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Social & political philosophy
Hardback. Drawing on resources ranging from Hume's theory of moral sentiment to recent findings in neuroscience, this title provides an account of how passions can generate an impartial standpoint that yields binding and compelling conclusions in politics. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPHV; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 532.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691137254
- ISBN
- 9780691137254
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€ 53.36€ 42.00
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Hardback. Supposes that people are not usually act knowingly against their interests or other purposes. This title presents an economic account of what an individual can come to know and applies this account to many areas of ordinary life: political participation, religious beliefs, popular knowledge of science, liberalism, extremism, and moral beliefs. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; HPS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 472.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691137551
- ISBN
- 9780691137551
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€ 65.21€ 50.79
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Hardback. Thomas Hobbes remains one of the most controversial of early modern philosophers, and debates persist about the interpretation of many of his ideas, particularly his views about natural law and natural right. This book argues that these two concepts are the twin foundations of the entire structure of Hobbes's moral and political thought. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPQ; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691139807
- ISBN
- 9780691139807
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€ 54.99€ 39.54
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Hardback. A book about the theory of the city or commonwealth, what would come to be called the state, in early modern natural law discourse. It takes a fresh approach by looking at this political entity from the perspective of its boundaries and those who crossed them. Num Pages: 264 pages, 5 halftones. 1 map. BIC Classification: HBLH; HPS; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 526.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691141930
- ISBN
- 9780691141930
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€ 71.14€ 54.95
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Paperback. In politics, utopian's do not have a monopoly on imagination. The author argues that even the most conservative defenses of the status quo, require imaginative acts of some kind. He explores the role of imagination in politics, particularly how imaginative constructs interact with political reality. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 314.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691142289
- ISBN
- 9780691142289
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€ 42.99€ 30.78
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Paperback. Hobbes' extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. This book argues that it was Hobbes who invented the invention of language thesis - the idea that language is a cultural innovation that transformed the human mind. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 line illus. BIC Classification: CFA; HPM; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 278.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691143255
- ISBN
- 9780691143255
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€ 37.99€ 27.32
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Paperback. Intends to bring insights from the Jewish political tradition into political and legal debates about rights and to bring rights discourse into Jewish thought. This book presents a theory of rights founded on the covenant between God and the Jewish people as that covenant is constituted by Scripture and the rabbinic tradition. Series: New Forum Books. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; HRJT; JFSR1; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 14. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691144375
- ISBN
- 9780691144375
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€ 40.99€ 29.06
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Hardback. Examining the social and political upheavals that characterized the collapse of public judgment in early modern Europe, this book offers a different account of the achievement of liberal democracy and self-government. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 342.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691144740
- ISBN
- 9780691144740
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€ 71.14€ 55.14
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Hardback. The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) is known as a conservative who rejected philosophically ambitious rationalism and the grand political ideologies of the twentieth century. This title presents an original account of Oakeshott's skepticism about foundations, an account that newly reveals the unity of his thought. Series: Princeton Monographs in Philosophy. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ; HPK; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691147178
- ISBN
- 9780691147178
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€ 53.36€ 42.35
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Hardback. Proposes a new approach called value democracy. This title argues that the state should protect the right to express illiberal beliefs, but the state should also engage in democratic persuasion when it speaks through its various expressive capacities: publicly criticizing, giving reasons to reject, and other discriminatory viewpoints. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPHV; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691147628
- ISBN
- 9780691147628
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€ 54.99€ 39.41
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Paperback. Robert Wokler was one of the world's leading experts on Rousseau and the Enlightenment, but some of his best work was published in the form of widely scattered and difficult-to-find essays. This book collects a representative selection of his most important essays on Rousseau and the legacy of Enlightenment political thought. Editor(s): Garsten, Bryan. Num Pages: 416 pages, 6 line illus. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 588.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691147895
- ISBN
- 9780691147895
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€ 65.21€ 50.82
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Hardback. The rise of China could be the most important political development of the twenty-first century. What will China look like in the future? What should it look like? And what will China's rise mean for the rest of world? This title sets out a vision for the coming decades from China's point of view. Editor(s): Bell, Daniel A.; Zhe, Sun. Translator(s): Ryden, Edmund. Series: The Princeton-China Series. Num Pages: 312 pages, 11 line illus. 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HPS; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 580.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691148267
- ISBN
- 9780691148267
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Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 680
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691148403
- ISBN
- 9780691148403
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Hardback. Brings together some of the author's most personal philosophical and nonphilosophical essays. This title offers an account of his first trip to India, which includes unforgettable vignettes of encounters with strangers and reflections on poverty and begging. It reveals a personal side of one of the influential philosophers of our time. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 line illus. 1 table. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 457.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691148809
- ISBN
- 9780691148809
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€ 112.64€ 85.15
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Hardback. We think of the Enlightenment as an era dominated by ideas of progress, production, and industry - not an era that favored the lax and indolent individual. But was the Enlightenment only about the unceasing improvement of self and society? This title examines moral, political, and economic treatises of the period. Translator(s): Gage, Jennifer Curtiss. Num Pages: 168 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: HPCD1; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 149 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691149271
- ISBN
- 9780691149271
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Hardback. Situating Tocqueville in the context of the crisis of authority in post revolutionary France, this title shows that Tocqueville was an ambivalent promoter of democracy, a man who tried to reconcile himself to the coming wave, but who was also nostalgic for the aristocratic world in which he was rooted. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; BGA; HBJD; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 232 x 34. Weight in Grams: 640.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- Translation
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691152042
- ISBN
- 9780691152042
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€ 52.99€ 37.99
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Hardback. In the 40s BCE, during his forced retirement from politics under Caesar's dictatorship, Cicero turned to philosophy, producing a massive and important body of work. This title examines the rhetorical battle that Cicero stages in his philosophical prefaces - a battle between the forces that would oppose or support his project. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HPCA; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 238 x 13. Weight in Grams: 524.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691153322
- ISBN
- 9780691153322
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€ 65.21€ 51.06
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Hardback. Addresses the enduring puzzles in political philosophy and constitutional theory - why is religion singled out for preferential treatment in both law and public discourse? Why is a Sikh boy permitted to wear his ceremonial dagger to school while any other boy could be expelled for packing a knife? Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; HRAM2; LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 384.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691153612
- ISBN
- 9780691153612
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€ 53.36€ 42.00
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Paperback. Makes a case that Machiavelli, far from being a pagan or atheist, was a prophet of a true religion of liberty, a way of moral and political living that would rediscover and pursue charity and justice. Translator(s): Shugaar, Antony. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; HRAM2; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 492.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691154497
- ISBN
- 9780691154497
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€ 40.99€ 29.06
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Hardback. Explains the relevance of framing effects for normative theories of democracy. Employing a behavioral approach, this book argues for rejecting the rational actor model of decision making and replacing it with an understanding of choice imported from psychology and social science. Num Pages: 168 pages, 5 line illus. BIC Classification: HPS; JMAL; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691155197
- ISBN
- 9780691155197
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.41
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