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  • Distorting the Law

    Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis

    par William Haltom, Michael McCann ...
    In recent years, stories of reckless lawyers and greedy citizens have given the legal system, and victims in general, a bad name. Many Americans have come to believe that we live in the land of the litigious, where frivolous lawsuits and absurdly high settlements reign.Scholars have argued for years that this common view of the depraved ruin of our civil legal system is a myth, but their research ... En savoir plus

    $26.39 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” in the Age of Pseudocracy

    par Hans Ostrom, William Haltom ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
    Orwell’s "Politics and the English Language" in the Age of Pseudocracy visits the essay as if for the first time, clearing away lore about the essay and responding to the prose itself. It shows how many of Orwell’s rules and admonitions are far less useful than they are famed to be, but it also shows how some of them can be refurbished for our age, and how his major claim—that politics corrupts ... En savoir plus

    $48.08 CAD

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  • How to Think

    A Survival Guide for a World at Odds

    par Alan Jacobs ...
    "Absolutely splendid . . . essential for understanding why there is so much bad thinking in political life right now." **—David Brooks, New York TimesHow to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we’re not as good at thinking as we assume—but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life.**As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Free Speech And Why It Matters

    par Andrew Doyle ...
    'Impassioned, scholarly and succinct' The TimesFREE SPEECH AND WHY IT MATTERSFree speech is the bedrock of all our liberties, and yet in recent years it has come to be mistrusted. A new form of social justice activism, which perceives language as potentially violent, has prompted a national debate on where the limitations of acceptable speech should be drawn. Governments throughout Europe have ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • Violence

    par Slavoj Zizek ...
    Collections series BIG IDEAS//small books
    Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world.Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Žižek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, Žižek brings new light to the Paris riots of 2005; he questions ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Winning Arguments

    What Works and Doesn't Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Classroom

    par Stanley Fish ...
    A lively and accessible guide to understanding rhetoric by the world class English and Law professor and bestselling author of How to Write a Sentence.Ever wonder how gay marriage became accepted over such a short period, after thousands of years of peril? Or how you were dumb enough to get in that last quarrel with your significant other? Or how Donald Trump became the clear front-runner in the ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

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  • Straight and Crooked Thinking

    par Robert Henry Thouless ...
    This new edition of a timeless classic demonstrates how the use of clear, rational thinking and logic can win any argument, however emotionally charged the topic in question. It describes the typical flaws of reasoning in argument and shows how language can be used to deceive - and how to avoid being deceived. It will show you how, by learning what is 'straight', rational language, and clear ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments

    A Stone Reader

    Modifié par Peter Catapano, Simon Critchley ...
    From the editors of the widely influential The Stone Reader comes the most thorough and engaging guide to modern ethical thought available.Since 2010, The Stone— an enormously popular column in the New York Times— has interpreted and reinterpreted age-old inquires that speak to our contemporary condition. Having done for modern ethics what The Stone Reader did for modern philosophy, this portable ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • In Praise of Prejudice

    How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past

    par Theodore Dalrymple ...
    Collections series Brief Encounters
    Today, the word prejudice has come to seem synonymous with bigotry; therefore the only way a person can establish freedom from bigotry is by claiming to have wiped his mind free from prejudice. English psychiatrist and writer Theodore Dalrymple shows that freeing the mind from prejudice is not only impossible, but entails intellectual, moral and emotional dishonesty. The attempt to eradicate ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • After Theory

    par Terry Eagleton ...
    The golden age of cultural theory (the product of a decade and a half, from 1965 to 1980) is long past. We are living now in its aftermath, in an age which, having grown rich in the insights of thinkers like Althusser, Barthes and Derrida, has also moved beyond them. What kind of new, fresh thinking does this new era demand? Eagleton concludes that cultural theory must start thinking ambitiously ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Strangers at Our Door

    par Zygmunt Bauman ...
    Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time. For the people behind the doors, these uninvited guests were always strangers, and strangers tend to generate fear and anxiety precisely because they are unknown. Today we find ourselves confronted with an extreme form of this historical dynamic, as our TV ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Uses of Pessimism

    And the Danger of False Hope

    par Roger Scruton ...
    Ranging widely over human history and culture, from ancient Greece to the current global economic downturn, Scruton makes a counterintuitive yet persuasive case that optimists and idealists -- with their ignorance about the truths of human nature and human society, and their naive hopes about what can be changed -- have wrought havoc for centuries. Scruton's argument is nuanced, however, and his ... En savoir plus

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