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  • Eric Voegelin and the Continental Tradition

    Explorations in Modern Political Thought

    Edited by Lee Trepanier, Steven F. Mcguire ...
    Series Book 1 - The Eric Voegelin Institute Series in Political Philosophy
    Twentieth-century political philosopher Eric Voegelin is best known as a severe critic of modernity. Much of his work argues that modernity is a Gnostic revolt against the fundamental structure of reality. For Voegelin, “Gnosticism” is the belief that human beings can transform the nature of reality through secret knowledge and social action, and he considered it the crux of the crisis of ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Trade Politics

    Edited by Brian Hocking, Steven McGuire ...
    Trade has always been an intensely political activity. Its conduct determines the well-being of entire national communities, and expansion of trade since the Second World War has been one of the major engines of world economic growth. In this new, fully updated edition, leading experts from around the world provide a comprehensive overview of the politics of international trade in the twenty-first ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Non-market Strategies in International Business

    How MNEs capture value through their political, social and environmental strategies

    Edited by Vikrant Shirodkar, Roger Strange, Steven McGuire ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    The Academy of International Business (UK and Ireland Chapter)Published in association with the UK and Ireland Chapter of the Academy of International Business.This book provides theoretical and empirical insights into non-market political and social strategies that firms use when conducting international business. Political strategies include activities such as lobbying, campaign contributions, ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Historical Dictionary of English Music

    ca. 1400-1958

    by Charles Edward McGuire, Steven E. Plank ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    This reference seeks to identify and briefly annotate a wide range of subjects relating to English musical culture, largely from the early 15th century through 1958, dates that reflect the coalescence of an identifiable English style in the early Renaissance and the death of the iconic Ralph Vaughan Williams in the mid-20th century. Some of the truly great "English" composers figuring in this ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

  • Subjectivity

    Ancient and Modern

    by Mark Shiffman, Ralph C. Hancock, Phillip Cary, Elizabeth A. Murray, Matthew B. O'Brien, Sherif Girgis, Christopher O. Tollefsen, Amy Gilbert Richards, V. Bradley Lewis, Daniel Mark, James Greenaway0, Jeremy D. Wilkins1, David Walsh3, Steven F. McGuire4, Lee Trepanier6, Richard Velkley7 ...
    In Subjectivity, sixteen leading scholars examine the turn to the subject in modern philosophy and consider its historical antecedents in ancient and medieval thought. Some critics of modernity reject the turn to the subject as a specifically modern error, arguing that it logically leads to nihilism and moral relativism by divorcing the human mind from objective reality. Yet, some important ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Concepts of Nature

    Ancient and Modern

    by Barry Cooper, Melissa Moschella, Jeremy Seth Geddert, Jesse Covington, James R. Stoner Jr., Christopher O. Tollefsen, Susan Meld Shell, Geoffrey M. Vaughan, Charles T. Rubin, Amy Gilbert Richards, Anna Bonta Moreland, Randall S. Rosenberg, Gregory R. Beabout, Thomas W. Smith, Glenn Hughes, Stephen M. Fields ...
    If natural law arguments struggle to gain traction in contemporary moral and political discourse, could it be because we moderns do not share the understanding of nature on which that language was developed? Building on the work of important thinkers of the last half-century, including Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, John Finnis, and Bernard Lonergan, the essays in Concepts of Nature compare and ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

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  • Hegel and Modern Society

    by Charles Taylor ...
    Series series Cambridge Philosophy Classics
    This rich study explores the elements of Hegel's social and political thought that are most relevant to our society today. Combating the prevailing post-World War II stereotype of Hegel as a proto-fascist, Charles Taylor argues that Hegel aimed not to deny the rights of individuality but to synthesise them with the intrinsic good of community membership. Hegel's goal of a society of free ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Hegel and the Infinite

    Religion, Politics, and Dialectic

    Edited by Slavoj Žižek, Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    Catherine Malabou, Antonio Negri, John D. Caputo, Bruno Bosteels, Mark C. Taylor, and Slavoj Zizek join seven others—including William Desmond, Katrin Pahl, Adrian Johnston, Edith Wyschogrod, and Thomas A. Lewis—to apply Hegel's thought to twenty-first-century philosophy, politics, and religion. Doing away with claims that the evolution of thought and history is at an end, these thinkers safeguard ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Jargon of Authenticity

    by Theodor Adorno ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Theodor Adorno was no stranger to controversy. In The Jargon of Authenticity he gives full expression to his hostility to the language employed by certain existentialist thinkers such as Martin Heidegger. With his customary alertness to the uses and abuses of language, he calls into question the jargon, or 'aura', as his colleague Walter Benjamin described it, which clouded existentialists' ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Most Sublime Hysteric

    Hegel with Lacan

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    What do we know about Hegel? What do we know about Marx? What do we know about democracy and totalitarianism? Communism and psychoanalysis? What do we know that isn't a platitude that we've heard a thousand times - or a self-satisfied certainty? Through his brilliant reading of Hegel, Slavoj Zizek - one of the most provocative and widely-read thinkers of our time - upends our traditional ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • A Companion to Hegel

    Edited by Stephen Houlgate, Michael Baur ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to Philosophy
    This companion provides original, scholarly, and cutting-edge essays that cover the whole range of Hegel’s mature thought and his lasting influence.A comprehensive guide to one of the most important modern philosophersEssays are written in an accessible manner and draw on the most up-to-date Hegel researchContributions are drawn from across the world and from a wide variety of philosophical ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Giorgio Agamben

    A Critical Introduction

    by Leland de la Durantaye ...
    Giorgio Agamben is a philosopher well known for his brilliance and erudition, as well as for the difficulty and diversity of his seventeen books. The interest which his Homo Sacer sparked in America is likely to continue to grow for a great many years to come. Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction presents the complexity and continuity of Agamben's philosophy—and does so for two separate and ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD