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  • Renewing America’s Civic Compact

    by Carol McNamara, Trevor Shelley, Lara Bazelon, J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Rita Koganzon, Michael Lind, Paul Ludwig, Daniel Mahoney, Michael Pakaluk0, Pamela Paresky1, Jonathan Rauch2, Diana Schaub3, Suzanne Spalding4, Andrew Sullivan5, Glenn C. Loury6, Herbert Raymond McMaster7, Michael Zuckert8, Ian Rowe9, Charles Rubin0, C. Bradley Thompson1 ...
    Series series Political Theory for Today
    Renewing America’s Civic Compact addresses the chief challenges and principal tensions in the operation of our civil society in order to consider possible paths forward. The meritocracy, multiculturalism, issues of race, technology, and populist nationalism in American democracy today are some of the issues that have created more tensions to American public life. Chapters address the condition of ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Liberal States, Authoritarian Families

    Childhood and Education in Early Modern Thought

    by Rita Koganzon ...
    Children have posed a longstanding dilemma for liberalism. The authority of adults over children has always been difficult to square with liberalism's foundationally anti-authoritarian premises. But since liberal regimes rely heavily on education, finding a way to square adult authority with children's natural liberty is essential. The logic behind anti-authority childrearing and educational ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The Professions and Civic Life

    by Christopher Caldwell, James W. Ceaser, Austin L. Hughes, Rita Koganzon, Aaron MacLean, Steven E. Rhoads, Daniel P. Sulmasy, Nathan Tucker, Adam J. White, Paul A. Cantor, Michael J. Lewis, Wilfred M. McClay, David Tucker ...
    Professions are institutions which, through their small size, self-governing elements, and sense of social mission, can assist in maintaining a sound civic culture. As mediating institutions in our democratic society that are neither entirely birthed by the state nor are entirely private, the individual professions—such as the legal and education professions, journalism, economics, architecture, ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

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    The Legacy of Humanism

    by Tzvetan Todorov ...
    Available in English for the first time, Imperfect Garden is both an approachable intellectual history and a bracing treatise on how we should understand and experience our lives. In it, one of France's most prominent intellectuals explores the foundations, limits, and possibilities of humanist thinking. Through his critical but sympathetic excavation of humanism, Tzvetan Todorov seeks an answer ... Read more

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  • Foundations of Public Law

    by Martin Loughlin ...
    Foundations of Public Law offers an account of the formation of the discipline of public law with a view to identifying its essential character, explaining its particular modes of operation, and specifying its unique task. Building on the framework first outlined in The Idea of Public Law (OUP, 2003), the book conceives public law broadly as a type of law that comes into existence as a consequence ... Read more

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  • Women and the Common Life

    by Christopher Lasch ...
    "Vintage Lasch.... One of the refreshments of reading him is that he states his beliefs outright."—Andrew Delbanco, New York Times Book ReviewChristopher Lasch has examined the role of women and the family in Western society throughout his career as a writer, thinker, and historian. In Women and the Common Life, Lasch suggests controversial linkages between the history of women and the course of ... Read more

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  • 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

    $24.69 USD

  • The Anxiety of Freedom

    Imagination and Individuality in Locke's Political Thought

    by Uday Singh Mehta ...
    The enduring appeal of liberalism lies in its commitment to the idea that human beings have a "natural" potential to live as free and equal individuals. The realization of this potential, however, is not a matter of nature, but requires that people be molded by a complex constellation of political and educational institutions. In this eloquent and provocative book, Uday Singh Mehta investigates in ... Read more

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  • Tocqueville

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Harvey C. Mansfield ...
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    No one has ever described American democracy with more accurate insight or more profoundly than Alexis de Tocqueville. After meeting with Americans on extensive travels in the United States, and intense study of documents and authorities, he authored the landmark Democracy in America, publishing its two volumes in 1835 and 1840. Ever since, this book has been the best source for every serious ... Read more

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  • Dignity, Rank, and Rights

    by Jeremy Waldron ...
    Series series The Berkeley Tanner Lectures
    Writers on human dignity roughly divide between those who stress the social origins of this concept and its role in marking rank and hierarchy, and those who follow Kant in grounding dignity in an abstract and idealized philosophical conception of human beings. In these lectures, Jeremy Waldron contrives to combine attractive features of both strands. In the first lecture, Waldron presents a ... Read more

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  • The Primacy of the Political

    A History of Political Thought from the Greeks to the French and American Revolutions

    by Dick Howard ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History
    The conflict between politics and antipolitics has replayed throughout Western history and philosophical thought. From the beginning, Plato's quest for absolute certainty led him to denounce democracy, an anti-political position challenged by Aristotle. In his wide-ranging narrative, Dick Howard puts this dilemma into fresh perspective, proving our contemporary political problems are not as unique ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Social Contract Theorists

    Critical Essays on Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau

    by John Charvet, Joshua Cohen, David Gauthier, M M. Goldsmith, Jean Hampton, Gregory S. Kavka, Patrick Riley, Arthur Ripstein, A John Simmons ...
    Series series Critical Essays on the Classics Series
    This reader introduces students of philosophy and politics to the contemporary critical literature on the classical social contract theorists: Thomas Hobbes (1599-1697), John Locke (1632-1704), and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). Twelve thoughtfully selected essays guide students through the texts, familiarizing them with key elements of the theory, while at the same time introducing them to ... Read more

    $44.99 USD