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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “johan van der walt”
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  • Law and Sacrifice

    Towards a Post Apartheid Theory of Law

    Edited by Johan Van der Walt ...
    Series series Birkbeck Law Press
    In the wake of apartheid, Law and Sacrifice draws on the uniquely expansive protection of fundamental rights now entrenched in the South African Constitution to outline a new theory of law.The South African Constitution not only protects the rights of people against abuses of power by the state, but also against abuses of power by private legal subjects. Drawing upon the work of contemporary ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Literary Exception and the Rule of Law

    by Johan Van Der Walt ...
    Series series Law and Politics
    Addressing the influential analysis of law and literature, this book offers a new perspective on their relationship. The law and literature movement that has gained global prominence in the course of last decades of the twentieth and the first decades of the twenty-first centuries has provided the research and teaching of law with a considerable body of new and valuable knowledge and understanding ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Concept of Liberal Democratic Law

    by Johan van Der Walt ...
    Series series Law and Politics
    This book develops a historical concept of liberal democratic law through readings of the pivotal twentieth century legal theoretical positions articulated in the work of Herbert Hart, Ronald Dworkin, Duncan Kennedy, Rudolf Smend, Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt.It assesses the jurisprudential projects and positions of these theorists against the background of a long history of European metaphysics ... Read more

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  • Outside Ethics

    by Raymond Geuss ...
    Outside Ethics brings together some of the most important and provocative works by one of the most creative philosophers writing today. Seeking to expand the scope of contemporary moral and political philosophy, Raymond Geuss here presents essays bound by a shared skepticism about a particular way of thinking about what is important in human life--a way of thinking that, in his view, is ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Masses, Classes, Ideas

    Studies on Politics and Philosophy Before and After Marx

    by Etienne Balibar ...
    Translated by James Swenson ...
    In Masses, Classes, Ideas, well-known French philosopher Etienne Balibar explores the relationship between abstract philosophy and concrete politics. The book gathers together for the first time in English nine of Balibar's most influential essays written over the last decade, which have been carefully revised and reordered in logical succession with an original preface.Balibar discusses the ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Sociology of Knowledge

    Toward a Deeper Understanding of the History of Ideas

    Edited by Werner Stark ...
    This volume serves as both an introduction to the field of the sociology of knowledge and an interpretation of the thought of the major figures associated with its development More than a compendium of ideas, Stark seeks here to put order into what he regarded as a diffuse tradition of diverse bodies of thought, in particular the seemingly irreconcilable conflict between the study of the political ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Theory and Practice

    by Jürgen Habermas ...
    Theory and Practice is one of Habermas's major works and is widely recognized as a classic in contemporary and social and political theory.Through a series of highly original historical studies, Habermas re-examines the relations between philosophy, science and politics. Beginning with the classical doctrine of politics as developed by Aristotle, he traces the changing constellation of theory and ... Read more

    $29.00 USD

  • The Decline of Liberalism as an Ideology

    by John H. Hallowell ...
    This early work on liberalism is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains a commentary and analysis of the politics and history of ideological liberalism. This is a fascinating work and thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in political history. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are ... Read more

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  • Marx's Concept of Man

    by Erich Fromm ...
    The social philosopher and New York Times –bestselling author of Escape from Freedom explores how Marx's ideas have been misused and misunderstood.In the Western world, and especially in the United States, Karl Marx is perceived as the spiritual godfather of Lenin and Stalin—someone bent on creating a state where everyone worships a centralized bureaucracy. Social philosopher E... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hegel

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Singer ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Many people regard Hegel's work as obscure and extremely difficult, yet his importance and influence are universally acknowledged. Professor Singer eliminates any excuse for remaining ignorant of the outlines of Hegel's philosophy by providing a broad discussion of his ideas and an account of his major works. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • One-Dimensional Man

    Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

    by Herbert Marcuse ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    One of the most important texts of modern times, Herbert Marcuse's analysis and image of a one-dimensional man in a one-dimensional society has shaped many young radicals' way of seeing and experiencing life. Published in 1964, it fast became an ideological bible for the emergent New Left. As Douglas Kellner notes in his introduction, Marcuse's greatest work was a 'damning indictment of ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Specters of Marx

    The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Translated by Peggy Kamuf ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Published shortly after the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe and the dissolution of the Soviet regime, Specters of Marx is one of Derrida's most interesting and prophetic books. Whilst many in the West heralded the triumph of liberal democracy and “the end of history”, Derrida takes several steps back to argue that whilst Communism may have disappeared in much of the world, the questions posed ... Read more

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