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Approaches to Political Thought
ISBN: 9780742564244 / Angielski / Twarda / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Approaches to Political Thought raises three important questions concerning traditional political thought: (1) Why study the political writings and ideas of Plato, Machiavelli, and other long-dead writers? (2) Who among the writers, and which of their works, are worth studying? (3) How should they be studied? The book then explores ten contemporary approaches to understanding political thought and the diverse answers to these questions. The approaches covered include those of Leo Strauss, Hannah Arendt, Eric Voegelin, Sheldon Wolin, the Cambridge School (Quentin Skinner and J.G.A. Pocock),...
Approaches to Political Thought raises three important questions concerning traditional political thought: (1) Why study the political writings and id...
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Approaches to Political Thought
ISBN: 9780742564336 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on the ways in which major contemporary scholars approach political thought and writing from Plato to the present.
This book focuses on the ways in which major contemporary scholars approach political thought and writing from Plato to the present.
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Reticulations : Jean-Luc Nancy and the Networks of the Political
ISBN: 9780816654895 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Significantly advancing our notion of what constitutes a network, Philip Armstrong proposes a rethinking of political public space that specifically separates networks from the current popular discussion of globalization and information technology.
Significantly advancing our notion of what constitutes a network, Philip Armstrong proposes a rethinking of political public space that specifically s...
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Reticulations: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Networks of the Political
ISBN: 9780816654901 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Significantly advancing our notion of what constitutes a network, Philip Armstrong proposes a rethinking of political public space that specifically separates networks from the current popular discussion of globalization and information technology.
Significantly advancing our notion of what constitutes a network, Philip Armstrong proposes a rethinking of political public space that specifically s...
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Targets of Opportunity: On the Militarization of Thinking
ISBN: 9780823224753 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The title of this book echoes a phrase used by the Washington Post to describe the American attempt to kill Saddam Hussein at the start of the war against Iraq. Its theme is the notion of targeting (skopos) as the name of an intentional structure in which the subject tries to confirm its invulnerability by aiming to destroy a target. At the center of the first chapter is Odysseus's killing of the suitors; the second concerns Carl Schmitt's Roman Catholicism and Political Form; the third and fourth treat Freud's "Thoughts for the Times on War and Death" and "The Man Moses and Monotheistic...
The title of this book echoes a phrase used by the Washington Post to describe the American attempt to kill Saddam Hussein at the start of the war aga...
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Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy
ISBN: 9781604505566 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. JOHN STUART MILL (1806 1873), British philosopher, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, was an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century. These five essays represent Mills earliest thoughts on economic matters.
JOHN STUART MILL (1806 1873), British philosopher, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, was an influential liberal thinker of ...
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A Leftist Ontology: Beyond Relativism and Identity Politics
ISBN: 9780816650309 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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A Leftist Ontology : Beyond Relativism and Identity Politics
ISBN: 9780816650293 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics: Volume 6
ISBN: 9780816629176 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Toward a Political Philosophy of Race
ISBN: 9780791493984 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Timely, controversial, and incisive, Toward a Political Philosophy of Race looks uncompromisingly at how a liberal society enables racism and other forms of discrimination. Drawing on the examples of the internment of U.S. citizens and residents of Japanese descent, of Muslim men and women in the contemporary United States, and of Asian Indians at the turn of the twentieth century, Falguni A. Sheth argues that racial discrimination and divisions are not accidents in the history of liberal societies. Race, she contends, is a process embedded in a range of legal technologies that produce...
Timely, controversial, and incisive, Toward a Political Philosophy of Race looks uncompromisingly at how a liberal society enables racism and other fo...
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Between Athens and Jerusalem: Philosophy, Prophecy, and Politics in Leo Strauss's Early Thought
ISBN: 9780791473924 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Praised as a major political thinker of the twentieth century and vilified as the putative godfather of contemporary neoconservatism, Leo Strauss (1899-1973) has been the object of heated controversy both in the United States and abroad. This book offers a more balanced appraisal by focusing on Strauss's early writings. By means of a close and comprehensive study of these texts, David Janssens reconstructs the genesis of Strauss's thought from its earliest beginnings until his emigration to the United States in 1937. He discusses the first stages in Strauss's grappling with the...
Praised as a major political thinker of the twentieth century and vilified as the putative godfather of contemporary neoconservatism, Leo Strauss (189...
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Hobbes's Behemoth: Religion and Democracy
ISBN: 9781845401764 / Angielski / Miękka / 339 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hobbes's Behemoth has always been overshadowed by his more famous Leviathan, which is arguably his masterpiece and is one of the greatest works of political philosophy. Behemoth, Hobbes's "booke of the Civill Warr," on the other hand, is most often seen as little more than a history of the English Civil War and Interregnum. This volume contains analyses and interpretations of the Behemoth the structure of its argument, its relation to Hobbes's other writings, and its place in its philosophical, theological, political, and religious historical context. It... Hobbes's Behemoth has always been overshadowed by his more famous Leviathan, which is arguably his masterpiece and is one of the ... |
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Darwinian Conservatism: A Disputed Question
ISBN: 9781845401566 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A reprint of Larry Arnhart's essay Darwinian Conservatism with comment and criticism from a variety of contributors. A reprint of Larry Arnhart's essay Darwinian Conservatism with comment and criticism from a variety of contributors. |
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Patriotic Elaborations : Essays in Practical Philosophy
ISBN: 9780773534919 / Angielski / Twarda / 383 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Patriotic Elaborations' examines how an understanding of dialogue supports original approaches to politics, ethics, religion, and aesthetics.
'Patriotic Elaborations' examines how an understanding of dialogue supports original approaches to politics, ethics, religion, and aesthetics.
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The Sins of the Nation and the Ritual of Apologies
ISBN: 9780521516693 / Angielski / Twarda / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the last years of the twentieth century, political leaders the world over began to apologize for wrongs in their nations pasts. Many dismissed these apologies as mere words, cynical attempts to avoid more costly forms of reparation; others rejected them as inappropriate encroachments into politics or forms of action that belonged in personal relationships or religion. Yet, political apologies have gripped nations and provoked tremendous resistance. To understand apology s extraordinary political emergence, we have to suspend our automatic interpretations of what it means for nations to...
In the last years of the twentieth century, political leaders the world over began to apologize for wrongs in their nations pasts. Many dismissed thes...
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Religion, Politics and Thomas Hobbes
ISBN: 9781402044670 / Angielski / Twarda / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essaysthat comprise thisvolume were written over the period of some ten years, for different purposes and on different occasions, but they are unitedby a number of features, which this preface may serve to indicate. While the collection begins with a translation drawn from the fourth p- sentation of Hobbes's political thought, namely, the Latin Leviathan of 1668, after The Elements of Law (1640), De Cive (1642 and 1647) and the English Leviathan of 1651, the focus of the essays is largely on theEnglish version of his masterpiece of political philosophy. It isthe center of gravityinthe...
The essaysthat comprise thisvolume were written over the period of some ten years, for different purposes and on different occasions, but they are uni...
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Real World Justice: Grounds, Principles, Human Rights, and Social Institutions
ISBN: 9781402031410 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 1 2 Andreas Follesdal and Thomas Pogge 1 The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights at the Faculty of Law and ARENA Centre for 2 European Studies, University of Oslo; Philosophy, Columbia University, New York, and Oslo University; Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Australian National University, Canberra This volume discusses principles of global justice, their normative grounds, and the social institutions they require. Over the last few decades an increasing number of philosophers and political theorists have attended to these morally urgent, politically confounding and...
1 2 Andreas Follesdal and Thomas Pogge 1 The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights at the Faculty of Law and ARENA Centre for 2 European Studies, Universi...
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The Content of Social Explanation
ISBN: 9780521103527 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a study of the central questions of explanation in the social sciences, and a defence of 'holism' against 'individualism'.
This is a study of the central questions of explanation in the social sciences, and a defence of 'holism' against 'individualism'.
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On Civic Friendship: Including Women in the State
ISBN: 9780231147231 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women have performed the vast majority of often unpaid friendship labor for centuries. Embodying the freedom, equality, and ideals of the Constitution, civic friendship emerges as a necessary condition for genuine justice. Through a critical examination of social and political relationships from ancient times to today, Sibyl Schwarzenbach develops a truly innovative, feminist theory of the democratic state. Beginning with an analysis of Aristotle's notion of political friendship, Schwarzenbach brings the philosopher's insights to bear on the social and political requirements of the modern...
Women have performed the vast majority of often unpaid friendship labor for centuries. Embodying the freedom, equality, and ideals of the Constitution...
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Feuerbach - The Roots of the Socialist Philosophy. Theses on Feuerbach
ISBN: 9781595691286 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work is a testimony with regard to the method employed by Marx and Engels in arriving at their philosophical conclusions. It is the statement of the philosophical foundations of modern socialist theory by one who helped to lay them; it is an old man's account of the case upon the preparation of which he has spent his entire life, for, this work, short as it is, represents the results of forty years of toil and persevering effort. With Marx's eleven theses on Feuerbach printed here as an appendix.
This work is a testimony with regard to the method employed by Marx and Engels in arriving at their philosophical conclusions. It is the statement of ...
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