Offers a contribution to the understanding of contemporary international institutions and the working of the British system of government. This book deals with the problems presented to British Government Departments by the emergence in the post-war world of a number of different international organisations.

Durkheim's study of socialism, first published in English in 1959, is a document of exceptional intellectual interest and a genuine milestone in the history of sociological theory. It presents us with the extensive commentary upon another key figure in the history of sociological thought, Henri Saint-Simon.

It is a commonly held belief that television news in Britain, on whatever channel, is more objective, more trustworthy, more neutral than press reporting. The illusion is exploded in this controversial study by the Glasgow University Media Group, originally published in 1976.

Examines concepts including the individually orientated values of self-direction and acceptance, and those of role, adjustment and integration, which express the individual's relation to society. This book's concern is to see whether a coherent theory of the relationship between individual and society can be given in terms of these concepts.

Bringing the insights of analytical Political Philosophy to bear on the issues of social welfare and welfare provision, the authors discuss such issues as the basis of the sense of stigma involved in the receipt of welfare benefits, the right of welfare and the concepts of 'community'.

Expanding on the theory of ethics first posited by Brentano in 'The Origin of our Knowledge of Right and Wrong', this re-issued work, first published posthumously in 1952, is based on a series of lectures on practical philosophy, given at the university of Vienna from 1876 to 1894.

'A Truer Liberty', first published in 1989, provided the first serious study of Simone Weil's political writings, as opposed to her work on the philosophy of religion. Blum and Seidler show how Simone Weil's philosophy differed from Marxism by putting political action on a firmly moral basis.

This is a collection of three seminal works by eminent French thinker Emile Durkheim, one of the founders of sociology - 'Sociology and Philosophy', 'Socialism and Saint-Simon' and 'Primitive Classification'.

This title rovides a coherent and comprehensive analytical guide to liberal thinking over the past century and considers the dominance of liberal thought in Anglo-American political philosophy over the past 20 years.

Bradbury draws attention to Bellow's comedy, his sense of contemporary history and its stresses and anxieties, his attempt to sustain an adequate concept of the individual and the power of the imagination in an age of overwhelming concepts and notions of 'death of the subject'.