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Individualism embraces a wide diversity of meanings and is widely used by those who criticize and by those who praise Western societies and their ... More

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This prophetic 1844 work challenges the very notion of a common good as the driving force of civilization. It offers burning indictments of ... More

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In recent years, the ability of holistic social theories to account for the rights, duties, and even reality of the individual, has been more and ... More

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Political theorist Jane Anna Gordon and philosopher Lewis Ricardo Gordon here offer a theory of disaster with a connection to society s construction ... More

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This volume explores the connection between two phenomena usually thought to be utterly incongruous, even antithetical: 'utopia' and 'everyday life'. ... More

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Liberalism, the central political philosophy of American and Western society, is a philosophy based on human freedom, equality, and the natural ... More

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"Contract and Domination "offers a bold challenge to contemporary contract theory, arguing that it should either be fundamentally rethought or ... More

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This book explores the distinct historical-political imagination of the self in the twentieth century and advances two arguments. First, it suggests ... More

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In simple action theory, when people choose between courses of action, they know what the outcome will be. When an individual is making a choice ... More

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Not so long ago, the only respectable question for philosophical, legal, and political scholars to ask about torture was how to ensure its effective ... More

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This book is about the search for world peace and development. It focuses on Karl Marx and Max Webber, two outstanding intellectuals whose analysis ... More

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Grundratseln der Maschinisierung wird hier eine Losung gewiesen: z.B. der Frage, wie es kommt, da der jeweilige Stand der Maschinisierung fur die ... More

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Winner, The New York Public Library, Best of Reference Award, 2002 New York University Press is proud to announce the return of a valuable resource ... More

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One of the most original assumptions is that political actors are groups of thematized information. They effectively test the political, traditional ... More

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This book scrutinizes the philosophical foundation, the normative content, and the broadly political implications of a new culture of toleration for ... More

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Vielleicht nie zuvor war Toleranz so wichtig wie in der heutigen Welt, in der Menschen verschiedenster Kulturregionen und Religionsgemeinschaften ... More

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The eighteenth-century Enlightenment saw the birth of the concept of modernity - of an era which sought legitimacy not from the past but from the ... More

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The Giddens Reader contains a comprehensive selection of extracts from the works of the pre-eminent social theorist, Anthony Giddens. A wide range of ... More

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Today work, leisure, love, health, holidays, schooling and self-development seem to be flowing together in one big, chaotic mess. But in this book, ... More

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