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  • Tocqueville and Beaumont

    Aristocratic Liberalism in Democratic Times

    by Andreas Hess ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This is the first concise study to give full credit to the collaboration of works between French nobleman, writer and politician Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) and his travel companion and friend Gustave de Beaumont (1802-66), and puts this collaboration into its social, historical and theoretical context.It accompanies the two friends to the US and analyses the fruitful encounter between the New ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Between Utopia and Realism

    The Political Thought of Judith N. Shklar

    Edited by Samantha Ashenden, Andreas Hess ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    From her position at Harvard University's Department of Government for over thirty-five years, Judith Shklar (1928-92) taught a long list of prominent political theorists and published prolifically in the domains of modern and American political thought. She was a highly original theorist of liberalism, possessing a broad and deep knowledge of intellectual history, which informed her writing in ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Between Utopia and Realism

    The Political Thought of Judith N. Shklar

    Edited by Samantha Ashenden, Andreas Hess ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    From her position at Harvard University's Department of Government for over thirty-five years, Judith Shklar (1928-92) taught a long list of prominent political theorists and published prolifically in the domains of modern and American political thought. She was a highly original theorist of liberalism, possessing a broad and deep knowledge of intellectual history, which informed her writing in ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • On Political Obligation

    by Judith N. Shklar ...
    A compelling set of lectures on political obligation that contributes to ongoing debates in political theory and intellectual historyThis stimulating collection of lectures by the late Judith Shklar on political obligation is paired with a scholarly introduction that offers an overview of her life, illuminates the connections among her teaching, research, and publications, and explains why her ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Intellectuals and their Publics

    Perspectives from the Social Sciences

    by Christian Fleck ...
    How do intellectuals engage with and affect their publics? What is the role of the public intellectual in the new age of political uncertainties? What challenges face female intellectuals and those speaking from an ethnic, national or class position? This exciting collection responds to these questions by offering a broad-ranging account of the changing role of intellectuals in public life. The ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Knowledge for Whom?

    Public Sociology in the Making

    by Christian Fleck ...
    Series series Public Intellectuals and the Sociology of Knowledge
    This ground-breaking volume is a follow-up to Intellectuals and Their Publics. In contrast to the earlier book, which was mainly concerned with the activity of intellectuals and how it relates to the public, this volume analyses what happens when sociology and sociologists engage with or serve various publics. More specifically, this problem will be studied from the following three angles: How ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • An epistemological approach to John Keats and the truth-function of his poetry

    by Andrea Heß ...
    Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, University of Augsburg (Englische Literaturwissenschaft), course: John Keats, language: English, abstract: “Negative Capability” is a concept coined by the Romantic poet John Keats, as put down in a letter his brothers1, discussed and interpreted by scholars over and over again. On one hand it ... Read more

    $17.64 USD

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    Edited by John Scott ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Covering the life, work, ideas and impact of some of the most significant thinkers in sociology, Fifty Key Sociologists: The Formative Theorists concentrates on figures in the field writing principally in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Including entries on Jane Addams, Theodor Adorno, George Lukács, Max Weber and Pitrim Sorokin, this practical text:is presented in an accessible A–Z ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Marx for Today

    Edited by Marcello Musto ...
    Since the onset of global crisis in recent years, academics and economic theorists from various political and cultural backgrounds have been drawn to Marx's analysis of the inherent instability of capitalism. The rediscovery of Marx is based on his continuing capacity to explain the present. In the context of what some commentators have described as a "Marx renaissance", the aim of this book is to ... Read more

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  • Politics and the Concept of the Political

    The Political Imagination

    by James Wiley ...
    A recent trend in contemporary western political theory is to criticize it for implicitly trying to "conquer," "displace" or "moralize" politics. James Wiley’s book takes the "next step," from criticizing contemporary political theory, to showing what a more "politics-centered" political theory would look like by exploring the meaning and value of politics in the writings of Max Weber, Carl ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Marx

    by Terrell Carver ...
    Series series Classic Thinkers
    Karl Marx was the first theorist of global capitalism and remains perhaps its most trenchant critic. This clear and innovative book, from one of the leading contemporary experts on Marx's thought, gives us a fresh overview of his ideas by framing them within concepts that remain topical and alive today, from class struggle and progress to democracy and exploitation.Taking Marx's work in his ... Read more

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  • Inventing Human Rights: A History

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    by Lynn Hunt ...
    “A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book ReviewHow were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture as a means for finding the truth. She demonstrates ... Read more

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