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| 1. |  | Title: What justice? whose justice?: fighting for fairness in Latin America Author: Eckstein, Susan 1942- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | Economics and Business | Conservation | Latin American Studies | Politics | Postcolonial Studies | Anthropology | Social Problems Publisher's Description: The new millennium began with the triumph of democracy and markets. But for whom is life just, how so, and why? And what is being done to correct persisting injustices? Blending macro-level global and national analysis with in-depth grassroots detail, the contributors highlight roots of injustices, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Crime, cultural conflict, and justice in rural Russia, 1856-1914 Author: Frank, Stephen 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Social Problems | European History | Law | Criminology Publisher's Description: This book is the first to explore the largely unknown world of rural crime and justice in post-emancipation Imperial Russia. Drawing upon previously untapped provincial archives and a wealth of other neglected primary material, Stephen P. Frank offers a major reassessment of the interactions between . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: The problems of a political animal: community, justice, and conflict in Aristotelian political thought Author: Yack, Bernard 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | Philosophy | Political Theory | Social and Political Thought | Social Theory Publisher's Description: A bold new interpretation of Aristotelian thought is central to Bernard Yack's provocative new book. He shows that for Aristotle, community is a conflict-ridden fact of everyday life, as well as an ideal of social harmony and integration. From political justice and the rule of law to class struggle . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Hellenistic philosophy of mind Author: Annas, Julia Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Classics | Social and Political Thought | Intellectual History | Classical Philosophy | Philosophy | Rhetoric Publisher's Description: Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind is an elegant survey of Stoic and Epicurean ideas about the soul - an introduction to two ancient schools whose belief in the soul's physicality offer compelling parallels to modern approaches in the philosophy of mind. Annas incorporates recent thinking on Hellenistic . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Justice in South Africa,  Author: Sachs, Albie 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1973 Subjects: African Studies | Politics | Law Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Choosing justice: an experimental approach to ethical theory Author: Frohlich, Norman Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | Philosophy | Political Theory | Social Theory | Ethics Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: On Heidegger's Nazism and philosophy Author: Rockmore, Tom 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | German Studies | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: That Martin Heidegger supported National Socialism has long been common knowledge. Yet the relation between his philosophy and political commitments remains highly contentious and recently has erupted into a vociferous debate. Boldly refuting arguments that the philosopher's political stance was acc . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Inference, explanation, and other frustrations: essays in the philosophy of science Author: Earman, John Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Philosophy | History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: These provocative essays by leading philosophers of science exemplify and illuminate the contemporary uncertainty and excitement in this changing field. The papers are rich in new perspectives, and their far-reaching criticisms challenge arguments long prevalent in classic philosophical problems of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: The Question of "eclecticism": studies in later Greek philosophy Author: Dillon, John M Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Classics | Classical Philosophy | Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: This collection of essays is addressed to the growing number of philosophers, classicists, and intellectual historians who are interested in the development of Greek thought after Aristotle. In nine original studies, the authors explore the meaning and history of "eclecticism" in the context of anci . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Judgement in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist century Author: Lahav, Pnina 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Law | History Publisher's Description: Simon Agranat (1906-1992) was the third chief justice of the Israeli Supreme Court and a founding father of Israeli law. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, and educated at the University of Chicago, Agranat brought U.S. progressivism and constitutionalism to Israeli legal soil. Agranat laid the foundatio . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Justice and the human genome project Author: Murphy, Timothy F 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | Biology | Medicine Publisher's Description: The Human Genome Project is an expensive, ambitious, and controversial attempt to locate and map every one of the approximately 100,000 genes in the human body. If it works, and we are able, for instance, to identify markers for genetic diseases long before they develop, who will have the right to o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Songs without music: aesthetic dimensions of law and justice Author: Manderson, Desmond Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Law | Philosophy | Ethics | Social and Political Thought | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: In this pathbreaking and provocative analysis of the aesthetics of law, the historian, legal theorist, and musician Desmond Manderson argues that by treating a text, legal or otherwise, as if it were merely a sequence of logical propositions, readers miss its formal and symbolic meanings. Creatively . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Rosenzweig and Heidegger: between Judaism and German philosophy Author: Gordon, Peter Eli Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | German Studies | Religion | Judaism | European History | Intellectual History | Jewish Studies | Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) is widely regarded today as one of the most original and intellectually challenging figures within the so-called renaissance of German-Jewish thought in the Weimar period. The architect of a unique kind of existential theology, and an important influence upon such philos . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Plato's Euthydemus: analysis of what is and is not philosophy Author: Chance, Thomas H Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | Classical Philosophy | Literature Publisher's Description: With Plato's Euthydemus , Thomas Chance solves a longstanding riddle of Platonic studies. Thought to be an early, immature work, the Euthydemus has come across to scholars as lacking Plato's characteristic greatness. This apparent lack, Chance argues, is not a failure of the text but of scholarly pe . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: The making of fornication: eros, ethics, and political reform in Greek philosophy and early Christianity Author: Gaca, Kathy L Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Classical Philosophy | Classical Religions | Classical Politics | Christianity | Ethics | Social and Political Thought | Ancient History | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: This provocative work provides a radical reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexual morality, the dominant moral paradigm in Western society since late antiquity. While many scholars, including Michel Foucault, have found the basis of early Christian sexual restrictions in Greek et . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Alternative modernity: the technical turn in philosophy and social theory Author: Feenberg, Andrew Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | History and Philosophy of Science | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: In this new collection of essays, Andrew Feenberg argues that conflicts over the design and organization of the technical systems that structure our society shape deep choices for the future. A pioneer in the philosophy of technology, Feenberg demonstrates the continuing vitality of the critical the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Thinking from things: essays in the philosophy of archaeology Author: Wylie, Alison Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Philosophy | Archaeology | History of Science Publisher's Description: In this long-awaited compendium of new and newly revised essays, Alison Wylie explores how archaeologists know what they know. Examining the history and methodology of Anglo-American archaeology, Wylie puts the tumultuous debates of the last thirty years in historical and philosophical perspective. Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Thing knowledge: a philosophy of scientific instruments Author: Baird, Davis Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Philosophy | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Western philosophers have traditionally concentrated on theory as the means for expressing knowledge about a variety of phenomena. This absorbing book challenges this fundamental notion by showing how objects themselves, specifically scientific instruments, can express knowledge. As he considers num . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Money and the modern mind: George Simmel's Philosophy of money Author: Poggi, Gianfranco Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Social Science | Philosophy | Economics and Business | Social Theory | European Studies Publisher's Description: A major representative of the German sociological tradition, Georg Simmel (1858-1918) has influenced social thinkers ranging from the Chicago School to Walter Benjamin. His magnum opus, The Philosophy of Money , published in 1900, is nevertheless a difficult book that has daunted many would-be reade . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Historied thought, constructed world: a conceptual primer for the turn of the millennium Author: Margolis, Joseph 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Historied Thought, Constructed World offers a fresh vision: one that engages the reigning philosophies of the West, endorses the radical possibilities of historicity and flux, and reconciles the best themes of Anglo-American and continental European philosophy. Margolis sketches a program for the ph . . . [more] Similar Items |