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Social & political philosophy
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
€ 11.52
€ 11.52
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822332930
- ISBN
- 9780822332930
€ 26.99€ 24.96
€ 26.99
€ 24.96
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
€ 34.55
€ 34.55
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
€ 53.89
€ 53.89
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
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349462001
- ISBN
- 9781349462001
€ 77.03
€ 77.03
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
€ 34.99€ 33.11
€ 34.99
€ 33.11
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
€ 56.19
€ 56.19
Paperback. Over the last decade, Axel Honneth has established himself as one of the leading social and political philosophers in the world today. Rooted in the tradition of critical theory, his writings have been central to the revitalization of critical theory and have become increasingly influential. Num Pages: 296 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 160 x 13. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745629063
- ISBN
- 9780745629063
€ 27.77
€ 27.77
Paperback. Understand Political Philosophy brings key political concepts and theories to life by referring to current political issues and dilemmas. Series: Teach Yourself - General. Num Pages: 304 pages, n/a. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Hodder Education United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444107531
- ISBN
- 9781444107531
€ 13.99€ 11.46
€ 13.99
€ 11.46
Paperback. Memory of historical trauma has a unique power to generate works of art. This title analyses the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in Berlin, Buenos Aires and New York - three late-20th century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 192 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KBBEY; 1KLSA; AB; HPS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804745611
- ISBN
- 9780804745611
€ 25.99€ 23.62
€ 25.99
€ 23.62
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFE2; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801487187
- ISBN
- 9780801487187
€ 34.99€ 33.16
€ 34.99
€ 33.16
Paperback. In this volume Axel Honneth deepens and develops his highly influential theory of recognition, showing how it enables us both to rethink the concept of justice and to offer a compelling account of the relationship between social reproduction and individual identity formation. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745652337
- ISBN
- 9780745652337
€ 26.55
€ 26.55
Hardcover. This book considers nonviolence in relationship to specific social, political, ecological and spiritual issues. Through case studies and examinations of social resistance, gender, the arts, and education, it provides specialists and non-specialists with a solid introduction to the importance and relevance of nonviolence in various contexts. Editor(s): Eaton, Heather; Levesque, Lauren. Num Pages: 380 pages. BIC Classification: GTJ; HPS; HRAM1; JFF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781794715
- ISBN
- 9781781794715
€ 92.15
€ 92.15
Paperback. This book considers nonviolence in relationship to specific social, political, ecological and spiritual issues. Through case studies and examinations of social resistance, gender, the arts, and education, it provides specialists and non-specialists with a solid introduction to the importance and relevance of nonviolence in various contexts. Editor(s): Eaton, Heather; Levesque, Lauren. Num Pages: 380 pages. BIC Classification: GTJ; HPS; HRAM1; JFF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 158 x 250 x 26. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781794722
- ISBN
- 9781781794722
€ 30.39
€ 30.39
Paperback. Incorporating her personal experience with yoga into her provocative philosophical thinking on sexual difference, Irigaray proposes a new way of understanding individuation and community in the contemporary world, and an ethic of sexual difference predicated on a respect for life, nature, and the feminine. Translator(s): Pluhacek, Stephen. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 179 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231119351
- ISBN
- 9780231119351
€ 26.99€ 24.34
€ 26.99
€ 24.34
Hardcover. Contains selected correspondence written by Eric Voegelin during the period 1924 to 1949. This work is suitable for readers concerned with political theory and with better understanding of Voegelin's intellectual pilgrimage from his earliest academic years to his emergence as one of the most significant philosophers of our time. Editor(s): Gebhardt, Jurgen. Translator(s): Petropulos, William. Series: Collected Works of Eric Voegelin. Num Pages: 784 pages, 10 illustrations, index. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 56. Weight in Grams: 1157.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Missouri
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826218421
- ISBN
- 9780826218421
€ 116.04
€ 116.04
Paperback. This is a major new book by one of the leading figures in feminist social and political theory. The author is very well known internationally and is widely regarded as one of the top figures in the field. Nancy Fraser is famous for her theory of justice which combines traditional concerns of redistribution with new concerns of recognition. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745644875
- ISBN
- 9780745644875
€ 25.30
€ 25.30
Paperback. An essential, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the life and works of Aristotle. Series: Liveright Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 117 x 184 x 17. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Liveright
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781631490576
- ISBN
- 9781631490576
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
Paperback. A lucid introduction to the philosophical complexities and the practical limits of the political thought of Karl Marx. Series: Liveright Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 118 x 184 x 17. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Liveright
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781631490606
- ISBN
- 9781631490606
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
Paperback. Tocqueville's gifts as an observer and commentator on American life and democracy are brought to vivid life in this splendid volume. Series: Liveright Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 116 x 183 x 20. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Liveright
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781631490590
- ISBN
- 9781631490590
€ 15.00
€ 15.00