Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Rousseau and the Social Contract

By Christopher Bertram

Rousseau's Social Contract is a benchmark in political philosophy and has influenced moral and political thought since its publication. Rousseau and the Social Contract introduces...

Published September 4th 2003 by Routledge.

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Rousseau

By Timothy O'Hagan

Timothy O'Hagan investigates Jean-Jacques Rousseau's writings concerning the formation of humanity, of the individual and of the citizen in his three master works: the Discourse...

Published June 5th 2003 by Routledge.

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Debates in Contemporary Political Philosophy

An Anthology

Edited by Derek Matravers, Jonathan Pike

This textbook reflects the buoyant state of contemporary political philosophy, and the development of the subject in the past two decades. It includes seminal papers...

Published December 12th 2002 by Routledge.

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Ignorance and Liberty

By Lorenzo Infantino

Those with a belief in open society base the demand for liberty on the recognition of human ignorance; we need to be free because we...

Published November 28th 2002 by Routledge.

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John Rawls

Critical Assessments of Leading Political Philosophers

Edited by Chandran Kukathas

John Rawls (1921-2002) is, arguably, the most important political philosopher of our time. It is commonly observed that the publication in 1971 of his treatise...

Published October 3rd 2002 by Routledge.

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Civic Republicanism

By Iseult Honohan

This is a valuable critical introduction to one of the most important topics in political philosophy. In this book, Iseult Honohan presents an authoritative and...

Published August 15th 2002 by Routledge.

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The Open Society and its Enemies

The Spell of Plato

By Karl Popper

Written in political exile during the Second World War and first published in 1945, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is one of...

Published July 11th 2002 by Routledge.

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The Political Unconscious

Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act

By Fredric Jameson

‘Every now and then a book appears which is literally ahead of its time ... The Political Unconscious is such a book ... it sets...

Published June 13th 2002 by Routledge.

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The Political Unconscious

Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act

By Fredric Jameson

In this ground-breaking and influential study Fredric Jameson explores the complex place and function of literature within culture. At the time Jameson was actually writing...

Published June 13th 2002 by Routledge.

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Levinas and the Political

By Howard Caygill

Howard Caygill systematically explores for the first time the relationship between Levinas' thought and the political. From Levinas' early writings in the face of National...

Published June 13th 2002 by Routledge.

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