Author : Steven Wall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 24,6 MB
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 110708007X
An expert survey of liberal approaches and liberal responses to diverse topics and controversies in contemporary political thought and practice.
Author : Joshua L. Cherniss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 11,91 MB
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107138507
Isaiah Berlin remains one of the seminal political philosophers of the twentieth century. This book explains his enduring relevance as we face the challenges of the twenty-first.
Author : Craig Hovey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 26,30 MB
Release : 2015-11-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1107052742
This volume explores contemporary Christian political theology, discussing its traditional sources, its emergence as a discipline, and its key issues.
Author : Samuel Richard Freeman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 21,14 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521657068
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Author : Steven B. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 30,8 MB
Release : 2009-05-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1139828258
Leo Strauss was a central figure in the twentieth century renaissance of political philosophy. The essays of The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss provide a comprehensive and non-partisan survey of the major themes and problems that constituted Strauss's work. These include his revival of the great 'quarrel between the ancients and the moderns,' his examination of tension between Jerusalem and Athens, and most controversially his recovery of the tradition of esoteric writing. The volume also examines Strauss's complex relation to a range of contemporary political movements and thinkers, including Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Gershom Scholem, as well as the creation of a distinctive school of 'Straussian' political philosophy.
Author : William E. Scheuerman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108804845
The theory and practice of civil disobedience has once again taken on import, given recent events. Considering widespread dissatisfaction with normal political mechanisms, even in well-established liberal democracies, civil disobedience remains hugely important, as a growing number of individuals and groups pursue political action. 'Digital disobedients', Black Lives Matter protestors, Extinction Rebellion climate change activists, Hong Kong activists resisting the PRC's authoritarian clampdown...all have practiced civil disobedience. In this Companion, an interdisciplinary group of scholars reconsiders civil disobedience from many perspectives. Whether or not civil disobedience works, and what is at stake when protestors describe their acts as civil disobedience, is systematically examined, as are the legacies and impact of Henry Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King.
Author : Helena Rosenblatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 26,37 MB
Release : 2009-04-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139827715
Benjamin Constant is widely regarded as a founding father of modern liberalism. The Cambridge Companion to Constant presents a collection of interpretive essays on the major aspects of his life and work by a panel of international scholars, offering a necessary overview for anyone who wants to better understand this important thinker. Separate sections are devoted to Constant as a political theorist and actor, his work as a social analyst and literary critic, and his accomplishments as a historian of religion. Themes covered range from Constant's views on modern liberty, progress, terror, and individualism, to his ideas on slavery and empire, literature, women, and the nature and importance of religion. The Cambridge Companion to Constant is a convenient and accessible guide to Constant and the most up-to-date scholarship on him.
Author : David Rondel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 19,25 MB
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108754767
This Companion provides a systematic introductory overview of Richard Rorty's philosophy. With chapters from an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars, the volume addresses virtually every aspect of Rorty's thought, from his philosophical views on truth and representation and his youthful obsession with wild orchids to his ruminations on the contemporary American Left and his prescient warning about the election of Donald Trump. Other topics covered include his various assessments of classical American pragmatism, feminism, liberalism, religion, literature, and philosophy itself. Sympathetic in some cases, in others sharply critical, the essays will provide readers with a deep and illuminating portrait of Rorty's exciting brand of neopragmatism.
Author : Andrew Hoberek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,82 MB
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107048109
The Cambridge Companion to John F. Kennedy explores the creation, and afterlife, of an American icon.
Author : Patricia Springborg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 35,12 MB
Release : 2007-07-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139827286
This Companion makes a new departure in Hobbes scholarship, addressing a philosopher whose impact was as great on Continental European theories of state and legal systems as it was at home. This volume is a systematic attempt to incorporate work from both the Anglophone and Continental traditions, bringing together newly commissioned work by scholars from ten different countries in a topic-by-topic sequence of essays that follows the structure of Leviathan, re-examining the relationship among Hobbes's physics, metaphysics, politics, psychology, and religion. Collectively they showcase important revisionist scholarship that re-examines both the context for Leviathan and its reception, demonstrating the degree to which Hobbes was indebted to the long tradition of European humanist thought. This Cambridge Companion shows that Hobbes's legacy was never lost and that he belongs to a tradition of reflection on political theory and governance that is still alive, both in Europe and in the diaspora.
