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• Author(s): Johannes Heinrichs • Publisher: Ibidem Press • Publisher Imprint: Ibidem Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyThis cumulative course on Johannes Heinrichs's philosophical works presents the essence of his previous publications...

• Author(s): David West • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GeneralThis book is a fully updated and expanded new edition of An Introduction to Continental Philosophy, first published in 1996. It provides a clear, ...

• Author(s): John Dewey • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Movements - PragmatismJohn Dewey was America's greatest public philosopher. A prolific and influential writer for both scholarl...

• Author(s): John R. Pottenger • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: PoliticalFrom the Back Cover"Pottenger's resuscitation of the philosophical foundations of US religious pluralism and civil discourse is essenti...

• Author(s): Edward Counsel • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyMaxims: Political, Philosophical And Moral is a book written by Edward Counsel. It is a collection of va...

• Author(s): G. A. Rogers • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThe Cambridge Platonists were defenders of tolerance in the political as well as the moral sphere; they held that practical j u d...

• Author(s): Jonathan McKenzie • Publisher: University Press of Kentucky • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Kentucky • BISAC: PoliticalToday, Henry David Thoreau's status as one of America's most influential public intellectuals remains unc...

• Author(s): David Hume | Henry D. Aiken • Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC • Publisher Imprint: Literary Licensing, LLC • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyMoral and Political Philosophy by David Hume is a comprehensive treatise on ethics an...

• Author(s): Arthur Christensen | A. Cecil Curtis • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: ReferenceThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain im...

• Author(s): Juliane Rebentisch • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: PoliticalThe concept of democratic freedom refers to more than the kind of freedom embodied by political institutions and procedures. Democratic ...

• Author(s): Michael Campbell • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyFrom the Back CoverThis volume is a reappraisal of the work of Peter Guy Winch (1926 -1997), one of the most important philoso...

• Author(s): J. Noel Hubler • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalOvercoming Uncertainty in Ancient Greek Political Philosophy makes an historical and theoretical con...

• Author(s): Andrea Lorenzo Capussela • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Political EconomyWe cling to a distorted idea of freedom. To be free, we commonly think, means to be unconstrained. This widespread belief ...

• Author(s): Silviya Lechner • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: PoliticalFrom the Back CoverThis book sets out to re-examine the foundations of Thomas Hobbes's political philosophy, and to develop a Hobbesian n...

• Author(s): Colin Tyler • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThe central claim of this book is that previous scholars have not appreciated the depths and complexities of the relat...

• Author(s): Geraldine Muhlmann | Andrew Brown • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: PoliticalIn recent years numerous authors have claimed that underneath everything political there lies something religious - an un...

• Author(s): William Paley | A. J. Valpy | Richard W. Green • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyPaley's Moral and Political Philosophy is a book written by William Pale...

• Author(s): S. A. Lloyd • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThe essays in this volume provide a state-of-the-art overview of the central elements of Hobbe...

• Author(s): Maria Dimova-Cookson • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Movements - HumanismThis book offers a new phenomenological, interpretation of T.H. Green's (1836-1882) philosophy and political theory. By a...

• Author(s): Michel Croce • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • BISAC: PoliticalConnecting Virtues examines the significant advances within the fast-growing field of virtue theory and shows how research has contributed to the current de...

• Author(s): Jens Bartelson | Janis Grzybowski • Publisher: Edinburgh UP • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralFrom the Back Cover"The concept of the state remains at one ...

• Author(s): Daniel A. Dombrowski • Publisher: Penn State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Penn State University Press • BISAC: PoliticalTo probe the underlying premises of a liberal political order, John Rawls felt obliged to use a philosop...

• Author(s): Markus Gabriel • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: EpistemologyAt the centre of modern epistemology lurks the problem of scepticism: how can we know that the forms of our cognition are compatible with...

• Author(s): Katrina Forrester • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press • BISAC: PoliticalA bold new history of postwar political philosophy and of how John Rawls transformed modern liberalism In the...

• Author(s): Ferenc Hörcher • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: GeneralThe Political Philosophy of the European City is a courageous and wide-ranging panorama of the political life and thought of the Europea...

• Author(s): William M. Sullivan • Publisher: University of California Press • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press • BISAC: PoliticalReconstructing Public Philosophy is William Sullivan's ambitious effort to recover a richer languag...

• Author(s): Edmund Neill • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralConservatism is often labelled as a 'disposition', 'tradition', or even a set of knee-jerk reactions, rather than an ide...

• Author(s): Duncan Forbes | Forbes Duncan • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: PoliticalThis is a study of Hume's political thought based on a survey of all his writings in their origin...

• Author(s): Stephen J. Finn • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: History & Surveys - MedievalIn 1625, Charles I inherited not only his father's crown, but also his desire to run the country without interference from...

• Author(s): David James • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernIn this study of Fichte's social and political philosophy, David James offers an interpretatio...

• Author(s): April Carter • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc • Publisher Imprint: John Wiley and Sons Ltd • BISAC: Political Ideologies - DemocracyThe volume examines the contribution of 11 contemporary political social theorists to the under...

• Author(s): Hanes Jr. Walton • Publisher: Greenwood Press • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood Press • BISAC: PoliticalStudies the nature and development of Dr. King's political ideas and his contributions to modern political thought.

• Author(s): Michael J. Thompson • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • BISAC: AestheticsGeorg Lukács stands as a towering figure in the areas of critical theory, literary criticism, aesthetics, e...

• Author(s): G. A. Rogers • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThe Cambridge Platonists were defenders of tolerance in the political as well as the moral sphere; they held that practical j u d...

• Author(s): Michal Rozynek • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: PoliticalFrom the Back CoverThis book delves into the philosophical presuppositions of modern political agency. Michal Rozynek explores the place o...

• Author(s): Aspen E. Brinton • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Movements - ExistentialismFrom the Back CoverCentral European dissidents gained global fame by serving as key protagonists in the collapse of com...