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• Author(s): Guy Fletcher • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyWell-being occupies a central role in ethics and political philosophy, including in major theories such as utilitarianism. It al...

• Author(s): Albert Kasanda • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: PoliticalThis book explores what constitutes contemporary African social and political philosophy with regard to its meaning, aims, sources, and...

• Author(s): John Dewey • Publisher: Dewey Press • Publisher Imprint: Dewey Press • BISAC: GeneralThis is E. M. Delafield's 1938 book, "The British Character". Within this fantastic volume Delafield explores what it means to be English, and descr...

• Author(s): David Walsh • Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyIn The Priority of the Person, world-class philosopher David Walsh advances the argumen...

• Author(s): Piotr Pietrzak | John de Geus | Sophie Grace Chappell • Publisher: Ibidem Press • Publisher Imprint: Ibidem Press • BISAC: PoliticalIn Statu Nascendi is a new peer-reviewed journal that aspires to be a world-class scholarly platform ...

• Author(s): Denise Schaeffer | Christopher Dustin | Michael Davis • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalThe overall aim of the volume is to explore the relation ...

• Author(s): Ernest-Marie Mbonda | Lukas K. Sosoe • Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan • Publisher Imprint: Editions L'Harmattan • BISAC: GeneralPourquoi y a-t-il le pouvoir plut�t que rien ? � qui revient le droit d'exercer le pouvoir dans une comm...

• Author(s): Barry Smith • Publisher: Open Court • Publisher Imprint: Open Court • BISAC: CriticismIn these proceedings of the 1992 Budapest "Monist" Colloquium, leading philosophers of Eastern Europe and the West examine the past and future of p...

• Author(s): Calvin M. Hoy • Publisher: Greenwood Press • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood Press • BISAC: PoliticalIn this incisive work, Calvin M. Hoy focuses exclusively on Hayek's philosophy of individual freedom. Beginning with an analysis of Hay...

• Author(s): Albert Kasanda • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: PoliticalThis book explores what constitutes contemporary African social and political philosophy with regard to its meaning, aims, sources, and...

• Author(s): Grahame Smith • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: PoliticalOur democracies repeatedly fail to safeguard the future. From pensions to pandemics, health and social care through to climate, biodiversity ...

• Author(s): Kevin Wareham • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: Movements - Analytic36 charts AND 2 tables IN COLOUR on modern geopolitics! A book HARDER THAN A SKINHEAD IN A SHELL SUIT! Our p...

• Author(s): José Jorge Mendoza • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyJos� Jorge Mendoza argues that the difficulty with resolving the issue of immigration is a conflict over compe...

• Author(s): Günter Figal | Wayne Klein • Publisher: State University of New York Press • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsThis first book-length work of the prominent German philosopher Gunter Figal to ap...

• Author(s): J. Jeremy Wisnewski • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Movements - HumanismDebates about individualism and holism, reductionism and phenomenology, and naturalism and humanism all turn on how we answer the ...

• Author(s): Will Durant • Publisher: Read & Co. Books • Publisher Imprint: Read & Co. Books • BISAC: Political

• Author(s): Dominic J. O'Meara • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: PoliticalConventional wisdom suggests that the Platonist philosophers of Late Antiquity, from Plotinus (third century) to the sixth-century schools i...

• Author(s): Martin Beck Matustik • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: PoliticalThis philosophical-political profile offers the first of its kind intellectual reconstru...

• Author(s): A. J. Pyle • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernJohn Locke (1632-1704) has a good claim to the title of the greatest ever English philosopher, and was a founding father of...

• Author(s): Thomas Wallgren • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: CriticismThe cross-fruition between analytical philosophy and continental philosophical traditions has stimulated a wide-ranging debate about ...

• Author(s): Juha Räikkä • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: PoliticalFrom the Back CoverIn this book the practical dimension of social justice is explained using the analysis and discussion of a variety of well-known top...

• Author(s): Paul Patton • Publisher: Stanford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Stanford University Press • BISAC: PoliticalThese essays provide important interpretations and analyze critical developments of the political philosophy of Gille...

• Author(s): Andrew Norris • Publisher: Stanford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Stanford University Press • BISAC: CriticismFrom the Back CoverStanley Cavell's unique contributions to the study of epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, film, Sh...

• Author(s): David Miller • Publisher: Harvard University Press • Publisher Imprint: Harvard University Press • BISAC: PoliticalHow should Western democracies respond to the many millions of people who want to settle in their societies? Economist...

• Author(s): Douglas Edwards • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsFrom its carnival origins to its current status as a global phenomenon, pro wrestling has a unique presence in popular culture. Part spor...

• Author(s): David Miller • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: PoliticalClaims to self-determination are rife in world politics today. They range from Scottish and Catalonian campaigns for independence to calls for...

• Author(s): David Wood • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophySetting the stage with a selection of readings from important nineteenth century philosophers, this reader on truth pu...

• Author(s): Andrew Bernstein • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Transaction Publishers • BISAC: SocialFrom the Inside FlapThe U.S. is facing enormous challenges as it enters the second decade of the twenty-first century. Some...

• Author(s): Jean-Francois Lyotard • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: SocialWhy Philosophize? is a series of lectures given by Jean-François Lyotard to students at the Sorbonne embarking on their university studi...

• Author(s): Leo Townsend • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: SocialThe essays in this volume explore some of the disconcerting realities of fanaticism, by analyzing its unique dynamics, and considering how i...

• Author(s): Fadhil Qaradaghi • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: GeneralCritique on Kurdish newspapers about articles written in 2007 by Faruq Rafiq (...

• 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 comprehensive treatise on et...

• Author(s): Lisa Tessman • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyFeminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal is a collection of feminist essays that self-conscio...

• Author(s): Melis Bas • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: PoliticalTechnologies, by mediating our political interpretations and interactions, inform the way in which political communities are formed...

• Author(s): Antã3nio Cândido • Publisher: Hutson Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Hutson Street Press • BISAC: PoliticalPrinc�-pios E Quest� es De Philosophia Politica apresenta uma explora�� o profunda dos fundamentos e quest� es centrais da f...

• Author(s): Tarek Hayfa • Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K. • Publisher Imprint: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K. • BISAC: GeneralThis book discusses the idea of public justification as an approach to political legitimation in pluralistic societ...