This is a book about modern liberal society and its adversaries. The book rediscovers and rehabilitates much maligned, especially in America, liberalism as the ideal and system of liberty in relation ...
Słówka to zbiór ulotnych wierszyków osobistych, kupletów i piosenek, pisanych przeważnie dla krakowskiego kabaretu “Zielony Balonik”. Tworzone jeszcze trochę nieoficjalnie pod pseudonimem “Boy”, nasyc...
Kilka miesięcy po upadku muru berlińskiego Ralf Dahrendorf pisze Rozważania na temat rewolucji w Europie, w których w formie listów do tajemniczego J. z Warszawy podejmuje refleksję nad wagą i konsekw...
Od powstania i upadku systemu nazistowskiego faszyzm uważa się za zjawisko skrajnie prawicowe. A gdzie obecnie szukać prawdziwych faszystów? W "Lewicowym faszyzmie" Jonah Goldberg ukazuje szokujące p...
Biografia miasta słynącego z kanałów, rowerów, szlifierni diamentów, znakomitych kolekcji malarstwa, a także niezwykłej tolerancji władz dla wszelkiej odmienności, zakazanych używek i prostytucji. Aut...
Fascynująca Przełomowa książka jednego z najwybitniejszych badaczy stosunków międzynarodowych, autora Tragizmu polityki mocarstw, twórcy teorii realizmu ofensywnego. Profesor John J. Mearsheimer anali...
In his major new work Chandran Kukathas offers, for the first time, a book-length treatment of this controversial and influential theory of minority rights. The work is a defence of a form of liberali...
The 'fascist' is usually an insult aimed at those on the right. But what does it really mean? What if the true heirs to fascism were actually those who thought of themselves as being terribly nice and...
In "Pluralism and Liberal Democracy" one of the country's most distinguished political theorists turns to the task of how best to explain, justify, and encourage the concept, practice, and institution...
The United States dominates the world as no state has. It emerged from the Cold War as the world's only superpower and no geopolitical or ideological contenders are in view. Its dynamic bundle of over...
This book explores two basic questions regarding constitutional theory. First, in view of a commitment to democratic self-rule and widespread disagreement on questions of value, how is the creation of...
Economist and New York Times columnist Krugman's stimulating manifesto aims to galvanize today's progressives the way Barry Goldwater's The Conscience of a Conservative did right-wingers in 1964. Krug...
The papers in this book illustrate the balanced dichotomy between terrorism and counter-terrorism against the background of the liberal state. This is a unique battlefield, where the tactical advantag...
The essays in the volume address educational issues that arise when national, sub-national and supra-national identities compete. How can we determine the limits to parental educational rights when li...
This highly topical and authoritative history examines the changing fortunes of the Liberals from the landslide victory of 1906, through the divisions and decline of the interwar years, to the repeate...
This detailed volume explores the role and actions of economists in US, Japanese and various European parliaments in the critical period between 1848 and 1920. Featuring chapters written by an interna...
This book provides a critical analysis of the liberal ideas of the decline of the state through a historical comparison. It takes special note of the implications of state failure to control economic ...
This well-written and erudite book performs a valuable service for Anglophone readers in being the first full-length study of Gobetti in English. But its merits are far greater than that: this is an i...