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Idea of a University
Av John Henry Newman, Frank M. Turner
Häftad, 1996
298 kr
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Since its publication almost 150 years ago, The Idea of a University has had an extraordinary influence on the shaping and goals of higher education. The issues that John Henry Newman raised—the place of religion and moral values in the university setting, the competing claims of liberal and …
Toward Perpetual Peace and Other Writings on Politics, Peace, and History
Av Immanuel Kant, Pauline Kleingeld
Häftad, 2006
251 kr
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Immanuel Kant’s views on politics, peace, and history have lost none of their relevance since their publication more than two centuries ago. This volume contains a comprehensive collection of Kant’s writings on international relations theory and political philosophy, superbly translated and …
Communist Manifesto
Av Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
148 kr
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Marx and Engels's Communist Manifesto has become one of the world’s most influential political tracts since its original 1848 publication. Part of the Rethinking the Western Tradition series, this edition of the Manifesto features an extensive introduction by Jeffrey C. Isaac, and essays by …
Writings of Abraham Lincoln
Av Abraham Lincoln, Steven B. Smith
Häftad, 2012
251 kr
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Abraham Lincoln never wrote a book: his ideas are contained in speeches, letters, and various occasional writings. By bringing these works together into a single anthology, this book shows that Lincoln deserves to be counted among the great political philosophers. In addition to many examples of …
Culture and Anarchy
Av Matthew Arnold, Samuel Lipman
Häftad, 1994
523 kr
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Culture and Anarchy is one of the central texts of the western intellectual tradition and has helped to shape thinking about the tasks and requirements of culture and civil society. The book is particularly relevant now, however, because it articulates many issues about culture and cultural …
Social Contract and The First and Second Discourses
Av Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Susan Dunn
Häftad, 2002
201 kr
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s ideas about society, culture, and government are pivotal in the history of political thought. His works are as controversial as they are relevant today. This volume brings together three of Rousseau’s most important political writings—The Social Contract and The First …
Sesame and Lilies
Av John Ruskin, Deborah Epstein Nord
Häftad, 2002
502 kr
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John Ruskin’s Sesame and Lilies, first published in 1865, stands as a classic nineteenth-century statement on the natures and duties of men and women. Although widely popular in its time, the work in its entirety has been out of print since the early twentieth century. This volume returns Sesame …
Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration
Häftad, 2003
249 kr
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Two of Locke’s most mature and influential political writings and three brilliant interpretive essays combined in an outstanding volume"The new standard edition of Locke for students of political theory. Dunn, Grant, and Shapiro combine authoritative historical scholarship and contemporary …
Selected Writings
Av Jeremy Bentham, Stephen G. Engelmann
Häftad, 2011
586 kr
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Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), philosopher and reformer, is one of the most influential thinkers of the modern age. This introduction to his writings presents a representative selection of texts authoritatively restored by the Bentham Project, University College London. As well as more familiar pieces …
Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy and Character and Opinion in the United States
Av George Santayana, James Seaton
Häftad, 2009
437 kr
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This book brings together two seminal works by George Santayana, one of the most significant philosophers of the twentieth century: Character and Opinion in the United States, which stands with Tocqueville’s Democracy in America as one the most insightful works of American cultural criticism ever …
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
Av Thomas Carlyle, David R Sorensen m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
480 kr
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Based on a series of lectures delivered in 1840, Thomas Carlyle’s On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History considers the creation of heroes and the ways they exert heroic leadership. From the divine and prophetic (Odin and Muhammad) to the poetic (Dante and Shakespeare) to the religious …
Selected Writings of Thomas Paine
Av Thomas Paine, Ian Shapiro m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
968 kr
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A central figure in Western history and American political thought, Thomas Paine continues to provoke debate among politicians, activists, and scholars. People of all ideological stripes are inspired by his trenchant defense of the rights and good sense of ordinary individuals, and his penetrating …
Prince
Häftad, 1997
196 kr
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"Codevilla has the ability to convey in a straightforward and accessible style what is important about the Western Tradition and about Machiavelli’s contribution to it."—Larry Peterman, University of California, Davis A classic of the Western tradition, Machiavelli’sThe Prince has influenced …
Discourse on the Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
Av René Descartes, David Weissman
Häftad, 1996
333 kr
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Descartes' ideas not only changed the course of Western philosophy but also led to or transformed the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, physics and mathematics, political theory and ethics, psychoanalysis, and literature and the arts. This book reprints Descartes' major works, Discourse on …
On Liberty
Av John Stuart Mill, David Bromwich m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
170 kr
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Since its first publication in 1859, few works of political philosophy have provoked such continuous controversy as John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty, a passionate argument on behalf of freedom of self-expression. This classic work is now available in a new edition that also includes essays by …
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Av Edmund Burke, Frank M. Turner
Häftad, 2003
195 kr
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A new edition of Burke’s masterpiece accompanied by insightful essays that illuminate the perennial appeal of this workThe most enduring work of its time, Reflections on the Revolution in France waswritten in 1790 and has remained in print ever since. Edmund Burke’s analysis of revolutionary change …
Leviathan
Or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill
Häftad, 2010
201 kr
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Written by Thomas Hobbes and first published in 1651, Leviathan is widely considered the greatest work of political philosophy ever composed in the English language. Hobbes's central argument—that human beings are first and foremost concerned with their own fears and desires, and that they must …
Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Av Mary Wollstonecraft, Eileen Hunt Botting
Häftad, 2014
150 kr
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Mary Wollstonecraft’s visionary treatise, originally published in 1792, was the first book to present women’s rights as an issue of universal human rights. Ideal for coursework and classroom study, this comprehensive edition of Wollstonecraft’s groundbreaking feminist argument includes illuminating …
Essay on the Principle of Population
The 1803 Edition
Av Thomas Robert Malthus, Shannon C. Stimson
Häftad, 2018
197 kr
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Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population remains one of the most influential works of political economy ever written. Most widely circulated in its initial 1798 version, this is the first publication of his benchmark 1803 edition since 1989. Introduced by editor Shannon C. Stimson, this …
Questions on Love and Charity
Summa Theologiae, Secunda Secundae, Questions 23–46
Av Thomas Aquinas, Robert C. Miner
Häftad, 2016
229 kr
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A fresh translation of quaestiones from the Summa theologiae of Thomas Aquinas, edited by Robert Miner. This volume provides direct access to the medieval theologian’s deepest thinking about the supreme goal of human life—blessedness—and the virtue most intimately related to this goal—charity. The …
David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society
Av David Hume, Angela Coventry m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
137 kr
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A compact and accessible edition of Hume’s political and moral writings with essays by a distinguished set of contributorsA key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume was a major influence on thinkers ranging from Kant and Schopenhauer to Einstein and Popper, and his writings continue to …
