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  • Ideas to Live For

    Toward a Global Ethics

    by Giles Gunn ...
    Series series Studies in Religion and Culture
    Over the course of his distinguished interdisciplinary career, Giles Gunn has sustained his focus on the continuing threats to our collective sense of the human that seem to result from the link between the collision of fundamental values and the increase of systemic violence. He asks whether such threats can be at least mitigated, even if not removed, by understanding as opposed to force and what ... Read more

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  • Ideas to Die For

    The Cosmopolitan Challenge

    by Giles Gunn ...
    Series series Global Horizons
    Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents seeks to address the kinds of challenges that cosmopolitan perspectives and practices face in a world organized increasingly in relation to a proliferating series of global absolutisms – religious, political, social, and economic. While these challenges are often used to support the claim that cosmopolitanism is impotent to resist such totalizing ideologies ... Read more

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  • Pragmatism and Other Writings

    The writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most engaging formulation of American pragmatism. 'Pragmatism' grew out of a set of lectures and the full text is included here along with 'The Meaning of Truth', 'Psychology', 'The Will to Believe', and ... Read more

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  • The Pragmatist Turn

    Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of American Literature

    by Giles Gunn ...
    Series series Studies in Religion and Culture
    In The Pragmatist Turn, renowned scholar of American literature and thought Giles Gunn offers a new critical history of the way seventeenth-century religion and the eighteenth-century Enlightenment influenced the formation of subsequent American writing. This shaping was dependent on their pragmatic refiguration less as systems of belief and thought than as frames of reflection and structures of ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • A Historical Guide to Herman Melville

    by Giles Gunn ...
    Series series Historical Guides to American Authors
    This collection gathers together original essays dealing with Melville's relations with his historical era, with class, with the marketplace, with ethnic otherness, and with religion. These essays are framed by a new, short biography by Robert Milder, an introduction by Giles Gunn, an illustrated chronology, and a bibliographical essay. Taken together, these pieces afford a fresh and searching set ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Early American Writing

    by Various ...
    Drawing materials from journals and diaries, political documents and religious sermons, prose and poetry, Giles Gunn's anthology provides a panoramic survey of early American life and literature—including voices black and white, male and female, Hispanic, French, and Native American.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking ... Read more

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  • Moral Relativism

    Series series BIG IDEAS//small books
    Moral relativism attracts and repels. What is defensible in it and what is to be rejected? Do we as human beings have no shared standards by which we can understand one another? Can we abstain from judging one another's practices? Do we truly have divergent views about what constitutes good and evil, virtue and vice, harm and welfare, dignity and humiliation, or is there some underlying ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory

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    Long recognized as one of the main branches of political science, political theory has in recent years burgeoned in many different directions. Close textual analysis of historical texts sits alongside more analytical work on the nature and normative grounds of political values. Continental and post-modern influences jostle with ones from economics, history, sociology, and the law. Feminist ... Read more

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  • On the Political

    Series series Thinking in Action
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    Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament

    by Wael Hallaq ...
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  • Regulating Aversion

    Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire

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