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Visions of Politics: Volume 1, Regarding Method
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 26.00The first of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important philosophical and methodological statements written over the past four decades, each of which has been carefully revised for publication in this form. more...
Visions of Politics: Volume 2, Renaissance Virtues
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 26.00The 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...
Visions of Politics: Volume 3, Hobbes and Civil Science
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 27.00The third 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 Thomas Hobbes, each of which has been carefully revised for publication in this form. more...
Political Theory and the Ecological Challenge
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 32.00Political theory scholars examine the challenge that political ecology presents to political theory. more...
Contemporary Debates in Political Philosophy
Wiley 2009; US$ 109.95This 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...
Expert Political Judgment
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 30.95The intelligence failures surrounding the invasion of Iraq dramatically illustrate the necessity of developing standards for evaluating expert opinion. This book fills that need. Here, Philip E. Tetlock explores what constitutes good judgment in predicting future events, and looks at why experts are often wrong in their forecasts. Tetlock first... more...
Classics of Moral and Political Theory
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2011; US$ 38.00The 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...
Die 'Jabezgeneration': Soziale Ungleichheit und das Prinzip des Auslesens an deutschen Schulen
Diplomica Verlag 2010; US$ 26.95Hauptbeschreibung PISA-Schock und andauernde Diskussionen zum föderalen Umbau des Bildungssystems, aufrüttelnde Korrespondenzen von Lehrenden an Bildungsministerien und Rücktritte von engagierten Elternvertreter/innen, weil die Kruste des Althergebrachten zu dick und unüberwindbar scheint, beherrschen die fortwährende Beschäftigung mit dem Thema... more...
Psychopolitik
Campus Verlag 2010; US$ 33.42Hauptbeschreibung Die Subjektivität von Arbeitskräften ist in den letzten Jahren von Unternehmen als Produktivfaktor entdeckt worden. Beschäftigte sollen und können sich mit ihrer ganzen Person und Erfahrung in den Arbeitsprozess einbringen. Im Anschluss an Michel Foucaults Konzept der Gouvernementalität untersucht Alexandra Rau die damit verbundenen... more...
Kooperative Bildungsverantwortung
W. Bertelsmann Verlag 2011; US$ 32.25Hauptbeschreibung Bildungsgerechtigkeit ist ein Anspruch, der nicht nur den Staat, sondern eine Vielzahl gesellschaftlicher Akteure herausfordert. Wie die unterschiedlichen Verantwortungsträger von den Eltern über die Lehrpersonen und Schulträger bis hin zur staatlichen Bildungspolitik miteinander so kooperieren können, dass das Ziel Bildungsgerechtigkeit... more...









