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Reasons for Welfare
The Political Theory of the Welfare State
Häftad, 1988
1347 kr
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Robert Goodin passionately and cogently defends the welfare state from current attacks by the New Right. But he contends that the welfare state finds false friends in those on the Old Left who would justify it as a hesitant first step toward some larger, ideally just form of society. Reasons for …
Liberal Nationalism
Av Yael Tamir
Häftad, 1995
505 kr
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"This is a most timely, intelligent, well-written, and absorbing essay on a central and painful social and political problem of out time."--Sir Isaiah Berlin "The major achievement of this remarkable book is a critical theory of nationalism, worked through historical and contemporary examples, …
Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of the Soul
A Study of Heroic Individualism
Häftad, 1990
436 kr
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Reading Nietzsche's works as the "political biography of his soul," Leslie Thiele presents an original and accessible essay on the great thinker's attempt to lead a heroic life as a philosopher, artist, saint, educator, and solitary. He takes as his point of departure Nietzsche's conception of the …
Desert
Av George Sher
Häftad, 1989
505 kr
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The description for this book, Desert, will be forthcoming.
Rhetoric of Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Cultural Transformation
Häftad, 1989
574 kr
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The description for this book, The Rhetoric of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Cultural Transformation, will be forthcoming.
Critical Legal Studies
A Liberal Critique
Häftad, 1993
923 kr
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Scholars in the "Critical Legal Studies" movement have challenged some of the most cherished ideals of modern Western legal and political thought. CLS thinkers claim that the rule of law is a myth and that its defense by liberal thinkers is riddled with inconsistencies. This first book-length …
Hobbesian Moral and Political Theory
Häftad, 1986
900 kr
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In recent years serious attempts have been made to systematize and develop the moral and political themes of great philosophers of the past. Kant, Locke, Marx, and the classical utilitarians all have their current defenders and arc taken seriously as expositors of sound moral and political views. …
Lockean Theory of Rights
Häftad, 1994
531 kr
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John Locke's political theory has been the subject of many detailed treatments by philosophers and political scientists. But The Lockean Theory of Rights is the first systematic, full-length study of Locke's theory of rights and of its potential for making genuine contributions to contemporary …
Respect for Nature
A Theory of Environmental Ethics - 25th Anniversary Edition
Häftad, 2011
385 kr
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What rational justification is there for conceiving of all living things as possessing inherent worth? In Respect for Nature, Paul Taylor draws on biology, moral philosophy, and environmental science to defend a biocentric environmental ethic in which all life has value. Without making claims for …
Why Preserve Natural Variety?
Häftad, 2014
925 kr
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A valuable and unique contribution both to environmental ethics and public policy analysis of the preservation of species question. Norton provides a critical overview of the range of thought on the issue, presents a new and comprehensive rationale for preservation of both species and ecosystems, …
Merleau-Ponty and the Foundation of Existential Politics
Häftad, 2014
591 kr
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Drawing on previously unexplored sources, Kerry H. Whiteside presents the political theory of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), one of France's best-known twentieth-century philosophers. Whiteside argues that Merleau-Ponty's objective in his political writings was to make existentialism into the …
Authority and Democracy
A General Theory of Government and Management
Häftad, 2017
998 kr
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Should the democratic exercise of authority that we take for granted in the realm of government be extended to the managerial sphere? Exploring this question, Christopher McMahon develops a theory of government and management as two components of an integrated system of social authority that is …
On War and Morality
Häftad, 2014
548 kr
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The threat to the survival of humankind posed by nuclear weapons has been a frightening and essential focus of public debate for the last four decades and must continue to be so if we are to avoid destroying ourselves and the natural world around us. One unfortunate result of preoccupation with the …
General Will before Rousseau
The Transformation of the Divine into the Civic
Häftad, 2014
505 kr
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Patrick Riley traces the forgotten roots of Rousseau's concept to seventeenth-century questions about the justice of God. If He wills that all men be saved, does He have a general will that produces universal salvation? And, if He does not, why does He will particularly" that some men be damned? …
Valuing Life
Av John Kleinig
Häftad, 2014
505 kr
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Abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, war, genetic engineering and fetal experimentation, environmental and animal rights--these topics inspire some of today's most heated public controversies. And it is fashionable to pursue these debates in terms of the negative query "Under what conditions …
Coercion
Häftad, 2014
1042 kr
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Wertheimer attempts to move beyond previous theories of coercion by conducting a fairly extensive survey of the way in which cases involving coercion have been treated by American courts. This impressive project occupies the first half of the book, where he makes a convincing case that there is a …
On the Edge of Anarchy
Locke, Consent, and the Limits of Society
Häftad, 2014
505 kr
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This book completes A. John Simmons's exploration and development of Lockean moral and political philosophy, a project begun in The Lockean Theory of Rights (Princeton paperback edition, 1994). Here Simmons discusses the Lockean view of the nature of, grounds for, and limits on political relations …
Marxism, Morality, and Social Justice
Häftad, 2014
874 kr
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The interpreter of Marx's writings faces the task of reconciling, on the one hand, Marx's frequent explicit condemnations and criticisms of morality and, on the other, the obvious way in which his world-view reflects substantive moral judgments. In this book R. G. Peffer tackles the challenges of …
Paternalistic Intervention
The Moral Bounds on Benevolence
Häftad, 2014
1333 kr
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Donald VanDeVeer probes the moral complexities of the question: under what conditions is it permissible to intervene invasively in the lives of competent persons--for example, by deception, force, or coercive threat--for their own good? In a work with broad significance for law, public policy, …
Politics and Remembrance
Republican Themes in Machiavelli, Burke, and Tocqueville
Häftad, 2014
522 kr
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This inquiry into the nature of political action concerns what the author describes as the most precarious and uncertain of human endeavors." Focusing on specific themes in Machiavelli, Burke, and Tocqueville, Bruce Smith identifies political action as a distinct mode of human activity. Originally …
Speaking of Equality
An Analysis of the Rhetorical Force of 'Equality' in Moral and Legal Discourse
Av Peter Westen
Inbunden, 2016
2527 kr
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Aristotle noted that "equality" is the plea not of those who are satisfied but of those who seek change, and the word has long been invoked in the name of social reform. It retains its force because arguments for equality put arguments for inequality on the defensive. But why is "equality" …
Merleau-Ponty and the Foundation of Existential Politics
Inbunden, 2016
2629 kr
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Drawing on previously unexplored sources, Kerry H. Whiteside presents the political theory of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), one of France's best-known twentieth-century philosophers. Whiteside argues that Merleau-Ponty's objective in his political writings was to make existentialism into the …
On War and Morality
Inbunden, 2016
2454 kr
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The threat to the survival of humankind posed by nuclear weapons has been a frightening and essential focus of public debate for the last four decades and must continue to be so if we are to avoid destroying ourselves and the natural world around us. One unfortunate result of preoccupation with the …
Finding the Mean
Theory and Practice in Aristotelian Political Philosophy
Inbunden, 2016
2076 kr
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Stephen Salkever shows that reading Aristotle is a starting point for discussing contemporary political problems in new ways that avoid the opposition between liberal individualism and republican communitarianism, between the politics of rights and the politics of virtues. Originally published in …
Coercion
Inbunden, 2016
2527 kr
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Wertheimer attempts to move beyond previous theories of coercion by conducting a fairly extensive survey of the way in which cases involving coercion have been treated by American courts. This impressive project occupies the first half of the book, where he makes a convincing case that there is a …
On the Edge of Anarchy
Locke, Consent, and the Limits of Society
Inbunden, 2016
2076 kr
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This book completes A. John Simmons's exploration and development of Lockean moral and political philosophy, a project begun in The Lockean Theory of Rights (Princeton paperback edition, 1994). Here Simmons discusses the Lockean view of the nature of, grounds for, and limits on political relations …
Marxism, Morality, and Social Justice
Inbunden, 2016
3750 kr
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The interpreter of Marx's writings faces the task of reconciling, on the one hand, Marx's frequent explicit condemnations and criticisms of morality and, on the other, the obvious way in which his world-view reflects substantive moral judgments. In this book R. G. Peffer tackles the challenges of …
Politics and Remembrance
Republican Themes in Machiavelli, Burke, and Tocqueville
Inbunden, 2016
2076 kr
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This inquiry into the nature of political action concerns what the author describes as the most precarious and uncertain of human endeavors." Focusing on specific themes in Machiavelli, Burke, and Tocqueville, Bruce Smith identifies political action as a distinct mode of human activity. Originally …
Immorality
Inbunden, 2016
2003 kr
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This book explores a much-neglected area of moral philosophy--the typology of immorality. Ronald D. Milo questions the adequacy of Aristotle's suggestion that there are two basic types of immorality--wickedness and moral weakness--and argues that we must distinguish between at least six different …
Authority and Democracy
A General Theory of Government and Management
Inbunden, 2017
1406 kr
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Should the democratic exercise of authority that we take for granted in the realm of government be extended to the managerial sphere? Exploring this question, Christopher McMahon develops a theory of government and management as two components of an integrated system of social authority that is …
