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Contract, Culture, and Citizenship: Transformative Liberalism from Hobbes to Rawls (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores the concept of the social contract and how it shapes citizenship. Argues that the modern social contract is an account of the ethical and cultural conditions upon which modern citizenship depends.
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Creating a Democratic Public: The Struggle for Urban Participatory Democracy During the Progressive Era (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Beginning with an analysis of the work of early activists and the social centres movement in the... Læs mere
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Date Rape: Feminism, Philosophy, and the Law (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this contribution to current debates over the meaning of date rape and how it should be punished in criminal terms, the author brings together lawyers, philosophers and feminists to explore "communicative sexuality" as a model for the condemnation of date rape.
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Embodiment and Agency (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A collection of essays in feminist philosophy. Contributors theorize how we act through differently acculturated bodies in a variety of interpersonal and political contexts. Addresses recent feminist challenges to bring the body more fully and positively into theory.
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Falckner's Curieuse Nachricht von Pensylvania: The Book that Stimulated the Great German Immigration to Pennsylvania in the Early Years of the XVIII Century (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Reprint of a 1905 English translation of Daniel Falckner's Curieuse Nachricht von Pensylvania (1702). Includes the original German text on facing pages, and annotations comparing that text to a manuscript version.
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Extracts from Letters Written by Alfred B. McCalmont, 1862–1865: From the Front During the War of the Rebellion (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A selection of letters written by Alfred B. McCalmont to family members from the American Civil War front from September 1862 to June 1865, covering his service as a colonel in the 142nd and 208th Pennsylvania infantry. First published in 1908 for private circulation.
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Feminist Interpretations of David Hume (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
These essay cover a wide diversity of subjects in Hume's work. This includes his theory of knowledge; his conception of human inquiry and the human mind; his views on our knowledge of the external world and the future; and his treatments of the passions, emotions and virtue.
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Feminist Interpretations of Emmanuel Levinas (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This volume of essays investigates the question of Levinas's relationship to feminist thought. Levinas breaks with Heidegger's phenomenology by understanding the ethical relation to the "Other," the face-to-face, as exceeding the language of ontology.
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Frail Happiness: An Essay on Rousseau (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Rousseau is often said to have "discovered and invented our modernity", and the author's interpretation centres on the question of what sort of life we can live in modern times.
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Homeland Mythology: Biblical Narratives in American Culture (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Collins shows that biblical narratives have inspired a multitude of nationalist narratives, myths ingeniously spun out to justify a number of... Læs mere
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The Human Embrace: The Love of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Love- Kierkegaard, Cavell, Nussbaum (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A philosophical examination of the challenge all humans face in "embracing" their humanity despite the... Læs mere
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Invading Guatemala: Spanish, Nahua, and Maya Accounts of the Conquest Wars (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
After invading highland Guatemala in 1524, Spaniards claimed to have smashed the Kaqchikel and K'iche' Maya kingdoms and to have... Læs mere
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