By Daniel Chirot, Scott L. Montgomery

ISBN-10: 1400865700

ISBN-13: 9781400865703

certainly one of Bloomberg Businessweek's top Books of 2015, selected by way of Diana Farrell
New York occasions amazing Nonfiction of 2015

This panoramic e-book tells the tale of ways innovative rules from the Enlightenment approximately freedom, equality, evolution, and democracy have reverberated via sleek historical past and formed the realm as we all know it today.

A testomony to the iconic strength of principles, the form of the recent deals unforgettable graphics of Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Charles Darwin, and Karl Marx—heirs of the Enlightenment who embodied its maximum beliefs approximately progress—and exhibits how their suggestions, over the years and within the palms in their fans and rivals, reworked the very nature of our ideals, associations, economies, and politics. but those rules additionally carry contradictions. they've been utilized in the carrier of brutal platforms comparable to slavery and colonialism, been appropriated and twisted through monsters like Stalin and Hitler, and provoked reactions opposed to the Enlightenment’s legacy via Islamic Salafists and the Christian non secular Right.

The form of the recent argues that it truly is most unlikely to appreciate the ideological and political conflicts of our personal time with no familiarizing ourselves with the heritage and inner tensions of those world-changing rules. With ardour and conviction, it exhorts us to acknowledge the significant significance of those rules as old forces and pillars of the Western humanistic culture. It makes the case that to learn the works of the good thinkers is to realize beneficial insights into the guidelines that experience formed how we expect and what we believe.

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By Hannah Arendt

ISBN-10: 8430601740

ISBN-13: 9788430601745

Ideas que han cambiado el mundo.

A lo largo de l. a. historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado los angeles manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los demás. Han inspirado el debate, los angeles discordia, l. a. guerra y los angeles revolución. Han iluminado, indignado, provocado y consolado. Han enriquecido vidas, y también las han destruido.

Taurus publica las obras de los grandes pensadores, pioneros, radicales y visionarios cuyas principles sacudieron l. a. civilización y nos impulsaron a ser quienes somos.

Inspirada por el juicio a un burócrata que contribuyó a provocar el Holocausto, esta obra fundamental sobre los angeles banalidad del mal asombró al mundo con su análisis de l. a. ceguera ethical de un régimen y de l. a. insistencia de un hombre en ser absuelto de toda culpa porque «sólo cumplía órdenes».

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Diario de León

By Philip Pettit

ISBN-10: 0198296428

ISBN-13: 9780198296423

This is often the 1st full-length presentation of a republican replacement to the liberal and communitarian theories that experience ruled political philosophy lately. The author's eloquent, compelling account opens with an exam of the normal republican perception of freedom as non-domination, contrasting this with confirmed adverse and optimistic perspectives of liberalism. The booklet examines what the implementation of the proper may indicate for great policy-making, constitutional and democratic layout, regulatory keep an eye on and the relation among country and civil society.

Professor Pettit's robust and insightful new paintings deals not just a unified, theoretical evaluation of the numerous strands of republican rules, it additionally offers a brand new and complicated point of view on experiences in comparable fields together with the heritage of rules, jurisprudence, and criminology. the writer had incorporated a brand new postscript to this paperback version, which deals a caricature of the the most important republican rules, and to enhance the argument that the republican culture merits extra awareness than it has as a rule acquired between modern political theorists.

By G. A. Cohen

ISBN-10: 0691148716

ISBN-13: 9780691148717

Michael Otsuka (ed.)

G. A. Cohen used to be the most proficient, influential, and revolutionary voices in modern political philosophy. on the time of his dying in 2009, he had plans to compile a couple of his most important papers. this can be the 1st of 3 volumes to gain these plans. Drawing on 3 many years of labor, it comprises formerly uncollected articles that experience formed the various important debates in political philosophy, in addition to papers released the following for the 1st time. In those items, Cohen asks what egalitarians have such a lot cause to equalize, he considers the connection among freedom and estate, and he displays upon perfect concept and political practice.

Included listed below are vintage essays corresponding to "Equality of What?" and "Capitalism, Freedom, and the Proletariat," in addition to newer contributions equivalent to "Fairness and Legitimacy in Justice," "Freedom and Money," and the formerly unpublished "How to Do Political Philosophy." On considerable reveal all through are the readability, rigor, conviction, and wit for which Cohen was once popular. jointly, those essays exhibit how his paintings offers a strong account of liberty and equality to the left of Ronald Dworkin, John Rawls, Amartya Sen, and Isaiah Berlin.

Reviews:

"While alerting his readers to the problems confronted through philosophers, Cohen is a resource of steerage to these trying to locate their approach within the box of political philosophy."--Richard Mullender, Political experiences Review

"Cohen wrote with wonderful readability, analyzed with nice perception, and argued with the maximum rigor. He did all this whereas addressing primary difficulties of political philosophy. it is going to hence be a pleasure for these drawn to those themes to learn, or reread, those essays."--Peter Vallentyne, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

"From begin to end, an enduring invitation to struggle lazy considering and sloppy writing and a masterly demonstration of the way to do it: directly to the tough middle of every factor; mostly with humor, as a rule with an specific political engagement, constantly with impeccable highbrow honesty. The irreplaceable Jerry Cohen at his best."--Philippe van Parijs, Universit catholique de Louvain

"G. A. Cohen argues brilliantly for 2 very important and retro rules: that unintentional inequality is unjust and that poverty limits freedom. Cohen's essays display a superb brain looking for the elemental truths approximately justice. the following you've got the combo of readability and intensity that marks philosophy at its apex."--Joshua Cohen, Stanford University

"This may be essentially the most vital books in political philosophy released this decade, and obligatory studying for a person engaged on distributive justice, together with philosophers, criminal and political theorists, and philosophically vulnerable economists."--Andrew Williams, ICREA and Pompeu Fabra University

"G. A. Cohen's landmark essays on success egalitarianism, freedom, and estate became commonplace issues of reference. those hugely acclaimed items were scattered over quite a lot of journals and edited volumes, so having them now in one quantity is a gigantic boon. Very valuably, the ebook additionally comprises the unpublished essay 'How to Do Political Philosophy,' during which Cohen displays at the method he sought to deal with the problems in those essays."--Hillel Steiner, professor emeritus, college of Manchester

By Steven Nadler

ISBN-10: 069113989X

ISBN-13: 9780691139890

While it seemed in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise used to be denounced because the most deadly ebook ever published--"godless," "full of abominations," "a ebook solid in hell . . . via the satan himself." non secular and secular experts observed it as a chance to religion, social and political concord, and daily morality, and its writer was once nearly universally considered as a spiritual subversive and political radical who sought to unfold atheism all through Europe. but Spinoza's ebook has contributed up to the assertion of Independence or Thomas Paine's logic to fashionable liberal, secular, and democratic considering. In A publication solid in Hell, Steven Nadler tells the attention-grabbing tale of this outstanding booklet: its radical claims and their heritage within the philosophical, non secular, and political tensions of the Dutch Golden Age, in addition to the vitriolic response those rules inspired.

It isn't really challenging to determine why Spinoza's Treatise used to be so vital or so arguable, or why the uproar it triggered is likely one of the most important occasions in eu highbrow background. within the e-book, Spinoza turned the 1st to argue that the Bible isn't really actually the observe of God yet quite a piece of human literature; that real faith has not anything to do with theology, liturgical ceremonies, or sectarian dogma; and that spiritual professionals should not have any position in governing a latest nation. He additionally denied the truth of miracles and divine windfall, reinterpreted the character of prophecy, and made an eloquent plea for toleration and democracy.

A brilliant tale of incendiary principles and harsh backlash, A publication cast in Hell will curiosity an individual who's taken with the foundation of a few of our so much adored glossy ideals.