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By: Eref Aksu
ISBN: 9780708321355
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2008
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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Presents the works of Kant, Bentham, and Rousseau together. This book provides a contemporary 'compilation' of the eighteenth century's 'perpetual peace' proposals together with an introduction providing an overview of the perpetual peace ideal and its links to contemporary notions of global governance and cosmopolitan democracy.
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By: Gisela Konopka
ISBN: 9780816658046
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1958
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Plato
ISBN: 9780941051705
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1999
Publisher: Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co
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This text brings together for the first time two complete key works from classical antiquity on the politics of Athens: Plato's "Menexenus" and the funeral oration by Pericles (from Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War). With an introductory essay, notes.
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By: Michael Lessnoff
ISBN: 9780708316849
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2002
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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An exposition of Gellner's thought, both in terms of the specific areas in which he worked and the underlying consistency of his theoretical principles. It provides a context within which to evaluate Gellner's contribution to social and politcal thought.
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By: Cat Moir
ISBN: 9781642593495
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: Haymarket Books
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Ernst Bloch's Speculative Materialism sets the record straight on one of the twentieth century's most significant critical thinkers.
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By: Bill Martin
ISBN: 9780812696288
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
Publisher: Cricket Books, a division of Carus Publishing Co
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By: Professor Seyla Benhabib
ISBN: 9780691167244
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Professor Seyla Benhabib
ISBN: 9780691167251
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Stacy Alaimo
ISBN: 9780816621958
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Nicola Emery
ISBN: 9781642599978
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2024
Publisher: Haymarket Books
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(Hardback)
By: Jamie Terence Kelly
ISBN: 9780691155197
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Explains the relevance of framing effects for normative theories of democracy. Employing a behavioral approach, this book argues for rejecting the rational actor model of decision making and replacing it with an understanding of choice imported from psychology and social science.
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By: King Frederick II
ISBN: 9780691176420
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: John Tomasi
ISBN: 9780691144467
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Can libertarians care about social justice In this title, the author argues that they can and should. Unlike traditional libertarians, he argues that property rights are best defended not in terms of self-ownership or economic efficiency but as requirements of democratic legitimacy.
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By: Julie L. Rose
ISBN: 9780691163451
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Nancy L. Rosenblum
ISBN: 9780691169439
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Julian Le Grand
ISBN: 9780691164373
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Should governments save people from themselves Do governments have the right to influence citizens' behavior related to smoking tobacco, eating too much, not saving enough, drinking alcohol, or taking marijuana--or does this create a nanny state, leading to infantilization, demotivation, and breaches in individual autonomy Looking at examples fro
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By: W. G. Runciman
ISBN: 9780691144764
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2010
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Plato's "Republic", Hobbes' "Leviathan", and Marx's "Communist Manifesto" are universally acknowledged classics of Western political thought. But how strong are the core arguments on which they base their visions of the good society that they want to bring into being This book shows where and why they fail.
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By: Michel Serres
ISBN: 9780816678822
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Andrew Sabl
ISBN: 9780691134208
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Focuses on Hume's monumental History of England as the key to his distinctly political ideas. This title argues that conventions of authority are the main building blocks of Humean politics, and explores how the History addresses political change and disequilibrium through a dynamic treatment of coordination problems.
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By: Samuel Gorovitz
ISBN: 9781632261298
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: Easton Studio Press
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By: Timothy C. Campbell
ISBN: 9780816674657
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2012
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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How biopolitics can get beyond its obsession with death
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By: Eric Beerbohm
ISBN: 9780691154619
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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When a government in a democracy acts in our name, are we, as citizens, responsible for those acts What if the government commits a moral crime This book explains how citizens may be morally exposed to the failures of their representatives and state institutions, and how complicity is the professional hazard of democratic citizenship.
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By: Robert A. Kocis
ISBN: 9781786838957
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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Isaiah Berlin, a prominent public intellectual of the second half of the twentieth century, is examined in historical context for the first time as a thinker deeply influenced by, and deeply reactive against, the British Idealists.
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By: Howard Williams
ISBN: 9780708318157
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2003
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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This study looks at the relationship between the two thinkers and demonstrates the viable alternative to Hobbes' orthodoxy that can be found in Kant's political writings. It also shows how Kant anticipated the development of a world-wide political order.
