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  • Regulation-Making in the United Kingdom and Australia

    Democratic Legitimacy, Safeguards and Executive Aggrandisement

    by Andrew Edgar ...
    This book shines a spotlight on the way in which parliamentary scrutiny of regulations provides the primary support for democratic legitimacy for regulations in the UK and Australia.This democratic safeguard is supplemented by public consultation processes. Despite commonly expressed concerns that regulation-making is secretive and undemocratic, it can be recognised to be a democratically sound ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • Philosophy, Sport and the Pandemic

    Edited by Jeffrey P. Fry, Andrew Edgar ...
    Series series Ethics and Sport
    The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on every aspect of our social, cultural, and commercial lives, including the world of sport. This book examines the ethical and philosophical dimensions of the intersection of COVID-19 and sport.The book goes beyond simple description of the impact of the pandemic on sport to offer normative judgments on how the sporting world responded to challenges posed ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Selected Essays

    by David Hume ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Moral, Political, and Literary (1776 edition), which was even more popular than his famous Treatise of Human Nature, comprehensively shows how far he succeeded. From `Of Essay Writing' to `Of the Rise and Progress of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Emerging Values in Health Care

    The Challenge for Professionals

    by Moira Dumma, Paquita de Zulueta, Kieran Sweeney, Brian Hurwitz, Bronwen Davies, David Badcott, Paul Ballard, Andrew Edgar, Lynn Knight, Srikant Sarangi, Julia McKeown, Derek Sellman, Heather Skirton, Chris Swift, Chrissie Hockley, Alan Nathan ...
    Professional values in healthcare are in a state of constant and increasingly rapid change. While all professions now emphasise teamwork and collegiality in practice, fewer are inclined to consider shared or differing values across professions.This interdisciplinary volume explains how health care professions and their values have changed over the last forty years, charting where they have come ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of Habermas

    by Andrew Edgar ...
    This comprehensive introduction to the thought of Jurgen Habermas covers the full range of his ideas from his early work on student politics to his recent work on communicative action, ethics and law. Andrew Edgar examines Habermas' key texts in chronological order, revealing the developments, shifts and turns in Habermas' thinking as he refines his basic insights and incorporates new sources and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Sport and Art

    An Essay in the Hermeneutics of Sport

    by Andrew Edgar ...
    Series series Ethics and Sport
    Sport and Art explores relationship of sport to art. It does not argue that sport is one of the arts, but rather that sport and art hold common ground. Both are ways in which humans confront philosophical challenges, though they do this through very different media. While art deploys sensual media such as paint or sound, sport is the pursuit of a physical challenge at which the athlete may fail. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Cultural Theory: The Key Thinkers

    Edited by Andrew Edgar, Peter Sedgwick ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Featuring over eighty essays, Cultural Theory: The Key Thinkers is a seminal guide to the literary critics, sociologists, historians, artists, philosophers and writers who have shaped culture and society, and the way in which we view them. Ranging from Arnold to Le Corbusier, from Eco to Marx, the entries offer a lucid analysis of the work of influential figures in the study of cultural theory, ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Habermas: The Key Concepts

    by Andrew Edgar ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    An independently minded champion of ‘the project of modernity’ in a supposedly post-modern age, Jurgen Habermas (1929- ) is one of the most widely influential thinkers of our times.An easy-to-use A-Z guide to a body of work that spans philosophy, sociology, politics, law and cultural theory, Habermas: The Key Concepts explores Habermas’ writings on:capitalismgeneticslawneo-conservatismuniversal ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts

    Edited by Andrew Edgar, Peter Sedgwick ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Now in its second edition, Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts is an up-to-date and comprehensive survey of over 350 of the key terms central to cultural theory today.This second edition includes new entries on:colonialismcyberculturglobalisationterrorismvisual studies.Providing clear and succinct introductions to a wide range of subjects, from feminism to postmodernism, Cultural Theory: The Key ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • WHAT IS MAN?

    Adam, Alien or Ape?

    by Edgar Andrews ...
    In 1906, American humorist Mark Twain published a sixty-page essay entitled “What is man?” Consisting of an interminable dialogue between a senior citizen (who believes that man is just a machine) and a young man (who believes nothing in particular but is open to persuasion), it wasn’t one of his finest books. But at least he tried. Authors since then seem to have avoided the subject like the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Habermas

    A Very Short Introduction

    by James Gordon Finlayson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This book gives a clear and readable overview of the philosophical work of Jürgen Habermas, the most influential German philosopher alive today, who has commented widely on subjects such as Marxism, the importance and effectiveness of communication, the reunification of Germany, and the European Union. Gordon Finlayson provides readers with a clear and readable overview of Habermas's forbiddingly ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Cultural Studies 1983

    A Theoretical History

    by Stuart Hall ...
    Series series Stuart Hall: Selected Writings
    The publication of Cultural Studies 1983 is a touchstone event in the history of Cultural Studies and a testament to Stuart Hall's unparalleled contributions. The eight foundational lectures Hall delivered at the University of Illinois in 1983 introduced North American audiences to a thinker and discipline that would shift the course of critical scholarship. Unavailable until now, these lectures ... Read more

    $19.49 USD