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  • Hobbes

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Richard Tuck ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Thomas Hobbes, the first great English political philosopher, has long had the reputation of being a pessimistic atheist, who saw human nature as inevitably evil and proposed a totalitarian state to subdue human failings. In this illuminating study, Richard Tuck re-evaluates Hobbes's philosophy and dispels these myths, revealing him to have been passionately concerned with the refutation of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Hobbes: Leviathan

    by Thomas Hobbes ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
    Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan is arguably the greatest piece of political philosophy written in the English language. Written in a time of great political turmoil (Hobbes' life spanned the reign of Charles I, the Civil Wars, the Commonwealth and the Protectorate, and the Restoration), Leviathan is an argument for obedience to authority grounded in an analysis of human nature. Since its first ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Hobbes: On the Citizen

    by Thomas Hobbes ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
    De Cive (On the Citizen) is the first full exposition of the political thought of Thomas Hobbes, the greatest English political philosopher of all time. Professors Tuck and Silverthorne have undertaken the first complete translation since 1651, a rendition long thought (in error) to be at least sanctioned by Hobbes himself. On the Citizen is written in a clear, straightforward, expository style, ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Active and Passive Citizens

    A Defense of Majoritarian Democracy

    by Richard Tuck, Melissa Schwartzberg, John Ferejohn, Joshua Cohen, Simone Chambers ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    A powerful case for why majority rule—not representation—is the defining feature of democratic politicsThe idea that democratic governance rests on active self-rule by citizens plays surprisingly little part in current theories of democracy, which instead stress the importance of representation by elected, appointed, or randomly selected bodies such as legislatures, courts, and juries. This would ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Left Case for Brexit

    Reflections on the Current Crisis

    by Richard Tuck ...
    Liberal left orthodoxy holds that Brexit is a disastrous coup, orchestrated by the hard right and fuelled by xenophobia, which will break up the Union and turn what’s left of Britain into a neoliberal dystopia.Richard Tuck’s ongoing commentary on the Brexit crisis demolishes this narrative. He argues that by opposing Brexit and throwing its lot in with a liberal constitutional order tailor-made ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • The Sleeping Sovereign

    The Invention of Modern Democracy

    by Richard Tuck ...
    Series series The Seeley Lectures
    Richard Tuck traces the history of the distinction between sovereignty and government and its relevance to the development of democratic thought. Tuck shows that this was a central issue in the political debates of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and provides a new interpretation of the political thought of Bodin, Hobbes and Rousseau. Integrating legal theory and the history of political ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Free Riding

    by Richard Tuck ...
    One individual’s contribution to a large collective project—such as voting in a national election or contributing to a public television fund-raising campaign—often seems negligible. A striking proposition of contemporary economics and political science is that it would be an exercise of reason, not a failure of it, not to contribute to a collective project if the contribution is negligible, but ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Rights of War and Peace

    Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant

    by Richard Tuck ...
    The Rights of War and Peace is the first fully historical account of the formative period of modern theories of international law. It sets the scene with an extensive history of the theory of international relations from antiquity down to the seventeenth century. Professor Tuck then examines the arguments over the moral basis for war and international aggression, and links the debates to the ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Markets, Morals, Politics

    Jealousy of Trade and the History of Political Thought

    by Peter N. Miller, John Robertson, Richard Tuck, Pasquale Pasquino, Keith Tribe, Michael Sonenscher, Gareth Stedman Jones, Raymond Geuss, J. G. A. Pocock, John Dunn ...
    When István Hont died in 2013, the world lost a giant of intellectual history. A leader of the Cambridge School of Political Thought, Hont argued passionately for a global-historical approach to political ideas. To better understand the development of liberalism, he looked not only to the works of great thinkers but also to their reception and use amid revolution and interstate competition. His ... Read more

    $51.69 USD

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    by Christopher Butler ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, and their engagement with theory, literature, the visual arts, film, architecture, and music. He treats artists, intellectuals, critics, and social scientists 'as if they were all ... Read more

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  • Politics: A Treatise on Government

    by Aristotle ...
    "Politics: A Treatise on Government" by Aristotle is a foundational text in Western political philosophy. In this work, Aristotle explores the nature of political communities, the role of citizens, and the purpose of government. He categorizes different forms of government, such as monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy, analyzing their strengths and weaknesses. Aristotle emphasizes the importance ... Read more

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  • Household Tales

    by Brothers Grimm ...
    Children's and Household Tales is a collection of German fairy tales first published in 1812 by the Grimm brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm. The collection is commonly known in English as Grimm's Fairy Tales: Half-Title. The Sleeping Beauty. Title-Page. The Rabbit's Bride, Six Soldiers of Fortune, Clever Grethel, The Death of the Hen, Hans in Luck, The Goose Girl The Raven, The Frog Prince, Cat and ... Read more

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