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  • Beauty, Reason, and Power

    Music Education in a Pluralist Society

    by William M. Perrine ...
    Music, when approached as a part of a classical liberal arts education, is a profoundly humanizing endeavor which can facilitate individual musical and moral growth within communities of practice. A classical approach to music education contrasts with common progressive and critical curriculum frameworks through a philosophically realist analysis. From this perspective, a classical education ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

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  • The Social Construction of Reality

    A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

    by Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann ...
    A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced "a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally" (George Simpson, American Sociological Review ).In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and ... Read more

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  • Moral Relativism

    by Professor Steven Lukes ...
    Series series BIG IDEAS//small books
    Moral relativism attracts and repels. What is defensible in it and what is to be rejected? Do we as human beings have no shared standards by which we can understand one another? Can we abstain from judging one another's practices? Do we truly have divergent views about what constitutes good and evil, virtue and vice, harm and welfare, dignity and humiliation, or is there some underlying ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Technology and Empire

    by George Grant ...
    Series series A List
    George Grant -- philosopher, conservative, Canadian nationalist -- was one of Canada's most significant thinkers and the author of Lament for a Nation. In Technology and Empire, Grant reflects on the extent to which technology has shaped our modern culture. ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Ethics for Today

    Finding Common Ground Between Philosophy and Religion

    by Richard Rorty, G. Elijah Dann ...
    One of the most widely discussed philosophers of the 21st century finds common ground between spiritual and secular ethics in this provocative book.As controversial and he was influential, Richard Rorty developed a brand of philosophical pragmatism that rejects all theories of truth. His groundbreaking work also dismisses modern epistemology and its preoccupation with knowledge and representation. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life

    by Anthony T. Kronman ...
    The question of what living is for-of what one should care about and why-is the most important question a person can ask. Yet under the influence of the modern research ideal, our colleges and universities have expelled this question from their classrooms, judging it unfit for organized study. In this eloquent and carefully considered book, Tony Kronman explores why this has happened and calls for ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Michel Foucault

    Key Concepts

    by Dianna Taylor ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    Michel Foucault was one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers. His work on freedom, subjectivity, and power is now central to thinking across an extraordinarily wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, history, education, psychology, politics, anthropology, sociology, and criminology. "Michel Foucault: Key Concepts" explores Foucault's central ideas, such as ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • A Companion to Ethics

    Edited by Peter Singer ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
    In this volume, some of today's most distinguished philosophers survey the whole field of ethics, from its origins, through the great ethical traditions, to theories of how we ought to live, arguments about specific ethical issues, and the nature of ethics itself. The book can be read straight through from beginning to end; yet the inclusion of a multi-layered index, coupled with a descriptive ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • The Terms of Order

    Political Science and the Myth of Leadership

    by Cedric J. Robinson ...
    Do we live in basically orderly societies that occasionally erupt into violent conflict, or do we fail to perceive the constancy of violence and disorder in our societies? In this classic book, originally published in 1980, Cedric J. Robinson contends that our perception of political order is an illusion, maintained in part by Western political and social theorists who depend on the idea of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • World of Our Making

    Rules and Rule in Social Theory and International Relations

    by Nicholas Greenwood Onuf ...
    Series series New International Relations
    World of our Making is a major contribution to contemporary social science. Now reissued in this volume, Onuf’s seminal text is key reading for anyone who wishes to study modern international relations.Onuf understands all of international relations to be a matter of rules and rule in foreign behaviour. The author draws together the rules of international relations, explains their source, and ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Dark Side of Modernity

    by Jeffrey C. Alexander ...
    In this book, one of the world’s leading social theorists presents a critical, alarmed, but also nuanced understanding of the post-traditional world we inhabit today. Jeffrey Alexander writes about modernity as historical time and social condition, but also as ideology and utopia. The idea of modernity embodies the Enlightenment’s noble hopes for progress and rationality, but its reality brings ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Habermas and Religion

    by Craig Calhoun, Eduardo Mendieta, Jonathan VanAntwerpen ...
    To the surprise of many readers, Jürgen Habermas has recently made religion a major theme of his work. Emphasizing both religion's prominence in the contemporary public sphere and its potential contributions to critical thought, Habermas's engagement with religion has been controversial and exciting, putting much of his own work in fresh perspective and engaging key themes in philosophy, politics ... Read more

    $24.00 USD