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• Author(s): Bas van der Vossen • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: PoliticalThis book offers an introduction to political philosophy, the study of the role of government in our lives. It discusses what polit...

• Author(s): Gary M. Kelly • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralPhilosophy and Politics at the Precipice maintains that political philosopher Alexandre Kojève (1901-68) has been both famously misunders...

• Author(s): Franziska Hoppen • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: PoliticalThis book departs from the attempt by political theory to confront the challenges of political life with new concepts, offering inste...

• Author(s): George W. Carey | James W. Ceaser | Michael A. Gillespie • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: PoliticalThe crisis of western civilization is a crisis of public philosophy. This is the charge of P...

• Author(s): Chiara Bottici • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: PoliticalIn this book, Chiara Bottici argues for a philosophical understanding of political myth. Bottici shows that myth...

• Author(s): Alan Haworth • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: PoliticalUnderstanding the Political Philosophers is an absorbing and accessible introduction to the major philosophers and core texts of western ...

• Author(s): Aristotle • Publisher: FINGERPRINT • Publisher Imprint: FINGERPRINT • BISAC: History & Surveys - General Delve into the influential world of The Politics by Aristotle. This seminal work explores the principles of governance, just...

• Author(s): Pierre Pellegrin | Anthony Preus • Publisher: State University of New York Press • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press • BISAC: PoliticalA fresh look at Aristotle's political theory with attention to the resonance o...

• Author(s): Matravers Derek • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd • BISAC: PoliticalThis clear and thorough introduction provides students with the skills necessary to understand the main thinkers, t...

• Author(s): George A. Dunn • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalA New Politics for Philosophy: Perspectives on Plato, Nietzsche, and Strauss presents meticulous...

• Author(s): Robert K. Faulkner | Robert C. Bartlett • Publisher: Mercer University Press • Publisher Imprint: Mercer University Press • BISAC: Political

• Author(s): Victor Nuovo • Publisher: Onion River Press • Publisher Imprint: Onion River Press • BISAC: Political"A Small History of Political Thought" is a collection of essays written by Victor Nuovo. It contains thirty-three essays beginning ...

• Author(s): Alexander Moseley • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: PoliticalPhilosophy underpins political concepts, ideals and debates. The extent and nature of our rights, liberties and responsibilities, the role of t...

• Author(s): David Bordonaba Plou | Víctor Fernández Castro | José Ramón Torices • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: MetaphysicsA new wave of thinkers from across different disciplines within the analytical tradition ...

• Author(s): Steven M. Cahn • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Westview Press • BISAC: EssaysMoving beyond the work of Rawls and his critics, this concise collection contains critical essays in contemporary political philosoph...

• Author(s): Antonella Besussi • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: PoliticalThis book offers a comprehensive overview of the key concepts and issues of contemporary political philosophy, providing an essentia...

• Author(s): John Rawls • Publisher: Belknap Press • Publisher Imprint: Belknap Press • BISAC: PoliticalThis last book by the late John Rawls, derived from written lectures and notes for his long-running course on modern political philosophy, off...

• Author(s): Andrew Lynn • Publisher: Howgill House Books • Publisher Imprint: Howgill House Books • BISAC: Political'Just as in the parable of the boiling frog who does not perceive the gradual increase in the temperature of the water and is boi...

• Author(s): Walter Kaufman • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Aldine • BISAC: PoliticalFew philosophers have had as much influence as Hegel. When he died in 1831, he not only dominated German philosophy, but also left his mar...

• Author(s): Ronald Beiner • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: PoliticalCivil Religion offers philosophical commentaries on more than twenty thinkers stretching from the sixteenth to th...

• Author(s): J. D. Mabbott • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: PoliticalFirst published in 1948, The State and the Citizen traces the development of the idea of the State as the ultimate source of authority. ...

• Author(s): Kenneth A. Loparo • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: PoliticalComprising essays by eleven up-and-coming scholars from across the globe, this collection of essays provides an unparalleled snapshot o...

• Author(s): Alan Haworth • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: PoliticalUnderstanding the Political Philosophers is an absorbing and accessible introduction to the major philosophers and core texts of western ...

• Author(s): Bryan Frances • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyRegardless of who you are or how you live your life, you disagree with millions of people on an enormous number of topics...

• Author(s): Morten E. J. Nielsen • Publisher: Automatic Press / VIP • Publisher Imprint: Automatic Press / VIP • BISAC: PoliticalPolitical Questions is a collection of original contributions from a distinguished score of the world's most promine...

• Author(s): Charles Larmore • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press • BISAC: PoliticalA new understanding of political philosophy from one of its leading thinkers What is political philosophy? What...

• Author(s): Artemy Magun • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: PoliticalThe state has been a dominant political form for at least the last two hundred years. This is a ...

• Author(s): Gregory Salmieri | Robert Mayhew • Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press • BISAC: PoliticalFoundations of a Free Society brings together some of the most knowledgeable Ayn Rand ...

• Author(s): Jacob Howland • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: PoliticalIn engaging five of Plato's dialogues-Theaetetus, Euthyphro, Cratylus, Sophist, and Statesman-a...

• Author(s): Ralph D. Ellis | Norman J. Fischer | James B. Sauer • Publisher: University Press of America • Publisher Imprint: University Press of America • BISAC: PoliticalFoundations of Civic Engagement is a comprehensive survey and reassessmen...

• Author(s): Curtis N. Johnson • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: PoliticalJohnson argues that Aristotle's Politics needs to be understood as a 'two-layered' treatise - the first being Aristotle's political the...

• Author(s): Swift • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: PoliticalPoliticians invoke grand ideas: social justice, democracy, community, liberty, equality. But what do these ideas really mean...

• Author(s): H. J. Johnson • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralIn spite of the seeming heterogeneity of topics in its title - Revolutions, Systems, and Theories - this volume purports to be something more than a ra...

• Author(s): Richard Schmitt • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: PoliticalSocial and political philosophy, unlike other fields and disciplines, involves conflict, disa...

• Author(s): Norman E. Bowie | Robert L. Simon • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: PoliticalThe Individual and the Political Order examines major theoretical perspecti...

• Author(s): Mattia Di Pierro • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: PoliticalFrom the Back CoverThis book proposes a new interpretation of Claude Lefort's thought focusing on his phenomenological method. Although ...