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  • Age of Anxiety

    Meaning, Identity, and Politics in 21st-Century Film and Literature

    by Jon D. Schaff, Anthony M. Wachs ...
    Series series Politics, Literature, & Film
    Age of Anxiety: Meaning, Identity, and Politics in 21st Century Film and Literature analyzes literature and films that speak to our age of anxiety resulting from the decline of narratives that provided individuals with a meaningful human life. The authors argue that the twentieth-century sought to free individuals from the constraints of authoritative cultural traditions and institutions, ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Statesmanship and the Limits of Liberal Democracy

    by Jon D. Schaff ...
    This bold, groundbreaking study of American political development assesses the presidency of Abraham Lincoln through the lenses of governmental power, economic policy, expansion of executive power, and natural rights to show how Lincoln not only believed in the limitations of presidential power but also dedicated his presidency to restraining the scope and range of it.Though Lincoln’s presidency ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Scenes from the American Working Class

    This Hard Land

    by Victor Bruno, Pedro Blas Gonzalez, Kevin M. Kearns, Glenn A. Moots, Aimee Pozorski, Shaun Richman, Jon D. Schaff, Christine Susienka, Mark Wheeler, Steven Michels0, Sally Parry1, Simon Stow2 ...
    Series series Politics, Literature, & Film
    What have depictions of the working class in popular culture added to our understanding of the professional lives of Americans? Scenes from the American Working Class: This Hard Land offers twelve unique and profound answers from some of the most impactful and timeless novels (O! Pioneers, Ann Vickers, and Native Son), films (Blue Collar, Wall Street, and Other People’s Money), television shows ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Philosophy and the Problems of Work

    A Reader

    by Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, Michel Foucault, Mark Ourent, Gregory Pence, Robert Nozick, David Schweickart, Allen Wood, Gary Dymski, John Rawls, Richard Arneson, G A. Cohen, Ann Ferguson, Gregory Kavka, Mary Hawkesworth, Jon Elster, Phillipe van Parijs, Andrew Levine, John Roemer ...
    Philosophy and the Problems of Work brings together for the first time important philosophical perspectives on the subjects of labor and work, spanning analytical and Continental traditions. This comprehensive collection engages contemporary debates in political theory and the philosophy of economics, including the perspectives of classical and welfare liberals, anarchists, and feminists, about ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Alexis de Tocqueville and the Art of Democratic Statesmanship

    by Derek Barker, Richard Boyd, Paul Carresse, Brian Danoff, Albert W. Dzur, Khalil M. Habib, L. Joseph Hebert Jr., Peter Augustine Lawler, Susan McWilliams Barndt0, Thomas L. Pangle1, William B. Parsons Jr.2, Jon D. Schaff3, F Flagg Taylor IV4, Aristide Tessitore5, Alexis De Tocqueville6, Conor Williams7, Thad Williamson8 ...
    In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville famously called for 'a new political science' that could address the problems and possibilities of a 'world itself quite new.' For Tocqueville, the democratic world needed not just a new political science but also new arts of statesmanship and leadership. In this volume, Brian Danoff and L. Joseph Hebert, Jr., have brought together a diverse set of essays revealing ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • Justice and the Politics of Difference

    by Iris Marion Young ...
    In this classic work of feminist political thought, Iris Marion Young challenges the prevailing reduction of social justice to distributive justice. It critically analyzes basic concepts underlying most theories of justice, including impartiality, formal equality, and the unitary moral subjectivity. The starting point for her critique is the experience and concerns of the new social movements ... Read more

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  • Responsibility for Justice

    by Iris Marion Young ...
    Series series Oxford Political Philosophy
    When the noted political philosopher Iris Marion Young died in 2006, her death was mourned as the passing of "one of the most important political philosophers of the past quarter-century" (Cass Sunstein) and as an important and innovative thinker working at the conjunction of a number of important topics: global justice; democracy and difference; continental political theory; ethics and ... Read more

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  • Political Philosophy

    A Beginners' Guide for Students and Politicians

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    Yascha Mounk shows why a focus on personal responsibility is wrong and counterproductive: it distracts us from the larger economic forces determining aggregate outcomes, ignores what we owe fellow citizens regardless of their choices, and blinds us to key values such as the desire to live in a society of equals. In this book he proposes a remedy. ... Read more

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