Social and Political Philosophy
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Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion – Second Edition
This book develops a sophisticated account of propaganda and its intriguing history. It begins with a brief overview of Western propaganda, including Ancient Greek theories…
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The Morality of War – Second Edition
The first edition of The Morality of War was one of the most widely-read and successful books ever written on the topic. In this second…
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Globalization and International Development
This new anthology offers a wide selection of readings addressing the contemporary moral issues that arise from the division between the Global North and South—“the…
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A Letter Concerning Toleration
Locke argued that religious belief ought to be compatible with reason, that no king, prince or magistrate rules legitimately without the consent of the people,…
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Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
This is a new critical edition of Berkeley’s 1734 (third edition, first 1713) Three Dialogues, a text that is deservedly one of the most challenging…
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Sexual Harassment
Sexual Harassment: An Introduction to the Conceptual and Ethical Issues covers the most important normative, conceptual, and legal issues associated with sexual harassment. Keith Dromm…
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Three Guineas
In Three Guineas, first published in June, 1938 (as the threat of war between Britain and Nazi Germany was looming larger day by day) Virginia…
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The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought: Essential Readings
This volume features a careful selection of major works in political and social philosophy from ancient times through to the present. Every reading has been…
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Readings in Political Philosophy
This anthology surveys important issues in Western political philosophy from Plato to the present day. Its aim is to show both the continuity and the…
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The Immorality of Punishment
In The Immorality of Punishment Michael Zimmerman argues forcefully that not only our current practice but indeed any practice of legal punishment is deeply morally…
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Rights of Man
Advocating equality, meritocracy, and social responsibility in plain language, Thomas Paine galvanized tens of thousands of readers and changed the framework of political discourse with…
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Leviathan – Revised Edition
Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan is the greatest work of political philosophy in English and the first great work of philosophy in English. Beginning with premises that…
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Leviathan, Parts I and II – Revised Edition
Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan is the greatest work of political philosophy in English and the first great work of philosophy in English. Beginning with premises that…
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Utopia
This volume includes the full text of More’s 1516 classic, Utopia, together with a wide range of background contextual materials. For this edition the G.C.…
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Nonviolence, Peace, and Justice
This book takes a philosophical approach to questions concerning violence, war, and justice in human affairs. It offers the reader a broad introduction to underlying…
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Contemporary Feminist Theory and Activism
In this book, Wendy Lynne Lee sets out to demonstrate how feminist theorizing is relevant to issues that may seem less directly about the status…
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The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought – Volume 2: The Twentieth Century and Beyond
The second volume of this comprehensive anthology covers the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The anthology is broad ranging both in its selection of material…
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The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought – Volume 1: From Plato to Nietzsche
This comprehensive volume contains much of the important work in political and social philosophy from ancient times until the end of the nineteenth century. The…
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Moral Issues in Global Perspective – Volume 2: Human Diversity and Equality – Second Edition
Now available in three thematic volumes, the second edition of Moral Issues in Global Perspective is a collection of the newest and best articles on…
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Moral Issues in Global Perspective – Volume 1: Moral and Political Theory – Second Edition
Now available in three thematic volumes, the second edition of Moral Issues in Global Perspective is a collection of the newest and best articles on…
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Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, first published in 1785, is still one of the most widely read and influential works of moral philosophy.…
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The Communist Manifesto
L.M. Findlay’s elegant new translation is a work of textual and historical scholarship. Few books have had as much of an impact on modern history…
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Common Sense
When Common Sense was published in January 1776, it sold, by some estimates, a stunning 150,000 copies in the colonies. What exactly made this pamphlet…
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Lessons of Kosovo
International law makes it explicit that states shall not intervene militarily of otherwise in the affairs of other states; it is a central principle of…