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1940 1960 Abstract Expressionism Philosophy Politics - HOME   1940 1960 Abstract Expressionism Philosophy Politics What Is Ancient Philosophy? A "magisterial mappa mundi of the terrain that Pierre Hadot has so productively worked for decades, this ambitious work revises our view of ancient philosophy--and in doing so, proposes that we change the way we see philosophy itself. Hadot takes ancient philosophy out of its customary realm of names, dates, and arid abstractions and plants it squarely in the thick of life. Through a meticulous historical reading, he shows how the various schools, trends, and ideas of ancient Greek and Roman ...

Community Democracy Ethical Life Philosophy Politics - HOME   Community Democracy Ethical Life Philosophy Politics The Politics of Aristotle by Aristotle, "The only available translation which enables students to read the Politics in a way which many scholars believe makes the best sense of Aristotle's argument". Fred D. Miller Jr., Bowling Green State University An accessible and accurate new translation of Aristotle's classic work on the nature of the state A touchstone in Western debates about society and government, the Politics is Aristotle's classic work on the nature of political community. Here, he argues that people band together ...

Philosophy of Law - HOME   Philosophy of Law Alasdair Macintyre by Mark C. Murphy, Alasdair MacIntyre's writings on ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, philosophy of the social sciences and the history of philosophy have established him as one of the philosophical giants of the last fifty years. His best-known book, After Virtue (1981), spurred the profound revival of virtue ethics. Moreover, MacIntyre, unlike so many of his contemporaries, has exerted a deep influence beyond the bounds of academic philosophy. This volume focuses on the major themes of MacIntyre's work with critical expositions of ...

Feminist Philosophy - HOME   Feminist Philosophy Feminist Interpretations of David Hume by Anne Jaap Jacobson, This book is the first collection of feminist essays on one of the central figures in the history of English-speaking philosophy. Besides providing a rich variety of feminist viewpoints on a wide range of Hume's writings, the contributors introduce new themes into the scholarship on Hume, including gendered metaphors in his metaphysical texts, the role of society in the conception of the human mind, and his conception of human nature in relation to recent rejections of essentialism. Hume scholarship ...

Epicurean Philosophy - HOME   Epicurean Philosophy Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics by A. A. Long, The purpose of this book is to trace the main development in Greek philosophy during the period which runs from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. to the end of the Roman Republic (31 B.C.). Political Philosophy by Jill Kraye, The Renaissance, known primarily for the art and literature that it produced, was also a period in which philosophical thought flourished. This two-volume anthology contains forty new translations of important works on moral and political ...

Social Philosophy - HOME   Social Philosophy Alasdair Macintyre by Mark C. Murphy, Alasdair MacIntyre's writings on ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, philosophy of the social sciences and the history of philosophy have established him as one of the philosophical giants of the last fifty years. His best-known book, After Virtue (1981), spurred the profound revival of virtue ethics. Moreover, MacIntyre, unlike so many of his contemporaries, has exerted a deep influence beyond the bounds of academic philosophy. This volume focuses on the major themes of MacIntyre's work with critical expositions of MacIntyre' ...

Philosophy - HOME   Philosophy Alasdair Macintyre by Mark C. Murphy, Alasdair MacIntyre's writings on ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, philosophy of the social sciences and the history of philosophy have established him as one of the philosophical giants of the last fifty years. His best-known book, After Virtue (1981), spurred the profound revival of virtue ethics. Moreover, MacIntyre, unlike so many of his contemporaries, has exerted a deep influence beyond the bounds of academic philosophy. This volume focuses on the major themes of MacIntyre's work with critical expositions of MacIntyre's ...

The Subversion of Politics - HOME   The Subversion of Politics Recovering Subversion: Feminist Politics Beyond the Law Is the language of rights enough to foster real social and political change? Nivedita Menon explores the relationship between law and feminist politics by examining the contemporary Indian women's movement with comparisons to France and the United States. She argues that the intersection of feminist politics, law, and the state often paradoxically and severely distorts important ethical and emancipatory impulses of feminism. Menon reviews historical challenges to the liberal notion of rights from Marxist, feminist, postcolonial, and critical legal scholars, ...

Philosophy Ethics - HOME   Philosophy Ethics Alasdair Macintyre by Mark C. Murphy, Alasdair MacIntyre's writings on ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, philosophy of the social sciences and the history of philosophy have established him as one of the philosophical giants of the last fifty years. His best-known book, After Virtue (1981), spurred the profound revival of virtue ethics. Moreover, MacIntyre, unlike so many of his contemporaries, has exerted a deep influence beyond the bounds of academic philosophy. This volume focuses on the major themes of MacIntyre's work with critical expositions of MacIntyre' ...

The Subversion of Politics - HOME   The Subversion of Politics Recovering Subversion: Feminist Politics Beyond the Law Is the language of rights enough to foster real social and political change? Nivedita Menon explores the relationship between law and feminist politics by examining the contemporary Indian women's movement with comparisons to France and the United States. She argues that the intersection of feminist politics, law, and the state often paradoxically and severely distorts important ethical and emancipatory impulses of feminism. Menon reviews historical challenges to the liberal notion of rights from Marxist, feminist, postcolonial, and critical legal scholars, ...

Philosophy Fragrance - HOME   Philosophy Fragrance Alasdair Macintyre by Mark C. Murphy, Alasdair MacIntyre's writings on ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, philosophy of the social sciences and the history of philosophy have established him as one of the philosophical giants of the last fifty years. His best-known book, After Virtue (1981), spurred the profound revival of virtue ethics. Moreover, MacIntyre, unlike so many of his contemporaries, has exerted a deep influence beyond the bounds of academic philosophy. This volume focuses on the major themes of MacIntyre's work with critical expositions of MacIntyre' ...

Plato Philosophy - HOME   Plato Philosophy Turning Toward Philosophy: Literary Device and Dramatic Structure in Plato's Dialogues. by Jill Gordon, Acknowledging the powerful impact that Plato's dialogues have had on readers, Jill Gordon shows how the literary techniques Plato used function philosophically to engage readers in doing philosophy and attracting them toward the philosophical life. The picture of philosophical activity emerging from the dialogues, as thus interpreted, is a complex process involving vision, insight, and emotion basic to the human condition rather than a resort to pure reason as an escape from it. Since ...

Aristotle Philosophy - HOME   Aristotle Philosophy Greek Philosophy: Thales to Aristotle by Reginald E. Allen, Widely praised for its accessibility and its concentration on the metaphysical issues that are most central to the history of Greek philosophy, Greek Philosophy: Thales to Aristotle offers a valuable introduction to the works of the Presocratics, Plato, and Aristotle. For the Third Edition, Professor Allen has provided new translations of Socrates' speech in the Symposium and of the first five chapters of Aristotle's Categories, as well as new selections bearing on Aristotle's Theory of Infinity, Continuity, and Discreteness. ...

Political Science - HOME   Political Science Great Jobs for Political Science Majors by Mark Rowh, "What can I do with a degree in political science?" If you've recently graduated with a degree in political science, you may be unsure of how to put that degree to use in the real world. While one of the most popular areas of study today, political science at first glance might not seem to transfer well from classroom to career. With "Great Jobs for Political Science Majors, however, you'll find out just how valuable and versatile your degree ...

Political Science - HOME   Political Science Great Jobs for Political Science Majors by Mark Rowh, "What can I do with a degree in political science?" If you've recently graduated with a degree in political science, you may be unsure of how to put that degree to use in the real world. While one of the most popular areas of study today, political science at first glance might not seem to transfer well from classroom to career. With "Great Jobs for Political Science Majors, however, you'll find out just how valuable and versatile your degree ...

Political Science - HOME   Political Science Great Jobs for Political Science Majors by Mark Rowh, "What can I do with a degree in political science?" If you've recently graduated with a degree in political science, you may be unsure of how to put that degree to use in the real world. While one of the most popular areas of study today, political science at first glance might not seem to transfer well from classroom to career. With "Great Jobs for Political Science Majors, however, you'll find out just how valuable and versatile your degree ...

Socrates Philosophy - HOME   Socrates Philosophy Socrates' Ancestor: An Essay on Architectural Beginnings by Indre Kagis McEwen, "Socrates' Ancestor" is a rich and poetic exploration of architectural beginnings and the dawn of Western philosophy in preclassical Greece. Architecture precedes philosophy, McEwen argues, and it was here, in the archaic Greek polis, that Western architecture became the cradle of Western thought. McEwen's appreciation of the early Greek understanding of the indissolubility of craft and community yields new insight into such issues as orthogonal planning and the appearance of the encompassing colonnade - the "ptera or "wings" - that ...

Political Science - HOME   Political Science Great Jobs for Political Science Majors by Mark Rowh, "What can I do with a degree in political science?" If you've recently graduated with a degree in political science, you may be unsure of how to put that degree to use in the real world. While one of the most popular areas of study today, political science at first glance might not seem to transfer well from classroom to career. With "Great Jobs for Political Science Majors, however, you'll find out just how valuable and versatile your degree ...

Management Philosophy - HOME   Management Philosophy The Politics of Ecosystem Management by Hanna J. Cortner, Resource management in the United States is undergoing a fundamental change. Traditional sustained-yield approaches that focus on commodity-production and human resource use are steadily giving way to ecological approaches, often referred to as ecosystem management, that have long-term ecological sustainability as their primary goal. To achieve that goal, ecosystem management emphasizes socially defined goals and objectives, integrated and holistic science, collaborative decision making, and adaptable institutions. Political considerations are an essential component of ecosystem management, yet its socio- ...

Abstract Expressionism Other Politics - HOME   Abstract Expressionism Other Politics Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics by Ann Eden Gibson, The Abstract Expressionist movement has long been bound up in the careers and lifestyles of about twelve white male artists who exhibited in New York in the 1940s. In this book Ann Eden Gibson reconsiders the history of the movement by investigating other artists -- people of color, women, and gays and lesbians -- whose versions of abstraction have been largely ignored until now. Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism by Erika Doss, Benton, Pollock, and ...

John Locke Philosophy - HOME   John Locke Philosophy John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding in Focus by Gary Fuller, John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding is among the most important books in philosophy ever written. It is a difficult work dealing with many themes, including the origin of ideas; the extent and limits of human knowledge; the philosophy of perception; and religion and morality. This volume focuses on the last two topics and provides a clear and insightful survey of these overlooked aspects of Locke's best known work. Four eminent Locke scholars present authoritative ...

Blackwell in Justice Philosophy Reading Social - HOME   Blackwell in Justice Philosophy Reading Social What Is Justice?: Classic and Contemporary Readings by Robert C. Solomon, What is Justice?: Classic and Contemporary Readings Justice and Care: Essential Readings in Feminist Ethics by Virginia Held, X Justice and Care: Essential Readings in Feminist Ethics Social philosophy - Social philosophy is the philosophical study of interesting questions about social behavior (typically, of humans). Social philosophy addresses a wide range of subjects, from individual meanings to legitimacy of laws, from the social contract to criteria for revolution, from the functions of everyday actions to the ...

Importance in Indian Party Political Politics - HOME   Importance in Indian Party Political Politics India and the Politics of Developing Countries: Essays in Memory of Myron Weiner In this volume, a distinguished team of political scientists address important themes in Indian politics. These include: political parties and democratic politics; ethnic politics; and political economy. Within these themes the book discusses: the survival of Indian politics in the context of economic underdevelopment; the part played by the Congress party in ensuring democratic stability; the role of middlemen known as fixers'; the relationship between ethnic unrest and affirmative action and between political ...

Political Romanticism - HOME   Political Romanticism The Politics of Aesthetics: Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism by Marc Redfield, This book suggests that modern cultural and critical institutions have persistently associated questions of aesthetics and politics with literature, theory, technics, romanticism. Its first section examines aesthetic nationalism and the figure of the body, focusing on writings by Benedict Anderson, J. G. Fichte, and Matthew Arnold, and arguing that uneasy acts of aestheticization (of media technology) and abjection (of the maternal body) undergird the production of the national body as "imagined community." Subsequent chapters on Paul de Man, Friedrich Schlegel, ...

Christian Philosophy - HOME   Christian Philosophy The Making of Fornication: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity by Kathy L. Gaca, This provocative work provides a radical reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexual morality, the dominant moral paradigm in Western society since late antiquity. While many scholars, including Michel Foucault, have found the basis of early Christian sexual restrictions in Greek ethics and political philosophy, Kathy L. Gaca demonstrates on compelling new grounds that it is misguided to regard Greek ethics and political theory--with their proposed reforms of ...

Political Science Reference - HOME   Political Science Reference A New Handbook of Political Science by Robert E. Goodin, With contributions by 42 of the best political scientists worldwide, A New Handbook of Political Science analyzes the progress made in political science over the past twenty years in the context of historical trends in the field, International in its scope and systematic in its coverage, this comprehensive volume will be an essential reference book for political scientists and those who track their work. It is the ideal companion for all who intend to follow political science into the ...

Philosophy of Love - HOME   Philosophy of Love Love is a Sweet Chain: Desire, Freedom and Authenticity in Liberal Theory by James Martel, All the great liberal thinkers had theories about love: love of friends, of family, of nature, of country, of god, and of humankind. They also wrote a great deal on the love shared between men and women, as well as the love between men and men. Love is a Sweet Chain explores what many great philosophers thought about love and the connection between love and democracy. It also discusses what the doctrines developed by these founding thinkers means to political philosophy today. While society's interest in love has not lessened since the early liberal thinkers wrote about it -- especially Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau -- Love is a Sweet Chain is the first contemporary book to explore at the length the complexity and intertwining of love ...

Christianity Philosophy - HOME   Christianity Philosophy The Making of Fornication: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity by Kathy L. Gaca, This provocative work provides a radical reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexual morality, the dominant moral paradigm in Western society since late antiquity. While many scholars, including Michel Foucault, have found the basis of early Christian sexual restrictions in Greek ethics and political philosophy, Kathy L. Gaca demonstrates on compelling new grounds that it is misguided to regard Greek ethics and political theory--with their proposed reforms of ...

Christianity Philosophy - HOME   Christianity Philosophy The Making of Fornication: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity by Kathy L. Gaca, This provocative work provides a radical reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexual morality, the dominant moral paradigm in Western society since late antiquity. While many scholars, including Michel Foucault, have found the basis of early Christian sexual restrictions in Greek ethics and political philosophy, Kathy L. Gaca demonstrates on compelling new grounds that it is misguided to regard Greek ethics and political theory--with their proposed reforms of ...

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Law Natural Politic Principle - HOME   Law Natural Politic Principle The Federal Principle in American Politics, 1790-1833 by Andrew C. Lenner, In the early republic, constitutional debates over federal-state relations were fundamental to party battles and divergent conceptions of republicanism. Republicans like James Madison and Andrew Jackson felt republicanism could only flourish if state and federal authorities confined themselves to their proper spheres. Federalists like Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Wilson believed in a more expansive role for the federal government (based on the common law and the law of nations). Lenner examines the constitutional ...

Christianity Philosophy - HOME   Christianity Philosophy The Making of Fornication: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity by Kathy L. Gaca, This provocative work provides a radical reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexual morality, the dominant moral paradigm in Western society since late antiquity. While many scholars, including Michel Foucault, have found the basis of early Christian sexual restrictions in Greek ethics and political philosophy, Kathy L. Gaca demonstrates on compelling new grounds that it is misguided to regard Greek ethics and political theory--with their proposed reforms of ...

Political Science Reference - HOME   Political Science Reference A New Handbook of Political Science by Robert E. Goodin, With contributions by 42 of the best political scientists worldwide, A New Handbook of Political Science analyzes the progress made in political science over the past twenty years in the context of historical trends in the field, International in its scope and systematic in its coverage, this comprehensive volume will be an essential reference book for political scientists and those who track their work. It is the ideal companion for all who intend to follow political science into the ...

Political Science Reference - HOME   Political Science Reference A New Handbook of Political Science by Robert E. Goodin, With contributions by 42 of the best political scientists worldwide, A New Handbook of Political Science analyzes the progress made in political science over the past twenty years in the context of historical trends in the field, International in its scope and systematic in its coverage, this comprehensive volume will be an essential reference book for political scientists and those who track their work. It is the ideal companion for all who intend to follow political science into the ...

Philosophy of Counseling - HOME   Philosophy of Counseling Philosophy for Counselling and Psychotherapy: Pythagoras to Postmodernism by Alex Howard, This fascinating and thought-provoking book provides much-needed philosophical background for counselors, therapists, and healthcare workers looking for broader, deeper foundations in the struggle to help and make sense of others. While examining the best among 20th century philosophy it shows the wealth of inspiration of earlier centuries, and demonstrates with remarkable clarity the way in which the ideas of, and the relations between, these philosophers can inspire, inform, and underpin much of counseling and psychotherapy. The ...

Political Science Reference - HOME   Political Science Reference A New Handbook of Political Science by Robert E. Goodin, With contributions by 42 of the best political scientists worldwide, A New Handbook of Political Science analyzes the progress made in political science over the past twenty years in the context of historical trends in the field, International in its scope and systematic in its coverage, this comprehensive volume will be an essential reference book for political scientists and those who track their work. It is the ideal companion for all who intend to follow political science into the ...

Political Science Reference - HOME   Political Science Reference A New Handbook of Political Science by Robert E. Goodin, With contributions by 42 of the best political scientists worldwide, A New Handbook of Political Science analyzes the progress made in political science over the past twenty years in the context of historical trends in the field, International in its scope and systematic in its coverage, this comprehensive volume will be an essential reference book for political scientists and those who track their work. It is the ideal companion for all who intend to follow political science into the ...

Leadership Philosophy - HOME   Leadership Philosophy Focus on Leadership: Servant-Leadership for the 21st Century by Larry C. Spears, From FOCUS ON LEADERSHIP . . . Robert K. Greenleaf from "The Servant as Leader" "The servant-leader is servant first. Becoming a servant-leader begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead.... The best test is this: Do those served grow as persons? Do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants?" Ken Blanchard from "The Heart of ... truly believe that servant-leadership has never been more applicable to the world of leadership than it is today. Not only are people looking for a deeper purpose and meaning when they must meet the challenges of todays changing world; they are also looking for principles and philosophies that actually work. Servant-leadership works. Servant-leadership is about getting people to a higher level by leading people at a higher level." Stephen R. Covey from "Servant-Leadership and Community Leadership in the Twenty-First Century" "Anyone can be a servant-leader. Any one ...

Political Science Reference - HOME   Political Science Reference A New Handbook of Political Science by Robert E. Goodin, With contributions by 42 of the best political scientists worldwide, A New Handbook of Political Science analyzes the progress made in political science over the past twenty years in the context of historical trends in the field, International in its scope and systematic in its coverage, this comprehensive volume will be an essential reference book for political scientists and those who track their work. It is the ideal companion for all who intend to follow political science into the ...

Political Science Reference - HOME   Political Science Reference A New Handbook of Political Science by Robert E. Goodin, With contributions by 42 of the best political scientists worldwide, A New Handbook of Political Science analyzes the progress made in political science over the past twenty years in the context of historical trends in the field, International in its scope and systematic in its coverage, this comprehensive volume will be an essential reference book for political scientists and those who track their work. It is the ideal companion for all who intend to follow political science into the ...

Debating Deliberative Democracy (Philosophy, Politics And Society; 7) (Paperback) : Author: Fishkin, James S. (EDT)/ Laslett, Peter (EDT). Number of Pages: 320. Published On: 2003/02/01. Langu...

Public Philosophy: Essays On Morality In Politics (Hardcover) : Author: Sandel, Michael J. Number of Pages: 292. Published On: 2005/11/15. Language: ENGLISH

The Philosophy Of Human Rights (Paragon Issues In Philosophy) (Paperback) : Author: Hayden, Patrick. Number of Pages: 686. Published On: 2001/02/01. Language: ENGLISH

A Student S Guide To Political Philosophy (Paperback) : Author: Mansfield, Harvey C. Published On: 2001/07/01. Language: ENGLISH

Lenin And Philosophy And Other Essays (Paperback) : The author presents his interpretations of Marxism, and Lenin s philosophy as well as discussing his ideas o...

Political Ideals (Great Books In Philosophy) (Paperback) : Author: Russell, Bertrand. Number of Pages: 90. Published On: 2005/06/03. Language: ENGLISH

The Political Philosophy Of Hobbes: Its Basis And Its Genesis (Paperback) : Author: Strauss, Leo/ Sinclair, Elsa M. (TRN). Number of Pages: 172. Published On: 1996/04/01. Language: ENG...

Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) (Paperback) : Author: Miller, David. Number of Pages: 144. Published On: 2003/08/01. Language: ENGLISH

History Of Political Philosophy (Paperback) : Author: Strauss, Leo/ Cropsey, Joseph (EDT). Published On: 1987/07/01. Language: ENGLISH

Multiculturalism: Examining The Politics Of Recognition (Paperback) : Author: Taylor, Charles/ Gutmann, Amy. Number of Pages: 175. Published On: 1994/09/01. Language: ENGLISH