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“j peter euben”

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  • The Tragedy of Political Theory

    The Road Not Taken

    by J. Peter Euben ...
    In this book J. Peter Euben argues that Greek tragedy was the context for classical political theory and that such theory read in terms of tragedy provides a ground for contemporary theorizing alert to the concerns of post-modernism, such as normalization, the dominance of humanism, and the status of theory. Euben shows how ancient Greek theater offered a place and occasion for reflection on the ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Private and Public Corruption

    by Arlene W. Saxonhouse, J Peter Euben, Shelley Burtt, Daniel Lowenstein, Adina Schwartz, He Qinglian, Michael Johnston, Frank Anechiarico, Paul Cantor, John T. Noonan Jr. ...
    The various essays in this volume explore the development of ideas of corruption, employing a range of disciplinary approaches. Although we are accustomed to think of corruption as the misuse of public office for private gain, corruption has its deeper roots in the idea of a standard that has been eroded. That standard, however, need not be construed idealistically: much of what is asserted to be ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Corrupting Youth

    Political Education, Democratic Culture, and Political Theory

    by J. Peter Euben ...
    In Corrupting Youth, Peter Euben explores the affinities between Socratic philosophy and Athenian democratic culture as a way to think about issues of politics and education, both ancient and modern. The book moves skillfully between antiquity and the present, from ancient to contemporary political theory, and from Athenian to American democracy. It draws together important recent work by ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Debating Moral Education

    Rethinking the Role of the Modern University

    by Noah Pickus, Julie A. Reuben ...
    After decades of marginalization in the secularized twentieth-century academy, moral education has enjoyed a recent resurgence in American higher education, with the establishment of more than 100 ethics centers and programs on campuses across the country. Yet the idea that the university has a civic responsibility to teach its undergraduate students ethics and morality has been met with ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Platonic Noise

    by J. Peter Euben ...
    Platonic Noise brings classical and contemporary writings into conversation to enrich our experience of modern life and politics. Drawing on writers as diverse as Plato, Homer, Nietzsche, Borges, Don DeLillo, and Philip Roth, Peter Euben shows us the relevance of both popular literature and ancient Greek thought to current questions of loss, mourning, and democracy--all while arguing for the ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

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  • A Short History of Ethics

    A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the 20th Century

    by Alasdair MacIntyre ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    A Short History of Ethics has over the past thirty years become a key philosophical contribution to studies on morality and ethics. Alasdair MacIntyre writes a new preface for this second edition which looks at the book 'thirty years on' and considers its impact. A Short History of Ethics guides the reader through the history of moral philosophy from the Greeks to contemporary times. MacIntyre ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • After Virtue

    A Study in Moral Theory, Third Edition

    by Alasdair MacIntyre ...
    When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Newsweek called it “a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world.” Since that time, the book has been translated into more than fifteen foreign languages and has sold over one hundred thousand ... Read more

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  • Antigone, Interrupted

    by Bonnie Honig ...
    Sophocles' Antigone is a touchstone in democratic, feminist and legal theory, and possibly the most commented upon play in the history of philosophy and political theory. Bonnie Honig's rereading of it therefore involves intervening in a host of literatures and unsettling many of their governing assumptions. Exploring the power of Antigone in a variety of political, cultural, and theoretical ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Lectures on the History of Moral and Political Philosophy

    by Jonathan Wolff, Gerald A. Cohen ...
    Previously unpublished writings from one of the most important political philosophers of recent timesG. A. Cohen was one of the leading political philosophers of recent times. He first came to wide attention in 1978 with the prize-winning book Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence. In subsequent decades his published writings largely turned away from the history of philosophy, focusing instead ... Read more

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  • A Brief History of Justice

    by David Johnston ...
    Series Book 10 - Brief Histories of Philosophy
    A Brief History of Justice traces the development of the idea of justice from the ancient world until the present day, with special attention to the emergence of the modern idea of social justice.An accessible introduction to the history of ideas about justiceShows how complex ideas are anchored in ordinary intuitions about justiceTraces the emergence of the idea of social justiceIdentifies ... Read more

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  • Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes - Volume 1

    Plato, Rousseau, Smith, Kant, Hegel

    by Walther Ziegler ...
    Series Book 1 - Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes
    "Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes Volume 1" comprises the five books, already published as separate volumes, "Plato in 60 Minutes", "Rousseau in 60 Minutes", "Smith in 60 Minutes", "Kant in 60 Minutes", and "Hegel in 60 Minutes". Each short study sums up the key idea at the heart of each respective thinker and asks the question: "Of what use is this key idea to us today?" But above all the ... Read more

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  • Manhood and Politics

    A Feminist Reading in Political Theory

    by Wendy L. Brown ...
    Series series New Feminist Perspectives
    'Is politics gendered? Wendy Brown things so, and argues for this point with elegance, imagination and pungent phrases. Brown's book is challenging, provocative and...original; it does force us to question the degree to which gender controls our politics.'-THE REVIEW OF POLITICS ... Read more

    $55.09 USD