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  • The Leisure Ethic

    The End of Work and the Return of Virtue

    by David Tabachnick ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    After a century of warnings, the 500-year reign of the work ethic is over. The work ethic has shaped our character, given purpose to our lives, and driven civilization forward. Now, as technology replaces human labour, we are faced with a profound dilemma; this crisis will leave us in a deep civilizational malaise, profoundly bored, ethically impoverished and without direction.In The Leisure Ethic ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Great Reversal

    How We Let Technology Take Control of the Planet

    by David Tabachnick ...
    Every day, we are presented with new technologies that can influence human thought and action, such as psychopharmaceuticals, new generation performance enhancing drugs, elective biotechnology, and gastric bypass surgery. Have we let technology go too far in this respect? In The Great Reversal, David Edward Tabachnick contends that this question may not be unique to contemporary society. Through ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Citizenship and Multiculturalism in Western Liberal Democracies

    by David Edward Tabachnick, Leah Bradshaw, Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Ed Andrew, Sanjay Jeram, Kostas A. Lavdas, Tariq Modood, Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos, Ronald Beiner0, Lee Trepanier1 ...
    Series series Honor and Obligation in Liberal Society: Problems and Prospects
    This volume explores some of the tensions and pressures of citizenship in Western liberal democracies. Citizenship has adopted many guises in the Western context, although historically citizenship is attached only to some variant of democracy. How democracy is configured is thus at the core of citizenship. Beginning in ancient Greece, citizenship is attached to the notion of a public sphere of ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Challenging Theocracy

    Ancient Lessons for Global Politics

    Edited by David Tabachnick, Toivo Koivukoski, Herminio Meireles Teixeira ...
    Commonly perceived as a direct threat to the practice of liberal democracy, the global reemergence of theocratic claims to political rule is a misunderstood development of twenty-first-century politics. Analyzing the relationship between religion and politics throughout the Middle East, Africa, and the United States, as well as classical and medieval political philosophical sources, Challenging ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • On Oligarchy

    Ancient Lessons for Global Politics

    Edited by David Tabachnick, Toivu Koivukoski ...
    Economic power is becoming increasingly concentrated in the hands of the few, even as democratic movements worldwide allow for political power to be dispersed among the many. With their access to influence, the wealthy can shape and constrain the political power of the rest of the world. As the economic dominance of an elite minority coincides with the forces of globalization, is oligarchy ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Enduring Empire

    Ancient Lessons for Global Politics

    Edited by David Tabachnick, Toivo Koivukoski ...
    An exploration of the ways in which ancient theories of empire can inform our understanding of present-day international relations, Enduring Empire engages in a serious discussion of empire as it relates to American foreign policy and global politics.The imperial power dynamics of ancient Athens and Rome provided fertile ground for the deliberations of many classical thinkers who wrote on the ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • The Question of Peace in Modern Political Thought

    Edited by Toivo Koivukoski, David Edward Tabachnick ...
    Series Book 2 - Laurier Studies in Political Philosophy
    The essays in The Question of Peace in Modern Political Thought address the contribution that political theories of modern political philosophers have made to our understandings of peace. The discipline of peace research has reached a critical impasse, where the ideas of both “realist peace” and “democratic peace” are challenged by contemporary world events. Can we stand by while dictators violate ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

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  • Hegel

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Singer ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Many people regard Hegel's work as obscure and extremely difficult, yet his importance and influence are universally acknowledged. Professor Singer eliminates any excuse for remaining ignorant of the outlines of Hegel's philosophy by providing a broad discussion of his ideas and an account of his major works. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Expanding Circle

    Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

    by Peter Singer ...
    What is ethics? Where do moral standards come from? Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong? For many scientists, the key lies entirely in biology--especially in Darwinian theories of evolution and self-preservation. But if evolution is a struggle for survival, why are we still capable of altruism?In his classic study The Expanding Circle, Peter Singer argues ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Why People Don't Believe

    Confronting Six Challenges to Christian Faith

    by Paul Chamberlain ...
    Religion is increasingly seen as a dangerous source of violence in the world, breeding a fear of faith in a very vocal group of critics. Most Christians are blissfully unaware of the litany of allegations being brought against religion, including that it is the cause of intolerance, imperialism, irrationality, bigotry, and war, to name a few. But ignorance is not the answer.In Why People Don't ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • On Liberty and Other Essays

    by John Stuart Mill ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Collected here in a single volume for the first time, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, Considerations on Representative Government, and The Subjection of Women show Mill applying his liberal utilitarian philosophy to a range of issues that remain vital today - issues of the nature of ethics, the scope and limits of individual liberty, the merits of and costs of democratic government, and the place of ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Allah

    A Christian Response

    by Miroslav Volf ...
    From Miroslav Volf, one of the world's foremost Christian theologians—and co-teacher, along with Tony Blair, of a groundbreaking Yale University course on faith and globalization—comes Allah, a timely and provocative argument for a new pluralism between Muslims and Christians.In a penetrating exploration of every side of the issue, from New York Times headlines on terrorism to passages in the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD