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Acton, H. B., editor The Philosophy of Punishment: A Collection of Papers (Macmillan Student Editions)
London Macmillan 1969 First British Paperback Good Octavo
238 pp. General and edgewear to illustrated covers. Faint traces of a stain to upper and fore-edges. Foxing and smudges to edges of text block. Occasional light, tidy pencilled underlining to pages. Contributors include H.B. Acton, K.G. Armstrong, K.E. Baier, Giorgio del Vecchio, James F. Doyle, Antony Flew, William Kneale, J.D. Mabbott, C.W.K. Mundle, Anthony M. Quinton, John Rawls, Alwynne Smart, and J.E.R. Squires.
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Agamben, Giorgio State of Exception
Chicago University of Chicago Press 2005 0226009254 / 9780226009254 Reissue Paperback Near Fine Small Octavo
95 pp. Corners a little curled. All else as new. References. Index. "Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of that it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorized the indefinite detention of noncitizens suspected of terrorist activities and their subsequent trials by a military commission. Here, the distinguished Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben uses such circumstances to argue that this unusual extension of power, or 'state of exception,' has historically been an under-examined and powerful strategy that has the potential to transform democracies into totalitarian states."
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Beiner, Ronald. Foreword by Bernard Crick Political Judgment
London Methuen 1983 0416342809 / 9780416342802 First Paperback Very Good Octavo
xvi, 199 pp. Extremely light general and edgewear to covers. Small splotch to lower edge of text block. Internally as new. "...examines Kant's concept of taste and Aristotle's concept of prudence, as well as recent works of political philosophy by Arendt, Gadamer and Habermas, all crucially influenced by Kant and Aristotle.... By demonstrating that political judgment can be shared by all, a way is opened for us to reclaim the privilege of civic responsibility that has been prized away by the technocrats and bureaucrats on grounds of specialized competence."
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Blunden, Andy Beyond Betrayal: Marxism: The Cutting Edge, Volume I
Australia Intervention Press 1991 0646063677 / 9780646063676 First Paperback Very Good Octavo
v, 263 pp. Contents: Historical Materialism; Political Economy; Dialectical Materialsim; Democratic Centralism; The Transitional Program; Imperialism & Permanent Revolution; Stalinism; The Rise & Fall of "People's Democracy"; the Collapse of Stalinism; Marginalisation of Revolutionary Organisations. Appendices: Bibliography; Chronology; Preface to Contribution to Critique of Political Economy, Marx 1859; Excerpt from "Left-Wing" Communism -- An Infantile Disorder, Lenin 1920. Index. The first of three volumes which together present an outline of the Marxism of the present period.
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Butler, Judith Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
London and New York Verso 2004 1844670058 / 9781844670055 First Hard Cover Fine Very Good Small Octavo
xxi, 168 pp. Very light general and edgewear to unclipped dustjacket. All else as new. Notes, Index. A response to September 11 and its aftermath. "If we are interested in arresting cycles of violence to produce less violent outcomes, it is no doubt important to ask what, politically, might be made of grief besides a cry for war."
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Catlin, George A History of the Political Philosophers
London George Allen and Unwin 1950 First British Edition Cloth Good No Jacket Octavo
802 pp. Internally clean and solidly bound, a handful of pages have neat ink underlining and occasional marginal lines. Endpapers very slightly foxed, front endpapers beginning to split. Boards rubbed but sound, gilt on spine has almost completely worn away, cloth fraying at corners. Black-and-white plates -- portraits of the philosophers. Index.
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D'Entreves, A.P. Natural Law: An Historical Survey
New York Harper & Row 1965 Reprint Paperback Good Octavo
126 pp + 10 pp publisher's catalog. General and edgewear to covers. Prev. owner's stamped details to first page have been roughly whited out. Very occasional lightly pencilled underlining, otherwise internally clean and solidly bound. "...where Dr. d'Entreves will be most useful to the average student is in his setting of Natural law in the concrete circumstances of its development."
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Duverger, Maurice The Idea of Politics: The Uses of Power in Society
London Methuen 1966 First English Language Hard Cover Good No Jacket Octavo
238 pp. Light general and edgewear to boards. Library sticker residue to front cover. Library stamps to edges of text block. Internally, library impedimenta restricted to endpapers and title page. Text is clean, bright, unmarked. Book is solidly bound. "In the 18th century it was easy to write an introduction to politics. Today it is easy in the Soviet Union. However, in western Europe in the year 1964 it is a very difficult task, because here and now there is no generally accepted overall theory of politics such as existed in the 18th century or exists today in the Communist world. Any attempot to write one must therefore be based on a personal approach." -- from the Foreword
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Fitzgerald, Ross, editor What it means to be human: Essays in Philosophical Anthropology, Political Philosophy and Social Psychology
Sydney Pergamon Press 1978 0080233554 / 9780080233550 First Paperback Paperback Good Octavo
251 pp. Considerable general and edgewear to illustrated wraps, mostly rubbing. Browning to edges of text block, some scuffing to lower edge. Spine uncreased, but long crease to front cover. Heavy brown card "endpapers", duplicated, so contents are well protected, and are indeed unmarked, bright and solidly bound. Essays (individually untitled) by M. Brewster Smith, John O'Neill, Ross Fitzgerald, James C. Davies, David E. Cooper, Hiram Caton, Christian Bay, Richard Gelwick, Roger Poole, David Holbrook, Fay Zwicky, H. J. McCloskey, Xavier Herbert.
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Fletcher, Roger Revisionism and Empire: Socialist Imperialism in Germany, 1897-1914
London George Allen & Unwin 1984 0049430319 / 9780049430310 First Hard Cover Near Fine Very Good Octavo
223 pp. Extremely light edgewear to unclipped dustjacket. A little scuffing to edges of text block. Internally as new. Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index. "This is the first serious study of revisionism as a movement and the only study of right-wing German socialist foreign policy views in the Wilhelmine era. While revealing the central importance of the previously neglected Bloch, and his journal in Wilhelmine Social Democracy, it also sheds fresh light on the thought of Bernstein and his role in classical German Social Democracy. The result of extensive research in Germany and Austria, it is based on a solid grasp of the secondary literature as well as a thorough mastery of all the relevant primary sources."
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Gardiner, Patrick, editor Theories of History
New York and London The Free Press / Collier Macmillan Later Printing Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket Octavo
ix, 549 pp. Black boards are clean and square. A few splotches to fore-edge of text block. Prev. owner's name inked to ffep. Internally unmarked and solidly bound. Readings from classical and contemporary sources.
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Green, Philip Retrieving Democracy: In Search of Civic Equality
London Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1985 041639860X / 9780416398601 First British Hard Cover Near Fine Very Good Octavo
278 pp. Light general and edgewear to unclipped dustjacket. A little scuffing to edges of text block. Internally unmarked; solidly bound. "An outstanding work in democratic theory... What Joseph Schumpeter did for liberal democracy, Philip Green has done for radical democracy. Green's interpretation of democratic equality provides the essential guidelines, both in theory and in practice, for the transformation of society fromn a pseudo-democracy to a genuine one." -- Peter Bachrach
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Jacobson, Norman Pride and Solace: The Functions and Limits of Political Theory
Berkeley and Los Angeles University of California Press 1978 0520034384 / 9780520034389 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Octavo
xv, 166 pp. Very light general and edgewear to unclipped dustjacket. A little foxing to reverse of dj. Faint dust foxing to upper edge of text block. A little yellowing/offsetting to eps. Internally unmarked; solidly bound. "Despite fresh attempts at a political theory without solace by such writers as Orwell, Arendt, and Camus, theorists still flourish who profess a dogmatic faith in History or in The Revolution."
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Judt, Tony, with Timothy Snyder Thinking the Twenthieth Century
London William Heinemann / Random House 2012 0434017426 / 9780434017423 First British Hard Cover Near Fine Very Good Octavo
414 pp. Light wear to upper edges of unclipped dustjacket. Some tanning to edges of text block. All else as new. Works Discussed; Index. "The 20th century comes to life as an age of ideas -- a time when, for good for for ill, the thoughts of the few reigned over the lives of the many. Judt presents the triumphs and the failures of prominent intellectuals, adeptly explaining both their ideas and the risks of their political commitments."
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Krygier, Martin Civil Passions : Selected Essays
Melbourne Schwartz Black Inc. 2005 0975076981 / 9780975076989 Paperback Good + Remainder Octavo
xiii, 303 pp. Light general and edgewear to illustrated covers. Spine uncreased. Tanning to edges of text block; rem mark to lower edge. Internally unmarked and solidly bound.
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