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Price: $95.00
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Sale: $82.31
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Michael J. Sandel
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320.011
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Publication Date: 1998-03-28
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Reading Level: 252
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Description: A liberal society seeks not to impose a single way of life, but to leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends. It therefore must govern by principles of justice that do not presuppose any particular vision of the good life. But can any such principles be found? And if not, what are the consequences for justice as a moral and political ideal? These are the questions Michael Sandel takes up in this penetrating critique of contemporary liberalism. This new edition includes a new introduction and a new final chapter in which Professor Sandel responds to the later work of John Rawls.
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Price: $99.00
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Sale: $92.81
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320.51092
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Publication Date: 2002-11-11
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Reading Level: 600
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Description: John Rawls is the most significant and influential moral philosopher of the twentieth century. His work has profoundly affected contemporary discussions of social, political and economic justice in philosophy, law, political science, economics and other social disciplines. In this collection of new essays, many of the world's leading political and moral theorists discuss the full range of Rawls's contribution to the concepts of political and economic justice, democracy, liberalism, constitutionalism and international justice.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $1.75
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Manufacturer: Chatham House Pub
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: William E. Hudson
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Publisher: Chatham House Pub
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320.473
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Publication Date: 1995-10
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: Provocative and clearly written, this book challenges the reader to reflect on the problems of American democracy. This new and updated third edition expands exploration of what Hudson considers are the major challenges to American democracy: the separation of power: radical individualism: citizen participation: trivialized elections: the privileged position of business: inequality; and the national security system. The book emphasizes such critical and topical political issues as the persistence of economic inequality despite the economic prosperity of the late 1990s; the Clinton scandals and the impeachment controversy; the impact of globalization on business; the role of soft money in the 1996, 1998, and 2000 election campaigns; the post-Cold War national security state; and the consequences of the Gulf War and Kosovo interventions.
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Price: $30.00
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Sale: $26.99
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Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John W. Boyer
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 943
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Publication Date: 1995-05-05
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Reading Level: 592
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Description: John Boyer offers a meticulously researched examination of the social and political atmosphere of late imperial Vienna. He traces the demise of Vienna's liberal culture and the burgeoning of a new radicalism, exemplified by the rise of Karl Lueger and the Christian Socialist Party during the latter half of the nineteenth century. This important study paves the way for new readings of fin de siecle Viennese politics and their broader European significance.
"Offers a comprehensive, multicausal study of the rise of Christian Socialism in Vienna, that phenomenon which was experienced nowhere else in urban Central Europe and which culminated in the famous clash between the Austrian establishment and the colourful, domineering lead of the movement, Karl, Lueger."—R.J.W. Evans, History
"Boyer's analysis is masterful in terms of research, exposition, and organization. His use of available economic data is judicious, and his sense of the social structure of late nineteenth-century Vienna is formidable."—William A. Jenks, American Historical Review
"To understand Viennese and even imperial politics in the latter half of the nineteenth century, Boyer's book is absolutely essential.""—Robert Wegs, Review of Politics
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $4.95
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ronald Beiner
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320
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Publication Date: 1995-10-09
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: In the wake of the revolutions of 1989, the ongoing political turmoil in the Soviet Union, and the democratization of most of Latin America, what is the task of political theorists?
Ronald Beiner's invigorating critique of liberal theory and liberal practices takes on the shibboleths of modern Western discourse. He confronts the aridity of liberal societies that possess incommensurable "values" and "rights," but no principles. To Beiner, this neutralist view is both a false description of liberal society and an incoherent political ideal. Rather, he encourages the theorist to remain faithful to the important task of questioning and criticism, instead of serving as a source of ideological reassurance about our own superiority.
Beiner looks to the Socratic tradition for guidance. Permitting ethos to replace values, and discourse about "the good" to replace talk about "rights," the theorist is able to reorder social priorities. Considered in this light, the liberal political philosophy of the 1970s and 1980s appears insufficiently Socratic, as does a liberal way of life that presents itself as a model of imitation.
Polemical, impassioned, and brilliantly argued, What's the Matter with Liberalism? is essential reading for everyone who cares about contemporary theory and the future of liberal society.
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Price: $55.00
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Sale: $33.71
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Russell Hardin
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320
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Publication Date: 2003-08-14
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Reading Level: 400
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Description: This groundbreaking book develops a new theory of constitutional democracy. Leading political philosopher Russell Hardin shows how social coordination rather than mutual advantage lies at the heart of liberal constitutionalism.
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Price: $23.00
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Sale: $20.71
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Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Charles Arthur Willard
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320.5
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Publication Date: 1996-08-01
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Reading Level: 394
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Description: In this witty and provocative study of democracy and its critics, Charles Willard debunks liberalism, arguing that its exaggerated ideals of authenticity, unity, and community have deflected attention from the pervasive incompetence of "the rule of experts." He proposes a ground of communication that emphasizes common interests rather than narrow disputes.
The problem of "unity" and the public sphere has driven a wedge between libertarians and communitarians. To mediate this conflict, Willard advocates a shift from the discourse of liberalism to that of epistemics. As a means of organizing the ebb and flow of consensus, epistemics regards democracy as a family of knowledge problems—as ways of managing discourse across differences and protecting multiple views.
Building a bridge between warring peoples and warring paradigms, this book also reminds those who presume to instruct government that they are obliged to enlighten it, and that to do so requires an enlightened public discourse.
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Price: $48.00
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Sale: $18.40
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Manufacturer: Edinburgh University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Andrea Baumeister
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Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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Edition: 0
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320
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Publication Date: 2000-09-15
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: This texbook introduces the challenge posed by the proponents of diversity to liberalist theorists such as Rawls, Raz and Kymlicka, and outlines their responses to this challenge.
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Price: $130.00
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Sale: $79.95
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 261.708822
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Publication Date: 1994-03-25
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: Liberalism and Catholicism are two of the most important forces shaping the contemporary political culture of the United States. This book explores what is at stake as they encounter each other in new contexts today and what a fresh conversation between them promises for the future of American public life. It is based on the conviction that both traditions continue to have much to learn from each other and that both would contribute more constructively to the resolution of the problems facing the nation if they were to do so.
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Sale: $19.96
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Manufacturer: Humanity Press/prometheus Bk
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Conway
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Publisher: Humanity Press/prometheus Bk
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Publication Date: 1998-10-05
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: Political philosophy is widely regarded as having been revived by the publication in 1971 of John Rawls' "Theory of Justice". That work defended welfare state liberalism, at that time the prevailing orthodoxy. A challenge was put to this orthodoxy by the publication in 1974 of Robert Nozick's "Anarchy, State and Utopia". In arguing minimal government to be morally superior to all rivals, Nozick helped reawaken interest in classical liberal ideas. Ever since, the ideal of minimal government has been under assault from three principal sets of critics. First, egalitarian welfare liberals find intolerable the level of inequality it allows. Second, communitarians claim it destroys community. Third, conservatives allege it undermines the basis for the patriotic allegiance on which they claim states rely for legitimacy and stability. "Classical Liberalism" defends minimum government against these charges, arguing it best advances human well being.
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