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  • Community, A Sociological Study

    Being an Attempt to Set Out the Nature and Fundamental Laws of Social Life

    by Robert M. MacIver ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1917, this work seeks to be an introduction to the concept of community, the term which best expresses the object which social science as such endeavours to study; it is in community, the common life, that the interests represented by the specific social sciences are bound together, made integral, and thus amenable to a more comprehensive science. Community, A Sociological Study ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Community

    A Sociological Study, Being an Attempt to Set Out Native & Fundamental Laws

    by Robert M MacIver ...
    First Published in 1970. Written before the term sociology was in use, this book has two main principles. One concerns the conception of what a state is and what its relation is to the other organizations that enter into the structure or framework of all society. The second major principle is that individualization and socialization are intimately interdependent. that a developed society ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

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  • Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics

    A Short Introduction to Ethics

    by Simon Blackburn ...
    It is not only in our dark hours that scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism dog ethics. Whether it is a matter of giving to charity, or sticking to duty, or insisting on our rights, we can be confused, or be paralysed by the fear that our principles are groundless. Many are afraid that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish and ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Ethics

    The Essential Writings

    by Gordon Marino ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    In Ethics: The Essential Writings,** philosopher Gordon Marino skillfully presents an accessible, provocative anthology of both ancient and modern classics on matters moral. The philosophers represent 2,500 years of thought—from Plato, Kant, and Nietzsche to Alasdair MacIntyre, Susan Wolf, and Peter Singer—and cover a broad range of topics, from the timeless questions of justice, morality, and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • What Is History?

    and Other Essays

    by Michael Oakeshott ...
    Series Book 2 - Michael Oakeshott Selected Writings
    This highly readable new collection of thirty pieces by Michael Oakeshott, almost all of which are previously unpublished, covers every decade of his intellectual career, and adds significantly to his contributions to the philosophy of historical understanding and political philosophy, as well as to the philosophy of education and aesthetics. The essays were intended mostly for lectures or ... Read more

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  • The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret Societies

    by Georg Simmel ...
    "That we shall know with whom we have to do, is the first precondition of having anything to do with another. The customary reciprocal presentation, in the case of any somewhat protracted conversation, or in the case of contact upon the same social plane, although at first sight an empty form, is an excellent symbol of that reciprocal apprehension which is the presumption of every social ... Read more

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  • Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings

    by Emile Durkheim ...
    This 1972 book is a collection of Durkheim's writings drawing upon the whole body of his work. Dr Giddens takes his selections from a wide variety of sources and includes a number of items from untranslated writings in the Revue Philosophique, Annee Sociologique and from L'evolution pedagogue en France. Selections from previously translated writings have been checked against the originals and ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Made with Words

    Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics

    by Philip Pettit ...
    Hobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. But this work is of immense interest in itself, as Philip Pettit shows in Made with Words, and it critically shapes Hobbes's political philosophy.Pettit argues that it was Hobbes, not later thinkers like Rousseau, who invented ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Animal Rights

    A Historical Anthology

    Edited by Andrew Linzey, Paul Barry Clarke ...
    This comprehensive and diverse anthology, the only one of its kind, illuminates the complex evolution of moral thought regarding animals and includes writings from ancient Greece to the present. Animal Rights reveals the ways in which a variety of thinkers have addressed such issues as our ethical responsibilities for the welfare of animals, whether animals have rights, and what it means to be ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Division of Labor in Society

    by Emile Durkheim ...
    Émile Durkheim is often referred to as the father of sociology. Along with Karl Marx and Max Weber he was a principal architect of modern social science and whose contribution helped established it as an academic discipline. "The Division of Labor in Society", published in 1893, was his first major contribution to the field and arguably one his most important. In this work Durkheim discusses the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • John Macmurray

    Selected Philosophical Writings

    by Esther McIntosh ...
    Series Book 7 - Library of Scottish Philosophy
    The philosophy of John Macmurray is only now receiving the attention it deserves. It is in the contemporary climate of dissatisfaction with individualism that Macmurray's emphasis on the relations of persons has come to the fore. Moreover, Macmurray's recognition of the central importance of acknowledging human embodiment is being favourably received by a wide range of fields, which includes ... Read more

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  • Social Development (Routledge Revivals)

    Its Nature and Conditions

    by L. T. Hobhouse ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1924, Professor Hobhouse's theories and commentaries upon social development are an important milestone in the history of sociological thought. Of particular interest to the modern sociologist is his delineation of the struggle of the human mind towards rationality in thought and action and his insistence on the principle that in all social investigations it is necessary to ... Read more

    $68.99 USD