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by Craig Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Democracy is killing the West. That is the stunning conclusion of this book that tears apart the consensus underpinning modern political assumptions.Democracy is held to solve one of the oldest puzzles of human social life: how do we ensure that our rulers have a legitimate mandate and rule in the interests...
Earthy Realism
The Meaning of Gaia
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
GAIA, named after the ancient Greek mother-goddess, is the notion that the Earth and the life on it form an active, self-maintaining whole. By its use of personification it attacks the view that the physical world is inert and lifeless. It has a scientific side, as shown by the new university departments...
In Defence of Modernity
Vision and Philosophy in Michael Oakeshott
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Although Oakeshott's philosophy has received considerable attention, the vision which underlies it has been almost completely ignored. This vision, which is rooted in the intellectual debates of his epoch, cements his ideas into a coherent whole and provides a compelling defence of modernity.The main...
Britain in a Global World
Options for a New Beginning
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
This edited collection explores the future options for the UK regarding its relationship with the European Union (EU). Since Britain applied for membership in 1961, the nature of the relationship between the UK and the EU has been central to economic and political debate, being widely perceived as ‘inevitable’,...
Moored to the Continent
Future Options for Britain and the EU
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Is there an alternative to EU membership? What if Britain left the EU? Would it be a disastrous or liberating experience? What trade relationships could the UK forge outside the EU? How would economic and social policy be different? What are the implications for sovereignty and democracy?This text seeks...
Knowledge Monopolies
The Academisation of Society
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Historians and sociologists chart the consequences of the expansion of knowledge; philosophers of science examine the causes. This book bridges the gap. The focus is on 'academisation' - the paradox whereby, as the general public becomes better educated to live and work with knowledge, the 'academy'...
In the Name of the People
Pseudo-Democracy and the Spoiling of Our World
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Are our 'democracies' truly democratic? In the Name of the People examines the myth of modern democracy and finds it wanting. The various oligarchies of the world blame the madness of modern life on the greed and stupidity of ordinary people: this book argues that, on the contrary, elites indulge a limitless...
Your Brain's Politics
How the Science of Mind Explains the Political Divide
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
At first glance, issues like economic inequality, healthcare, climate change, and abortion seem unrelated. However, when thinking and talking about them, people reliably fall into two camps: conservative and liberal. What explains this divide? Why do conservatives and liberals hold the positions they...
The Scottish Political System Since Devolution
From New Politics to the New Scottish Government
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
This book presents a narrative of Scottish politics since devolution in 1999. It compares eight years of coalition government under Scottish Labour and the Scottish Liberal Democrats with four years of Scottish National Party minority government.It outlines the relative effect of each government on...
Anxious to do Good
Learning to be an Economist the Hard Way
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
After nearly three and a half -- rather too exciting -- years as a young war-time sailor, Alan Peacock expected to return to a life of quiet contemplation. Instead he became an activist economist frequently engaged in controversies about the conduct of economic policy lasting all his professional...
How Universities Can Help Create a Wiser World
The Urgent Need for an Academic Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
In order to make progress towards a better world we need to learn how to do it. And for that we need institutions of learning rationally designed and devoted to helping us solve our global problems, make progress towards a better world. It is just this that we lack at present. Our universities pursue...
Faking the News
What Rhetoric Can Teach Us About Donald J. Trump
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Donald J. Trump’s speaking and writing invite passionate reactions — maybe he’s a bluecollar, billionaire hero who speaks the language of the common man or maybe he’s a gleefully illiterate, tremendously unqualified idiot. Whatever the case, he was persuasive enough to get himself elected...
by Mark Garnett
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
This book shows the importance of political ideas in policy-making and demonstrates the extent to which pragmatic considerations preclude the imposition of rigid ideological programmes. It charts the decline of the postwar British 'consensus', the changing face of both the Conservative and Labour parties...
The Certainty of Uncertainty
Dialogues Introducing Constructivism
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Nothing that can be said is independent of us. Whatever can be said is coloured by our dreams and aspirations, by the way our brain works, by human nature and human culture. Whoever claims to know or to observe is - according to the central constructivist assumption - inescapably biased.This book presents...