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Analyzes the concept of the common good as it is used in debates within political philosophy, economics, theology and globalization, clarifying distinctions in definition and offering clarity and precision for a common language appropriate to debates on globalization.

(Hardback)

Examining the relationship between fear and hope in political life, this book argues that responses to a politics of fear have coincided with an explosion of interest in the quasi-religious themes of apocalyptic protest and utopian politics in both scholarly interest and cultural and political life.

(Paperback, NIPPOD)

Fear and hope are two hugely influential ideas in political life; here Stefan Skrimshire examines their relationship at a time where interest has exploded in the quasi-religious themes of apocalyptic protest and utopian politics.

(Paperback, NIPPOD)

Considers the meaning of liberal democratic modernity at a moment when its future has never been less certain.

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Considers the meaning of liberal democratic modernity at a moment when its future has never been less certain. This title examines the explosive threats the liberal order confronts: financial meltdown, religious extremism, environmental catastrophe. It seeks to place these - singularly modern - crises within a much longer history.