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Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris explains why. Fundamental long-term changes in

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The place of poetry in modern democracy is no place, according to conventional wisdom. This work shows that the voice of poetry resonates with profound themes at the very heart of democratic culture. As part of the entertainment industry, it concludes, poetry will always be small and overlooked.

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Explores the individual and civic values of associational freedom in a liberal democracy, as well as the moral and constitutional limits of claims to associational freedom. Beginning with an introductory essay on freedom of association, this book includes essays on individual rights of association and civic values of association.

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How should we live What do we owe to other people This book explores how we should go about answering such fundamental questions.

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Presents an account of the successes, failures, and prospects of the human rights revolution. This work argues that human rights activists have rightly drawn criticism from Asia, the Islamic world, and within the West itself for being overambitious and unwilling to accept limits.

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Brings together a range of leading philosophers and social scientists to probe the political controversy surrounding multiculturalism. This work features K Anthony Appiah's commentary on the tensions between personal and collective identities, such as those shaped by religion, gender, ethnicity, race, and sexuality.

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Does the United States have the right to defend itself by striking first, or must it wait until an attack is in progress Is the Bush Doctrine of aggressive preventive action a justified and legal recourse against threats posed by terrorists and rogue states This book includes responses by political theorists Richard Tuck and Jeffrey McMahan.

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The truth commission is an increasingly common fixture of democratic states with repressive or strife-ridden pasts. From South Africa to Haiti, truth commissions are at work with varying degrees of support and success. This title examines the use of reparations as social policy and the granting of amnesty in exchange for testimony.

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Often we act neither for our own sake nor out of duty or an impersonal concern for the world. Rather, we act out of love for objects that we rightly perceive as worthy of love - and it is these actions that give meaning to our lives. This title states that this kind of meaningfulness constitutes a distinctive dimension of a good life.

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"In this book, Elizabeth Anderson examines why, despite all this, we continue to talk as if free markets make workers free, and she proposes a better way to think about the workplace, opening up space for discovering how workers can enjoy real freedom"--

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Looks at the difficulties of constitutional democracy. This book examines such fundamental questions as: What is constitutional democracy When does it succeed or fail Can constitutional democracies conduct war Can they preserve their values and institutions while addressing new forms of global interdependence

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