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by Martin O'Dea
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Beyond the Subjectivity Trap challenges the paradigm of the hard problem of consciousness by contesting the relevance and primacy of human thought. By tracing the evolved egocentricity of the 'I' as an entrapping limitation on our thinking the book argues that once the Subjectivity Trap is understood...
by Alan Trench
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
The State of the Nations 2008: Into the third term of devolution in the United Kingdom is the sixth publication of a major research programme into devolution in the United Kingdom, published on behalf of the Constitution Unit at University College London. The focus of this volume is on the devolved elections...
Premiership
The Development, Nature and Power of the British Prime Minister
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
The office of Prime Minister stands at the apex of the British political system. An undertsanding of this post is essential to all who are -- or aspire to be -- within government, or who observie it from outside.This book combines the methods of history and political science to produce theories of...
The Political Art of Bob Dylan
Revised and Expanded Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Bob Dylan is one of the most significant figures in popular culture. In this book, the authors provide a multi-faceted analysis of his political art. They address Dylan’s career as a whole, dealing with such themes as alienation, protest, non-conformity, the American Dream, modernity and postmodernism...
Demystifying Shamans and Their World
A Multidisciplinary Study
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Shamanism can be described as a group of techniques by which its practitioners enter the “spirit world,” purportedly obtaining information that is used to help and to heal members of their social group. Despite a resurgence of interest in shamanism and shamanic states of consciousness, these phenomena...
A Conservative Consensus?
Housing Policy Before 1997 and After
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
New Labour would like to portray 1997 as a new beginning for public policy, but Peter King argues that we now have, in housing and in other areas of public policy, a consensus based on Thatcherite reforms. He explores the particularly conservative understanding of housing that transformed public attitudes...
Shadow, Self, Spirit
Essays in Transpersonal Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Transpersonal Psychology concerns the study of those states and processes in which people experience a deeper sense of who they are, or a greater sense of connectedness with others, with nature, or the spiritual dimension. Pioneered by respected researchers such as Jung, Maslow and Tart, it has nonetheless...
Understanding Faith
Religious Belief and Its Place in Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Militant atheists often mirror the worst kind of ignorance and hostility that they condemn in traditional believers. Writing both as a philosopher and an Anglican Christian, Professor Clark explores this initial perception, considering such topics as the alleged openness of ‘scientists’ compared...
by William Aiken
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
This collection of essays brings together moral, social and political philosophers from Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the United States who explore a wide range of issues under the three headings of Philosophy, Society and Culture; Ethics, Economics and Justice; and Rights, Law and Punishment....
T.H. Green's Theory of Positive Freedom
From Metaphysics to Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
In this new and entirely revised edition of his study of Green's theory of positive freedom, Ben Wempe argues that the far-reaching and beneficial influence of Green's political doctrine, on public policy as well as in the field of political theory, was founded on a misinterpretation of his philosophical...
New Labour's Old Roots
Revisionist Thinkers in Labour's History: Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
The New Labour project was not conjured up out of thin air — it only looks that way because of the party's amnesia about the intellectual roots and political traditions which have guided it. This book provides extracts from fifteen thinkers and politicians located within the revisionist tradition as...
The 'Puritan' Democracy of Thomas Hill Green
With Some Unpublished Writings
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The central concern of this book is to demonstrate how Puritanism was a theme which ran through all Green’s biography and political philosophy. It thereby reveals how Green’s connections with Evangelicalism and his known affinities with religious dissent came from his way of conceiving Puritanism....
Liberty, Authority, Formality
Political Ideas and Culture, 1600-1900
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
The essays in this volume are all inspired by the historical scholarship of J.C. Davis. During a prolific career, Davis has transformed our understanding of early modern utopian literature and its contexts, and compelled students of seventeenth-century English to re-evaluate the significance of movements...
by Gene Callahan
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
The political systems of the Roman Republic were based almost entirely on tradition, "the way of the ancestors", rather than on a written constitution. While the founders of the American Republic looked to ancient Rome as a primary model for their enterprise, nevertheless, in line with the rationalist...