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Social & political philosophy

Hardcover. Ever since Kant and Hegel, the notion of autonomy - the idea that we are beholden to no law except one we impose upon ourselves - has been considered the truest philosophical expression of human freedom. This book uncovers dangers in the notion of autonomy as it was originally conceived by Kant. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226155487
ISBN
9780226155487
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 40.19

Hardback. This book elucidates the ways in which German Idealist authors such as Kant, Fichte, Friedrich Schlegel and Hegel envisioned the conjunction of spontaneous activity and receptivity towards culturally transmitted models in the context of aesthetic experience, philosophical thought, textual communication and literary criticism. Series: Idiom Inventing Writing Theory. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 313 x 30. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823268290
ISBN
9780823268290
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.66

Paperback. What, if anything, does figurative, political slavery have to do with transatlantic slavery? The author explores connections between political and chattel slavery by excavating the tradition of Western political thought that justifies actively opposing tyranny. Num Pages: 435 pages, 14 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: HBTS; HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
435
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226271798
ISBN
9780226271798
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.96

Hardback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBLA1; HPCA; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 243 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801453168
ISBN
9780801453168
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.13

Paperback. Editor(s): Smith, Mary-Antoinette. Num Pages: 500 pages. BIC Classification: HBLL; HBTS; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 547.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Number of pages
500
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551113388
ISBN
9781551113388
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.83

paperback. Relates the concepts of subalternity, antagonism and autonomy to contemporary movements in Latin America and elsewhere. Series: Reading Gramsci. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JHB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Pluto Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780745334059
ISBN
9780745334059
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.99
€ 47.49

Hardback. Editor(s): Matravers, Matt; Fiala, Andrew. Series: Bloomsbury Companions. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 242 x 26. Weight in Grams: 588.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847065544
ISBN
9781847065544
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 230.91
€ 204.00

Hardback. In this lively and accessible book, Matt Matravers considers the highly contested role of responsibility in politics, morality, and the law. He asks, what are we doing when we hold people responsible in deciding questions of distributive justice or of punishment? and considers the role of philosophy in answering this very contemporary question. Num Pages: 180 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745629988
ISBN
9780745629988
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.45

Paperback. In this lively and accessible book, Matt Matravers considers the role of responsibility in politics, morality and the law. In recent years, responsibility has taken a central place in our lives. In politics, both Tony Blair and George W. Bush have claimed that individual responsibility is at the centre of their policy agendas. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 10. Weight in Grams: 222.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745629995
ISBN
9780745629995
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.39

Paperback. Editor(s): Zwolinski, Matt. Series: Arguing About Philosophy. Num Pages: 740 pages, 8 black & white tables. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 184 x 255 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1244.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415535823
ISBN
9780415535823
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 94.08

Paperback. For too long we have convinced ourselves that the only jobs worth doing involve sitting at a desk. Drawing on the work of our greatest thinkers, from Aristotle to Heidegger, from Karl Marx to Iris Murdoch, as well as on his own experiences as an electrician and motorcycle mechanic, the author intends to change the way you think about work forever. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 b/w line drawings. BIC Classification: HPS; JMJ; VS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 236.
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141047294
ISBN
9780141047294
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.85

Paperback. Is life without the state really possible, and, if so, what would such a life look like? Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782790075
ISBN
9781782790075
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.45

Paperback. Maurice Blanchot is a towering yet enigmatic figure in twentieth-century French thought. Both his fiction and his criticism played a determining role in how postwar French philosophy was written, especially in its intense concern with the question of writing as such. This volume collects his political writings from 1953 to 1993. Translator(s): Paul, Zakir. Series: French Voices. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HPCF; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823229987
ISBN
9780823229987
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.83

Hardcover. .
Publisher
MIT Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262034869
ISBN
9780262034869
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 38.60

Paperback. .
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
117
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781862079915
ISBN
9781862079915
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.46

Paperback. Makes a case that Machiavelli, far from being a pagan or atheist, was a prophet of a true religion of liberty, a way of moral and political living that would rediscover and pursue charity and justice. Translator(s): Shugaar, Antony. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; HRAM2; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691154497
ISBN
9780691154497
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.27

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; 3JB; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 266.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691168593
ISBN
9780691168593
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.82

Paperback. A collection of Weber's writings on a broad array of themes, from the nature of work, to the political culture of democracy, to the uniqueness of the West, to the character of the family and race relations, to the role of science and the fate of ethical action in the modern world. Editor(s): Kalberg, Stephen. Series: Modernity & Society. Num Pages: 432 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPS; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 30. Weight in Grams: 738.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631214908
ISBN
9780631214908
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.92

paperback. This is an analysis of how Heidegger, Brecht, Habermas, Adorno, and other German thinkers came to terms with the proliferation of technologies - technologies of bureaucratic democracy, of surveillance and military conquest, and those that affect the human psyche and soul. Editor(s): McCormick, John. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3J; HPC; HPS; JPA; JPHV; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822327882
ISBN
9780822327882
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.75

Hardcover. Acclaimed author follows the work of the Situationist International after May 1968. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HPS; JFC; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 30. Weight in Grams: 468.
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844679577
ISBN
9781844679577
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.60

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