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Social & political philosophy

Paperback. Series: Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314. Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty. Series: Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History. 224 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 14. Weight: 312.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231153416
ISBN
9780231153416
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.15

Hardcover. Leo Strauss has been simultaneously condemned by the Left as an extreme opponent of liberal democracy and celebrated by the Right as a defender of Western civilization. Rejecting both of these portrayals, this title shifts the debate beyond the conventional parameters of our age. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPHV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 548.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875804781
ISBN
9780875804781
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 46.88

Paperback. Translator(s): DeBevoise, M. B.; Philip, Franklin. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691604183
ISBN
9780691604183
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.73

Hardcover. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 288.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745691145
ISBN
9780745691145
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.67

Paperback. Translator(s): Bononno, Robert. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 149 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816644568
ISBN
9780816644568
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.48

Hardback. Turn on your television and you're bound to run across the concept of interrogation, whether it's on CNN or CSI. But despite daily mentions of the practice in the media, you're unlikely to find informed commentary on its moral implications. This book addresses this complex issue. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226761619
ISBN
9780226761619
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.89
€ 78.49

paperback. This collection of essays investigates the relevance of Stanley Cavell's work to political philosophy. Editor(s): Norris, Andrew. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 549.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804751322
ISBN
9780804751322
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.03

hardcover. Arguing that Western power is both "government" and "glory," this book reveals the "theological-economic" paradigm at the origin of several of the most important components of modern politics and illuminates the function of consent and the media in today's democracies. Translator(s): Chiesa, Lorenzo; Mandarini, Matteo. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; HRAM2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 557.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804760157
ISBN
9780804760157
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.43

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. 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

€ 88.89

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

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

€ 94.89
€ 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
€ 34.03

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

€ 24.17

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

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

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

€ 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
€ 39.88

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

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
€ 26.71

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

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

€ 56.71

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

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

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