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  • Group Rights as Human Rights Group Rights as Human Rights
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    Group Rights as Human Rights

    Liberal theories have long insisted that cultural diversity in democratic societies can be accommodated through classical liberal tools, in particular through individual rights, and they have often rejected the claims of...
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  • Hegel's Idea of the Good Life Hegel's Idea of the Good Life
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    Hegel's Idea of the Good Life

    In Hegel's Idea of the Good Life, Joshua D. Goldstein presents the first book-length study of the development and meaning of Hegel's account of human flourishing. This volume will be welcomed by philosophers and political...
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  • Moral Dilemmas in Real Life Moral Dilemmas in Real Life
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    Moral Dilemmas in Real Life

    Moral Dilemmas in Real Life purports to supply ways of thinking of, perhaps even dealing with, the ins and outs of ethical argument. The world today presents both individuals and communities with situations, which demand moral...
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  • The Concept of Rights The Concept of Rights
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    The Concept of Rights

    What does it mean to have a right? Previous answers to this question fall into two groups: interest/benefit theories of rights and choice/will theories. This book proposes an alternative to these traditional views: the...
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  • The Passionate Society The Passionate Society
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    The Passionate Society

    Adam Ferguson (1723-1816) was a major figure of the Scottish Enlightenment whose thought was, in many respects, original and distinctive. This book is a study of his ideas and of the intellectual forces that shaped them. ...
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  • Democratization of Expertise? Democratization of Expertise?
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    Democratization of Expertise?

    'Scientific advice to politics', the 'nature of expertise', and the 'relation between experts, policy makers, and the public' are variations of a topic that currently attracts the attention of social scientists, philosophers of...
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  • Transforming Unjust Structures Transforming Unjust Structures
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    Transforming Unjust Structures

    SÉVERINE DENEULIN, MATHIAS NEBEL AND NICHOLAS SAGOVSKY TRANSFORMING UNJUST STRUCTURES The Capability Approach THE CAPABILITY APPROACH Structural injustice has traditionally been the concern of two major academic disciplines:...
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  • Medical Benefit and the Human Lottery Medical Benefit and the Human Lottery
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    Medical Benefit and the Human Lottery

    Bioethicists, moral philosophers and social policy analysts have long debated about how we should decide who shall be saved with scarce, lifesaving resources when not all can be saved. It is often claimed that it is fairer to...
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  • The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy
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    The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy

    The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy, Second Edition is a comprehensive, definitive reference work, providing an up-to-date survey of the field, charting its history and key figures and movements, and addressing enduring questions...
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  • Les Droits de l'Humanité Les Droits de l'Humanité
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    Les Droits de l'Humanité

    "L'homme n'est pas nécessairement le jouet d'une aveugle destinée, la fatalité ne saurait être qu'accidentelle ; nous pouvons quelque chose pour nous-mêmes, car nous avons des devoirs." C. SecrétanL'auteur a voulu dans ces pages énoncer et justifier les...
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  • Invoking Flora Nwapa Invoking Flora Nwapa
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    Invoking Flora Nwapa

    By invoking Flora Nwapa, this monograph draws attention to Nigerian women writers in world literature, with an emphasis on femininity and spirituality. Flora Nwapa's Efuru (1966) was the first internationally published novel in English by a female...
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  • Soziales Leiden Soziales Leiden
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    Soziales Leiden

    Heute bleibt die Vorstellung von "sozialem Leiden" als Indiz der gesellschaftlich erzwungenen Unfreiheit begrifflich und normativ oft konturlos. Aus diesem Grund analysiert Sembler den Begriff mit Bezug auf die Grundprämissen der Kritischen Theorie. Er...
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  • A Conversation With Corporal Nym A Conversation With Corporal Nym
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    A Conversation With Corporal Nym

    'A Conversation With Corporal Nym' is a work of fiction depicting a conversation between an American journalist and a British veteran on the origins and causes of World War II.  The conversation delves into questions concerning western...
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  • Biopoéticas para las biopolíticas Biopoéticas para las biopolíticas
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    Biopoéticas para las biopolíticas

    Este libro aborda el estado de las investigaciones que vinculan a la literatura y a la crítica literaria latinoamericanas recientes con la corriente de pensamiento posthumanista. Para ello, pone a prueba la noción de biopoética, un...
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  • The Art of Peace The Art of Peace
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    The Art of Peace

    We are living in exciting times. World peace is something we have all wanted but was seemingly unachievable. Now, however, through a global humanity awakening, our aspiration for a harmonious society is within our reach. Through the irony of...
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  • Generation Shift Generation Shift
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    Generation Shift

    Generation Shift is an edited collection of essays written mainly between 2020 and 2023, most of which were published either in national newspapers or online. The collection starts when the pandemic hit and the consequences of that huge disruption...
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  • Making Our Own History Making Our Own History
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    Making Our Own History

    MAKING OUR OWN HISTORYA User's Guide to Marx's Historical Materialism by Jonathan White As global capitalism lurches from one crisis to the next we are seeing a resurgence of interest in Marxist ideas and politics. Marxist thought provides a...
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  • Homegrown Ecopragmatics Homegrown Ecopragmatics
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    Homegrown Ecopragmatics

    Homegrown Ecopragmatics presents a set of case studies designed to demonstrate how ecopragmatic approaches to solving local environmental problems can be applied. It does so by developing the principles developed in Ecopragmatics (2012),...
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  • Anarchist Atheist Punk Rock Teacher Anarchist Atheist Punk Rock Teacher
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    Anarchist Atheist Punk Rock Teacher

    Exploring the various ways in which anarchist philosophy, atheism, and a background in DIY punk rock influenced one conflicted teacher's approach to the classroom over twelve turbulent and thought-provoking years, 'Anarchist Atheist Punk Rock Teacher' is...
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    Beyond Plague Urbanism

    Our cities have been plagued by economic injustices and inequalities long before COVID-19 upended urban life everywhere. Beyond Plague Urbanism delves into this zone of urban pathology and asks what successive lockdowns and exoduses, remote work and...
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  • 顾准和他的时代（上）
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    顾准和他的时代（上）

    本书旨在以中国受过一般教育的读者为对象，介绍中国1949年以降的一位（可能也是唯一的一位）政治哲学家--顾准先生。本书并不适合定位于"顾准传"或"顾准评传"。前者对时代背景介绍要有一定限制，而这必会模糊一个真实人物的轮廓;后者则不是一般人敢于涉足的--无论是他的同代人还是后人，也无论是过去、现在还是将来，评论顾准都是一件颇为危险的事情。大概"解读顾准"还算是比较准确的定位。当前最全面的顾准文集非2002年中国青年出版社出版的《顾准文存》一套四册莫属，它们包括《顾准日记》、《顾准自述》（实际上是坦白交代大全...
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  • More than a Vision More than a Vision
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    More than a Vision

    Freedom' liberty and justice for all. Reunite people. Reunite nations. Most of all, reunite generations. And best of all, preserve the individual goals and dreams.
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  • Revisiting Richard Rorty Revisiting Richard Rorty
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    Revisiting Richard Rorty

    Richard Rorty is considered one of the most original philosophers of the last decades, and he has generated warm enthusiasm on the part of many intellectuals and students, within and outside the field of philosophy.The collection opens with an essay by...
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  • The Constitutionalist Manifesto The Constitutionalist Manifesto
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    The Constitutionalist Manifesto

    The last few decades have seen a fracturing of the United States which has led many to warn of violence, and indeed, even civil war. When two of the largest states, California and Texas, each contemplate secession, but for exactly opposite reasons, you...
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  • To Build the City of God To Build the City of God
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    To Build the City of God

    Is man an isolated, voluntaristic, autonomous individual, as modernity would have him? Or is he subject to natural, social, and transcendent orders? Much has been written since Rerum Novarum in 1891 on the general outlines of Catholic social, economic,...
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  • Liberty or Equality Liberty or Equality
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    Liberty or Equality

    In Liberty or Equality, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn first examines the historical and current meanings of both democracy and liberalism, demonstrating why the two do not necessarily coincide. He then puts forward a series of propositions, the first of...
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  • The Political and Social Ideas of St. Augustine The Political and Social Ideas of St. Augustine
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    The Political and Social Ideas of St. Augustine

    In praise of Augustine, Herbert A. Deane writes, "Genius he had in full measure ... he is the master of the phrase or the sentence that embodies a penetrating insight, a flash of lightning that illuminates the entire sky." To provide the student with a...
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  • Against Inclusiveness Against Inclusiveness
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    Against Inclusiveness

    Diversity. Inclusiveness. Equality.--ubiquitous words in 21st-century political and social life. But how do those who police the limits of acceptable discourse employ these as verbal weapons to browbeat their often hapless fellows into having a "real...
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  • From Christendom to Americanism and Beyond From Christendom to Americanism and Beyond
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    From Christendom to Americanism and Beyond

    From Christendom to Americanism and Beyond describes the momentous changes that occurred in the European cultural orbit from the end of the Middle Ages until the mid 20th century. During this period the Catholic unity of the West--what rightly was called...
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  • Collected Works of George Grant Collected Works of George Grant
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    Collected Works of George Grant

    George Grant (1918-1988) has been called Canada's greatest political philosopher. During his lifetime, he encouraged Canadians to think more deeply about matters of social justice and individual responsibility, writing on subjects as diverse as war,...
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  • 千年大变局 千年大变局
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    千年大变局

    为什么英格兰可以实现共和，而宋之后的中国不能？为什么历史既不是人民创造的，也不是英雄创造的？为什么中国复制英、美的路径，不能保证走向共和？为什么历史没有必然，更不存在国家必然走向共和？为什么历史不能由历史学家来写？对于历史来讲，人类的历史，还是人的历史？ --...
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  • 賭上國運的千年之變 賭上國運的千年之變
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    賭上國運的千年之變

    為什麼英格蘭可以實現共和，而宋之後的中國不能？為什麼歷史既不是人民創造的，也不是英雄創造的？為什麼中國複製英、美的路徑，不能保證走向共和？為什麼歷史沒有必然，更不存在國家必然走向共和？為什麼歷史不能由歷史學家來寫？歷史不僅是過去，也是現在，更是我們的未來！對於中國，歷經了三大歷史決定性的突變:確立華夏文明的商周之變、西元千年由盛轉衰的國運之變、近代遭遇西方文明激烈衝突的三千年未遇之變。三大變，是中國之所以成為今日之中國的最重要原因。...
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  • Il Principe Di Niccolo Machiavelli (1814) Il Principe Di Niccolo Machiavelli (1814)
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    Il Principe Di Niccolo Machiavelli (1814)

    Il Principe di Niccol������ Machiavelli ����� un trattato politico scritto nel 1513 e pubblicato postumo nel 1532. L'opera ����� divisa in 26 capitoli e si concentra sulla questione del potere e della sua acquisizione, esaminando le azioni dei principi e...
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  • Grubel's Sammtliche Werke, Part 2 (1884) Grubel's Sammtliche Werke, Part 2 (1884)
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    Grubel's Sammtliche Werke, Part 2 (1884)

    Grubels Sammtliche Werke, Teil 2 (1884) von Grubel, Konrad ist eine umfassende Sammlung von Werken des deutschen Schriftstellers Konrad Grubel. Dieser Band enth�����lt eine Vielzahl von Texten, darunter Romane, Erz�����hlungen, Gedichte und Essays. Die...
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  • Il Positivismo E L'Anarchia Il Positivismo E L'Anarchia
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    Il Positivismo E L'Anarchia

    Il libro ""Il Positivismo E L'Anarchia: Polemica Con Enrico Ferri E Cesare Lombroso"" scritto da Luigi Gambirasio nel 1898, si concentra sulla polemica tra il positivismo e l'anarchia. L'autore affronta la questione attraverso la critica alle teorie di...
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  • Il Frate Condannato A Morte Il Frate Condannato A Morte
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    Il Frate Condannato A Morte

    Il libro ""Il Frate Condannato A Morte: Al Popolo Italiano Pensieri (1866)"" di Lombardo ����� una raccolta di pensieri e riflessioni sulle vicende del frate Girolamo Savonarola, condannato a morte nel 1498. L'autore esplora la figura del frate e la sua...
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  • Il Copernico Il Copernico
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    Il Copernico

    Il Copernico: Dialogo (1873) ����� un saggio scritto dal poeta e filosofo italiano Giacomo Leopardi. Il libro ����� composto da un dialogo tra due personaggi, il vecchio e il giovane, che discutono sulla teoria eliocentrica di Copernico e sulle...
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  • Il Contr'uno O Della Servitu Volontaria Il Contr'uno O Della Servitu Volontaria
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    Il Contr'uno O Della Servitu Volontaria

    Il Contr'uno O Della Servitu Volontaria: Discorso (1864) di De La Boetie, Stefano ����� un saggio filosofico che esplora il concetto di servit����� volontaria e la natura del potere politico. Scritto nel XVI secolo, il libro si concentra sulle ragioni...
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  • Il Comunismo Spiegato Al Popolo (1851) Il Comunismo Spiegato Al Popolo (1851)
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    Il Comunismo Spiegato Al Popolo (1851)

    Il libro ""Il Comunismo Spiegato Al Popolo"" ����� stato pubblicato nel 1851 dalla Tipografia Gaspari ed ����� stato scritto da un autore sconosciuto. Il testo fornisce una spiegazione del comunismo, una teoria politica ed economica che sostiene...
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  • Ensayo Sobre El Catolicismo Ensayo Sobre El Catolicismo
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    Ensayo Sobre El Catolicismo

    ""Ensayo sobre el Catolicismo: El Liberalismo y el Socialismo"" es un libro escrito por Juan Donoso Cort�����s en 1851. En �����l, el autor analiza la relaci������n entre la religi������n cat������lica y las corrientes pol������ticas del liberalismo y el...
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  • Ensayo Politico Sobre El Reino De La Nueva-Espana V2 (1822) Ensayo Politico Sobre El Reino De La Nueva-Espana V2 (1822)
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    Ensayo Politico Sobre El Reino De La Nueva-Espana V2 (1822)

    El libro ""Ensayo Pol������tico sobre el Reino de la Nueva-Espa�����a V2 (1822)"" escrito por Alejandro de Humboldt es un ensayo pol������tico que se enfoca en el an�����lisis del Reino de la Nueva-Espa�����a, que fue una colonia espa�����ola en...
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  • Discours De Reception De Leconte De Lisle Discours De Reception De Leconte De Lisle
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    Discours De Reception De Leconte De Lisle

    Le livre intitul����� ""Discours de R�����ception de Leconte de Lisle: R�����ponse de Alexandre Dumas Fils (1887)"" est une collection de discours prononc�����s par deux �����crivains fran�����ais c�����l�����bres. Leconte de Lisle, un po�����te et...
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  • Discours De La Gloire De La France (1873) Discours De La Gloire De La France (1873)
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    Discours De La Gloire De La France (1873)

    Discours De La Gloire De La France (1873) est un livre �����crit par Pierre Gariel. Ce livre parle de l'histoire de la France et de son patrimoine culturel. Il explore les grandes r�����alisations de la France, de l'architecture ������ la...
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  • Discorsi Politico-Morali (1851) Discorsi Politico-Morali (1851)
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    Discorsi Politico-Morali (1851)

    Il libro ""Discorsi Politico-Morali"" di Maurizio Bufalini, pubblicato nel 1851, ����� una raccolta di discorsi che affrontano temi di politica e morale. L'autore, un politico e intellettuale italiano del XIX secolo, esprime le sue opinioni su questioni...
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