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The Cultural Challenge
A Trilogy by Yannis Andricopoulos
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
A collection of the three volumes by Yannis Andricopoulos on ancient Greek wisdom applied to modern culture and society, including:- Volume 1: In Bed with Madness- Volume 2: The Greek Inheritance- Volume 3: The Future of the PastIn Bed with MadnessGlobalism endowed us with McDonald's, 'the world's...
A Philosopher and Appeasement
R.G. Collingwood and the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
This book is volume one of a two-part series. Taken together, the two volumes of A Philosopher at War examine the political thought of the philosopher and archaeologist, R.G. Collingwood, against the background of the First and Second World Wars. Collingwood served in Admiralty Intelligence during...
by Shaun Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
A long history of inquiry about human nature and the self stretches from the ancient tradition of Socratic self-knowledge in the context of ethical life to contemporary discussions of brain function in cognitive science. It begins with a conflict among the ancients. On one view, which comes to be represented...
by Peter Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
This book is volume one of a two-part series (volumes sold separately). Taken together, the two volumes of A Philosopher at War examine the political thought of the philosopher and archaeologist, R.G. Collingwood, against the background of the First and Second World Wars. Collingwood served in Admiralty...
The Athenian Option
Radical Reform for the House of Lords
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Before New Labour came to power and when even the prospect of reform of Britain's House of Lords was regarded with scepticism, Anthony Barnett and Peter Carty developed the idea of selecting part of a new upper house by lot: creating a jury or juries, that are representative of the population as a...
Paradigm Shift
How Expert Opinions Keep Changing on Life, the Universe, and Everything
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Why do giraffes have long necks? It can't really be for reaching tasty leaves since their main food is ground level bushes, tidy though that explanation would be. And how does relativity theory cope with the fact that the observable universe defies prediction by being far too small and anything but homogeneous?...
Lotteries in Public Life
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Lotteries have been used to make all kinds of public decisions ever since the days of Ancient Greece. They can contribute to some of our most important values, such as rationality, justice, and democracy. But until recently, there was no theory to make sense of lotteries and what they can do. The past...
The Party's Over
Blueprint for a Very English Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Consider the following paradox: As the leaders of both of the main British political parties subscribed to the neoconservative doctrine on Iraq, everybody else in the birthplace of parliamentary democracy was effectively disenfranchised. Yet one of the rationales supporting the deployment of UK forces...
by Shinichi Nagao
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
This volume illustrates the way political and social philosophers of 18th-century Scotland tried to answer the following question: 'What is, and what ought to be, the relationship between the modern market and stable, desirable social order?' The essays belong to the second half of the century and...
by Andreas Rahmatian
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
The judge, jurist and philosopher Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696-1782) was a polymath and one of the principal personalities of the Scottish Enlightenment. As a teacher and mentor of Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, and David Hume to some extent, he published works on law and legal history, moral philosophy,...
by Martin O'Dea
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Beyond the Subjectivity Trap challenges the paradigm of the hard problem of consciousness by contesting the relevance and primacy of human thought. By tracing the evolved egocentricity of the 'I' as an entrapping limitation on our thinking the book argues that once the Subjectivity Trap is understood...
by Alan Trench
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
The State of the Nations 2008: Into the third term of devolution in the United Kingdom is the sixth publication of a major research programme into devolution in the United Kingdom, published on behalf of the Constitution Unit at University College London. The focus of this volume is on the devolved elections...
Premiership
The Development, Nature and Power of the British Prime Minister
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
The office of Prime Minister stands at the apex of the British political system. An undertsanding of this post is essential to all who are -- or aspire to be -- within government, or who observie it from outside.This book combines the methods of history and political science to produce theories of...
The Political Art of Bob Dylan
Revised and Expanded Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Bob Dylan is one of the most significant figures in popular culture. In this book, the authors provide a multi-faceted analysis of his political art. They address Dylan’s career as a whole, dealing with such themes as alienation, protest, non-conformity, the American Dream, modernity and postmodernism...