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Democratic Distributive Justiceby Ross Zucker
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 23.00By exploring the integral relationship between democracy and economic justice, Democratic Distributive Justice seeks to explain how democratic countries with market systems should deal with the problem of high levels of income-inequality. The book provides an interdisciplinary approach to dealing with this issue that combines political, economic, and legal theory. more...
Rousseauby Robert Wokler
Oxford University Press 2001; US$ 8.95Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a central figure of the European Enlightenment and responsible for the notion of the "noble savage". This study of his life and works aims to show how his thinking was inspired by visionary ideals of mankind's self-realization in a condition of unfettered freedom. more...
Utopiaby Thomas More; Paul Turner
Penguin Group Inc. 2003; US$ 9.99First published in 1516, Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism. Through the voice of the mysterious traveler Raphael Hythloday, More describes a pagan, communist city-state governed by reason. Addressing such issues as religious pluralism, women's rights, state-sponsored education, colonialism, and justified warfare, Utopia seems remarkably contemporary nearly five centuries after it was written, and it remains a foundational text in philosophy and political theory. more...
Dialogues of Platoby MobileReference
MobileReference.com 2007; US$ 5.99Indulge Yourself with the Classical Greek Philosophical Dialogues on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any chapter from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Table of Contents. List of Plato''s Dialogues by Period. List of Dialogues in Alphabetical Order. Plato Biography. About and Navigation. List of Plato''s Dialogues by Period. Early dialogues:. Apology. Crito. Charmides. Laches, or; Courage. Lysis, or; Friendship. Euthyphro. Menexenus. Ion. The following are variously considered transitional or middle period dialogues:. Gorgias. Protagoras. Meno. Middle dialogues:. Euthydemus. Cratylus. Phaedo. Phaedrus. Symposium. The Republic. Theaetetus. Parmenides. Late dialogues:. Sophist. Statesman. Philebus. Timaeus. Critias.... more...
The Birth of Biopoliticsby M. Foucault
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2008; US$ 20.00Foucault continues on the theme of his 1978 course by focusing on the study of liberal and neo-liberal forms of government and concentrating in particular on two forms of neo-liberalism: German post-war liberalism and the liberalism of the Chicago School. more...
Ulysses Unboundby Jon Elster
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 35.00This provocative book argues that, very often, people may benefit from being constrained in their options or from being ignorant. more...
Designing Public Policiesby Michael Howlett
Taylor & Francis 2010; US$ 45.95This textbook provides a concise and accessible introduction to the principles and elements of policy design in contemporary governance. Howlett seeks to examine in detail the range of substantive and procedural policy instruments that together comprises the toolbox from which governments select specific tools expected to resolve policy problems. more...
Practical Ethicsby Peter Singer
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 26.00The third edition of this classic textbook is completely revised and updated featuring a new chapter on climate change. more...
Republicby Plato; G. M. A. Grube; C. D. C. Reeve
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 1992; US$ 8.95The revised edition of Grube?s classic translation follows and furthers Grube?s noted success in combining fidelity to Plato?s text with natural readability, while reflecting the fruits of new scholarship and insights into Plato?s thought since publication of the first edition in 1974. A new introduction, index, and bibliography by Professor Reeve are included in this new rendering more...
An Interpretation of Religionby Emeritus Professor John Hick
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2004; US$ 36.00An updated new edition of the groundbreaking investigation which takes full account of the finding of the social and historical sciences whilst offering a religious interpretation of the religions as different culturally conditioned responses to a transcendent Divine Reality. Written with great clarity and force, and with a wealth of fresh insights, this major work (based on the author's Gifford Lectures of 1896-7) treats the principal topics in the philosophy of religion and establishes both a basis for religious affirmation today and a framework for the developing world-wide inter-faith dialogue. Includes a new Introduction to the second edition. more...









