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Objectively Engaged Journalism
An Ethic
Inbunden, 2020
525 kr
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A timely call for a new ethic of journalism engagement for today's troubled media sphere, Objectively Engaged Journalism argues that media should be neither neutral nor partisan but engaged in protecting egalitarian democracy. It shows how journalists, professional or citizen, can be both objective …
Progress, Pluralism, and Politics
Liberalism and Colonialism, Past and Present
Inbunden, 2020
1621 kr
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Liberal thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were alert to the political costs and human cruelties involved in European colonialism, but they also thought that European expansion held out progressive possibilities. In Progress, Pluralism, and Politics David Williams examines the …
Progress, Pluralism, and Politics
Liberalism and Colonialism, Past and Present
Häftad, 2020
497 kr
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Liberal thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were alert to the political costs and human cruelties involved in European colonialism, but they also thought that European expansion held out progressive possibilities. In Progress, Pluralism, and Politics David Williams examines the …
Beyond Tragedy and Eternal Peace
Politics and International Relations in the Thought of Friedrich Nietzsche
Häftad, 2021
483 kr
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As a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and scholar of Latin and Greek, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history. Beyond Tragedy and Eternal Peace provides an overview of his legacy, highlighting the synergy between …
Inequality in Canada
The History and Politics of an Idea
Häftad, 2021
497 kr
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In Inequality in Canada Eric Sager considers one of the defining – but hardest to define – ideas of our era and traces its different meanings and contexts across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Sager shows how the idea of inequality arose in the long evolution in Britain and the United …
Attending
An Ethical Art
Av Warren Heiti
Inbunden, 2021
1574 kr
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Attending – patient contemplation focused on a particular being – is a central ethical activity that has not been recognized by any of the main moral systems in the European philosophical tradition. That tradition has imagined that the moral agent is primarily a problem solver and world changer …
Attending
An Ethical Art
Av Warren Heiti
Häftad, 2021
497 kr
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Attending – patient contemplation focused on a particular being – is a central ethical activity that has not been recognized by any of the main moral systems in the European philosophical tradition. That tradition has imagined that the moral agent is primarily a problem solver and world changer …
Imperial Paradoxes
Training the Senses and Tasting the Eighteenth Century
Häftad, 2021
507 kr
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At war for sixty years, eighteenth-century Britain and France experienced demographic, social, and economic exchanges despite their imperial rivalry. Paradoxically, this rivalry spurred their participation in scientific and industrial developments. Their shared interest in standards of living and …
Problem of Atheism
Av Augusto Del Noce, Carlo Lancellotti
Häftad, 2022
441 kr
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In 1964, Augusto Del Noce assembled in a book some of his best works on Marxism, atheism, and the history of modern philosophy. The result was Il problema dell'ateismo, which he always regarded as foundational to his way of thinking. The book remains his best-known work and is still in print in …
Etruscans in the Modern Imagination
Av Sam Solecki
Inbunden, 2022
603 kr
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The Etruscans, a revenant and unusual people, had an Italian empire before the Greeks and Romans did. By the start of the Christian era their wooden temples and writings had vanished, the Romans and the early church had melted their bronze statues, and the people had assimilated. After the last …
Communion of the Book
Milton and the Humanist Revolution in Reading
Inbunden, 2022
1810 kr
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The modern world was not created by the civilization of Renaissance Italy, the advent of the printing press, or the marriage restrictions imposed by the medieval church. Rather, it was widespread reading that brought about most of the cognitive, psychological, and social changes that we recognize …
Dying for France
Experiencing and Representing the Soldier’s Death, 1500–2000
Av Ian Germani
Inbunden, 2023
1103 kr
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In the past century Western attitudes toward the soldier’s death have undergone a remarkable transformation. Widely accepted at the time of the First World War – when nearly ten million soldiers died in uniform – as a redemptive sacrifice on behalf of the nation, the soldier’s death is increasingly …
Religion and the Post-revolutionary Mind
Idéologues, Catholic Traditionalists, and Liberals in France
Inbunden, 2023
1462 kr
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The French Revolution swept away the Old Regime along with many of its ideas about epistemology, history, society, and politics. In the intellectual ferment that followed, debates about religion figured prominently as diverse thinkers grappled with the philosophical and civil status of religion in …
Lines Drawn across the Globe
Reading Richard Hakluyt’s “Principal Navigations”
Inbunden, 2023
623 kr
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Around 1600, the English geographer and cleric Richard Hakluyt sought to honour his nation by publishing a compilation of every document he could find relating to its voyages and trade beyond the boundaries of Europe. The resulting collection of travel narratives, royal letters, ships’ logs, maps, …
Domination of Nature
New Edition
Inbunden, 2023
1462 kr
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Concern over ecological and environmental problems grows daily, and many believe we’re at a critical tipping point. Scientists, social thinkers, public officials, and the public recognize that failure to understand the destructive impact of industrial society and advanced technologies on the …
Domination of Nature
New Edition
Häftad, 2023
413 kr
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Concern over ecological and environmental problems grows daily, and many believe we're at a critical tipping point. Scientists, social thinkers, public officials, and the public recognize that failure to understand the destructive impact of industrial society and advanced technologies on the …
Irrational Publics and the Fate of Democracy
Inbunden, 2024
1239 kr
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Across cultures, democracies struggle with intolerant groups, misinformation, social media conspiracies, and extreme populists. Egalitarian cultures cannot always withstand this swing towards the irrational.In Irrational Publics and the Fate of Democracy Stephen Ward combines history and …
Irrational Publics and the Fate of Democracy
Häftad, 2024
329 kr
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Across cultures, democracies struggle with intolerant groups, misinformation, social media conspiracies, and extreme populists. Egalitarian cultures cannot always withstand this swing towards the irrational.In Irrational Publics and the Fate of Democracy Stephen Ward combines history and …
Struggles for Self-Rule
Beyond State–Society Relations
Inbunden, 2025
1239 kr
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People the world over aspire to self-rule, especially when living under domination, conquest, and empire. Inspired by the work of Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom, Filippo Sabetti explores how people attempt, over time, to make the longing for self-government a reality.Struggles for Self-Rule explores …
Unintended Nations
France's Empire of Civilization, Southeast Europe, and the Post-Napoleonic World
Av Alex Tipei
Inbunden, 2025
1288 kr
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In the wake of Napoleon's defeat in 1815, French liberals set out to create an informal empire. Their efforts to cultivate unequal partnerships with Christian, Greek-speaking elites in southeast Europe shaped national identities and structured global civilizational hierarchies over the decades that …
Liberalism in Time
A History
Inbunden, 2025
1239 kr
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We are living through a crisis that casts doubt on the idea of progress, the defining trope of liberalism. The concept of progress as the achievement of liberalism developed over time, in relation to changing ideas about time. Understanding skepticism about progress requires us to ask questions …
Suicide of the Revolution
Inbunden, 2026
1406 kr
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Philosopher Augusto Del Noce, one of Italy’s foremost cultural critics and political thinkers, examined the relationship between fascism and Gramscian Marxism in four influential essays. First published in Italian in 1978, The Suicide of the Revolution contends that Giovanni Gentile’s …
Hardening Hierarchy
The Japanese in the Global Formation of Racial Ideologies, 1735-1854
Av Rotem Kowner
Häftad, 2026
555 kr
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The evolving racial perceptions of the Japanese between 1735 and 1854 were shaped by both Western observers and emerging Japanese voices. Framed by Linnaeus’s Systema Naturae and the forced opening of Japan’s ports, this long century coincided with the global ascent of racial thought amid growing …
Vox Populi
The Idea and Meaning of the People in Restoration England
Inbunden, 2026
1090 kr
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Restoration England (1660–88), with its new coffeehouses, newspapers, early political parties, and increasingly engaged populace, saw the idea of the people’s voice become distinctly powerful. Yet that voice also generated conspiracy theories, misinformation, partisan division, censorship, and …
Unintended Nations
France's Empire of Civilization, Southeast Europe, and the Post-Napoleonic World
Av Alex Tipei
Häftad, 2027
457 kr
Kommande
In the wake of Napoleon’s defeat in 1815, French liberals set out to create an informal empire. Their efforts to cultivate unequal partnerships with Christian, Greek-speaking elites in southeast Europe shaped national identities and structured global civilizational hierarchies over the decades that …
Kierkegaard As Theologian
Recovering My Self
Inbunden, 1997
1024 kr
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The companion volume to Arnold Come's Kierkegaard as Humanist, Kierkegaard as Theologian is an exploration of Søren Kierkegaard's deliberately Christian writings, from Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits (1846) to For Self-Examination (1851). In his later writings Kierkegaard sought to "get …
Herder on Nationality, Humanity, and History
Av F.M. Barnard
Häftad, 2004
388 kr
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An incisive portrayal of the importance of Herder's ideas on nationality, culture, and history.
Recovery of Wonder
The New Freedom and the Asceticism of Power
Häftad, 2005
385 kr
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A reflection on the current thinking about our social, cultural, and natural environment and a significant advance towards a philosophy of the concrete.
Archives and the Event of God
The Impact of Michel Foucault on Philosophical Theology
Inbunden, 2010
959 kr
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The philosophical works of Michel Foucault have profoundly influenced many disciplines, but his influence on theology has seldom been considered. Archives and the Event of God unravels the effects that Foucault's Archaeology of Knowledge and Discipline and Punish have had on the study of theology …
Rethinking the Political
The Sacred, Aesthetic Politics, and the Collège De Sociologie
Häftad, 2011
497 kr
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Rethinking the Political demonstrates that the Collège de Sociologie's quest to create a new place for the sacred in modern collective life ostensibly entailed avoiding the theorization of both aesthetics and politics. While the Collège condemned manipulation by totalitarian regimes, its …
