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Social & political philosophy
Hardcover. The Rationalism of Georg Lukacs is a collection of essays and engaging scholarship which uncovers new dimensions of the philosopher's work. The relevance of Lukacs's ideas should be seen in the light of a sharp decline in critical thought as well the continued need to rehabilitate a thinker that was representative of a rational radical perspective. Series: Political Philosophy and Public Purpose. Num Pages: 154 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 217 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 162
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137372819
- ISBN
- 9781137372819
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€ 63.51
€ 63.51
Hardcover. This investigation of Kierkegaard as a political thinker with regard to the Danish context, and to his place in the history of political thought, deals with the more direct discussion of politics in Kierkegaard, and the ways in which political ideas are embedded in his literary, aesthetic, ethical, philosophical ,and religious thought. Num Pages: 154 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 338.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137372314
- ISBN
- 9781137372314
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€ 63.08
€ 63.08
Hardcover. This collection of essays articulates theoretical and philosophical arguments, and advances practical applications, as to why animals ought to matter to social work, in and of themselves. It serves as a persuasive corrective to the current invisibility of animals in contemporary social work practice and thought. Editor(s): Ryan, Thomas. Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137372284
- ISBN
- 9781137372284
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€ 122.13
€ 122.13
Hardcover. This book is a timely revival of the social and political importance of meaningful work, which explores a philosophy of work based upon the value of meaningfulness and argues for the institution of a new politics of meaningfulness. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JHBL; KJWX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137370570
- ISBN
- 9781137370570
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€ 64.01
€ 64.01
Paperback. This book will argue against the use of well-being to guide policymaking and in favor of a rule-oriented approach to policymaking that respects the choices of individuals. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; KCA; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 216 x 12. Weight in Grams: 282.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137364661
- ISBN
- 9781137364661
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Condition: New
€ 120.98
€ 120.98
Hardback. This book will argue against the use of well-being to guide policymaking and in favor of a rule-oriented approach to policymaking that respects the choices of individuals. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; KCA; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 405.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137364654
- ISBN
- 9781137364654
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€ 122.23
€ 122.23
Hardcover. Decolonizing Time: Work, Leisure, and Freedom demonstrates the importance of time as a central category for political theory, providing not only a history of the fight for time through political, feminist, and critical theory, but also assessing this tradition in the context of the United States. Series: Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137364647
- ISBN
- 9781137364647
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€ 121.56
€ 121.56
Hardcover. Conspiracy theories are a popular topic of conversation in everyday life but are often frowned upon in academic discussions. Looking at the recent spate of philosophical interest in conspiracy theories, The Philosophy of Conspiracy Theories looks at whether the assumption that belief in conspiracy theories is typically irrational is well founded Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137363152
- ISBN
- 9781137363152
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€ 153.33
€ 153.33
Hardcover. Drawing on work in social psychology, narrative ethics, and feminist philosophy, the author presents a new account which answers the standard objections while also giving practical guidance to individuals who take their group-related responsibilities seriously. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137358653
- ISBN
- 9781137358653
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€ 63.57
€ 63.57
Hardcover. Professor Morton A. Kaplan offers a philosophical synthesis that transcends the long-standing divide between the analytical and hermeneutic traditions of inquiry. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HPQ; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137358561
- ISBN
- 9781137358561
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Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardcover. This book argues that punishment's function is to communicate a message about an offenders' wrongdoing to society at large. It discusses both 'paradigmatic' cases of punishment, where a state punishes its own citizens, and non-paradigmatic cases such as the punishment of corporations and the punishment of war criminals by international tribunals. Series: Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JKVP; JWXK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 370.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137357113
- ISBN
- 9781137357113
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Condition: New
€ 63.71
€ 63.71
Hardcover. (Mis)readings of Marx In Continental Philosophy reflects on the way major European philosophers related to the work of Karl Marx. It brings together leading and emerging critical theorists to address the readings of Marx offered by Benjamin, Adorno, Arendt, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Negri, Badiou, Agamben, Ranciere, Latour and Zizek. Editor(s): Habjan, Jernej; Whyte, Jessica. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137352828
- ISBN
- 9781137352828
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Condition: New
€ 121.99
€ 121.99
Hardcover. Arguing that the suffering of combatants is better understood through philosophy than psychology, as not trauma, but exile, this book investigates the experiences of torturers, UAV operators, cyberwarriors, and veterans to reveal not only the exile at the core of becoming a combatant, but the evasion from exile at the core of being a noncombatant. Editor(s): Gertz, Nolen; Brooks, Dr. Thom. Series: Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JWA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 378.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137351210
- ISBN
- 9781137351210
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Condition: New
€ 63.71
€ 63.71
Hardcover. This book develops a unique theory of change by drawing on American philosophy and contemporary feminist thought. Via a select history of ancient Greek and Pragmatist philosophies of change, Fischer argues for a reconstruction of transformation that is inclusive of women's experiences and thought. Series: Breaking Feminist Waves. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 220 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137347879
- ISBN
- 9781137347879
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Condition: New
€ 63.71
€ 63.71
Hardcover. In this ground-breaking book, Aristotelian and evolutionary understandings of human social nature are brought together to provide an integrative, psychological account of human ethics. The book emphasizes the profound ways that human identity and action are immersed in an ongoing social world. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology. Num Pages: 398 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 28. Weight in Grams: 620.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137344656
- ISBN
- 9781137344656
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Condition: New
€ 64.97
€ 64.97
Hardcover. An interpretation of Xenophon's Anabasis of Cyrus, paralleling the text to Machiavelli's The Prince, and focusing on the question: How did the Socratic education help Xenophon reconcile morality with effectiveness, the noble with the good, as a ruler? Series: Recovering Political Philosophy. Num Pages: 354 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 24. Weight in Grams: 550.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137333308
- ISBN
- 9781137333308
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Condition: New
€ 133.25
€ 133.25
Hardcover. In the first full length examination of the topic, Ethical Citizenship rediscovers a significant and distinctive contribution to how we might understand citizenship today. Leading international scholars bring together theory and practice to explore its historical roots, contemporary relevance and application to international politics. Editor(s): Brooks, Dr. Thom. Series: Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; LNDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 171 x 22. Weight in Grams: 448.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137329950
- ISBN
- 9781137329950
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Condition: New
€ 64.14
€ 64.14
Hardcover. Of the two kinds of philosophical questions - epistemic and ethical - raised by the public debate about climate change, professional philosophers have dealt almost exclusively with the ethical. This book is the first to address both and examine the relationship between them. Num Pages: 130 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HPS; RNPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 308.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 132
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326270
- ISBN
- 9781137326270
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Condition: New
€ 63.14
€ 63.14
Hardback. The first comprehensive effort to examine Strauss's astonishingly wide-ranging writings of the 1930s (some of which have only recently been made available to English-speaking readers, including several herein) with a view to their unifying theme of recovering classical political philosophy. Editor(s): Yaffe, Martin D.; Ruderman, Richard S. Series: Recovering Political Philosophy. Num Pages: 330 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJG; HPS; JPA; JPFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 626.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137324382
- ISBN
- 9781137324382
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.55
€ 123.55
Hardcover. Marx's Rebellion Against Lenin, by negating the Leninist-Stalinist theory of dialectical materialism and tracing Marx's political philosophy to the Classical Humanism of Aristotle, overthrows the stultifying entrapment of Stalinist Bolshevism and contributes to the revitalization of Marx's method. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTK; HBTV; HPS; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137309259
- ISBN
- 9781137309259
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Condition: New
€ 64.11
€ 64.11
Hardcover. In a lively and subversive analysis, psychologist John Lambie explains how to see another person's point of view while remaining critical - in other words how to be 'critically open-minded'. Using entertaining examples from history and psychology, Lambie explores the implications of critical open-mindedness for scientific and moral progress. Num Pages: 256 pages, 6 figures, 5 black & white tables. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JMH; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137301048
- ISBN
- 9781137301048
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Condition: New
€ 64.14
€ 64.14
Hardcover. Based on an insightful and innovative reading of Kant's theory of knowledge, this book explores the political implications of Kant's philosophical writings on knowledge. It suggests that Kant offers a stable foundation for the reconsideration of the idea of progress as crucial in matters of political management at the outset of the 21st Century. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HPS; JPA; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 24. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137264374
- ISBN
- 9781137264374
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.57
€ 64.57
Hardcover. Both classical and modern accounts of justice largely overlook the question of how the communities within which justice applies are constituted in the first place. This book addresses that problem, arguing that we need to accord a place to the theory of 'constitutive justice' alongside traditional categories of distributive and commutative justice. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137263247
- ISBN
- 9781137263247
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Condition: New
€ 64.26
€ 64.26
Hardcover. By exploring the concepts of 'crisis' and 'critique', this study offers a thought-provoking re-examination of the political and social thought of Cornelius Castoriadis in light of the current world crisis and with regard to his radical critique of both the traditional Left and contemporary capitalist societies. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JHBA; JPA; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137034458
- ISBN
- 9781137034458
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.69
€ 63.69