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Tocqueville Between East and West
Av Demin Duan
Inbunden, 2025
1139 kr
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This book adopts an Eastern or Chinese perspective on Alexis de Tocqueville’s political thought, highlighting the ‘aristocratic’ nature of his theory of freedom; and, as it does to, it takes the great traveller of nineteenth-century Europe to the East. What would that traveller see in China? What …
Carl Schmitt and Authoritarian Liberalism
Strong State, Free Economy
Häftad, 1998
287 kr
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Within Germany, Carl Schmitt's status as a political thinker is on a par with Machiavelli and Hobbes. With the rise in neo-conservatism and authoritarian liberalism in less developed countries such as Chile and Singapore, Schmitt's theories will become of incredible importance. Carl Schmitt had …
Ernest Gellner and Modernity
Inbunden, 2002
137 kr
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Ernest Gellner (1925 - 1995) was one of the major thinkers of the twentieth century. He held major chairs in philosophy, sociology and social anthropology during his distinguished career and contributed to a wide range of political and philosophical debates, most notably in linguistic philosophy, …
Kant's Critique of Hobbes
Sovereignty and Cosmopolitanism
Inbunden, 2026
253 kr
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Kant's Critique of Hobbes is a unique systematic study of the relationship between the two thinkers. In it, Howard Williams demonstrates the viable alternative to Hobbes' orthodoxy that can be found in Kant's political writings. Looking closely at the main concepts that are in contention in Kant's …
Ideology
Contemporary Social, Political and Cultural Theory
Häftad, 2005
63 kr
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Ideology draws on the social, political and cultural theory of Jurgen Habermas, Gilles Deleuze and Slavoj i ek in order to explore the possibility of developing a 'critical conception of ideology'. The book is concerned with two main themes: the relationship of ideology to the 'real' and the …
Hegel on Freedom and Authority
Inbunden, 2005
272 kr
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Hegel's concept of civil society endorses a market economy and a liberal outlook. But his concept of state culminates in an authoritarian prince who is protector of the constitution. The tensions and contradictions that plague Hegel's liberal society that cannot be resolved by its own civil …
Monstrous and the Dead
Burke, Marx, Fascism
Häftad, 2005
119 kr
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Examines the use of metaphors of monstrosity and the place of the dead in political theory, specifically in relation to conservatism, Marxism and fascism.
Modernity Reconstructed
Imaginary, Institutions and Phases
Häftad, 2006
63 kr
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This book is the reconstruction of a critical theory of modernity. 'The Theory of Modernity' is divided into four parts: freedom, equality, solidarity and responsibility. The first three follow the basic ideas of the constitutional revolutions of the 18th century.
Modernity Reconstructed
Imaginary, Institutions and Phases
Inbunden, 2005
206 kr
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Offering a contemporary perspective on the theory of modernity that differentiates it from its predecessors, this reconstruction has been expanded to include a fourth instrumental aspect. In addition to the recognition of the three parts of traditional modernity--freedom, equality, and …
Rorty's Politics of Redescription
Häftad, 2007
119 kr
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Richard Rorty is among the most cited, influential and notorious of recent philosophers. This book seeks to take Rorty seriously as a social and political philosopher, and to argue that his work is not as flippant, as frothy, or as easily dismissed as his opponents often tend to portray it.
Rorty's Politics of Redescription
Inbunden, 2006
179 kr
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Richard Rorty is among the most cited, influential and notorious of recent philosophers. This book seeks to take Rorty seriously as a social and political philosopher, and to argue that his work is not as flippant, as frothy, or as easily dismissed as his opponents often tend to portray it.
Multiculturalism and Law
A Critical Debate
Häftad, 2007
63 kr
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Bringing together the contributions of the most influential philosophers in the English-speaking world, this book deals with the contemporary debates about identity formation, multi-culturalism, and diversity. It explores the pacifying role of democratic law-making as a possible solution to the …
Multiculturalism and Law
A Critical Debate
Inbunden, 2007
139 kr
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Bringing together the contributions of the most influential philosophers in the English-speaking world, this book deals with the contemporary debates about identity formation, multi-culturalism, and diversity. It explores the pacifying role of democratic law-making as a possible solution to the …
Groups in Conflict
Equality Versus Community
Inbunden, 2008
139 kr
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This book is about the morality of groups. The author addresses the conflict and tensions that exist between impartiality and partiality within political philosophy, and ordinary thought and practice by relating theoretical arguments to pressing contemporary practical issues such as immigration and …
Kant on Sublimity and Morality
Inbunden, 2012
404 kr
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Kant on Sublimity and Morality provides an argument to the essential moral significance of the Kantian sublime and situates this argument within the history of the relationship between sublimity and morality.
Deleuze and Guattari
Aesthetics and Politics
Inbunden, 2009
206 kr
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This book examines the relationship between aesthetics and politics based on the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and Pierre-Felix Guattari (1930-1992), most famous for their collaborative works "Anti-Oedipus" (1972) and "A Thousand Plateaus" (1980). Porter analyses the relationship …
Deleuze and Guattari
Aesthetics and Politics
E-bok, 2009
230 kr
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This book examines the relationship between aesthetics and politics based on the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze (1925 - 1995) and Pierre-Felix Guattari (1930 - 1992), most famous for their collabarative works Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980).Porter analyses the relationship …
Imperfect Cosmopolis
Studies in the History of International Legal Theory and Cosmopolitan Ideas
E-bok, 2011
275 kr
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In current debates, the term "cosmopolitanism" often remains quite vague and leads to sweeping generalizations. this book looks at the notion from a decidedly historical perspective, trying to give depth and texture to the concept.
Politics and Metaphysics in Kant
Av Howard Williams, Sami Pihlström m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
404 kr
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The past three decades have witnessed the emergence of several Kantian theories. Both the critical reaction to consequentialism inspired by Rawlsian constructivism and the universalism of more recent theories informed by Habermasian discourse ethics trace their main sources of inspiration back to …
Politics and Metaphysics in Kant
Av Howard Williams, Sami Pihlström m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
459 kr
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The past three decades have witnessed the emergence of several Kantian theories. Both the critical reaction to consequentialism inspired by Rawlsian constructivism and the universalism of more recent theories informed by Habermasian discourse ethics trace their main sources of inspiration back to …
Imperfect Cosmopolis
Studies in the History of International Legal Theory and Cosmopolitan Ideas
Häftad, 2011
272 kr
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In current debates, the term cosmopolitanismA" often remains quite vague and leads to sweeping generalizations. Unlike many recent publications, this book looks at the notion from a decidedly historical perspective, trying to give depth and texture to the concept.
Poverty, Ethics and Justice
Inbunden, 2011
320 kr
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Poverty violates fundamental human values through its impact on individuals and human environments. Poverty also goes against the core values of democratic societies. This title describes poverty in ways that depict this devastating human condition. It shows why inequalities associated with poverty …
Poverty, Ethics and Justice
E-bok, 2011
153 kr
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Poverty violates fundamental human values through its impact on individuals and human environments. Poverty also goes against the core values of democratic societies. Lotter talks about poverty in ways that depict this devastating human condition clearly. He shows why inequalities associated with …
Kant on Sublimity and Morality
E-bok, 2012
299 kr
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A book considering Kant's account of the overpowering feeling of the sublime, and the moral law within, which exercised an extraordinary influence on the movements of Romanticism, Hegelian phenomenology, and Continental Philosophy.
Poverty, Ethics and Justice
Häftad, 2013
236 kr
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Poverty violates fundamental human values through its impact on individuals and human environments. Poverty also goes against the core values of democratic societies. Lotter talks about poverty in ways that depict this devastating human condition clearly. He shows why inequalities associated with …
Identity, Politics and the Novel
The Aesthetic Moment
Av Ian Fraser
Inbunden, 2013
412 kr
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Fraser's diverse and wide-ranging book offers an examination of the work of four critically acclaimed novelists, Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Identity), Ian McEwan (Atonement and Saturday), Michel Houellebecq (Atomised and Platform) and J.M. Coetzee (Disgrace and Diary of a …
Poverty, Ethics and Justice
E-bok, 2011
153 kr
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Poverty violates fundamental human values through its impact on individuals and human environments. Poverty also goes against the core values of democratic societies. This title describes poverty in ways that depict this devastating human condition. It shows why inequalities associated with poverty …
Politics and Teleology in Kant
Av Avery Goldman, Patrone Tatiana m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
928 kr
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This volume critically examines and elucidates the complex relationship between politics and teleology in Kant's philosophical system. Examining this relationship is of key philosophical importance since Kant develops his political philosophy in the context of a teleological conception of the …
Politics and Teleology in Kant
Av Avery Goldman, Patrone Tatiana m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
459 kr
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This volume critically examines and elucidates the complex relationship between politics and teleology in Kant's philosophical system. Examining this relationship is of key philosophical importance since Kant develops his political philosophy in the context of a teleological conception of the …
Hegel and Marx
After the Fall of Communism
Inbunden, 2014
718 kr
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The Second Edition of Hegel and Marx After the Fall of Communism surveys Hegel’s close connection with world-famed economist Friedrich List, the declared enemy of Karl Marx. Illuminating the mysterious nature of Hegel’s relationship with Marx and Friedrich List may help us to comprehend the …
