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Cicero: On the Commonwealth and On the Lawsby Marcus Tullius Cicero; James E. G. Zetzel; Raymond Geuss; Quentin Skinner
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 26.00On the Commonwealth and On the Laws are Cicero's most important works of political philosophy. The present volume offers a masterly new translation of both by James E. G. Zetzel, supported by a concise introduction, notes and other aids, of interest to students in politics, philosophy, ancient history, law and classics. more...
The Federalistby Alexander Hamilton; James Madison; John Jay; Terence Ball; Raymond Geuss; Quentin Skinner
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 26.00The most accessible rendition ever of a classic of political thought in action. Terence Ball presents all eighty-five Federalist papers, along with the sixteen letters of 'Brutus', the New York Antifederalist. Each is systematically cross-referenced to the other, and both to the appended Articles of Confederation and US Constitution. more...
Enlightenment and Action from Descartes to Kantby Michael Losonsky
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 42.00This is the first book to trace systematically the philosophical origins and development of the idea that the improvement of human understanding requires public activity, discussing the work of Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Spinoza, and Leibniz. more...
Political Ideology in the Arab Worldby Michaelle L. Browers
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 26.00Discusses some of the most significant ideological debates that have animated the Arab world over the last two decades. more...
Piracyby Adrian Johns
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 18.00Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of America, for instance, claimed that in 2005 the film industry lost $2.3 billion in revenue to piracy online. But here Adrian Johns shows that piracy has a much longer and more vital history than we have realized—one that has been largely forgotten and is little understood. Piracy explores the intellectual property wars from the advent of print culture in the fifteenth century to the reign of the Internet in the twenty-first. Brimming with broader implications for today’s debates over... more...
Copy, Archive, Signatureby Jacques Derrida; Gerhard Richter; Jeff Fort
Stanford University Press 2010; US$ 16.95The book makes available for the first time in English?and for the first time in its entirety in any language?an important yet little known interview that Jacques Derrida granted on the question of photography and its relation to such key deconstructive concepts as copy, archive, and signature. more...
From Soul to Selfby James Crabbe
Routledge 1999; US$ 41.95From Soul to Self takes the reader on a fascinating journey through philosophy, theology, religious studies, and physiological sciences. more...
Philosophy and Theology in the Middle Agesby G. R. Evans
Routledge 1993; US$ 32.95`Does God exist?' `Is there a purpose to our lives?' `What are human beings?' These are the great questions of philosophy and religion which the medieval theologians addressed themselves. This is an introduction to the surrounding debates more...
Feminism and Deconstructionby Diane Elam
Routledge 1994; US$ 41.95Essential reading for anyone who needs an accessible but stimulating guide to the relationship between feminism and deconstruction. A clear and stimulating guide through one of the mazes of contemporary theory. more...
Interdisciplinarityby Joe Moran
Routledge 2001; US$ 22.95This volume examines the way in which we organize knowledge into disciplines, then reorganize it into new configurations when the existing disciplines have come to seem irrelevant or exclusory. more...