Society For Philosophy Culture: 30 books
The Autonomy of Reason
A Commentary on Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
The Autonomy of Reason reflects Wolff’s determination to get out of Kant’s system what is good and to get out of Kant’s system for good. Readers will certainly benefit from Wolff’s two decades of intense study of Kant. Wolff does not see his task as one of either historical exegesis or philosophical...
A Credo for Progressives
Essays on Political Theory and Practical Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
For fifty-five years, Robert Paul Wolff has been reflecting on the theory of modern political society and engaging actively in a number of progressive political movements, including the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the protest against the Viet Nam War, and the world-wide effort to end the apartheid...
From Each According To His Ability
Essays on Karl Marx and Classical Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
For thirty-five years, Robert Paul Wolff has been carrying on a deep study of the tradition of social and economic theory that started with the French Physiocrats and Adam Smith and was brought to its highest point of development by Karl Marx. Wolff is unique among students of the thought of Marx...
The International Political Economy of Risk
Rationalism, Calculation, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
The discipline of international political economy faces a number of critical challenges at present, as it seeks to incorporate a number of relatively new issues, one of these being "risk". This captivating and enlightening study redresses the neglect of "risk" in this field by...
Human Beings and Freedom
An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
Human Beings and Freedom: An Interdisciplinary Perspective focuses on some contemporary issues relating to freedom, equality, identity and resistance from various perspectives, such as psychological, social, political, and metaphysical. In doing so it addresses topics such as the nature of human...
Moneybags Must Be So Lucky
On the Literary Structure of Capital
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Karl Marx’s great work, Capital, has intrigued and puzzled readers for more than a century by its mystifyingly intricate arguments and dramatic literary embellishments. In this book, Robert Paul Wolff dispels much of the mystery surrounding Capital by providing a literary-philosophical analysis...
State and Class
A Sociology of International Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
International affairs are most commonly explained in terms of the flow of diplomatic traffic and the wealth-springs of foreign policy. This study complements the conventional debates with one cast in terms of an emerging world society.
The fundamental social structures found there, of both...
Human Behaviour and World Politics
A Transdisciplinary Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2013
The contemporary academic study of world politics is a very diverse one This book is particularly concerned with that considerable part of it which in a loose sense represents the ‘behaviouralist’ school - the fashion of analysis that flowered in the 1950s and 1960s, principally in the United...
Toward an Organismic Subjectivity
Affect, Relation, Entanglement
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
The motivating ambition of this project is the endeavour to think the subject anthropo-eccentrically, to free it of its conscious-agential overtones and to foreground instead the active organism in all its ecologically entangled, metabolically perspectival glory. In other words, where the philosophical...
by Robert Paul Wolff
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
A delightful journey that takes the author from his second year of life to his seventy-fourth. Along the way, Wolff gives us an inside look at Harvard, the University of Chicago, Columbia, the University of Massachusetts, and a variety of other institutions of higher learning in the United...
Understanding Marx
A Reconstruction and Critique of Capital
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
This book explains the development of the classical theory of value from Adam Smith to Karl Marx in a form readily accessible to readers unfamiliar with anything more than elementary arithmetic, while at the same time offering to the specialist a fundamental criticism of Marxian political economy...
by John Eyles
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Senses of Place is an intriguing monograph which identifies different types of sense of place in a small market town in England. Its author -John Eyles - draws on the fields of community studies and humanistic geography for his conceptual framework. In their vein, his opening chapter is autobiographical...
World Politics
Rationalism and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
This book provides an overview of the entire discipline of world affairs in a way that makes immediate sense. It is also a critique of the limits that rationalism sets on how we know world affairs, showing how we might transcend these limits by augmenting rationalist research with non-rationalist...
by Ralph Pettman
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
This collection of essays explores in general terms the nature of the moral claims common in global politics and the phenomenon of partisan cosmopolitanism in particular. Detailed discussions are presented of the attempts to rescue a single body of human ideals from the multitude of systems that presently...