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  • Community

    A Sociological Study, Being an Attempt to Set Out Native & Fundamental Laws

    by Robert M MacIver ...
    First Published in 1970. Written before the term sociology was in use, this book has two main principles. One concerns the conception of what a state is and what its relation is to the other organizations that enter into the structure or framework of all society. The second major principle is that individualization and socialization are intimately interdependent. that a developed society ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Community, A Sociological Study

    Being an Attempt to Set Out the Nature and Fundamental Laws of Social Life

    by Robert M. MacIver ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1917, this work seeks to be an introduction to the concept of community, the term which best expresses the object which social science as such endeavours to study; it is in community, the common life, that the interests represented by the specific social sciences are bound together, made integral, and thus amenable to a more comprehensive science. Community, A Sociological Study ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

  • Politics and Society

    Edited by Robert MacIver ...
    This carefully selected and integrated series of discourses on the central issues of political life presents Robert M. MacIver's views on ethics and politics, society and the state, government and political change, war and peace, and the conditions of a viable international order. It is both a key to the astonishing scope and versatility of MacIver's mind and a major contribution to political ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Prevention and Control of Delinquency

    Edited by Robert MacIver ...
    In this important classic work, one of America's foremost social scientists introduces a significant approach to the causation of delinquency and advances an all-inclusive strategy for coping with a national problem of continuing concern. MacIver shows that delinquency is caused by a complex and bewildering interplay of many factors and is not susceptible to simplistic explanations and solutions. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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  • Ethics

    The Essential Writings

    by Gordon Marino ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    In Ethics: The Essential Writings,** philosopher Gordon Marino skillfully presents an accessible, provocative anthology of both ancient and modern classics on matters moral. The philosophers represent 2,500 years of thought—from Plato, Kant, and Nietzsche to Alasdair MacIntyre, Susan Wolf, and Peter Singer—and cover a broad range of topics, from the timeless questions of justice, morality, and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics

    A Short Introduction to Ethics

    by Simon Blackburn ...
    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 ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • What Is History?

    and Other Essays

    by Michael Oakeshott ...
    Series Book 2 - Michael Oakeshott Selected Writings
    This highly readable new collection of thirty pieces by Michael Oakeshott, almost all of which are previously unpublished, covers every decade of his intellectual career, and adds significantly to his contributions to the philosophy of historical understanding and political philosophy, as well as to the philosophy of education and aesthetics. The essays were intended mostly for lectures or ... Read more

    $35.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Early Writings

    by Karl Marx ...
    Written in 1833-4, when Marx was barely twenty-five, this astonishingly rich body of works formed the cornerstone for his later political philosophy. In the Critique of Hegel's Doctrine of the State, he dissects Hegel's thought and develops his own views on civil society, while his Letters reveal a furious intellect struggling to develop the egalitarian theory of state. Equally challenging are his ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes - Volume 1

    Plato, Rousseau, Smith, Kant, Hegel

    by Walther Ziegler ...
    Series Book 1 - Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes
    "Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes Volume 1" comprises the five books, already published as separate volumes, "Plato in 60 Minutes", "Rousseau in 60 Minutes", "Smith in 60 Minutes", "Kant in 60 Minutes", and "Hegel in 60 Minutes". Each short study sums up the key idea at the heart of each respective thinker and asks the question: "Of what use is this key idea to us today?" But above all the ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret Societies

    by Georg Simmel ...
    "That we shall know with whom we have to do, is the first precondition of having anything to do with another. The customary reciprocal presentation, in the case of any somewhat protracted conversation, or in the case of contact upon the same social plane, although at first sight an empty form, is an excellent symbol of that reciprocal apprehension which is the presumption of every social ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings

    by Emile Durkheim ...
    This 1972 book is a collection of Durkheim's writings drawing upon the whole body of his work. Dr Giddens takes his selections from a wide variety of sources and includes a number of items from untranslated writings in the Revue Philosophique, Annee Sociologique and from L'evolution pedagogue en France. Selections from previously translated writings have been checked against the originals and ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • Made with Words

    Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics

    by Philip Pettit ...
    Hobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. But this work is of immense interest in itself, as Philip Pettit shows in Made with Words, and it critically shapes Hobbes's political philosophy.Pettit argues that it was Hobbes, not later thinkers like Rousseau, who invented ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD