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Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington: Understanding Political Doublespeak Through Philosophy and Jokes
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Include books by the same authorThe Soul of Man under Socialism
Oscar Wilde · 65 pages
A Man Without a Country
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 146 pages
***A Man Without a Country*** is Kurt Vonnegut’s hilariously funny and razor-sharp look at life ("If I die—God forbid—I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge up there, ‘Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?"), art ("To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it."), politics ("I asked former Yankees pitcher Jim Bouton wha
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
David Foster Wallace · 343 pages
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult-video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of a vicious presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or conf
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen · 350 pages
Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia
John N. Gray · 256 pages
Utopian ideologies of the last century rejected traditional faiths and claimed to be based in science. They were actually secular versions of the myth of Apocalypse - the belief in a world-changing event that brings history, with all its conflicts, to an end. This text argues that the death of Utopia does not mean peace.
Moral Man and Immoral Society: Study in Ethics and Politics
Reinhold Niebuhr · 284 pages
"Moral Man and Immoral Society is Reinhold Niebuhr's important early study in ethics and politics. Forthright and realistic, it discusses the inevitability of social conflict, the brutal behavior of human collectives of every sort, the inability of rationalists and social scientists to even imagine the realities of collective power, and, ultimately, how individual morality can overcome social immo
Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism
Slavoj Zizek · 264 pages
In Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj Zizek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how by drawing on the ideas of communism, we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism. There is obviously trouble in the global capitalist paradise. But why do we find it so difficult to imagine a way out of the crisis we're in? It is as if the trouble feeds on itself: the march of capitalism
Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?
Judith Butler · 208 pages
"Frames of War begins where Butler's Precarious Lives left off: on the idea that we cannot grieve for those lost lives that we never saw as lives to begin with. In this age of CNN-mediated war, the lives of those wretched populations of the earth -- the refugees; the victims of unjust imprisonment and torture; the immigrants virtually enslaved by their starvation and legal disenfranchisement -- ar
The Politics of Obedience and Etienne de La Boetie: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
Etienne de La Boetie, Paul Bonnefon · 150 pages
Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
David Miller · 147 pages
This short text introduces readers to the concepts of political philosophy. It starts by explaining why the subject is important and how it tackles basic ethical questions such as, 'how should we live together in society?'.
Why Not Socialism?
Gerald A. Cohen · 96 pages
Is socialism desirable? Is it even possible? In this concise book, one of the world's leading political philosophers presents with clarity and wit a compelling moral case for socialism and argues that the obstacles in its way are exaggerated. There are times, G. A. Cohen notes, when we all behave like socialists. On a camping trip, for example, campers wouldn't dream of charging each other to use
Contemporary Political Philosophy
Will Kymlicka · 336 pages
"This new edition of Will Kymlicka's best selling critical introduction to contemporary political theory has been fully revised to include many of the most significant developments in Anglo-American political philosophy in the last 11 years, particularly the new debates on political liberalism, deliberative democracy, civic republicanism, nationalism, and cultural pluralism." "The book now include
The Prince & The Art of War
Oliver Francis, Niccolo Machiavelli · 360 pages
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft · 207 pages
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
Michael J. Sandel · 320 pages
Michael Sandel offers a searching, lyrical exploration of the meaning of justice that considers familiar controversies such as affirmative action, same-sex marriage, physician-assisted suicide, abortion, national service, patriotism and dissent, and the moral limits of markets in fresh and illuminating ways.
The Human Condition
Hannah Arendt · 340 pages
A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable. The problems Arendt identified then--diminishing human agency and political freedom, the paradox th
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
Giorgio Agamben · 199 pages
Resistance, Rebellion and Death: Essays
Albert Camus · 271 pages
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