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  • Montesquieu & the Despotic Ideas of Europe

    An Interpretation of The Spirit of the Laws

    by Vickie B. Sullivan ...
    Montesquieu is rightly famous as a tireless critic of despotism, which he associates in his writings overtly with Asia and the Middle East and not with the apparently more moderate Western models of governance found throughout Europe. However, a careful reading of Montesquieu reveals that he recognizes a susceptibility to despotic practices in the West—and that the threat emanates not from the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Machiavelli's Three Romes

    Religion, Human Liberty, and Politics Reformed

    by Vickie B. Sullivan ...
    Machiavelli's ambiguous treatment of religion has fueled a contentious and long-standing debate among scholars. Whereas some insist that Machiavelli is a Christian, others maintain he is a pagan. Sullivan mediates between these divergent views by arguing that he is neither but that he utilizes elements of both understandings arrayed in a wholly new way. In this illuminating study, Sullivan shows ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Instilling Ethics

    by Stephen Salkever, Cary Nederman, Jeff Macy, Vickie Sullivan, Clifford Orwin, Susan Neiman, Dwight Allman, Stephen R.L. Clark, Stephen K. White, Louis A. Ruprecht Jr., Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Carrol William Westfall, Michael J. Fischer, Stephanie Nelson, Walter Nicgorski ...
    Instilling Ethics casts a fresh light on both the historical sources and the contemporary issues of a major preoccupation of our time: ethics. Norma Thompson has compiled essays from prominent scholars in a wide-range of disciplines to address the problems, pretensions, and positive potentialities of ethical practices today. Instilling Ethics offers a new way of connecting today's ethics to the ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Feminist Ecocriticism

    Environment, Women, and Literature

    by Jeffrey A. Lockwood, Monique LaRocque, Theda Wrede, Richard M. Magee, Marnie M. Sullivan, Vicky L. Adams, Eric Otto ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Feminist Ecocriticism examines the interplay of women and nature as seen through literary theory and criticism, drawing on insights from such diverse fields as chaos theory and psychoanalysis, while examining genres ranging from nineteenth-century sentimental literature to contemporary science fiction. The book explores the central claim of ecofeminism—that there is a connection between ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • The Spirit of Montesquieu’s Persian Letters

    by Megan Gallagher, Ryan Patrick Hanley, Rebecca Kingston, Peter Lund, Michael Mosher, Emily Nacol, Andrea Radasanu, Helena Rosenblatt, John T. Scott, Robert Sparling, Céline Spector, Lee Ward, Stuart D. Warner, Dr. Pauline Kra, Vickie B. Sullivan ...
    This book’s primary purpose is to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Montesquieu’s Persian Letters, a seminal book in classical liberal thought. Persian Letters is a delightfully rich, sympathetic satire of commercial society’s promise and discontents, covering a wide range of issues and themes that shaped the direction of liberal modernity. It consists of a series of letters largely written by ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Perspectives on Flourishing in Schools

    by Peter Bates, Bob Bayles, Wilfred Beckford, Stephen Berg, Brent Bradford, Amy Burns, Roberta Campbell-Chudoba, Davis Clement, Tracy Dollansky, Elizabeth J. Durden-Myers, Ufuk Erdogan, Thomas Falkenberg, John Freeman, David Cameron Hauseman, Alicia Hussain, Lori Jeschke, Julian Kaftan, Don Klinger, Karen Hellerman, Laurie-Ann Hellesten, Kathryn Hibbert, Lynn Hiscoe, Nishad Khanna, Benjamin Kutsyuruba, Lynn Lemisko, Jeffrey MacCormack, Margaret Macintyre-Latta, Stoney McCart, Reagan Olson, Mary Ott, Jim Parsons, Katina Pollock, Daniel B. Robinson, Ingrid Robinson, Noel Roche, Maggie Rodger, Susan Rodger, Sarah Shepherd, Vicki Squires, Rebecca Stroud Stasel, Louise Sullivan, Denise Toney, Karine Veldhoevn, Fei Wang, Jennifer Watt, Megan Tschannen-Moran ...
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    This book provides perspectives and insights across the educational system for how we might move toward living out this wish in all schools. The chapters provide perspectives on fundamental questions that have been guiding recent research on wellbeing in schools: How do school communities flourish together? How does supporting educator wellbeing connect to teaching, learning, leading in schools? ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

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    by Allan Bloom ...
    The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition.In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with ... Read more

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  • On Politics

    A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present

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    Finally in a one-volume paperback edition, On Politics is one of the most ambitious and hugely readable histories of political philosophy in nearly a century.Praised widely upon hardcover publication, Alan Ryan’s “masterpiece” (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times) blends history and philosophy to examine three thousand years of political thought. Drawing on three decades of research, Ryan insightfully ... Read more

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  • Hegel

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Singer ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Many people regard Hegel's work as obscure and extremely difficult, yet his importance and influence are universally acknowledged. Professor Singer eliminates any excuse for remaining ignorant of the outlines of Hegel's philosophy by providing a broad discussion of his ideas and an account of his major works. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press ... Read more

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  • History of Political Philosophy

    Edited by Leo Strauss, Joseph Cropsey ...
    Designed for undergraduate students, a historical survey of the most important political philosophers in the Western tradition.This volume provides an unequaled introduction to the thought of chief contributors to the Western tradition of political philosophy from classical Greek antiquity to the twentieth century. Written by specialists on the various philosophers, this third edition has been ... Read more

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  • 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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  • A Revolution of the Mind

    Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy

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    Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality--these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. But if these ideals no longer seem radical today, their origin was very radical indeed--far more so than most ... Read more

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