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University of Chicago Press Nietzsches Enlightenment
Book SynopsisOffers an analysis of the three works that make up the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's middle period: Human, All too Human; Daybreak; and, The Gay Science. This title argues that in their favorable attitude toward reason, science, and the Enlightenment, these works mark a sharp departure from Nietzsche's earlier, romantic writings.Trade Review"Post-structuralists have long mined the works of Nietzsche's middle period in their efforts to employ Nietzsche as an advocate of their deconstructionist enterprise. Paul Franco shows us in a wonderful fashion why their reading is mistaken and in doing so reveals a Nietzsche who is much more friendly to the Enlightenment and the humanist tradition than is generally imagined. It is the best book I know of on this period of Nietzsche's thought." (Michael Allen Gillespie, Duke University)"
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The University of Chicago Press On KnowingThe Social Sciences
Book SynopsisAs a philosopher, Richard McKeon spent his career developing Pragmatism in a new key, specifically by tracing the ways in which philosophic problems arise in fields other than philosophyacross the natural and social sciences and aestheticsand showed the ways in which any problem, pushed back to its beginning or taken to its end, is a philosophic problem. The roots of this book, On KnowingThe Social Sciences, are traced to McKeon's classes where he blended philosophy with physics, ethics, politics, history, and aesthetics. This volumethe second in a seriesleaves behind natural science themes to embrace freedom, power, and history, which, McKeon argues, lay out the whole field of human action. The authors McKeon considersHobbes, Machiavelli, Spinoza, Kant, and J. S. Millshow brilliantly how philosophic methods work in action, via analyses that do not merely reduce or deconstruct meaning, but enhance those texts by reconnecting them to the active history of philosophy and to problems o
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The University of Chicago Press Democratic Theory of Judgment
Book SynopsisIn this sweeping look at political and philosophical history, Linda M. G. Zerilli unpacks the tightly woven core of Hannah Arendt's unfinished work on a tenacious modern problem: how to judge critically in the wake of the collapse of inherited criteria of judgment. Engaging a remarkable breadth of thinkers, including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Leo Strauss, Immanuel Kant, Frederick Douglas, John Rawls, J rgen Habermas, Martha Nussbaum, and many others, Zerilli clears a hopeful path between an untenable universalism and a cultural relativism that forever defers the possibility of judging at all. Zerilli deftly outlines the limitations of existing debates, both those that concern themselves with the impossibility of judging across cultures and those that try to find transcendental, rational values to anchor judgement. Looking at Kant through the lens of Arendt, Zerilli develops the notion of a public conception of truth, and from there she explores relativism, historicism, and universalism as they shape feminist approaches to judgment. Following Arendt even further, Zerilli arrives at a hopeful new pathway seeing the collapse of philosophical criteria for judgment not as a problem but a way to practice judgment anew as a world-building activity of democratic citizens. The result is an astonishing theoretical argument that travels through and goes beyond some of the most important political thought of the modern period.
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The University of Chicago Press Americas Philosopher
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Arcenas has done valuable work in documenting Americans’ affection for an empiricist philosopher. Her discussion of twentieth-century scholarly debates over Locke’s significance, from Leo Strauss to J.G.A. Pocock, are accurate and well-expressed." * Wall Street Journal *“As Arcenas [shows], with detailed documentation and persuasive narrative . . . Americans deformed and truncated [Locke into] the alleged father of liberalism . . . With regard to ‘Locke’s polyvalent influence,’ Arcenas argues that for two centuries after his death he was almost omnipresent in colonial libraries, college reading lists, and periodical polemics, and almost as well known for counsel on card-playing and commonplacing as for epistemology or educational prescriptions.” * Times Literary Supplement *“Original and surprising.” * London Review of Books *“Clearly argued and written. . . . Arcenas convincingly demonstrates that colonists looked to Locke for guidance on matters involving child rearing and self-development, knowledge and its foundation, ways to read the Bible, and moral education, not so much as a guide to political principles. The text that early and mid-twentieth-century historians and political theorists such as Merle Curti, Carl Becker and Louis Hartz defined as the core of Lockean philosophy, the Two Treatises of Government, was not unknown to colonists, but it took a decided backseat to the Locke who reinvented the human mind, and when colonists went looking for political principles, Locke also took a backseat to Montesquieu and many others.” * Modern Intellectual History *"Arcenas’s thesis in this book is that John Locke 'stands—and has always stood—at the center of American intellectual life' (p.1), and that, paradoxically, his true significance to America has often been mischaracterized. . . . The book is enhanced with copious notes and an extensive bibliography. . . . Recommended." * Choice *"Remarkable. . . In America’s Philosopher, Professor Arcenas has produced an entertaining and insightful book of political historiography that enlivens America’s intellectual past and stimulates thinking about its present." * Montana The Magazine of Western History *"Arcenas’s work is eye-opening. She unveils the true role of Locke, a popular figure since colonial times, in shaping American society. Arcenas’s investigation takes us on a journey through archives, newspapers, syllabi, diaries, philosophy, history, theology, and so on, to illustrate the undeniable influence that Locke had on America’s identity." -- Mario I. Juarez-Garcia * The Independent Review *"Groundbreaking. . . we can and should value this book for making an impressive case for how each generation of Americans has read [Locke] with its own politically distorting lenses." * Chronicles Magazine *“A wonderfully wide-ranging and insightful history of John Locke’s changing reputation in America, moving from the early eighteenth century to the present with terrific scholarly command and authority. Locke’s invention, more than a century after the fact, as the key political theorist of the American Revolution is only the most striking of its findings. This book will surprise and inform every reader invested in the history of American political culture. There is simply nothing comparable in the existing literature.” * Daniel Rodgers, Princeton University *“If you thought you understood John Locke’s vital role in American thought, Arcenas’s fascinating book will make your jaw drop. Make no mistake, Locke has indeed been ‘America’s philosopher’ since his ideas first arrived in the early eighteenth century. But as readers will discover in her meticulously researched and absorbing study, Locke has mattered to Americans in ways wholly unexpected.” * Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, University of Wisconsin–Madison *“America’s Philosopher accomplishes two tasks at once: it brings to life the fullness of John Locke’s thought and tracks the multiple ways a dynamic and changing America engaged with varying aspects of that thought. Arcenas shows how the early modern British philosopher’s place in American thought and culture shifted over three centuries, from a cherished guide to child-rearing, education, and toleration in the eighteenth century to a one-dimensional libertarian hero in our own day. Drawing on common-place books and college curricula, the work of mid-century scholars and the speeches of senators, Arcenas tells this fascinating story with clarity and verve.” * Leslie A. Butler, Dartmouth College *Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Locke’s Legacy in Early America Chapter 2: Locke’s Authority in the Revolutionary and Founding Eras Chapter 3: Problematizing Locke as Exemplar in the Early United States Chapter 4: Locke Becomes Historical Chapter 5: Making Locke Relevant Chapter 6: Locke and the Invention of the American Political Tradition Chapter 7: Lockean “-isms” Epilogue Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press It Was Like a Fever
Book SynopsisSets out to account for the power of storytelling in mobilizing political and social movements. Analysing storytelling in courtrooms, newsrooms, public forums, and the United States Congress, this title offers fresh insights into the dynamics of culture and contention.Trade Review"Assiduously researched, impressively informed by a great number of thoughtful interviews with key members of American social movements, and deeply engaged with its subject matter, the book is likely to become a key text in the study of grass-roots democracy in America." - Kate Fullbrook, Times Literary Supplement"
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University of Chicago Press How Socrates Became Socrates A Study of Platos
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A breath of fresh air." * The Review of Politics *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Phaedo: The First Stage of Socrates’ Philosophic Education Prologue: Heroic Socrates as the New Ideal 1. First Words 2. A New Theseus to Slay the Real Minotaur 3. A New Herakles to Cut Off and Bury the Immortal Head of Hydra 4. A New Odysseus to Teach the Safe Way to Understand Cause 5. Odyssean Socrates’ Report on His Second Sailing in the Phaedo Measured by the Parmenides 6. Odyssean Socrates Ends His Life of Argument 7. Socrates’ Last Words: Gratitude for a Healing Chapter 2. Parmenides: The Second Stage of Socrates’ Philosophic Education Prologue: A Socrates for the Philosophically Driven 1. First Words 2. At Pythodorus’s House during the Great Panathenaia 3. Socrates and Zeno: How to Read a Philosophic Writing 4. Socrates’ Solution to What Parmenides and Zeno Made to Seem beyond Us 5. Parmenides the Guide 6. What Is This Gymnastic? 7. Guiding Socrates 8. Last Words 9. The Socratic Turn Chapter 3. The Symposium: The Final Stage of Socrates’ Philosophic Education Prologue: Socrates’ Ontological Psychology 1. First Words 2. Socrates Beautifies Himself for Agathon 3. Diotima’s Myth Guides Socrates to the Third Stage of His Philosophic Education 4. Diotima’s Logos Guides Socrates to the Third Stage of His Philosophic Education 5. Diotima Teaches Socrates What to Teach 6. Alcibiades Arrives 7. Last WordsNote on the Dramatic Date of the Frame of the Symposium Conclusion: Plato in a Nietzschean History of Philosophy Works Cited Index
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University of Chicago Press Nietzsches Legacy
Book SynopsisA reappraisal ofEcce HomoandTheAntichristwithin Nietzsche's oeuvre. Nietzsche's Legacytakes on the most challenging andmisunderstood works in Nietzsche's oeuvre to illuminate his view of what aphilosopher isand what constitutes a philosophic life. InterpretingEcceHomoandThe Antichristas twin books meant toreplace the abandonedWill to Powerproject, Heinrich Meierrecovers them from the stigma of Nietzsche's late mental collapse, showing that these works are, aboveall, a lucid self-assessment. The carefully written pair contains both the highest affirmationthe Yes of the revaluation of all valuesand the most resolute negationthe No to Christianity. How the Yes and the No go together, how the relation between nature and politics is to be determined, how Nietzsche's intention is governing the political-philosophical double-face: this is the subject ofNietzsche's Legacy, which opens up a new understanding of Nietzsche's philosophy as a whole.
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University of Chicago Press Essays on Liberalism and the Economy Volume 18
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University of Chicago Press Aristotles Politics 2e Second Edition Emersion
Book SynopsisPresents an account of the author's life in relation to political events of his time; the character and history of his writings and of the Politics in particular; his overall conception of political science; and his impact on subsequent political thought from antiquity to the present.Trade Review"This revised edition of Aristotle's 'Politics' easily establishes it as the best available in English. By offering a longer introductory essay that grapples with the substance of Aristotle's argument, a new index, revamped notes, and - most important - by revising and correcting the text, Carnes Lord has substantially improved what was already a fine rendering of Aristotle's classic account of political science. A great service to students and scholars alike." (Robert C. Bartlett, cotranslator of Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics") "Carnes Lord's translation is clearly the best available." (Claremont Review of Books)"
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The University of Chicago Press The Moment of Racial Sight A History
Book SynopsisOverturns the most familiar form of racial analysis in contemporary culture: the idea that race is constructed, that it operates by attaching visible marks of difference to arbitrary meanings and associations. The author's investigation begins in the Enlightenment, at the moment when skin first came to be used as primary mark of racial difference.Trade Review"The Moment of Racial Sight is a work of complex cerebration and theoretical ambition. It seeks nothing short of a fundamental rethinking of the racial construction thesis that has come to assume the character of the very air we breathe in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. An astute, erudite, and often brilliant work, this book makes a huge contribution to critical theory, literary theory, and philosophy." (Stephen Best, University of California, Berkeley)"
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The University of Chicago Press Lifeworlds
Book SynopsisSeeking the truths that are found in the interstices between examiner and examined, world and word, and body and mind, and taking inspiration from James, Dewey, Arendt, Husserl, Sartre, Camus, and, especially, Merleau-Ponty, the author creates in these chapters a distinctive anthropological pursuit of existential inquiry.Trade Review"Lifeworlds is an extraordinary book, remarkable for its depth, scholarship, and lightness of touch. It puts the whole question of anthropology's relation to philosophy in a new light. Michael Jackson is not only a great ethnologist, he is also a major theoretician of anthropological knowledge. Not many people could have taken up such profound issues while wearing their scholarship so lightly." (Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University)"
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The University of Chicago Press Leo Strausss Defense of the Philosophic Life
Book SynopsisLeo Strauss' What Is Political Philosophy? addresses almost every major theme in his life's work and is often viewed as a defense of his overall philosophic approach. Written by scholars well-known for their expertise on Strauss' thought, this book includes essays that apply to Strauss the same meticulous approach he developed in reading others.Trade Review"What is Political Philosophy? is Strauss's most comprehensive, and arguably most introductory, work. But the fact that each chapter focuses on key themes more fully elaborated elsewhere creates the need for a systematic supplementary text. With this collection of essays, the reader is afforded helpful guidance to the way each of the chapters relates to, illuminates, and is illuminated by other major treatments of the same themes by Strauss. The book will attract a broad readership among the many who are involved in or attentive to the ongoing debate over Strauss's controversial thought." (Thomas L. Pangle, University of Texas at Austin)"
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MIT Press Ltd Power and Care The MIT Press Toward Balance for
Book SynopsisLeading thinkers from a range of disciplines discuss the compatibility of power and care, in conversation with the Dalai Lama.For more than thirty years, the Dalai Lama has been in dialogue with thinkers from a range of disciplines, helping to support pathways for knowledge to increase human wellbeing and compassion. These conversations, which began as private meetings, are now part of the Mind & Life Institute and Mind & Life Europe. This book documents a recent Mind & Life Institute dialogue with the Dalai Lama and others on two fundamental forces: power and care—power over and care for others in human societies.The notion of power is essentially neutral; power can be used to benefit others or to harm them, to build or to destroy. Care, on the other hand, is not a neutral force; it aims at increasing the wellbeing of others. Power and care are not incompatible: power, imbued with care, can achieve more than a powerless motivation to care; power, without the int
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MIT Press The Abuse of Property
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Yale University Press True Conservatism
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Random House USA Inc The Future of Liberalism Vintage
Book SynopsisA compelling and deeply felt exploration and defense of liberalism: what it actually is, why it is relevant today, and how it can help our society chart a forward course.The Future of Liberalism represents the culmination of four decades of thinking and writing about contemporary politics by Alan Wolfe, one of America’s leading scholars, hailed by one critic as “one of liberalism’s last and most loyal sons.” Wolfe mines the bedrock of the liberal tradition, explaining how Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, John Dewey, and other celebrated minds helped shape liberalism’s central philosophy. Wolfe also examines those who have challenged liberalism since its inception, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to modern conservatives, religious fundamentalists, and evolutionary theorists such as Richard Dawkins.Drawing on both the inspiration and insights of seminal works such as John Locke’s Second Treatise on Government, Adam Smith’
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Random House USA Inc Social and Political Philosophy
Book SynopsisAn anthology of basic statements by the most influential social and political philosophers of Western civilization. Includes Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Jefferson, Thoreau, Mill, Marx and Engels, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Dewey, and Gandhi.
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W. W. Norton & Company Just Freedom A Moral Compass for a Complex World
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WW Norton & Co Nervous States
Book Synopsis“Wide-ranging yet brilliantly astute. . . . Davies is a wild and surprising thinker who also happens to be an elegant writer.” — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times
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WW Norton & Co Leviathan
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Random House USA Inc Draw Your Weapons
Book SynopsisA single book might not change the world. But this utterly original meditation on art and war might transform the way you see the world—and that makes all the difference. “How to live in the face of so much suffering? What difference can one person make in this beautiful, imperfect, and imperiled world?” Through a dazzling combination of memoir, history, reporting, visual culture, literature, and theology, Sarah Sentilles offers an impassioned defense of life lived by peace and principle. It is a literary collage with an urgent hope at its core: that art might offer tools for remaking the world. In Draw Your Weapons, Sentilles tells the true stories of Howard, a conscientious objector during World War II, and Miles, a former prison guard at Abu Ghraib, and in the process she challenges conventional thinking about how war is waged, witnessed, and resisted. The pacifist and the soldier both create art in response to wa
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Basic Books The Impossible Will Take a Little While
Book Synopsis"An anthology of some of the most powerful voices of our time." -Boston GlobeTrade ReviewHistory Channel & American Book Association's #3 political book for 2004 Praise the original edition: "This might possibly be the most important collection of stories and essays you will ever read."--American Book Association & History Channel: Top-10 political book list "Paul Loeb brings hope for a better world in a time when we so urgently need it."--Millard Fuller, founder, Habitat for Humanity "An indispensable anthology of hope and inspiration. Put away your Prozac, and pick up The Impossible Will Take a Little While."--Arianna Huffington "Deeply moving and motivating... a retinue to be reckoned with; a plethora of commentary from those dedicated to the concept of a better world"--Baltimore Sun "Hopeful, inspiring, and motivating... May well be required reading for us all." --Sierra Club Magazine "Will resonate with anyone struggling with despair and doubt."--Dallas Morning News "A much needed salvo against despair."--Psychology Today "For anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino."--Barbara Ehrenreich "A must read"--Teaching Tolerance "This inspiring collection is such a song of hope in these difficult times."--Bonnie Raitt "A wonderful book, with some extraordinary folks contributing. It reminds us that darkness always comes before the dawn."--Reg Weaver, president, National Education Association "Stop worrying, stop feeling sorry for humanity and read The Impossible Will Take a Little While."--Chicago Tribune "A book of essays meant to inspire people."--Christian Science Monitor "An extremely important effort."--John Kenneth Galbraith "A shot in the arm for all of us who feel withered by crisis and paralyzed with cynicism...Every page sparkles with insight into how the most painful circumstances can drive us to our higher selves."--San Antonio Express News "A powerful classroom resource that will help inspire your students to act." --American Association of Colleges and Universities "A compilation of 49 essays, excerpts and exclamations from a wide range of people who have found hope despite all evidence to the contrary."--Minneapolis Star Tribune "Refreshingly empowering, healing, and amazingly inspirational. It touches the imagination, retrieves the faith, and is desperately needed by our country to provoke new hope and meaning. It is a glass half full for the cynic and the fearful, a compilation of vision for the complacent, and an antidote for the despondent--truly a must read for everyone."--Steelabor, United Steelworkers of America "Reading this hymnbook of hope, one's heart cannot help but sing. I am moved and inspired by this magnificent book's rich stories and insights. They water the fragile, precious seed of hope, from which everything we love grows." --Vicki Robin, author, Your Money or Your Life "A soul-stirring anthology which we guarantee will lift the spirits of anyone looking for reasons to carry on in the struggle to create a better world."--The Lutheran "An intelligent, impressive compendium of ideas and feelings that, if implemented, will lead to a far more civilized society." --Peter Matthiessen, author The Snow Leopard "A collection of moving essays and poems on how to maintain optimism in a post 9/11 world."--Real Simple "You are part of what's good about this world and I admire your work very much. This book can even make one hopeful about the future despite so many signs to the contrary."--Bill Moyers "A magnificent anthology celebrates hope, guts, and the power of taking action... Loeb has compiled for us the words of 49 of the most gifted and heroic men and women of our time, 49 testimonials to stamina and compassion in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, 49 reasons to keep hope alive in this time of frustration and fear" --The Oprah Magazine [Lead Review] "Stunning insights...educational and inspirational."--Seattle Times "A stirring collection of essays aimed at people who still want to believe that ordinary people can change the world."--Atlanta Journal Constitution "An anthology of some of the most powerful voices of our time."--Boston Globe "When my daughter asked from college how to be an effective grassroots citizen, I gave her Paul's books."--Josette Sheeran, Executive Director, United Nations World Food Program "Loeb has been doing wonderfully patient work, exploring the American conscience from the inside. I regard him as something of a national treasure."--Susan Sontag
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Acts
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The University of Michigan Press Snarl
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Random House USA Inc Common Sense
Book SynopsisIn 1776, America was a hotbed of enlightenment and revolution. Thomas Paine not only spurred his fellow Americans to action but soon came to symbolize the spirit of the Revolution. His elegantly persuasive pieces spoke to the hearts and minds of those fighting for freedom. He was later outlawed in Britain, jailed in France, and finally labeled an atheist upon his return to America.'No writer has exceeded Paine in ease and familiarity of style; in perspicuity of expression, happiness of elucidation, and in simple unassuming language.'--Thomas Jefferson
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Random House USA Inc The Tiny Bee That Hovers at the Center of the
Book SynopsisAn ethereal meditation on longing, loss, and time, sweeping from the highways of Texas to the canals of Mars—by the acclaimed essayist and author of Shame and Wonder David Searcy’s writing is enchanting and peculiar, obsessed with plumbing the mysteries and wonders of our everyday world, the beauty and cruelty of time, and nothing less than what he calls “the whole idea of meaning.” In The Tiny Bee That Hovers at the Center of the World, he leads the reader across the landscapes of his extraordinary mind, moving from the decaying architectural wonder that is the town of Arcosanti, Arizona, to driving the vast, open Texas highway in his much-abused college VW Beetle, to the mysterious, canal-riddled Martian landscape that famed astronomer Percival Lowell first set eyes on, via his telescope, in 1894. Searcy does not come at his ideas directly, but rather digresses and meditates and analyzes until some es
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Random House USA Inc Radical Curiosity
Book SynopsisA bold manifesto arguing that the most complex challenges we face today—as individuals, businesses, and a society—require us to ask deeper questions, not seek easier answers “With this beautifully written book, Seth Goldenberg awakens the gifts we all possess: wonder, optimism, and the fearlessness to reverse destruction.”—Bruce Vaughn, vice president of experiential creative product, AirbnbIn a world with an endless hunger for innovation, why is it so hard to create audacious change? According to thought leader Seth Goldenberg, the answer to this question stems from how we, as a society, view questions themselves. In Radical Curiosity, Goldenberg argues that because we value knowing above learning and prioritize doing over thinking, curiosity has become an endangered species. Only by rediscovering the power of questions can we hope to rewrite the commonly held “legacy” narratives that no l
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Hogarth We Are Free to Change the World
Book SynopsisA timely guide on how to live—and think—through the challenges of our century drawn from the life and thought of political-theorist Hannah Arendt, one of the twentieth century''s foremost opponent of totalitarianism and a prophet against conformity (The Nation).‘We are free to change the world and to start something new in it.’ --Crises of the RepublicThe violent unease of today’s world would have been all too familiar to Hannah Arendt. Tyranny, occupation, disenchantment, post-truth politics, conspiracy theories, racism, mass migration, the banality of evil: she had lived through them all.Born in the first decade of the last century, she escaped fascist Europe to make a new life for herself in America, where she became one its most influential—and controversial—public intellectuals. She wrote about power and terror, exile and love, and above all about freedom. Questioning—thinkin
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Alfred A. Knopf The Persuaders
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and fight for democracy—from disinformation fighters to a leader of Black Lives Matter to Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and more—by the best-selling author of Winners Take All and award-winning former New York Times columnist“Anand Giridharadas shows the way we get real progressive change in America—by refusing to write others off, building more welcoming movements, and rededicating ourselves to the work of changing minds.” —Robert B. Reich, best-selling author of The SystemThe lifeblood of any free society is persuasion: changing other people’s minds in order to change things. But America is suffering a crisis of faith in persuasion that is putting its democracy and the planet itself at risk. Americans increasingly
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Utilitarianism and on Liberty
Book SynopsisIncluding three of his most famous and important essays, Utilitarianism, On Liberty, and Essay on Bentham, along with formative selections from Jeremy Bentham and John Austin, this volume provides a uniquely perspicuous view of Mill''s ethical and political thought. Contains Mill''s most famous and influential works, Utilitarianism and On Liberty as well as his important Essay on Bentham. Uses the 1871 edition of Utilitarianism, the last to be published in Mill''s lifetime. Includes selections from Bentham and John Austin, the two thinkers who most influenced Mill. Introduction written by Mary Warnock, a highly respected figure in 20th-century ethics in her own right. Provides an extensive, up-to-date bibliography with the best scholarship on Mill, Bentham and Utilitarianism. Trade Review"Anyone interested in the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill will be pleased to have the essential readings in one volume and grateful to Mary Warnock for her informative and insightful introduction." William H. Shaw, San Jose State University "The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism "The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection." John Stuart Mill, On LibertyTable of ContentsIntroduction by Mary Warnock 1 BENTHAMAn Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (chapters I–V) 17 MILL Bentham (from Dissertations and Discussions, volume I) 52 On Liberty 88 Utilitarianism 181 Appendix AUSTIN The Province of Jurisprudence Determined. Lecture II 236 Bibliography 252 Chronological table 255 Index 257
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Princeton University Press On Human Nature
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[F]inely written, compactly argued."--James Ryerson, New York Times Book Review "Roger Scruton's On Human Nature ... gives a brief, poetic account of a way of thinking about ourselves that many of us, especially with a background in the humanities, will find congenial."--Adam Zeman, Standpoint "On Human Nature is a tour de force of a rare kind. In clear, elegant prose it makes large claims in metaphysics, morals and, by implication, politics."--The EconomistTable of ContentsPreface vii 1 Human Kind 1 2 Human Relations 50 3 The Moral Life 79 4 Sacred Obligations 113 Index of Names 145 Index of Subjects 149
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Phaidon Press Ltd Más Te Vale Hacer Ruido. Palabras Para Cambiar El Mundo You Had Better Make Some Noise Spanish Edition
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Rowman & Littlefield Yesterdays Self Nostalgia and the Immigrant
Book SynopsisA study of nostalgia in the lives of immigrants, forging a connection between the philosophy of identity and intercultural studies. It shows that the cultural adjustment of immigrants can only happen when personal identity is understood as a quest for continuity in one's life story.Trade ReviewRitivoi's insights in Yesterday's Self are brilliant, groundbreaking, and profoundly correct. I am especially impressed with her literally beautiful and beautifully literary use of personal stories. One doesn't usually find such sensitivity or rich description in discussions of identity, at least not in philosophical discussions. -- Thomas E. Wren, Loyola University, ChicagoIn this interesting and well-written book, Ritivoi makes a significant contribution to our understanding of immigration, memory, and nostalgia. * Sociology *Yesterday's Self offers a lively and profound investigation of a slippery condition that is nonetheless ubiquitous in this age of mobility and displacement. It is a great pleasure to read a scholarly inquiry that is readable, lively, and fresh. Ritivoi has brought into English, with scholarly brio, the Romanian word 'dor,' and given it an amplitude that it never had beyond its balkan world. -- Andrei Codrescu, NPR columnist and editor of the online literary journal Exquisite CorpseTable of ContentsChapter 1 Longing To Be Home Chapter 2 An Integrationist Model of Identity Chapter 3 Going Native: Nostalgia and Solitude Chapter 4 Going Home: Adjustment as Recognition Chapter 5 "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" Chapter 6 The Contingent Self
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Rowman & Littlefield JeanJacques Rousseau
Book SynopsisIn this text Strong examines Rousseau's fear of authorship (though not of authority), his understanding of the human, his attempt to overcome the scandal that relativism posed for politics and the political importance of sexuality.Trade ReviewTracy Strong's book is as much an elegant and compelling evocation of Rousseau himself, or of his spirit, as it is a very fine analysis of the books and the ideas. This makes it a critically important achievement, since that spirit or frame of mind has had more to do with whatever common world and unresolved problems we still share than the work of any other modern. This book is an extraordinary acknowledgement of Rousseau and od how Rousseau wanted to be read, and thereby, in a strikingly original and lucid way, helps make available to us the problem of a 'common humanity,' as Rousseau saw it. -- Robert B. Pippin, University of ChicagoIn lucid and thoughtful fashion, Tracy Strong directs our vision to Rousseau's analysis of the mysterious character of ordinary life and its meaning for politics. The reader will be delighted and challenged by the vision of Rousseau that Strong presents. Particularly insightful is Strong's discussion of Rousseau's preference for humanity over authority and for self-constituting communities over political impositions by external agency. Rousseau in Strong's hands becomes an important precursor of postmodernity or perhaps even the first postmodern man. This book will thus be of interest not merely to political theorists and philosophers, but to all those engaged with postmodernism in literature and other kindred disciplines. -- Michael Allen Gillespie, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Fear of the Author Chapter 2 Rousseau and the Experience of Others Chapter 3 The General Will and the Scandal of Politics Chapter 4 The Education of an Ordinary Man Chapter 5 The Ends of Politics
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Rowman & Littlefield The Augustinian Imperative A Reflection on the
Book Synopsis"The Augustinian Imperative" is "an archaeological investigation into the intellectual foundation of liberal societies." Drawing support from Nietzsche and Foucault, Connolly argues that the Imperative of Augustine contains unethical implications.Trade ReviewWilliam Connolly stages conversations between Augustine, Nietzsche, and Foucault; conversations between late antiquity when Christianity was establishing itself as a world religion, and modernity when, with the late twentieth century fall of communism, Christianity and liberal democracy remain as unfallen titans. Connolly is not an omniscient narrator offering definitive judgements. He disagrees with aspects of the Augustinian Imperative (and its modern equivalents), such as the insistence that there isan intrinsic moral order susceptible to authoritative representation. Yet he values Augustine for drawing attention to the importance and necessity, in ethics and political life, of sensibility and interiority: in memory, forgetting, sensuality, mystery,paradox, the uncanny, reverence, and awakening. He agrees with Augustine about the importance of confession, that we in modernity also are always in a confessional mode; and like Augustine we remain haunted by the problem of the will. Connolly is heir andmajor contributor to a theologico-philosophical and postsecularist tradition, from the early Enlightenment to the present, that includes Spinoza, John Toland, David Hume, the Freud of Moses and Monotheism, and Regina Schwartz. Postsecularism recognises t -- John Docker, Australian National UniversityThe great interest of Connolly's book is the masterly way in which he shows the emergence and consolidation of the moral sensibility which has had a lasting influence in our culture and which only begins to fade away in a post-Nietzschean era. This book is not simply the history of a doctrine and its lasting effects; it also illuminates the pre-suppositions that made that doctrine acceptable and that governed the various substitutions. It truly belongs to what can legitimately be called "the history of Being." -- Ernesto Laclau, University of EssexConnolly is an important figure in American cultural studies and political science. The Augustinian Imperative is pivotal to Connoly's career. * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Connolly rightly identifies a permanent instability in Augustinian theology - God's omnipotence and perfection are made indispensable to his theology, while human experiences of horror, outrage, and grief constantly cast doubt on these themes. * Book Review Digest *The Augustinian Imperative is a brilliant exposition of the relations between discursive codes, the sites of authority lodged within them, and the forms of identity they produce/prohibit/reveal. Connolly's inspired reading is particularly useful to feminist readers for its exploration of the many ways in which Augustine's moral world is gendered. Connolly's deconstruction of the religious/secular dyad performs, in fresh and creative ways, the classic genealogical move against dualistic thinking; Connolly goes on to articulate an alternative political-ethical practice that is attentive to the debts it sustains to its opponents, and respectful of the ambiguities it hosts. -- Kathy E. Ferguson, University of Hawaii"William Connolly stages conversations between Augustine, Nietzsche, and Foucault; conversations between late antiquity when Christianity was establishing itself as a world religion, and modernity when, with the late twentieth century fall of communism, Christianity and liberal democracy remain as unfallen titans. Connolly is not an omniscient narrator offering definitive judgements. He disagrees with aspects of the Augustinian Imperative (and its modern equivalents), such as the insistence that there is an intrinsic moral order susceptible to authoritative representation. Yet he values Augustine for drawing attention to the importance and necessity, in ethics and political life, of sensibility and interiority: in memory, forgetting, sensuality, mystery, paradox, the uncanny, reverence, and awakening. He agrees with Augustine about the importance of confession, that we in modernity also are always in a confessional mode; and like Augustine we remain haunted by the problem of the will. Connolly is heir and major contributor to a theologico-philosophical and postsecularist tradition, from the early Enlightenment to the present, that includes Spinoza, John Toland, David Hume, the Freud of Moses and Monotheism, and Regina Schwartz. Postsecularism recognises that the religious narratives of the West, in biblical stories like Genesis or The Book of Job, have become, for good or ill or both, foundational narratives in world history. Postsecularism suggests that every ethico-political project assumes a creation story, a story of primordial origins; that no culture dispenses with myth, and that myths and counter-myths, Christian as much as pagan, are rich modes of textuality and understanding that cannot be reduced to single formulae of interpretation. On the contrary, the points of ambiguity and mystery within a myth excite our interpretative imagination. Connolly writes in ways that are always fearless, supple, adventurous, witty, worldly, asking himself and us to consider gateways to the new, the different, the -- John Docker, Australian National UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Voices From the Whirlwind Chapter 2 Confessing the Moral God Chapter 3 Gentle Wars of Identity/Difference Chapter 4 The Genesis of Being Chapter 5 Beyond the Moral Imperative
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Rowman & Littlefield Thomas Hobbes
Book SynopsisAs its subtitle ''Skepticism, Individuality and Chastened Politics'' indicates, this book is an exploration of and a largely favorable engagement with salient elements in the thinking of a theorist who is widely regarded as the greatest Anglophone political thinker and among the top rank of philosophical writers generally. In emphazing Hobbes''s skepticism, Richard Flathman goes against the grain of much of the literature concerning Hobbes. The theme of individuality is more familiar, particularly from the celebrated writings on Hobbes by Michael Oakeshott, but the idea of a chastened politics challenges the widely influential view that Hobbes was not only an authoritarian but an incipient or proto-totalitarian. Although primarily an account of Hobbes''s thinking, Flathman contends that Hobbes''s formulation speaks valuably to issues that remain very much with us. For this reason Thomas Hobbes will be of interest to a wider audience than Hobbes specialists.Trade ReviewRichard Flathman is one of today's most provocative and lively political theorists. And Thomas Hobbes is arguably the most interesting political thinker in the Western canon. Put the two together so that you have Flathman on Hobbes and the result is a work that is wonderfully unsettling, undoing some of the standard readings of Hobbes and building the strongest case to date for a liberal/Hobbes theory of politics. Flathman's Hobbes is more complicated than any of those versions in which Hobbesian politics comes down to a question of choosing between the state of nature and the absolute state. In contrast, Flathman quite properly insists that Hobbes saw political life as far more complex—as necessary and regrettable, fearful and inspiring, individualizing and absolutist. In an example of textual exegesis put to work for reasons that can matter to us, Flathman argues that in fact the state of nature and the state of civil society are frequently commingled in Hobbes's thought. This gives rise, in turn, to an entirely original analysis of how dependent the powers of Leviathan are upon its limited ability to use those powers. Flathman's larger ambition in drawing a map of this Hobbesian (dis)order, is to celebrate citizens who both affirm and deny their -- Alfonso J. Damico, University of IowaThis book is must reading for students of Hobbes' political thought and political theory in general. . . . An important addition to libraries serving advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty. * CHOICE *This is an illuminating companion volume to Flathman's fascinating and highly original book, Willful Liberalism. Flathman develops an interpretation of Hobbes' thought as having as its heart a conception of human beings as willful and self-making creatures that is of the sharpest relevance to current political theory and practice. This is an accomplished and subtly reasoned book that will well repay reading by anyone interested in the modern political condition and in the limits of political action in the contemporary world. -- John Gray, philosopher; Oxford UniversityHere is Flathman—theorist of a wilful liberalism—at his wilful best. Flathman's Hobbes is a skeptical theorist of minimal sovereignty and robust individuality. This candid and idiosyncratic engagement with Hobbes produces a liberalism that is a valuable antidote to the rationalist varieties that dominate political theory today. -- Bonnie Honig, Northwestern UniversityAmidst the vogue of rationalist and game-theoretical interpretations of Hobbes, Flathman's book provides a breath of fresh air. Rehabilitating the passions as moving forces of human conduct and presenting Hobbes as a defender of 'robust individuality,' his reading shows that, at the eve of the twenty-first century, the thought of that early modern thinker is more relevant than ever. -- Chantal Mouffe, Collége International de Philosophie, ParisRichard Flathman is one of today's most provocative and lively political theorists. And Thomas Hobbes is arguably the most interesting political thinker in the Western canon. Put the two together so that you have Flathman on Hobbes and the result is a work that is wonderfully unsettling, undoing some of the standard readings of Hobbes and building the strongest case to date for a liberal/Hobbes theory of politics. Flathman's Hobbes is more complicated than any of those versions in which Hobbesian politics comes down to a question of choosing between the state of nature and the absolute state. In contrast, Flathman quite properly insists that Hobbes saw political life as far more complex—as necessary and regrettable, fearful and inspiring, individualizing and absolutist. In an example of textual exegesis put to work for reasons that can matter to us, Flathman argues that in fact the state of nature and the state of civil society are frequently commingled in Hobbes's thought. This gives rise, in turn, to an entirely original analysis of how dependent the powers of Leviathan are upon its limited ability to use those powers. Flathman's larger ambition in drawing a map of this Hobbesian (dis)order, is to celebrate citizens who both affirm and deny their collective public life. He clearly reserves his admiration for those, like Hobbes, whom he believes are capable of living with the ambiguity inherent in that commitment. Here, as throughout, Flathman's interpretations and arguments consistently rise above secondary analysis to the level of first order political theorizing. -- Alfonso J. Damico, University of IowaTable of ContentsChapter 1 Of Making and Unmaking Chapter 2 O God, Matter, and Mind Chapter 3 Of Language, Reason, and Science Chapter 4 Of Prudence and Morality: The Right and the Laws of Nature Chapter 5 Of Prudence and Morality: Desires, Ends, and Character Chapter 6 Of Liberty, Authority, and Power Chapter 7 Of Liberty, Politics, and Political Education Chapter 8 Of Individuality and Democracy
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd States of Shock
Book SynopsisIn 1944 Horkheimer and Adorno warned that industrial society turns reason into rationalization, and Polanyi warned of the dangers of the self-regulating market, but today, argues Stiegler, this regression of reason has led to societies dominated by unreason, stupidity and madness.Trade ReviewThis is Stiegler at his finest. This book offers a penetrating diagnosis of a contemporary configuration that links the shocks of modern political economy to profound transformations in the psychic sphere. But Stiegler also gives us a powerful argument -- based on highly original interpretations of major thinkers -- revealing the radical importance of technology for all human experience. This is in essence a call for a new Enlightenment, one appropriate to our digital age.David Bates, University of California Berkeley Stiegler poses the question of how reason can renew itself in the face of unfettered global capitalism and the economic ideologies which propel it. Moving decisively beyond French postructuralism his thinking creates new conceptual weapons with which thought and knowledge can renew their sense of responsibility and engagement in the early 21st century.Ian James, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One. Pharmacology of Stupidity. Introduction to the Poststructuralist Epoch 1. Madness 2. Doing and Saying Stupid Things in the Twentieth Century 3. Différance and Repetition. Thinking Différance as Individuation 4. Après Coup, the Differend 5. Reading and Re-reading Hegel After Poststructuralism 6. Re-reading the Grundrisse. Beyond Two Marxist and Post-Structuralist Misunderstandings Part Two. The University With Conditions 7. The New Responsibilities of the University. In the Global Economic War 8. Internation and Interscience 9. Interscience, Intergeneration and the University Autonomy
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Edinburgh University Press Democracy Against Itself
Book SynopsisUsing 4 case studies - democratic Athens, the Weimar Republic, contemporary American democracy and China's fledging efforts to democratise - Mark Chou examines why democracy is prone to self-destruction.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Democracy Against Itself; 2. Democracy in Athens: Autonomy, Tragedy and Decline; 3. Democide in Weimar: Militant Democracy and the Paradox of Self-Defence; 4. The Coming Authoritarianism: The State of America's Democracy; 5. China's New Authoritarianism: A Glimpse at Our Post-Democratic Future?; 6. Occupy Democracy: Democracy Against Itself and the Global Occupy Movement
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Johns Hopkins University Press Platos Political Philosophy
Book SynopsisIt is an excellent companion to Plato's Dialogues.Trade ReviewReaders of all levels can be grateful for this ambitious book, which is not limited to an account of Plato's political philosophy narrowly understood. Besides skillful chapters on Laws, Republic, and Statesman, Blitz provides accurate and instructive treatments of 11 other dialogues... Highly recommended. Choice 2011 [Blitz's] book is beautifully organized, and he succeeds in moving "along Plato's spiraling paths." -- Mary P. Nichols Claremont Review of Books 2011Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Politics and Virtue1. The World of the Dialogues2. Virtue3. Virtue and Politics: The LawsPart II: Politics and Philosophy4. The Roots of Philosophy5. Beauty and Nobility6. Philosophy and Politics: The RepublicPart II: Politics and Knowledge7. Pleasure and the Soul8. Knowledge and Illusion9. Knowledge and Politics: The StatesmanConclusionNotesIndex
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MJ - Ohio University Press Readings on Fascism and National Socialism
Book SynopsisThe catastrophe and holocaust brought about by the two powerful movements of fascism and national socialism will mark human life always. Now, as we feel our hatred for them, we find it difficult to understand how they could have been so powerful, how they could have appealed so strongly to millions of people of a modern age.To
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Random House USA Inc Creating Freedom The Lottery of Birth the
Book SynopsisA profound and radical manifesto calling for a transformation in the way we think about democracy, equality, and ourselves.Freedom has long been a foundational concept at the heart of our civilization. Free markets, free media, free speech--even in these politically divided times, freedom is one thing we can all agree on. But we also live in a time of unprecedented economic inequality, eroding democracy, and a broken criminal justice system. How can we value freedom and simultaneously inhibit it?In Creating Freedom, Raoul Martinez argues that the more we understand the limits on our freedom, the better we will be at resisting them. Drawing on neuroscience, criminology, psychology, politics, climate science, economics, and philosophy, Creating Freedom lays a blueprint for us to make sense of our fractured world--and illuminates the path toward a better future.
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Louisiana State University Press Political Communication
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Northwestern University Press Of Death and Dominion The Existential Foundations
Book SynopsisStating that death is the opposite not of life, but of power, the author argues that death has had a great and largely unexplored impact on the thinking of governance throughout history. He pursues the idea that a deep concern with death is, in fact, the basis of the ideological foundations of all political systems.Table of ContentsForeword; I-Consolations; The Master as Slave; Death and Hierarchy;. Death as Degradation; The Substitution of Death; Between Philosophy and Sovereignty; II-Imperium; The Logic of Absolute Prominence; The Rule over Death; Retreat from the Ideal; From the Prosaic to the Brittle; III-Preparations; Destiny - the Uncanny Death; Fear and the Invisible; Future as Past; Sacrifice and the Sovereignty of the Soul; IV-Forgetting; Isolation and Reparation; The Heroic; The Triumph of Life; Remembering in the Age of Forgetting; Last Words: Death and Difference.
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Northwestern University Press Foucault Politics and Violence
Book SynopsisChallenges the assumption of the inextricability of violence from the political that is often based on excessively broad, ontological conceptions of violence distinct from its concrete and physical meaning and, on the other hand, on a restrictively narrow and empirical understanding of politics as the realm of conventional political institutions.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: The Politicization of Ontology Chapter 2: Foundational Violence Chapter 3: Dangerous Animals Chapter 4: The Politics of Gendered Violence Chapter 5: Political Life Chapter 6: The Management of State Violence Chapter 7: The Political Ontology of Neoliberalism Chapter 8: Violence and Neoliberal Governmentality Chapter 9: Terror and Political Spirituality Abbreviations for works by Foucault References Notes
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Northwestern University Press Kants Nonideal Theory of Politics
Book SynopsisArgues that Kant's political thought must be understood by reference to his philosophy of history, cultural anthropology, and geography. The thesis of the book is that Kant's assessment of the politically salient features of history, culture, and geography generates a nonideal theory of politics, which supplements his theory of cosmopolitanism.Trade Review“Kant’s Nonideal Theory of Politics gives us the first account of Kant’s politics that can encompass the whole of his systematic thought. Huseyinzadegan is working at the cutting edge of the field, bringing together insights from recent research with themes that have puzzled Kant’s interpreters for centuries. This book will be essential reading for Kant scholars and scholars of political thought, especially those interested in the intersection of ideal and nonideal theory.” —Elisabeth Ellis, author of Kant’s Politics: Provisional Theory for an Uncertain World“Kant’s Nonideal Theory of Politics demonstrates extensively how Kant complemented his ideal (a priori) theory of political right with a nonideal (regulative) theory of ‘political Zweckmässigkeit,’ seeking hypothetical principles for the constraints and accommodations actually facing human morality and political life. This book offers a robust model for Kantian political philosophy today.” —John Zammito, author of Kant, Herder, and the Birth of Anthropology“Kant has often been criticized for focusing too much on ideal theory. Huseyinzadegan’s book provides an original, compelling, and balanced response.” —Karl Ameriks, author of Kant’s Elliptical Path"Kant's Nonideal Theory of Politics makes an innovative and important intervention in current scholarship on Kant's political philosophy.” —Kristi Sweet, author of Kant on Practical Life: From Duty to History
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Random House USA Inc The Essential Writings of Machiavelli
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The Catholic University of America Press Truth and Irony Philosophical Meditations on
Book SynopsisTapping into selected works of Erasmus of Rotterdam, this book offers a series of philosophical meditations designed to retrieve and deploy a distinctively Erasmian manner of thinking - one that is capacious in its perception, agile in its judgments, and unsettling in its irony. In purpose, it takes a philosophical route, addressing perennial questions of self-knowledge.
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The Catholic University of America Press In Reasonable Hope Philosophical Reflections on
Book SynopsisConsiders three foundational responses to the quest for some understanding of the existence, meaning, and value of everything: our humanity; the approach of Scientism; and Theism. The first two approaches are carefully considered. However, it is the third to which most attention is devoted in this volume.
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