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On Democracy

Dahl Robert A., Shapiro Ian

ISBN: PB: 9780300254051, Yale University Press, January 2021
288 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

Written by the preeminent democratic theorist of our time, this book explains the nature, value, and mechanics of democracy. In a new introduction to this Veritas edition, Ian Shapiro considers how Dahl would respond to the ongoing challenges democra...

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Culture Studies

Take the City Voices of Radical Municipalism

Toney Jason

ISBN: PB: 9781551647272, ISBN: HB: 9781551647296, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, January 2021
180 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

With rapid increases in urban populations, there is an urgent need to transform our world's cities in keeping with ecological imperatives and democratic principles. A growing worldwide citizen movement is attempting to challenge bureaucratic administ...

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Hobbes's Kingdom of Light A Study of the Foundations of Modern Political Philosophy

Stauffer Devin

ISBN: PB: 9780226760124, ISBN: HB: 9780226552903, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

Was Hobbes the first great architect of modern political philosophy? Highly critical of the classical tradition in philosophy, particularly Aristotle, Hobbes thought that he had established a new science of morality and politics. Devin Stauffer here...

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Marxism in the American Grain

Harootunian Harry D.

ISBN: PB: 9780996635578, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, January 2021
150 pp., 17.7x13.9 cm

The work of Karl Marx has been taken up by a huge range of American writers, from a wide variety of perspectives. As Harry Harootunian argues in this provocative pamphlet, however, there is an indelible American stamp to this scholarship that unites...

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Philosophy

Aristotle's "Art of Rhetoric"

Aristotle

ISBN: PB: 9780226789903, ISBN: HB: 9780226591629, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For more than two thousand years. Aristotle's "Art of Rhetoric" has shaped thought on the theory and practice of rhetoric, the art of persuasive speech. In three sections, Aristotle discusses what rhetoric is, as well as the three kinds of rhetoric (...

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Political Science

State As Parent Locke, Rousseau, and the Transformation of the Family

Reardon Laurence Bernard

ISBN: PB: 9781589662032, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, January 2021
300 pp., 23x15 cm

Much of modern political and social thought tends to take for granted the fact that traditional conceptions of the family – with their accompanying duties and privileges – are an inherent imposition on individual freedom. With "The State As Parent",...

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Philosophy

Reason and Character The Moral Foundations of Aristotelian Political Philosophy

Smith Pangle Lorraine

ISBN: HB: 9780226688169, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What does it mean to live a good life or a happy life, and what part does reason play in the quest for fulfillment? Proceeding by means of a close and thematically selective commentary on Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics", this book offers a novel int...

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Why Liberalism Works How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All

Nansen McCloskey Deirdre

ISBN: HB: 9780300235081, Yale University Press, December 2020
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The greatest challenges facing humankind, according to Deirdre McCloskey, are poverty and tyranny, both of which hold people back. Arguing for a return to true liberal values, this engaging and accessible book develops, defends, and demonstrates how...

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Digital Technology and Democratic Theory

Bernholz Lucy, Landemore Helene, Reich Rob

ISBN: PB: 9780226748573, ISBN: HB: 9780226748436, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 figures

One of the most far-reaching transformations in our era is the wave of digital technologies rolling over – and upending – nearly every aspect of life. Work and leisure, family and friendship, community and citizenship have all been modified by now-ub...

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Prisms of the People Power and Organizing in Twenty-First Century America

Han Hahrie, McKenna Elizabeth, Oyakawa Michelle

ISBN: PB: 9780226743905, ISBN: HB: 9780226743875, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 line drawings, 7 tables

Grassroots organizing and collective action have always been fundamental to American democracy but have been burgeoning since the 2016 election, as people struggle to make their voices heard in this moment of societal upheaval. Unfortunately much of...

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