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“ethan putterman”

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  • Rousseau, Law and the Sovereignty of the People

    by Ethan Putterman ...
    Together with Plato's Republic, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Social Contract is regarded as one of the most original examples of utopian political engineering in the history of ideas. Similar to the Republic, Rousseau's masterwork is better known today for its author's idiosyncratic view of political justice than its lessons on lawmaking or governance in any concrete sense. Challenging this common view ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

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    And the Tyranny of Progressivism

    by Mark R. Levin ...
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author and radio host Mark R. Levin comes a searing plea for a return to America’s most sacred values.In Rediscovering Americanism, Mark R. Levin revisits the founders’ warnings about the perils of overreach by the federal government and concludes that the men who created our country would be outraged and disappointed to see where we've ended up.Levin returns to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Passions and the Interests

    Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph

    by Albert O. Hirschman, Jeremy Adelman ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice--was assigned the role of containing the unruly and destructive passions of man. Hirschman here offers a new interpretation ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Civil Law Tradition

    An Introduction to the Legal Systems of Europe and Latin America, Fourth Edition

    by John Merryman, Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo ...
    A newly updated edition of "the most readable and succinct account of the origins, the development, and the philosophy of the civil law" ( Houston Law Review).Designed for general readers and students of law, this is a concise history and analysis of the civil law tradition, which is dominant in most of Europe, all of Latin America, and many parts of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The fourth ... Read more

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  • Foundations of Public Law

    by Martin Loughlin ...
    Foundations of Public Law offers an account of the formation of the discipline of public law with a view to identifying its essential character, explaining its particular modes of operation, and specifying its unique task. Building on the framework first outlined in The Idea of Public Law (OUP, 2003), the book conceives public law broadly as a type of law that comes into existence as a consequence ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Shadow of Unfairness

    A Plebeian Theory of Liberal Democracy

    by Jeffrey Edward Green ...
    In this sequel to his prize-winning book, The Eyes of the People, Jeffrey Edward Green draws on philosophy, history, social science, and literature to ask what democracy can mean in a world where it is understood that socioeconomic status to some degree will always determine opportunities for civic engagement and career advancement. Under this shadow of unfairness, Green argues that the most ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Political Philosophy

    by Steven B. Smith ...

    $12.99 USD

  • Tocqueville

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Harvey C. Mansfield ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    No one has ever described American democracy with more accurate insight or more profoundly than Alexis de Tocqueville. After meeting with Americans on extensive travels in the United States, and intense study of documents and authorities, he authored the landmark Democracy in America, publishing its two volumes in 1835 and 1840. Ever since, this book has been the best source for every serious ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • What Is Conservatism?

    by Frank S Meyer ...
    What Is Conservatism? (1964) is a conservative classic—as relevant today as it was half a century ago.Just what is conservatism? Many people are groping for answers, especially as conservatives seem to be retreating into factions—Tea Partiers, traditionalists, libertarians, social conservatives, neoconservatives, and so on. But this illuminating book shows what unites conservatives even as it ... Read more

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  • The Faces of Justice and State Authority

    A Comparative Approach to the Legal Process

    by Mirjan R. Damaska ...

    $24.69 USD

  • Tocqueville between Two Worlds

    The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life

    by Sheldon S. Wolin ...
    Alexis de Tocqueville may be the most influential political thinker in American history. He also led an unusually active and ambitious career in French politics. In this magisterial book, one of America's most important contemporary theorists draws on decades of research and thought to present the first work that fully connects Tocqueville's political and theoretical lives. In doing so, Sheldon ... Read more

    $51.89 USD

  • ECONOMIC SENTIMENTS

    by Emma Rothschild ...
    A benchmark in the history of economics and of political ideas, Rothschild shows us the origins of laissez-faire economic thought and its relation to political conseratism in an unquiet world. ... Read more

    $27.49 USD