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  • The Responsibility of Reason

    Theory and Practice in a Liberal-Democratic Age

    by Ralph Hancock ...
    Can we run our lives and govern our societies by reason? The question provoked Socrates to redirect philosophic inquiry in a political direction, and it has remained fundamental to Western thought. Martin Heidegger explored this problem in his profound critique of the Western metaphysical tradition, and Leo Strauss responded to Heidegger with an attempt to recover the classical idea of the rule of ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

  • A Bear’s Diary

    by Ralph Hancock ...
    In 1805 the young Lord Byron, a new undergraduate at Cambridge University, was annoyed to find that he was not allowed to keep a dog in his rooms. So he bought a bear instead. And that might have been the end of it – except that Daisy was no ordinary bear.Three years later, thanks entirely to her unsparing efforts, the idle and dissolute young poet left Cambridge with a Master of Arts degree under ... Read more

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  • Douglas Fairbanks

    The Fourth Musketeer

    by Ralph Hancock, Letitia Fairbanks ...
    Few people have influenced Hollywood history thanDouglas Fairbanks. And who better than his niece and Fairbanks familyhistorian, Letitia, to relate that story? On-screen and offscreen, he was aforce of nature, progressing in easy leaps and bounds from the Broadwaystage to silent movies when feature-length film was just a few years old.His happy, healthy characters and acrobatic acting style ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Laughter is a Wonderful Thing

    by Joe E. Brown, Ralph Hancock ...
    HOW ONE MAN FOUND A WAY OF LAUGHTER AND GAVE IT TO THE WORLDEvery American has at one time or another known the pleasure of watching Joe E. Brown. Mirth-maker Joe, clown-prince of movies, radio and TV, however, is more than just a dispenser of gaiety and laughter.Ralph Hancock, famed foreign correspondent, has drawn a most accurate picture of one of the country's outstanding citizens. You'll laugh ... Read more

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  • Love and Virtue in a Secular Age

    Christianity, Modernity, and the Human Good

    by Ralph C. Hancock ...
    Series series The Beginning and the Beyond of Politics
    In a comprehensive meditation on freedom and reason, Ralph Hancock reveals the pressing need for renewed confidence in virtue and agency.With an emphasis on reclaiming the moral preconditions of Christian love, Love and Virtue in a Secular Age offers a thought-provoking study on the effects of secularism on Christian morality. Ralph C. Hancock brings eminent scholars of the Christian Aristotelian ... Read more

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  • Subjectivity

    Ancient and Modern

    by Mark Shiffman, Ralph C. Hancock, Phillip Cary, Elizabeth A. Murray, Matthew B. O'Brien, Sherif Girgis, Christopher O. Tollefsen, Amy Gilbert Richards, V. Bradley Lewis, Daniel Mark, James Greenaway0, Jeremy D. Wilkins1, David Walsh3, Steven F. McGuire4, Lee Trepanier6, Richard Velkley7 ...
    In Subjectivity, sixteen leading scholars examine the turn to the subject in modern philosophy and consider its historical antecedents in ancient and medieval thought. Some critics of modernity reject the turn to the subject as a specifically modern error, arguing that it logically leads to nihilism and moral relativism by divorcing the human mind from objective reality. Yet, some important ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Structural Equation Modeling

    A Second Course

    Edited by Gregory R. Hancock, Ralph O. Mueller ...
    Series series Quantitative Methods in Education and the Behavioral Sciences: Issues, Research, and Teaching
    Sponsored by the American Educational Research Association's Special Interest Group for Educational StatisticiansThis volume is the second edition of Hancock and Mueller’s highly-successful 2006 volume, with all of the original chapters updated as well as four new chapters. The second edition, like the first, is intended to serve as a didactically-oriented resource for graduate students and ... Read more

    $88.59 USD

  • Natural Law and Human Rights

    Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason

    by Pierre Manent ...
    Translated by Ralph C. Hancock ...
    Series series Catholic Ideas for a Secular World
    This first English translation of Pierre Manent’s profound and strikingly original book La loi naturelle et les droits de l’homme is a reflection on the central question of the Western political tradition. In six chapters, developed from the prestigious Étienne Gilson lectures at the Institut Catholique de Paris, and in a related appendix, Manent contemplates the steady displacement of the natural ... Read more

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  • After Virtue

    A Study in Moral Theory, Third Edition

    by Alasdair MacIntyre ...
    When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Newsweek called it “a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world.” Since that time, the book has been translated into more than fifteen foreign languages and has sold over one hundred thousand ... Read more

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  • Adler's Philosophical Dictionary

    125 Key Terms for the Philosopher's Lexicon

    by Mortimer J. Adler ...
    Stimulating, engaging, and organized in an easy-to-use, A-to-Z format, Adler's Philosophical Dictionary is an ideal introduction to the history of the great ideas.The terms and concepts that have simulated thinkers from Aristotle onward come to life in the latest work by the man TIME magazine has called "America's philosopher for everyman." Is the human soul immortal? What does it mean to know ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry

    Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition

    by Alasdair MacIntyre ...
    Alasdair MacIntyre—whom Newsweek has called "one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world"—here presents his 1988 Gifford Lectures as an expansion of his earlier work Whose Justice? Which Rationality? He begins by considering the cultural and philosophical distance dividing Lord Gifford's late nineteenth-century world from our own. The outlook of that earlier world, ... Read more

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