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  • Benjamin Franklin Unmasked

    On the Unity of His Moral, Religious, and Political Thought

    by Jerry Weinberger ...
    Series series American Political Thought
    Moral paragon, public servant, founding father; scoundrel, opportunist, womanizing phony: There are many Benjamin Franklins. Now, as we celebrate the tercentenary of Franklin's birth, Jerry Weinberger reveals the Franklin behind the many masks and shows that the real Franklin was far more remarkable than anyone has yet discovered.Taking the Autobiography as the key to Franklin's thought, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Benjamin Franklin's Intellectual World

    by Carla Mulford, Simon P. Newman, Jurgen Overhoff, Jerry Weinberger, Lorraine Smith Pangle, Michael Zuckerman ...
    This volume attempts to throw fresh light on two areas of Benjamin Franklin’s intellectual world, namely: his self-fashioning and his political thought. It is an odd thing that for all of Franklin’s voluminous writings—a fantastically well-documented correspondence over many years, scientific treatises that made his name amongst the brightest minds of Europe, newspaper articles, satires, and of ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Multiculturalism and American Democracy

    Edited by Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, M. Richard Zinman ...
    Choice Outstanding TitleMulticulturalism: is it the face of twenty-first century America or merely a passing intellectual fad? With its celebration of ethnic diversity and strong advocacy of tolerance, this contemporary movement provides philosophical justification for many who seek to correct social inequities. But while its proponents see it as a means of promoting self-esteem among marginalized ... Read more

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  • Moral Soundings

    Readings on the Crisis of Values in Contemporary Life

    by Richard Rorty, Steven Fesmire, Stanley Kurtz, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jerry Weinberger, Leon Kass, Jane Smiley, Thomas Pogge, Richard Pipes, James Twitchell, David Marsland, David Bosworth, Christina Hoff Sommers, Edward W. Said, Janet C. Gornick, Isabel V. Sawhill, Albert Borgmann, Jerry L. Walls, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Cornel West ...
    Moral Soundings takes a fresh new approach to introducing students and general readers to contemporary ethics. Rather than surveying the standard fare in a typical anthology format, Furrow collects diversified essays around a structured theme: does Western culture face a moral crisis of values? Prominent voices in the humanities and social sciences provide a range of perspectives on a concentrated ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • New Atlantis and The Great Instauration

    by Francis Bacon ...
    Series series Crofts Classics
    This richly annotated second edition of the now-classic pairing of Bacon's masterpieces, New Atlantis and The Great Instauration features the addition of other works by Bacon, including "The Idols of the Mind," "Of Unity in Religion" and "Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates," as well a Summary of the each work and Questions for the reader.Includes works new to the second edition, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Public Intellectual

    Between Philosophy and Politics

    by Jerry Weinberger, Saul Bellow, John Patrick Diggins, Pierre Hassner, Josef Joffe, Tony Judt, Ira Katznelson, Christopher J. Kelly, Adam Michnik0, Martha C. Nussbaum1, Thomas A. Pangle2, Paul A. Rahe3, Gordon S. Wood4, M Richard Zinman5 ...
    Whether intellectuals are counter-cultural escapists corrupting the young or secular prophets leading us to prosperity, they are a fixture of modern political life. In The Public Intellectual: Between Philosophy and Politics, Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman bring together a wide variety of noted scholars to discuss the characteristics, nature, and role of public thinkers. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Politics at the Turn of the Century

    by Seyla Benhabib, Harvey C. Mansfield, Atul Kohli, Pratap B. Mehta, Tianjian Shi, T J. Pempel, Charles H. Fairbanks Jr., Michael Zuckert, Todd Gitlin, Alan Wolfe, Alan Brinkley, James Ceaser, Delba Winthrop, Paul Pierson, RICHARD A. EPSTEIN, Claus Offe, John Dunn, Andrew J. Nathan, Vladimir Tismaneanu ...
    With the end of the Cold War, the death of Communism, and the decline of Socialism, what are the primary issues, ideologies, and parties that now structure politics? Melzer, Zinman, and Weinberger have compiled essays from prominent experts to examine the politics of the past to help plot the political future.The first half of the volume addresses “Identity Politics” and “Big Government” and their ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

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  • End of History and the Last Man

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    A landmark New York Times bestseller and one of the most influential works of political thought of the modern era.First published in 1992, Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man made a provocative argument: that liberal democracy might represent the culmination of humanity’s long political evolution. In the decades since, that idea has been challenged, debated, and reconsidered as ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice

    by Jack Donnelly ...
    In the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, Jack Donnelly explains and defends a richly interdisciplinary account of human rights as universal rights. He shows that any conception of human rights-and the idea of human rights itself-is historically specific and contingent. Since publication of the first edition ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Great Regression

    Edited by Heinrich Geiselberger ...
    We are living through a period of dramatic political change – Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia and a concerted assault on the liberal values and ideals associated with cosmopolitanism and globalization. Suddenly we find ourselves in a world that few would have imagined possible just a few years ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Not Enough

    Human Rights in an Unequal World

    by Samuel Moyn ...
    “No one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights.”—Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal“Moyn breaks new ground in examining the relationship between human rights and economic fairness.”—George SorosThe age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. While state violations of political rights have garnered unprecedented attention in recent decades, a commitment ... Read more

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  • Democracy – The God That Failed

    The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order

    by Hans-Hermann Hoppe ...
    Series series Perspectives on Democratic Practice
    The core of this book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from monarchy to democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy is a lesser evil than democracy, but outlines deficiencies in both. Its methodology is axiomatic-deductive, allowing the writer to derive economic and sociological theorems, and then apply them to interpret historical ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD