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1	Liberals & Cannibals: The Implications of Diversity more books like this by Steven Lukes, Colin Tatz add to wishlist Taking as his starting point Robert Frost's accusation that a liberal is someone who can't take his own side in an argument, Steven Lukes confronts liberal thought with its own limitations. The essays in this collection focus on the perennial but newly urgent questions of how the tension between relativism and the moral universalism current in ... see all copies from $4.98! new only from $5.94! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Power: A Radical View more books like this by Steven Lukes add to wishlist What is power? Is it, as Betrand Russell suggested, "the production of intended effects," or is it the "capacity" to produce them? And which effects count? Or is Max Weber's definition of power as "the probability that an actor in a social relationship will be in a position to carry out his own will despite resistance" more accurate. What are the ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $12.84! \| SVS
3	Power, Second Edition: A Radical View more books like this by Steven Lukes add to wishlist Steven Lukes' Power: A Radical View is a seminal work still widely used some 30 years after publication. The second edition includes the complete original text alongside two major new essays. One assesses the main debates about how to conceptualize and study power, including the influential contributions of Michel Foucault. The other reconsiders ... see all copies from $4.84! new only from $27.51! \| SVS
4	Emile Durkheim, His Life and Work: A Historical and Critical Study more books like this by Steven Lukes add to wishlist see all copies from $39.00! new only from $47.95! \| SVS
5	Moral Relativism: Big Ideas/Small Books more books like this by Steven Lukes add to wishlist Moral relativism attracts and repels. What is defensible in it and what is to be rejected? Do we as human beings have no shared standards by which we can understand one another? Can we abstain from judging one another's practices? Do we truly have divergent views about what constitutes good and evil, virtue and vice, harm and welfare, dignity and ... see all copies from $2.74! new only from $2.74! \| SVS
6	The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat more books like this by Steven Lukes add to wishlist This title presents brilliant fictional journey through Western political philosophy with one of our most original thinkers. "The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat" is a brilliant fictional journey through Western political philosophy with one of our most original thinkers. Professor Caritat, a middle-aged Candide, walks naively through ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.37! \| SVS
7	Language and Solitude: Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Habsburg Dilemma more books like this by Ernest Gellner, David N Gellner (Preface by), Steven Lukes (Introduction by) add to wishlist Ernest Gellner (1925-1995) has been described as 'one of the last great central European polymath intellectuals'. His last book throws new light on two leading thinkers of their time. Wittgenstein, arguably the most influential and the most cited philosopher of the twentieth century, is famous for having propounded two radically different ... see all copies from $13.96! new only from $25.65! \| first editions
8	Multicultural Questions more books like this by Christian Joppke (Editor), Steven Lukes (Editor) add to wishlist This volume assembles leading scholars from a range of disciplines to debate multiculturalism in theory and practice. The volume is grouped around four central questions raised by multiculturalism; Is universalism ethnocentric?; Does multiculturalism threaten citizenship?; Do minorities require group rights?; and what can Europe learn from North ... see all copies from $99.78! new only from $99.78! \| SVS
9	Individualism more books like this by Steven Lukes add to wishlist Individualism embraces a wide diversity of meanings and is widely used by those who criticize and by those who praise Western societies and their culture, by historians and literary scholars in search of the emergence of 'the individual', by anthropologists claiming that there are different, culturally shaped conceptions of the individual or ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $19.95! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat: A Comedy of Ideas more books like this by Steven Lukes add to wishlist Professor Nicholas Caritat is a scholar of the Englightenment and therefore, he reasons, a man with no role in the political struggle in Militaria, the autocratic state in which he lives. He is wrong. In the space of 24 hours, Caritat is arrested by the police, then liberated by the guerrillas of the Visible Hand. They give him the code name ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.87! \| first editions \| SVS
11	No Laughing Matter: A Collection of Political Jokes more books like this by Steven Lukes add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
12	Marxism and Morality more books like this by Steven Lukes add to wishlist This book discusses the positions taken by Marx and Engels and the main subsequent traditions with respect to central moral questions. On some such questions, of course, Marxism is silent (for example, concerning personal relations, and the moral virtues of the individual) and that fact is itself discussed. On others, its main thinkers and actors ... see all copies from $7.70! first editions
13 view cover	Rationality and Relativism more books like this by Steven Lukes (Photographer), Martin Hollis (Photographer) add to wishlist The contributors represent the complete spectrum of positions between a relativism that challenges the very concept of a single world and the idea that there are ascertainable, objective universals. see all copies from $5.20!
14	Emile Durkheim: 2a Historical and Critical Study more books like this by Steven Lukes, Stephen Lukes add to wishlist see all copies from $4.70! SVS
15	Moral Conflict and Politics more books like this by Steven Lukes add to wishlist This is a collection of essays examining value pluralism and moral conflict and their implications for political thinking and practice. In Parts 1 and 2 the author discusses them directly and their consequences for how we are to think about equality, liberty, power and authority. In Parts 2 and 3 he focuses on the non-obvious role of morality in ... see all copies from $63.99! first editions
16	Viaje del Profesor Caritat, El by Steven Lukes add to wishlist see all copies from $57.82! new only from $57.82!
17	Durkheim and the Law more books like this by Andrew Scull (Editor), Emile Durkheim, Steven Lukes (Editor) add to wishlist The theme of law emerges time and again in Durkheim's writings. But, until now, these writings have remained scattered through his work. This book brings them together and sets them within their context. It also provides an introduction demonstrating both the distinctive nature of Durkheim's thought and the topics he discussed. see all copies from $87.98!
18	A Prayer for Katerina Horovitzova: A Historical and Critical Study more books like this by Steven Lukes add to wishlist see all copies from $69.46!
19	Power more books like this by Steven Lukes add to wishlist What is power? Is it, as Betrand Russell suggested, "the production of intended effects," or is it the "capacity" to produce them? And which effects count? Or is Max Weber's definition of power as "the probability that an actor in a social relationship will be in a position to carry out his own will despite resistance" more accurate. What are the ... see all copies from $20.00!
20	Essays in Social Theory more books like this by Steven Lukes add to wishlist These essays draw together the author's thoughts on a diverse range of sociological issues. Dominant themes are: the distinction between normative and empirical theorizing and the relationship between them; the bearing of theory on evidence; and the alleged relativity of standards of rationality. see all copies from $5.30! new only from $32.00! \| first editions
21	Émile Durkheim; his life and work, a historical and critical study. more books like this by Steven Lukes add to wishlist see all copies from $10.00! first editions
22	Rationality and Relativism more books like this by Martin Hollis, Steven Lukes add to wishlist The contributors represent the complete spectrum of positions between a relativism that challenges the very concept of a single world and the idea that there are ascertainable, objective universals. see all copies from $29.88! first editions
23	The good society: a book of readings more books like this by Anthony Arblaster (Compiled by), Steven Lukes add to wishlist see all copies from $6.00! first editions
24	Durkheim and the law more books like this by Steven Lukes, Andrew T. Scull add to wishlist see all copies from $161.18! first editions
25	The rules of sociological method : and selected texts on sociology and its method more books like this by Emile Durkheim, Steven Lukes add to wishlist see all copies from $29.04!

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