Harold J. Laski 
Introduction to Politics (Works of Harold J. Laski) [PDF ebook] 

 At a time of grave ethical failure in global security affairs, this is the first book to bring together emerging theoretical debates on ethics and ethical reasoning within security studies. In …

Revealing flaws in both  »green » and market-based approaches to environmental policy, O »Neill develops an Aristotolian account of well-being. He examines the implications for wider issues involving …

In this thoroughly updated new edition of his ground-breaking and award-winning book, Dennis Gentilin draws on both his personal experience as a well-known whistleblower and recent events in the Aust …

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was one of the greatest writers and German philosophers of the nineteenth century. His work influenced figures as diverse as Wagner, Freud and Nietzsche. Best known as …

This book offers a novel analysis of the widely-used but ill-understood technique of thought experiment. The author argues that the powers and limits of this methodology can be traced to the fact tha …

Paradoxes are more than just intellectual puzzles – they raise substantive philosophical issues and offer the promise of increased philosophical knowledge. In this introduction to paradox and paradox …

Gerald Allan Cohen was Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford for 23 years and is considered one of the most influential political philosophers of the past qua …

Emptiness means that all entities are empty of, or lack, inherent existence – entities have a merely conceptual, constructed existence. Though Nagarjuna advocates the Middle Way, his philosophy of em …

Hannah Arendt is regarded as one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century. Famous for her account of the banality of evil, her wide-ranging work explored such themes as t …

This volume traces the topic of affect across Lyotard »s corpus and accounts for Lyotard »s crucial and original contribution to the thinking of affect. Highlighting the importance of affect in Lyota …