James Bernard Murphy

Graeme Garrard

A one-stop guide to the "Essential Thinkers" in political philosophy, from Confucius to Marx; this book shines the light of political reason into the darkest corners of our troubled modern times.

Sages, Scholars and Statesmen Whose Ideas Have Shaped the World

How to Think Politically

From the Eighteenth Century to the Present

Counter-Enlightenments

Bruno Alexander

Este livro é o guia perfeito para todos os leitores que desejam ir além das fake news e da histeria para mergulhar realmente no pensamento político. Aqui, os autores Graeme Garrard e James Bernard Murphy pintam um retrato vívido dos trinta maiores pensadores políticos e mostram como suas ideias surgiram de suas próprias vidas e épocas e evoluíram além delas. Entre os filósofos abordados estão Confúcio, Platão, Santo Agostinho, Maquiavel, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Gandhi, Sayyid Qutb, Hannah Arendt, Martha Nussbaum, Arne Naess e John Rawls. Se queremos entender o mundo político de hoje, precisamos entender os fundamentos da política e seus arquitetos.

Sábios, pensadores e estadistas cujas ideias moldaram o mundo

Como pensar politicamente

Sees Rousseau as the father of Counter-Enlightenment thought.

A Republican Critique of the Philosophes

Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment

'A wonderful introduction to history's most influential scribblers' – Steven Pinker What is truly at stake in politics? Nothing less than how we should live, as individuals and as communities. This book goes beyond the surface headlines, the fake news and the hysteria to explore the timeless questions posed and answers offered by a diverse group of the 30 greatest political thinkers who have ever lived. Are we political, economic, or religious animals? Should we live in small city-states, nations, or multinational empires? What values should politics promote? Should wealth be owned privately or in common? Do animals also have rights? There is no idea too radical for this global assortment of thinkers, which includes: Confucius; Plato; Augustine; Machiavelli; Burke; Wollstonecraft; Marx; Nietzsche; Gandhi; Qutb; Arendt; Nussbaum, Naess and Rawls. In each brief chapter, the authors paint a vivid portrait of these often prescient, always compelling political thinkers, showing how their ideas grew out of their own dramatic lives and times and evolved beyond them. Now more than ever we need to be reminded that politics can be a noble, inspiring and civilising art. And if we want to understand today's political world, we need to understand the foundations of politics and its architects. This is the perfect guide to both.

A vigorous and timely defense of the state as a force for good For decades now wealth and power have been shifting from states to markets. This experiment has been a failure for all but a privileged few. But this trend is beginning to reverse, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has seen the state play the most direct and positive role in citizens' everyday lives in living memory. Graeme Garrard makes a powerful case for the state as our only realistic hope of countering the rising power of multinational corporations, organized crime, and international organizations that will always put their own interests first. Today the state is essential to the health and welfare of everyone except the rich and powerful. Yet it is being rolled back and whittled away, leaving the well-being of most of us at the mercy of unaccountable private powers that are increasingly free from external control. As Garrard shows, the state is the only realistic way of promoting the public good in our time.

And Why It Is Essential for Our Health, Wealth and Happiness

The Return of the State

The Enlightenment and its legacy are still actively debated, with the Enlightenment acting as a key organizing concept in philosophy, social theory and the history of ideas. Counter-Enlightenments is the first full-length study to deal with the history and development of counter-enlightenment thought from its inception in the eighteenth century right through to the present. Engaging in a critical dialogue with Isaiah Berlin’s work, this book analyzes the concept of counter-enlightenment and some of the most important issues and problems it raises. Graeme Garrard explores the diverse forms of thought in this field, with a wide-ranging review of the principle figures of the past two hundred and fifty years, and an incisive assessment of the persuasiveness of the most common and important criticisms of the Enlightenment.

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