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  • Emotions, Community, and Citizenship

    Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Yi-Chun Chien, Kiran Banerjee, Constantine Vassiliou, Rebecca Kingston, James McKee ...
    Emotions are at the very heart of individual and communal actions. They influence our social and interpersonal behaviour and affect our perspectives on culture, history, politics, and morality.Emotions, Community, and Citizenship is a pioneering work that brings together scholars from an array of disciplines in order to challenge and unite the disciplinary divides in the study of emotions. These ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Liberal Education and Citizenship in a Free Society

    Edited by Justin Buckley Dyer, Constantine Christos Vassiliou ...
    Series series Studies in Constitutional Democracy
    The liberal arts university has been in decline since well before the virtualization of campus life, increasingly inviting public skepticism about its viability as an institution of personal, civic, and professional growth. New technologies that might have brought people together have instead frustrated the university’s capacity to foster thoughtful citizenship among tomorrow’s leaders and ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • The Spirit of Montesquieu’s Persian Letters

    by Megan Gallagher, Ryan Patrick Hanley, Rebecca Kingston, Peter Lund, Michael Mosher, Emily Nacol, Andrea Radasanu, Helena Rosenblatt, John T. Scott, Robert Sparling, Céline Spector, Lee Ward, Stuart D. Warner, Dr. Pauline Kra, Vickie B. Sullivan ...
    This book’s primary purpose is to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Montesquieu’s Persian Letters, a seminal book in classical liberal thought. Persian Letters is a delightfully rich, sympathetic satire of commercial society’s promise and discontents, covering a wide range of issues and themes that shaped the direction of liberal modernity. It consists of a series of letters largely written by ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

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  • Collected Writings on Education (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. My Pedagogic Creed + The School and Society + The Child and the Curriculum + Moral Principles in Education + Interest and Effort in Education + Democracy and Education

    by John Dewey, Malcolm Davenby ...
    Collected Writings on Education gathers John Dewey's major reflections on schooling, democracy, experience, and social reform, presenting education not as rote transmission but as an active reconstruction of life. Written in Dewey's lucid, argumentative, and pragmatist style, these essays and lectures belong to the progressive education movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ... Read more

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  • The Confessions (Mobi Classics)

    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,W. Conyngham Mallory (Translator) ...
    This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display. ... Read more

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  • Between Facts and Norms

    Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy

    by Jürgen Habermas ...
    This is Habermas's long awaited work on law, democracy and the modern constitutional state in which he develops his own account of the nature of law and democracy. ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • As If

    Idealization and Ideals

    by Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    “Appiah is a writer and thinker of remarkable range… [He] has packed into this short book an impressive amount of original reflection… A rich and illuminating book.”—Thomas Nagel, New York Review of BooksIdealization is a fundamental feature of human thought. We build simplified models to make sense of the world, and life is a constant adjustment between the models we make and the realities we ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Social Injustice

    Essays in Political Philosophy

    by V. Bufacchi ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The idea of social injustice is pivotal to much contemporary moral and political philosophy. Starting from a comprehensive and engaging account of the idea of social injustice, this book covers a whole range of issues, including distributive justice, exploitation, torture, moral motivations, democratic theory, voting behaviour and market socialism. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Beautiful in the Mouth

    by Keetje Kuipers ...
    Thomas Lux selected this debut collection as winner of BOA’s A. Poulin, Jr., Poetry Prize. In his foreword he writes, "I was immediately struck by the boldness of imagination, the strange cadences, and wild music of these poems. We should be glad that young poets like Keetje Kuipers are making their voices heard not by tearing up the old language but by making the old language new."Keetje Kuipers, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Dialectic of Freedom

    by Maxine Greene ...
    Series series John Dewey Lecture Series
    Special 2018 EditionFrom the new Introduction by Michelle Fine**,** Graduate Center, CUNY :"Why now, you may ask, should I return to a book written in 1988? Because, in Maxine's words: 'When freedom is the question, it is always time to begin.'"In The Dialectic of Freedom, Maxine Greene argues that freedom must be achieved through continuing resistance to the forces that limit, condition, d... ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Contrary to Thoughtlessness

    Rethinking Practical Wisdom

    by Monica Mueller ...
    Since Hannah Arendt highlighted the stunning “banality” of his “evil” crimes, Adolf Eichmann has served posterity as a prime example of thoughtlessness. This book asks: as civilizations become ever more integrated, how will the complexities of our activities respond to the growing proclivity for thoughtlessness? When administrative necessity eclipses personal responsibility, the result is often ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Early Political Writings 1925-30

    by Michael Oakeshott ...
    Series Book 5 - Michael Oakeshott Selected Writings
    Michael Oakeshott (1901-90) made his reputation as a political philosopher, but for a long time it seemed as if he had little interest in politics before 1945. His major pre-war work, Experience and its Modes (1933) was an examination of the nature of philosophy and its relation to other forms of thought that made almost no mention of politics. However, it has become increasingly clear that this ... Read more

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