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This book offers a clear and highly readable introduction to the ethical and social-political philosophy of John Stuart Mill. Dale E. Miller argues for a "utopian" reading of Mill's utilitarianism. He analyses Mill's views on happiness and goes on to show the practical,...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-29
Collection :
Classic Thinkers
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-7%
27,00€
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This new book offers a clear and accessible exposition of Hayden White's thought. In an engaging and wide-ranging analysis, Herman Paul discusses White's core ideas and traces the development of these ideas from the mid-1950s to the present. Starting with White's...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-29
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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Contract and Domination offers a bold challenge to contemporary contract theory, arguing that it should either be fundamentally rethought or abandoned altogether. Since the publication of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, contract theory has once again become central to...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-29
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Thomas Hobbes was the first great English political philosopher. His work excited intense controversy among his contemporaries and continues to do so in our own time. In this masterly introduction to his work, Bernard Gert provides the first account of Hobbes’s...
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Polity
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2013-04-29
Collection :
Classic Thinkers
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Should governments give special rights to ethnic and cultural minorities?Should rich countries open their borders to economic immigrants or transfer resources to poor countries? When framing and implementing economic and environmental policies, should current...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-29
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Contract and Domination offers a bold challenge to contemporary contract theory, arguing that it should either be fundamentally rethought or abandoned altogether. Since the publication of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, contract theory has once again become central to...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-29
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-7%
22,60€
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This new edition of a well-regarded book provides a concise and exceptionally clear introduction to Habermas's work, from his early writings on the public sphere, through his work on law and the state, to his more recent discussion of science, religion and contemporary...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-29
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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-73%
81,00€
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With their remarkable electoral successes, Green parties worldwide seized the political imagination of friends and foes alike. Mainstream politicians busily disparage them and imitate them in turn. This new book shows that 'greens' deserve to be taken more seriously...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-29
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This biography of Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) tells the story of a Jewish boy from Algiers, excluded from school at the age of twelve, who went on to become the most widely translated French philosopher in the world – a vulnerable, tormented man who, throughout his...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-29
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-24%
33,99€
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Alain Badiou is one of the leading philosophers in the world today. His ground-breaking philosophy is based on a creative reading of set theory, offering a new understanding of what it means to be human by promoting an 'intelligence of change'. Badiou's philosophical...
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Polity
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2013-04-29
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Alain Badiou is one of the leading philosophers in the world today. His ground-breaking philosophy is based on a creative reading of set theory, offering a new understanding of what it means to be human by promoting an 'intelligence of change'. Badiou's philosophical...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-29
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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Offre spéciale
-66%
62,20€
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What is free will? Why is it important? Can the same act be both free and determined? Is free will necessary for moral responsibility? Does anyone have free will, and if not, how is creativity possible and how can anyone be praised or blamed for anything?These are just...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-26
Collection :
Key Concepts in Philosophy
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This wide ranging and challenging book explores the relationship between subjectivity and mortality as it is understood by a number of twentieth-century French philosophers including Sartre, Lacan, Levinas and Derrida. Making intricate and sometimes unexpected...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-25
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-69%
62,20€
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Although Islamic philosophy represents one of the leading philosophical traditions in the world, it has only recently begun to receive the attention it deserves in the non-Islamic world. This important text provides a concise and accessible introduction to the major...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-25
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-10%
24,30€
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Introductions to the theory of knowledge are plentiful, but none introduce students to the most recent debates that exercise contemporary philosophers. Ian Evans and Nicholas D. Smith aim to change that. Their book guides the reader through the standard theories of...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-25
Collection :
Key Concepts in Philosophy
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Arguably the most prolific and most widely read philosopher of our time, Slavoj ?i?ek has made indelible interventions into many disciplines of the so-called human sciences that have transformed the terms of discussion in these fields. Although his work has been the...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-25
Collection :
Theory Now
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This book is an unusually readable and lucid account of the development of Derrida's work, from his early writings on phenomenology and structuralism to his most recent interventions in debates on psychoanalysis, ethics and politics. Christina Howells gives a clear...
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Polity
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2013-04-24
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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Neil Gascoigne provides the first comprehensive introduction Richard Rorty’s work. He demonstrates to the general reader and to the student of philosophy alike how the radical views on truth, objectivity and rationality expressed in Rorty’s widely-read essays on...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-22
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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Dermot Moran provides a lucid, engaging, and critical introduction to Edmund Husserl's philosophy, with specific emphasis on his development of phenomenology. This book is a comprehensive guide to Husserl's thought from its origins in nineteenth-century concerns...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-22
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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-7%
20,40€
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Worldwide, human lives are rapidly improving. Education, health-care, technology, and political participation are becoming ever more universal, empowering human beings everywhere to enjoy security, economic sufficiency, equal citizenship, and a life in dignity. To be...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-19
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-68%
62,20€
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