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by G. A. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
G. A. Cohen was one of the most gifted, influential, and progressive voices in contemporary political philosophy. At the time of his death in 2009, he had plans to bring together a number of his most significant papers. This is the first of three volumes to realize those plans. Drawing on three decades...
by Jan-Werner Müller
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Constitutional Patriotism offers a new theory of citizenship and civic allegiance for today's culturally diverse liberal democracies. Rejecting conventional accounts of liberal nationalism and cosmopolitanism, Jan-Werner Müller argues for a form of political belonging centered on universalist norms,...
Freedom's Orphans
Contemporary Liberalism and the Fate of American Children
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Has contemporary liberalism's devotion to individual liberty come at the expense of our society's obligations to children? Divorce is now easy to obtain, and access to everything from violent movies to sexually explicit material is zealously protected as freedom of speech. But what of the effects...
Liberal Loyalty
Freedom, Obligation, and the State
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
Many political theorists today deny that citizenship can be defended on liberal grounds alone. Cosmopolitans claim that loyalty to a particular state is incompatible with universal liberal principles, which hold that we have equal duties of justice to persons everywhere, while nationalist theorists...
The Open Society and Its Enemies
New One-Volume Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
One of the most important books of the twentieth century, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught...
Anthropos Today
Reflections on Modern Equipment
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
The discipline of anthropology is, at its best, characterized by turbulence, self-examination, and inventiveness. In recent decades, new thinking and practice within the field has certainly reflected this pattern, as shown for example by numerous fruitful ventures into the "politics and poetics"...
Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?
Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2013
From its earliest centuries, one of the most notable features of Christianity has been the veneration of the saints—the holy dead. This ambitious history tells the fascinating story of the cult of the saints from its origins in the second-century days of the Christian martyrs to the Protestant Reformation....
Perpetual Euphoria
On the Duty to Be Happy
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
Happiness today is not just a possibility or an option but a requirement and a duty. To fail to be happy is to fail utterly. Happiness has become a religion--one whose smiley-faced god looks down in rebuke upon everyone who hasn't yet attained the blessed state of perpetual euphoria. How has a liberating...
by Michael N. Forster
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2010
This book puts forward a much-needed reappraisal of Immanuel Kant's conception of and response to skepticism, as set forth principally in the Critique of Pure Reason. It is widely recognized that Kant's theoretical philosophy aims to answer skepticism and reform metaphysics--Michael Forster makes...
Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 9 (Part 1)
Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Essays which state the fundamentals of Jung's psychological system: "On the Psychology of the Unconscious" and "The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious," with their original versions in an appendix.
Dream Interpretation Ancient and Modern
Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936–1941 - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
From 1936 to 1941, C. G. Jung gave a four-part seminar series in Zurich on children's dreams and the historical literature on dream interpretation. This book completes the two-part publication of this landmark seminar, presenting the sessions devoted to dream interpretation and its history. Here we...
Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 11
Psychology and Religion: West and East
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Sixteen studies in religious phenomena, including Psychology and Religion and Answer to Job.
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Invisible Listeners
Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
When a poet addresses a living person--whether friend or enemy, lover or sister--we recognize the expression of intimacy. But what impels poets to leap across time and space to speak to invisible listeners, seeking an ideal intimacy--George Herbert with God, Walt Whitman with a reader in the future,...
Illiberal Reformers
Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
In Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda underwrote the Progressive Era dismantling of laissez-faire and the creation of the regulatory welfare state, which, they believed, would humanize and rationalize industrial capitalism. But not...