Analysis of Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man
Published in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man argues that capitalist democracy is the...
EAN: 9781912303250
Analysis of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America
Democracy in America, published in 1835 and 1840, challenged conventional thinking about...
EAN: 9781912303243
Disquisition on Government
Nineteenth century American politician John C. Calhoun was unashamedly pro-slavery. So it may...
EAN: 9781912303199
Analysis of Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France
First published in 1790, Burke’s Reflections rejects the ideas that had inspired radical...
EAN: 9781912303182
Analysis of Aristotle's Politics
Politics was one of the first books to investigate the concept of political philosophy and the...
EAN: 9781912303175
Analysis of Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities
Some people imagine that nationhood is as old as civilization itself, but Anderson argues that...
EAN: 9781912303168
Analysis of Gilbert Ryle's The Concept of Mind
In this provocative 1949 work, Ryle proposes that what we think of as the “mind” is little more...
EAN: 9781912303137
Analysis of Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality
Written in 1887, when Nietzsche was at the height of his powers as a philosopher and writer, On...
EAN: 9781912303106
Analysis of Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil
No philosopher could be a better example of creative thinking in action than Friedrich Nietzsche:...
EAN: 9781912303090
Analysis of Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue
Alasdair MacIntyre’s 1981 After Virtue was a ground-breaking contribution to modern moral...
EAN: 9781912303076
Analysis of C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man
C.S. Lewis’s 1943 The Abolition of Man is subtitled `Reflections on Education With Special...
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Sickness Unto Death
Considered the father of the philosophical movement known as Christian existentialism, which...
EAN: 9781912303052
Analysis of Immanuel Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
Do we need religion to be good people? When Immanuel Kant tackled this question in 1793, he...
EAN: 9781912303021
Analysis of David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume’s 1748 Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a modern philosophical classic that...
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Analysis of David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical classic that displays a...
EAN: 9781912303007
Analysis of G.W.F. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
Hegel’s 1807 Phenomenology of Spirit is renowned for being one of the most challenging and...
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Analysis of Edmund Gettier's Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?
How do we know what knowledge is? In his remarkable 1963 article, Gettier proves that Plato’s...
EAN: 9781912302987
Analysis of Rene Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy
René Descartes posed questions about the nature of knowledge and the nature of being that...
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Analysis of Edward Said's Orientalism
Advertisements for soap. The image of a lm star. We accept these common objects as a normal part...
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Analysis of Zora Heale Hurston's Characteristics of Negro Expression
A critical analysis of African-American novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston' 1934...
EAN: 9781912302871
Analysis of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir’s 1949 book The Second Sex is a masterpiece of feminist criticism and...
EAN: 9781912302840
Analysis of Homi K. Bhabha's The Location of Culture
In his 1994 collection of essays The Location of Culture, Bhabha investigates concepts such as...
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Analysis of Chinua Achebe's An Image of Africa
Few works of scholarship have so comprehensively recast an existing debate as Chinua Achebe’s...
EAN: 9781912302802
Global Cold War
Westad’s seminal 2005 work shifts the focus of Cold War studies from Europe to the post-World War...
EAN: 9781912302796
