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1848: The Revolution of the Intellectualsby Lewis B. NamierISBN 0197261116 (0-19-726111-6)
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The Age of Federalismby Eric L. McKitrick, Stanley ElkinsISBN 019509381X (0-19-509381-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Federalism'Book summary:When Thomas Jefferson took the oath of office for the presidency in 1801, America had just passed through twelve critical years, years dominated by some of the towering figures of our history and by the challenge of having to do everything for the first time. Washington, Hamilton, Madison, Adams, and Jefferson himself each had a share in shaping that remarkable era--an era that is brilliantly captured in The Age of Federalism.
Written by esteemed historians Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick, The Age of Federalism gives us a reflective, deeply informed analytical survey of this extraordinary period. Ranging over the widest variety of concerns--political, cultural, economic, diplomatic, and military--the authors provide a sweeping historical account, keeping always in view not only the problems the new nation faced but also the particular individuals who tried to solve them. As they move through the Federalist era, they draw subtly perceptive character sketches not only of the great figures--Washington and Jefferson, Talleyrand and Napoleon Bonaparte--but also of lesser ones, such as George Hammond, Britain's frustrated minister to the United States, James McHenry, Adams's hapless Secretary of War, the pre-Chief Justice version of John Marshall, and others. They weave these lively profiles into an analysis of the central controversies of the day, turning such intricate issues as the public debt into fascinating depictions of opposing political strategies and contending economic philosophies. Each dispute bears in some way on the broader story of the emerging nation. The authors show, for instance, the consequences the fight over Hamilton's financial system had for the locating of the nation's permanent capital, and how it widened an ideological gulf between Hamilton and the Virginians, Madison and Jefferson, that became unbridgeable. The statesmen of the founding generation, the authors believe, did "a surprising number of things right." But Elkins and McKitrick also describe some things that went resoundingly wrong: the hopelessly underfinanced effort to construct a capital city on the Potomac (New York, they argue, would have been a far more logical choice than Washington), and prosecutions under the Alien and Sedition Acts which turned into a comic nightmare. No detail is left out, or left uninteresting, as their account continues through the Adams presidency, the XYZ affair, the naval Quasi-War with France, and the desperate Federalist maneuvers in 1800, first to prevent the reelection of Adams and then to nullify the election of Jefferson.
The Age of Federalism is the fruit of many years of discussion and thought, in which deep scholarship is matched only by the lucid distinction of its prose. With it, Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick have produced the definitive study, long awaited by historians, of the early national era. [via]More editions of The Age of Federalism:
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The Age of Federalismby Stanley M. Elkins, Eric L. McKitrickISBN 0195068904 (0-19-506890-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Federalism'Book summary:When Thomas Jefferson took the oath of office for the presidency in 1801, America had just passed through twelve critical years, years dominated by some of the towering figures of our history and by the challenge of having to do everything for the first time. Washington, Hamilton, Madison, Adams, and Jefferson himself each had a share in shaping that remarkable era--an era that is brilliantly captured in The Age of Federalism.
Written by esteemed historians Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick, The Age of Federalism gives us a reflective, deeply informed analytical survey of this extraordinary period. Ranging over the widest variety of concerns--political, cultural, economic, diplomatic, and military--the authors provide a sweeping historical account, keeping always in view not only the problems the new nation faced but also the particular individuals who tried to solve them. As they move through the Federalist era, they draw subtly perceptive character sketches not only of the great figures--Washington and Jefferson, Talleyrand and Napoleon Bonaparte--but also of lesser ones, such as George Hammond, Britain's frustrated minister to the United States, James McHenry, Adams's hapless Secretary of War, the pre-Chief Justice version of John Marshall, and others. They weave these lively profiles into an analysis of the central controversies of the day, turning such intricate issues as the public debt into fascinating depictions of opposing political strategies and contending economic philosophies. Each dispute bears in some way on the broader story of the emerging nation. The authors show, for instance, the consequences the fight over Hamilton's financial system had for the locating of the nation's permanent capital, and how it widened an ideological gulf between Hamilton and the Virginians, Madison and Jefferson, that became unbridgeable. The statesmen of the founding generation, the authors believe, did "a surprising number of things right." But Elkins and McKitrick also describe some things that went resoundingly wrong: the hopelessly underfinanced effort to construct a capital city on the Potomac (New York, they argue, would have been a far more logical choice than Washington), and prosecutions under the Alien and Sedition Acts which turned into a comic nightmare. No detail is left out, or left uninteresting, as their account continues through the Adams presidency, the XYZ affair, the naval Quasi-War with France, and the desperate Federalist maneuvers in 1800, first to prevent the reelection of Adams and then to nullify the election of Jefferson.
The Age of Federalism is the fruit of many years of discussion and thought, in which deep scholarship is matched only by the lucid distinction of its prose. With it, Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick have produced the definitive study, long awaited by historians, of the early national era. [via]More editions of The Age of Federalism:
The Analects of Confucius: Lun Yuby Confucius, Chichung HuangISBN 0195112768 (0-19-511276-8)
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Aristotle on Rhetoric: A Theory of Civil Discourseby Aristotle, George A. KennedyISBN 0195064879 (0-19-506487-9)
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Ars Rhetoricaby Aristotl, David RossISBN 0198145578 (0-19-814557-8)
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Augustine's City of God: A Reader's Guideby Gerard O'DalyISBN 0198263546 (0-19-826354-6)
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The Barometer of Modern Reason: On the Philosophies of Current Eventsby Vincent DescombesISBN 0195079906 (0-19-507990-6)
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Bertrand Russell: A Political Lifeby Alan RyanISBN 0195086341 (0-19-508634-1)
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A Catholic Modernity?: Charles Taylor's Marianist Award Lectureby Charles Taylor, James L. HeftISBN 0195131614 (0-19-513161-4)
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The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedyby Stanley CavellISBN 019513107X (0-19-513107-X)
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The Classical Athenian Democracyby David L. Stockton, D. L. StocktonISBN 0198146973 (0-19-814697-3)
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Conceptualizing the State: Innovation and Dispute in British Political Thought 1880-1914by James MeadowcroftISBN 0198206011 (0-19-820601-1)
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The Confessionsby St Augustine, James J. O'DonnellISBN 0198140754 (0-19-814075-4)
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Confucianism: Origins, Beliefs, Practices, Holy Texts, Sacred Placesby Jennifer Oldstone-MooreISBN 0195219082 (0-19-521908-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confucianism: Origins, Beliefs, Practices, Holy Texts, Sacred Places'Book summary:Six centuries before the birth of Jesus, a Chinese sage named Master Kong or Kong Fuzi (later latinized to Confucius) drafted the principles of a society founded upon virtue. For more than two thousand years, Kong Fuzi's work has remained the foundation of Chinese civilization.
In this lavishly illustrated volume, Jennifer Oldstone-Moore takes readers on an insightful tour of this enduring belief system. Not quite a religion, more than a philosophy, Confucianism coexists with Daoism and Buddhism in Chinese spiritual life, guiding personal relations and social structure. Oldstone-Moore explains the essence of Confucian belief--the primary importance of filial relations, and the need for governments to be founded upon virtue--and she underscores the overarching importance of the Confucian canon. Though Confucius's own sayings are preserved in the Analects, he saw himself as an editor and mediator of the wisdom of antiquity, which he gathered in the Six Classics and Four Books, which stress harmony in the social order. The author sheds much light on these texts--The Book of Changes, the Classic of History, the Classic of Poetry, the Spring and Autumn Annals, the Book of Rites, and the now-lost Classic of Music--and also discusses the role of heroes (such as the Sage Kings), rituals and the Chinese calendar, sacred places, and Confucianism's place as a state religion through much of Chinese history.
No society on earth has had the continuous history--as a single people, culture, and state--that China enjoys. One of the keys to that unity, to China's very identity, is Confucianism, deftly elucidated in this attractive, informative volume. [via]More editions of Confucianism: Origins, Beliefs, Practices, Holy Texts, Sacred Places:
The Correspondence: 1622-1659by Thomas Hobbes, Noel MalcolmISBN 0198237472 (0-19-823747-2)
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The Correspondence: 1660-1679by Thomas Hobbes, Noel MalcolmISBN 0198237480 (0-19-823748-0)
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Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Governmentby Robert HiggsISBN 019505900X (0-19-505900-X)
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Critique of Judgmentby Immanuel Kant, James Creed MeredithISBN 0198245890 (0-19-824589-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Critique of Judgment'Book summary:A refreshing approach to the study of major Western philosophers. Introductory essays by noted scholars enliven each volume with insights into the human side of the great thinkers, and provide authoritative discussions of the historical background, evolution, and imporace of their ideas. Highly recommended as stimulating classroom texts. [via]
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The Cultural Defenseby Alison Dundes RentelnISBN 0195154037 (0-19-515403-7)
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Deliberative Politics: Essays on Democracy and Disagreementby Stephen MacEdoISBN 0195131991 (0-19-513199-1)
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Democratic Autonomy: Public Reasoning About the Ends of Policyby Henry S. RichardsonISBN 0195150910 (0-19-515091-0)
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Divided Societies: Class Struggle in Contemporary Capitalismby Ralph MilibandISBN 0198275358 (0-19-827535-8)
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Edmund Burke: 1730-1784by F.P. LockISBN 0198206763 (0-19-820676-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edmund Burke: 1730-1784'Book summary:This is the first full, scholarly biography of Burke for over a generation, to be completed in two volumes. The first volume covers the years between 1730-1784, and describes his Irish upbringing and education, early writing, and his parliamentary career throughout the momentous years of the American War of Independence. [via]
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Essays on Political Moralityby R. M. HareISBN 0198249942 (0-19-824994-2)
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Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canadaby Will KymlickaISBN 0195413148 (0-19-541314-8)
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Force and Statecraft: Diplomatic Problems of Our Timeby Gordon A. Craig, Alexander L. GeorgeISBN 0195057309 (0-19-505730-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Force and Statecraft: Diplomatic Problems of Our Time'Book summary:A leading historian of international affairs and a distinguished political scientist bring the rich experience of the past to bear upon the perplexities that confront today's statesman. They survey the evolution of the international system from the emergence of the modern state in the seventeenth century to the present, paying particular attention to the nineteenth century's balance-of-power system, principles of which still determine many of the usages of modern diplomacy. The author show, however, that this classical system has been profoundly altered by a twentieth-century diplomatic revolution: a complex of political, economic, military, and ideological factors that has destroyed the homogeneity of the international community and confronted diplomats with new problems and the need to find new expedients to deal with them. The effects of this revolution on the abortive experiment in system-making between the two world wars are described in detail, and the authors show how the modalities of the cold war and the principles of the nixon-kissinger détente strategy were attempts to overcome them. The revised second edition includes an entirely new chapter on u.s.-soviet cooperation and expanded coverage of the reagan years, as well as a new analysis of the current international system [via]
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The Foundations of American Citizenship: Liberalism, the Constitution, and Civic Virtueby Richard SinopoliISBN 0195070674 (0-19-507067-4)
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Free Markets and Social Justiceby Cass R. SunsteinISBN 0195102738 (0-19-510273-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Free Markets and Social Justice'Book summary:While not meant to be an overarching "theory of justice" Cass Sunstein's book supplies many of the theoretical components any grand theory ought to include. In the broadest terms, this collection of articles argues that achieving social justice should be of greater importance than the purity of free markets. Markets, he argues, are themselves only possible through political guarantees of rights and the rule of law, and they should be subordinate to discussions of justice. Sunstein considers seven principles that clarify what is at stake in contemporary discussions of law and economics, often exposing unfounded assumptions of libertarians and free market devotees, yet never losing sight of the value of markets and the goods they procure. Insightful chapters on the formation of preferences, the diversity of human goods, the context dependence of choice, and the vexing problems of rationality blend the author's broad knowledge of contemporary philosophy, his command of legal history and philosophy, and a solid grasp of economic theory. Those looking for sound and challenging thinking on these topics have an excellent source in this volume. [via]
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Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil Warby Eric FonerISBN 0195094972 (0-19-509497-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War'Book summary:Since its publication twenty-five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the causes of the American Civil War. A key work in establishing political ideology as a major concern of modern American historians, it remains the only full-scale evaluation of the ideas of the early Republican party. Now with a new introduction, Eric Foner puts his argument into the context of contemporary scholarship, reassessing the concept of free labor in the light of the last twenty-five years of writing on such issues as work, gender, economic change, and political thought.
A significant reevaluation of the causes of the Civil War, Foner's study looks beyond the North's opposition to slavery and its emphasis upon preserving the Union to determine the broader grounds of its willingness to undertake a war against the South in 1861. Its search is for those social concepts the North accepted as vital to its way of life, finding these concepts most clearly expressed in the ideology of the growing Republican party in the decade before the war's start. Through a careful analysis of the attitudes of leading factions in the party's formation (northern Whigs, former Democrats, and political abolitionists) Foner is able to show what each contributed to Republican ideology. He also shows how northern ideas of human rights--in particular a man's right to work where and how he wanted, and to accumulate property in his own name--and the goals of American society were implicit in that ideology. This was the ideology that permeated the North in the period directly before the Civil War, led to the election of Abraham Lincoln, and led, almost immediately, to the Civil War itself. At the heart of the controversy over the extension of slavery, he argues, is the issue of whether the northern or southern form of society would take root in the West, whose development would determine the nation's destiny.
In his new introductory essay, Foner presents a greatly altered view of the subject. Only entrepreneurs and farmers were actually "free men" in the sense used in the ideology of the period. Actually, by the time the Civil War was initiated, half the workers in the North were wage-earners, not independent workers. And this did not account for women and blacks, who had little freedom in choosing what work they did. He goes onto show that even after the Civil War these guarantees for "free soil, free labor, free men" did not really apply for most Americans, and especially not for blacks.
Demonstrating the profoundly successful fusion of value and interest within Republican ideology prior to the Civil War, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men remains a classic of modern American historical writing. Eloquent and influential, it shows how this ideology provided the moral consensus which allowed the North, for the first time in history, to mobilize an entire society in modern warfare. [via]More editions of Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War:
Hegel's Idea of Freedomby Alan PattenISBN 0198237707 (0-19-823770-7)
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Hermeneutics As Politicsby Stanley RosenISBN 0195061616 (0-19-506161-6)
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The History of Political and Social Concepts: A Critical Introductionby Melvin RichterISBN 0195088263 (0-19-508826-3)
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History, Labour, and Freedom: Themes from Marxby Gerald Allan CohenISBN 0198247796 (0-19-824779-6)
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An Introduction to Plato's Republicby Julia AnnasISBN 0198274297 (0-19-827429-7)
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An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislationby Jeremy Bentham, J. H. Burns, H. L. A. Hart, F. RosenISBN 0198205163 (0-19-820516-3)
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John Locke: Selected Correspondenceby John Locke, Mark GoldieISBN 0198235429 (0-19-823542-9)
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Judicial Power and American Character: Censoring Ourselves in an Anxious Ageby Robert F. NagelISBN 0195106628 (0-19-510662-8)
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The discussion ranges over such controversial topics as political correctness on the campus and in the case law, resistance to constitutional rights like abortion, the confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas and Robert Bork, and judicial decisions on such issues as pornography, flag-burning, gay rights, school prayer, and school desegregation. The analysis crosses conventional political and philosophical lines. Nagel sees fundamental similarities between liberal theorists like Ronald Dworkin and conservatives like Bork. He traces judicial arrogance to the ambitious doctrinalist, William Brennan, but also to the cautious incrementalist, John Marshall Harlan. He describes the highest rituals of legality as re-enactments of the same cultural deficiencies that cause concern for the rule of law, and he suggests that real protection for legal values lies in self-confident politics.
Clearly written and forcefully argued, Judicial Power and American Character is an audacious examination of judicial power as an integral part of an increasingly anxious and intolerant culture. It will be of great importance to law professors, lawyers and judges, political scientists, and educated citizens interested in constitutional interpretation, the phenomenon of "political correctness", and the possibility of moral decline. [via]More editions of Judicial Power and American Character: Censoring Ourselves in an Anxious Age:
Just Marriageby Joshua Cohen, Deborah Chasman, Mary Lyndon ShanleyISBN 019517626X (0-19-517626-X)
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Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defenceby G. A. CohenISBN 0198271964 (0-19-827196-4)
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Law and Disagreementby Jeremy WaldronISBN 0198262132 (0-19-826213-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Law and Disagreement'Book summary:When people disagree about justice and about individual rights, how should political decisions be made among them? How should they decide about issues like tax policy, welfare provision, criminal procedure, discrimination law, hate speech, pornography, political dissent and the limits of religious toleration?
The most familiar answer is that these decisions should be made democratically, by majority voting among the people or their representatives. Often, however, this answer is qualified by adding ' providing that the majority decision does not violate individual rights.'
In this book Jeremy Waldron has revisited and thoroughly revised thirteen of his most recent essays. He argues that the familiar answer is correct, but that the qualification about individual rights is incoherent. If rights are the very things we disagree about, then we are quarrelling precisely about what that qualification should amount to. At best, what it means is that disagreements about rights should be resolved by some other procedure, for example, by majority voting, not among the people or their representatives, but among judges in a court. This proposal - although initially attractive - seems much less agreeable when we consider that the judges too disagree about rights, and they disagree about them along exactly the same lines as the citizens.
This book offers a comprehensive critique of the idea of the judicial review of legislation. The author argues that a belief in rights is not the same as a commitment to a Bill of Rights. He shows the flaws and difficulties in many common defenses of the 'democratic' character of judicial review. And he argues for an alternative approach to the problem of disagreement: when disagreements about rights arise, the respectful way to resolve them is by decision-making among the right-holders on a basis that reflects an equal respect for them as the holders of views about rights. This respect for ordinary right-holders, he argues, has been sadly lacking in the theories of justice, rights, and constitutionalism put forward in recent years by philosophers such as John Rawls and Donald Dworkin.
But the book is not only about judicial review. The first tranche of essays is devoted to a theory of legislation, a theory which highlights the size, the scale and the diversity of modern legislative assemblies. Although legislation is often denigrated as a source of law, Waldron seeks to restore its tattered dignity. He deprecates the tendency to disparage legislatures and argues that such disparagement is often a way of bolstering the legitimacy of the courts, as if we had to transform our parliaments into something like the American Congress to justify importing American-style judicial reviews.
Law and Disagreement redresses the balances in modern jurisprudence. It presents legislation by a representative assembly as a form of law making which is especially apt for a society whose members disagree with one another about fundamental issues of principle, for it is a form of law making that does not attempt to conceal the fact that our decisions are made and claim their authority in the midst of, not in spite of, our political and moral disagreements.
This timely rights-based defense of majoritarian legislation will be welcomed by scholars of legal and political philosophy throughout the world. [via]More editions of Law and Disagreement:
Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolutionby Leszek KolakowskiISBN 0198245696 (0-19-824569-6)
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Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth, and Dissolutionby P. S. Falla, Leszek KoakowskiISBN 0198245475 (0-19-824547-5)
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Marxism: Essential Writingsby David McLellandISBN 019827517X (0-19-827517-X)
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The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociologyby Jeffrey C. AlexanderISBN 0195160843 (0-19-516084-3)
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Moral Conflict and Politicsby Steven LukesISBN 0198275366 (0-19-827536-6)
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The Morality of Nationalismby Jeff McMahan, Robert McKimISBN 0195103920 (0-19-510392-0)
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Nature, Justice, and Rights in Aristotle's Politicsby Fred D. MillerISBN 019823726X (0-19-823726-X)
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Nineteen Eighty-Fourby George OrwellISBN 0198185219 (0-19-818521-9)
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Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approachby Karl Raimund PopperISBN 0198243707 (0-19-824370-7)
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On Female Body Experience: "Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essaysby Iris Marion YoungISBN 0195161939 (0-19-516193-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Female Body Experience: "Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays'Book summary:Written over a span of more than two decades, the essays by Iris Marion Young collected in this volume describe diverse aspects of women's lived body experience in modern Western societies. Drawing on the ideas of several twentieth century continental philosophers--including Simone de Beauvoir, Martin Heidegger, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty--Young constructs rigorous analytic categories for interpreting embodied subjectivity. The essays combine theoretical description of experience with normative evaluation of the unjust constraints on their freedom and opportunity that continue to burden many women.
The lead essay rethinks the purpose of the category of "gender" for feminist theory, after important debates have questioned its usefulness. Other essays include reflection on the meaning of being at home and the need for privacy in old age residences as well as essays that analyze aspects of the experience of women and girls that have received little attention even in feminist theory--such as the sexuality of breasts, or menstruation as punctuation in a woman's life story. Young describes the phenomenology of moving in a pregnant body and the tactile pleasures of clothing.
While academically rigorous, the essays are also written with engaging style, incorporating vivid imagery and autobiographical narrative. On Female Body Experience raises issues and takes positions that speak to scholars and students in philosophy, sociology, geography, medicine, nursing, and education. [via]More editions of On Female Body Experience: "Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays:
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On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourseby Aristotle, George A. KennedyISBN 0195305094 (0-19-530509-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse'Book summary:Theories of rhetoric initially emerged in Greece in the fifth century B.C. with the realization that in a democracy all citizens had a right and duty to participate in their own government. Aristotle's Rhetoric was the first, systematic study of civic discourse. But this classic text has not benefited from a new translation in sixty years. Now, George A. Kennedy, a leading scholar of classics and communications, has provided an up-to-date, lucid translation which will make the Rhetoric as well known--and as accessible--as Aristotle's Poetics.
Kennedy's version of On Rhetoric takes into account all of the latest scholarship on Aristotle, using the most reliable texts available, and preserving Aristotle's distinctive style. He eliminates euphemistic and sexist language (which Aristotle did not use), and maintains contradictions which exist in the hand-written, medieval manuscripts (which provide our only access to Aristotle's work). Kennedy's translation also provides the most substantial commentary, and the most extensive notes, of any English version. In his introduction, we learn of the status of rhetoric before Aristotle's treatise (including the work of Socrates, Plato, and Gorgias), receive an account of his life (he tutored the young Macedonian who later became Alexander the Great), and, of course, find a detailed, chapter by chapter account of the text. Kennedy also includes a glossary of Greek rhetorical vocabulary, supplementary texts (by Gorgias, Cicero, and Aristotle himself), and essays on the Rhetoric's composition and on the history of the text after Aristotle.
Aristotle's pioneering study of rhetoric remains useful today, whether for composition studies, public speaking, or literary criticism. The proper use of rhetoric is an essential component of the democratic process, and this readable translation will make the art of persuasion available to new generations of citizens and scholars.
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The Oxford Frederick Douglass Readerby William L. Andrews, Frederick DouglassISBN 0195091183 (0-19-509118-3)
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Party/politics: Horizons in Black Political Thoughtby Michael George HanchardISBN 0195176243 (0-19-517624-3)
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Philosophy, Politics, Autonomyby Cornelius Castoriadis, David Ames CurtisISBN 0195069633 (0-19-506963-3)
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Philosophy, the Federalist, and the Constitutionby Morton WhiteISBN 0195059484 (0-19-505948-4)
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Plato, Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, Critoby John BurnetISBN 0198140150 (0-19-814015-0)
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Plural and Conflicting Valuesby Michael StockerISBN 0198244479 (0-19-824447-9)
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Politics in Its Place: A Study of Six Ideologiesby Gordon GrahamISBN 0198247958 (0-19-824795-8)
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Pornography: Women, Violence And Civil Libertiesby Catherine ItzinISBN 0198252919 (0-19-825291-9)
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Punishment and Responsibility: Essays in the Philosophy of Lawby Herbert Lionel Adolphus HartISBN 0198251815 (0-19-825181-5)
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Reading Nietzscheby Robert C. Solomon, Kathleen M. HigginsISBN 0195066731 (0-19-506673-1)
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Rediscoveriesby John A. HallISBN 0198247931 (0-19-824793-1)
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The Right to Private Propertyby Jeremy WaldronISBN 0198239378 (0-19-823937-8)
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Saint Foucault: Toward a Gay Hagiographyby David M. HalperinISBN 0195111273 (0-19-511127-3)
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Sex & Social Justiceby Martha C. NussbaumISBN 0195112105 (0-19-511210-5)
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Shades of Freedom: Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Pressby A. Leon HigginbothamISBN 0195122887 (0-19-512288-7)
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The Social and Political Thought of Leon Trotskyby Baruch Knei-PazISBN 0198272340 (0-19-827234-0)
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Stanley Cavell: Philosophy's Recounting of the Ordinaryby Stephen MulhallISBN 0198238509 (0-19-823850-9)
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Strucutres of Agency: Essaysby Michael BratmanISBN 0195187717 (0-19-518771-7)
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A Theory of Freedom: From the Psychology to the Politics of Agencyby Philip PettitISBN 0195218329 (0-19-521832-9)
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Tom Paine And Revolutionary Americaby Eric FonerISBN 0195174852 (0-19-517485-2)
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Tradition and Modernity: Philosophical Reflections on the African Experienceby Kwame GyekyeISBN 0195112261 (0-19-511226-1)
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Transitional Justiceby Ruti G. TeitelISBN 0195151267 (0-19-515126-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Transitional Justice'Book summary:At the century's end, societies all over the world are throwing off the yoke of authoritarian rule and beginning to build democracies. At any such time of radical change, the question arises: should a society punish its ancien regime or let bygones be bygones? Transitional Justice takes this question to a new level with an interdisciplinary approach that challenges the very terms of the contemporary debate.
Ruti Teitel explores the recurring dilemma of how regimes should respond to evil rule, arguing against the prevailing view favoring punishment, yet contending that the law nevertheless plays a profound role in periods of radical change. Pursuing a comparative and historical approach, she presents a compelling analysis of constitutional, legislative, and administrative responses to injustice following political upheaval. She proposes a new normative conception of justice--one that is highly politicized--offering glimmerings of the rule of law that, in her view, have become symbols of liberal transition.
Its challenge to the prevailing assumptions about transitional periods makes this timely and provocative book essential reading for policymakers and scholars of revolution and new democracies. [via]
Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy And Progressivism in European And American Thought, 1870-1920by James T. KloppenbergISBN 0195053044 (0-19-505304-4)
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Visions of Utopiaby Martin E. Marty, Herbert Muschamp, Edward RothsteinISBN 0195171616 (0-19-517161-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Visions of Utopia'Book summary:From the sex-free paradise of the Shakers to the worker's paradise of Marx, utopian ideas seem to have two things in common--they all are wonderfully plausible at the start and they all end up as disasters. In Visions of Utopia, three leading cultural critics--Edward Rothstein, Martin Marty, and Herbert Muschamp--look at the history of utopian thinking, exploring why they fail and why they are still worth pursuing.
Rothstein contends that every utopia is really a dystopia-- one that overlooks the nature of humanity and the impossibilities of paradise. He traces the ideal in politics and technology and suggests that only in art--and especially in music--does the desire for utopia find satisfaction. Marty examines several models of utopia--from Thomas More's to a 1960s experimental city that he helped to plan--to show that, even though utopias can never be realized, we should not be too quick to condemn them. They can express dimensions of the human spirit that might otherwise be stifled and can plant ideas that may germinate in more realistic and practical soil. Muschamp looks at Utopianism as exemplified in two different ways: the Buddhist tradition and the work of visionary Viennese architect Adolph Loos.
Utopian thinking embodies humanity's noblest impulses, yet it can lead to horrors such as Nazi Germany and the Soviet Regime. In Visions of Utopia, these leading thinkers offer an intriguing look at the paradoxes of paradise. [via]More editions of Visions of Utopia:
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Voices of Ancient Philosophy: An Introductory Readerby Julia AnnasISBN 0195126955 (0-19-512695-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Voices of Ancient Philosophy: An Introductory Reader'Book summary:Edited by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, Voices of Ancient Philosophy: An Introductory Reader is a unique and accessible introduction to the richness of ancient philosophy. Featuring a topical--as opposed to chronological--organization, this text introduces students to the wide range of approaches and traditions in ancient philosophy. In each section Annas presents the ancient debates on a particular philosophical topic, drawing on a greater diversity of ancient sources than a chronological approach allows. The book is divided into six sections: Fate and Freedom; Reason and Emotion; Knowledge, Belief, and Skepticism; Metaphysical Questions; How Should You Live?; and Society and the State. Annas includes a generous selection of the works of Plato and Aristotle, as well as those of the Stoics, Epicureans, and Skeptics. She also includes selections from less familiar philosophers and from authors in whose works philosophical issues arise, such as poets, medical writers, historians, and Jewish and Christian writers. The volume features biographical sketches of the philosophers, a timeline, and short discussions of the major movements in ancient philosophy. An excellent text for courses in ancient philosophy and history of philosophy, Voices of Ancient Philosophy: An Introductory Reader will also be of interest to scholars and general readers. [via]
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What Is Justice?: Classic and Contemporary Readingsby Robert C. Solomon, Mark C. MurphyISBN 0195128109 (0-19-512810-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Is Justice?: Classic and Contemporary Readings'Book summary:What is Justice? Classic and Contemporary Readings, 2/e, brings together many of the most prominent and influential writings on the topic of justice, providing an exceptionally comprehensive introduction to the subject. It places special emphasis on "social contract" theories of justice, both ancient and modern, culminating in the monumental work of John Rawls and various responses to his work. It also deals with questions of retributive justice and punishment, topics that are often excluded from other volumes on justice. This new edition features expanded and updated readings on justice and punishment and includes more recent responses to John Rawls's work.
Part One of the book features selections from classical sources including Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, and Mencius, as well as excerpts from the Bible and the Koran. Part Two provides readings on the state of nature and the social contract, from Hobbes and Locke to Rawls, Nozick, Gauthier, and Baier. Part Three includes the Declaration of Independence and Amendments to the U.S. Constitution in addition to selections on property and social justice by Locke, Hume, Adam Smith, Engels, Marx, Mill, and several contemporary authors. Part Four offers a wide variety of readings on punishment, several of which address the death penalty. Part Five begins with selections from Rawls's work and includes responses from Dworkin, Nagel, Nozick, MacIntyre, Sandel, Walzer, Okin, and Rawls himself. Each selection is preceded by a brief introduction and each of the five parts opens with an introduction. The volume is further enhanced by a general introduction and an updated and extensive bibliography.
Ideal for a wide variety of courses including social and political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of law, and contemporary moral problems, What Is Justice?, 2/e, does not assume any philosophical or specialized background. It is also engaging reading for anyone interested in justice. [via]More editions of What Is Justice?: Classic and Contemporary Readings:
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What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Responseby Bernard LewisISBN 0195144201 (0-19-514420-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response'Book summary:Bernard Lewis is the West's greatest historian and interpreter of the Near East. Books such as The Middle East and The Arabs in History are required reading for anybody who hopes to understand the region and its people. Now Lewis offers What Went Wrong?, a concise and timely survey of how Islamic civilization fell from worldwide leadership in almost every frontier of human knowledge five or six centuries ago to a "poor, weak, and ignorant" backwater that is today dominated by "shabby tyrannies ... modern only in their apparatus of repression and terror." He offers no easy answers, but does provide an engaging chronicle of the Arab encounter with Europe in all its military, economic, and cultural dimensions. The most dramatic reversal, he says, may have occurred in the sciences: "Those who had been disciples now became teachers; those who had been masters became pupils, often reluctant and resentful pupils." Today's Arab governments have blamed their plight on any number of external culprits, from Western imperialism to the Jews. Lewis believes they must instead commit to putting their own houses in order: "If the peoples of Middle East continue on their present path, the suicide bomber may become a metaphor for the whole region, and there will be no escape from a downward spiral of hate and spite, rage and self-pity, [and] poverty and oppression." Anybody who wants to understand the historical backdrop to September 11 would do well to look for it on these pages. --John Miller [via]
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Wounds Not Healed by Time: The Power of Repentence and Forgivenessby Solomon SchimmelISBN 0195128419 (0-19-512841-9)
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