×


 x 

Shopping cart

Social & political philosophy

Results 1101 - 1120 of 1252

Social & political philosophy

Paperback. Num Pages: 318 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271022925
ISBN
9780271022925
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 52.85

Paperback. Often lost in the debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what is being constructed. Ian Hacking looks at the issue of child abuse, and examines the ways in which advanced research on new weapons influences not the content but the form of science. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF; HPK; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 316.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674004122
ISBN
9780674004122
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 36.08

Paperback. A collection of three of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's most important political writings - "The Social Contract"; "The First Discourse (Discourse on the Sciences and Arts)"; and "The Second Discourse (Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality)". There are essays by major scholars. Series: Rethinking the Western Tradition. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 3JF; HPCD; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300091410
ISBN
9780300091410
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 17.06

Paperback. An examination of new forms of alienation in our never-off, plugged-in culture--and a clarion call for a "conspiracy of estranged people." Translator(s): Cadel, Francesca; Giuseppina, Mecchia. Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFC; JFFP; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584350767
ISBN
9781584350767
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.33

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

Paperback. To govern in a democracy, political leaders have to compromise. When they do not, the result is political paralysis - dramatically demonstrated by the gridlock in Congress in recent years. This book shows why compromise is so important, what stands in the way of achieving it, and how citizens can make defensible compromises more likely. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPS; JPHV; JPVL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 139 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
New Preface by the authors
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691160856
ISBN
9780691160856
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.93

Hardcover. In recent years, feminist and queer theory have effectively disavowed both the human and revolutionary politics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFK; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 444.
Publisher
Polity
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745690742
ISBN
9780745690742
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.77

Paperback. In recent years, feminist and queer theory have effectively disavowed both the human and revolutionary politics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFK; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 330.
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745690759
ISBN
9780745690759
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.66

Paperback. What should we expect from democracy, and how likely is it that democracies will live up to those expectations? This work offers an assessment of contemporary answers to these questions, and explores its implications for policy and political action. It includes accounts of democracy's purposes that focus on aggregating preferences. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 234 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691123967
ISBN
9780691123967
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.61

Paperback. Reconsiders the dominant Western understandings of freedom through the lens of women's real-life experiences of domestic violence, welfare, and Islamic veiling. This book argues that the typical approach to freedom found in political philosophy reduces the concept's complexity, which is more revealed by taking such practical issues into account. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFK; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691096254
ISBN
9780691096254
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.29
€ 42.32

Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; FYB; FYT; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 12.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691172637
ISBN
9780691172637
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.49

Hardback. In Techne of Giving, Timothy Campbell elaborates a notion of generosity as way of responding to contemporary biopower. Reading films from Visconti, Rossellini, and Antonioni, he both updates their political lexicon while adopting them as models able to push back against neoliberal forms of gift-giving. Series: Commonalities. Num Pages: 240 pages, 30 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780823273256
ISBN
9780823273256
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.28

Paperback. In Techne of Giving, Timothy Campbell elaborates a notion of generosity as way of responding to contemporary biopower. Reading films from Visconti, Rossellini, and Antonioni, he both updates their political lexicon while adopting them as models able to push back against neoliberal forms of gift-giving. Series: Commonalities. Num Pages: 240 pages, 30 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780823273263
ISBN
9780823273263
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 32.04

Paperback. Exposing the religious roots of our ostensibly godless age, this study reveals that modernity is much less secular than conventional wisdom suggests. Beginning with the collapse of the medieval world, it argues that from the very beginning, moderns sought not to eliminate religion but to support a new view of religion and its place in human life. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; HRAB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 534.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226293462
ISBN
9780226293462
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 26.02

Paperback. * Roberto Esposito is one of leading figures in a new generation of Italian philosophers. * This book criticizes the notion of the person and develops an original account of the concept of the impersonal - what he calls the third person. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745643984
ISBN
9780745643984
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.35

Hardback. * Roberto Esposito is one of leading figures in a new generation of Italian philosophers. * This book criticizes the notion of the person and develops an original account of the concept of the impersonal - what he calls the third person. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745643977
ISBN
9780745643977
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.98

Paperback. The first global study of social democracy - authored by a wide range of leading thinkers from around the world Editor(s): Schmidt, Ingo. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 215 x 24. Weight in Grams: 370.
Publisher
Pluto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745336084
ISBN
9780745336084
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.86

Paperback. Alexis de Tocqueville is an ancestor of modern social science and one of the most influential political thinkers of the 19th century. This reader includes his major writing, travel letters, conversations with ministers and politicians, and diary entries not originally intended for the public. Editor(s): Zunz, Olivier (Commonwealth Professor of History, University of Virginia, USA); Kahan, Alan S. (Associate Professor, History Department, Florida International University, USA). Num Pages: 384 pages, 1. BIC Classification: BJ; HPS; JHBA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 534.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631215462
ISBN
9780631215462
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.09

Hardback. The contributors gathered together by Richard J. Golsan and Sarah M. Misemer in The Trial That Never Ends assess the contested legacy of Hannah Arendt's famous book and the issues she raised. Editor(s): Golsan, Richard J. Series: German & European Studies. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBLL; HPS; JFSR1; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781487501464
ISBN
9781487501464
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.39

Paperback. Is Leo Strauss truly an intellectual forebear of neoconservatism and a powerful force in shaping Bush administration foreign policy? This title puts this question to rest, revealing how the popular media came to perpetuate an oversimplified view of a complex and wide-ranging philosopher. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226993331
ISBN
9780226993331
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.94

Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!