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  • Politics as Usualby Thomas W. Pogge

    Wiley 2013; US$ 24.95

    Worldwide, human lives are rapidly improving. Education, health-care, technology, and political participation are becoming ever more universal, empowering human beings everywhere to enjoy security, economic sufficiency, equal citizenship, and a life in dignity. To be sure, there are some specially difficult areas disfavoured by climate, geography,... more...

  • Visions of Politics: Volume 2, Renaissance Virtuesby Quentin Skinner

    Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 26.00

    The second of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important work on the political thought of the Italian renaissance, each of which has been carefully revised for publication in this form. more...

  • Just Healthby Norman Daniels

    Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 26.00

    Norman Daniels, author of the award-winning Just Healthcare, develops a comprehensive theory of justice for health. more...

  • Contemporary Debates in Political Philosophyby Thomas Christiano; John Christman

    Wiley 2009; US$ 109.95

    This collection of 24 essays, written by eminent philosophers and political theorists, brings together fresh debates on some of the most fundamental questions in contemporary political philosophy, including human rights, equality, constitutionalism, the value of democracy, identity and political neutrality. Presents fresh debates on six of the fundamental... more...

  • Utilitarianismby John Stuart Mill; George Sher

    Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2009; US$ 4.45

    This 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... more...

  • Classics of Moral and Political Theoryby Michael L. Morgan

    Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2011; US$ 38.00

    The fifth edition of Michael L. Morgan's Classics of Moral and Political Theory broadens the scope and increases the versatility of this landmark anthology by offering new selections from Aristotle's Politics , Aquinas' Disputed Questions on Virtue and Treatise on Law , as well as the entirety of Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration... more...

  • Ameritopiaby Mark R. Levin

    Threshold Editions 2012; US$ 16.00

    The man of system . . . is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it. He goes on to establish it completely and in all its parts, without any regard either to the great interests or to the strong prejudices... more...

  • Free Willby Sam Harris

    Free Press 2012; US$ 9.99

    A BELIEF IN FREE WILL touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality?as well as feelings of remorse or personal achievement?without first imagining that every person is the true source of his or her thoughts and actions. And yet the facts tell... more...

  • What Money Can't Buyby Michael Sandel

    Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not Available

    Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons, auctioning admission to elite universities, or selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? Isn't there something... more...

  • Democracy in What State?by Giorgio Agamben; Alain Badiou; Daniel Bensaid; Wendy Brown; Jean-Luc Nancy

    Columbia University Press 2011; US$ 19.99

    "Is it meaningful, as far as you are concerned, to call oneself a democrat? And if so, how do you interpret the word?" In responding to this question, eight iconoclastic thinkers prove the rich potential of democracy and its critical weaknesses. They also reconceive the practice to accommodate new political and cultural realities. Giorgio Agamben... more...