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  • Le patriotisme physiologique ou naturel

    Series series Les classiques
    Michel Bakounine, révolutionnaire russe, théoricien et philosophe de l’anarchisme (1814-1876). ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Qui suis-je ?

    Series series Les classiques
    Michel Bakounine, révolutionnaire russe, théoricien et philosophe de l’anarchisme (1814-1876) se présente dans ce livre. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Democratic Government and Politics

    Third Revised Edition

    Series series Heritage
    Completely revised and enlarged edition (1951) of a book which has become a standard work on comparative government. This edition brings up to date the material on institutions and practices of government in Britain, the United States, and Canada, and analyses more fully the relationship of democratic institutions and practices to the essentials of the democratic creed. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Rescuing Dewey

    Essays in Pragmatic Naturalism

    by Manicas ...
    This book rescues an often misunderstood, underappreciated, and radical John Dewey. It centers on his rejection of traditional epistemology for his original and powerful view of "logic"—with serious implications for general philosophy, the philosophy of the human sciences, including psychology, and the philosophy of democracy. The goal of this work is not to try to rescue Dewey from his critics, ... Read more

    $119.99 USD

  • Constitutionalism and Statecraft during the “ Golden age ” of Spain : a study of the political philosophy of Juan de Mariana, S.J.

    by Guenter Lewy ...
    Series series Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance
    Fondée en 1950 par Eugénie Droz, la collection des Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance a réuni, en soixante-cinq ans, plus de 550 titres. Elle s'est imposée comme la collection la plus importante au monde de sources et d’études sur l'Humanisme (Politien, Ficin, Erasme, Budé...), la Réforme francophone (Lefèvre d'Etaples, Calvin, Farel, Bèze...), la Renaissance (littéraire et artistique, Jérôme ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Systematic Politics

    Series series Heritage
    Professor Catlin in the course of his career has contributed a number of major works in the fields of politics: The Science and Method of Politics (1926), Principles of Politics (1930), History of the Political Philosophers (1938). These books were considered "refreshing," "brilliant," "eminently stimulating," "genuinely constructive." The trail blazed by their author some thirty years ago through ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Political Ideas of Nicholas of Cusa with special reference to his “De Concordantia Catholica”

    Series series Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance
    Fondée en 1950 par Eugénie Droz, la collection des Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance a réuni, en soixante-cinq ans, plus de 550 titres. Elle s'est imposée comme la collection la plus importante au monde de sources et d’études sur l'Humanisme (Politien, Ficin, Erasme, Budé...), la Réforme francophone (Lefèvre d'Etaples, Calvin, Farel, Bèze...), la Renaissance (littéraire et artistique, Jérôme ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Earlier Letters of John Stuart Mill 1812-1848

    Volumes XII-XIII

    Series Book 12-12 - Collected Works of John Stuart Mill
    These volumes of Mill's letters have been awaited eagerly by all scholars in the field of nineteenth-century studies. They inaugurate most auspiciously the edition of the Collected Works of John Stuart Mill planned and directed by an editorial committee appointed from the Faculty of Arts and Science of the University of Toronto and from the University of Toronto Press.In this collection of 537 ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The political ideas of Pierre Viret

    Series series Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance
    Fondée en 1950 par Eugénie Droz, la collection des Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance a réuni, en soixante-cinq ans, plus de 550 titres. Elle s'est imposée comme la collection la plus importante au monde de sources et d’études sur l'Humanisme (Politien, Ficin, Erasme, Budé...), la Réforme francophone (Lefèvre d'Etaples, Calvin, Farel, Bèze...), la Renaissance (littéraire et artistique, Jérôme ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Liberalism

    Liberalism is a classic in the liberal tradition. Hobhouse explains the importance of a liberal ideology with the inclusion of social responsibility. He delves deeper issues associated with liberal thought and practice. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Right and Wrong in Foreign Policy

    by James Eayrs ...
    Series series Heritage
    The Plaunt Lectures for 1965 deal with the perennial problem of moral man in immoral society, the society in question being the international states-system. An examination of the working of that system discloses that the scope for wrong-doing by the makers of foreign policy has, since 1945, enlarged rather than contracted. Deceit, treachery, and cruelty are held to be the characteristic ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Imperialism

    Part Two of The Origins of Totalitarianism

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    Series Book 2 - The Origins of Totalitarianism
    In the second volume of The Origins of Totalitarianism, the political theorist traces the decline of European colonialism and the outbreak of WWI.Since it was first published in 1951, The Origins of Totalitarianism has been recognized as the definitive philosophical account of the totalitarian mindset. A probing analysis of Nazism, Stalinism, and the “banality of evil”, it remains one of the most ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Speech Acts

    An Essay in the Philosophy of Language

    Written in an outstandingly clear and lively style, this 1969 book provokes its readers to rethink issues they may have regarded as long since settled. ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • On Violence

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    The political theorist and author of The Origins of Totalitarianism offers an “incisive, deeply probing” essay on violence and political power (The Nation).Addressing the escalation of global warfare witnessed throughout the 1960s, Hannah Arendt points out that the glorification of violence is not restricted to a small minority of militants and extremists. The public revulsion for violence that ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Men in Dark Times

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    “Each [essay is] a model of clarity, weight, gravity . . . each superbly centered on the moods, manners, works . . . of ten exemplary men and women” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).“Dark times” is Brecht's phrase, and Hannah Arendt uses it suggest that those she writes about are not “mouthpieces of the Zeitgeist”, but, rather, that the routine repetitive horrors of the twentieth century form the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge: Volume 4

    Proceedings of the International Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science, London, 1965

    Edited by Imre Lakatos, Alan Musgrave ...
    Two books have been particularly influential in contemporary philosophy of science: Karl R. Popper's Logic of Scientific Discovery, and Thomas S. Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Both agree upon the importance of revolutions in science, but differ about the role of criticism in science's revolutionary growth. This volume arose out of a symposium on Kuhn's work, with Popper in the chair, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Crises of the Republic

    Lying in Politics, Civil Disobedience, On Violence, Thoughts on Politics and Revolution

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    Four thought-provoking political essays by the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism.Taking an in-depth look at the tumult of the 1960s and ’70s, one of the great political philosophers of our era examines how these crises challenged the American form of government. “Lying in Politics” is a penetrating analysis of the Pentagon Papers that deals with the role of image-making and public relations ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Later Letters of John Stuart Mill 1849-1873

    Volumes XIV-XVII

    Series Book 14-14 - Collected Works of John Stuart Mill
    The Earlier Letters of John Stuart Mill, published in two volumes in 1963, were well received by critics and scholars alike. The publication of these four volumes of later letters completes this edition of Mill's personal correspondence.These volumes contain over 1,800 letters, most never before published, and some sixty earlier letters that have come to light since the publication of the first ... Read more

    $223.99 USD

  • Utilitarianism

    For and Against

    Two essays on utilitarianism, written from opposite points of view, by J. J. C. Smart and Bernard Williams. In the first part of the book Professor Smart advocates a modern and sophisticated version of classical utilitarianism; he tries to formulate a consistent and persuasive elaboration of the doctrine that the rightness and wrongness of actions is determined solely by their consequences, and in ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The «Trattato Politico-Morale» of Giovanni Cavalcanti (1381 - c. 1451)

    Series series Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance
    Le Trattato politico-morale de Cavalcanti est un important témoignage du Quattrocento florentin. Le commentaire de cette édition éclaire en outre la personne et la position sociale de Cavalcanti, non point notable, mais perpétuel persécuté, et par là la composante utopique de son oeuvre. ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Participation and Democratic Theory

    Shows that current elitist theories are based on an inadequate understanding of the early writings of democratic theory and that much sociological evidence has been ignored. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Domination

    Edited by Alkis Kontos ...
    Series series Heritage
    One is usually conscious of tyranny and oppression; domination is more subtle. It is an abandonment of our freedom, our will, and our love of justice, and yet socially, psychologically, and ontologically domination in some degree seems inevitable. There is now in the western world an uneasy sense that more domination is going on than necessary, and this work tries to outline the theoretic ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Machiavel : l'anthropologie politique

    Series series Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance
    L'étude de B. Guillemain permet de saisir Machiavel tel qu'il fut en lui-même et non tel que des siècles de polémiques nous le font souvent paraître. La lecture de la vie et de l'oeuvre du Secrétaire florentin ici proposée ouvre des perspectives nouvelles pour la compréhension de l'anthropologie politique de ce grand penseur. ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Portable Plato

    by Plato ...
    Series series Portable Library
    Writing in the fourth century B.C., in an Athens that had suffered a humiliating defeat in the Peloponnesian War, Plato formulated questions that have haunted the moral, religious, and political imagination of the West for more than 2,000 years: what is virtue? How should we love? What constitutes a good society? Is there a soul that outlasts the body and a truth that transcends appearance? What ... Read more

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