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"Tensions between individual rights and group interests, as well as between interests of different groups, are critical issues in multicultural societies. In this book, Haksar offers a theoretical framework for thinking these dilemmas through." "This book illuminates the complic…
"Tensions between individual rights and group interests, as well as between interests of different groups, are critical issues in multicultural societies. In this book, Haksar offers a theoretical framework for thinking these dilemmas through." "This book illuminates the complic…
This edition of Thoreau's political essays includes "Civil Disobedience" and extracts from several of his other major works, which deal with issues such as slavery. Rosenblum places the essays in the context of Thoreau's life of self-examination.
Thoreau's political writing is intensely personal and direct. Both his life and work focus uncompromisingly on the question 'how should I live?', and for Thoreau, no element of day-to-day existence is left untouched by moral and political issues. This 1996 edition of Thoreau's p…
"This edition of Thoreau's political essays includes "Civil Disobedience," selections from Walden, "Life Without Principle," and the anti-slavery addresses, such as "Slavery in Massachusetts." In her introduction, Nancy L. Rosenblum places the essays in the context of Thoreau's …
This book examines the central questions concerning the duty to obey the law: the meaning of this duty; whether and where it should be acknowledged; and whether and when it should be disregarded. Many contemporary philosophers deny the very existence of this duty, but take a cau…
This book examines the central questions concerning the duty to obey the law: its meaning, its grounds, and its limits.
How can those who seek to protect the "right to life" defend assassination in the name of saving lives? Carol Mason investigates this seeming paradox by examining pro-life literature--both archival material and writings from the front lines of the conflict. Her analysis reveals …
How can those who seek to protect the "right to life" defend assassination in the name of saving lives? Carol Mason investigates this seeming paradox by examining pro-life literature-both archival material and writings from the front lines of the conflict. Her analysis reveals t…
By itself, this is a book about work, but it's also more than that. It is an outline of an analysis of capitalism: what it is, how it works, how we might dis-mantle it. And the book and the analysis are outgrowths of something more a movement of people determined to fight it. So…
Presents "Walden, " in which Thoreau describes his two-year residence at Walden Pond in a small house of his own construction, and "Civil Disobedience, " a protest against governmental interference with individual rights and liberty.
With their call for"simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!", for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in all American literature. The selections in tis volume represent Thoreau at his bes…