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  • Feminist Moments

    Reading Feminist Texts

    Series series Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.The challenges presented by feminism to traditional understandings of representation, normative values, power relations and the political are not simply the product of late-20th century thinking. Feminist Moments, in examining some of the pivotal texts in the history ... Leer más

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  • Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics

    A Short Introduction to Ethics

    It is not only in our dark hours that scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism dog ethics. Whether it is a matter of giving to charity, or sticking to duty, or insisting on our rights, we can be confused, or be paralysed by the fear that our principles are groundless. Many are afraid that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish and ... Leer más

    $179 MXN

  • Old Books and New Histories

    An Orientation to Studies in Book and Print Culture

    de Leslie Howsam ...
    Studies in the culture and history of the book are a burgeoning academic specialty. Intriguing, rigorous, and vital, they are nevertheless rooted within three major academic disciplines - history, literary studies, and bibliography - that focus respectively upon the book as a cultural transaction, a literary text, and a material artefact. Old Books and New Histories serves as a guide to this rich ... Leer más

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  • What's Wrong with Benevolence

    Happiness, Private Property, and the Limits of Enlightenment

    de David Stove ...
    Is benevolence a virtue? In many cases it appears to be so. But when it comes to the enlarged benevolence” of the Enlightenment, David Stove argues that the answer is clearly no. In this insightful, provocative essay, Stove builds a case for the claim that when benevolence is universal, disinterested and external, it regularly leads to the forced redistribution of wealth, which in turn leads to ... Leer más

    $343 MXN

  • Conscience: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Paul Strohm ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Where does our conscience come from? How reliable is it?In the West conscience has been relied upon for two thousand years as a judgement that distinguishes right from wrong. It has effortlessly moved through every period division and timeline between the ancient, medieval, and modern. The Romans identified it, the early Christians appropriated it, and Reformation Protestants and loyal Catholics ... Leer más

    $137 MXN

  • Power of Reading

    From Socrates to Twitter

    Here is a natural companion to Christopher Booker's bestselling The Seven Basic Plots (Continuum) and John Gross's seminal study The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters (Weidenfeld and Nicolson).The most eminent cultural and social historian Frank Furedi presents an eclectic and entirely original history of reading. The very act of reading and the choice of reading material endow individuals with ... Leer más

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  • Colonial Desire

    Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race

    The language of contemporary cultural theory shows remarkable similarities with the patterns of thought which characterised Victorian racial theory. Far from being marked by a separation from the racialised thinking of the past, Colonial Desire shows we are operating in complicity with historical ways of viewing 'the other', both sexually and racially.Colonial Desire is a controversial and bracing ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature

    Edición de Gregory Claeys ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the publication of Utopia to today's dark and despairing tendency towards dystopian pessimism, epitomised by works such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty ... Leer más

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  • Death of a Discipline

    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "rules" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences. In this new book she declares the death of comparative literature as we know it and sounds an urgent call for a "new comparative ... Leer más

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  • Free Speech: All That Matters

    de Alan Haworth ...
    Series series All That Matters
    What is free speech?; Why does it matter? These are pressing questions. In this book, Alan Haworth outlines and analyses the main arguments philosophers have advanced over the centuries, in an attempt to answer them clearly. He emphasises the strengths but also the weaknesses of those arguments, demonstrating that an understanding of both is essential if one is to to grasp the true nature and ... Leer más

    $170 MXN

  • Conservatism: Ideas in Profile

    de Roger Scruton ...
    Series series Ideas in Profile - small books, big ideas
    Roger Scruton looks at the central ideas of conservatism over the centuries. He examines conservative thinking on civil society, the rule of law and the role of the state on the one hand; and freedom (including freedom of expression and association), morality, equality, property and rights on the other. He traces the origins and development of the conservative ideology in the philosophies and ... Leer más

    $185 MXN

  • The Routledge Concise History of Canadian Literature

    Series series Routledge Concise Histories of Literature
    The Routledge Concise History of Canadian Literature introduces the fiction, poetry and drama of Canada in its historical, political and cultural contexts.In this clear and structured volume, Richard Lane outlines:the history of Canadian literature from colonial times to the presentkey texts for Canadian First Peoples and the literature of Quebecthe impact of English translation, and the Canadian ... Leer más

    $994 MXN