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  • Human Dignity

    by George Kateb ...
    We often speak of the dignity owed to a person. And dignity is a word that regularly appears in political speeches. Charters are promulgated in its name, and appeals to it are made when people all over the world struggle to achieve their rights. But what exactly is dignity? When one person physically assaults another, we feel the wrong demands immediate condemnation and legal sanction. Whereas ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Lincoln's Political Thought

    by George Kateb ...
    One of the most influential philosophers of liberalism turns his attention to the complexity of Lincoln’s political thought. At the center of Lincoln’s career is an intense passion for equality, a passion that runs so deep in the speeches, messages, and letters that it has the force of religious conviction for Lincoln. George Kateb examines these writings to reveal that this passion explains ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Utopia

    The Potential and Prospect of the Human Condition

    by George Kateb ...
    Amid the twentieth century's seemingly overwhelming problems, some thinkers dared to envisage a world order governed by utopian proposals that would eliminate--or at least alleviate--the evils of society and secure positive advantages for all human beings. Others found this utopian optimism a hopeless fantasy and predicted a utopian order only repressiveness, boredom, and the impoverishment of ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Emerson and Self-Reliance

    by George Kateb ...
    Series series Modernity and Political Thought
    Ralph Waldo Emerson was a great moral philosopher. One of his principle contributions is the theory of self-reliance, a view of democratic individuality. During much of his life, Emerson was considered a radical thinker, and his opposition to established religious opinion was scandalous. Emerson's deep commitment to individualism was at the root of his critique, and his articulation of ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Judgment, Imagination, and Politics

    Themes from Kant and Arendt

    by Hannah Arendt, Stanley Cavell, Onora O'Neill, Robert J. Dostal, Albrecht Wellmer, Seyla Benhabib, Iris Young, Leora Y. Bilsky, Dana Villa, Charles Larmore, George Kateb, Ronald Beiner ...
    Judgment, Imagination, and Politics brings together for the first time leading essays on the nature of judgment. Drawing from themes in Kant's Critique of Judgment and Hannah Arendt's discussion of judgment from Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy, these essays deal with: the role of imagination in judgment; judgment as a distinct human faculty; the nature of judgment in law and politics; and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • The Liberal Mind

    by Kenneth Minogue ...
    Kenneth Minogue offers a brilliant and provocative exploration of liberalism in the Western world today: its roots and its influences, its present state, and its prospects in the new century. The Liberal Mind limns the taxonomy of a way of thinking that constitutes the very consciousness of most people in most Western countries.While few—especially in America—embrace the description of liberal, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Democracy and Rhetoric

    John Dewey on the Arts of Becoming

    by Nathan Crick ...
    Series series Studies in Rhetoric & Communication
    An innovative approach to Dewey's view of rhetoric as art, revealing an "ontology of becoming"In Democracy and Rhetoric, Nathan Crick articulates from John Dewey's body of work a philosophy of rhetoric that reveals the necessity for bringing forth a democratic life infused with the spirit of ethics, a method of inquiry, and a sense of beauty. Crick relies on rhetorical theory as well ... Read more

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  • Liberty Reader

    by David Miller ...
    For centuries past, the quest for liberty has driven political movements across the globe, inspiring revolutions in America, France, China and many other countries. Now, we have Iraq and the idea of liberation through preemption. What is this liberty that is so fervently pursued? Does it mean a private space for individuals, the capacity for free and rational choice, or collective self-rule? What ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Justice for Hedgehogs

    by Ronald Dworkin ...
    In Dworkin’s master work, the central thesis is that all areas of value depend on one another. This is one, big thing that the hedgehog knows, in contrast to the fox, who knows many little things. Dworkin’s understanding of the relationship—between ethics, morality, and political morality—is significantly revised and also greatly elaborated. He argues that “dignity” is the essential core of living ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Sane Society Ils 252

    by Erich Fromm ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    Following the publication of the seminal Fear of Freedom, Erich Fromm applied his unique vision to a critique of contemporary capitalism in The Sane Society. Where the former dealt with man's historic inability to come to terms with his sense of isolation, and the dangers to which this can lead, The Sane Society took his theories one step further. In doing so it established Fromm as one of the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Science of Getting Rich

    The Original Classic

    by Wallace Wattles, Tom Butler-Bowdon ...
    Series series Capstone Classics
    The original guide to creating wealth!With this seminal book, Wallace Wattles popularized the Law of Attraction, the powerful concept that inspired The Secret. The Science of Getting Rich explains how to attract wealth, overcome emotional barriers, and apply foolproof methods to bring financial success into your life.This special 100-year edition contains the complete, original text, along with ... Read more

    $9.00 USD

  • Political Liberalism

    by John Rawls ...
    Series series Columbia Classics in Philosophy
    This book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in A Theory of Justice but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. That previous work assumed what Rawls calls a "well-ordered society," one that is stable and relatively homogenous in its basic moral beliefs and in which there is broad agreement about what constitutes the good life. ... Read more

    $23.09 USD