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Utilitarianismby John Stuart Mill; George Sher
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2009; US$ 4.45This expanded edition of John Stuart Mill?s Utilitarianism includes the text of his 1868 speech to the British House of Commons defending the use of capital punishment in cases of aggravated murder. The speech is significant both because its topic remains timely and because its arguments illustrate the applicability of the principle of utility to questions of large-scale social policy. 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...
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...
Utopiaby Sir Thomas More
The Floating Press 1901; US$ 3.95Sir Thomas More wrote Utopia in 1516 in Latin. His Utopia is a fictional island, whose society, religion and politics he explores. Critics do not believe that the island depicted More's idea of the perfect society, but rather that he hoped to throw the politics of his own time into a new light by contrasting them with his imagined island society. The work references Plato's Republic. 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...
Bounds of Reasonby Emilia Steuerman
Routledge 1999; US$ 37.95This is a highly original yet accessible study of the debate between modernity and postmodernity. It clearly explains and examines the central problem of the debate: whether the use of reason is an emancipatory or enslaving force. more...
Marxism and Human Natureby Sean Sayers
Routledge 1998; US$ 35.95This is an ambitious and wide ranging defence of the Marxist and Hegelian historical approach, engaging with a wide range of work at the heart of the contemporary debate in social and moral philosophy. more...