet received the attention it deserves. This newly translated collection of his writings—most of which are appearing in English for the first …
Hermann Cohen – Writings on Neo–Kantianism and Jewish Philosophy
Av Samuel Moyn, Robert S. Schine m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
262 kr
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Hermann Cohen (1842–1918) was among the most accomplished Jewish philosophers of modern times—if not the single most significant. But his work has not yet received the attention it deserves. This newly translated collection of his writings—most of which are appearing in English for the first …
