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Author: Phillip Birger Hansen
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Published: 2015
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ISBN-13: 9781442630604
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This manuscript seeks to provide a fresh and comprehensive re-interpretation of the ideas of the world-renowned Canadian Political theorist, C.B. Macpherson."--
Author: Peter Lindsay
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1996-08-08
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780791430569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConstructs a cohesive picture of political theorist C. B. Macpherson's democratic vision, arguing that Macpherson's central message regarding the economic prerequisites of democracy is just as relevant today as when he first presented it.
Author: Robert Meynell
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2011-05-18
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0773586636
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwentieth-century Canada fostered a range of great minds, but the country's diversity and wide range of academic fields have led to their ideas being portrayed as the work of isolated thinkers. Canadian Idealism and the Philosophy of Freedom contests this assumption by linking the works of C.B. Macpherson, George Grant, and Charles Taylor to demonstrate the presence of a Canadian intellectual tradition.
Author: Frank Cunningham
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-09-21
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 3319949209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCentral to the thought of C.B. Macpherson (1911-1987) are his critique of the culture of ‘possessive individualism’ and his defence of liberal-democratic socialism. Resurgence of interest in his works is in reaction to the rise of neoliberalism and efforts to find an alternative to societies dominated by capitalist markets. Macpherson’s theories are explained and applied to 21st century challenges.
Author: Crawford Brough Macpherson
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 322
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carol C. Gould
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-08-02
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780521541275
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn her new book Carol Gould addresses the fundamental issue of democratizing globalization, that is to say of finding ways to open transnational institutions and communities to democratic participation by those widely affected by their decisions.The book develops a framework for expanding participation in crossborder decisions, arguing for a broader understanding of human rights and introducing a new role for the ideas of care and solidarity at a distance. Accessibly written with a minimum of technical jargon this is a major new contribution to political philosophy.
Author: Phillip Hansen
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2016-01-28
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 1442630612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKC.B. Macpherson occupies an ambiguous place in contemporary political thought. Though his work is well known, it remains on the margins of current democratic theory. That marginalization, Phillip Hansen argues, comes from our failure to appreciate the underlying philosophical dimension of Macpherson’s work. Identifying and exploring Macpherson’s systematic critique of the liberal claim that the individual is the “proprietor of his own person or capacities, owing nothing to society for them,” Reconsidering C.B. Macpherson highlights his affinities to Herbert Marcuse, Max Horkheimer, and the Frankfurt School. This stimulating reappraisal illustrates the importance of Macpherson’s classic books, including The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism and Democratic Theory, and demonstrates how much his work has to offer to the future of political and social thought.
Author: Mark Neocleous
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2021-01-12
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 178873520X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPutting police power into the centre of the picture of capitalism The ubiquitous nature and political attraction of the concept of order has to be understood in conjunction with the idea of police. Since its first publication, this book has been one of the most powerful and wide-ranging critiques of the police power. Neocleous argues for an expanded concept of police, able to account for the range of institutions through which policing takes place. These institutions are concerned not just with the maintenance and reproduction of order, but with its very fabrication, especially the fabrication of a social order founded on wage labour. By situating the police power in relation to both capital and the state and at the heart of the politics of security, the book opens up into an understanding of the ways in which the state administers civil society and fabricates order through law and the ideology of crime. The discretionary violence of the police on the street is thereby connected to the wider administrative powers of the state, and the thud of the truncheon to the dull compulsion of economic relations.
Author: Greg Weiner
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2016-08-12
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0700623493
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Karl Widerquist
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0748678670
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow modern philosophers use and perpetuate myths about prehistoryThe state of nature, the origin of property, the origin of government, the primordial nature of inequality and war why do political philosophers talk so much about the Stone Age? And are they talking about a Stone Age that really happened, or is it just a convenient thought experiment to illustrate their points?Karl Widerquist and Grant S. McCall take a philosophical look at the origin of civilisation, examining political theories to show how claims about prehistory are used. Drawing on the best available evidence from archaeology and anthropology, they show that much of what we think we know about human origins comes from philosophers imagination, not scientific investigation.Key FeaturesShows how modern political theories employ ambiguous factual claims about prehistoryBrings archaeological and anthropological evidence to bear on those claimsTells the story of human origins in a way that reveals many commonly held misconceptions
