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  • Year 1

    A Philosophical Recounting

    by Susan Buck-Morss ...
    Reclaiming the first century as common ground rather than the origin of deeply entrenched differences: liberating the past to speak to us in another way.Conventional readings of antiquity cast Athens against Jerusalem, with Athens standing in for "reason" and Jerusalem for "faith." And yet, Susan Buck-Morss reminds us, recent scholarship has overturned this separation. Naming the first century as ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Moral Austerity of Environmental Decision Making

    Sustainability, Democracy, and Normative Argument in Policy and Law

    by Susan Buck, Robert Paehlke, Joel J. Kassiola ...
    In The Moral Austerity of Environmental Decision Making a group of prominent environmental ethicists, policy analysts, political theorists, and legal experts challenges the dominating influence of market principles and assumptions on the formulation of environmental policy. Emphasizing the concept of sustainability and the centrality of moral deliberation to democracy, they examine the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Revolution Today

    by Susan Buck-Morss ...
    Susan Buck-Morss asks: What does revolution look like today? How will the idea of revolution survive the inadequacy of the formula, “progress = modernization through industrialization,” to which it has owed its political life?Socialism plus computer technology, citizen resistance plus a global agenda of concerns, revolutionary commitment to practices that are socially experimental and inclusive of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History

    by Susan Buck-Morss ...
    Series Book 74 - Illuminations
    In this path-breaking work, Susan Buck-Morss draws new connections between history, inequality, social conflict, and human emancipation. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History offers a fundamental reinterpretation of Hegel's master-slave dialectic and points to a way forward to free critical theoretical practice from the prison-house of its own debates. Historicizing the thought of Georg Wilhelm ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Emily Jacir & Susan Buck-Morss

    (dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 004)

    by Susan Buck-Morss, Emily Jacir ...
    Series Book 4 - dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken
    This notebook combines photographs by Palestinian artist Emily Jacir with a text by political philosopher Susan Buck-Morss, who teaches at the City University of New York, written in response to the images and to conversations with the artist. Jacir's photographs depict the former Benedictine monastery of Breitenau, near Kassel. A prison camp in the Nazi era, it became a girl's reformatory after ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government

    by Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer ...
    American democracy is informed by the 18th century’s most cutting edge thinking on society, economics, and government. We’ve learned some things in the intervening 230 years about self interest, social behaviors, and how the world works. Now, authors Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer argue that some fundamental assumptions about citizenship, society, economics, and government need updating. For many years ... Read more

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  • Silencing the Past

    Power and the Production of History

    by Michel-Rolph Trouillot ...
    **20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION: Discover the pioneering classic of history, anthropology, and post-colonial studies—now with a new foreword by renowned scholar Hazel Carby.Part of the HBO docuseries Exterminate All the Brutes, written and directed by Raoul Peck**Placing the West’s failure to acknowledge the Haitian Revolution—the most successful slave revolt in history—alongside denials of the ... Read more

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  • Models of the Church

    by Avery Dulles ...
    Series Book 13 - Image Classics
    There is today a dramatic reexamination of structure, authority, dogma -- indeed, every aspect of the life of the Church is held up to scrutiny. Welcoming this as a sign of vitality, Avery Dulles has carefully studied the writings of contemporary Protestant and Catholic ecclesiologists and sifted out six major approaches, or "models," through which the Church's character can be understood: as ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Discourse on Colonialism

    by Aimé Césaire ...
    "Césaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a process in which [he] played a prominent role."--Library JournalThis classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Nearly twenty years later, when ... Read more

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  • A Book Forged in Hell

    Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age

    by Steven Nadler ...
    When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published--"godless," "full of abominations," "a book forged in hell . . . by the devil himself." Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat to faith, social and political harmony, and everyday morality, and its author was almost universally regarded as a religious ... Read more

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  • A Theory of Fields

    by Neil Fligstein, Doug McAdam ...
    Finding ways to understand the nature of social change and social order-from political movements to market meltdowns-is one of the enduring problems of social science. A Theory of Fields draws together far-ranging insights from social movement theory, organizational theory, and economic and political sociology to construct a general theory of social organization and strategic action. In a work of ... Read more

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  • The Liberal Tradition in America

    The Classic on the Causes and Effects of Liberal Thought in the U.S.

    by Louis Hartz ...
    This "brilliantly written" look at the original meaning of the liberal philosophy has become a classic of political science ( American Historical Review).Winner of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation AwardAs the word "liberal" has been misused and its meaning diluted in recent decades, this study of American political thought since the Revolution is a valuable look at the "liberal tradition" that has ... Read more

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