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Nihilistic Times
Thinking with Max Weber
Av Wendy Brown
Inbunden, 2023
244 kr
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One of America’s leading political theorists analyzes the nihilism degrading—and confounding—political and academic life today. Through readings of Max Weber’s Vocation Lectures, she proposes ways to counter nihilism’s devaluations of both knowledge and political responsibility.How has politics …
Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life
Häftad, 2002
280 kr
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Separated by millennia, Aristotle and Sigmund Freud gave us disparate but compelling pictures of the human condition. But if, with Jonathan Lear, we scrutinize these thinkers’ attempts to explain human behavior in terms of a higher principle—whether happiness or death—the pictures fall …
American Citizenship
The Quest for Inclusion
Häftad, 1998
315 kr
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In this illuminating look at what constitutes American citizenship, Judith Shklar identifies the right to vote and the right to work as the defining social rights and primary sources of public respect. She demonstrates that in recent years, although all profess their devotion to the work ethic, …
Frontiers of Justice
Disability, Nationality, Species Membership
Häftad, 2007
263 kr
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Theories of social justice are necessarily abstract, reaching beyond the particular and the immediate to the general and the timeless. Yet such theories, addressing the world and its problems, must respond to the real and changing dilemmas of the day. A brilliant work of practical philosophy, …
Nihilistic Times
Thinking with Max Weber
Av Wendy Brown
Häftad, 2025
203 kr
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A Seminary Co-op Notable Book“What makes Brown’s book especially well worth reading is her impressive ability to show how key themes in Weber’s scholarship—including his emphasis on the defining characteristics of modernity . . . speak to our own time.” —Inside Higher Ed “Presses us to think more …
Case for Irony
Häftad, 2014
271 kr
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In 2001, Vanity Fair declared that the Age of Irony was over. Joan Didion has lamented that the United States in the era of Barack Obama has become an "irony-free zone." Jonathan Lear in his 2006 book Radical Hope looked into America’s heart to ask how might we dispose ourselves if we came to feel …
Interpretation and Social Criticism
Häftad, 1993
288 kr
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What do social critics do? I How do they go about doing it? Where do their principles come from? How do critics establish their distance from the people and institutions they criticize?Michael Walzer addresses these problems in succinct and engaging fashion, providing a philosophical framework for …
Decline and Fall of the American Republic
Häftad, 2013
289 kr
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Bruce Ackerman shows how the institutional dynamics of the last half-century have transformed the American presidency into a potential platform for political extremism and lawlessness. Watergate, Iran-Contra, and the War on Terror are only symptoms of deeper pathologies. Ackerman points to a …
Trouble with Confucianism
Häftad, 1996
316 kr
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In Singapore, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and other parts of East and Southeast Asia, as well as China, people are asking, "What does Confucianism have to offer today?" For some, Confucius is still the symbol of a reactionary and repressive past; for others, he is the humanist admired by generations of …
Citizens Divided
Campaign Finance Reform and the Constitution
Häftad, 2016
290 kr
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The Supreme Court’s 5–4 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which struck down a federal prohibition on independent corporate campaign expenditures, is one of the most controversial opinions in recent memory. Defenders of the First Amendment greeted the ruling with …
Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Volume 38
Inbunden, 2020
400 kr
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The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, founded July 1, 1978, at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, were established by the American scholar, industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner. Lectureships are awarded to outstanding scholars or leaders in broadly defined fields of human values and …
Tanner Lectures on Human Values Volume 39
Inbunden, 2025
400 kr
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The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, founded July 1, 1978, at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, were established by the American scholar, industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner. Lectureships are awarded to outstanding scholars or leaders in broadly defined fields of human values …
How to Respond Better to the Next Pandemic
Remedying Institutional Failures
Häftad, 2024
224 kr
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There is no shortage of criticisms of U.S. COVID-19 policy. This book argues that officials at the highest levels lied to the public or deliberately suppressed relevant information, shamelessly over-sold the efficacy of masks and vaccines, and enacted lock-down policies of unproven value that …
How to Respond Better to the Next Pandemic
Remedying Institutional Failures
Inbunden, 2024
702 kr
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There is no shortage of criticisms of U.S. COVID-19 policy. This book argues that officials at the highest levels lied to the public or deliberately suppressed relevant information, shamelessly over-sold the efficacy of masks and vaccines, and enacted lock-down policies of unproven value that …
Tanner Lectures on Human Values (Volume 40)
Volume 40
Inbunden, 2026
400 kr
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The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, founded July 1, 1978 at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, were established by the American scholar, industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner. Lectureships are awarded to outstanding scholars or leaders in broadly defined fields of human values and …
Tanner Lectures on Human Values Volume 34
Av Mark Matheson, Mark Matheson
Inbunden, 2016
400 kr
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The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, founded July 1, 1978, at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, was established by the American scholar, industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner. Lectureships are awarded to outstanding scholars or leaders in broadly defined fields of human values and …
Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Volume 35
Inbunden, 2016
400 kr
Tillfälligt slut
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, founded July 1, 1978, at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, was established by the American scholar, industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner. Lectureships are awarded to outstanding scholars or leaders in broadly defined fields of human values, and …
