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Teaching Justice
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 89.95Examining a range of approaches to education, Teaching Justice considers the challenges that exist in teaching about justice, drawing on extensive empirical data gathered amongst college lecturers and professors, as well as the author's own experience. Presenting extensive international research and insightful analyses, Teaching Justice will appeal... more...
South of the Crisis
Anthem Press 2010; US$ 99.00The book offers an unorthodox account of why and how global capitalism has entered a phase of unsustainable crises of accumulation and legitimacy, and examines the different exit strategies open to Latin American countries. more...
Property-Owning Democracy
Wiley 2012; US$ 89.95Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond features a collection of original essays that represent the first extended treatment of political philosopher John Rawls' idea of a property-owning democracy. Offers new and essential insights into Rawls's idea of "property-owning democracy" Addresses the proposed political and economic institutions... more...
The Moral Fool
Columbia University Press 2009; US$ 25.99Justice, equality, and righteousness& mdash;these are some of our greatest moral convictions. Yet in times of social conflict, morals can become rigid, making religious war, ethnic cleansing, and political purges possible. Morality, therefore, can be viewed as pathology-a rhetorical, psychological, and social tool that is used and abused as a weapon.... more...
IMPERFECTION AND IMPARTIALITY
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 52.95This text argues, from a liberal perspective, for a radical re- interpretation of existing ideas concerning social justice. Since the 1980s there has been debate between liberals and their critics, Concerning The Use Of Impartiality As A Notion On Which To Base Social theories of justice. In introducing an impartial standard of the right, the implications... more...
The Culture of Morality
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 25.00This book presents a perspective on moral and social development based on psychological research and philosophical works. People in subordinate positions often oppose cultural practices and work to subvert them. The book presents many examples of such opposition aimed at explaining the complex relations of individuals and society. more...
Cultures of Control
Taylor and Francis 2000; US$ 65.95This collection of essays explores the history of control by looking at a variety of cultural forms, practices, and beliefs. These ideas are examined critically, not only in the light of the possibilities which control technologies seem to offer for resolving human problems, but also the contradictory moral, political, and economic consequences they... more...
The moral fabric in contemporary societies
BRILL 2003; US$ 112.00The proceedings of the Institute's July 2001 international congress in Krakow, Poland, reflect an interest in reviving morality and ethics to combat the decadent social philosophies of postmodernism and deconstructionism. The 21 papers discuss the moral fabric in contemporary societies, trust in contemporary societies, eastern Europe after Communis more...
Trust, Risk and Uncertainty
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 125.00The themes 'trust', 'risk ' and 'uncertainty' seem especially pertinent in the context of the post-9/11 world. This book brings together a range of new research with a focus on the 'risk society' debate and on the themes of 'trust', 'uncertainty' and 'ambivalence'. Where much of the work within these crucial debates in the social sciences has been... more...
Nanny State
Crown Publishing Group 2007; US$ 24.95When did we lose our right to be lazy, unhealthy, and politically incorrect? Move over Big Brother! An insidious new group has inserted itself into American politics. They are the nannies?not the stroller-pushing set but an invasive band of do-gooders who are subtly and steadily stripping us of our liberties, robbing us of the inalienable right to... more...









