How Books Can Save Democracy argues that American democracy is in trouble. Healthy democracies thrive on constructive disagreement: individuals and groups engaging with different points of view on school boards, city councils, juries, a...Loe edasi...
This book brings together scholarship and debates on citizenship and democratic innovation, and examines how democratic innovations might change, or even consolidate, the existing contours of citizenship....Loe edasi...
After four years of research in partnership with over twenty scientists and esteemed experts, this book explores one of the most significant questions we face: the existence or non-existence of a creator God. For more than four cent...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198888550)
This book shows how sortal quality grounds both pleasure and desire. It ends by exploring what a moral theory might say that put the ideal of a good person, considered as a case of sortal quality, at its heart....Loe edasi...
Stunning paperback edition of this fresh translation of Montaigne’s most profound, searching essays, with an introduction from Yiyun Li, author of The Book of GooseThis gift-worthy collection of 16 essays by “the father of the essay...Loe edasi...
From the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees comes a future classic for new and experienced writers, for readers and for those who simply want to know how to train their creativity and listen to their soul...Loe edasi...
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringMarcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE) was one of the most influential figures in late republican Rome, a moment of great social, political, and cultural unrest that would lead to the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The New Press, ISBN-13: 9781620979815)
A vital resource for progressives who want to win. Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal Progressive activists will want to dog-ear, underline, and pore over this well-conceived handbook. Kirkus Reviews How do underdogs, facing far str...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192889256)
Promising, consenting, and even attacking someone are ways to rewrite our rights, permitting others to treat us in ways that would otherwise have violated the duties they owe us. When unsure whether such a change has been made, we face normative o...Loe edasi...
An exploration of the range of human emotions and interactions as reflected in the lectionary stories of the liturgical year, through the curious, thought-provoking lens of a philosopher. In this compelling guide, Vance Morgan invites...Loe edasi...
Amidst rising tensions affecting democracy, capitalism and planetary life, this book discusses the multiple crises, processes and conflicts reconfiguring modernity. Tracking the political, social and ecological dynamics at play, it offers a critical...Loe edasi...
Never Enough Time discusses the directional and irreversible nature of time, its relationship to information and entropy, the deep time history of communication from the genesis of language to today, and the extent to which we occupy time t...Loe edasi...
This book presents a critical history of Yugoslav socialist economics, from its inception in the late 1940s to its dissolution in the late 1980s. After the dramatic break with the Soviet Union in 1948, Yugoslavia found itself in urgent need of a t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197682333)
This volume is the first to be dedicated exclusively to the philosophy of Susan Stebbing (1885-1943)-a pivotal figure in early analytic philosophy who has, until recently, been unjustly neglected. The eleven historical essays that comprise the volum...Loe edasi...
From Plato to the present day, political theorists have used models of idealistic societies to think about politics. In this thought-provoking book, David Wiens argues that these models cannot provide the normative guidance many theorists have hoped...Loe edasi...
Susan Stebbing: Analysis, Common Sense, and Public Philosophy is the first edited volume to be dedicated exclusively to the philosophy of Susan Stebbing (1885-1943)-a pivotal female figure in the male-dominated tradition of early analytic ph...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197813492)
From Plato to the present day, political theorists have used models of idealistic societies to think about politics. In this thought-provoking book, David Wiens argues that these models cannot provide the normative guidance many theorists have hoped...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198929444)
What is attention? How do we use it? And why does it matter? In an age of distraction-in which we feel overrun by attention-diverting devices-these questions are as important as ever. While scientists and philosophers have explored these questions in...Loe edasi...
This book offers a sustained defense of Lockes religious epistemology. It puts Locke into conversation with leading figures in contemporary religious epistemology and shows that Lockes views are more plausible than many philosophers of religion and...Loe edasi...
In the 1980s, the arrests of a group of teachers, doctors, and other professionals triggered a wave of protests – the first open resistance against Siad Barre’s regime in northern Somalia – helping to pave the way for Somaliland’s self-declaration...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Random House Large Print, ISBN-13: 9798217168941)
In this much-anticipated final installment in the Stoic Virtues series, Ryan Holiday makes the case for the virtue on which all other virtues depend.Of all the stoic virtues - courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom - wisdom is...Loe edasi...
In this much-anticipated final installment in the Stoic Virtues series, Ryan Holiday makes the case for the virtue on which all other virtues depend.Of all the stoic virtues - courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom - wisdom is...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503644151)
Anthropocentrism, white supremacy, and cishetsexism remain with us. The intransigence of such oppressions, this book proposes, is stayed by the unrecognized force that sovereignty maintains across the domains of Western philosophy. To corroborat...Loe edasi...
The final installment in the New York Times bestselling Stoic Virtues series: the essential, life-changing and hard-won virtue of wisdom...Loe edasi...
Anthropocentrism, white supremacy, and cishetsexism remain with us. The intransigence of such oppressions, this book proposes, is stayed by the unrecognized force that sovereignty maintains across the domains of Western philosophy. To corroborat...Loe edasi...
The fascinating untold story of one scientist’s pursuit of a legendary surfer in his quest to define human nature, written with the compelling drama and narrative insight of Why Fish Don’t Exist and The Lost City of Z. ...Loe edasi...
