A short history of modern philosophy : from Descartes to Wittgenstein by Scruton, Roger

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; History of philosophy and history of ideas; The rise of modern philosophy; Descartes; The Cartesian revolution; Spinoza; Leibniz; Locke and Berkeley; The idea of a moral science; Hume; Kant I: The Critique of Pure Reason; Kant II: Ethics and aesthetics; Hegel; Reactions: Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche; Political philosophy from Hobbes to Hegel; Marx; Utilitarianism and after; Frege; Phenomenology and existentialism; Wittgenstein; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX…”
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Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America. by Gottfried, Paul E.

Table of Contents: “…; Against Historicism, Relativism, and Positivism; The Fact-Value Dichotomy; Political Philosophy as the Search for Ultimate Truth; Philosophy and Theology: A Fateful Confrontation; Exoteric and Esoteric Readings; Good vs. …”
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Dutiful correspondent : philosophical essays on Thomas Jefferson by Holowchak, M. Andrew (Mark Andrew), 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Jefferson the man -- Jefferson as philologist -- Jefferson's political philosophy -- Jefferson's great experiment -- Jefferson's liberal eudaimonism -- Jefferson and ancient thinking -- Jefferson's master epicurus -- Jefferson and Jesus -- Jefferson on philosophy and science -- Philosophical vignettes in Jefferson's notes -- Jefferson as scientist -- Jefferson and ethics -- Reason and the moral sense -- Jefferson on war and peace -- Jefferson on race -- Jefferson on African Americans -- Jefferson on American Indians -- Education and the good life -- Education as lifelong learning.…”
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Royce's voyage Down Under : a fourney of the mind by Oppenheim, Frank M., 1925-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Context: Voyage and Recuperation; 3 Metaphysical Speculation; 4 Ethics of Loyalty; 5 Social and Political Philosophy; 6 Philosophical Links with the Early Nineties; 7 Epilogue: Journey Home; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W.…”
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G.E. Moore's ethical theory : resistance and reconciliation by Hutchinson, Brian, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Moore's Practical and Political Philosophy -- 9. Moore's Cosmic Conservation -- 10. …”
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Understanding the Political Philosophers : From Ancient to Modern Times. by Haworth, Alan

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Powers, Agency and Form. by Groff, Ruth

Table of Contents: “…Ontology RevisitedMetaphysics in Social and Political Philosophy; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 The Myth of Metaphysical Neutrality; 2 Hume: Custom as Metaphysical Necessity; 3 J. …”
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George Grant : a guide to his thought by Forbes, H. D. (Hugh Donald)

Table of Contents: “…Philosophy-- Nature and history -- Enlightenment and nihilism -- Platonic political philosophy -- Theology and politics -- 'Tyranny and wisdom'. -- Part 3. …”
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Time travels : feminism, nature, power by Grosz, Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…Darwin and feminism: preliminary investigations into a possible alliance -- Darwin and the ontology of life -- The Nature of culture -- Law, justice, and the future -- The Time of violence: Derrida, deconstruction, and value -- Drucilla Cornell, identity, and the "Evolution" of Politics -- Philosophy, knowledge, and the future -- Deleuze, Bergson, and the virtual -- Merleau-Ponty, Bergson, and the question of ontology -- The thing -- Prosthetic objects -- Identity, sexual difference, and the future -- The Time of thought -- The Force of sexual difference -- (Inhuman) forces: power, pleasure, and desire -- The future of female sexuality.…”
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George Grant : a guide to his thought by Forbes, H. D. (Hugh Donald)

Table of Contents: “…Philosophy-- Nature and history -- Enlightenment and nihilism -- Platonic political philosophy -- Theology and politics -- 'Tyranny and wisdom'. -- Part 3. …”
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British Jewry and the Holocaust : With a New Introduction. by Bolchover, Richard

Table of Contents: “…The Institutional Response to the Holocaust; Part III: The Ideologies; Introduction: Social and Political Philosophies; 3. The Politics of Hope; 4. The Politics of Fear; 5. …”
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Routledge History of Philosophy Volume VI : the Age of German Idealism. by Solomon, Robert C.

Table of Contents: “…Preliminaries; Contents; General editors preface; Notes on contributors; 1 From Leibniz to Kant; 2 Kant's Copernican revolution; 3 Kant's moral and political philosophy; 4 Kant: Critique of Judgement; 5 Fichte and Schelling: the Jena period; 6 Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit; 7 Hegel's logic and philosophy of mind; 8 Hegel, spirit, and politics; 9 The Young Hegelians, Feuerbach, and Marx; 10 Arthur Schopenhauer; 11 Kierkegaard's speculative despair; Glossary; Index.…”
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Paul de Man by McQuillan, Martin

Table of Contents: “…; KEY IDEAS; Literary language and misreading: Blindness and Insight; Rhetoric, reading and deconstruction: Allegories of Reading; Deconstruction as an experience of the impossible: The Resistance toTheory; Disfiguration, defacement and autobiography: The Rhetoric of Romanticism; Politics, philosophy and the figural: Aesthetic Ideology; Responsibility and authorship: De Man's wartime journalism; AFTER DE MAN; Appendix: 'The Jews in Contemporary Literature'; FURTHER READING; Works cited.…”
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Democracy and ontology : agonism between political liberalism, Foucault, and psychoanalysis by Rosenthal, Irena

Table of Contents: “…The Democratic Politicisation of Political Philosophy -- III. A 'Freestanding' Justification of Justice -- IV. …”
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Thought Experiments between Nature and Society: A Festschrift for Nenad Miščević. by Bojan Borstner, Smiljana Gartner

Table of Contents: “…The False Promise of Thought-Experimentation in Moral and Political PhilosophyNenad's Reply; Miš evi, Mental Models, and Thought Experiments in Political Philosophy; Nenad's Reply; Are Nations Social Constructs? …”
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Moral reasons : an introduction to ethics and critical thinking by Fink, Charles K.

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Leo Strauss and the Invasion of Iraq : encountering the abyss by Hirst, Aggie

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Leo Strauss and International Relations; Confronting the abyss; Tracing the abyss(es): Nietzsche and Heidegger; Strauss's response to the abyss; Derrida's response to the abyss; 1 The political philosophy of Leo Strauss; The crisis of the West: exposing the abyss in society, social science and philosophy; Countering the abyss: the invocation of ancient philosophy; The generation and preservation of salutary social opinions.…”
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Frontiers of diversity : explorations in contemporary pluralism

Table of Contents: “…Reflections on Richard Rorty's Critique of Religion; Political Philosophy and Pluralism in a Globalised World; PART II Political Pluralism; Pluralist Imperialism: The Emergent Paradigm of U.S. …”
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Cicero on politics and the limits of reason : the republic and laws by Atkins, Jed W.

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Socratic turn : knowledge of good and evil in an age of science by Sebell, Dustin

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Islam and the challenge of democracy by Abou El Fadl, Khaled, 1963-, Chasman, Deborah

Table of Contents: “…Hashemi -- Democracy and conflict / Jeremy Waldron -- The best hope / Noah Feldman -- The primacy of political philosophy / M.A. Muqtedar Khan -- The importance of context / A. …”
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Ideas of power in the late Middle Ages, 1296-1417 by Canning, Joseph, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; IDEAS OF POWER IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES, 1296-1417; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Ideas of power and authority during the disputes between Philip IV and Boniface VIII; CHAPTER 2 Dante Alighieri: the approach of political philosophy; CHAPTER 3 Marsilius of Padua; CHAPTER 4 Power and powerlessness in the poverty debates; CHAPTER 5 The treatment of power in juristic thought; CHAPTER 6 The power crisis during the Great Schism (1378-1417); Conclusion; Bibliography; PRIMARY SOURCES; SECONDARY SOURCES; Index.…”
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Flattering the demos : fiction and democratic education

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- revenge of the poets: euripides and the education of the demos -- of villains and victims: guilt and bad conscience in richard iii -- only human: free will and choice in asimov's i, robot -- comedy and comic books -- explaining the paranoid style in american politics: system disjuncture and narratives of fiction -- a band of brothers against terrorism: the citizen-soldier ideal in post-9/11 us military mobilization -- political tv series, or, a case of unflattering the demos: a new setting for cultivation theory -- the problem with the pitiable rump: of impropriety and political philosophy.…”
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Hip-Hop and Philosophy : Rhyme 2 Reason. by Darby, Derrick

Table of Contents: “…Language, Meaning, and Ethics; Disk 5 Fight the Power: Political Philosophy 'n the Hood; After ... Word! The Philosophy of the Hip-Hop Battle; Beats & Rhymes! …”
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Radical Lord Radnor : the Public Life of Viscount Folkestone, Third Earl of Radnor (1779-1869). by Huch, Ronald K.

Table of Contents: “…1 Background and Political Philosophy; 2 Early Years in the House of Commons, 1801-1809; 3 Mary Anne Clarke and the Revival of Radicalism; 4 A Simple Case of Being Duped by a Woman; 5 Disillusionment and a Desire to Quit Parliament; 6 Return to Action, 1816-1818; 7 "Getting Nowhere," 1819-1827; 8 Reform Bill Politics, 1830-1834; 9 The New Poor Law and Making It Work, 1834-1839; 10 The Aristocracy's Adam Smith, 1839-1848; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Why be moral? : learning from the neo-Confucian Cheng Brothers by Huang, Yong

Table of Contents: “…The Possibility of a Confucian Political Philosophy -- 4. Propriety as External Rules -- 5. …”
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History as Thought and Action : the Philosophies of Croce, Gentile, de Ruggiero and Collingwood. by Peters, Rik

Table of Contents: “…Croce, Gentile, and de Ruggiero in the 1920sIntroduction; Croce's New Essays on Aesthetics (1918-20); Gentile's Criticism of Croce's New Essays and His Own Contribution to Aesthetics; De Ruggiero's Criticism of Croce and Gentile and His Own Contribution to Aesthetics; Croce's Criticism of de Ruggiero's Aesthetics; The Rise of Fascism; The Involvement of Croce, Gentile, and de Ruggiero in the Rise of Fascism; Gentile's Moral and Political Philosophy in the 1920s; Philosophy of History in Gentile's Fascist Works; Gentile's Fascist Historiography; Croce's Moral and Political Philosophy.…”
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American constitutionalism, marriage, and the family : Obergefell v. Hodges and U.S. v. Windsor in context

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Defending the Christian Idea of Marriage Today; 2 The Household and the City in Classical Political Philosophy and in John Witte, Jr.'s Account of the History of Western Jurisprudence; 3 The Triumph of the Right of Intimate Association; 4 Free and Happy Bonds; 5 On the Marriage of Dred Scott; 6 Back to the Future; 7 Sterilization, Reproductive Rights, and the Ninth Amendment; 8 Limited Government and the Family; 9 Liberalism, the Family, and the Right to Privacy; 10 Obergefell v. …”
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Wittgenstein and normative inquiry

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Wittgenstein and Normative Inquiry -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- 1: Introduction: A Wittgensteinian Approach to Normative Inquiry -- 2: Normativity and Ethics in the Tractatus: Method, Self and Value -- 3: Wittgenstein: Values, Normative Inquiry, and the Problem of "Criticizing from Outside" -- 4: Wittgenstein's Blue Book, Linguistic Meaning and Music -- 5: Wittgenstein in Pitkin's Republic -- 6: "The Machine as Symbol": Wittgenstein's Contribution to the Politics of Judgment and Freedom in Contemporary Democratic Theory -- 7: Wittgenstein and Mid-20th Century Political Philosophy: Naturalist Paths from Facts to Values -- 8: Wittgenstein's Paganism -- 9: Wittgenstein and the Peculiarities of Religious "Belief" -- Index.…”
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John of Salisbury and the medieval Roman renaissance by O'Daly, Irene

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The IRA : the Irish Republican Army by Dingley, James (Political sociologist)

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Natural Rights and the New Republicanism. by Zuckert, Michael P.

Table of Contents: “…whig political science and the old republicanism; part three: natural rights and the new republicanism; chapter seven: locke and the reformation of natural law: questions concerning the law of nature; chapter eight: locke and the reformation of natural law: two treatises of government; chapter nine: locke and the reformation of natural law: of property; chapter ten: locke and the transformation of whig political philosophy; notes; bibliography; index.…”
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Ricoeur's critical theory by Kaplan, David M.

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Natural Rights and the New Republicanism. by Zuckert, Michael P.

Table of Contents: “…whig political science and the old republicanism; part three: natural rights and the new republicanism; chapter seven: locke and the reformation of natural law: questions concerning the law of nature; chapter eight: locke and the reformation of natural law: two treatises of government; chapter nine: locke and the reformation of natural law: of property; chapter ten: locke and the transformation of whig political philosophy; notes; bibliography; index.…”
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A Truer Liberty (Routledge Revivals) : Simone Weil And Marxism. by Seidler, Victor

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Robert Nozick. by Bader, Ralf M.

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F.A. Hayek, economics, and the epistemology of politics : the curious task of economics by Scheall, Scott

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Charles Taylor

Table of Contents: “…Dreyfus -- The self and the good : Taylor's moral ontology / Fergus Kerr -- Articulating the horizons of liberalism : Taylor's political philosophy / Stephen Mulhall -- Toleration, proselytizing, and the politics of recognition : the self contested / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Taylor and feminism : from recognition of identity to a politics of the good / Melissa A. …”
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Philosophy, sophistry, antiphilosophy : Badiou's dispute with Lyotard by McLennan, Matthew R.

Table of Contents: “…; 4 Ethics and Politics; Philosophy as ethical and political vocation: Lyotard.…”
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Liberalism and American Identity. by Garry, Patrick M.

Table of Contents: “…""Cover ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Contents ""; ""Introduction: The Task Ahead-Rediscovering the Liberal Tradition ""; ""1 The Decline of Liberalism in the Eighties ""; ""2 A History of Attacks on Liberalism: Patterns of Hysteria and Reaction ""; ""3 The Liberal Political Philosophy ""; ""4 The Liberal Tradition in America ""; ""5 Liberalism and Affirmative Government ""; ""6 Lessons from History: A Comparison of Liberalism and Conservatism ""; ""7 The Recognition and Role of Values in the Liberal Tradition ""; ""8 Liberalism and Community ""; ""9 A Liberal Approach to Four Contemporary Issues ""…”
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