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Alternative Conceptions of Civil Societyby Will Kymlicka, Simone ChambersISBN 0691087962 (0-691-08796-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Animal Farmby George OrwellISBN 0679420398 (0-679-42039-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm'Book summary:Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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Animal Farmby Naura HaydenISBN 0582530083 (0-582-53008-3)
Softcover, Longman Group United Kingdom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm'Book summary:Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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Augustine Political Writings: Political Writingsby E. M. Edtatkins, E.M. Atkins, Robert J. DodaroISBN 0521441722 (0-521-44172-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Augustine Political Writings: Political Writingsby E.M. Atkins, Robert J. DodaroISBN 052144697X (0-521-44697-X)
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Bagehot: The English Constitutionby Paul SmithISBN 0521469422 (0-521-46942-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bagehot: The English Constitution'Book summary:This is a new and highly accessible rendition of one of the classics of English political writing. Paul Smith presents the text of the first (1867) edition of Bagehot's The English Constitution, together with the original conclusion, as well as Bagehot's long introduction to the second edition of 1872. All the usual student-friendly features of the Cambridge Texts series are present, including a concise explanatory introduction, select bibliography and brief biographies of key figures, as well as annotation designed to explain to modern readers some of Bagehot's more arcane contemporary allusions. [via]
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Benjamin Constant Political Writingsby Biancamaria FontanaISBN 0521316324 (0-521-31632-4)
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The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousnessby Paul GilroyISBN 0674076060 (0-674-07606-0)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness'Book summary:Afrocentrism. Eurocentrism. Caribbean Studies. British Studies. To the forces of cultural nationalism hunkered down in their camps, this bold hook sounds a liberating call. There is,Paul Gilroy tells us, a culture that is not specifically African, American, Caribbean, or British, but all of these at once, a black Atlantic culture whose themes and techniques transcend ethnicity and nationality to produce something new and, until now, unremarked. Challenging the practices and assumptions of cultural studies, The Black Atlantic also complicates and enriches our understanding of modernism.
Debates about postmodernism have cast an unfashionable pall over questions of historical periodization. Gilroy bucks this trend by arguing that the development of black culture in the Americas arid Europe is a historical experience which can be called modern for a number of clear and specific reasons. For Hegel, the dialectic of master and slave was integral to modernity, and Gilroy considers the implications of this idea for a transatlantic culture. In search of a poetics reflecting the politics and history of this culture, he takes us on a transatlantic tour of the music that, for centuries, has transmitted racial messages and feeling around the world, from the Jubilee Singers in the nineteenth century to Jimi Hendrix to rap. He also explores this internationalism as it is manifested in black writing from the "double consciousness" of W. E. B. Du Bois to the "double vision" of Richard Wright to the compelling voice of Toni Morrison.
In a final tour de force, Gilroy exposes the shared contours of black and Jewish concepts of diaspora in order both to establish a theoretical basis for healing rifts between blacks and Jews in contemporary culture and to further define the central theme of his book: that blacks have shaped a nationalism, if not a nation, within the shared culture of the black Atlantic.
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The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendtby Dana VillaISBN 0521645719 (0-521-64571-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Cambridge Companion to Marxby Terrell CarverISBN 0521366941 (0-521-36694-1)
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Candideby Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0553211668 (0-553-21166-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, the novel's driving principle is clear enough: the idea (endemic in Voltaire's day) that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and apparent folly, misery and strife are actually harbingers of a greater good we cannot perceive, is hogwash.
Telling the tale of the good-natured but star-crossed Candide (think Mr. Magoo armed with deadly force), as he travels the world struggling to be reunited with his love, Lady Cunegonde, the novel smashes such ill-conceived optimism to splinters. Candide's tutor, Dr. Pangloss, is steadfast in his philosophical good cheer, in the face of more and more fantastic misfortune; Candide's other companions always supply good sense in the nick of time. Still, as he demolishes optimism, Voltaire pays tribute to human resilience, and in doing so gives the book a pleasant indomitability common to farce. Says one character, a princess turned one-buttocked hag by unkind Fate: "I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most melancholy propensities; for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"--Michael Gerber [via]
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Candideby O. R. Taylor, Francois M. Voltaire, Haydn MasonISBN 0631004009 (0-631-00400-9)
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Candideby Voltaire, Rockwell KentISBN 0679642587 (0-679-64258-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, the novel's driving principle is clear enough: the idea (endemic in Voltaire's day) that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and apparent folly, misery and strife are actually harbingers of a greater good we cannot perceive, is hogwash.
Telling the tale of the good-natured but star-crossed Candide (think Mr. Magoo armed with deadly force), as he travels the world struggling to be reunited with his love, Lady Cunegonde, the novel smashes such ill-conceived optimism to splinters. Candide's tutor, Dr. Pangloss, is steadfast in his philosophical good cheer, in the face of more and more fantastic misfortune; Candide's other companions always supply good sense in the nick of time. Still, as he demolishes optimism, Voltaire pays tribute to human resilience, and in doing so gives the book a pleasant indomitability common to farce. Says one character, a princess turned one-buttocked hag by unkind Fate: "I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most melancholy propensities; for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"--Michael Gerber [via]
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Candide : Or, Optimismby Peter Constantine, Voltaire, Diane JohnsonISBN 0679643133 (0-679-64313-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide : Or, Optimism'Book summary:In this splendid new translation of Voltaires satiric masterpiece, all the celebrated wit, irony, and trenchant social commentary of one of the great works of the Enlightenment is restored and refreshed.
Voltaire may have cast a jaundiced eye on eighteenth-century Europea place that was definitely not the best of all possible worlds. But amid its decadent society, despotic rulers, civil and religious wars, and other ills, Voltaire found a mother lode of comic material. And this is why Peter Constantines thoughtful translation is such a pleasure, presenting all the books subtlety and ribald joys precisely as Voltaire had intended.
The globe-trotting misadventures of the youthful Candide; his tutor, Dr. Pangloss; Martin, and the exceptionally trouble-prone object of Candides affections, Cunégonde, as they brave exile, destitution, cannibals, and numerous deprivation, provoke both belly laughs and deep contemplation about the roles of hope and suffering in human life.
The transformation of Candides outlook from panglossian optimism to realism neatly lays out Voltaires philosophythat even in Utopia, life is less about happiness than survivalbut not before providing us with one of literatures great and rare pleasures. [via]More editions of Candide : Or, Optimism:
Cicero: De Officiisby Cicero, Walter MillerISBN 0674990331 (0-674-99033-1)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Cicero: On Dutiesby M.T. Griffin, E.M. AtkinsISBN 0521348358 (0-521-34835-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cicero: On Duties'Book summary:De Officiis (On Duties) is Cicero's last theoretical work and contains his analysis, in a Greek theoretical framework, of the political and ethical values of the Roman governing class in the late Republic. It has often been treated merely as a key to the Greek philosophical works that Cicero used, but this volume aims to render De Officiis, which had a profound impact upon subsequent political thinkers, more intelligible by explaining its relation to its own time and place. All the standard series features are present, including a wholly new translation, a concise introduction by a leading scholar, select bibliography, chronology, notes on vocabulary and brief biographies of the most prominent individuals mentioned in the text. [via]
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Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Raceby Amy Gutmann, K. Anthony AppiahISBN 0691059098 (0-691-05909-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Color Consciousness: The Political Morality of Race'Book summary:In America today, the problem of achieving racial justice--whether through "color-blind" policies or through affirmative action--provokes more noisy name-calling than fruitful deliberation. In Color Conscious, K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, two eminent moral and political philosophers, seek to clear the ground for a discussion of the place of race in politics and in our moral lives. Provocative and insightful, their essays tackle different aspects of the question of racial justice; together they provide a compelling response to our nation's most vexing problem.
Appiah begins by establishing the problematic nature of the idea of race. He draws on the scholarly consensus that "race" has no legitimate biological basis, exploring the history of its invention as a social category and showing how the concept has been used to explain differences among groups of people by mistakenly attributing various "essences" to them. Appiah argues that, while people of color may still need to gather together, in the face of racism, under the banner of race, they need also to balance carefully the calls of race against the many other dimensions of individual identity; and he suggests, finally, what this might mean for our political life.
Gutmann examines alternative political responses to racial injustice. She argues that American politics cannot be fair to all citizens by being color blind because American society is not color blind. Fairness, not color blindness, is a fundamental principle of justice. Whether policies should be color-conscious, class conscious, or both in particular situations, depends on an open-minded assessment of their fairness. Exploring timely issues of university admissions, corporate hiring, and political representation, Gutmann develops a moral perspective that supports a commitment to constitutional democracy.
Appiah and Gutmann write candidly and carefully, presenting many-faceted interpretations of a host of controversial issues. Rather than supplying simple answers to complex questions, they offer to citizens of every color principled starting points for the ongoing national discussions about race.
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A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophyby Robert E. Goodin, Philip PettitISBN 0631199519 (0-631-19951-9)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Confessionsby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Furbank P.N. RousseauISBN 067940998X (0-679-40998-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Rousseau's ideas have influenced almost every major political development of the last two hundred years, and are crucial to an understanding of phenomena as diverse as the French Revolution, modern educational theory, and the contemporary environmental movement. This is reason enough to draw attention to his startlingly alive autobiography. But the Confessions is also among the greatest self-portraits in world literature -which suggests, even more than the impact of Rousseau's thought, the extent to which the very high opinion he had of himself was ultimately justified. [via]More editions of Confessions:
Culture and Equality: An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalismby Brian M. BarryISBN 0674010019 (0-674-01001-9)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States: With Indexby Pauline Maier, United States, United States ConstitutionISBN 0553214829 (0-553-21482-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States: With Index'Book summary:The Declaration of Independence was the promise of a representative government; the Constitution was the fulfillment of that promise.
On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress issued a unanimous declaration: the thirteen North American colonies would be the thirteen United States of America, free and independent of Great Britain. Drafted by Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration set forth the terms of a new form of government with the following words: "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."
Framed in 1787 and in effect since March 1789, the Constitution of the United States of America fulfilled the promise of the Declaration by establishing a republican form of government with separate executive, legislative, and judicial branches. The first ten amendments, known as the Bill of Rights, became part of the Constitution on December 15, 1791. Among the rights guaranteed by these amendments are freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, and the right to trial by jury. Written so that it could be adapted to endure for years to come, the Constitution has been amended only seventeen times since 1791 and has lasted longer than any other written form of government. [via]More editions of The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States: With Index:
Democracy and Difference: Contesting Boundaries of the Politicalby Seyla BenhabibISBN 0691044783 (0-691-04478-3)
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Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethicsby Jane BennetISBN 0691088136 (0-691-08813-6)
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The Ethics of Identityby Kwame Anthony AppiahISBN 0691120366 (0-691-12036-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ethics of Identity'Book summary:Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. But to what extent do "identities" constrain our freedom, our ability to make an individual life, and to what extent do they enable our individuality? In this beautifully written work, renowned philosopher and African Studies scholar Kwame Anthony Appiah draws on thinkers through the ages and across the globe to explore such questions.
The Ethics of Identity takes seriously both the claims of individuality--the task of making a life---and the claims of identity, these large and often abstract social categories through which we define ourselves.
What sort of life one should lead is a subject that has preoccupied moral and political thinkers from Aristotle to Mill. Here, Appiah develops an account of ethics, in just this venerable sense--but an account that connects moral obligations with collective allegiances, our individuality with our identities. As he observes, the question who we are has always been linked to the question what we are.
Adopting a broadly interdisciplinary perspective, Appiah takes aim at the clichés and received ideas amid which talk of identity so often founders. Is "culture" a good? For that matter, does the concept of culture really explain anything? Is diversity of value in itself? Are moral obligations the only kind there are? Has the rhetoric of "human rights" been overstretched? In the end, Appiah's arguments make it harder to think of the world as divided between the West and the Rest; between locals and cosmopolitans; between Us and Them. The result is a new vision of liberal humanism--one that can accommodate the vagaries and variety that make us human.
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Friedrich Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Moralityby Keith Ansell-Pearson, Carol DietheISBN 052169163X (0-521-69163-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Friedrich Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morality'Book summary:Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most influential thinkers of the past 150 years and On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) is his most important work on ethics and politics. A polemical contribution to moral and political theory, it offers a critique of moral values and traces the historical evolution of concepts such as guilt, conscience, responsibility, law and justice. This is a revised and updated 2006 edition of one of the most successful volumes to appear in Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Keith Ansell-Pearson modified his introduction to Nietzsche's classic text, and Carol Diethe incorporated a number of changes to the translation itself, reflecting the considerable advances in our understanding of Nietzsche. In this guise the Cambridge Texts edition of Nietzsche's Genealogy should continue to enjoy widespread adoption, at both undergraduate and graduate level. [via]
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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolutionby Bernard BailynISBN 0674443020 (0-674-44302-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution'Book summary:The leaders of the American Revolution, writes the distinguished historian Bernard Bailyn, were radicals. But their concern was not to correct inequalities of class or income, not to remake the social order, but to "purify a corrupt constitution and fight off the apparent growth of prerogative power." They wished, in other words, to mend a broken system and improve upon it. In doing so they drew on many traditions of political and social thought, ranging from English conservative philosophers to exponents of the continental Enlightenment, from backward-looking interpretations of ancient Roman civilization to forward-looking views of a new American people. Bailyn carefully examines these sources of sometimes conflicting ideas and considers how the framers of the Constitution resolved them in their inventive doctrine of federalism. [via]
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Inside/Outside : International Relations as Political Theoryby R. B. J. Walker, Thomas Biersteker, Chris Brown, Phil Cerny, Joseph GriecoISBN 0521421195 (0-521-42119-5)
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Interpretation and Social Criticismby Michael WalzerISBN 0674459717 (0-674-45971-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Interpretation and Social Criticism'Book summary: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 understanding social criticism as a social practice. Walzer maintains that social criticism is an ordinary activity--less the offspring of scientific knowledge than the "educated cousin of common complaint"-- and does not depend for its force or accuracy upon any sort of high theory. In his view, the social critic is not someone radically detached and disinterested, who looks at society as a total stranger and applies objective and universal principles. The true social critic must stand only a little to the side of his society--unlike Jean-Paul Sartre during the Algerian war, for example, who described himself as an enemy of his own people. And unlike Lenin, who judged Russian society against a standard worked out with reference to other places far away.
The "connected" critic is the model Walzer offers, one whose distance is measured in inches but who is highly critical nevertheless. John Locke is one example of the connected critic who argued for religious toleration not as a universal right ordained by reason but as a practical consequence of Protestant theology. The biblical prophets, such as Amos, were also men of their own day, with a particular quarrel to conduct with their fellows; the universalism of that quarrel is our own extrapolation. Walzer explains where critical principles come from, how much distance is "critical distance," and what the historical practice of criticism has actually been like in the work of social philosophers such as Marx, Gramsci, Koestler, Lenin, Habermas, and Rawls.
Walzer posits a moral world already in existence, a historical product, that gives structure to our lives but whose ordinances are always uncertain and in need of scrutiny, argument, and commentary. The social critic need bring to his task only the ordinary tools of interpretation. Philosophers, political theorists, and all readers seriously interested in the possibility of a moral life will find sustenance and inspiration in this book.
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Justice As Fairness: A Restatementby John Rawls, Erin KellyISBN 0674005112 (0-674-00511-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Justice As Fairness: A Restatement'Book summary:Few philosophers have made as much of a splash with a single book as John Rawls did with the 1971 publication of A Theory of Justice. Thirty years later, Justice as Fairness rearticulates the main themes of his earlier work and defends it against the swarm of criticisms it has attracted. Throughout the book, Rawls continues to defend his well-known thought experiment in which an "original position"--a sort of prenatal perspective ignorant of our race, class, and gender--provides the basis for formulating ethical principles that result in a harmonious liberal state. In addition, he supplies carefully worked-out responses and, in some cases, reformulations of his theory. Those coming to Rawls for the first time will find a lucid portrayal of his position; those embroiled in the ongoing debate will encounter a closely argued and subtle rejoinder to his adversaries. Readers will be pleased that the daunting volumes of Rawls's previous work have been distilled to a digestible 214 pages. --Eric de Place [via]
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The Kristeva Readerby Toril MoiISBN 0631149317 (0-631-14931-7)
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The Law of Peoplesby John RawlsISBN 0674005422 (0-674-00542-2)
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The Law of Peoples: With "the Idea of Public Reason Revisited"by John RawlsISBN 067400079X (0-674-00079-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Law of Peoples: With "the Idea of Public Reason Revisited"'Book summary:This book consists of two parts: the essay "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited," first published in 1997, and "The Law of Peoples," a major reworking of a much shorter article by the same name published in 1993. Taken together, they are the culmination of more than fifty years of reflection on liberalism and on some of the most pressing problems of our times by John Rawls.
"The Idea of Public Reason Revisited" explains why the constraints of public reason, a concept first discussed in Political Liberalism (1993), are ones that holders of both religious and non-religious comprehensive views can reasonably endorse. It is Rawls's most detailed account of how a modern constitutional democracy, based on a liberal political conception, could and would be viewed as legitimate by reasonable citizens who on religious, philosophical, or moral grounds do not themselves accept a liberal comprehensive doctrine--such as that of Kant, or Mill, or Rawls's own "Justice as Fairness," presented in A Theory of Justice (1971).
The Law of Peoples extends the idea of a social contract to the Society of Peoples and lays out the general principles that can and should be accepted by both liberal and non-liberal societies as the standard for regulating their behavior toward one another. In particular, it draws a crucial distinction between basic human rights and the rights of each citizen of a liberal constitutional democracy. It explores the terms under which such a society may appropriately wage war against an "outlaw society," and discusses the moral grounds for rendering assistance to non-liberal societies burdened by unfavorable political and economic conditions.
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Locke: Political Essaysby John Locke, Mark Goldie, Raymond Geuss, Quentin SkinnerISBN 0521478618 (0-521-47861-8)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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Man and Societyby John PlamenatzISBN 0582480469 (0-582-48046-9)
Softcover, Longman Group United Kingdom
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Man and Society: A Critical Examination of Some Important Social and Poltical Theories for Machiavelli to Marxby John PlamenatzISBN 0582480442 (0-582-48044-2)
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Man and Society: Political and Social Theories from Machiavelli to Marx From Montesquieu to the Early Socialistsby Robert Wokler, John Plamenatz, M. E. PlamenatzISBN 0582055466 (0-582-05546-6)
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Man and Society: Political and Social Theories from Machiavelli to Marx From the Middle Ages to Lockeby Robert Wokler, John Plamenatz, M. E. PlamenatzISBN 0582055407 (0-582-05540-7)
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Man and Society: Political and Social Theories from Machiavelli to Marx Hegel, Marx and Engels, and the Idea of Progressby Robert Wokler, John Plamenatz, M. E. PlamenatzISBN 0582055415 (0-582-05541-5)
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Membership and Morals: The Personal Uses of Pluralism in Americaby Nancy L. RosenblumISBN 0691050236 (0-691-05023-6)
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The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Historiesby Partha ChatterjeeISBN 0691019436 (0-691-01943-6)
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While Chatterjee's specific examples are drawn from Indian sources, with a copious use of Bengali language materials, the book is a contribution to the general theoretical discussion on nationalism and the modern state. Examining the paradoxes involved with creating first a uniquely non-Western nation in the spiritual sphere and then a universalist nation-state in the material sphere, the author finds that the search for a postcolonial modernity is necessarily linked with past struggles against modernity.
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Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Realityby E. J. HobsbawmISBN 0521439612 (0-521-43961-2)
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Nietzsche on the Genealogy of Morality and Other Writingsby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Keith Ansell-PearsonISBN 0521406102 (0-521-40610-2)
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Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra A Book For All And Noneby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Not Available, Robert B. PippinISBN 0521602610 (0-521-60261-0)
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Obligations: Essays on Disobedience, War and Citizenshipby Michael WalzerISBN 0674630254 (0-674-63025-4)
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On the Genealogy of Moralityby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Carol Diethe, Keith Ansell-PearsonISBN 0521404592 (0-521-40459-2)
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On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homoby R. J. Hollingdale, Walter Arnold Kaufmann, Friedrich NietzscheISBN 0679724621 (0-679-72462-1)
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On Warby Michael Howard, Carl Von Clausewitz, Peter ParetISBN 0691018545 (0-691-01854-5)
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Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciencesby Michel FoucaultISBN 0679753354 (0-679-75335-4)
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A Passion for Democracy: American Essaysby Benjamin R. BarberISBN 0691050244 (0-691-05024-4)
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Philosophy and Government, 1572-1651by Richard TuckISBN 0521438853 (0-521-43885-3)
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The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas: Representative Selectionsby Dino BigongiariISBN 0684836416 (0-684-83641-6)
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Political Theory and Postmodernismby Stephen K. WhiteISBN 0521409489 (0-521-40948-9)
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Political Thinking: The Perennial Questionsby Glenn TinderISBN 0673993892 (0-673-99389-2)
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Political Writingsby Richard Price, David Oswald ThomasISBN 0521409691 (0-521-40969-1)
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Political Writingsby George W. F. Hegel, H.B. Nisbet, Laurence Winant DickeyISBN 0521459753 (0-521-45975-3)
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Political Writingsby H.B. Nisbet, George W. F. Hegel, Laurence Winant DickeyISBN 0521453690 (0-521-45369-0)
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The Power of Ideasby Isaiah Berlin, Henry HardyISBN 0691092761 (0-691-09276-1)
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Principles of Political Economyby J.S. MillISBN 0678014531 (0-678-01453-1)
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The Principles of Representative Governmentby Bernard Manin, John Dunn, Jack Goody, Geoffrey HawthornISBN 0521458919 (0-521-45891-9)
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The Quest for Cosmic Justiceby Thomas SowellISBN 0684864630 (0-684-86463-0)
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Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political Theoryby Bhikhu ParekhISBN 0674009959 (0-674-00995-9)
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Rousseau : Confessionsby Peter France, J. P. SternISBN 052131500X (0-521-31500-X)
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Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicalsby Saul David AlinskyISBN 0679721134 (0-679-72113-4)
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Sustaining Affirmation: The Strengths of Weak Ontology in Political Theoryby Stephen K. WhiteISBN 0691050333 (0-691-05033-3)
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As he elaborates the idea of weak ontology and the broad criteria behind it, White 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. Among these thinkers, often thought to be at odds, he exposes the commonalities that emerge around the idea of weak ontology. In its identification of a critical turn in political theory, and its nuanced explanation of that turn, his book both demonstrates and underscores the strengths of weak ontology.
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Thus Spoke Zarathustraby Walter Arnold Kaufmann, Friedrich NietzscheISBN 0679601759 (0-679-60175-9)
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Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracyby Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, Carl J. FriedrichISBN 0674895657 (0-674-89565-7)
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A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Womanby Mary Wollstonecraft, Sylvana Tomaselli, Raymond Geuss, Quentin SkinnerISBN 0521436338 (0-521-43633-8)
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Walden and Civil Disobedienceby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0534522068 (0-534-52206-8)
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We, the People of Europe?: Reflections on Transnational Citizenshipby Etienne Balibar, James SwensonISBN 0691089906 (0-691-08990-6)
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Western Political Theory in the Face of the Futureby John DunnISBN 0521437555 (0-521-43755-5)
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Women in Western Political Thoughtby Susan Moller OkinISBN 0691021910 (0-691-02191-0)
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