Autore: Richard Vernon

From flag-waving to the singing of national anthems, the practices and symbols ofpatriotism are inescapable, and modern politics is increasingly full of appeals topatriotic fervour. But if no-one cho …

This volume contributes to the growing literature on the morality of procreation and parenting. About half of the chapters take up questions about the morality of bringing children into existence. Th …

This volume contributes to the growing literature on the morality of procreation and parenting. About half of the chapters take up questions about the morality of bringing children into existence. Th …

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Contributors include Dapo Akande (Oxford), Antonio Franceschet (Acadia), Tracy Isaacs (Western Ontario), Catherine Lu (Mc Gill), Darryl Robinson (The International Criminal Court), Michael P. Scharf …

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All human relationships are not created equal; attachments between close associates (”friends”), compatriots (”citizens”), and humans (”strangers”) vary greatly in terms of their character and …

Ideas of justice have traditionally focused on what individuals owe to one another and have drawn our attention to what is considered fair – what one of us owes to another is justly matched by …

Ideas of justice have traditionally focused on what individuals owe to one another and have drawn our attention to what is considered fair – what one of us owes to another is justly matched by …

The citizen, a figure capable of self-government is both the political and the personal sense, is a central and enduring theme of political thought. The role of the citizen in the modern state was qu …

A widely read and influential text in its own day, P.-J. Proudhon’s Du Principe federatif is now often overlooked by students of federalism. Yet the book’s theoretical and general chapters, in the fi …

This analysis of Georges Sorel’s ideas on revolution and the original translations of some of his little-known writings on this theme offer a critical reassessment of Sorel’s place in modern politica …

The Career of Toleration considers the Locke-Proast controversy from the standpoint of political theory, examining Locke’s and Proast’s texts and tracing their relationship to later discussions of to …

Contributors include Dapo Akande (Oxford), Antonio Franceschet (Acadia), Tracy Isaacs (Western Ontario), Catherine Lu (Mc Gill), Darryl Robinson (The International Criminal Court), Michael P. Scharf …

First published in 1986. Nations have a unity often described as ‘cultural’; and within them there are divergences some of which are termed ‘political’. But culture and politics do not, therefore, co …

First published in 1986. Nations have a unity often described as ‘cultural’; and within them there are divergences some of which are termed ‘political’. But culture and politics do not, therefore, co …

Interweaving three centuries of transatlantic religious and social history with historical and present-day ethnography, Luis Nicolau Pares traces the formation of Candomble, one of the most influenti …