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  • Social and Political Philosophy

    A Contemporary Introduction

    by John Christman ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
    This accessible book is invaluable to anyone coming to social and political philosophy for the first time. It provides a broad survey of key social and political questions in modern society, as well as clear discussions of the philosophical issues central to those questions and to political thought more generally. Unique among books of this kind, it includes a sustained treatment specifically of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Positive Freedom

    Past, Present, and Future

    Edited by John Christman ...
    Freedom is widely regarded as a basic social and political value that is deeply connected to the ideals of democracy, equality, liberation, and social recognition. Many insist that freedom must include conditions that go beyond simple “negative” liberty understood as the absence of constraints; only if freedom includes other conditions such as the capability to act, mental and physical control of ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Reconceiving Freedom from the Shadows of Slavery

    Liberty in a Nonideal World

    by John Christman ...
    In a departure from standard approaches to the concept of liberty, in this book John Christman locates and defends the concept of freedom as a fundamental social value that arose out of fights against slavery and oppression. Seen in this light, liberty must be understood as requiring more than mere non-interference or non-domination – it requires the capacity for self-government and the ... Read more

    $98.39 USD

  • Social and Political Philosophy

    A Contemporary Introduction

    by John Christman ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
    This accessible book is invaluable to anyone coming to social and political philosophy for the first time. It provides a broad survey of key social and political questions in modern society, as well as clear discussions of the philosophical issues central to those questions and to political thought more generally. Unique among books of this kind is a sustained treatment of specifically social ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Sleeper Bluff

    by John Christman ...
    It is 2013, and Chris Johnson is a Midwesterner whose word is his reputation. By all accounts, he should be a model member of society. What no one knows is that he is embroiled in a dark world fueled by a dangerous secret. As he prepares to host another meeting for eleven other talented and successful men who worked with him at Newport Industries nearly a decade earlier, Chris knows it will be a ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Politics of Persons

    Individual Autonomy and Socio-historical Selves

    by John Christman ...
    It is both an ideal and an assumption of traditional conceptions of justice for liberal democracies that citizens are autonomous, self-governing persons. Yet standard accounts of the self and of self-government at work in such theories are hotly disputed and often roundly criticized in most of their guises. John Christman offers a sustained critical analysis of both the idea of the 'self' and of ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • Justice and the Politics of Difference

    by Iris Marion Young ...
    In this classic work of feminist political thought, Iris Marion Young challenges the prevailing reduction of social justice to distributive justice. It critically analyzes basic concepts underlying most theories of justice, including impartiality, formal equality, and the unitary moral subjectivity. The starting point for her critique is the experience and concerns of the new social movements ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Social Theory of International Politics

    by Alexander Wendt ...
    Series Book 67 - Cambridge Studies in International Relations
    Drawing upon philosophy and social theory, Social Theory of International Politics develops a theory of the international system as a social construction. Alexander Wendt clarifies the central claims of the constructivist approach, presenting a structural and idealist worldview which contrasts with the individualism and materialism which underpins much mainstream international relations theory. He ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory

    Edited by Hugh LaFollette, Ingmar Persson ...
    Series series Blackwell Philosophy Guides
    Building on the strengths of the highly successful first edition, the extensively updated Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory presents a complete state-of-the-art survey, written by an international team of leading moral philosophers.A new edition of this successful and highly regarded Guide, now reorganized and updated with the addition of significant new materialIncludes 21 essays written by an ... Read more

    $39.00 USD

  • Feeling Power

    Emotions and Education

    by Megan Boler ...
    First published in 1999. Megan Boler combines cultural history with ethical and multicultural analyses to explore how emotions have been disciplined, suppressed, or ignored at all levels of education and in educational theory. FEELING POWER charts the philosophies and practices developed over the last century to control social conflicts arising from gender, class, and race. The book traces the ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Beyond Learning by Doing

    Theoretical Currents in Experiential Education

    by Jay W. Roberts ...
    What is experiential education? What are its theoretical roots? Where does this approach come from? Offering a fresh and distinctive take, this book is about going beyond "learning by doing" through an exploration of its underlying theoretical currents.As an increasingly popular pedagogical approach, experiential education encompasses a variety of curriculum projects from outdoor and environmental ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Worldly Ethics

    Democratic Politics and Care for the World

    by Ella Myers ...
    What is the spirit that animates collective action? What is the ethos of democracy? Worldly Ethics offers a powerful and original response to these questions, arguing that associative democratic politics, in which citizens join together and struggle to shape shared conditions, requires a world-centered ethos. This distinctive ethos, Ella Myers shows, involves care for "worldly things," which are ... Read more

    $23.09 USD