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  • Powers of Judgment

    Hannah Arendt's Moral and Legal Philosophy

    by David Luban ...
    This book is about conscience and moral clarity. It asks how some people keep their judgment steadfast even when many around them are swept away by conspiracy theories, moral panics, and murderous ideologies-or, on a smaller scale, by immersion in a corrupt and corrupting workplace culture. It asks about the surprising fragility of common sense, including moral common sense, and it asks where ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Youth Physical Activity

    Edited by David Lubans, Timothy Brusseau, Stuart Fairclough ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Over the past three decades the study of pediatric physical inactivity has become a public health concern. The decreases in physical activity have been associated with obesity and numerous hypokinetic diseases. In accordance with this public health concern, the study of pediatric physical activity has become a central part of research in the health and exercise science fields.The Routledge ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • War after September 11

    by Lloyd J. Dumas, Robert K. Fullinwider, Judith Lichtenberg, David Luban, Benjamin R. Barber, William A. Galston, Paul W. Kahn ...
    Series series Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy Studies
    What are the limits of justified retaliation against aggression? What actions are morally permissible in preventing future aggression? Against whom may retaliation be aimed? These questions have long been part of the debate over the ethics of warfare. They all took on new meaning after terrorists hijacked four U.S. airliners on September 11, 2001.War after September 11 considers the just aims and ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Ethics of Consumption

    The Good Life, Justice, and Global Stewardship

    by Luis A. Camacho, Colin H. Campbell, David A. Crocker, Eleonora Curlo, Herman E. Daly, Eliezer Diamond, Robert Goodland, Allen L. Hammond, Nathan Keyfitz, Robert E. Lane0, Judith Lichtenberg1, David Luban2, James A. Nash3, Martha C. Nussbaum4, ThomasW Pogge5, Mark Sagoff6, Juliet B. Schor7, Michael Schudson8, Jerome M. Segal9, Amartya Sen0, Alan Strudler1, Paul L. Wachtel2, Paul E. Waggoner3, David Wasserman4, Charles K. Wilber5 ...
    Series series Philosophy and the Global Context
    Scholars in diverse fields now agree on the importance of investigating the impact of consumption practices on the global environment, quality of life, and international justice. In this comprehensive collection of essays, most of which appear for the first time, eminent scholars from many disciplines-philosophy, economics, sociology, political science, demography, theology, history, and social ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Legal Modernism

    by David Luban ...
    Series series Law, Meaning, And Violence
    Modernism in legal theory is no different from modernism in the arts: both respond to a cultural crisis, a sense that institutions and traditions have lost their validity. Some doubt the importance of the rule of law, others question the objectivity of legal reasoning. We have lost confidence in the justice of our legal institutions, and even in our very capacity to identify justice.Legal ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Torture, Power, and Law

    by David Luban ...
    This volume brings together the most important writing on torture and the 'war on terror by one of the leading US voices in the torture debate. Philosopher and legal ethicist David Luban reflects on this contentious topic in a powerful sequence of essays including two new and previously unpublished pieces. He analyzes the trade-offs between security and human rights, as well as the connection ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Responsibility and Judgment

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    Each of the books that Hannah Arendt published in her lifetime was unique, and to this day each continues to provoke fresh thought and interpretations. This was never more true than for Eichmann in Jerusalem, her account of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, where she first used the phrase “the banality of evil.” Her consternation over how a man who was neither a monster nor a demon could nevertheless ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt

    Edited by Dana Villa ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Hannah Arendt was one of the foremost political thinkers of the twentieth century, and her particular interests have made her one of the most frequently cited thinkers of our time. This Companion examines the primary themes of her multi-faceted work, from her theory of totalitarianism and her controversial idea of the 'banality of evil' to her classic studies of political action and her final ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • On Looking Into the Abyss

    Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society

    by Gertrude Himmelfarb ...
    In these provocative essays, one of our most distinguished historians looks into the abyss of the present. Himmelfarb exposes the intellectual and spiritual impoverishment of some of our most fashionable current ideas--and shows how the vogue for historical structuralism has made it possible to trivialize the tragedy of the Holocaust. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Politics in Dark Times

    Encounters with Hannah Arendt

    Edited by Seyla Benhabib ...
    This outstanding collection of essays explores Hannah Arendt's thought against the background of recent world-political events unfolding since September 11, 2001, and engages in a contentious dialogue with one of the greatest political thinkers of the past century, with the conviction that she remains one of our contemporaries. Themes such as moral and political equality, action, judgment and ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America

    by Paul E. Gottfried ...
    This book offers an original interpretation of the achievement of Leo Strauss, stressing how his ideas and followers reshaped the American conservative movement. The conservative movement that reached out to Strauss and his legacy was extremely fluid and lacked a self-confident leadership. Conservative activists and journalists felt a desperate need for academic acceptability, which they thought ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Fools, Frauds and Firebrands

    Thinkers of the New Left

    by Sir Roger Scruton ...
    The thinkers who have been most influential on the attitudes of the New Left are examined in this study by one of the leading critics of leftist orientations in modern Western civilization. Scruton begins with a ruthless analysis of New Leftism and concludes with a critique of the key strands in its thinking. He conducts a reappraisal of such major left-wing thinkers as: E. P. Thompson, Ronald ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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