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  • Rethinking Criminal Justice

    Punishment, Abolition and Moral Psychology

    by Alan Norrie ...
    Series series Law in Context
    For 200 years, the penal equation 'crime plus blame equals punishment' has meant prison crises, a permanent crime problem, violent and damaged lives. The retributive theory of punishment supports this; fully developed, it could transform it. A moral psychology of violation distinguishes primitive and mature retributivism, explaining punishment's necessary failure and guilt, forgiveness and ... Read more

    $106.59 USD

  • Crime, Reason and History

    A Critical Introduction to Criminal Law

    by Alan Norrie ...
    Series series Law in Context
    Many books seek to explain the general principles of the criminal law. Crime, Reason and History stands out and alone as a book that critically and concisely analyses these principles and comes up with a different viewpoint: that the law is shaped by social history and therefore systematically structured around conflicting elements. Updated extensively to include two new chapters on loss of ... Read more

    $57.39 USD

  • Justice and the Slaughter Bench

    Essays on Law's Broken Dialectic

    by Alan Norrie ...
    In this follow-up to Law and the Beautiful Soul, Alan Norrie addresses the split between legal and ethical judgment. Shaped by history, law’s formalism both eschews and requires ethics. The first essays consider legal form in its practical aspect, and the ethical problems encountered (‘law’s architectonic’). The later essays look at the complex underlying relation between law and ethics (‘law’s ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Critical Realism

    Essential Readings

    Edited by Margaret Archer, Roy Bhaskar, Andrew Collier, Tony Lawson, Alan Norrie ...
    Series series Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
    Critical realism is a movement in philosophy and the human sciences most closely associated with the work of Roy Bhaskar. Since the publication of Bhaskars A Realist Theory of Science, critical realism has had a profound influence on a wide range of subjects. This reader makes accessible, in one volume, key readings to stimulate debate about and within critical realism.It explores the following ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Law & the Beautiful Soul

    by Alan Norrie ...
    Starting from concrete legal issues, Alan Norrie develops a critical vision of law in its relation to morality and socio-historical context. Traced historically, the conflicts he describes can be read today in law's treatment of legality and justice, judgment and responsibility.Joint winner of the Hart / Socio-Legal Studies Association Book Prize 2006. ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Dialectic and Difference

    Dialectical Critical Realism and the Grounds of Justice

    by Alan Norrie ...
    Series series Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
    Dialectic and Difference is the first systematic exploration of Roy Bhaskar’s dialectical philosophy and its implications for ethics and justice.That philosophy has three aims: a dialecticisation of original critical realism, a ‘critical realisation’ of dialectic, and a metacritique of western philosophy. In the first, real absence or negativity links structured being to dialectical becoming in a ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • On What Matters

    Volume Two

    by Derek Parfit ...
    Series series The Berkeley Tanner Lectures
    On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. Parfit now presents a powerful new treatment of reasons, rationality, and normativity, and a critical examination of three systematic moral theories - Kant's ethics, contractualism, and consequentialism - ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • An Introduction to Metaphilosophy

    by Søren Overgaard, Paul Gilbert, Stephen Burwood ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy
    What is philosophy? How should we do it? Why should we bother to? These are the kinds of questions addressed by metaphilosophy – the philosophical study of the nature of philosophy itself. Students of philosophy today are faced with a confusing and daunting array of philosophical methods, approaches and styles and also deep divisions such as the notorious rift between analytic and Continental ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Feyerabend

    Philosophy, Science and Society

    by John Preston ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    This book is the first comprehensive critical study of the work of Paul Feyerabend, one of the foremost twentieth-century philosophers of science.The book traces the evolution of Feyerabend's thought, beginning with his early attempt to graft insights from Wittgenstein's conception of meaning onto Popper's falsificationist philosophy. The key elements of Feyerabend's model of the acquisition of ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Wittgenstein, Rules and Institutions

    by David Bloor ...
    Clearly and engagingly written, this volume is vital reading for students of philosophy and sociology, and anyone interested in Wittgenstein's later thought. David Bloor provides a challenging and informative evaluation of Wittgenstein's account of rules and rule-following. Arguing for a collectivist reading, Bloor offers the first consistent sociological interpretation of Wittgenstein's work for ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • A Companion to Relativism

    Edited by Steven D. Hales ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
    A Companion to Relativism presents original contributions from leading scholars that address the latest thinking on the role of relativism in the philosophy of language, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of science, logic, and metaphysics.Features original contributions from many of the leading figures working on various aspects of relativismPresents a substantial, broad range of current thinking ... Read more

    $59.25 USD

  • Reclaiming Reality

    A Critical Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy

    by Roy Bhaskar ...
    Series series Classical Texts in Critical Realism (Routledge Critical Realism)
    Originally published in 1989, Reclaiming Reality still provides the most accessible introduction to the increasingly influential multi-disciplinary and international body of thought, known as critical realism. It is designed to "underlabour" both for the sciences, especially the human sciences, and for the projects of human emancipation which such sciences may come to inform; and provides an ... Read more

    $57.99 USD