Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Democracy is a good thing	Keping Yu	"Presents selections of works of Yu Keping, a Chinese intellectual and figure in official think tanks, on politics and democracy that reveal the ongoing debates in Chinese political and intellectual …	OL10175730W
Idiot America	Charles P. Pierce	The Culture Wars Are Over and the Idiots Have WonA veteran journalist's acidically funny, righteously angry lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States.In the midst of a career-l…	OL13647053W
The American way of peace	Jan S. Prybyla	"Traces the development and implementation of Pax Americana, the American way of peace, from World War II to the war on terrorism and the Iraqi conflict. Examines the extent to which modernization mu…	OL1418734W
Are liberty and equality compatible?	Jan Narveson	"Are the political ideals of liberty and equality compatible? This question is of central and continuing importance in political philosophy, moral philosophy, and welfare economics. In this book, two…	OL15074596W
An Introduction to Political Philosophy	Colin Bird	Providing a comprehensive introduction to political philosophy, this book combines discussion of historical and contemporary figures, together with numerous real-life examples. It ranges over an unus…	OL15190162W
The common good	Noam Chomsky	Someone who knows and gives a damn. Do read this please.	OL15329510W
The Mind That is Catholic	James V. Schall	James V. Schall is a treasure of the Catholic intellectual tradition. A prolific author and essayist, Schall readily connects with his readers on sundry topics from war to friendship, philosophy, pol…	OL15338580W
Infinitely Demanding	Simon Critchley	A new political ethics that confronts the injustices of liberal democracy. The clearest, boldest and most systematic statement of Simon Critchley’s influential views on philosophy, ethics, and pol…	OL15464557W
Political philosophy	Richard G. Stevens	"This book by Richard G. Stevens is a comprehensive introduction to the nature of political philosophy. It offers definitions of philosophy and politics, showing the tension between the two and the o…	OL15909774W
Spatiality, sovereignty and Carl Schmitt	Stephen Legg	"The writings of Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) are now indissociable from both an historical period and a contemporary moment. He will forever be remembered for his association with the National Socialist…	OL15999262W
Rawls explained	Paul Voice	We live in a world that is increasingly unjust. In many liberal democratic societies the gap between the best-off and the worst-off grows larger. Other societies pursue economic growth while remainin…	OL16307183W
Faith of the Faithless	Simon Critchley	The return to religion has perhaps become the dominant cliche of contemporary theory, which rarely offers anything more than an exaggerated echo of a political reality dominated by religious war. Som…	OL16529277W
Condorcet	Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat marquis de Condorcet	"Nicolas de Condorcet (1743-1794), the innovating founder of mathematical thinking in politics, was the last great philosophe of the French Enlightenment and a central figure in the early years of th…	OL16558212W
Philosophy, literature, and politics	Cooper, Barry,Charles R. Embry	"Festschrift honoring Ellis Sandoz, director of the Eric Voegelin Institute for American Renaissance Studies and editor of Collected Works of Eric Voegelin. Essays explore philosophy, literature, and…	OL19166479W
Domesticating Human Rights	Fidèle Ingiyimbere	1 online resource	OL20864032W
Agonistics	Chantal Mouffe	Political conflict in our society is inevitable, and the results are often far from negative. How then should we deal with the intractable differences arising from complex modern culture? Developing …	OL20955879W
The subject of liberation	Charles H. Wells	"The book shares Žižek's central problem of how to revitalize the radical political left through theory. It initially follows the argument developed in The Ticklish Subject that contemporary leftist …	OL23182278W
Republicanism	Philip Pettit	Pettit presents a republican alternative to the liberal and communitarian theories that have dominated political philosophy in recent years, and looks at the implications of this theory for the relat…	OL2841299W
Socratic puzzles	Robert Nozick	One of the foremost philosophers of our time, Robert Nozick continues the Socratic tradition of investigation. This volume, which illustrates the originality, force, and scope of his work, also displ…	OL3336948W
Deleuze and the political	Paul Patton	With clarity, precision and economy, Paul Patton synthesizes the full range of Deleuze's work. He interweaves with great dexterity motifs that extend from his early works, such as Nietzsche and Philo…	OL547803W