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  • Left and Right

    The Significance of a Political Distinction

    by Norberto Bobbio ...
    Series series Themes for the 21st Century
    Following the collapse of communism and the decline of Marxism, some commentators have claimed that we have reached the 'end of history' and that the distinction between Left and Right can be forgotten.In this book - which was a tremendous success in Italy - Norberto Bobbio challenges these views, arguing that the fundamental political distinction between Left and Right, which has shaped the two ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • The Age of Rights

    by Norberto Bobbio ...
    This book presents a valuable clarification and defence of human rights by Italy's leading political theorist. ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Old Age and Other Essays

    by Norberto Bobbio ...
    Translated by Allan Cameron ...
    This book by one of Italy's oldest and wisest intellectuals is a philosophical and personal meditation on ageing. The question of old age has preoccupied writers from Cicero to Améry, but in this volume Norberto Bobbio produces an account that is specific to our times. Born in 1909, Bobbio has lived through the major events of the past century, and his experiences of Fascism, Communism and the ... Read more

    $58.00 USD

  • Democracy and Dictatorship

    The Nature and Limits of State Power

    by Norberto Bobbio ...
    In this important volume Norberto Bobbio examines some of the central themes of political theory and presents a systematic exposition of his views. With great astuteness and profound scholarship, Bobbio unfolds the elements for a general theory of politics.Bobbio's wide-ranging argument is focused on four themes: the distinction between the public and the private; the concept of civil society; ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Italian Critics of Capitalism

    by Norberto Bobbio, Luigi Einaudi, Amintore Fanfani, Franco Ferrarotti, Guglielmo Ferrero, Antonio Gramsci, Carlo Mongadini, Adriano Olivetti, Vilfredo Pareto, Luciano Pellicani, Bruno Rizzi, Carlo Rosselli, Ernesto Rossi ...
    Over the last hundred years the history of capitalism hardly supports the idea of a dynamic equilibrium between democracy and capitalism. The unprecedented triumph of global capitalism and its stronger power of transformation are changing the nature of political community and its institutions, transforming the conditions of democratic politics and governance. The writings collected in this volume ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

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  • The Pursuit of Equality in the West

    by Aldo Schiavone ...
    Translated by Jeremy Carden ...
    One of the world’s foremost historians of Western political and legal thought proposes a bold new model for thinking about equality at a time when its absence threatens democracies everywhere.How much equality does democracy need to survive? Political thinkers have wrestled with that question for millennia. Aristotle argued that some are born to command and others to obey. Antiphon believed that ... Read more

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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

  • Politics and Vision

    Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought - Expanded Edition

    by Sheldon S. Wolin ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    Politics and Vision is a landmark work by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. This is a significantly expanded edition of one of the greatest works of modern political theory. Sheldon Wolin's Politics and Vision inspired and instructed two generations of political theorists after its appearance in 1960. Substantially expanded for republication in 2004, it is both a sweeping survey ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Antonio Gramsci

    by Antonio A. Santucci, Lelio La Porta, Eric Hobsbawm ...
    “What the future fortunes of [Gramsci’s] writings will be, we cannot know. However, his permanence is already sufficiently sure, and justifies the historical study of his international reception. The present collection of studies is an indispensable foundation for this.” —Eric Hobsbawm, from the prefaceAntonio Gramsci is a giant of Marxian thought and one of the world's greatest cultural critics. ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Imperfect Garden

    The Legacy of Humanism

    by Tzvetan Todorov ...
    Available in English for the first time, Imperfect Garden is both an approachable intellectual history and a bracing treatise on how we should understand and experience our lives. In it, one of France's most prominent intellectuals explores the foundations, limits, and possibilities of humanist thinking. Through his critical but sympathetic excavation of humanism, Tzvetan Todorov seeks an answer ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

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  • Catholicism, Protestantism, and Capitalism

    by Amintore Fanfani, University of Parma Italy Campanini P ...
    This classic work is an exhaustive philosophical, historical, and religious look at the relationship between Catholic and Protestant religious doctrine and both the historical and ideological growth of capitalism. Starting with a definition of capitalism, Fanfani examines how that definition squares with Catholic and Protestant teaching. He then looks at the historical development of the ... Read more

    $14.29 USD