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Justiceby Michael J. Sandel
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009; US$ 9.99What are our obligations to others as people in a free society? Should government tax the rich to help the poor? Is the free market fair? Is it sometimes wrong to tell the truth? Is killing sometimes morally required? Is it possible, or desirable, to legislate morality? Do individual rights and the common good conflict? Michael J. Sandel’s “Justice” course is one of the most popular and influential at Harvard. Up to a thousand students pack the campus theater to hear Sandel relate the big questions of political philosophy to the most vexing issues of the day, and this fall, public television will air a series based on the course. Justice offers readers the same exhilarating journey that captivates Harvard students.... 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...
The Republic and The Lawsby Cicero; Niall Rudd; Jonathan Powell
OUP Oxford 1998; US$ 8.95`However one defines Man, the same definition applies to us all. This is sufficient proof that there is no essential difference within mankind.' (Laws l.29-30) Cicero's The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible governement written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic in a dialogue following Plato. Drawing on Greek political theory, the work embodies the mature reflections of a Roman ex-consul on the nature of political organization, on justice in society, and on the qualities needed in a statesman. Its sequel, The Laws, expounds the influential doctrine of Natural Law, which applies to all mankind, andsets out an ideal code for a reformed Roman Republic, already half in the realm of utopia. This is the first... more...
The Reactionary Mindby Corey Robin
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 24.95Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is "boring," said the founding father of the American right. "Devoting your life to it," as conservatives do, "is horrifying if only because it's so repetitious. It's like sex." With this unlikely conversation began Robin's decade-long foray into the conservative mind. What is conservatism, and what's truly at stake for its proponents? If capitalism bores them, what excites them? Tracing conservatism back to its roots in the reaction against the French Revolution, Robin argues that the right is fundamentally inspired by a hostility to emancipating the lower orders. Some conservatives endorse the free market, others oppose... more...
Debating Human Rightsby Peter Van Ness
Routledge 1998; US$ 64.95Provoking fresh considerations of the issues between East and West, this book of essays presents a uniquely diverse range of voices. more...
Even Paranoids Have Enemiesby Joseph H. Berke; Stella Pierides; Andrea Sabbadini; Stanley Schneider
Routledge 1998; US$ 39.95Contributors to the book examine the ways in which paranoia and persecution are experienced at the individual, institutional and macrosocial level, and they discuss the psychological, political and cultural impact of paranoid/persecutory processes. more...
J.S. Mill's On Liberty in Focusby John Gray; G. W. Smith
Routledge 1991; US$ 45.95This book gathers together for the first time J.S. Mill's On Liberty and a selection of important essays by the eminent scholars Isaiah Berlin, Alan Ryan, John Rees C.L. Ten and Richard Wollheim on Mill's seminal work. more...
Justice and World Orderby Janna Thompson
Routledge 1992; US$ 41.95Thompson considers the concept of international justice as it has developed in political theory from Hobbes to the present day, and develops a theory designed to take account of both individual freedom and differences among communities. more...
Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Plato and the Republic by Nickolas Pappas
Routledge 1995; US$ 19.95A welcome and accessible companion to one of Plato's most important works. It leads the reader through Plato's life, the background to the Republic , its text and ideas and its continuing influence on Western thought. more...
Polish Solidarity Movementby Arista M. Cirtautas
Routledge 1997; US$ 208.00This book provides a groundbreaking analysis of democratization in Poland by placing Solidarity in the context of the major democratic upheavals of modernity; the French and American Revolutions. more...