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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “dr christopher b barnett”
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  • Kierkegaard, Statecraft and Political Theology

    by Dr. Christopher B. Barnett ...
    Written against the fractured landscape of contemporary Christianity and the increasing popularity of “political theology,” Christopher B. Barnett wrestles with the question: what if Søren Kierkegaard's rejection of modern politics was not a form of spiritual quietism, but of Christian resistance?Tracing the rise of the modern secular state, Barnett argues that Kierkegaard's refusal of “the ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Kierkegaard and the Question Concerning Technology

    by Dr. Christopher B. Barnett ...
    Over the last several decades, technology has emerged as an important area of interest for both philosophers and theologians. Yet, despite his status as one of modernity's seminal thinkers, Søren Kierkegaard is not often seen as one who contributed to the field. Kierkegaard and the Question Concerning Technology argues otherwise. Christopher B. Barnett shows that many of Kierkegaard's criticisms ... Read more

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  • Pleasure and Pain in US Public Culture

    by Joshua Gunn, Kristen E. Hoerl, Claire Sisco King, Calum Lister Matheson, Valerie N. Wieskamp, Dr. John Louis Lucaites, Dr. Casey Ryan Kelly, Dr. Atilla Hallsby, Dr. Christopher J. Gilbert0, Dr. Joshua Trey Barnett2, Dr. W. Patrick Wade3 ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    A critical examination of how pleasure and pain are constructed, represented, and contested within American public culture.Mainstream news and social media often highlight presentations of pain that invite a voyeuristic, pleasurable experience, whether the result of war, disasters, crime, accidents, or other catastrophes. This collection of essays explores pleasurable pains and painful pleasures, ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

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    by Sir Roger Scruton ...
    The thinkers who have been most influential on the attitudes of the New Left are examined in this study by one of the leading critics of leftist orientations in modern Western civilization. Scruton begins with a ruthless analysis of New Leftism and concludes with a critique of the key strands in its thinking. He conducts a reappraisal of such major left-wing thinkers as: E. P. Thompson, Ronald ... Read more

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  • The Concept of the Political

    by Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss ...
    Translated by George Schwab ...
    "Arguably Schmitt's most influential work . . . recognized as one of the most important tracts of modern political thought." —Samuel Earle, The New StatesmanIn this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues that liberalism's basis in individual rights cannot provide a reasonable justification for sacrificing oneself for the state—a critique as cogent ... Read more

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  • On History

    by Prof Eric Hobsbawm ...
    The theory and practice of history and its relevance to the modern world, by Britains greatest radical historian. ... Read more

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  • Histories and Fallacies: Problems Faced in the Writing of History

    Problems Faced in the Writing of History

    by Carl R. Trueman ...
    How do we know the stories told by historians are true? To what extent can we rely on their interpretations of the past?Histories and Fallacies is a primer on the conceptual and methodological problems in the discipline of history. Historian Carl Trueman presents a series of classic historical problems as a way to examine what history is, what it means, and how it can be told and understood. Each ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Politics and Vision

    Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought - Expanded Edition

    by Sheldon S. Wolin ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    Politics and Vision is a landmark work by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. This is a significantly expanded edition of one of the greatest works of modern political theory. Sheldon Wolin's Politics and Vision inspired and instructed two generations of political theorists after its appearance in 1960. Substantially expanded for republication in 2004, it is both a sweeping survey ... Read more

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  • The Power of the Powerless

    Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe

    by Vaclav Havel, John Keane ...
    Books of great political insight and novelty always outlive their time of birth and this reissued work, initially published in 1985, is no exception. Written shortly after the formation of Charter 77, the essays in this collection are among the most original and compelling pieces of political writing to have emerged from central and Eastern Europe during the whole of the post-war period. Václav ... Read more

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  • Is God Happy?

    Selected Essays

    by Leszek Kolakowski ...
    The late Leszek Kolakowski was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. A prominent anticommunist writer, Kolakowski was also a deeply humanistic thinker, and his meditations on society, religion, morality, and culture stand alongside his political writings as commentaries on intellectual-and everyday-life in the twentieth century.Kolakowski’s extraordinary empathy, humor ... Read more

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  • Seven Men Who Rule the World From the Grave

    by Dave Breese ...
    Though their bodies lie cold and dormant, the grave cannot contain the influence these seven men have had on today's world. They continue to rule because they have altered the thinking of society. They generated philosophies that have been ardently grasped by masses of people but are erroneous and antiscriptural. Today these ideas pervade our schools, businesses, homes, and even the church. As we ... Read more

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  • On Betrayal

    by Avishai Margalit ...
    "Seamlessly combines analytic rigor with personal memoir . . . its arguments are drawn from political history . . . Biblical commentary . . . novels and biographies." (Amélie Rorty, Tufts University)Adultery, treason, and apostasy no longer carry the weight they once did. Yet we constantly see and hear stories of betrayal. Avishai Margalit argues that the tension between the ubiquity of betrayal ... Read more

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