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“philippe nonet”

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  • Selections from Homer's Iliad and Odusseia

    by Philippe Nonet ...
    This volume is the first in a short series of introductions to ancient Greek poetry. It is intended for people, young and older, who form an interest in discovering great poetry, or indeed great art in general. The distinctive accomplishment of great art is the opening of a world. To discover it is to transpose oneself into the world it opens. Translation, and the reading of translations, are but ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Law and Society in Transition

    Toward Responsive Law

    by Philippe Nonet, Philip Selznick, Robert A. Kagan ...
    Year by year, law seems to penetrate ever larger realms of social, political, and economic life, generating both praise and blame. Nonet and Selznick's Law and Society in Transition explains in accessible language the primary forms of law as a social, political, and normative phenomenon. They illustrate with great clarity the fundamental difference between repressive law, riddled with raw conflict ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    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

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  • Legalizing Misandry

    From Public Shame to Systemic Discrimination against Men

    by Paul Nathanson, Katherine Young ...
    Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young believe that this reveals a shift in the United States and Canada to a worldview based on ideological feminism, which presents all issues from the point of view of women and, in the process, explicitly or implicitly attacks men as a class. They argue that ideological feminism is silently reshaping law, public policy, education, and journalism. ... Read more

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  • The Idea of Human Rights

    by Charles R. Beitz ...
    The international doctrine of human rights is one of the most ambitious parts of the settlement of World War II. Since then, the language of human rights has become the common language of social criticism in global political life. This book is a theoretical examination of the central idea of that language, the idea of a human right. In contrast to more conventional philosophical studies, the ... Read more

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  • The Moral Foundations of Politics

    by Ian Shapiro ...
    When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? Ian Shapiro explores this most enduring of political dilemmas in this innovative and engaging book. Building on his highly popular Yale courses, Professor Shapiro evaluates the main contending accounts of the sources of political legitimacy. Starting with theorists of the Enlightenment, he examines the arguments put ... Read more

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  • Ronald Dworkin

    Third Edition

    by Stephen Guest ...
    Series series Jurists: Profiles in Legal Theory
    Ronald Dworkin is widely accepted as the most important and most controversial Anglo-American jurist of the past forty years. And this same-named volume on his work has become a minor classic in the field, offering the most complete analysis and integration of Dworkin's work to date. This third edition offers a substantial revision of earlier texts and, most importantly, incorporates discussion of ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Rights

    Lawyers, Public Policy, and Political Change

    by Stuart A. Scheingold ...
    Stuart A. Scheingold's landmark work introduced a new understanding of the contribution of rights to progressive social movements, and thirty years later it still stands as a pioneering and provocative work, bridging political science and sociolegal studies. In the preface to this new edition, the author provides a cogent analysis of the burgeoning scholarship that has been built on the ... Read more

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  • What Makes Law

    An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law

    by Liam Murphy ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law
    This book offers an advanced introduction to central questions in legal philosophy. What factors determine the content of the law in force? What makes a normative system a legal system? How does law beyond the state differ from domestic law? What kind of moral force does law have? The most important existing views are introduced, but the aim is not to survey the existing literature. Rather, this ... Read more

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  • The Sociology of Law

    Classical and Contemporary Perspectives

    by A. Javier Trevino ...
    Series series Law and Society
    The purpose of this book is to introduce the sociology of law by providing a coherent organization to the general body of literature in that field. As such, the text gives a comprehensive overview of theoretical sociology of law. It deals with the broad expanse of the field and covers a vast amount of intellectual terrain. This volume is intended to fill a gap in the literature. Most textbooks in ... Read more

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  • Moral Boundaries

    A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care

    by Joan Tronto ...
    In Moral Boundaries Joan C. Tronto provides one of the most original responses to the controversial questions surrounding women and caring. Tronto demonstrates that feminist thinkers have failed to realise the political context which has shaped their debates about care. It is her belief that care cannot be a useful moral and political concept until its traditional and ideological associations as a ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Legal Anthropology

    An Introduction

    by James M. Donovan ...
    Legal Anthropology: An Introduction offers an initial overview of the challenging debates surrounding the cross-cultural analysis of legal systems. Equal parts review and criticism, James M. Donovan outlines the historical landmarks in the development of the discipline, identifying both strengths and weaknesses of each stage and contribution. Legal Anthropology suggests that future progress can be ... Read more

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