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  • Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka, and Scientific Imagination

    de David N. Stamos ...
    Explores the science and creative process behind Poe's cosmological treatise.Silver Winner, 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in the Philosophy categoryIn 1848, almost a year and a half before Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of forty, his book Eureka was published. In it, he weaved together his scientific speculations about the universe with his own literary theory, theology, an... ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Myth of Universal Human Rights

    Its Origin, History, and Explanation, Along with a More Humane Way

    de David N. Stamos ...
    In this groundbreaking and provocative new book, philosopher of science David N. Stamos challenges the current conceptions of human rights, and argues that the existence of universal human rights is a modern myth. Using an evolutionary analysis to support his claims, Stamos traces the origin of the myth from the English Levellers of 1640s London to our modern day. Theoretical defenses of the ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • The Species Problem

    Biological Species, Ontology, and the Metaphysics of Biology

    de David N. Stamos ...
    In this provocative work, David N. Stamos tackles the problem of determining exactly what a biological species is: in short, whether species are real and the nature of their reality. Although many have written on this topic, The Species Problem is the only comprehensive single-authored book on this central concern of biology. Stamos critically considers the evolution of the three major ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

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  • Moral Relativism

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • The Social Animal

    de W. G. Runciman ...
    The Social Animal is a classic investigation of human beings as social animals.The Social Animal is a short, wide-ranging, witty and accessible book that sets out the present extent of our knowledge about how human societies and institutions really work, and what motivates the people who live within them.W. G. Runciman’s superb book is a welcome corrective to the view that there are no societies, ... Leer más

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  • Power of Reading

    From Socrates to Twitter

    de Professor Frank Furedi ...
    Here is a natural companion to Christopher Booker's bestselling The Seven Basic Plots (Continuum) and John Gross's seminal study The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters (Weidenfeld and Nicolson).The most eminent cultural and social historian Frank Furedi presents an eclectic and entirely original history of reading. The very act of reading and the choice of reading material endow individuals with ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Cultivating Humanity

    A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education

    de Martha C. Nussbaum ...
    How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and nation? Martha C. Nussbaum, philosopher and classicist, argues that contemporary curricular reform is already producing such “citizens of the world” in its advocacy of diverse forms of cross-cultural studies. Her vigorous defense of “the new education” ... Leer más

    $30.39 USD

  • New Keywords

    A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society

    Edición de Tony Bennett, Lawrence Grossberg, Meaghan Morris ...
    Over 25 years ago, Raymond Williams' Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society set the standard for how we understand and use the language of culture and society.Now, three luminaries in the field of cultural studies have assembled a volume that builds on and updates Williams’ classic, reflecting the transformation in culture and society since its publication. New Keywords: A Revised ... Leer más

    $39.00 USD

  • The Shadow of Unfairness

    A Plebeian Theory of Liberal Democracy

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • The Anxiety of Freedom

    Imagination and Individuality in Locke's Political Thought

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Christian Political Ethics

    Edición de John A. Coleman ...
    Series series Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics
    Christian Political Ethics brings together leading Christian scholars of diverse theological and ethical perspectives--Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist--to address fundamental questions of state and civil society, international law and relations, the role of the nation, and issues of violence and its containment. Representing a unique fusion of faith-centered ethics and social science ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Dignity, Rank, and Rights

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $27.59 USD