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  • Liberalism

    The Basics

    de John Charvet ...
    Series series The Basics
    Liberalism: The Basics is an engaging and accessible introduction to liberalism. The author provides a comprehensive overview of liberal practices, liberal values and critically analyses liberal theories, allowing for a richer understanding of liberalism as a whole.The book is divided into three parts:Liberal practices: the rule of law, free speech, freedom of association and movement, economic ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • The Nature and Limits of Human Equality

    de John Charvet ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The belief in equality as the basis of a just society is fundamental to the dominant western, liberal viewpoint. Yet, the standard individualist justification for it is weak and contradictory. This book provides a radically new communitarian account of the value of equality and establishes it's proper limits. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • The Social Contract Theorists

    Critical Essays on Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau

    de John Charvet, Joshua Cohen, David Gauthier, M M. Goldsmith, Jean Hampton, Gregory S. Kavka, Patrick Riley, Arthur Ripstein, A John Simmons ...
    Series series Critical Essays on the Classics Series
    This reader introduces students of philosophy and politics to the contemporary critical literature on the classical social contract theorists: Thomas Hobbes (1599-1697), John Locke (1632-1704), and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). Twelve thoughtfully selected essays guide students through the texts, familiarizing them with key elements of the theory, while at the same time introducing them to ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • The Liberal Project and Human Rights

    The Theory and Practice of a New World Order

    de John Charvet, Elisa Kaczynska-Nay ...
    The 'Liberal Project' aims to transform society in accordance with liberal values and practices. This volume argues that the United Nations regime on human rights is an attempt to realise this project on an international level. The authors provide an engaging theoretical and historical context for this argument, defining the concept of liberalism, its origins and evolution, and identify it as a ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

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  • The Shadow of Unfairness

    A Plebeian Theory of Liberal Democracy

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Made with Words

    Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics

    de Philip Pettit ...
    Hobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. But this work is of immense interest in itself, as Philip Pettit shows in Made with Words, and it critically shapes Hobbes's political philosophy.Pettit argues that it was Hobbes, not later thinkers like Rousseau, who invented ... Leer más

    $26.69 USD

  • Jurisprudence

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Women in Western Political Thought

    de Susan Moller Okin ...
    In this pathbreaking study of the works of Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, and Mill, Susan Moller Okin turns to the tradition of political philosophy that pervades Western culture and its institutions to understand why the gap between formal and real gender equality persists. Our philosophical heritage, Okin argues, largely rests on the assumption of the natural inequality of the sexes. Women cannot ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Dignity, Rank, and Rights

    de Jeremy Waldron ...
    Series series The Berkeley Tanner Lectures
    Writers on human dignity roughly divide between those who stress the social origins of this concept and its role in marking rank and hierarchy, and those who follow Kant in grounding dignity in an abstract and idealized philosophical conception of human beings. In these lectures, Jeremy Waldron contrives to combine attractive features of both strands. In the first lecture, Waldron presents a ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Science in Democracy

    Expertise, Institutions, and Representation

    de Mark B. Brown ...
    An argument that draws on canonical and contemporary thinkers in political theory and science studies—from Machiavelli to Latour—for insights on bringing scientific expertise into representative democracy.Public controversies over issues ranging from global warming to biotechnology have politicized scientific expertise and research. Some respond with calls for restoring a golden age of value-free ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The System of Liberty

    Themes in the History of Classical Liberalism

    de George H. Smith ...
    Liberal individualism, or 'classical liberalism' as it is often called, refers to a political philosophy in which liberty plays the central role. This book demonstrates a conceptual unity within the manifestations of classical liberalism by tracing the history of several interrelated and reinforcing themes. Concepts such as order, justice, rights and freedom have imparted unity to this diverse ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Rights

    de William A. Edmundson ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law
    An Introduction to Rights is a readable and accessible introduction to the history, logic, moral implications and political tendencies of the idea of rights. It is organized chronologically and discusses important historical events such as the French and American Revolutions. It treats a range of historical figures, including Grotius, Paley, Hobbes, Locke, Bentham, Burke, Godwin, Douglass, Mill ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD