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After the Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings
By Karl Popper
Edited by Piers Norris Turner, Jeremy Shearmur
In this long-awaited volume, Jeremy Shearmur and Piers Norris Turner bring to light Popper's most important unpublished and uncollected writings from the time of The Open Society until his death in 1994.After The Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings reveals the development of...
August 2011 | 978-0-415-61023-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Nature, Liberty and Dystopia: On the Moral Significance of Nature for Human Freedom
By Piers H.G. Stephens
This new fascinating study is grounded in the history of modern political ideas to illuminate how nature may be regarded as a touchstone of liberty in political thought. Piers Stephens skilfully argues that the genre of utopias and dystopias is the key modern example of...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-38506-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Mill's Radical Liberalism: An Essay in Retrieval
By Jonathan Riley
In this major reinterpretation and contemporary defence of Mill's political philosophy, Riley offers a new reading of Mill's radical doctrine that is quite distinct from the prevalent and vague understanding of the term 'liberalism'. Based on the argument of On Liberty, the book begins by...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-18909-5 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Multiculturalism: A Critical Introduction
By Michael Murphy
June 2011 | 978-0-415-26043-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Time and Justice: History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence
By Berber Bevernage
Modern historiography embraces the notion that time is irreversible, implying that the past should be imagined as something ‘absent’ or ‘distant.’ Victims of historical injustice, however, in contrast, often claim that the past got ‘stuck’ in the present and that it retains a haunting presence....
June 2011 | 978-0-415-88340-5 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Legal Theology: Law, Modernity and the Sacred
By Peter Fitzpatrick
Legal Theology provides a genealogy of modern law as a secular theology, calling into question the received ideas that modern law is radically different from its religious antecedents, and that modernity involved a repudiation of theological concepts. Peter Fitzpatrick charts the lineage...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-56015-3 | Paperback (Routledge-Cavendish)
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Autonomy and Identity: The Politics of Who We Are
By Ros Hague
There has been much academic scholarship on autonomy and on identity in both political theory and feminist theory, however there is arguably less theory that considers these topics together. This book examines issues raised by feminist theory and contemporary political theory around questions of...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-58468-5 | Hardback (Routledge)