Paradoxes of Freedom: The Romantic Mystique of a Transcendence
ISBN: 9780198121817 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. McFarland's newest book elucidates the philosophical and historical conception of liberty. Centering his argument on the Romantic exaltation of freedom, McFarland identifies freedom, along with love and religion, as one of the three chief transcendences by which humanity orients itself. He reveals, through an examination ranging from Shakespeare and Luther through Nietzsche and Wagner, both the reasons for the supreme valuation of freedom and the nature of the theoretical and practical obstacles that hinder its realization.
McFarland's newest book elucidates the philosophical and historical conception of liberty. Centering his argument on the Romantic exaltation of freedo...
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The Individual in Political Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9780198205494 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this major study, a team of leading European scholars explores ways in which the concept of the individual developed in various areas of political and social life. The story concerns the changing nature of individual identity, community interest and corporate groups, as they were gradually redefined by common western European experiences of universal Catholicism, feudalism, civic republicanism and absolutism, Reformation and Counter-Reformation, commerce and capitalism. As European societies evolved into increasingly centralized national states, there emerged a range of religious and...
In this major study, a team of leading European scholars explores ways in which the concept of the individual developed in various areas of political ...
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Social Justice
ISBN: 9780198246213 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the various aspects of social justice-to each according to his rights, to each acording to his desert, and to each according to his need-comparing the writings of Hume, Spencer, and Kropotkin. Miller demonstrates that there are radical differences in outlook on social justice between societies, and that these differences can be explained by reference to features of the social structure.
This book explores the various aspects of social justice-to each according to his rights, to each acording to his desert, and to each according to his...
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A Political Theory of Rights
ISBN: 9780198279631 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rights are basic building blocks of the contemporary state, yet their rigorous justification is difficult. This book provides a thorough analysis of this central topic, and challenges the orthodox view that rights are a type of property claim in one's body. Drawing on the tradition of the social contract as well as the wealth of recent work in political theory, Ingram conceives of rights as a type of political claim, and shows how they can be justified in a way particularly suited to the pluralistic nature of contemporary liberal society.
Rights are basic building blocks of the contemporary state, yet their rigorous justification is difficult. This book provides a thorough analysis of t...
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A Measure of Freedom
ISBN: 9780198294535 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides the first systematic account of the nature and importance of our judgements about degrees of freedom. Author Ian Carter analyzes the normative assumptions behind the claim that individuals are entitled to a measure of freedom. He argues for a conception of freedom that not only reflects commonly held intuitions about who is freer than who but is also compatible with a liberal or freedom-based theory of justice.
This book provides the first systematic account of the nature and importance of our judgements about degrees of freedom. Author Ian Carter analyzes th...
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The Legacy of Human-Rights Violations in the Southern Cone: Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay
ISBN: 9780198296157 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a systematic and comparative study of the way three countries in the Southern Cone of the Americas have confronted the legacy of past human rights violations. It examines their attempts to rebuild human rights through public accountability, compensation, educational policy, constitutional reform, and debates about national history and collective memory.
This book provides a systematic and comparative study of the way three countries in the Southern Cone of the Americas have confronted the legacy of pa...
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902,73 zł |
The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America: Rethinking Participation and Representation
ISBN: 9780198781837 / Angielski / Miękka / 664 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Against a broad backdrop of globalization and worldwide movement toward democracy, the essays in this important new collection examine the unfolding relationships among such phenomena as social change, equity, and democratic representation of the poor in nine different Latin American countries and Spain. Recent shifts in the composition of inequality and increases in overall disparities of wealth have coincided with governments turning away from historic redistributive politics, and also with the general weakening of political and social organizations traditionally identified with the...
Against a broad backdrop of globalization and worldwide movement toward democracy, the essays in this important new collection examine the unfolding r...
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628,82 zł |
Citizenship Rights and Social Movements: A Comparative and Statistical Analysis
ISBN: 9780199240463 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first truly comparative study of the relationship between social movements and citizenship rights. Focusing on the experiences of Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Spain, the authors employ sophisticated quantitative research methods to measure comparative variations between these two factors, analyzing their relationship both within and across national cases. They proceed to test the main connections made between movements and rights in both theory and history, evaluating these in the light of the experience of modern authoritarian regimes.
This is the first truly comparative study of the relationship between social movements and citizenship rights. Focusing on the experiences of Brazil, ...
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A Measure of Freedom
ISBN: 9780199267491 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides the first systematic account of the nature and importance of our judgements about degrees of freedom. Author Ian Carter analyzes the normative assumptions behind the claim that individuals are entitled to a measure of freedom. He argues for a conception of freedom that not only reflects commonly held intuitions about who is freer than who but is also compatible with a liberal or freedom-based theory of justice.
This book provides the first systematic account of the nature and importance of our judgements about degrees of freedom. Author Ian Carter analyzes th...
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349,93 zł |
Gender and Justice in Multicultural Liberal States
ISBN: 9780199289790 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gender and Justice in Multicultural Liberal States explores the challenges that culturally plural liberal states face when they hold competing political commitments to cultural rights and sexual equality, and advances an argument for resolving such dilemmas through democratic dialogue and negotiation. Exploring recent examples of gendered cultural conflicts in South Africa, Canada, and Britain, this book shows that there is an urgent need for workable strategies to mediate the antagonisms between the cultural practices and arrangements of certain ethno-cultural and religious groups and the...
Gender and Justice in Multicultural Liberal States explores the challenges that culturally plural liberal states face when they hold competing politic...
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265,27 zł |
Political Rights Under Stress in 21st Century Europe
ISBN: 9780199296033 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited collection examines the growing uncertainty about the role and scope of traditional political rights in the 21st Century's increased threat of terrorism. It reflects on the appropriate scope and strength of protection of political rights in a wider global context, and covers issues such as the rise of 'militant democracies' and the effectiveness of the Council of Europe's monitoring mechanisms.
This edited collection examines the growing uncertainty about the role and scope of traditional political rights in the 21st Century's increased threa...
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295,14 zł |
Arab Revolution in the 21st Century?: Lessons from Egypt and Tunisia
ISBN: 9781137574916 / Angielski / Twarda / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Arab Liberation Tide may yet prove to be a human renaissance in the Arab World or a disaster of epic proportions. This monograph uses a structuralist political economy framework to present a compassionate analysis of the Arab popular uprisings in the 21st century, with particular reference to Egypt and Tunisia. "The Arab Liberation Tide may yet prove to be a human renaissance in the Arab World or a disaster of epic proportions. This monograph uses a structu... |
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The Rights Revolution: Lawyers, Activists, and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9780226211626 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is well known that the scope of individual rights has expanded dramatically in the United States over the last half-century. Less well known is that other countries have experienced -rights revolutions- as well. Charles R. Epp argues that, far from being the fruit of an activist judiciary, the ascendancy of civil rights and liberties has rested on the democratization of access to the courts--the influence of advocacy groups, the establishment of governmental enforcement agencies, the growth of financial and legal resources for ordinary citizens, and the strategic planning of grass roots...
It is well known that the scope of individual rights has expanded dramatically in the United States over the last half-century. Less well known is tha...
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Beyond Adversary Democracy
ISBN: 9780226503554 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Beyond Adversary Democracy should be read by everyone concerned with democratic theory and practice."--Carol Pateman, Politics
"Sociologists recurrently complain about how seldom it is that we produce books that combine serious theorizing about important issues of public policy with original and sensitive field research. Several rounds of enthusiastic applause, then, are due Jane Mansbridge . . . for having produced a dense and well written book whose subject is nothing less ambitious than the theory of democracy and its problems of equality, solidarity, and consensus.... "Beyond Adversary Democracy should be read by everyone concerned with democratic theory and practice."--Carol Pateman, Politics
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Political Participation and Government Regulation
ISBN: 9780226654171 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sam Peltzman is one of the world's leading economists, and the essays in this collection are central to the modern canon in political economy. These ten articles and an original introduction respond to two broad questions: How does government work? How do voters and their elected representatives make decisions? Given the media's portrayal of the cynical political atmosphere in America, Peltzman's responses are rather surprising the electorate really does make well-informed decisions and elected officials actually do tend to vote according to their constituents' interests. These conclusions...
Sam Peltzman is one of the world's leading economists, and the essays in this collection are central to the modern canon in political economy. These t...
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Citizen Speak: The Democratic Imagination in American Life
ISBN: 9780226660813 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When we think about what constitutes being a good citizen, routine activities like voting, letter writing, and paying attention to the news spring to mind. But in Citizen Speak, Andrew J. Perrin argues that these activities are only a small part of democratic citizenship—a standard of citizenship that requires creative thinking, talking, and acting.
For Citizen Speak, Perrin met with labor, church, business, and sports organizations and proposed to them four fictive scenarios: what if your senator is involved in... When we think about what constitutes being a good citizen, routine activities like voting, letter writing, and paying attention to the news ...
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A Vindication of Political Virtue: The Political Theory of Mary Wollstonecraft
ISBN: 9780226734910 / Angielski / Miękka / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nearly two hundred years ago, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote what is considered to be the first major work of feminist political theory: "A Vindication of the Rights of Women." Much has been written about this work, and about Wollstonecraft as the intellectual pioneer of feminism, but the actual substance and coherence of her political thought have been virtually ignored. Virginia Sapiro here provides the first full-length treatment of Wollstonecraft's political theory.
Drawing on "all" of Wollstonecraft's works and treating them thematically rather than sequentially, Sapiro shows that... Nearly two hundred years ago, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote what is considered to be the first major work of feminist political theory: "A Vindication of ...
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Hegel's Critique of Liberalism: Rights in Context
ISBN: 9780226763507 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Hegel's "Critique of Liberalism," Steven B. Smith examines Hegel's critique of rights-based liberalism and its relevance to contemporary political concerns. Smith argues that Hegel reformulated classic liberalism, preserving what was of value while rendering it more attentive to the dynamics of human history and the developmental structure of the moral personality. Hegel's goal, Smith suggests, was to find a way of incorporating both the ancient emphasis on the dignity and even architectonic character of political life with the modern concern for freedom, rights, and mutual recognition....
In Hegel's "Critique of Liberalism," Steven B. Smith examines Hegel's critique of rights-based liberalism and its relevance to contemporary political ...
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Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: And Three Brief Essays
ISBN: 9780226772585 / Angielski / Miękka / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With great energy and clarity, Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1829-1894), author of "History of the Criminal Law of England," and judge of the High Court from 1879-91, challenges John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" and "On Utilitarianism," arguing that Mill's view of humanity is sentimental and utopian.
"His writing is strong meat full of the threat of hellfrire, the virtue of government by the lash and a fervent belief that the state cannot remain neutral but has a duty to espouse a moral code." Roderick Munday, "Cambridge Law Journal" " With great energy and clarity, Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1829-1894), author of "History of the Criminal Law of England," and judge of the High Cour...
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Natural Right and History
ISBN: 9780226776941 / Angielski / Miękka / 335 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction between right and wrong in ethics and politics. On the centenary of Strauss's birth, and the fiftieth anniversary of the Walgreen Lectures which spawned the work, Natural Right and History remains as controversial and essential as ever. "Strauss . . . makes a significant contribution towards an understanding of the intellectual crisis in which we find ourselves . . . and] brings to his task an admirable scholarship and a brilliant,...
In this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction betw...
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