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Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Selfby Susan J. BrisonISBN 0691115702 (0-691-11570-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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American Exceptionalism And Human Rightsby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0691116482 (0-691-11648-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Exceptionalism And Human Rights'Book summary:With the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq, the most controversial question in world politics fast became whether the United States stands within the order of international law or outside it. Does America still play by the rules it helped create? American Exceptionalism and Human Rights addresses this question as it applies to U.S. behavior in relation to international human rights. With essays by eleven leading experts in such fields as international relations and international law, it seeks to show and explain how America's approach to human rights differs from that of most other Western nations.
In his introduction, Michael Ignatieff identifies three main types of exceptionalism: exemptionalism (supporting treaties as long as Americans are exempt from them); double standards (criticizing "others for not heeding the findings of international human rights bodies, but ignoring what these bodies say of the United States); and legal isolationism (the tendency of American judges to ignore other jurisdictions). The contributors use Ignatieff's essay as a jumping-off point to discuss specific types of exceptionalism--America's approach to capital punishment and to free speech, for example--or to explore the social, cultural, and institutional roots of exceptionalism.
These essays--most of which appear in print here for the first time, and all of which have been revised or updated since being presented in a year-long lecture series on American exceptionalism at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government--are by Stanley Hoffmann, Paul Kahn, Harold Koh, Frank Michelman, Andrew Moravcsik, John Ruggie, Frederick Schauer, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Carol Steiker, and Cass Sunstein.
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Arendt and Heidegger: The Fate of the Politicalby Dana Richard VillaISBN 0691044007 (0-691-04400-7)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Charles Taylorby Ruth AbbeyISBN 0691057141 (0-691-05714-1)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Children of Athena: Athenian Ideas About Citizenship and the Division Between the Sexesby Nicole Loraux, Caroline LevineISBN 0691037620 (0-691-03762-0)
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The City of Manby Pierre Manent, Marc A. LepainISBN 0691050252 (0-691-05025-2)
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Civil Society and Governmentby Robert C. Post, Nancy L. RosenblumISBN 0691088020 (0-691-08802-0)
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Clausewitz and the State: The Man, His Theories and His Timesby Peter ParetISBN 0691054487 (0-691-05448-7)
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Constructing Community: Moral Pluralism and Tragic Conflictsby J. Donald MoonISBN 0691086427 (0-691-08642-7)
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Corrupting Youth: Political Education, Democratic Culture, and Political Theoryby J. Peter EubenISBN 0691048282 (0-691-04828-2)
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Covenants Without Swords: Idealist Liberalism and the Spirit of Empireby Jeanne MorefieldISBN 0691119929 (0-691-11992-9)
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Democracy and Associationby Mark WarrenISBN 0691050775 (0-691-05077-5)
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Democracy And Traditionby Jeffrey StoutISBN 0691123829 (0-691-12382-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy And Tradition'Book summary:Do religious arguments have a public role in the post-9/11 world? Can we hold democracy together despite fractures over moral issues? Are there moral limits on the struggle against terror? Asking how the citizens of modern democracy can reason with one another, this book carves out a controversial position between those who view religious voices as an anathema to democracy and those who believe democratic society is a moral wasteland because such voices are not heard.
Drawing inspiration from Whitman, Dewey, and Ellison, Jeffrey Stout sketches the proper role of religious discourse in a democracy. He discusses the fate of virtue, the legacy of racism, the moral issues implicated in the war on terrorism, and the objectivity of ethical norms. Against those who see no place for religious reasoning in the democratic arena, Stout champions a space for religious voices. But against increasingly vocal antiliberal thinkers, he argues that modern democracy can provide a moral vision and has made possible such moral achievements as civil rights precisely because it allows a multitude of claims to be heard.
Stout's distinctive pragmatism reconfigures the disputed area where religious thought, political theory, and philosophy meet. Charting a path beyond the current impasse between secular liberalism and the new traditionalism, Democracy and Tradition asks whether we have the moral strength to continue as a democratic people as it invigorates us to retrieve our democratic virtues from very real threats to their practice.
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Democracy and Vision: Sheldon Wolin and the Vicissitudes of the Politicalby William E. Connolly, Aryeh BotwinickISBN 0691074666 (0-691-07466-6)
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The book consists of three sections linked by the underlying theme of Wolin's monumental effort to define ''the political'' and the conditions of democratic life. In the first, Nicholas Xenos, George Kateb, Fred Dallmayr, and Charles Taylor focus, in particular, on whether mass political participation, sustainable in times of upheaval as what Wolin aptly termed ''fugitive democracy,'' can be buoyed by political institutions during periods of stability. In the second section, Wendy Brown, Aryeh Botwinick, Melissa A. Orlie, and Anne Norton examine the relevance of Wolin's ideas to current debates about, for example, social diversity and the commercialization of culture. In the last, Stephen K. White, Kirstie M. McClure, Michael J. Shapiro, and J. Peter Euben address globalization and temporality in relation to Wolin's narrative of decline, asking, among other things, whether citizenship today must incorporate a cosmopolitan dimension.
These essays--and an introduction by William Connolly that lucidly outlines Wolin's thought and the deep uncertainty about political theory in the 1960s that did much to inspire his work--offer unprecedented insights into Wolin's lament that modernity has meant the loss of the political.
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Democratic Faithby Patrick J. DeneenISBN 069111871X (0-691-11871-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democratic Faith'Book summary:The American political reformer Herbert Croly wrote, "For better or worse, democracy cannot be disentangled from an aspiration toward human perfectibility." Democratic Faith is at once a trenchant analysis and a powerful critique of this underlying assumption that informs democratic theory. Patrick Deneen argues that among democracy's most ardent supporters there is an oft-expressed belief in the need to "transform" human beings in order to reconcile the sometimes disappointing reality of human self-interest with the democratic ideal of selfless commitment. This "transformative impulse" is frequently couched in religious language, such as the need for political "redemption." This is all the more striking given the frequent accompanying condemnation of traditional religious belief that informs the "democratic faith."
At the same time, because so often this democratic ideal fails to materialize, democratic faith is often subject to a particularly intense form of disappointment. A mutually reinforcing cycle of faith and disillusionment is frequently exhibited by those who profess a democratic faith--in effect imperiling democratic commitments due to the cynicism of its most fervent erstwhile supporters.
Deneen argues that democracy is ill-served by such faith. Instead, he proposes a form of "democratic realism" that recognizes democracy not as a regime with aspirations to perfection, but that justifies democracy as the regime most appropriate for imperfect humans. If democratic faith aspires to transformation, democratic realism insists on the central importance of humility, hope, and charity.
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The Disenchantment of the World: A Political History of Religionby Marcel Gauchet, Oscar BurgeISBN 0691044066 (0-691-04406-6)
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Doing & Deserving; Essays in the Theory of Responsibilityby Joel FeinbergISBN 0691071705 (0-691-07170-5)
Hardcover, Princeton University Press
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Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth Century Englandby Joyce O. ApplebyISBN 0691052654 (0-691-05265-4)
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Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracyby Archon FungISBN 0691115354 (0-691-11535-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy'Book summary:Every month in every neighborhood in Chicago, residents, teachers, school principals, and police officers gather to deliberate about how to improve their schools and make their streets safer. Residents of poor neighborhoods participate as much or more as those from wealthy ones. All voices are heard. Since the meetings began more than a dozen years ago, they have led not only to safer streets but also to surprising improvements in the city's schools. Chicago's police department and school system have become democratic urban institutions unlike any others in America.
Empowered Participation is the compelling chronicle of this unprecedented transformation. It is the first comprehensive empirical analysis of the ways in which participatory democracy can be used to effect social change. Using city-wide data and six neighborhood case studies, the book explores how determined Chicago residents, police officers, teachers, and community groups worked to banish crime and transform a failing city school system into a model for educational reform. The author's conclusion: Properly designed and implemented institutions of participatory democratic governance can spark citizen involvement that in turn generates innovative problem-solving and public action. Their participation makes organizations more fair and effective.
Though the book focuses on Chicago's municipal agencies, its lessons are applicable to many American cities. Its findings will prove useful not only in the fields of education and law enforcement, but also to sectors as diverse as environmental regulation, social service provision, and workforce development.
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Equality and Preferential Treatmentby Cohen, Thomas Nagel, Thomas ScanlonISBN 0691072132 (0-691-07213-2)
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Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophyby Susan NeimanISBN 0691117926 (0-691-11792-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy'Book summary:Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding of evil from the Inquisition to contemporary terrorism, Susan Neiman explores who we have become in the three centuries that separate us from the early Enlightenment. In the process, she rewrites the history of modern thought and points philosophy back to the questions that originally animated it.
Whether expressed in theological or secular terms, evil poses a problem about the world's intelligibility. It confronts philosophy with fundamental questions: Can there be meaning in a world where innocents suffer? Can belief in divine power or human progress survive a cataloging of evil? Is evil profound or banal? Neiman argues that these questions impelled modern philosophy. Traditional philosophers from Leibniz to Hegel sought to defend the Creator of a world containing evil. Inevitably, their efforts--combined with those of more literary figures like Pope, Voltaire, and the Marquis de Sade--eroded belief in God's benevolence, power, and relevance, until Nietzsche claimed He had been murdered. They also yielded the distinction between natural and moral evil that we now take for granted. Neiman turns to consider philosophy's response to the Holocaust as a final moral evil, concluding that two basic stances run through modern thought. One, from Rousseau to Arendt, insists that morality demands we make evil intelligible. The other, from Voltaire to Adorno, insists that morality demands that we don't.
Beautifully written and thoroughly engaging, this book tells the history of modern philosophy as an attempt to come to terms with evil. It reintroduces philosophy to anyone interested in questions of life and death, good and evil, suffering and sense.
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Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England 1850-1895by Mary Lyndon ShanleyISBN 069107819X (0-691-07819-X)
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Finding the Mean: Theory and Practice in Aristotelian Political Philosophyby Stephen G. SalkeverISBN 0691034753 (0-691-03475-3)
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Freedom & It's Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Libertyby Isaiah BerlinISBN 0691114994 (0-691-11499-4)
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Freedom and Its Betrayal: 6 Enemies of Human Libertyby Isaiah Berlin, Henry HardyISBN 0691090998 (0-691-09099-8)
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The General Will Before Rousseau: The Transformation of the Divine into the Civicby Patrick RileyISBN 0691077207 (0-691-07720-7)
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Hegel's Retreat from Eleusis: Studies in Political Thoughtby George Armstrong KellyISBN 0691075891 (0-691-07589-1)
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Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Lawby Martha Craven NussbaumISBN 0691095264 (0-691-09526-4)
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Martha Nussbaum argues that we should be wary of these emotions because they are associated in troubling ways with a desire to hide from our humanity, embodying an unrealistic and sometimes pathological wish to be invulnerable. Nussbaum argues that the thought-content of disgust embodies "magical ideas of contamination, and impossible aspirations to purity that are just not in line with human life as we know it." She argues that disgust should never be the basis for criminalizing an act, or play either the aggravating or the mitigating role in criminal law it currently does. She writes that we should be similarly suspicious of what she calls "primitive shame," a shame "at the very fact of human imperfection," and she is harshly critical of the role that such shame plays in certain punishments.
Drawing on an extraordinarily rich variety of philosophical, psychological, and historical references--from Aristotle and Freud to Nazi ideas about purity--and on legal examples as diverse as the trials of Oscar Wilde and the Martha Stewart insider trading case, this is a major work of legal and moral philosophy.
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Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the the Lawby Martha C. NussbaumISBN 0691126259 (0-691-12625-9)
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Martha Nussbaum argues that we should be wary of these emotions because they are associated in troubling ways with a desire to hide from our humanity, embodying an unrealistic and sometimes pathological wish to be invulnerable. Nussbaum argues that the thought-content of disgust embodies "magical ideas of contamination, and impossible aspirations to purity that are just not in line with human life as we know it." She argues that disgust should never be the basis for criminalizing an act, or play either the aggravating or the mitigating role in criminal law it currently does. She writes that we should be similarly suspicious of what she calls "primitive shame," a shame "at the very fact of human imperfection," and she is harshly critical of the role that such shame plays in certain punishments.
Drawing on an extraordinarily rich variety of philosophical, psychological, and historical references--from Aristotle and Freud to Nazi ideas about purity--and on legal examples as diverse as the trials of Oscar Wilde and the Martha Stewart insider trading case, this is a major work of legal and moral philosophy.
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Human Rights As Politics and Idolatryby David A. Hollinger, Michael Ignatieff, Amy Gutmann, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Diane F. Orentlicher, Thomas W. LaqueruISBN 0691088934 (0-691-08893-4)
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Human Rights As Politics and Idolatryby Michael Ignatieff, Amy GutmannISBN 0691114749 (0-691-11474-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Human Rights As Politics and Idolatry'Book summary:Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry may raise some hackles for its controversial approach to a sacrosanct subject, but Michael Ignatieff's arguments are carefully wrought and compassionate. Ignatieff is director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University, and his work is part history of the evolution of human rights in international politics and part caution that it not become a new religion. He writes, "We need to stop thinking of human rights as trumps and begin thinking of them as a language that creates the basis for deliberation."
The book centers on two essays by Ignatieff. In the second, "Human Rights as Idolatry," he identifies three main challenges to the universality of human rights: Islam, East Asia, and, most interestingly, the West itself. According to Ignatieff, the West is forsaking its political heritage of individualism and thereby eroding the foundations upon which a truly universal system of human rights may be built. In addition to the author's intriguing essays, there is an introduction by Amy Gutmann, as well as comments from K. Anthony Appiah, David A. Hollinger, Thomas W. Laqueur, and Diane F. Orentlicher. The critical reactions to Ignatieff, together with a short response of his own, have the makings of an intelligent and accessible debate. --Eric de Place [via]
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Identity In Democracyby Amy GutmannISBN 0691120404 (0-691-12040-4)
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In The Beginning Was The Deed: Realism And Moralism In Political Argumentby Geoffrey Hawthorn, Bernard Arthur Owen WilliamsISBN 0691124302 (0-691-12430-2)
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Just Silences: The Limits And Possibilities Of Modern Lawby Marianne ConstableISBN 0691122784 (0-691-12278-4)
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Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defenseby G. A. CohenISBN 0691070687 (0-691-07068-7)
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The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissanceby Bruce FinkISBN 0691037604 (0-691-03760-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance'Book summary:This text presents the theory of subjectivity found in the work of Jacques Lacan. Against the tide of post-structuralist thinkers who announce the "death of the subject", the book explores what it means to come into being as a subject where impersonal forces once reigned, subjectify the alien roll of the dice at the beginning of our universe, and make our own the knotted web of our parent's desires that led them to bring us into the world. Guiding readers through the labyrinth of Lacanian theory - unpacking such central notions as the Other, object "a", the unconscious as structured like and language, alienation and separation, the paternal metaphor, jouissance and sexual difference - the author demonstrates in-depth knowledge of Lacan's theoretical and clinical work. Fink leads the reader step by step into Lacan's conceptual system to explain how one comes to be a subject, the analytic techniques employed to foster subjectification (punctuation, the "short session" and oracular speech) and the conditions responsible for the failure to become a subject - leading to psychosis. [via]
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Liberal Languages: Ideological Imaginations and Twentieth-Century Progressive Thoughtby Michael FreedenISBN 0691116784 (0-691-11678-4)
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Liberalism Beyond Justice: Citizens, Society, and the Boundaries of Political Theoryby John TomasiISBN 0691049696 (0-691-04969-6)
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Liberalism's Crooked Circle: Letters to Adam Michnikby Ira Katznelson, Adam MichnikISBN 0691034389 (0-691-03438-9)
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Machiavelli in Hellby Sebastian DegraziaISBN 0691055386 (0-691-05538-6)
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Madness and Democracy: The Modern Psychiatric Universeby Marcel Gauchet, Gladys Swain, Jerrold Seigel, Catherine PorterISBN 0691033722 (0-691-03372-2)
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Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Ageby Peter ParetISBN 0691092354 (0-691-09235-4)
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Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italyby Robert Leonardi, Robert D. Putnam, Raffaella NanettiISBN 0691037388 (0-691-03738-8)
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Many and the One: Religious and Secular Perspectives on Ethical Pluralism in the Modern Worldby Richard Madsen, Tracy B. StrongISBN 0691099936 (0-691-09993-6)
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Marx's Fate: The Shape of a Lifeby Jerrold SeigelISBN 069105259X (0-691-05259-X)
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Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the Peopleby Josiah OberISBN 0691094438 (0-691-09443-8)
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Merleau-Ponty and the Foundation of an Existential Politicsby Kerry H. WhitesideISBN 0691077819 (0-691-07781-9)
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The Morality of Pluralismby John KekesISBN 0691044740 (0-691-04474-0)
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The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to Historyby Bruce B. Lawrence, N. J. Dawood, Franz Rosenthal, Ibn KhaldunISBN 0691120544 (0-691-12054-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History'Book summary:The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn (d. 1406), this monumental work laid down the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics. The first complete English translation, by the eminent Islamicist and interpreter of Arabic literature Franz Rosenthal, was published in three volumes in 1958 as part of the Bollingen Series and received immediate acclaim in America and abroad. A one-volume abridged version of Rosenthal's masterful translation was first published in 1969.
This new edition of the abridged version, with the addition of a key section of Rosenthal's own introduction to the three-volume edition, and with a new introduction by Bruce B. Lawrence, will reintroduce this seminal work to twenty-first-century students and scholars of Islam and of medieval and ancient history.
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Mussolini's Intellectuals: Fascist Social & Political Thoughtby A. James GregorISBN 0691120099 (0-691-12009-9)
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The Origins of Citizenship in Ancient Athensby Philip Brook ManvilleISBN 069109442X (0-691-09442-X)
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Outside Ethicsby Raymond GeussISBN 069112342X (0-691-12342-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Outside Ethics'Book summary:Outside Ethics brings together some of the most important and provocative works by one of the most creative philosophers writing today. Seeking to expand the scope of contemporary moral and political philosophy, Raymond Geuss here presents essays bound by a shared skepticism about a particular way of thinking about what is important in human life--a way of thinking that, in his view, is characteristic of contemporary Western societies and isolates three broad categories of things as important: subjective individual preferences, knowledge, and restrictions on actions that affect other people (restrictions often construed as ahistorical laws). He sets these categories in a wider context and explores various human phenomena--including poetry, art, religion, and certain kinds of history and social criticism--that do not fit easily into these categories. As its title suggests, this book seeks a place outside conventional ethics.
Following a brief introduction, Geuss sets out his main concerns with a focus on ethics and politics. He then expands these themes by discussing freedom, virtue, the good life, and happiness. Next he examines Theodor Adorno's views on the relation between suffering and knowledge, the nature of religion, and the role of history in giving us critical distances from existing identities. From here he moves to aesthetic concerns. The volume closes by looking at what it is for a human life to have "gaps"--to be incomplete, radically unsatisfactory, or a failure.
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Passion and Paradox: Intellectuals Confront the National Questionby Joan CocksISBN 0691074682 (0-691-07468-2)
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Philosophy As a Humanistic Disciplineby Bernard Arthur Owen Williams, A. W. MooreISBN 0691124264 (0-691-12426-4)
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Platonic Noiseby Peter EubenISBN 0691113998 (0-691-11399-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Platonic Noise'Book summary:Platonic Noise brings classical and contemporary writings into conversation to enrich our experience of modern life and politics. Drawing on writers as diverse as Plato, Homer, Nietzsche, Borges, Don DeLillo, and Philip Roth, Peter Euben shows us the relevance of both popular literature and ancient Greek thought to current questions of loss, mourning, and democracy--all while arguing for the redeeming qualities of political and intellectual work and making an original case against presentism.
Juxtaposing ancient and contemporary texts, politics, and culture, Euben reflects on a remarkable range of recent issues and controversies. He discusses Stoic cosmopolitanism and globalization, takes a critical look at Nietzsche's own efforts to make the Greeks speak to the issues of his day, examines a Greek tragedy through Hannah Arendt's eyes, compares the role of comedy in ancient Athens and contemporary America, analyzes political theory as a reaction to an acute sense of loss, and considers questions of agency and morality.
Platonic Noise makes a case for reading political theory and politics through literature. Working as much through example as through explicit argument, Euben casts the literary memory of Athenian democracy as a crucial cultural resource and a presence in contemporary political and theoretical debates. In so doing, he reasserts the moral value of what we used to call participatory democracy and the practical value of seeing ourselves with the help of insights from long-gone Greeks.
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Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orderby Don HerzogISBN 0691057419 (0-691-05741-9)
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Political Theory and Political Educationby RichterISBN 069107612X (0-691-07612-X)
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Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysisby Paul PiersonISBN 0691117152 (0-691-11715-2)
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Politics Of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subjectby Saba MahmoodISBN 0691086958 (0-691-08695-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Politics Of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject'Book summary:Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or transform the state, this is a moral reform movement whose orthodox practices are commonly viewed as inconsequential to Egypt's political landscape. Saba Mahmood's compelling exposition of these practices challenges this assumption by showing how the ethical and the political are indelibly linked within the context of such movements. Not only is this book a sensitive ethnography of a critical but largely ignored dimension of the Islamic revival, it is also an unflinching critique of the secular-liberal principles by which some people hold such movements to account. The book addresses three central questions: How do movements of moral reform help us rethink the normative liberal account of politics? How does the adherence of women to the patriarchal norms at the core of such movements parochialize key assumptions within feminist theory about freedom, agency, authority, and the human subject? How does a consideration of debates about embodied religious rituals among Islamists and their secular critics help us understand the conceptual relationship between bodily form and political imaginaries? Politics of Piety is essential reading for anyone interested in issues at the nexus of ethics and politics, embodiment and gender, and liberalism and postcolonialism. [via]
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Putting Liberalism in Its Placeby Paul W. KahnISBN 0691120242 (0-691-12024-2)
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Reasons for Welfare: The Political Theory of the Welfare Stateby Robert E. GoodinISBN 0691077665 (0-691-07766-5)
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Republic.Comby Cass SunsteinISBN 0691095892 (0-691-09589-2)
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Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern International Relationsby Daniel PhilpottISBN 0691057478 (0-691-05747-8)
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The Rise of the Therapeutic Stateby Andrew J. PolskyISBN 0691078785 (0-691-07878-5)
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Schools of Thought: Twenty Five Years of Interpretive Social Scienceby Joan Wallach Scott, Debra KeatesISBN 069108842X (0-691-08842-X)
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Following a preface by Clifford Geertz, whose profound insights have helped shape the School from the outset, the essays are arranged in four sections. The first offers personal reflections on disciplinary changes; the second features essays advocating changes in focus or methodology; the third presents field overviews and institutional history; while the fourth addresses the link between political philosophy and world governance. Two recurring themes are the uses (and pitfalls) of interdisciplinary studies and the relation between scholarship and social change. This book will be rewarding for anyone interested in how changing trends in scholarship shape the understanding of our social worlds.
The contributors include David Apter, Kaushik Basu, Judith Butler, Nicholas Dirks, Jean Elshtain, Peter Galison, Wolf Lepenies, Jane Mansbridge, Andrew Pickering, Mary Poovey, Istvan Rev, Renato Rosaldo, Michael Rustin, Joan W. Scott, William H. Sewell, Jr., Quentin Skinner, Charles Taylor, Anna Tsing, Michael Walzer, and Gavin Wright.
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The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance With Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernismby Richard WolinISBN 0691125996 (0-691-12599-6)
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In probing chapters on C. G. Jung, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Georges Bataille, and Maurice Blanchot, Wolin discovers an unsettling commonality: during the 1930s, these thinkers leaned to the right and were tainted by a proverbial "fascination with fascism." Frustrated by democracy's shortcomings, they were seduced by fascism's grandiose promises of political regeneration. The dictatorships in Italy and Germany promised redemption from the uncertainties of political liberalism. But, from the beginning, there could be no doubting their brutal methods of racism, violence, and imperial conquest.
Postmodernism's origins among the profascist literati of the 1930s reveal a dark political patrimony. The unspoken affinities between Counter-Enlightenment and postmodernism constitute the guiding thread of Wolin's suggestive narrative. In their mutual hostility toward reason and democracy, postmodernists and the advocates of Counter-Enlightenment betray a telltale strategic alliance--they cohabit the fraught terrain where far left and far right intersect.
Those who take Wolin's conclusions to heart will never view the history of modern thought in quite the same way.
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Sexual Identities, Queer Politicsby Mark BlasiusISBN 0691058679 (0-691-05867-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sexual Identities, Queer Politics'Book summary:In this collection, political and public policy analysts explore the social concerns of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and the transgendered--what has come to be known as "lgbt" or "queer" politics. Compared to the humanities and to other social sciences, political science has been slow to address this phenomenon. Issues ranging from housing to adoption to laws on sodomy, however, have increasingly raised important political questions about the rights and status of sexual minorities, particularly within liberal democracies such as the United States, and also on an international level. This anthology offers the first comprehensive overview of the study of lgbt politics in political science across the discipline's main subfields and methodologies, and it spotlights lgbt movements in several regions around the world. Focusing on the politics of sexuality with regard to the politics of knowledge, the book presents a discussion of power that will interest all political scientists and others concerned with minority rights and gender as well as with transformation in the relations between public and private.
The articles cover such topics as lgbt power in urban politics, the impact of public opinion on lgbt life, means of effecting legal and political change in the United States, and international differences in lgbt political activism. The authors represent a new cadre of political scientists who are creating an interdisciplinary domain of research that is informed by and in turn generates political activism. They are Dennis Altman, M. V. Lee Badgett, Robert W. Bailey, Mark Blasius, Cathy J. Cohen, Timothy E. Cook, Paisley Currah, Juanita Díaz-Cotto, Jan-Willem Duyvendak, Leonard Harris, Bevin Hartnett, Rosalind Pollack Petchesky, David Rayside, Rebecca Mae Salokar, and Alan S. Yang.
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The Sovereign State and Its Competitors: An Analysis of Systems Changeby Hendrik SpruytISBN 0691033560 (0-691-03356-0)
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The State and the Rule of Lawby Blandine Kriegel, Blandine Barret-Kriegel, Marc A. Lepain, Jeffrey C. CohenISBN 0691032912 (0-691-03291-2)
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Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblagesby Saskia SassenISBN 0691095388 (0-691-09538-8)
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Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herderby Isaiah Berlin, Henry HardyISBN 0691057273 (0-691-05727-3)
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Timely Meditations: Martin Heidegger and Postmodern Politicsby Leslie Paul ThieleISBN 0691043361 (0-691-04336-1)
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Toleration: An Elusive Virtueby David HeydISBN 069104371X (0-691-04371-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Toleration: An Elusive Virtue'Book summary:If we are to understand the concept of toleration in terms of everyday life, we must address a key philosophical and political tension: the call for restraint when encountering apparently wrong beliefs and actions versus the good reasons for interfering with the lives of the subjects of these beliefs and actions. This collection contains original contributions to the ongoing debate on the nature of toleration, including its definition, historical development, justification, and limits. In exploring the issues surrounding toleration, the essays address a variety of provocative questions. Is toleration a moral virtue of individuals or rather a prag-matic political compromise? Is it an intrinsically good principle or only a "second-best solution" to the dangers of fanaticism to be superseded one day by full acceptance of others? Does the value of toleration lie in respect to individuals and their autonomy, or rather in the recognition of the right of minority groups to maintain their communal identity? Throughout, the contributors point to the inherent indeter-minacy of the concept and to the difficulty in locating it between intolerant absolutism and skeptical pluralism. Religion, sex, speech, and education are major areas requiring toleration in liberal societies. By applying theoretical analysis, these essays show the differences in the argument for toleration and its scope in each of these realms. The contributors include Joshua Cohen, George Fletcher, Gordon Graham, Moshe Halbertal, Alon Harel, Barbara Herman, John Horton, Will Kymlicka, Avishai Margalit, David Richards, Thomas Scanlon, and Bernard Williams. [via]
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Tragedy and Theory: The Problem of Conflict Since Aristotleby Michelle GellrichISBN 0691067384 (0-691-06738-4)
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A Turn To Empire: The Rise Of Imperial Liberalism In Britain And Franceby Jennifer PittsISBN 0691115583 (0-691-11558-3)
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The Vogue of Revolution in Poor Countriesby Forrest D. ColburnISBN 0691036764 (0-691-03676-4)
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Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representationby Melissa S. WilliamsISBN 0691057389 (0-691-05738-9)
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Williams argues first that the distinctive voice of these groups should be audible within the legislative process. Second, she holds that the self-representation of these groups is necessary to sustain their trust in democratic institutions. The memory of state-sponsored discrimination against these groups, together with ongoing patterns of inequality along group lines, provides both a reason to recognize group claims and a way of distinguishing stronger from weaker claims. The book closes by proposing institutions that can secure fair representation for marginalized groups without compromising principles of democratic freedom and equality.
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The Way We Argue Now - A Study in the Cultures of Theoryby Amanda AndersonISBN 0691114048 (0-691-11404-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way We Argue Now - A Study in the Cultures of Theory'Book summary:How do the ways we argue represent a practical philosophy or a way of life? Are concepts of character and ethos pertinent to our understanding of academic debate? In this book, Amanda Anderson analyzes arguments in literary, cultural, and political theory, with special attention to the ways in which theorists understand ideals of critical distance, forms of subjective experience, and the determinants of belief and practice. Drawing on the resources of the liberal and rationalist tradition, Anderson interrogates the limits of identity politics and poststructuralism while holding to the importance of theory as a form of life.
Considering high-profile trends as well as less noted patterns of argument, The Way We Argue Now addresses work in feminism, new historicism, queer theory, postcolonialism, cosmopolitanism, pragmatism, and proceduralism. The essays brought together here--lucid, precise, rigorously argued--combine pointed critique with an appreciative assessment of the productive internal contests and creative developments across these influential bodies of thought.
Ultimately, The Way We Argue Now promotes a revitalized culture of argument through a richer understanding of the ways critical reason is practiced at the individual, collective, and institutional levels. Bringing to the fore the complexities of academic debate while shifting the terms by which we assess the continued influence of theory, it will appeal to readers interested in political theory, literary studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and the place of academic culture in society and politics.
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Why Deliberative Democracy?by Amy Gutmann, Dennis ThompsonISBN 0691120196 (0-691-12019-6)
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Work and Welfareby Robert M. Solow, Amy GutmannISBN 0691058830 (0-691-05883-0)
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A World Beyond Politics?: A Defense of the Nation-stateby Pierre Manent, Marc LePainISBN 0691125120 (0-691-12512-0)
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