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Social & political philosophy
Paperback. The authors examine the relationship between social science and philosophy and ask what sort of work social science and an accompanying philosophy should do. They reintroduce the question of ontology, through the work of Roy Bhaskar. The book argues against philosophising and is committed to a philosophical approach grounded in the social sciences. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JHB; JHBA; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349523849
- ISBN
- 9781349523849
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.63
€ 62.63
Hardcover. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JHBA; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403946737
- ISBN
- 9781403946737
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.57
€ 63.57
Hardcover. One of political philosophy's most trenchant and inventive critics challenges the field's normative turn, arguing that the study of politics should focus on real politics, where normative judgments arise from concrete configurations of power. Raymond Geuss shows how this can be done without succumbing to a toxic relativism or abandoning utopianism. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674504950
- ISBN
- 9780674504950
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.81
€ 47.99
€ 39.81
Paperback. A first in English, this book engages with the ways in which Hegel and Sartre answer the difficult questions: What is it to be human? What place do we have in the world? How should we live? What can we be?" Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPM; HPS; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349339631
- ISBN
- 9781349339631
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.99
€ 63.99
Hardcover. A first in English, this book engages with the ways in which Hegel and Sartre answer the difficult questions: What is it to be human? What place do we have in the world? How should we live? What can we be? Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230314351
- ISBN
- 9780230314351
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.49
€ 64.49
Hardback. Series: Philosophical Studies Series. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1977
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789027708052
- ISBN
- 9789027708052
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.59
€ 122.59
Paperback. Series: Philosophical Studies Series. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1977
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1977
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789027708519
- ISBN
- 9789027708519
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 121.72
€ 121.72
Paperback. Editor(s): Fawcett, Carolyn R.; Cohen, Robert S. Translator(s): Visson, Lynn. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 464 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HB; HPS; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789401085397
- ISBN
- 9789401085397
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 187.53
€ 187.53
Hardback. Seeks to bridge the gap between philosophers who use the idea of reason to assess human behavior from a normative point of view and social scientists who use the idea of rationality to explain behavior. This book proposes a unified conceptual framework for the study of behavior. Translator(s): Rendall, Steven. Num Pages: 96 pages, 3 line illus. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 160 x 109 x 12. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691139005
- ISBN
- 9780691139005
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.74
€ 33.99
€ 24.74
Hardback. This text is intended to serve as an introduction to the thought of the Thomistic political scientist James V. Schall who addresses a wide range of subjects, including the question of overpopulation and critical reflections on the thought of Charles McCoy and Leo Strauss. Series: Applications of Political Theory. Num Pages: 200 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPS; HRAB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739101988
- ISBN
- 9780739101988
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.84
€ 129.84
Hardcover. Features essays that examine the relationship between political philosophy and faith. This volume also investigates the continued intellectual and political vitality of revelation as it is understood by its own adherents. Editor(s): Holloway, Carson; DeHart, Paul R. Num Pages: 270 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875804842
- ISBN
- 9780875804842
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.61
€ 43.61
Hardback. This unique monograph on the Rawlsian principles of contract law advocates an understanding of the topic based on common agreement that contractual terms be reasonable-in other words, acceptable to reasonable people seeking equitable cooperation with others. Series: Law and Philosophy Library. Num Pages: 184 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; LAB; LAFD; LNCJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400746046
- ISBN
- 9789400746046
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.57
€ 121.57
paperback. This unique monograph on the Rawlsian principles of contract law advocates an understanding of the topic based on common agreement that contractual terms be reasonable-in other words, acceptable to reasonable people seeking equitable cooperation with others. Series: Law and Philosophy Library. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; LAB; LAFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789401781114
- ISBN
- 9789401781114
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 120.68
€ 120.68
Paperback. Through an analysis of the different dimensions of equality, this book provides a critical introduction to recent philosophical work on egalitarianism, discussing the central questions associated with each of the major debates about egalitarian justice. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 251.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 187
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349481446
- ISBN
- 9781349481446
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.56
€ 62.56
Hardcover. Through an analysis of the different dimensions of equality, this book provides a critical introduction to recent philosophical work on egalitarianism, discussing the central questions associated with each of the major debates about egalitarian justice. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137385970
- ISBN
- 9781137385970
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.01
€ 64.01
Paperback. This collection of essays revisits Jacques Maritain's book, the University of Chicago Walgreen lectures of 1949, and critically engages its themes and arguments. It covers the character of the modern state, and its relation to the body politic and the state's functions and claims. Editor(s): Fuller, Timothy; Hittinger, John P. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPC; HPS; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Amer Maritain Assn Inc
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780966922639
- ISBN
- 9780966922639
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.56
€ 32.56
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
€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Hardcover. Hanan A. Alexander argues that contemporary education is responsible for having abandoned spirituality and the cultivation of goodness in people. In this text he advances a definition of spirituality which acknowledges an integral connection to education. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268040031
- ISBN
- 9780268040031
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.49
€ 107.49
Paperback. Based on a reconstruction of earlier liberal conceptions of liberty (the political theories of John Locke & J.S. Mill), this book stresses the empowering nature of liberal freedom and explains why such a concept of liberty better addresses two key contemporary challenges in liberal theory and praxis: wealth redistribution and multiculturalism. Num Pages: 146 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JHB; JPA; JPB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 146
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349330508
- ISBN
- 9781349330508
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
Paperback. 'There are no substantive rights for subjects in Hobbes's political theory, only bare freedoms without correlated duties to protect them'. Curran challenges this orthodoxy of Hobbes scholarship, and argues that Hobbes's theory is not a theory of natural rights but rather, a modern, secular theory of rights, with relevance to modern rights theory. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCB; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349279890
- ISBN
- 9781349279890
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.94
€ 62.94
Hardback. Editor(s): Deranty, Jean-Philippe; Genel, Katia. Series: New Directions in Critical Theory. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231177160
- ISBN
- 9780231177160
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.32
€ 37.99
€ 27.32
Paperback. Presents the case for an exciting new research program in the social sciences based on the theory of recognition developed by Axel Honneth and others in recent years. The theory provides a frame for revealing new insights about conflicts and the potential of recognition theory to guide just resolutions of these conflicts is also explored. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JHB; JPA; JPB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349333745
- ISBN
- 9781349333745
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.01
€ 64.01
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319494951
- ISBN
- 9783319494951
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.35€ 38.69
€ 106.35
€ 38.69
Paperback. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFP; DSA; HPS; JM; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349274475
- ISBN
- 9781349274475
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.16
€ 63.16