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The Philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson

This study offers the first comprehensive account of Emerson's philosophy since his philosophical rehabilitation began in the late 1970s. It builds on the historical reconstruction proposed in the author's previous book Emerson's Metaphysics and like that study draws on the entire Emerson corpus—the poetry and sermons included. The aim here is expository. The overall though not exclusive emphasis is on identity as the first term of Emerson's metaphysics of identity and flowing or metamorphosis. This metaphysics or general conception of the nature of reality is what grounds his epistemology and ethics as well as his esthetic religious and political thought. Acknowledging its primacy enables a general account like this to avoid the anti-realist overemphasis on epistemology and language that has often characterized rehabilitation readings of his philosophy. After an initial chapter on Emerson's metaphysics the subsequent chapters devoted to the other branches of his thought also begin with their necessary foundation in identity which is the law of things and the law of mind alike. Perception of identity in metamorphosis is what characterizes the philosopher the poet the scientist the reformer and the man of faith and virtue. Identity of mind and world is felt in what Emerson calls the moral sentiment. Identity is Emerson's answer to the Sphinx-riddle of life experienced as a puzzling succession of facts and events. | The Philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson

GBP 38.99
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On Loving Hating and Living Well The Public Psychoanalytic Lectures of Ralph R. Greenson

On Loving Hating and Living Well The Public Psychoanalytic Lectures of Ralph R. Greenson

The author was perhaps psychoanalysis's most gifted and eloquent spokesperson. In this volume the author is presented in one of the roles he enjoyed most: communicating to a lay audience his understanding of people and life and his insights into the science and art of psychoanalysis. These important talks profoundly influenced countless professional workers and lay people. The twenty-four public lectures in this remarkable collection are each a gem of wisdom and humor. With deep psychoanalytic wisdom the author addresses such timeless and universal human concerns as love and emotional development; hate aggression and war; masculinity femininity and sexuality; jealousy envy and possessiveness; and the vicissitudes of child rearing and family development. Reading these entertaining public talks of the author now is like reading a chronicle of the great psychosocial issues of the past half-century. One is impressed with not only the wisdom they offer for our current concerns but also with how revolutionary original and prophetic was his thinking. | On Loving Hating and Living Well The Public Psychoanalytic Lectures of Ralph R. Greenson

GBP 130.00
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Shakespeare and the Awareness of Audience

Shakespeare and the Awareness of Audience

This book first published in 1985 explores the consciousness and the experience of Shakespeare’s audience. First describing the stage’s physical impact Ralph Berry then goes on to explore the social or tribal consciousness of the audience in certain plays. The title finishes by examining the masque – the salient form of the Jacobean theatre. This title will be of interest to students of literature and theatre studies. | Shakespeare and the Awareness of Audience

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Friendgrief An Absence Called Presence

Friendgrief An Absence Called Presence

This book not only examines friendgrief from a theoretical and clinical framework but also Smith offers fascinating vignettes from the lives of well-known friendgrievers such as Elton John Diane Sawyer Ralph Abernathy C. S. Lewis Harry Truman Tommy Lasorda Jimmy Carter Fritz Mondale Bill Clinton Calvin Trillin and Alan King. The author includes moving narratives of numerous individuals who have never gained notoriety but have become seasoned friendgrievers. | Friendgrief An Absence Called Presence

GBP 35.99
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China's Schools in Flux Report by the State Education Leaders Delegation National Committee on United States-China Relations

China's Schools in Flux Report by the State Education Leaders Delegation National Committee on United States-China Relations

This book first published in 1979 is the detailed study that arose from the visit of the US State Education Leaders Delegation to China in 1977. This visit observed and discussed the new directions in China's schools; the delegation was led by one of America's foremost philosophers of education Ralph W. Tyler and included leaders in the field of American education. | China's Schools in Flux Report by the State Education Leaders Delegation National Committee on United States-China Relations

GBP 31.99
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Style Bible What to Wear to Work

Style Bible What to Wear to Work

First impressions (and second ones!) count whether you are an intern or a CEO. Lauren A. Rothman addresses an age-old dilemma: how to be appropriate and stylish in the workplace. Based on a decade of experience in the fashion industry she addresses the basics of fashion and executive presence by offering advice anecdotes and style alerts that help readers avoid major fashion faux pas at the office. Style Bible: What to Wear to Work is the must-have resource for the modern professional male or female climbing the ladder of success. Lauren identifies the ultimate wardrobe essentials and reveals shopping strategies and destinations for the everyday person. Style Bible complete with helpful illustrations is the go-to manual on how to dress for every professional occasion and a valuable resource for understanding dress codes by industry city and gender so that your visual cues will make a strong impact. Make a commitment to being better dressed at work with Style Bible. | Style Bible What to Wear to Work

GBP 175.00
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Lion's Share

Lion's Share

First published in 1991 Lion’s Share traces the journey made by Ralph Ketner his brother Brown and their friend Wilson Smith as they progressed from opening their first supermarket Food Town to running more than 800 stores as part of the Food Lion supermarket chain. The book explores the growth of Food Lion and the reasons for its success using interviews with the company’s founders and top executives both those present at the time of publication and previous position holders to provide a detailed account of its history and development. | Lion's Share

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Shakespeare's Comedies Explorations in Form

Shakespeare's Comedies Explorations in Form

In this lucid and original study first published in 1972 Ralph Berry discusses the ten comedies that run from The Comedy of Errors to Twelfth Night. Berry’s purpose is to identify the form of each play by relating the governing idea of the play to the action that expresses it. To this end the author employs a variety of standpoints and techniques and taken together these chapters present a lively and coherent view of Shakespeare’s techniques concerns and development. This title will be of interests to students of literature and drama. | Shakespeare's Comedies Explorations in Form

GBP 28.99
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Barry Commoner's Contribution to the Environmental Movement Science and Social Action

Barry Commoner's Contribution to the Environmental Movement Science and Social Action

Few people have made greater contributions to protecting and improving the environment than the scientist teacher activist Dr. Barry Commoner. For half a century Dr. Commoner has been an international leader in the environmental movement. On the occasion of his eightieth birthday a symposium was held at which invited speakers discussed his contributions to a wide range of environmental issues. This book collecting many of the invited papers provides fascinating insights into the life and work of one of the twentieth century's most influential scientists and social activists. Chapters contributed by other activists scientists and scholars including Ralph Nader Tony Mazzocchi and Peter Montague cover many of Dr. Commoner's major contributions. | Barry Commoner's Contribution to the Environmental Movement Science and Social Action

GBP 77.99
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Fantasy/Animation Connections Between Media Mediums and Genres

Fantasy/Animation Connections Between Media Mediums and Genres

This book examines the relationship that exists between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. Animation has played a key role in defining our collective expectations and experiences of fantasy cinema just as fantasy storytelling has often served as inspiration for our most popular animated film and television. Bringing together contributions from world-renowned film and media scholars Fantasy/Animation considers the various historical theoretical and cultural ramifications of the animated fantasy film. This collection provides a range of chapters on subjects including Disney Pixar and Studio Ghibli filmmakers such as Ralph Bakshi and James Cameron and on film and television franchises such as Dreamworks’ How To Train Your Dragon (2010–) and HBO’s Game of Thrones (2011–). | Fantasy/Animation Connections Between Media Mediums and Genres

GBP 38.99
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The Functions of Sterling

The Functions of Sterling

Why is sterling under pressure? Why was the devaluation in 1967 followed by stagnation of British economy? What do the 1971 monetary reforms mean for sterling in the 1970s? First published in 1973 The Functions of Sterling discusses these vital questions and challenges the received wisdom of those who tells us it is beneficial that our money should be worth less. It also examines critically the internal and external performance of sterling throughout the twentieth century. The book argues that the credit control policy offers a real possibility of improved economic growth and encourage the revaluation of sterling. To a large extent the book is in line with Sir Ralph Hawtrey’s reasoning and also integrates monetary economics with real problems of comparative costs innovations and growth. This book is an essential read for scholars of British economy public policy political economy and economics in general.

GBP 27.99
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Demand and Supply

Demand and Supply

First published in 1971 Demand and Supply is an introduction to the economics of resource allocation often known as micro-economics. Ralph Turvey examines how the economy really works and does not just give the economists’ textbook version which oversimplifies technology and exaggerates the importance of prices in adjusting supply and demand. Instead of offering theoretical diagrams and imaginary examples he refrains from expounding those ideas that cannot be simply demonstrated or applied. But he includes sections on retail margins urban land values and the value of time – topics rarely dealt with in beginner’s books. Some examples of the examples are: university teachers’ pay; cotton spinning costs; pricing of tin cans; demand for farm tractors; newspaper economics; competition in the bus industry. This is the kind of economics used in practice and rests on down to earth fact finding. This book will be useful for both general readers and A- level and first year university students.

GBP 89.99
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Unhappy Beginnings Narratives of Precarity Failure and Resistance in North American Texts

Unhappy Beginnings Narratives of Precarity Failure and Resistance in North American Texts

This book offers the analysis of a selection of North American texts that dismantle and resist normative frames through the resignification of concepts such as unhappiness precarity failure and vulnerability. The chapters bring to the fore how those potentially negative elements can be refigured as ambivalent sites of resistance and social bonding. Following Sara Ahmed’s rereading of happiness other authors such as Judith Butler Wendy Brown Jack Halberstam Lauren Berlant or Henry Giroux are mobilized to interrogate films memoirs and novels that deal with precarity alienation and inequality. The monograph contributes to enlarging the archives of unhappiness by changing the focus from prescribed norms and happy endings to unruly practices and unhappy beginnings. As the different contributors show unhappiness precarity vulnerability or failure can be harnessed to illuminate ways of navigating the world and framing society that do not necessarily conform to the script of happiness—whatever that means. | Unhappy Beginnings Narratives of Precarity Failure and Resistance in North American Texts

GBP 130.00
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Genealogies of Emotions Intimacies and Desire Theories of Changes in Emotional Regimes from Medieval Society to Late Modernity

Genealogies of Emotions Intimacies and Desire Theories of Changes in Emotional Regimes from Medieval Society to Late Modernity

Genealogies of Emotions Intimacies and Desire excavates epistemologies which attempt to explain changes in emotional regimes from medieval society to late modernity. Key in this debate is the concept of intimacy. The book shows that different historical periods are characterized by emotional regimes where intimacy in the form of desire sex passion and sex largely exist outside marriage and that marriage and traditional normative values and structures are fundamentally incompatible with the expression of intimacy in the history of emotional regimes. The book draws on the work of a number of theorists who assess change in emotional regimes by drawing on intimacy including Michel Foucault Eva Illouz Lauren Berlant Anthony Giddens Laura Ann Stoler Anne McClintock Niklas Luhmann and David Shumway. Some of the areas covered by the book include: Foucault sex and sexuality; romantic and courtly love; intimacy in late modernity; Imperial power gender and intimacy intimacy and feminist interventions; and the commercialization of intimacy. This book will appeal to students and scholars in the social sciences and humanities including sociology gender studies cultural studies and literary studies. | Genealogies of Emotions Intimacies and Desire Theories of Changes in Emotional Regimes from Medieval Society to Late Modernity

GBP 31.99
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Effective Treatment of Women’s Pelvic and Sexual Pain Disorders Healing the Body and Mind During the #MeToo Era

Effective Treatment of Women’s Pelvic and Sexual Pain Disorders Healing the Body and Mind During the #MeToo Era

This book presents a comprehensive overview of pelvic and sexual pain disorders in women and equips therapists to treat these issues in a culturally sensitive way examining the link between unwanted sexual experiences and the development of sexual pain in later life. Drawing on the wealth of recent research acknowledging the increased risk of developing a pelvic/sexual pain disorder in women who have experienced sexual trauma Heather Lauren Davidson offers a much-needed resource for professionals within the essential context of the #MeToo movement. Chapters address a range of topics including types of sexual pain disorders disparities in the mental health system that affect women’s access to treatment how to establish treatment goals for individuals and couples and effective relapse prevention plans. Illustrated throughout by vignettes and case studies the book addresses a lack of knowledge in assessing and treating the experiences of these women and explores in depth how they face complex difficulties in accessing diagnosis and treatment. Guided by culturally competent assessment and the use of evidence-based treatment techniques clinicians will learn to effectively navigate the treatment of women presenting with pelvic/sexual pain disorders and sexual trauma. | Effective Treatment of Women’s Pelvic and Sexual Pain Disorders Healing the Body and Mind During the #MeToo Era

GBP 31.99
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Stanley Cavell Literature and Film The Idea of America

Stanley Cavell Literature and Film The Idea of America

This is the first book to offer a thorough examination of the relationship that Stanley Cavell’s celebrated philosophical work has to the ways in which the United States has been imagined and articulated in its literature. Establishing the contours of Cavell’s most significant readings of American philosophical and cultural activity the volume explores how his philosophy and the kind of reading it demands have an important relation to broader considerations of the American national imaginary. Focused coherent and original essays from a wide range of philosophers and critics consider how his investigations of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson for example represent a sustained engagement with the ways in which philosophy might provide us with new ways of thinking and of living. This is the first detailed and comprehensive treatment of America as a category of enquiry in Cavell’s writing engaging with the terms of Cavell’s various configurations of the nation and offering readings of American texts that illustrate the possibilities that Cavell’s work has in turn for literary and film criticism. This study of the role played by philosophy in the articulation of the American self-imaginary highlights the ways in which the reading of literature and the practice of philosophy are conjoined in the ethical and political project of national self-definition. | Stanley Cavell Literature and Film The Idea of America

GBP 42.99
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Teaching with Hip Hop in the 7-12 Grade Classroom A Guide to Supporting Students’ Critical Development Through Popular Texts

Teaching with Hip Hop in the 7-12 Grade Classroom A Guide to Supporting Students’ Critical Development Through Popular Texts

This book presents practical approaches for engaging with Hip Hop music and culture in the classroom. As the most popular form of music and youth culture today Hip Hop is a powerful medium through which students can explore their identities and locate themselves in our social world. Designed for novice and veteran teachers this book is filled with pedagogical tools strategies lesson plans and real-world guidance on integrating Hip Hop into the curriculum. Through a wide range of approaches and insights Lauren Leigh Kelly invites teachers to look to popular media culture to support students’ development and critical engagement with texts. Covering classroom practice assessment strategies and curricular and standards-based guidelines the lessons in this book will bolster students’ linguistic and critical thinking skills and help students to better understand and act upon the societal forces around them. The varied activities assignments and handouts are designed to inspire teachers and easily facilitate modification of the assignments to suit their own contexts. The impact of Hip Hop on youth culture is undeniable now more than ever; this is the perfect book for teachers who want to connect with their students support meaning-making in the classroom affirm the validity of youth culture and foster an inclusive and engaging classroom environment. | Teaching with Hip Hop in the 7-12 Grade Classroom A Guide to Supporting Students’ Critical Development Through Popular Texts

GBP 26.99
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An Anthology of the Cambridge Platonists Sources and Commentary

An Anthology of the Cambridge Platonists Sources and Commentary

Notwithstanding their neglect in many histories of ideas in the West the Cambridge Platonists constitute the most significant and influential group of thinkers in the Platonic tradition between the Florentine Renaissance and the Romantic Age. This anthology offers readers a unique thematically structured compendium of their key texts along with an extensive introduction and a detailed account of their legacy. The volume draws upon a resurgence of interest in thinkers such as Benjamin Whichcote 1609–1683; Ralph Cudworth 1618–1688; Henry More 1614–1687; John Smith 1618–1652 and Anne Conway 1631–1679 and includes hitherto neglected extracts and some works of less familiar authors within the group like George Rust 1627?–1670; Joseph Glanvill 1636–1680 and John Norris 1657–1712. It also highlights the Cambridge Platonists’ important role in the history of philosophy and theology influencing luminaries such as Shaftesbury Berkeley Leibniz Joseph de Maistre S. T. Coleridge and W. R. Emerson. An Anthology of the Cambridge Platonists is an indispensable guide to the serious study of a pivotal group of Western metaphysicians and is of great value for both students and scholars of philosophy literature history and theology. Key Features The only systematic anthology to the Cambridge Platonists available facilitating quick comprehension of key themes and ideas Uses new translations of the Latin works vastly improving upon faulty and misleading earlier translations Offers a wide range of new perspective on the Cambridge Platonists showing the extent of their influence in early modern philosophy and beyond. | An Anthology of the Cambridge Platonists Sources and Commentary

GBP 36.99
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A Climate of Risk Precautionary Principles Catastrophes and Climate Change

A Climate of Risk Precautionary Principles Catastrophes and Climate Change

We are living in a climate of risk. Our way of life imposes risks on ourselves and others. We are causing climatic changes that have the potential to change radically the conditions under which both we – the present generation – and future generations will live. While we are now quite certain that climate change is happening we are unsure of exactly what will happen and when given different emissions and policy scenarios. We are therefore in a position where we must decide what to do about the risks climate change threatens in the face of a range of uncertainties In this book Lauren Hartzell-Nichols provides guidance in the face of this uncertainty by offering an in-depth discussion of how and why we ought to take a precautionary approach to climate policy namely by appeal to a Catastrophic Precautionary Principle and Catastrophic Precautionary Decision-Making Framework. By examining the way in which climate change is harmful Hartzell-Nichols shows how precaution does have a meaningful role to play in moving climate policy forward if we reconsider what precaution is about before too quickly appealing to precaution as a reason or justification for action. A Climate of Risk takes a philosophically grounded interdisciplinary approach that will appeal to a broad scholarly and policy-oriented audience. Hartzell-Nichols’s reinterpretation of the precautionary principle enables precaution to be more effectively leveraged as a driver of action on climate change. | A Climate of Risk Precautionary Principles Catastrophes and Climate Change

GBP 44.99
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Racial Imagination and the American Dream The Peace-Maker The Prophet and The Politician

Racial Imagination and the American Dream The Peace-Maker The Prophet and The Politician

Although the phrase the American Dream dates from the 1930s the concept or idea of the American Dream is as old as the country. The values proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence and reaffirmed (and extended) in the Gettysburg Address have been continuously promoted by every American president. Moreover they form the basis of our national collective narrative as expressed through both elite and popular culture. The American Dream is intrinsically tied to the American Creed and American Exceptionalism. It is the foundation of our national identity the glue that holds together our individual aspirations. Yet until the mid-twentieth century the American Dream excluded African Americans. We as a nation—as an imagined community—could not imagine an integrated multiracial society with Blacks and Whites living together as equals. By examining the lives of the only three African American Nobel Peace Prize winners we can see how their lives were shaped by the American Dream and how their success was used to deny the structural racism that prevented others from achieving the American Dream. Ralph Bunche as a role model of academic and technical expertise Martin Luther King Jr. as a model race leader and Barack Obama as a political leader provide a window on the changing meaning of the American Dream. In conclusion Haiti is presented as a failed example of an attempt to export the American Dream in the form of American Exceptionalism and racial reparations are reimagined as a radical democratic project aimed at true global integration and justice. | Racial Imagination and the American Dream The Peace-Maker The Prophet and The Politician

GBP 35.99
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The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights provides a comprehensive transnational and interdisciplinary map to this emerging field offering a broad overview of human rights and literature while providing innovative readings on key topics. The first of its kind this volume covers essential issues and themes necessarily crossing disciplines between the social sciences and humanities. Sections cover: subjects with pieces on subjectivity humanity identity gender universality the particular the body forms visiting the different ways human rights stories are crafted and formed via the literary the visual the performative and the oral contexts tracing the development of the literature over time and in relation to specific regions and historical events impacts considering the power and limits of human rights literature rhetoric and visual culture Drawn from many different global contexts the essays offer an ideal introduction for those approaching the study of literature and human rights for the first time looking for new insights and interdisciplinary perspectives or interested in new directions for future scholarship. Contributors: Chris Abani Jonathan E. Abel Elizabeth S. Anker Arturo Arias Ariella Azoulay Ralph Bauer Anna Bernard Brenda Carr Vellino Eleni Coundouriotis James Dawes Erik Doxtader Marc D. Falkoff Keith P. Feldman Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg Audrey J. Golden Mark Goodale Barbara Harlow Wendy S. Hesford Peter Hitchcock David Holloway Christine Hong Madelaine Hron Meg Jensen Luz Angélica Kirschner Susan Maslan Julie Avril Minich Alexandra Schultheis Moore Greg Mullins Laura T. Murphy Hanna Musiol Makau Mutua Zoe Norridge David Palumbo-Liu Crystal Parikh Katrina M. Powell Claudia Sadowski-Smith Mark Sanders Karen-Magrethe Simonsen Joseph R. Slaughter Sharon Sliwinski Sidonie Smith Domna C. Stanton Sarah G. Waisvisz Belinda Walzer Ban Wang Julia Watson Gillian Whitlock and Sarah Winter.

GBP 44.99
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The Routledge International Handbook of Child and Adolescent Grief in Contemporary Contexts

The Routledge International Handbook of Child and Adolescent Grief in Contemporary Contexts

This volume presents the leading research in child and adolescent grief from a diverse and global perspective focusing on the systemic political and cultural processes that have a direct bearing on the way youth experience loss and grief. Carrie Traher and Lauren J. Breen bring together a global community of academics practitioners and social activists to discuss and address the complexity of lived experiences of grief for young people today. Presented in four parts the contributors begin by providing a theoretical overview of youth grief and bereavement before moving onto other important topics such as suicide bereavement the trauma of war digital grief narratives child soldiering and more. Within each chapter authors address contemporary theoretical frameworks research findings and praxis related to both death and non-death losses such as the Black Lives Matter movement environmental grief and grief on the internet and social media. Including contributors from a range of countries and from various disciplines such as educators health care professionals policy makers and advocates the themes of coping resilience and growth are central and interwoven in each chapter. This handbook is essential for researchers clinicians scholars educators parents and activists as to the most pressing societal and global issues that affect youth grief today and to provide context to their personal and professional interactions with youth. Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | The Routledge International Handbook of Child and Adolescent Grief in Contemporary Contexts

GBP 205.00
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The Anarchists

The Anarchists

In his new introduction to The Anarchists Horowitz points out that anarchism is an ideology in search of a movement and also a psychology in search of a polity. While this seems to be a paradox the fact is that anarchism has more than one hundred thousand entries on electronic search engines but one can search high and low for a society that embraces its essential anti-Statist vision. At the same time anarchism continues to attract people to its premises seemingly generation after generation. Despite similarities in values and goals anarchism seems especially attractive to those for whom individualism rather than collectivism provides a way of life. In this it stands at the opposite pole from Behemoth from the gods of political order. The Anarchists is a rich collection of theories and practices in the words of those who have rebelled against the restrictive institutions and oppressive conditions imposed by state power upon the individual. Idealists and self-seekers saints and assassins they have often served as the conscience of the world and have expressed with eloquence and convictions the deep-seated sense of anarchy that resides to a greater or lesser degree in most human beings. Anarchism is not simply a European import; it is deeply rooted in the American political experience. The volume gives strong representation to this side of the anarchist tradition. Thomas Paine wrote Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil. This was a sentiment echoed by Ralph Waldo Emerson who said the less government we have the better. The Anarchists offers the most thoughtful and comprehensive selection of writings by and about those who protest against all rule by man over man particularly that embodied in the State. As such this anthology presents the history and philosophy of anarchism in the words of thirty-five of its greatest students observers and proponents.

GBP 130.00
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