Essays on Freedom of Action (Routledge Revivals)
Essays on Freedom of Action (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Ted Honderich

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-03

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1317516125

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Essays on Freedom of Action, first published in 1973, brings together original papers by contemporary British and American philosophers on questions which have long concerned philosophers and others: the question of whether persons are wholly a part of the natural world and their actions the necessary effects of causal processes, and the question of whether our actions are free, and such that we can be held responsible for them, even if they are the necessary effects of casual processes. This volume will be of interest not only to those who are primarily concerned with philosophy but also to students in those many other disciplines in which freedom and determinism arise as problems.

Liberalisms (Routledge Revivals)
Liberalisms (Routledge Revivals)

Author: John Gray

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1135229821

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Liberalisms, a work first published in 1989, provides a coherent and comprehensive analytical guide to liberal thinking over the past century and considers the dominance of liberal thought in Anglo-American political philosophy over the past 20 years. John Gray assesses the work of all the major liberal political philosophers including J. S. Mill, Herbert Spencer, Karl Popper, F. A Hayek, John Rawls and Robert Nozick, and explores their mutual connections and differences.

Essays on Freedom of Action (Routledge Revivals)
Essays on Freedom of Action (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Ted Honderich

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-03

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1317516133

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Essays on Freedom of Action, first published in 1973, brings together original papers by contemporary British and American philosophers on questions which have long concerned philosophers and others: the question of whether persons are wholly a part of the natural world and their actions the necessary effects of causal processes, and the question of whether our actions are free, and such that we can be held responsible for them, even if they are the necessary effects of casual processes. This volume will be of interest not only to those who are primarily concerned with philosophy but also to students in those many other disciplines in which freedom and determinism arise as problems.

Freedom and Equality (Routledge Revivals)
Freedom and Equality (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Keith Dixon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-01-22

Total Pages: 75

ISBN-13: 1135155941

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Unashamedly polemical, this reissue of Freedom & Equality, first published in 1986, presents a strong and persuasively argued case for democratic socialism. In contrast to many recent books justifying conservatism and varieties of Marxism, Keith Dixon defends the two great principles underpinning democratic socialism – freedom and equality. He aims both to restore the idea of freedom to its proper place in the political vocabulary of the left and to defend a stark version of freedom as absence of constraint. Only this version of freedom, he argues, is consistent with the proper defence of civil liberties. Dixon also defends radical egalitarianism from its critics, who either repudiate its full force or reject it out of hand. He believes that freedom and equality are potentially realizable socialist goals, that democratic socialism is not necessarily linked with fraternalism, and – above all – that it should be based upon a firm and consistent conception of individuality.

John Stuart Mill's Deliberative Landscape (Routledge Revivals)
John Stuart Mill's Deliberative Landscape (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Candace A. Vogler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-05

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 1317206177

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First published in 2001, this book sets out to shed light on traditional controversies in Mill scholarship, underscore the significance of the contribution Mill made to associationist psychology, argue he is not entirely successful in explaining why art matters, and that this failure is linked to a deep tension in his mature work — rooted in his unwillingness to shake off the moral psychology he was raised on. The book examines various episodes and tensions in Mill’s life and work and how they relate to and informed his philosophy — while also giving a critical account of it. This book will be of interest to students of philosophy.

Revival: Human Rights in Philosophy and Practice (2001)
Revival: Human Rights in Philosophy and Practice (2001)

Author: Burton M. Leiser

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-12

Total Pages: 904

ISBN-13: 1351760408

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This title was first published in 2001. The essays in this highly cosmopolitan collection were selected from over 250 contributions presented at the 19th World Congress in Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) held in New York in 1999. They represent a cross-section of contemporary work on human rights derived from eleven different countries.

Radicalism and the Revolt Against Reason (Routledge Revivals)
Radicalism and the Revolt Against Reason (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Irving Louis Horowitz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-09-10

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1135228299

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Radicalism and the Revolt Against Reason is a work that continues to have a steady and large scale impact on political and social theory fifty years since its first appearance. A study of how radical thought modifies its actions and ideologies in a time of unrealized and frustrated expectations, the focus is on Georges Sorel and the Europe of the fin de siècle, a time when socialist revolution was forcefully set aside by liberal reform. In a technique that presaged contemporary period, radical demands did not simply dissolve or disappear, they profoundly changed emphasis from the impersonal forces of history to highly personal forces of individual will. This edition includes a substantial brand new introduction by the author.

A Truer Liberty (Routledge Revivals)
A Truer Liberty (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Laurence A. Blum

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-10-15

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1135232423

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Simone Weil — philosopher, trade union militant, factory worker — developed a penetrating critique of Marxism and a powerful political philosophy which serves an alternative both to liberalism and to Marxism. In A Truer Liberty, originally published in 1989, Blum and Seidler show how Simone Weil’s philosophy sought to place political action on a firmly moral basis. The dignity of the manual worker became the standard for political institutions and movements. Weil criticized Marxism for its confidence in progress and revolution and its attendant illusory belief that history is on the side of the proletariat. Blum and Seidler relate Weil’s work to influential trends in political philosophy today, from analytic Marxism to central traditions within liberal thought. The authors stress the importance of Weil’s work for understanding liberation theology, Catholic radicalism, and, more generally, social movements against oppression which are closely tied to religion and spirituality.

The Observing Self (Routledge Revivals)
The Observing Self (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Graham Good

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-08-01

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 131763778X

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First published in 1988, this title is a study of the essay as a literary genre, not just in terms of its general intellectual and literary history, but as an exploration of the creative possibilities of the form. The rise of the essay is discussed in relation to the rise of the novel and the emergence of empiricism in science, but the main focus of Graham Good’s study is on the inner workings of the essay itself. Drawing on criticism by Adorno and Lukacs, Graham Good presents the genre as an expression of individualism, freed from tradition and authority, in which the self constructs itself and its object through independent observation. Through analysis of the work of such essayists as Montaigne, Bacon, Virginia Wolf, T. S. Eliot and George Orwell, the potential of the genre for independence and individualism is illustrated, and the essay is resituated as an intellectually challenging form of creative and critical writing.