wyszukanych pozycji: 9
George Kateb: Dignity, Morality, Individuality
ISBN: 9781138017498 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. George Kateb's writings have been innovatory in exploring the fundamental quandary of how modern democracy-sovereignty vested in the many-might nevertheless protect, respect, promote, even celebrate the singular, albeit ordinary individual. His essays, often leading to unexpected results, have focused on many inter-related topics: rights, representation, constitutionalism, war, evil, extinction, punishment, privacy, patriotism, and more. This book focuses in particular on his thought in three key areas: Dignity These essays exhibit the breadth and complexity... George Kateb's writings have been innovatory in exploring the fundamental quandary of how modern democracy-sovereignty vested in the many-might nev... |
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782,54 zł |
Too Young to Run?: A Proposal for an Age Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
ISBN: 9780271048543 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Under the Constitution of the United States, those with political ambitions who aspire to serve in the federal government must be at least twenty-five to qualify for membership in the House of Representatives, thirty to run for the Senate, and thirty-five to become president. What is the justification for these age thresholds, and is it time to consider changing them? In this provocative and lively book, John Seery presents the case for a constitutional amendment to lower the age barrier to eighteen, the same age at which citizens become eligible to vote. He divides his argument into three... Under the Constitution of the United States, those with political ambitions who aspire to serve in the federal government must be at least twenty-f... |
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224,03 zł |
A Political Companion to Walt Whitman
ISBN: 9780813147376 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The works of Walt Whitman have been described as masculine, feminine, postcolonial, homoerotic, urban, organic, unique, and democratic, yet arguments about the extent to which Whitman could or should be considered a political poet have yet to be fully confronted. Some scholars disregard Whitman's understanding of democracy, insisting on separating his personal works from his political works. A Political Companion to Walt Whitman is the first full-length exploration of Whitman's works through the lens of political theory. Editor John E. Seery and a collection of prominent... The works of Walt Whitman have been described as masculine, feminine, postcolonial, homoerotic, urban, organic, unique, and democratic, yet argumen... |
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172,61 zł |
A Political Companion to Walt Whitman
ISBN: 9780813126548 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The works of Walt Whitman have been described as masculine, feminine, postcolonial, homoerotic, urban, organic, unique, and democratic, yet arguments about the extent to which Whitman could or should be considered a political poet have yet to be fully confronted. Some scholars disregard Whitman's understanding of democracy, insisting on separating his personal works from his political works. A Political Companion to Walt Whitman is the first full-length exploration of Whitman's works through the lens of political theory. Editor John E. Seery and a collection of prominent... The works of Walt Whitman have been described as masculine, feminine, postcolonial, homoerotic, urban, organic, unique, and democratic, yet argumen... |
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287,68 zł |
Political Theory for Mortals
ISBN: 9780801432590 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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563,43 zł |
Political Theory for Mortals
ISBN: 9780801483769 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Seery offers a new conception of social contract theory as a framework for confronting death issues. He urges us to look to an older tradition of descent into an underworld, wherein classic theorists consulted poetically with the dead and acquired from them political insight and direction.
Seery offers a new conception of social contract theory as a framework for confronting death issues. He urges us to look to an older tradition of desc...
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166,94 zł |
America Goes to College: Political Theory for the Liberal Arts
ISBN: 9780791455920 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A rallying cry on behalf of a distinctly American institution of higher learning--the small liberal arts college--America Goes to College combines broad-based scholarship with personal narrative and reflection. In a highly entertaining manner, John E. Seery showcases the precarious successes of a well-rounded liberal arts college education, while at the same time signaling some of the dangers that loom on the horizon. Seery contends that the liberal arts are best pursued within the face-to-face interactive setting, characteristic of the small college classroom, as opposed to the large...
A rallying cry on behalf of a distinctly American institution of higher learning--the small liberal arts college--America Goes to College combines bro...
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140,09 zł |
Political Returns: Irony in Politics and Theory from Plato to the Antinuclear Movement
ISBN: 9780367283551 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book presents a theory of the politics of irony and tests this theory through readings of political theory texts and through an analysis of the politics of the contemporary anti-nuclear movement, and argues that political writing must be ironic.
This book presents a theory of the politics of irony and tests this theory through readings of political theory texts and through an analysis of the p...
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704,29 zł |
Political Returns
ISBN: 9780367299019 / Miękka / 2024 / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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192,97 zł |