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  • The Idea of Human Rights

    by Charles R. Beitz ...
    The international doctrine of human rights is one of the most ambitious parts of the settlement of World War II. Since then, the language of human rights has become the common language of social criticism in global political life. This book is a theoretical examination of the central idea of that language, the idea of a human right. In contrast to more conventional philosophical studies, the ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • For the People?

    Democratic Representation in America

    by Charles R. Beitz ...
    Series series The Berkeley Tanner Lectures
    Many scholars of American government believe representative democracy is failing more systematically than even the recent spectacle of political extremism suggests. Unprecedented levels of elite polarization, severe partisan gerrymandering, weakened party institutions, easing of restrictions on campaign finance, and other forces-all in the context of rising levels of economic inequality-produce ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Political Equality

    An Essay in Democratic Theory

    by Charles R. Beitz ...
    The description for this book, Political Equality: An Essay in Democratic Theory, will be forthcoming. ... Read more

    $63.79 CAD

  • Political Theory and International Relations

    Revised Edition

    by Charles R. Beitz ...
    In this revised edition of his 1979 classic Political Theory and International Relations, Charles Beitz rejects two highly influential conceptions of international theory as empirically inaccurate and theoretically misleading. In one, international relations is a Hobbesian state of nature in which moral judgments are entirely inappropriate, and in the other, states are analogous to persons in ... Read more

    $60.49 CAD

  • The Idea of Human Rights

    by Charles R. Beitz ...
    The international doctrine of human rights is one of the most ambitious parts of the settlement of World War II. Since then, the language of human rights has become the common language of social criticism in global political life. This book is a theoretical examination of the central idea of that language, the idea of a human right. In contrast to more conventional philosophical studies, the ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Punishment

    A Philosophy and Public Affairs Reader

    Edited by A. John Simmons, Marshall Cohen, Joshua Cohen, Charles R. Beitz ...
    Series series Philosophy and Public Affairs Readers
    The problem of justifying legal punishment has been at the heart of legal and social philosophy from the very earliest recorded philosophical texts. However, despite several hundred years of debate, philosophers have not reached agreement about how legal punishment can be morally justified. That is the central issue addressed by the contributors to this volume. All of the essays collected here ... Read more

    $72.59 CAD

  • Global Basic Rights

    Edited by Charles R. Beitz, Robert E. Goodin ...
    Politically, as well as philosophically, concerns with human rights have permeated many of the most important debates on social justice worldwide for fully a half-century. Henry Shue's 1980 book on Basic Rights proved to be a pioneering contribution to those debates, and one that continues to elicit both critical and constructive comment. Global Basic Rights brings together many of the most ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • Global Basic Rights

    Edited by Charles R. Beitz, Robert E. Goodin ...
    Politically, as well as philosophically, concerns with human rights have permeated many of the most important debates on social justice worldwide for fully a half-century. Henry Shue's 1980 book on Basic Rights proved to be a pioneering contribution to those debates, and one that continues to elicit both critical and constructive comment. Global Basic Rights brings together many of the most ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • International Ethics

    A Philosophy and Public Affairs Reader

    by Lawrence A. Alexander ...
    Series series Philosophy and Public Affairs Readers
    This book is comprised of essays previously published in Philosophy & Public Affairs and also an extended excerpt from Michael Walzer's Just and Unjust Wars. ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

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    Politicians invoke grand ideas: social justice, democracy, liberty, equality, community. But what do these ideas really mean? How can politicians across the political spectrum appeal to the same values?This new edition of Adam Swift's highly readable introduction to political philosophy answers these important questions, and includes new material on global justice, feminism, and method in ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Moral Foundations of Politics

    by Ian Shapiro ...
    When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? Ian Shapiro explores this most enduring of political dilemmas in this innovative and engaging book. Building on his highly popular Yale courses, Professor Shapiro evaluates the main contending accounts of the sources of political legitimacy. Starting with theorists of the Enlightenment, he examines the arguments put ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community

    by Bernard Yack ...
    Nationalism is one of modern history's great surprises. How is it that the nation, a relatively old form of community, has risen to such prominence in an era so strongly identified with the individual? Bernard Yack argues that it is the inadequacy of our understanding of community—and especially the moral psychology that animates it—that has made this question so difficult to answer.Yack develops ... Read more

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