by Malcolm Schofield (1999)
How are political communities cemented together? Are rights inherent in the idea of citizenship? Saving the City examines ancient political thought from Homer to Cicero. It explores the problem of exploiting the philosophical past without reading the present back into it, discussing how far we can use categories such as the heroic code, utopianism, ideology, the economy or political rights to examine the evidence. This erudite and stimulating book offers fresh resolutions of disputed issues in well known texts such as Homer's Iliad and the Politics of Aristotle, and new explorations of some less familiar material, notably Plato's Laws, Aristotle's Eudemiau Ethics, Stoic political theory and Cicero's Republic.
Bruno Bosteels
"One of the rising stars of contemporary critical theory, Bruno Bosteels discusses the new currents of thought generated by figures such as Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière and Slavoj Zizek, theorists spearheading the revival of interest in communism. Bosteels discovers a vital break with “speculative leftism”—incapable as it is of moving beyond lofty abstractions—that reconceptualizes the categories of masses, classes and state."--Publisher description.
[G.W.F. Hegel
"Hegel's Outlines of the Philosophy of Right is one of the greatest works of moral, social, and political philosophy. It contains significant ideas on justice, moral responsibility, family life, economic activity, and the political structure of the state - all matters of profound interest to us today." "This new edition combines a revised translation with a cogent introduction to his work."--Jacket.
Giuliano Pontara
«Marxismo e nonviolenza: due dottrine profondamente connesse con la realtà storica in cui viviamo. Il marxismo come denuncia (oltre che analisi) delle innumerevoli forme di degradazione dell'uomo connesse con il sistema di produzione capitalistica, e come proposta di una alternativa umana ad esso, il socialismo. La nonviolenza come denuncia delle forme spaventose che la violenza ha assunto nell'era atomica, come denuncia delle condizioni disumane connesse con l'uso della violenza, anche quella rivoluzionaria al servizio del socialismo, e come proposta di alternativa ad essa: la modalità di lotta satyagraha».
Richard Tuck
"The Rights of War and Peace is the first fully historical account of the formative period of modern theories of international law. It sets the scene with an extensive history of the theory of international relations from antiquity down to the seventeenth century. Professor Tuck then examines the arguments over the moral basis for war and international aggression, and links the debates to the writings of the great political theorists such as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Kant."--BOOK JACKET.