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  • Thinking Allowed

    A Teenager's View on Human Rights

    by Sun Young Hwang ...
    "And although she and her friends place a small timer on their desks to measure the time they study each day and make joint promises to study harder and use time wisely, at a certain point, the most desperate right that high school seniors in Korea identify with becomes not the right to education but rather the right to the pursuit of happiness. In todays world it feels like studying and education ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

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  • 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

  • The Return of the Primitive

    The Anti-Industrial Revolution

    by Ayn Rand ...
    In the tumultuous late 60s and early 70s, a social movement known as the "New Left" emerged as a major cultural influence, especially on the youth of America. It was a movement that embraced "flower-power" and psychedelic "consciousness-expansion," that lionized Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro and launched the Black Panthers and the Theater of the Absurd.In Return Of The Primitive (originally ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Ethics of Identity

    by Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. But to what extent do "identities" constrain our freedom, our ability to make an individual life, and to what extent do they enable our ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Invention Of Women

    Making An African Sense Of Western Gender Discourses

    by Oyeronke Oyewumi ...
    The “woman question,” this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. A work that rethinks gender as a Western construction, The Invention of Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures. Author Oyeronke Oyewumi reveals an ideology of biological determinism at the heart of Western social categories-the idea that biology provides ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments

    A Stone Reader

    Edited by Peter Catapano, Simon Critchley ...
    From the editors of the widely influential The Stone Reader comes the most thorough and engaging guide to modern ethical thought available.Since 2010, The Stone— an enormously popular column in the New York Times— has interpreted and reinterpreted age-old inquires that speak to our contemporary condition. Having done for modern ethics what The Stone Reader did for modern philosophy, this portable ... Read more

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  • Dispossession

    The Performative in the Political

    by Judith Butler, Athena Athanasiou ...
    Series series Conversations
    Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-provoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of possession, a hallmark of capitalism, liberalism, and humanism. Can dispossession simultaneously characterize political responses and opposition to the ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly

    by Judith Butler ...
    A Times Higher Education Book of the Week Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions, analyzing what they signify and how. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, Butler extends her theory of performativity to argue that precarity—the destruction of the conditions of livability—has been a galvanizing force ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Great Divide

    Why Liberals and Conservatives Will Never, Ever Agree

    by William D. Gairdner ...
    The theme of The Great Divide is that the populations of the democratic world, from Boston to Berlin, Vancouver to Venice, are becoming increasingly divided from within, due to a growing ideological incompatibility between modern liberalism and conservatism. This is partly due to a complex mutation in the concept of liberal democracy itself, and the resulting divide is now so wide that those ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Whose Freedom?

    The Battle over America's Most Important Idea

    by George Lakoff ...
    Since September 11, 2001, the Bush administration has relentlessly invoked the word "freedom." The United States can strike preemptively because "freedom is on the march." Social security should be privatized in order to protect individual freedoms. In the 2005 presidential inaugural speech, the words "freedom," "free," and "liberty" were used forty-nine times."Freedom" is one of the most ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Save the World on Your Own Time

    by Stanley Fish ...
    What should be the role of our institutions of higher education? To promote good moral character? To bring an end to racism, sexism, economic oppression, and other social ills? To foster diversity and democracy and produce responsible citizens? In Save the World On Your Own Time, Stanley Fish argues that, however laudable these goals might be, there is but one proper role for the academe in ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • We Have Overcome

    An Immigrant’s Letter to the American People

    by Jason D. Hill ...
    It has been more than fifty years since the Civil Rights Act enshrined equality under the law for all Americans. Since that time, America has enjoyed an era of unprecedented prosperity, domestic and international peace, and technological advancement. It’s almost as if removing the shackles of enforced racial discrimination has liberated Americans of all races and ethnicities to become their better ... Read more

    $9.99 USD