Nihilistic Times

Wendy Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Tanner Lectures on Human Values
• A Seminary Co-op Notable Book "What makes Brown's book especially well worth reading is her impressive ability to show how key themes in Weber's schol... Lees meer

Case for Irony

Jonathan Lear

• Paperback | Engels | Tanner Lectures on Human Values | nr. 6
• In 2001, Vanity Fair declared that the Age of Irony was over. Joan Didion has lamented that the United States in the era of Barack Obama has become an... Lees meer

Interpretation and Social Criticism

Michael Walzer

• Paperback | Engels | Tanner Lectures on Human Values | nr. 1
• What do social critics do? I How do they go about doing it? Where do their principles come from? How do critics establish their distance from the peop... Lees meer

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Volume 29

• Hardcover | Engels | Tanner Lectures on Human Values | nr. 29
• The Tanner Lectures on Human Values were founded July 1, 1978, at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, by American scholar, industrialist, and philanthro... Lees meer

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Volume 27

• Hardcover | Engels | Tanner Lectures on Human Values | nr. 27
• The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, founded July 1, 1978, at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, was established by the American scholar, industrialist... Lees meer

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Mark Matheson

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• The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, founded July 1, 1978, at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, was established by the American scholar, industrialist... Lees meer

The Trouble with Confucianism

Wm Theodore de Bary

• Paperback | Engels | Tanner Lectures on Human Values | nr. 3
• In Singapore, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and other parts of East and Southeast Asia, as well as China, people are asking, "What does Confucianism have to o... Lees meer

American Citizenship

Judith N Shklar

• Paperback | Engels | Tanner Lectures on Human Values | nr. 2
• In this illuminating look at what constitutes American citizenship, Judith Shklar identifies the right to vote and the right to work as the defining s... Lees meer

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Mark Matheson

• Hardcover | Engels | Tanner Lectures on Human Values | nr. 33
• The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, founded July 1, 1978, at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, was established by the American scholar, industrialist... Lees meer

Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life

Jonathan Lear

• Paperback | Engels | Tanner Lectures on Human Values | nr. 4
• Separated by millennia, Aristotle and Sigmund Freud gave us disparate but compelling pictures of the human condition. But if, with Jonathan Lear , we ... Lees meer

Decline and Fall of the American Republic

Bruce Ackerman

• Paperback | Engels | Tanner Lectures on Human Values | nr. 5
• Bruce Ackerman shows how the institutional dynamics of the last half-century have transformed the American presidency into a potential platform for po... Lees meer

Frontiers of Justice

Martha C Nussbaum

• Paperback | Engels | Tanner Lectures on Human Values | nr. 4
• Theories of social justice are necessarily abstract, reaching beyond the particular and the immediate to the general and the timeless. Yet such theori... Lees meer

Nihilistic Times

Wendy Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | Tanner Lectures on Human Values
• One of America's leading political theorists analyzes the nihilism degrading--and confounding--political and academic life today. Through readings of ... Lees meer

Citizens Divided

Robert C Post

• Paperback | Engels | Tanner Lectures on Human Values | nr. 7
• The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which struck down a federal prohibition on independent corporate c... Lees meer