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1. Children

   Rights and Childhood, 2nd Edition

   By David Archard

   Series: Ideas

   Children: Rights and Childhood is widely regarded as the first book to offer a detailed philosophical examination of children's rights. Drawing on a wide variety of sources from law and literature to politics and psychology, David Archard provides a clear and accessible introduction to a topic that...

   Published September 1st 2004 by Routledge
2. Nation and Identity

   By Ross Poole

   Series: Ideas

   Nation and Identity provides a concise and comprehensive account of the place of national identity in modern life. Ross Poole argues that the nation became a fundamental organising principle of social, political and moral life during the period of early modernity and that is has provided the...

   Published September 1st 1999 by Routledge
3. Getting What You Want?

   A Critique of Liberal Morality

   By Bob Brecher

   Series: Ideas

   Getting What You Want? is the first book which calls for the collapse of liberal morality. Bob Brecher claims that it is wrong to think that morality is simply rooted in what people want. He explains that in our consumerist society, we make the assumption that getting 'what people want' is our...

   Published November 19th 1997 by Routledge
4. Being in Time

   Selves and Narrators in Philosophy and Literature

   By Genevieve Lloyd

   Series: Ideas

   Genevieve Lloyd's book is a provocative and accessible essay on the fragmentation of the self as explored in philosophy and literature. The past is irrevocable, consciousness changes as time passes: given this, can there ever be such a thing as the unity of the self? Being in Time explores the...

   Published September 1st 1993 by Routledge
5. The Man of Reason

   "Male" and "Female" in Western Philosophy, 2nd Edition

   By Genevieve Lloyd

   Series: Ideas

   Published July 28th 1993 by Routledge
6. Children

   Rights and Childhood

   By David Archard

   Series: Ideas

   Whether children have rights is a debate that in recent years has spilled over into all areas of public life. It has never been more topical than now as the assumed rights of parents over their children is challenged on an almost daily basis. David Archard offers the first serious and sustained...

   Published June 9th 1993 by Routledge
7. Morality and Modernity

   By Ross Poole

   Series: Ideas

   Ross Poole displays the social content of the various conceptions of morality at work in contemporary society, and casts a strikingly fresh light on such fundamental problems as the place of reason in ethics, moral objectivity and the distinction between duty and virtue. The book provides a...

   Published June 12th 1991 by Routledge