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Hardcover. This book examines the goals of civic education in liberal democracy, and demonstrates how we can recognize the value of the kinds of character formation that civic education has traditionally involved without losing the portion of the truth that can be found in the orthodox view which favors critical autonomy Series: Oxford Political Theory. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198733614
- ISBN
- 9780198733614
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.28
€ 94.28
Hardcover. Secularism is usually thought to contain the project of self-deification, in which humans attack God's authority in order to take his place. This title overturns this conception through an incisive analysis of the early modern justifications for secular politics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226081298
- ISBN
- 9780226081298
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 38.32
€ 48.99
€ 38.32
hardcover. Editor(s): Reich, Rob; Cordelli, Chiara; Bernholz, Lucy. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JKSN1; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226335506
- ISBN
- 9780226335506
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.73€ 79.17
€ 94.73
€ 79.17
Paperback. A collection of essays which invite readers to consider how their political principles become manifest in their private lives. It considers treatments of friendship by Christian thinkers such as Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, and Calvin. It also addresses the postmodern emphasis on fragmentation and the dynamics of power within the modern state. Editor(s): Heyking, John von; Avramenko, Richard. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268043704
- ISBN
- 9780268043704
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.08
€ 37.99
€ 34.08
Paperback. Thomas Hobbes was the first great English political philosopher. His work excited intense controversy among his contemporaries and continues to do so in our own time. Series: Polity Classic Thinkers Series. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745648828
- ISBN
- 9780745648828
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.57
€ 24.57
hardcover. This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas-Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 192 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KBBEY; 1KLSA; AB; HPS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804745604
- ISBN
- 9780804745604
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.37
€ 113.37
hardcover. Refugees, Women, and Weapons examines the role of domestic advocates, state identity and domestic norms in Japan's counterintuitive adoption of and compliance with three treaties-related to women's rights, refugee protection, and land mines-whose international normative framework conflict with Japan's domestic norms. Num Pages: 208 pages, 5 tables, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804759731
- ISBN
- 9780804759731
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.57
€ 71.57
hardcover. Num Pages: 64 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JPFC; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 153 x 50. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Diaphanes AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 64
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9783037345450
- ISBN
- 9783037345450
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.55
€ 15.99
€ 13.55
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
€ 51.99
€ 40.19
hardcover. Both a lucid introduction and a subtle demolition of the philosopher whose theories were treated as near-divine by those who followed him. Series: Liveright Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 199 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Norton & Company
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780871407931
- ISBN
- 9780871407931
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.60
€ 13.99
€ 10.60
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
€ 37.99
€ 34.83
Paperback. Examines the condition of society in late capitalism where market logic has become the new 'common sense'. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 214 x 10. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745331553
- ISBN
- 9780745331553
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 26.89
€ 40.99
€ 26.89
Hardcover. Lord Acton (1834-1902) is often called a historian of liberty. Acton is mainly known for a single maxim, 'Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely'. In this title, the author presents an indepth consideration of Acton's thought. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875804651
- ISBN
- 9780875804651
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.63
€ 57.63
Paperback. This innovative book is the first to couch the debate about animals in the language of justice, and the first to develop both ideal and nonideal theories of justice for animals. It rejects the abolitionist animal rights position in favor of a revised version of animal rights centering on sentience. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JFFZ; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199936335
- ISBN
- 9780199936335
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.94
€ 56.94
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
€ 59.99
€ 47.49
paperback. Locke's Second Treatise is a classic of political philosophy. It helped entrench ideas of a social contract, human rights, and consent as guiding principles for modern Western democracy. His Letter calls for religious tolerance and separation of church and state. This edition offers an essential guide to these two foundational works. Editor(s): Goldie, Mark. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 3JD; HPCD; HPCD1; HPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 130 x 196 x 17. Weight in Grams: 194. Some light scuffing and shelfwear, otherwise a very good copy.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KRF2233483
- ISBN
- 9780198732440
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 12.99€ 7.28
€ 12.99
€ 7.28
Hardback. A collection of essays that locates ideas about democracy in three far-ranging contexts. It includes a companion collection on Philosophy, Politics, and Democracy. Num Pages: 426 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 163 x 34. Weight in Grams: 778.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 426
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674055605
- ISBN
- 9780674055605
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.41€ 50.58
€ 54.41
€ 50.58
hardcover. Watching War explores what it means to be a spectator to battles in an era in which the boundaries between witnessing, representing, and perpetrating violence have become profoundly blurred. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JFD; JWA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 865. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804782395
- ISBN
- 9780804782395
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.89
€ 128.89
Paperback. Presents the author's study of the founder of modern philosophy. This title is available in English. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Verso Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844675821
- ISBN
- 9781844675821
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.25
€ 32.25
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPS; JFSL1; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801486982
- ISBN
- 9780801486982
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.61
€ 41.99
€ 37.61