Ethics & moral philosophy
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Ethics & moral philosophy
Hardcover. Just as China is called the world factory for manufactured goods, it is also a world factory for manufactured animal cruelty in a new phenomenon of globalized animal cruelty. Animals in China examines animal protection in China in its legal, social and cultural contexts. Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, 4 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HPQ; JFFZ; LAQ; LNKG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137408013
- ISBN
- 9781137408013
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.44
€ 128.44
Hardcover. By interweaving Hegelian dialectic and the middle voice, this book develops a holistic account of life, nature, and the ethical orientation of human beings with respect to them without falling into the trap of either subjecting human rights to totality or relegating non-human beings and their habitats to instrumentalism. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137412102
- ISBN
- 9781137412102
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.36
€ 68.36
Hardcover. Schopenhauer and Adorno on Bodily Suffering explores how the works of both philosophers revolve around an entwinement of pessimism and optimism, which links statements regarding the wrongness of the world to analyses of the human capability to experience compassion with bodily suffering and to the redeeming qualities of the arts. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137412164
- ISBN
- 9781137412164
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.69
€ 67.69
Hardcover. While moral philosophy has traditionally been understood as an examination of the good life, this book argues that ethical inquiry should, rather, begin from an examination of evil and other 'negative' moral concepts, such as guilt and suffering. Num Pages: 147 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 221 x 15. Weight in Grams: 326.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137412652
- ISBN
- 9781137412652
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.76
€ 66.76
Paperback. In this groundbreaking book, Calum Neill explores the ideas of Jacques Lacan to present a powerful argument for an approach to ethics which is neither rooted in a traditional morality nor reduced to a relativism, an ethics, that is, which is without ground. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JMA; JMRN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 16. Weight in Grams: 328.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 265
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137412713
- ISBN
- 9781137412713
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.73
€ 66.73
Hardcover. This book argues that the overlooked ideas of Jose Marti and Ernesto 'Che' Guevara explain recent politics in Latin America and the Caribbean but also, even more significantly, offer a defensible alternative direction for global development ethics. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137413222
- ISBN
- 9781137413222
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Paperback. This book offers a series of critical commentaries on, and forced encounters between, different thinkers. At stake in this philosophical and psychoanalytical enquiry is the drawing of a series of diagrams of the finite/infinite relation, and the mapping out of the contours for a speculative and pragmatic production of subjectivity. Num Pages: 315 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; HPCF; HPN; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 315
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137430281
- ISBN
- 9781137430281
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Hardback. Strawser examines several possible ethical justifications for the killing of Osama bin Laden and finds nearly all of them wanting. One, however, he argues is sound: that bin Laden was liable to be killed as a necessary and proportionate act of defensive harm on behalf of innocent people. Num Pages: 87 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JPWL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 264.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 87
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137440709
- ISBN
- 9781137440709
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.16
€ 66.16
Hardcover. Kierkegaard and Kant on Radical Evil and the Highest Good is a major study of Kierkegaard's relation to Kant that gives a comprehensive account of radical evil and the highest good, two controversial doctrines with important consequences for ethics and religion. Num Pages: 339 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 166 x 27. Weight in Grams: 540.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137440877
- ISBN
- 9781137440877
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.57
€ 118.57
Hardcover. What could Wittgenstein's work contribute to the rapidly growing literature on life's meaning? This book not only examines Wittgenstein's scattered remarks about value and 'sense of life' but also argues that his philosophy and 'way of seeing' has far reaching implications for the ways theorists approach an ancient question: 'How shall one live?'. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 348.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137440907
- ISBN
- 9781137440907
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.00
€ 67.00
Hardcover. Taking inspiration from the later Wittgenstein, On Moral Certainty, Justification and Practice explores the practical basis of human morality. It offers an account of moral certainty, which it links with a view of moral competence. Drawing on everyday examples, it is shown how morality is grounded in action, not in reasoning. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137447173
- ISBN
- 9781137447173
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.82
€ 139.82
Hardcover. What Morality Means examines the scientific theory of morality, drawing on zoological and physiological literatures in addition to contemporary sociological research on status and exchange. The theory roots morality in the capacity for perceptual overlap, and describes how perceptual overlap has been constrained and enabled in human history. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFM; JHBA; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137449283
- ISBN
- 9781137449283
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Hardback. The book questions the concept of "the enemy," beginning with Carl Schmitt's famous notion that politics is the relationship of friend and enemy and that humanity is not a political concept. This book deconstructs this notion and views humanity at the center of a type of politics based on ethics. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 191
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456472
- ISBN
- 9781137456472
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardcover. This book reconceptualises the concept of moral economy in its relevance for, and application to, the criminal justice system in England and Wales. It advances the argument that criminal justice cannot be reduced to an instrumentally driven operation to achieve fiscal efficiencies or provide investment opportunities to the commercial sector. Num Pages: 124 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; HPQ; JHBA; JKVS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 225 x 14. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137468451
- ISBN
- 9781137468451
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.57
€ 66.57
Hardcover. Knowing that we are finite, how can we live to the fullest? Philosopher George Santayana suggested 'spirituality' enables us to enjoy what we have. This book clarifies and extends Santayana's account of spirituality, while suggesting how the detachment of spirituality can relieve human suffering, enrich our lives, and make us better human beings. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPQ; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137472472
- ISBN
- 9781137472472
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.57
€ 66.57
Hardcover. Wariboko offers a critical-philosophical perspective on the logics and dynamics of finance capital in the twenty-first century in order to craft a model of the care of the soul that will enable citizens to not only better negotiate their economic existences and moral evaluations within it, but also resist its negative impact on social life. Series: Radical Theologies and Philosophies. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; KFF; KJG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137475497
- ISBN
- 9781137475497
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Hardcover. Pethick investigates a much neglected philosophical connection between two of the most controversial figures in the history of philosophy: Spinoza and Nietzsche. By examining the crucial role that affectivity plays in their philosophies, this book claims that the two philosophers share the common goal of making knowledge the most powerful affect. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC; HPK; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137486059
- ISBN
- 9781137486059
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.91
€ 128.91
Paperback. This book presents an atheistic case against the legalization of assisted suicide. Critical of both sides of the argument, it questions the assumptions behind the discussion. Yuill shows that our attitudes towards suicide - not euthanasia - are most important to our attitudes towards assisted suicide. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFME; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 282.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137487469
- ISBN
- 9781137487469
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.52
€ 127.52
hardcover. Num Pages: 235 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; HPQ; JMM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137490216
- ISBN
- 9781137490216
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.41
€ 67.41
Hardback. Num Pages: 200 pages, 1 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JMB; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137491947
- ISBN
- 9781137491947
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.61
€ 139.61