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  • Utilitarianism as a Way of Life

    Re-envisioning Planetary Happiness

    by Bart Schultz ...
    Utilitarianism – a commitment to ‘the greatest happiness for the greatest number’ – has been the target of endless opposition. According to its critics, it ignores the separateness of persons, cannot secure the protections of basic rights, demands extreme sacrifice, can justify anything – the list goes on. It has been implicated in the horrors of settler colonialism, imperialism, and racial ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • The Happiness Philosophers

    The Lives and Works of the Great Utilitarians

    by Bart Schultz ...
    A colorful history of utilitarianism told through the lives and ideas of Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and its other foundersIn The Happiness Philosophers, Bart Schultz tells the colorful story of the lives and legacies of the founders of utilitarianism—one of the most influential yet misunderstood and maligned philosophies of the past two centuries.Best known for arguing that "it is the ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • The Bio-Politics of the Danube Delta

    Nature, History, Policies

    by Constantin Iordachi, Denie Augustijn, Sandra Bell, Raoul Beunen, Hans Bressers, Mihai Doroftei, Paul Goriup, Natasha Goriup, Iulian Nichersu, Willem Overmars, Alexander Prigarin, Tanya Richardson, Ion Sârbu, Natalia Serebriannikova, Erika Schneider, Bart Schultz, Cosmina Timoce-Mocanu, Joanne Vinke-De Kruijf, Jenica Hanganu, Nicolae Stefan, Petruta Teampau, Stefan Constantinescu, Professor Kristof Van Assche ...
    In this volume Constantin Iordachi and Kirstof Van Assche take an interdisciplinary look at the history, policy, and culture of the development and politics of the Danube Delta. ... Read more

    $153.99 USD

  • Utilitarianism and Empire

    by David Theo Goldberg, H S. Jones, Javed Majeed, J Joseph Miller, Martha C. Nussbaum, Jennifer Pitts, Frederick Rosen, David Weinstein ...
    The classical utilitarian legacy of Jeremy Bentham, J. S. Mill, James Mill, and Henry Sidgwick has often been charged with both theoretical and practical complicity in the growth of British imperialism and the emerging racialist discourse of the nineteenth century. But there has been little scholarly work devoted to bringing together the conflicting interpretive perspectives on this legacy and its ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • Malthus

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Donald Winch ...
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    Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was an English cleric whose ideas, as expounded in his most famous work the Essay on the Principle of Population, caused a storm of controversy. In this Very Short Introduction, Donald Winch explains and clarifies Malthus's ideas, assessing the profound influence he has had on modern economic thought. Concentrating on his writings, Winch sheds light on the context ... Read more

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  • Settler Colonialism

    A Theoretical Overview

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    A vivid exploration of the history of a very powerful and long lasting idea: building European worlds outside of Europe. Veracini outlines how the founding of new societies was envisaged and practiced and explores the specific ways in which settler colonial projects tried to establish ideal and regenerated political bodies. ... Read more

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  • Politics and Morality

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    Public disenchantment with politics has become a key feature of the world in which we live. Politicians are increasingly viewed with suspicion and distrust, and electoral turnout in many modern democracies continues to fall. But are we right to display such contempt towards our elected representatives? Can politicians be morally good or is politics destined to involve dirty hands or the loss of ... Read more

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  • A Conflict of Visions

    Ideological Origins of Political Struggles

    by Thomas Sowell ...
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  • Why Liberalism Failed

    by Patrick J. Deneen ...
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  • Liberalism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Freeden ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Liberalism is one of the most central and pervasive political theories and ideologies, yet it is subject to different interpretations as well as misappropriations. Its history carries a crucial heritage of civilized thinking, of political practice, and of philosophical-ethical creativity. This Very Short Introduction unpacks the concept of liberalism and its various interpretations through three ... Read more

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  • What's Wrong with Benevolence

    Happiness, Private Property, and the Limits of Enlightenment

    by David Stove ...
    Is benevolence a virtue? In many cases it appears to be so. But when it comes to the enlarged benevolence” of the Enlightenment, David Stove argues that the answer is clearly no. In this insightful, provocative essay, Stove builds a case for the claim that when benevolence is universal, disinterested and external, it regularly leads to the forced redistribution of wealth, which in turn leads to ... Read more

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