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  • Rationality and the Social Sciences (RLE Social Theory)

    Contributions to the Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences

    by S.I. Benn, G.W. Mortimore ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
    The concepts of rationality that are used by social scientists in the formation of hypotheses, models and explanations are explored in this collection of original papers by a number of distinguished philosophers and social scientists. The aim of the book is to display the variety of the concepts used, to show the different roles they play in theories of very different kinds over a wide range of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Social Principles and the Democratic State

    by R. S. Peters, S. I. Benn ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Political Science
    This book, originally published in 1959, makes explicit the social principles which underlie the procedures and political practice of the modern democratic state. The authors take the view that in the modern welfare state there are porblems connected with the nature of law, with concepts like rights, justice, equality, property, punishment, responsibility and liberty and which modern philosophical ... Read more

    $265.99 USD

  • Public and Private in Social Life

    Edited by S. I. Benn, G. F. Gaus ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Conceptions of publicness and privateness structure not only our thinking about society and ourselves, but also, by structuring our institutions and practices, dictate how we act within society. Originally published in 1983, the complexity inherent in the distinction between public and private is explored fully in this book.Opening chapters examine the familiar western liberal understanding of the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • The Idea of the Public Sphere

    A Reader

    by Hannah Arendt, Seyla Benhabib, James Bohman, John Dewey, Jon Elster, Nancy Fraser, Jürgen Habermas, Immanuel Kant, Alexander Kluge, Walter Lippmann, Niklas Luhmann, Oskar Negt, Bernhard Peters, John Rawls, Carl Schmitt, Joseph Schumpeter, G.W.F Hegel, Chantal Mouffe ...
    The notion of "the public sphere" has become increasingly central to theories and studies of democracy, media, and culture over the last few decades. It has also gained political importance in the context of the European Union's efforts to strengthen democracy, integration, and identity.The Idea of the Public Sphere offers a wide-ranging, accessible, and easy-to-use introduction to one of the most ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Law: A Very Short Introduction

    by Raymond Wacks ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The concept of law lies at the heart of our social and political life, shaping the character of our community and underlying issues from racism and abortion to human rights and international war. But what actually is law? A set of naturally occurring moral principles, or simply rules agreed by a particular society? What is a 'right' and what rights should people actually have? Is law really colour ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • John Stuart Mill - Thought and Influence

    The Saint of Rationalism

    Edited by Georgios Varouxakis, Paul Kelly ...
    Series series Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
    More than two hundred years after his birth, and 150 years after the publication of his most famous essay On Liberty, John Stuart Mill remains one of the towering intellectual figures of the Western tradition. This book combines an up-to-date assessment of the philosophical legacy of Mill’s arguments, his complex version of liberalism and his account of the relationship between character and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • On Human Rights

    by James Griffin ...
    What is a human right? How can we tell whether a proposed human right really is one? How do we establish the content of particular human rights, and how do we resolve conflicts between them? These are pressing questions for philosophers, political theorists, jurisprudents, international lawyers, and activists. James Griffin offers answers in his compelling new investigation of the foundations of ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • After Adam Smith

    A Century of Transformation in Politics and Political Economy

    by Murray Milgate, Shannon C. Stimson ...
    How writers after Adam Smith helped shape our thinking about economics and politicsFew issues are more central to our present predicaments than the relationship between economics and politics. In the century after Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations the British economy was transformed. After Adam Smith looks at how politics and political economy were articulated and altered. It considers how grand ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • In the Beginning Was the Deed

    Realism and Moralism in Political Argument

    by Bernard Williams ...
    Bernard Williams is remembered as one of the most brilliant and original philosophers of the past fifty years. Widely respected as a moral philosopher, Williams began to write about politics in a sustained way in the early 1980s. There followed a stream of articles, lectures, and other major contributions to issues of public concern--all complemented by his many works on ethics, which have ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Jurisprudence

    by Suri Ratnapala ...
    The third edition of Jurisprudence offers a logically structured, comprehensive, well-researched and accessible overview of legal theory and philosophy. Written primarily for undergraduate students, it examines and demystifies the discipline's major ideas, and promotes a richer understanding of the social, moral and economic dimensions of the law. By locating the major traditions of jurisprudence ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Sociology of Law

    Classical and Contemporary Perspectives

    by A. Javier Trevino ...
    Series series Law and Society
    The purpose of this book is to introduce the sociology of law by providing a coherent organization to the general body of literature in that field. As such, the text gives a comprehensive overview of theoretical sociology of law. It deals with the broad expanse of the field and covers a vast amount of intellectual terrain. This volume is intended to fill a gap in the literature. Most textbooks in ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • On the People's Terms

    A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy

    by Philip Pettit ...
    Series series The Seeley Lectures
    According to republican theory, we are free persons to the extent that we are protected and secured in the same fundamental choices, on the same public basis, as one another. But there is no public protection or security without a coercive state. Does this mean that any freedom we enjoy is a superficial good that presupposes a deeper, political form of subjection? Philip Pettit addresses this ... Read more

    $27.99 USD