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Understanding Action
This is an important new book about human motivation, about the reasons people have for their actions. What is distinctively new about it is its... Les mer
The Post-Modern and the Post-Industrial
This book offers an historical and critical guide to the concepts of the post-modern and the post-industrial. It brings admirable clarity and... Les mer
Sacrifice and Redemption
These essays explore the role sacrificial metaphor has to play in theological interpretation of the death of Christ, and ask whether such a metaphor... Les mer
Psychology
This second Companion deals with the ancient theories of the psyche. The essays range over more than eight hundred years of psychological enquiry and... Les mer
Mortal Questions
Thomas Nagel’s Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life. Questions about our... Les mer
Automatism, Insanity, and the Psychology of Criminal Responsibility
This is a book about the role that psychological impairment should play in a theory of criminal liability. Criminal guilt in the Anglo-American legal... Les mer
Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth
Richard Rorty’s collected papers, written during the 1980s and now published in two volumes, take up some of the issues which divide Anglo-Saxon... Les mer
Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher
This long-awaited study of the most enigmatic figure of Greek philosophy reclaims Socrates’ ground-breaking originality. Written by a leading... Les mer
Liability and Responsibility
This collection of contemporary essays by a group of well-known philosophers and legal theorists covers various topics in the philosophy of law,... Les mer
American Philosophy and the Romantic Tradition
Professional philosophers have tended either to shrug off American philosophy as negligible or derivative or to date American philosophy from the... Les mer
After Tragedy and Triumph
The story of American Jewry is inextricably entwined with the awesome defeat of the Holocaust and the rebirth of the state of Israel. However, for... Les mer
Luther and Calvin on Secular Authority
Martin Luther and John Calvin were the principal magistral Reformers of the sixteenth-century: they sought to enlist the cooperation of rulers in the... Les mer
Political Writings
Francisco Vitoria was the earliest and arguably the most important of the Thomist political philosophers of the Counter-Reformation. Not only did he... Les mer
Elements of the Philosophy of Right
This book is a translation of a classic work of modern social and political thought, Elements of the Philosophy of Right. Hegel’s last major... Les mer
Luther and Calvin on Secular Authority
Martin Luther and John Calvin were the principal magistral Reformers of the sixteenth-century: they sought to enlist the cooperation of rulers in the... Les mer
On the Duty of Man and Citizen according to Natural Law
On the Duty of Man and Citizen (1673) is Pufendorf’s succinct and condensed presentation of the natural law political theory he developed in his... Les mer
Policraticus
John of Salisbury (c.1115–1180) was the foremost political theorist of his age. He was trained in scholastic theology and philosophy at Paris, and... Les mer
Political Writings
John Milton was not only the greatest English Renaissance poet but also devoted twenty years to prose writing in the advancement of religious, civil... Les mer
Statism and Anarchy
Statism and Anarchy is a complete English translation of the last work by the great Russian anarchist Michael Bakunin, written in 1873. Then he... Les mer
Political Writings
The original edition of Kant: Political Writings was first published in 1970, and has long been established as the principal English-language edition... Les mer
Policraticus
John of Salisbury (c.1115–1180) was the foremost political theorist of his age. He was trained in scholastic theology and philosophy at Paris, and... Les mer
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s account of the American dream gone awry, has established itself as one of... Les mer
New Essays on Sister Carrie
Sister Carrie (1900), Theodore Dreiser’s first novel, is one of the seminal works in American literature because of Dreiser’s ground-breaking... Les mer
New Essays on The Rise of Silas Lapham
The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) established William Dean Howells’s reputation in the annals of American literature. This collection of essays... Les mer