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  • A Virtue for Courageous Minds

    Moderation in French Political Thought, 1748-1830

    Political moderation is the touchstone of democracy, which could not function without compromise and bargaining, yet it is one of the most understudied concepts in political theory. How can we explain this striking paradox? Why do we often underestimate the virtue of moderation? Seeking to answer these questions, A Virtue for Courageous Minds examines moderation in modern French political thought ... Leer más

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  • Faces of Moderation

    The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremes

    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    Aristotle listed moderation as one of the moral virtues. He also defined virtue as the mean between extremes, implying that moderation plays a vital role in all forms of moral excellence. But moderation's protean character—its vague and ill-defined omnipresence in judgment and action—makes it exceedingly difficult to grasp theoretically. At the same time, moderation seems to be the foundation of ... Leer más

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  • Why Not Moderation?

    Letters to Young Radicals

    Moderation is often presented as a simple virtue for lukewarm and indecisive minds, searching for a fuzzy center between the extremes. Not surprisingly, many politicians do not want to be labelled 'moderates' for fear of losing elections. Why Not Moderation? challenges this conventional image and shows that moderation is a complex virtue with a rich tradition and unexplored radical sides. Through ... Leer más

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  • Norberto Bobbio

    A Life for Democracy on the Battlefield of Ideologies

    This book explores the writings of Norberto Bobbio (1909-2004) who was Italy’s foremost political, legal, and democratic theorist, a distinguished historian of political and legal ideas, and one of the country’s most perceptive public intellectuals throughout the second half of the twentieth century in Europe.Bobbio’s work offers a unique vantage point for understanding the evolution of twentieth ... Leer más

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  • Faces of Moderation

    The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremes

    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    Aristotle listed moderation as one of the moral virtues. He also defined virtue as the mean between extremes, implying that moderation plays a vital role in all forms of moral excellence. But moderation's protean character—its vague and ill-defined omnipresence in judgment and action—makes it exceedingly difficult to grasp theoretically. At the same time, moderation seems to be the foundation of ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Liberalism under Siege

    The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires

    Series series Applications of Political Theory
    Liberalism under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaries is a compelling examination of the French Doctrinaries, a largely neglected group of liberal thinkers in post-revolutionary France who were proponents of a nuanced sociological and historical approach to political theory. The first systematic interpretation of the French Doctrinaries' political writings to appear in English, ... Leer más

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  • Conversations with Tocqueville

    The Global Democratic Revolution in the Twenty-first Century

    The questions and issues raised by Tocqueville in his monumental studies of France and America are just as crucial for understanding the evolution of democracy in the West and the development of democracy in the non-western world. They clearly show the breadth of Tocqueville's contributions to the development of modern social sciences. Among the questions addressed by Tocqueville were: How does ... Leer más

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  • In Marx's Shadow

    Knowledge, Power, and Intellectuals in Eastern Europe and Russia

    Despite its key role in the intellectual shaping of state socialism, Communist ideas are often dismissed as mere propaganda or as a rhetorical exercise aimed at advancing socialist intellectuals on their way to power. By drawing attention to unknown and unexplored areas, trends and ways of thinking under socialism, the volume examines Eastern Europe and Russian histories of intellectual movements ... Leer más

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  • The Demon in Democracy

    Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies

    Ryszard Legutko lived and suffered under communism for decades—and he fought with the Polish anti-communist movement to abolish it. Having lived for two decades under a liberal democracy, however, he has discovered that these two political systems have a lot more in common than one might think. They both stem from the same historical roots in early modernity, and accept similar presuppositions ... Leer más

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  • Politics and Vision

    Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought - Expanded Edition

    Series series Princeton Classics
    Politics and Vision is a landmark work by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. This is a significantly expanded edition of one of the greatest works of modern political theory. Sheldon Wolin's Politics and Vision inspired and instructed two generations of political theorists after its appearance in 1960. Substantially expanded for republication in 2004, it is both a sweeping survey ... Leer más

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  • A World after Liberalism

    Five Thinkers Who Inspired the Radical Right

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