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Purpose, functions, and relations of the state

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  • Justiceby Michael J. Sandel

    Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009; US$ 9.99

    What 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...

  • The Reactionary Mindby Corey Robin

    Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 24.95

    Late 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$ 64.95

    Provoking 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$ 39.95

    Contributors 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$ 45.95

    This 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...

  • On Libertyby John Stuart Mill

    Electric Book Company 1998; US$ 4.95

    In his treatise On Liberty (1859) Mill argues that in the past the danger had been that monarchs held power at the expense of the common people and the struggle was one of gaining liberty by limiting such governmental power. But now that power has largely passed into the hands of the people at large through democratic forms of government, the danger is that the majority denies liberty to individuals, whether explicitly through laws, which he calls 'acts of public authority', or more subtly through morals and social pressure, which he calls 'collective opinion'. more...

  • Justice and World Orderby Janna Thompson

    Routledge 1992; US$ 41.95

    Thompson 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...

  • Polish Solidarity Movementby Arista M. Cirtautas

    Routledge 1997; US$ 208.00

    This 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...

  • Love is a Sweet Chainby James Martel

    Routledge 2001; US$ 44.95

    James Martel's work examines how contemporary notions of love intersect with ideas on personal liberty, obligation, individuality, self and difference. more...

  • Human Rights Horizonsby Richard A. Falk

    Routledge 2000; US$ 43.95

    In Human Rights Horizons, one of the world's foremost authorities on human rights and International Relations maps out the way to a more just and human global society. more...