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Hardcover. Is socialism desirable? Is it even possible? This book presents a moral case for socialism and argues that the obstacles in its way are exaggerated. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 161 x 109 x 14. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691143613
- ISBN
- 9780691143613
€ 12.13
€ 12.13
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822332930
- ISBN
- 9780822332930
€ 26.99€ 24.94
€ 26.99
€ 24.94
Paperback. The concepts of alienation and its overcoming are central to Marx's thought. They underpin his critique of capitalism and his vision of future society. Marx's ideas are explained in rigorous and clear terms. They are situated in the context of the Hegelian ideas that inspired them and put into dialogue with contemporary debates. Num Pages: 210 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 11. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137379856
- ISBN
- 9781137379856
€ 50.61
€ 50.61
Paperback. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 281.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 211
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349057498
- ISBN
- 9781349057498
€ 68.40
€ 68.40
Paperback. Num Pages: 190 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPS; JFSL1; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 227 x 15. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Broadview Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554813162
- ISBN
- 9781554813162
€ 33.41
€ 33.41
Hardcover. In art and literature, animals appear not only as an allegoric representation but as a reference which troubles the border between humanity and animality. This book aims to challenge traditional ways of confronting animality with humanity and to consider how the Darwinian turn has modified this relationship in postmodern narratives. Editor(s): Wrobel, Szymon. Num Pages: 285 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPCF3; HPS; JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783631650394
- ISBN
- 9783631650394
€ 53.99€ 52.04
€ 53.99
€ 52.04
Paperback. This volume provides the first in-depth collection of essays aimed at critically examining the work of political philosopher Giorgio Agamben. Editor(s): Calarco, Matthew; Decaroli, Steven. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804750509
- ISBN
- 9780804750509
€ 26.99€ 24.94
€ 26.99
€ 24.94
Paperback. Thinking about Thinking examines philosophy from a variety of perspectives as a the practice realized by persons who communicate with one another while reflecting about the meaning of human life and thought. Num Pages: 222 pages. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823240180
- ISBN
- 9780823240180
€ 33.99€ 31.18
€ 33.99
€ 31.18
Hardcover. Plato's Republic is one of the most well-known and widely discussed texts in the history of philosophy, but how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2500 years after it was originally composed? Alain Badiou invents a new genre in order to breathe fresh life into Plato's text and restore its universality. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 36. Weight in Grams: 730.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745662145
- ISBN
- 9780745662145
€ 56.55
€ 56.55
Paperback. This book draws together essays that play in various ways upon questions involving books, archivization, machines for writing, and the mechanicity inherent in language, the media, and intellectuals. Translator(s): Bowlby, Rachel. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: CFC; HPS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804746205
- ISBN
- 9780804746205
€ 24.99€ 22.87
€ 24.99
€ 22.87
Paperback. Leading scholars working on Buddhism and politics in South and Southeast Asia add to current discussions regarding 'Engaged Buddhism' and the recent work on protests. The writers have mostly established themselves in their fields, offering a diverse approach and country-by-country coverage. Editor(s): Kitiarsa, Pattana; Whalen-Bridge, John. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HPS; HR; JFC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349462001
- ISBN
- 9781349462001
€ 74.35
€ 74.35
Paperback. Epidemiology is one of the fastest growing and increasingly important sciences. This thorough analysis lays out the conceptual foundations of epidemiology, identifying traps and setting out the benefits of properly understanding this fascinating and important discipline, as well as providing the means to do so. Series: New Directions in the Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HPS; MBN; MBNS; PDA; YQS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 203
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349346851
- ISBN
- 9781349346851
€ 74.35
€ 74.35
Paperback. This collection of essays contextualises the discourse on Ubuntu within the wider historical framework of postcolonial attempts to re-articulate African humanism as a substantial philosophy and emancipatory ideology. The contributions in this volume address this question from the perspective of a wide range of disciplines. Editor(s): Praeg, Leonhard; Magadla, Siphokazi. Series: Thinking Africa Series. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HBJH; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 170 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781869142650
- ISBN
- 9781869142650
€ 37.79
€ 37.79
Paperback. Editor(s): Schmidsberger, Florian. Series: Culture and Knowledge. Num Pages: 98 pages, 8, 6 fig., 2 tables. BIC Classification: DSB; HPS; JHM; MB; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 210 x 7. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Edition
- 1st New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783631578698
- ISBN
- 9783631578698
€ 32.99€ 32.02
€ 32.99
€ 32.02
Paperback. Offers glimpses into an expanding universe of knowledge, beliefs and practices characterized by conviction that human activity is governed by structure and functioning of brain. This book explores these expectations, their history, their contexts, and debates they raise, in a broad range of fields, including enhancement, meditation, and more. Editor(s): Ortega, Francisco; Vidal, Fernando. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 211 x 24. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Edition
- 1st New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783631598559
- ISBN
- 9783631598559
€ 54.27
€ 54.27
Paperback. The concept of causation is fundamental to ascribing moral and legal responsibility for events. Yet the precise relationship between causation and responsibility remains unclear. This book clarifies that relationship through an analysis of the best accounts of causation in metaphysics, and a critique of the confusion in legal doctrine. Num Pages: 640 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPQ; HPS; LAB; MMJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 35. Weight in Grams: 972.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 640
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199599516
- ISBN
- 9780199599516
€ 55.94
€ 55.94
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 136 x 11. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486451169
- ISBN
- 9780486451169
€ 9.87
€ 9.87
Hardcover. Shows that Kant's thought is organized around two central claims: first, that legal institutions are not simply responses to human limitations or circumstances; and second, Kant argues for a distinctive moral principle, which restricts the legitimate use of force to the creation of a system of equal freedom. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JPA; LA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 167 x 32. Weight in Grams: 758.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674035065
- ISBN
- 9780674035065
€ 60.83€ 55.18
€ 60.83
€ 55.18
The Origins of Neoliberalism: Insights from economics and philosophy (...
Becchio, Giandomenica, Leghissa, Giovanni
Hardcover. Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics. Num Pages: 218 pages, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: HPS; KCA; KCP; KCS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 306 x 19. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415732246
- ISBN
- 9780415732246
€ 151.46
€ 151.46
Hardcover. Provides relationship between discursively shaped social relations, entrenched in principle of mutual recognition, and need to punish perpetrators of communication disruption, involving commission of an offence in multicultural societies. This title analyses problem of intercultural nature of legal discourse about universality of human rights. Series: Dia-Logos. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; LA; LB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 234 x 22. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Publisher
- Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783631605851
- ISBN
- 9783631605851
€ 63.16
€ 63.16
Hardcover. Num Pages: 162 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 162
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739181508
- ISBN
- 9780739181508
€ 89.35
€ 89.35
Paperback. Bulgakov Sergej Nikolaevich (1871-1944) - russkij filosof, pisatel, bogoslov, ekonomist. Okonchil yuridicheskij fakultet Moskovskogo universiteta. Gertsen Aleksandr Ivanovich (1812-1870) - filosof, pisatel i publitsist, revolyutsioner. Kniga "Dushevnaya drama Gertsena" posvyaschena filosofskim razmyshleniyam o vechnosti. This book, "Dushevnaya drama Gertsena", by S.N. Bulgakov, is a replication of a book originally published before 1905. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible. This book was created using print-on-demand technology. Thank you for supporting classic literature. Num Pages: 47 pages. BIC Classification: HPS. Dimension: 149 x 231 x 14. Weight in Grams: 88.
- Publisher
- Book on Demand Pod
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9785458237253
- ISBN
- 9785458237253
€ 115.79
€ 115.79
Hardcover. A collection of original essays developing a Confucian political and legal theory, focusing on South Korea, traditionally the most Confucian East Asian country in its legal, political, and cultural practices. Editor(s): Kim, Sungmoon. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; HPDF; HPS; HRKN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield International
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783482238
- ISBN
- 9781783482238
€ 94.10€ 34.59
€ 94.10
€ 34.59
Paperback. Series: Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFK; JPA; JPF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474230391
- ISBN
- 9781474230391
€ 26.99€ 26.48
€ 26.99
€ 26.48