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Ways of Knowing
Science and Mysticism Today
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
The world faces a crisis of meaning. The old stories - whether the exclusive claims of rival religions or the grand schemes of perennial philosophy - seem bankrupt to many. The editorial stance of this book is that mysticism and science offer a way forward here, but only if they abandon the idol of a...
by Graham Long
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Moral relativism is often regarded as both fatally flawed and incompatible with liberalism. This book aims to show why such criticism is misconceived. First, it argues that relativism provides a plausible account of moral justification. Drawing on the contemporary relativist and universalist analyses...
Intimations Pursued
The Voice of Practice in the Conversation of Michael Oakeshott
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
In this book Andrew Sullivan examines Oakeshott's transition from his original emphasis on philosophy as providing what was ultimately satisfactory in experience to his later emphasis on practical life. This satisfaction is best achieved by a fusion of the modes of poetry and practice, leading the...
by Monica Burns
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2017
WARNING: This title contains explicit sex with a hero whose torment equals that of Jane Eyre’s Mr. Rochester and a heroine who has the courage to save his soul, despite the fact that his love could be the death of her.
When Constance Rockwood Athelson, Viscountess Westbury, hides her face...
The Woman Racket
The New Science Explaining How Sexes Relate at Work, at Play and in Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
His first book, The Great Immigration Scandal (2004), blew the whistle on abuses within the Home Office and led to the resignation of the immigration minister, Beverley Hughes. Although attacked at the time by the government and the 'liberal' media for alarmism, Moxon's analysis has now been adopted...
The Landscape of Humanity
Art, Culture and Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
The fourteen essays in this book develop a conception of human culture, which is humane and traditionalist. Focusing particularly on notions of beauty and the aesthetic, it sees within our culture intimations of the transcendent, and in two essays the nature of religion is directly addressed. A number of essays also explore the relation between politics and tradition.
Arthur Balfour's Ghosts
An Edwardian Elite and the Riddle of the Cross-Correspondence Automatic Writings
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
This book tells the incredible story of the cross-correspondence automatic writings, described by one leading scholar of the field, Alan Gauld, 'as undoubtedly the most extensive, the most complex and the most puzzling of all ostensible attempts by deceased persons to manifest purpose, and in so doing...
Citizens of Character
New Directions in Character and Values Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
The contributors discuss why character education is considered valuable, what character education is taken to mean, and identify and test hypotheses about various influences (schools, families, communities, employers) on the development of character through reporting on our research in UK schools, universities and businesses.
The Democratic Theory of Michael Oakeshott
Discourse, Contingency, and 'The Politics of Conversation'
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
his book offers a description, explanation, and evaluation of Michael Oakeshott’s democratic theory. He was not a democratic theorist as such, but as a twentieth-century English political theorist for whom liberal theory held deep importance, his thought often engaged democratic theory implicitly,...
by Joseph Femia
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
The working hypothesis of this book is that the issue of leadership is neglected by mainstream democratic and liberal theories. This deficiency has especially become evident in the last three or four decades, which have witnessed a revival of deontological liberalism and radical theories of participatory...
The Quest for Civil Order
Politics, Rules and Individuality
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Examines four notable thinkers in the field of modern social and political theory, with a view to determining how far it is possible to create and maintain a non-coercive but sustainable political order under conditions of diversity in contemporary Western democracies.
The Case Against a Democratic State
An Essay in Cultural Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
The history of the last two hundred years is a story of the immense and relentless growth of the State at the expense of other social institutions. We are now so familiar and accepting of the State's pre-eminence in all things, that few think to question it, and most suppose that democratic endorsement...
by Kieron O'Hara
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
A lively and sharp critique of the role of the referendum in modern British politics. The 1975 vote on Europe is the lens to focus the subject, and the controversy over the referendum on the European constitution is also clearly in the author’s sights.
by Nick Hewlett
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
After his victory at the Presidential elections in May 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy quickly became both deeply controversial and intriguing. It was clear from the start that his rule was to be the most autocratic since Charles de Gaulle's; Prime Minister, government and parliament found themselves eclipsed...