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  • Autonomy and Liberalism

    by Ben Colburn ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    This book concerns the foundations and implications of a particular form of liberal political theory. Colburn argues that one should see liberalism as a political theory committed to the value of autonomy, understood as consisting in an agent deciding for oneself what is valuable and living life in accordance with that decision. Understanding liberalism this way offers solutions to various ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Moral Blackmail

    Coercion, Responsibility, and Global Justice

    by Ben Colburn ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Philosophy
    Moral Blackmail: Coercion, Responsibility, and Global Justice identifies a novel kind of forced action, yet one that is relatively neglected in ethics and moral philosophy. Moral blackmail occurs when someone is forced to do something because someone else has made all its alternatives morally unacceptable.Ben Colburn explores moral blackmail by first examining existing theories of coercion, ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Autonomy

    Edited by Ben Colburn ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    The question of autonomy is fundamental to understanding some of the most important questions and debates in contemporary political and moral life, from freedom of the individual, free will and decision-making to controversies surrounding medical ethics, human rights and the justifications for state intervention. It is also a crucial concept for understanding the development of liberalism.The ... Read more

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  • The Legacy of H.L.A. Hart

    Legal, Political and Moral Philosophy

    Edited by Matthew Kramer, Claire Grant, Ben Colburn, Antony Hatzistavrou ...
    This book is the product of a major British Academy Symposium held in 2007 to mark the centenary of the birth of H.L.A. Hart, the most important legal philosopher and one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century. The book brings together contributions from seventeen of the world's foremost legal and political philosophers who explore the many subjects in which Hart ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • The Legacy of H.L.A. Hart

    Legal, Political and Moral Philosophy

    Edited by Matthew Kramer, Claire Grant, Ben Colburn, Antony Hatzistavrou ...
    This book is the product of a major British Academy Symposium held in 2007 to mark the centenary of the birth of H.L.A. Hart, the most important legal philosopher and one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century. The book brings together contributions from seventeen of the world's foremost legal and political philosophers who explore the many subjects in which Hart ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

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    by Alexander Wendt ...
    Series Book 67 - Cambridge Studies in International Relations
    Drawing upon philosophy and social theory, Social Theory of International Politics develops a theory of the international system as a social construction. Alexander Wendt clarifies the central claims of the constructivist approach, presenting a structural and idealist worldview which contrasts with the individualism and materialism which underpins much mainstream international relations theory. He ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Why Things Matter to People

    Social Science, Values and Ethical Life

    by Andrew Sayer ...
    Andrew Sayer undertakes a fundamental critique of social science's difficulties in acknowledging that people's relation to the world is one of concern. As sentient beings, capable of flourishing and suffering, and particularly vulnerable to how others treat us, our view of the world is substantially evaluative. Yet modernist ways of thinking encourage the common but extraordinary belief that ... Read more

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  • Worldly Ethics

    Democratic Politics and Care for the World

    by Ella Myers ...
    What is the spirit that animates collective action? What is the ethos of democracy? Worldly Ethics offers a powerful and original response to these questions, arguing that associative democratic politics, in which citizens join together and struggle to shape shared conditions, requires a world-centered ethos. This distinctive ethos, Ella Myers shows, involves care for "worldly things," which are ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Democracy and Ontology

    Agonism between Political Liberalism, Foucault and Psychoanalysis

    by Dr Irena Rosenthal ...
    Series series European Academy of Legal Theory Series
    This book investigates the relationship between liberal democracies and ontology, that is, philosophical claims about the constitution of agents and the social world. Many philosophers argue that ontology needs to be avoided in political and legal philosophy. In fact, political liberalism, a highly influential paradigm founded by the philosopher John Rawls, makes the avoidance of ontology a core ... Read more

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  • Citizenship and the Ethics of Care

    Feminist Considerations on Justice, Morality and Politics

    by Selma Sevenhuijsen ...
    Care and women's emancipation have often been seen as opposed. Politicians have begun to look again at the issue of care in the context of new reforms in the welfare state, health care policies and family law. Using concrete examples taken from parental rights cases, health care education and the public health sector. Using concrete examples taken from the practice and discourse of care, those ... Read more

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  • Justice for Earthlings

    Essays in Political Philosophy

    by David Miller ...
    In the past few decades social changes have impacted how we understand justice, as societies become both more multicultural and more interconnected globally. Much philosophical thought, however, seems to proceed in isolation from these developments. While philosophers from Plato onwards have portrayed justice as an abstract, universal ideal, Miller argues that principles of justice are always ... Read more

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  • Jurgen Habermas and Deliberative Democracy

    Understanding Deliberative Democracy, #3

    by Hercules Bantas ...
    Series Book 3 - Understanding Deliberative Democracy
    Jurgen Habermas is one of the most influential thinkers of our time. This detailed, article length guide examines his theory of deliberative democracy and covers many of the central concepts such as communicative reason, communicative power, and the ideal speech community. ... Read more

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