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After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theoryby Alasdair MacIntyreISBN 0268035040 (0-268-03504-0)
Softcover, Univ of Notre Dame Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory'Book summary:Morality, according to Alasdair MacIntyre, is not what it used to be. In the Aristotelian tradition of ancient Greece and medieval Europe, morality enabled the transformation from untutored human nature as it happened to be to human nature as it could be if it realized its telos (fundamental goal). Eventually, belief in Aristotelian teleology waned, leaving the idea of imperfect human nature in conflict with the perfectionist aims of morality. The conflict dooms to failure any attempt to justify the claims of morality, whether based on emotion, such as Hume's was, or on reason, as in the case of Kant. The result is that moral discourse and practice in the contemporary world is hollow: although the language and appearance of morality remains, the substance is no longer there. Disagreements on moral matters appeal to incommensurable values and so are interminable; the only use of moral language is manipulative.
The claims presented in After Virtue are certainly audacious, but the historical erudition and philosophical acuity behind MacIntyre's powerful critique of modern moral philosophy cannot be disregarded. Moreover, independently of its principal claims, the book, first published in 1981, helped to stimulate philosophical work on the virtues, to reinvigorate traditionalist and communitarian thought, and to provoke valuable discussion in the history of moral philosophy. It was so widely discussed that MacIntyre added another chapter to the second edition in order to reply to his critics. After Virtue continues to deserve attention from philosophers, historians, and anyone interested in moral philosophy and its history. --Glenn Branch [via]
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Softcover, Univ of Notre Dame Pr - After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory: ISBN 026800594X (0-268-00594-X)
Hardcover, University of Notre Dame Press - After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory: ISBN 0268006105 (0-268-00610-5)
Hardcover, University of Notre Dame Press - After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory: ISBN 0268035040 (0-268-03504-0)
Softcover, Univ of Notre Dame Pr
- After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory: ISBN 0268006113 (0-268-00611-3)
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Animal Farmby George Orwell, Ralph SteadmanISBN 0151002177 (0-15-100217-7)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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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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Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life & Deathby Judith ButlerISBN 0231118953 (0-231-11895-3)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life & Death'Book summary:The celebrated author of Gender Trouble here redefines Antigone's legacy, recovering her revolutionary significance and liberating it for a progressive feminism and sexual politics. Butler's new interpretation does nothing less than reconceptualize the incest taboo in relation to kinship -- and open up the concept of kinship to cultural change.
Antigone, the renowned insurgent from Sophocles's Oedipus, has long been a feminist icon of defiance. But what has remained unclear is whether she escapes from the forms of power that she opposes. Antigone proves to be a more ambivalent figure for feminism than has been acknowledged, since the form of defiance she exemplifies also leads to her death. Butler argues that Antigone represents a form of feminist and sexual agency that is fraught with risk. Moreover, Antigone shows how the constraints of normative kinship unfairly decide what will and will not be a livable life.
Butler explores the meaning of Antigone, wondering what forms of kinship might have allowed her to live. Along the way, she considers the works of such philosophers as Hegel, Lacan, and Irigaray. How, she asks, would psychoanalysis have been different if it had taken Antigone -- the "postoedipal" subject -- rather than Oedipus as its point of departure? If the incest taboo is reconceived so that it does not mandate heterosexuality as its solution, what forms of sexual alliance and new kinship might be acknowledged as a result? The book relates the courageous deeds of Antigone to the claims made by those whose relations are still not honored as those of proper kinship, showing how a culture of normative heterosexuality obstructs our capacity to see what sexual freedom and political agency could be.
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Candideby Francois M. Voltaire, Michael Wood, Theo CuffeISBN 0143039423 (0-14-303942-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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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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Capitalby Karl MarxISBN 0192838725 (0-19-283872-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Capital'Book summary:A classic of early modernism, Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian capitalist society. It has proved to be the most influential work in twentieth-century social science; Marx did for social science what Darwin had done for biology.
This is the only abridged edition to take into account the whole of Capital. It offers virtually all of Volume 1, which Marx himself published in 1867; excerpts from a new translation of "The Result of the Immediate Process Production"; and a selection of key chapters from Volume 3, which Engels published in 1895. [via]More editions of Capital:
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Cicero on Obligations: (De Officiis)by Cicero, P.G. WalshISBN 0199240183 (0-19-924018-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cicero on Obligations: (De Officiis)'Book summary:On Obligations, composed by Cicero in late 144 BC following the assassination of Julius Caesar, recommends ideals of conduct to the young Roman who aspires to a political career. It explores the apparent tensions between honorable conduct and expediency in public life. The principles of honorable behavior are based on the Stoic virtues of wisdom, justice, magnanimity, and propriety. The analysis of expediency explores the right and the wrong ways of attaining political leadership, and Cicero's conclusion is that the intrinsically useful is always identical with the honorable.
This treatise has played a seminal role in the formation of ethical values in western Christendom. It was adopted by the fourth-century Christian humanists, notably Ambrose, and became transmuted into the moral code of the high Middle Ages. Thereafter, in the Renaissance from the time of Petrarch, and in the age of Enlightenment that followed, it was given central prominence in discussion of the government of states. On Obligations is of perennial concern in the establishment of basic principles of political and social life. [via]More editions of Cicero on Obligations: (De Officiis):
Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Readerby Patrick Williams, Laura ChrismanISBN 0231100213 (0-231-10021-3)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Confessionsby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Patrick Coleman, Angela ScholarISBN 0192822756 (0-19-282275-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions'Book summary:In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher in Paris, to his wanderings as an exile, persecuted by governments and alienated from the world of modern civilization. In trying to explain who he was and how he came to be the object of others' admiration and abuse, Rousseau analyses with unique insight the relationship between an elusive but essential inner self and the variety of social identities he was led to adopt. The book vividly illustrates the mixture of moods and motives that underlie the writing of autobiography: defiance and vulnerability, self-exploration and denial, passion, puzzlement, and detachment. Above all, Confessions is Rousseau's search, through every resource of language, to convey what he despairs of putting into words: the personal quality of one's own existence. [via]
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Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introductionby Will KymlickaISBN 0198782748 (0-19-878274-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction'Book summary:This important new book provides a critical introduction to the rapidly growing literature on theories of justice and community. Each chapter covers a major school of contemporary political thought--utilitarianism, liberal egalitarianism, libertarianism, Marxism, communitarianism, and feminism--while discussing the work of the most influential contemporary Anglo-American theorists, including G. A. Cohen, Ronald Dworkin, Carol Gilligan, R.M. Hare, Catherine Mackinnon, Robert Nozick, John Rawls, John Roemer, Michael Sandel, and Charles Taylor. By showing how each of these thinkers interprets the idea of treating people as equals, Kymlicka highlights the key similarities and differences in their modes of thought. He demonstrates how viewing different theories in terms of this "egalitarian plateau" can help to clarify traditional philosophical disputes over the meaning of such concepts as rights, freedom, the common good, exploitation, and justice. Written in a lively, non-technical style that is accessible to students approaching the subject for the first time, this book will be useful and important reading in a wide variety of courses in political science, philosophy, and legal studies. [via]
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Critique, Norm, and Utopia: A Study of the Foundations of Critical Theoryby Seyla BenhabibISBN 023106165X (0-231-06165-X)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United Statesby Thomas JeffersonISBN 0146000927 (0-14-600092-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Decline of the Westby Oswald SpenglerISBN 0195066340 (0-19-506634-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Decline of the West'Book summary:Since its first publication in two volumes between 1918-1923, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and most talked about books of our time. In all its various editions, it has sold nearly 100,000 copies. A twentieth-century Cassandra, Oswald Spengler thoroughly probed the origin and "fate" of our civilization, and the result can be (and has been) read as a prophesy of the Nazi regime. His challenging views have led to harsh criticism over the years, but the knowledge and eloquence that went into his sweeping study of Western culture have kept The Decline of the West alive. As the face of Germany and Europe as a whole continues to change each day, The Decline of the West cannot be ignored.
The abridgment, prepared by the German scholar Helmut Werner, with the blessing of the Spengler estate, consists of selections from the original (translated into English by Charles Francis Atkinson) linked by explanatory passages which have been put into English by Arthur Helps. H. Stuart Hughes has written a new introduction for this edition.
In this engrossing and highly controversial philosophy of history, Spengler describes how we have entered into a centuries-long "world-historical" phase comparable to late antiquity. Guided by the philosophies of Goethe and Nietzsche, he rejects linear progression, and instead presents a world view based on the cyclical rise and decline of civilizations. He argues that a culture blossoms from the soil of a definable landscape and dies when it has exhausted all of its possibilities.
Despite Spengler's reputation today as an extreme pessimist, The Decline of the West remains essential reading for anyone interested in the history of civilization. [via]More editions of The Decline of the West:
A Democracy Of Distinction: Aristotle And The Work Of Politicsby Jill FrankISBN 0226260194 (0-226-26019-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Democratic Justiceby Ian ShapiroISBN 0300089082 (0-300-08908-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democratic Justice'Book summary:Democracy and justice are often mutually antagonistic ideas, yet in this innovative book Ian Shapiro explains how and why they should be pursued together. Justice must be pursued by democratic means if it is to garner legitimacy in the modern world, and democracy must be justice-promoting if it is to sustain allegiance over time. Shapiro spells out the implications of this argument for pressing debates about authority over children, marriage, basic income guarantees, population control, governing the workplace, health insurance, and social policy toward the elderly. [via]
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Democratic Theory: Essays in Retrievalby Crawford Brough MacPhersonISBN 0198271891 (0-19-827189-1)
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Development As Freedomby Amartya Kumar SenISBN 0192893300 (0-19-289330-0)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Development As Freedom'Book summary:In Development as Freedom Amartya Sen explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence millions of people living in the Third World are still unfree. Even if they are not technically slaves, they are denied elementary freedoms and remain imprisoned in one way or another by economic poverty, social deprivation, political tyranny or cultural authoritarianism. The main purpose of development is to spread freedom and its 'thousand charms' to the unfree citizens. Freedom, Sen persuasively argues, is at once the ultimate goal of social and economic arrangements and the most efficient means of realizing general welfare. Social institutions like markets, political parties, legislatures, the judiciary, and the media contribute to development by enhancing individual freedom and are in turn sustained by social values. Values, institutions, development, and freedom are all closely interrelated, and Sen links them together in an elegant analytical framework. By asking 'What is the relation between our collective economic wealth and our individual ability to live as we would like?' and by incorporating individual freedom as a social commitment into his analysis Sen allows economics once again, as it did in the time of Adam Smith, to address the social basis of individual well-being and freedom. [via]
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Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcriptsby James C. ScottISBN 0300056699 (0-300-05669-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Elements of Law Natural and Politic: Human Nature/De Corpore Politico With Three Livesby Thomas Hobbes, J.C.A. GaskinISBN 019283682X (0-19-283682-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Elements of Law Natural and Politic: Human Nature/De Corpore Politico With Three Lives'Book summary:Thomas Hobbes' timeless account of the human condition, first developed in The Elements of Law (1640), which comprises Human Nature and De Corpore Politico, is a direct product of the intellectual and political strife of the seventeenth century. His analysis of the war between the individual and the group lays out the essential strands of his moral and political philosophy later made famous in Leviathan. This first ever complete paperback edition of Human Nature and De Corpore Politico is also supplemented by chapters from Hobbes' later work De Corpore and "The Three Lives," never before published together in English. [via]
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The English Constitutionby Miles Taylor, Walter BagehotISBN 0192839756 (0-19-283975-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The English Constitution'Book summary:Walter Bagehot's The English Constitution (1867) is the best account of the history and workings of the British political system ever written. As arguments raged in mid-Victorian Britain about giving the working man the vote, and democracies overseas were pitched into despotism and civil war, Bagehot took a long, cool look at the "dignified" and "efficient" elements which made the English system the envy of the world. His analysis of the monarchy, the role of the prime minister and cabinet, and comparisons with the American presidential system are astute and timeless, pertinent to current discussions surrounding devolution and electoral reform. Combining the wit and panache of a journalist with the wisdom of a man of letters steeped in evolutionary ideas and historical knowledge, Bagehot produced a book which is always thoughtful, often funny, and surprisingly entertaining.This edition reproduces Bagehot's original 1867 work in full, and introduces the reader to the dramatic political events that surrounded its publication. [via]
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Feminist Interpretations and Political Theoryby Mary Lyndon Shanley, Carole PatemanISBN 0271007427 (0-271-00742-7)
Softcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendtby Bonnie HonigISBN 0271014474 (0-271-01447-4)
Softcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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Foucault and Political Reason: Liberalism, Neo-Liberalism and Rationalities of Governmentby Andrew Barry, Nikolas Rose, Thomas OsborneISBN 0226038262 (0-226-03826-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Hannah Arendt, for Love of the Worldby Elizabeth Young-BruehlISBN 0300030991 (0-300-03099-1)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Hegel: Three Studiesby Theodor W. Adorno, Shierry Webber NicholsenISBN 0262510804 (0-262-51080-4)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hegel: Three Studies'Book summary:This short masterwork in twentieth-century philosophy provides both a major reinterpretation of Hegel and insight into the evolution of Adorno's critical theory. The first study focuses on the relationship of reason, the individual, and society in Hegel, defending him against the criticism that he was merely an apologist for bourgeois society. The second study examines the experiential content of Hegel's idealism, considering the notion of experience in relation to immediacy, empirical reality, science, and society. The third study, "Skoteinos," is an unusual and fascinating essay in which Adorno lays out his thoughts on understanding Hegel. In his reflections, which spring from his experience teaching at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, questions of textual and philosophical interpretation are intertwined.
Rescuing the truth value of Hegel's work is a recurring theme of the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, and nowhere is this goal pursued with more insight than in these three studies. The core problem Adorno sets for himself is how to read Hegel in a way that comprehends both the work and its historical context, thereby allowing conclusions to be drawn that may seem on the surface to be exactly opposed to what Hegel wrote but that are, nevertheless, valid as the present truth of the work. It is the elaboration of this method of interpretation, a negative dialectic, that was Adorno's underlying goal.
Adorno's efforts to salvage the contemporaneity of Hegel's thought form part of his response to the increasingly tight net of social control in the aftermath of World War II. In this, his work is related to the very different attempts to undermine reified thinking undertaken by the various French theorists. The continued development of what Adorno called "the administered world" has only increased the relevance of his efforts. [via]More editions of Hegel: Three Studies:
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Human Nature and the Corpore Politico: Elements of Lawby Thomas Hobbes, J.C.A. GaskinISBN 0192831216 (0-19-283121-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Human Nature and the Corpore Politico: Elements of Law'Book summary:Thomas Hobbes' timeless account of the human condition, first developed in The Elements of Law (1640), which comprises Human Nature and De Corpore Politico, is a direct product of the intellectual and political strife of the seventeenth century. His analysis of the war between the individual and the group lays out the essential strands of his moral and political philosophy later made famous in Leviathan. This first ever complete paperback edition of Human Nature and De Corpore Politico is also supplemented by chapters from Hobbes' later work De Corpore and "The Three Lives," never before published together in English. [via]
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Ideas Have Consequencesby Richard M. WeaverISBN 0226876802 (0-226-87680-2)
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In Defence of Politicsby Bernard R. CrickISBN 0226120678 (0-226-12067-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Defence of Politics'Book summary:In this illuminating celebration of the political world, Bernard Crick asserts that politics, with[via]
its compromises and power struggles, remains the only tested alternative to government by
coercion, making both freedom and order possible in heterogeneous societies. For Crick,
politics is messy and complex, and his book defends it against those who would identify it with (and reduce it to) ideology, democracy, nationalism, or technology.
This Fourth edition has been updated to include an assessment of the revolutions in 1989 in
Eastern Europe. It also examines current situations in Northern Ireland, Israel and Palestine,
and South Africa.
A short book written with verve and brilliance. . . . He has written an exceedingly clever and
disturbing book on important issues, all that he writes is alive and much of what he says, even when it seems perversely provocative, turns out to be penetrating and serious.
Isaiah Berlin, 20th Century
One of the most thoughtful products of the political dialogues of the London School of
Economics since the great days of Tawney, Dalton, Wallas and Hobhouse. Its sobriety,
liberal spirit and toughness of mind are rare qualities in any political work.
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Introduction to the Lectures on the History of Philosophyby Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, T.M. KnoxISBN 0198249918 (0-19-824991-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introduction to the Lectures on the History of Philosophy'Book summary:This new translation of the first volume of Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy includes material not available to Haldane and Simson when they made their translation nearly 100 years ago. Indispensable for the student of Hegel, it can also serve as an introduction to Hegel's conception of philosophy for the general reader. [via]
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Karl Marx: His Life and Environmentby Isaiah BerlinISBN 0195103262 (0-19-510326-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Karl Marx: His Life and Environment'Book summary:First published over fifty years ago, Isaiah Berlin's compelling portrait of the father of socialism has long been considered a classic of modern scholarship and the best short account written of Marx's life and thought. It provides a penetrating, lucid, and comprehensive introduction to Marx as theorist of the socialist revolution, illuminating his personality and ideas, and concentrating on those which have historically formed the central core of Marxism as a theory and practice. Berlin goes on to present an account of Marx's life as one of the most influential and incendiary social philosophers of the twentieth century and depicts the social and political atmosphere in which Marx wrote.
This edition includes a new introduction by Alan Ryan which traces the place of Berlin's Marx from its pre-World War II publication to the present, and elucidates why Berlin's portrait, in the midst of voluminous writings about Marx, remains the classic account of the personal and political side of this monumental figure. [via]More editions of Karl Marx: His Life and Environment:
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A Kristeva Readerby Julia KristevaISBN 0231063253 (0-231-06325-3)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Liberalism, Community, and Cultureby Will KymlickaISBN 0198278713 (0-19-827871-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Libertyby Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy, Ian HarrisISBN 019924989X (0-19-924989-X)
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The Life and Times of Liberal Democracyby Crawford Brough MacPhersonISBN 0192891065 (0-19-289106-5)
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Man and the State.by Jacques MaritainISBN 0226505529 (0-226-50552-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Men in Dark Timesby Hannah ArendtISBN 0156588900 (0-15-658890-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The New Constellation: The Ethical-Political Horizons of Modernity - Postmodernityby Richard J. BernsteinISBN 0262521660 (0-262-52166-0)
Softcover, MIT Press
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The New Leviathan: Or Man, Society, Civilization and Barbarismby R.G. Collingwood, David BoucherISBN 0198238800 (0-19-823880-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Leviathan: Or Man, Society, Civilization and Barbarism'Book summary:The New Leviathan, originally published in 1942, a few months before the author's death, is the book which R. G. Collingwood chose to write in preference to completing his life's work on the philosophy of history. It was a reaction to the Second World War and the threat which Nazism and Fascism constituted to civilization. The book draws upon many years of work in moral and political philosophy and attempts to establish the multiple and complex connections between the levels of consciousness, society, civilization, and barbarism. Collingwood argues that traditional social contract theory has failed to account for the continuing existence of the non-social community and its relation to the social community in the body politic. He is also critical of the tendency within ethics to confound right and duty. The publication of additional manuscript material in this revised edition demonstrates in more detail how Collingwood was determined to show that right and duty occupy different levels of rational practical consciousness. The additional material also contains Collingwood's unequivocal rejection of relativism. [via]
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Nietzscheby John Richardson, Brian LeiterISBN 0198752709 (0-19-875270-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nietzsche'Book summary:The latest volume in the Oxford Readings in Philosophy series, this work brings together some of the best and most influential recent philosophical scholarship on Nietzsche. Opening with a substantial introduction by John Richardson, it covers: Nietzsche's views on truth and knowledge, his 'doctrines' of the eternal recurrence and will to power, his distinction between Apollinian and Dionysian art, his critique of morality, his conceptions of agency and self-creation, and his genealogical method. For each of these issues, the papers show Nietzsche's continuing philosophical importance. Giving a clear and accessible overview, while retaining an analytical philosophical approach throughout, this volume is essential reading for all students of Nietzsche. [via]
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On Obligationsby Cicero, P.G. WalshISBN 0192839683 (0-19-283968-3)
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On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic By Way of Clarification and Supplement to My Last Book Beyond Good and Evilby Douglas Smith, Friedrich NietzscheISBN 019283617X (0-19-283617-X)
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On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic By Way of Clarification and Supplement to My Last Book Beyond Good and Evilby Friedrich Nietzsche, Douglas SmithISBN 0192831372 (0-19-283137-2)
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On Warby Karl Von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Beatrice Heuser, Peter ParetISBN 0192807161 (0-19-280716-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On War'Book summary:On War is one of the most important books ever written on the subject of war. Clausewitz, a Prussian officer who fought against the French during the Napoleonic Wars, sought to understand and analyze the phenomenon of war so that future leaders could conduct and win conflicts more effectively. He studied the human and social factors that affect outcomes, as well as the tactical and technological ones. He understood that war was a weapon of government, and that political purpose, chance, and enmity combine to shape its dynamics. On War continues to be read by military strategists, politicians, and others for its timeless insights.
This abridged edition by Beatrice Heuser, using the acclaimed translation by Michael Howard and Peter Paret, selects the central books in which Clausewitz's views on the nature and theory of war are developed. Heuser's introduction explains the originality of Clausewitz's ideas, his education and background, and summarizes his key theories, while explanatory notes provide further information on the historical examples Clausewitz cites. [via]More editions of On War:
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The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lecturesby Jurgen Habermas, Frederick LawrenceISBN 0262581027 (0-262-58102-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures'Book summary:The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity is a tour de force that has the immediacy and accessibility of the lecture form and the excitement of an encounter across, national cultural boundaries. Habermas takes up the challenge posed by the radical critique of reason in contemporary French poststructuralism.Tracing the odyssey of the philosophical discourse of modernity, Habermas's strategy is to return to those historical "crossroads" at which Hegel and the Young Hegelians, Nietzsche and Heidegger made the fateful decisions that led to this outcome. His aim is to identify and clearly mark out a road indicated but not taken: the determinate negation of subject-centered reason through the concept of communicative rationality. As The Theory of Communicative Action served to place this concept within the history of social theory, these lectures locate it within the history of philosophy. Habermas examines the odyssey of the philosophical discourse of modernity from Hegel through the present and tests his own ideas about the appropriate form of a postmodern discourse through dialogs with a broad range of past and present critics and theorists.The lectures on Georges Bataille, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Cornelius Castoriadis are of particular note since they are the first fruits of the recent cross-fertilization between French and German thought. Habermas's dialogue with Foucault - begun in person as the first of these lectures were delivered in Paris in 1983 culminates here in two appreciative yet intensely argumentative lectures. His discussion of the literary-theoretical reception of Derrida in America - launched at Cornell in 1984 - issues here in a long excursus on the genre distinction between philosophy and literature. The lectures were reworked for the final time in seminars at Boston College and first published in Germany in the fall of 1985.Jürgen Habermas is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity is included in the series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthy.
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The Political Forms of Modern Society: Bureaucracy, Democracy, Totalitarianismby Claude Lefort, John B. ThompsonISBN 0262620545 (0-262-62054-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Political Forms of Modern Society : Bureaucracy, Democracy, Totalitarianism'Book summary:Claude Lefort is one of the leading social and political theorists in France today. This anthology of his most important work published over the last four decades makes his writing widely accessible to an English-speaking audience for the first time.With exceptional skill Lefort combines the analysis of contemporary political events with a sensitivity to the history of political thought. His critical account of the development of bureaucracy and totalitarianism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe is a timely contribution to current debates about the nature and shortcomings of these societies. His incisive analyses of Marx's theory of history and concept of ideology provide the backdrop for a highly original account of the role of symbolism in modern societies. While critical of many traditional assumptions and doctrines, Lefort develops a political position based on a reappraisal of the idea of human rights and a reconsideration of what "democracy" means today.The Political Forms of Modern Society is a major contribution to contemporary social and political theory. The volume includes a substantial introduction that describes the context of Lefort's writings and highlights the central themes of his work.Claude Lefort teaches social and political theory at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He was a founder, with Cornelius Castoriadis, of the influential independent journal of the left, Socialisme ou Barbarie. John B. Thompson is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Cambridge.
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The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and Its Genesisby Leo Strauss, Elsa M. SinclairISBN 0226776964 (0-226-77696-4)
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The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchismby Todd MayISBN 0271028890 (0-271-02889-0)
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The Politics of Presenceby Anne PhillipsISBN 0198294158 (0-19-829415-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Politics of Presence'Book summary:One of the most hotly-contested debates in contemporary democracy revolves around issues of political presence, and whether the fair representation of disadvantaged groups requires their presence in elected assemblies. Representation as currently understood derives its legitimacy from a politics of ideas, which considers accountability in relation to declared policies and programs, and makes it a matter of relative indifference who articulates political preferences or beliefs. What happens to the meaning of representation and accountability when we make the gender or ethnic composition of elected assemblies an additional area of concern? In this innovative contribution to the theory of representation--which draws upon debates about gender quotas in Europe, minority voting rights in the USA, and the multi-layered politics of inclusion in Canada--the author argues that the politics of ideas is an inadequate vehicle for dealing with political exclusion. But eschewing any essentialist grounding to group identity or group interest, she also argues against either/or choice between ideas and political presence. The work then combines with contemporary explorations of deliberative democracy to establish a different balance between accountability and autonomy. [via]
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The Portable Hannah Arendtby Ed. Peter BaehrISBN 0142437565 (0-14-243756-5)
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Principles of Political Economy: And Chapters on Socialismby John Stuart Mill, Jonathan RileyISBN 0192836722 (0-19-283672-2)
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Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Womanby Hannah ArendtISBN 0156761009 (0-15-676100-9)
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Real World of Democracyby C. B. MacPhersonISBN 0195015347 (0-19-501534-7)
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Republic of Signs: Liberal Theory and American Popular Cultureby Anne NortonISBN 0226595137 (0-226-59513-7)
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The author ranges over a wide expanse of popular activities (e.g. wrestling, roller derby, lotteries, shopping sprees, and dining out), as well as conventional political topics (e.g., the Constitution, presidency, news media, and centrality of law). Yet the argument is pointed and probling, never shallow or superficial. Fred and Wilma Flintstone are as vital to the republic as Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
"In discussions that range from the Constitution and the presidency to money and shopping, voting, lotteries, and survey research, Norton discerns and imaginatively invents possibilities that exceed recognized actualities and already approved opportunities."Richard E. Flathman, American Political Science Review
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The Restructuring of Social and Political Theoryby Richard J. BernsteinISBN 0151769400 (0-15-176940-0)
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The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflictsby Axel Honneth, Joel AndersonISBN 0262581477 (0-262-58147-7)
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Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship After Brown V. Board of Educationby Danielle S. AllenISBN 0226014665 (0-226-01466-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship After Brown V. Board of Education'Book summary:"Don't talk to strangers" is the advice long given to children by parents of all classes and races. Today it has blossomed into a fundamental precept of civic education, reflecting interracial distrust, personal and political alienation, and a profound suspicion of others. In this powerful and eloquent essay, Danielle Allen, a 2002 MacArthur Fellow, takes this maxim back to Little Rock, rooting out the seeds of distrust to replace them with "a citizenship of political friendship."[via]
Returning to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954 and to the famous photograph of Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, being cursed by fellow "citizen" Hazel Bryan, Allen argues that we have yet to complete the transition to political friendship that this moment offered. By combining brief readings of philosophers and political theorists with personal reflections on race politics in Chicago, Allen proposes strikingly practical techniques of citizenship. These tools of political friendship, Allen contends, can help us become more trustworthy to others and overcome the fossilized distrust among us.
Sacrifice is the key concept that bridges citizenship and trust, according to Allen. She uncovers the ordinary, daily sacrifices citizens make to keep democracy workingand offers methods for recognizing and reciprocating those sacrifices. Trenchant, incisive, and ultimately hopeful, Talking to Strangers is nothing less than a manifesto for a revitalized democratic citizenry.Allen understands that democracy originates in the subjective dimension of everyday life, and she focuses on what she calls our habit of citizenshipthe ways we often unconsciously regard and interact with fellow citizens. . . . [Her] focus on race is entirely appropriate. Nick Bromell, Boston ReviewMore editions of Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship After Brown V. Board of Education:
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book For Everyone And Nobodyby Friedrich W. Nietzsche, Graham ParkesISBN 0192805835 (0-19-280583-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book For Everyone And Nobody'Book summary:hus Spake Zarathustra is a masterpiece of literature as well as philosophy. It was Nietzsche's own favorite and has proved to be his most popular. In this book he addresses the problem of how to live a fulfilling life in a world without meaning, in the aftermath of "the death of God." His solution lies in the idea of eternal recurrence, which he calls "the highest formula of affirmation that can ever be attained." A successful engagement with this profoundly Dionysian idea enables us to choose clearly among the myriad possibilities that existence offers, and thereby to affirm every moment of our lives with others on this "sacred" earth.
Grahm Parkes's new translation is more accurate than previous versions, and is the first to retain the musicality of the original, by paying attention to the rhythms and cadences of the German. His introduction examines the work's three most important philosophical ideas and for the first time annotates the abundance of allusions to the Bible and other classic texts with which Nietzsche's masterpiece is in conversation. [via]More editions of Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book For Everyone And Nobody:
The Tragedy of Political Science: Politics, Scholarship, and Democracyby David M. RicciISBN 0300037600 (0-300-03760-0)
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A Vindication Of The Rights Of Men, A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman: An Historical And Moral View Of The French Revolutionby Janet Todd, Mary WollstonecraftISBN 0192836528 (0-19-283652-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Vindication Of The Rights Of Men, A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman: An Historical And Moral View Of The French Revolution'Book summary:This volume brings together the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It traces her passionate and indignant response to the excitement of the early days of the French Revolution and then her uneasiness at its later bloody phase. It reveals her developing understanding of women's involvement in the political and social life of the nation and her growing awareness of the relationship between politics and economics and between political institutions and the individual. In personal terms, the works show her struggling with a belief in the perfectibility of human nature through rational education, a doctrine that became weaker under the onslaught of her own miserable experience and the revolutionary massacres.
Janet Todd's introduction illuminates the progress of Wollstonecraft's thought, showing that a reading of all three works allows her to emerge as a more substantial political writer than a study of The Rights of Woman alone can reveal. [via]More editions of A Vindication Of The Rights Of Men, A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman: An Historical And Moral View Of The French Revolution:
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What the Anti-Federalists Were forby Herbert J. Storing, Murray DryISBN 0226775747 (0-226-77574-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What the Anti-Federalists Were for'Book summary:The Anti-Federalists, in Herbert J. Storing's view, are somewhat paradoxically entitled to be counted among the Founding Fathers and to share in the honor and study devoted to the founding. "If the foundations of the American polity was laid by the Federalists," he writes, "the Anti-Federalist reservations echo through American history; and it is in the dialogue, not merely in the Federalist victory, that the country's principles are to be discovered." It was largely through their efforts, he reminds us, that the Constitution was so quickly amended to include a bill of rights.[via]
Storing here offers a brilliant introduction to the thought and principles of the Anti-Federalists as they were understood by themselves and by other men and women of their time. His comprehensive exposition restores to our understanding the Anti-Federalist share in the founding its effect on some of the enduring themes and tensions of American political life. The concern with big government and infringement of personal liberty one finds in the writings of these neglected Founders strikes a remarkably timely note.More editions of What the Anti-Federalists Were for:
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Why Read Marx Today?by Jonathan WolffISBN 0192805053 (0-19-280505-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Why Read Marx Today?'Book summary:The fall of the Berlin Wall had enormous symbolic resonance, marking the collapse of Marxist politics and economics. Indeed, Marxist regimes have failed miserably, and with them, it seems, all reason to take the writings of Karl Marx seriously.
Jonathan Wolff argues that if we detach Marx the critic of current society from Marx the prophet of some never-to-be-realized worker's paradise, he remains the most impressive critic we have of liberal, capitalist, bourgeois society. The author shows how Marx's main ideas still shed light on wider concerns about culture and society and he guides the reader through Marx's notoriously difficult writings. Wolff also argues that the value of a great thinker does not depend on his or her views being true, but on other features such as originality, insight, and systematic vision. From this perspective, Marx still richly deserves to be read.
Why Read Marx Today? reinstates Marx as an important critic of current society, and not just a figure of historical interest. [via]More editions of Why Read Marx Today?:
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Zarathustra's Discoursesby R.J. Hollingdale, Friedrich NietzscheISBN 0146001753 (0-14-600175-3)
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De Officiisby M. Winterbottom, M. Tulli CiceronisISBN 0198146736 (0-19-814673-6)
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