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Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes explores Shakespeare's political outlook by comparing some of the playwright's works to the works of Italian political theorist Niccol Machiavelli and English social contract theorist Thomas Hobbes. This ultimately reveals the materialist principles that underpin Shakespeare's imaginary states.

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Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes explores Shakespeare's political outlook by comparing some of the playwright's works to the works of Italian political theorist Niccol Machiavelli and English social contract theorist Thomas Hobbes. This ultimately reveals the materialist principles that underpin Shakespeare's imaginary states.

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Shakespeares Thought: Unobserved Details and Unsuspected Depths in Eleven Plays analyzes eleven of Shakespeares most famous plays offering an in-depth exploration of the ways in which each play demonstrates his political thought and his poetic genius.

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Shakespeares Thought: Unobserved Details and Unsuspected Depths in Eleven Plays analyzes eleven of Shakespeares most famous plays offering an in-depth exploration of the ways in which each play demonstrates his political thought and his poetic genius.

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This book examines the intersection of fictional narratives and political philosophy, focusing specifically on the use of short stories to teach the classic works of political philosophy. It is a resource for scholars and teachers of politics, philosophy, and literature.

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Many different groups have many different opinions on what should be done to remedy various problems. This work argues that "though all are partly in the right, yet all are wholly wrong!" It emphasises the importance of understanding human scale and empowering local communities as a way forward.

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Many different groups have many different opinions on what should be done to remedy various problems. This work argues that "though all are partly in the right, yet all are wholly wrong!" It emphasises the importance of understanding human scale and empowering local communities as a way forward.

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Takes issue with those who would reduce citizenship to community involvement or to political participation for its own sake. This book argues that we need to place more value on a form of conscientious, moderately alienated citizenship invented by Socrates. one that is critical in orientation and dissident in practice.

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William Friedkins film Sorcerer (1977) has emerged in the popular and scholarly consciousness from enjoying a minor, cult status to becoming subject to a full-blown critical reconsideration in which it has been praised a major work by a key American filmmaker.

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The acceptance of human rights and minority rights, the increasing role of international financial institutions, and globalization have led many observers to question the continued viability of the sovereign state. Here an expert challenges this conclusion.

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In the tradition of such bestselling authors on legal issues as F. Lee Bailey, Louis Nizer, and Alan Dershowitz, Abrams discusses seven of the most important cases of his career--landmark cases that upheld key First Amendment protections.

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Examinees the question of how to secure the conditions for a civil and peaceful life together. This book also examines democracy from two approaches: peaceful coexistence and the secular state as public authority and the necessity of division between communities of faith that allows for a state that defends the values of the community.

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Was Japan's economic miracle generated primarily by the Japanese state or by the nation's dynamic private sector In addressing this question, this study offers a distinctive reinterpretation of Japanese government-business relations.

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This book offers a theory and practice of transformation that shows, especially through literature, education, and politics, how we can create a multicultural society that liberates our being as a fulfillment of the story of democracy.

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This book offers a theory and practice of transformation that shows, especially through literature, education, and politics, how we can create a multicultural society that liberates our being as a fulfillment of the story of democracy.

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This book presents a new general theory of strategy, encompassing studies of the relationship between values, interest, and strategy as these relate to ethnic conflicts. It focuses on the relationship between values and strategy, building a theory on the hypothesis that national values influence national strategy.

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By integrating class-based factors with racial and ethnic factors, this book shows what motivates African-Americans, Latinos, and Anglos to mobilize and participate in politics. It examines whether the diverse theoretical approaches generally used to explain individual participation in politics are supported for the groups under consideration.

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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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Subjects of Modernity brings together the past and the present as well as theory and narrative, sowing the historical, the ethnographic, and the methodological deep into its critical procedures. -- .

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Subjects of Modernity brings together the past and the present as well as theory and narrative, sowing the historical, the ethnographic, and the methodological deep into its critical procedures. -- .

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Presenting the idea of weak ontology and the broad criteria behind it, this title shows how these are already at work in the thought of contemporary writers of seemingly very different perspectives: George Kateb, Judith Butler, Charles Taylor, and William Connolly. This book both demonstrates and underscores the strengths of weak ontology.