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  • Robert Wedderburn

    British Insurrectionary, Jamaican Abolitionist

    by Ryan Hanley ...
    Series series Black Lives
    The first-ever biography of the ultra-radical thinker Robert Wedderburn, from his native Jamaica to metropole London, by an award-winning historianRobert Wedderburn (1762–1834/5) was one of the most charismatic, irascible, and radical intellectuals of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Atlantic world. Born to an enslaved woman and a slavemaster in Jamaica, and moving in the radical ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Beyond Slavery and Abolition

    Black British Writing, c.1770–1830

    by Ryan Hanley ...
    The first full-length historical study of pre-abolition black British writing, this book challenges established narratives of eighteenth-century black history that focus almost exclusively on slavery and abolition. Ryan Hanley expands our perspectives to encompass the often neglected but important black writers of the time, and highlights their contribution to politics, culture, and the arts. He ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    Love

    A History (Oxford Philosophical Concepts)

    by Ryan Patrick Hanley ...
    Narrated by Tim Lounibos, Rachel Yong ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 31 min

    Lovers know that love is both vast and intense. This would seem to make it resistant to philosophical or rational analysis. Yet love's vastness and intensity are what carry it into all spheres of our lives—ethical, political, spiritual, physical. As a result, considerations of what it means to love and to be loved, and what is worth loving and worth being, are inextricable from our most deeply ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    Robert Wedderburn

    British Insurrectionary, Jamaican Abolitionist

    by Ryan Hanley ...
    Narrated by Ben Onwukwe ...
    Series series Black Lives

    Unabridged

    7 hours 48 min

    Robert Wedderburn (1762-1834/5) was one of the most charismatic, irascible, and radical intellectuals of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Atlantic world. Born to an enslaved woman and a slavemaster in Jamaica, and moving in the radical working-class circles of London, Wedderburn made his name as a fiery political writer and orator—before dying, forgotten, in poverty.Among the few ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue

    by Ryan Patrick Hanley ...
    Recent years have witnessed a renewed debate over the costs at which the benefits of free markets have been bought. This book revisits the moral and political philosophy of Adam Smith, capitalism's founding father, to recover his understanding of the morals of the market age. In so doing it illuminates a crucial albeit overlooked side of Smith's project: his diagnosis of the ethical ills of ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Love

    A History

    Edited by Ryan Patrick Hanley ...
    Series series Oxford Philosophical Concepts
    Lovers know that love is both vast and intense. This would seem to make it resistant to philosophical or rational analysis. Yet love's vastness and intensity are what carry it into all spheres of our lives--ethical, political, spiritual, physical. As a result, considerations of what it means to love and to be loved, and what is worth loving and worth being, are inextricable from our most deeply ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Theory of Moral Sentiments

    by Adam Smith, Ryan Patrick Hanley ...
    The first book from the renowned philosopher investigates the flip side of economic self-interest: the interest of the greater good.Best known for his revolutionary free-market economics treatise The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith was first and foremost a moral philosopher. In his classic work The Theory of Moral Sentiments, he advanced ideas about conscience, moral judgment, and virtue that have ... Read more

    Was $15.99 CAD Now $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Our Great Purpose

    Adam Smith on Living a Better Life

    by Ryan Patrick Hanley ...
    Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from the founder of modern economicsAdam Smith is best known today as the founder of modern economics, but he was also an uncommonly brilliant philosopher who was especially interested in the perennial question of how to live a good life. Our Great Purpose is a short and illuminating guide to Smith's incomparable wisdom on how to live well, written by one of ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Adam Smith

    His Life, Thought, and Legacy

    Edited by Ryan Patrick Hanley ...
    The essential guide to the life, thought, and legacy of Adam SmithAdam Smith (1723–90) is perhaps best known as one of the first champions of the free market and is widely regarded as the founding father of capitalism. From his ideas about the promise and pitfalls of globalization to his steadfast belief in the preservation of human dignity, his work is as relevant today as it was in the ... Read more

    $60.49 CAD

  • Fénelon

    Moral and Political Writings

    by Ryan Patrick Hanley ...
    Fénelon is arguably one of the most neglected major philosophers of early modernity. His political masterwork was the most-read book in eighteenth-century France after the Bible, and yet today even specialists rarely engage his work directly. This problem is particularly acute in the Anglophone world, where only a small fraction of Fénelon's vast and influential corpus has appeared in modern ... Read more

    $56.39 CAD

  • Love's Enlightenment

    Rethinking Charity in Modernity

    by Ryan Patrick Hanley ...
    A number of prominent moral philosophers and political theorists have recently called for a recovery of love. But what do we mean when we speak of love today? Love's Enlightenment examines four key conceptions of other-directedness that transformed the meaning of love and helped to shape the way we understand love today: Hume's theory of humanity, Rousseau's theory of pity, Smith's theory of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Political Philosophy of Fénelon

    by Ryan Patrick Hanley ...
    Fénelon was a nuanced and influential diagnostician of the ills of European society, one who carefully analysed phenomena as wide-ranging and complex as egocentrism, authoritarianism, and imperialism. Despite his influence there has been to date no interpretive monograph in English devoted specifically to his thought. Ryan Patrick Hanley aims to correct this oversight, providing the first book ... Read more

    $79.19 CAD