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  • On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays

    by John Stuart Mill ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well developed human beings' Mill's four essays, 'On Liberty', 'Utilitarianism', 'Considerations on Representative Government', and 'The Subjection of Women' examine the most central issues that face liberal democratic regimes - whether in the nineteenth century or the twenty-first. They have formed the basis for many of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Classical Utilitarianism from Hume to Mill

    by Frederick Rosen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
    This book presents a new interpretation of the principle of utility in moral and political theory based on the writings of the classical utilitarians from Hume to J.S. Mill. Discussion of utility in writers such as Adam Smith, William Paley and Jeremy Bentham is included. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Jeremy Bentham

    Edited by Frederick Rosen ...
    Jeremy Bentham's (1748-1832) writings in social and political thought were both theoretical and practical. As a theorist, he made important contributions to the modern understanding of the principle of utility, to ideas of sovereignty, liberty and justice and to the importance of radical reform in a representative democracy. As a reformer, his ideas regarding constitutionalism, revolution, ... Read more

    $49.99 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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    A Century of Transformation in Politics and Political Economy

    by Murray Milgate, Shannon C. Stimson ...
    How writers after Adam Smith helped shape our thinking about economics and politicsFew issues are more central to our present predicaments than the relationship between economics and politics. In the century after Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations the British economy was transformed. After Adam Smith looks at how politics and political economy were articulated and altered. It considers how grand ... Read more

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  • The System of Liberty

    Themes in the History of Classical Liberalism

    by George H. Smith ...
    Liberal individualism, or 'classical liberalism' as it is often called, refers to a political philosophy in which liberty plays the central role. This book demonstrates a conceptual unity within the manifestations of classical liberalism by tracing the history of several interrelated and reinforcing themes. Concepts such as order, justice, rights and freedom have imparted unity to this diverse ... Read more

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  • The Pluralist Theory of the State

    Selected Writings of G.D.H. Cole, J.N. Figgis and H.J. Laski

    Edited by Paul Q. Hirst ...
    English political pluralism is a challenging school of political thought, neglected in recent years but now enjoying a revival of interest. It is particularly relevant today because it offers a critique of centralized sovereign state power. The leading theorists of the pluralist state were G.D.H. Cole, J.N. Figgis and H.J. Laski, and this volume brings together their most important ideas, making ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Modern Political Thinkers and Ideas

    An Historical Introduction

    by Tudor Jones ...
    Modern Political Thinkers and Ideas is an exciting new text that provides students with a clearly presented introduction to some of the key areas of modern political thought. Uniquely combining historical and philosophical approaches to the subject, it describes the writings and ideas of the most influential thinkers of the modern era.Modern Political Thinkers and Ideas features:* the main ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • The Shadow of Unfairness

    A Plebeian Theory of Liberal Democracy

    by Jeffrey Edward Green ...
    In this sequel to his prize-winning book, The Eyes of the People, Jeffrey Edward Green draws on philosophy, history, social science, and literature to ask what democracy can mean in a world where it is understood that socioeconomic status to some degree will always determine opportunities for civic engagement and career advancement. Under this shadow of unfairness, Green argues that the most ... Read more

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  • The Making of Modern Liberalism

    by Alan Ryan ...
    One of the world's leading political thinkers explores the history, nature, and prospects of the liberal traditionThe Making of Modern Liberalism is a deep and wide-ranging exploration of the origins and nature of liberalism from the Enlightenment through its triumphs and setbacks in the twentieth century and beyond. The book is the fruit of the more than four decades during which Alan Ryan, one ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Jurisprudence

    by Suri Ratnapala ...
    The third edition of Jurisprudence offers a logically structured, comprehensive, well-researched and accessible overview of legal theory and philosophy. Written primarily for undergraduate students, it examines and demystifies the discipline's major ideas, and promotes a richer understanding of the social, moral and economic dimensions of the law. By locating the major traditions of jurisprudence ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • Bentham

    by James Steintrager ...
    First published in 1977 this volume challenges the accepted interpretations of Bentham's political thought and in particular the landmark criticism by John Stuart Mill and Elie Halévy, the author consulted the extensive manuscript collections left by Bentham to the University of London and the British museum in the preparation of this volume. ... Read more

    $54.99 USD