Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Political

• Investigates the nature and value of deliberation, the feasibility and desirability of consensus on contentious issues, the implications of institutional complexity and cultural diversity for democratic decision making, and the...

• Surveys the intellectual debate on the nature of evil over the past two hundred years
• Engages with a broad range of discourses and thinkers, from Kant and the German Idealists, via Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, to Levinas and Adorno
• Suggests that the concept of moral evil touches on a neuralgic point in western culture
• Argues that, despite the widespread abuse and political manipulation of the term 'evil', we...

• A distinctive, practically oriented contribution to debates about global justice.
  
• Helps readers to examine the fairness of global rules and institutions.
  
• Integrates philosophical thinking about normative responsibility with discussion of practical dilemmas concerning organizations such as the WTO, and rules governing the use of force internationally.
  
• Brings together original articles by...

• New contributors include some of today's most distinguished scholars, among them Thomas Pogge, Charles Beitz, and Michael Doyle
• Provides in-depth coverage of contemporary philosophical debate in all major related disciplines, such as economics, history, law, political science, international relations and sociology
• Presents analysis of key political...

• This volume includes pieces on moral psychology, theory of reasons and rationality, political philosophy, ethics, metaethics, and epistemology.
  
• Includes a book symposium on Brad Hooker's Ideal Code, Real World, with contributions by Richard Arneson and Alison McIntyre, along with Brad Hooker's response.

• Focuses on how race and class inevitably structure vastly unequal life prospects
  
• Shows how human society can be organized in a way that does not socialize children for lives of routine labour
  
• Looks towards contribution, not distribution, as a way to promote racial equality
  
• Argues that by sharing routine and complex labor, social...

• Focuses on how race and class inevitably structure vastly unequal life prospects
  
• Shows how human society can be organized in a way that does not socialize children for lives of routine labour
  
• Looks towards contribution, not distribution, as a way to promote racial equality
  
• Argues that by sharing routine and complex labor, social...

In what must be ranked as a foremost classic of twentieth-century political philosophy, George Santayana, in the preface to his last major work prior to his death, makes plain the limits as well as the aims of Dominations and Powers: "All that it professes to contain is glimpses of tragedy and comedy played unawares by governments; and a continual intuitive reduction of political maxims and institutions to the intimate spiritual fruits that they are capable of bearing."

This astonishing volume shows how the potential beauty latent in all sorts of worldly artifacts and events...