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Free Speech: A Very Short Introduction by Nigel Warburton
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it' This slogan, attributed to Voltaire, is frequently quoted by defenders of free speech. Yet it is rare to find anyone prepared to defend all expression in every circumstance, especially if the views expressed incite viole ...Show more
Globalization: A Very Short Introduction by Manfred Steger
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Very Short Introductions
'Globalization' has become one of the defining buzzwords of our time - a term that describes a variety of accelerating economic, political, cultural, ideological, and environmental processes that are rapidly altering our experience of the world. It is by its nature a dynamic topic - and this Very Short ...Show more
Happiness: A Very Short Introduction by Daniel M. Haybron
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Very Short Introductions
Happiness is an everyday term in our lives, and most of us strive to be happy. But defining happiness can be difficult. In this Very Short Introduction, Dan Haybron considers the true nature of happiness. By examining what it is, assessing its subjective values, its importance in our lives, and how we c ...Show more
Heidegger by Michael Inwood
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Category: No Category | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) is probably the most divisive philosopher of the twentieth century. Considered by some to be the greatest charlatan ever to claim the title of 'philosopher', by some as an apologist for Nazism, he was also an acknowledged leader and central figure to many philosophers. Micha ...Show more
Heidegger: a Very Short Introduction by Michael Inwood
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Martin Heidegger, considered by some to be the greatest charlatan ever to claim the title of "philosopher", by some as an apologist for Nazism, and by others as an acknowledged leader in continental philosophy, is probably the most divisive thinker of the twentieth century. In the second edition of this ...Show more
Human Rights by Andrew Clapham
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Category: Politics | Series: Very Short Introductions S.
Today it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. An appeal to human rights in the face of injustice can be a heartfelt and morally justified demand for some, while for others it remains merely an empty slogan. Taking an international perspective and focusing on highl ...Show more
Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Clapham
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Very Short Introductions
Today it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. Indeed, human rights law continues to gain increasing attention internationally, and must move quickly in order to keep up with a social world that changes so rapidly. This Very Short Introduction, in its second editio ...Show more
Love: A Very Short Introduction by Ronald De Sousa
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Very Short Introductions
Although there are many kinds of love, erotic love has been celebrated in art and poetry as life's most rewarding and exalting experience, worth living and dying for and bringing out the best in ourselves. And yet it has excused, and even been thought to justify, the most reprehensible crimes. Why shoul ...Show more
Metaphysics - A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Mumford
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Category: No Category | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Metaphysics is traditionally one of the four main branches of philosophy, alongside ethics, logic and epistemology. It is an area that continues to attract and fascinate many people, even though it is generally thought to be highly complex and abstract. For some it is associated with the mystical or rel ...Show more
Neoliberalism by Manfred B. Steger
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Very Short Introductions
Anchored in the principles of the free-market economics, 'neoliberalism' has been associated with such different political leaders as Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Augusto Pinochet, and Junichiro Koizumi. In its heyday during the late 1990s, neoliberalism emerged as the wor ...Show more
Prehistory: A Very Short Introduction by Chris Gosden
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Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions
This VSI to prehistory will introduce the reader to four and a half million years of human existence. Many of the familiar aspects of modern life are no more than a century or two old, yet our deep social structures and skills were in large measure developed by small bands of our prehistoric ancestors ...Show more
The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction by William Doyle
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Category: No Category | Series: Very Short Introductions | Reading Level: good
Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, this work leads the reader to the realization that we are living with developments of the French Revolution. It looks at how the ancient regime became ancient, as well as examines cases in which achievement failed to match ambition ...Show more
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