This book is a comprehensive anthology in the history of political philosophy. It presents important selections from the ancient, medieval, and modern periods along with many contemporary selections. The material is presented historically with brief biographical sketches of each author as well as introductions to each period. Political Philosophy: Essential Selections offers the most comprehensive selection of readings in Western political philosophy, ranging from the ancient to the contemporary. From Plato and Aristotle to todayÕs disputes about liberalism, anarchism, feminism, and socialism. Selections are presented as they were originally written with minimal editorial intrusion.The book includes important thinkers rarely featured in similar anthologies, such as Marsilius of Padua, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Mikail Bakunin, plus more familiar names.It also presents key developments in the history of political philosophy and provides good coverage of contemporary theories. This allows readers to trace the historical development of these important concepts and themes. An important resource for every reader interested in the development of political thought regarding contemporary issues.

Political Philosophy: Essential Selections

Politics & Social Sciences

Machan, Tibor R.

Skoble, Aeon J.

Philosophy

Pearson

This book, in the tradition of Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia, sheds new light on persistent philosophical questions about the nature and justification of political authority. Skoble’s discussion draws upon law, economics, and game theory to examine limited-state and anarchist theories from the standpoint of liberty and human rights. It includes a careful elucidation, based on the analysis in F. A. Hayek’s Constitution of Liberty, of the nature of coercion and the extent to which it can realistically be minimized. Skoble sets out the differences between libertarian and communitarian perspectives on the nature of society and the state, and, finally, compares the merits and demerits of violent and nonviolent strategies for political change.

Deleting the State: An Argument About Government

Open Court

Film noir reflects the fatalistic themes and visual style of hard-boiled novelists and many émigré filmmakers in 1940s and 1950s America, emphasizing crime, alienation, and moral ambiguity. In The Philosophy of TV Noir, Steven M. Sanders and Aeon J. Skoble argue that the legacy of film noir classics such as The Maltese Falcon, Kiss Me Deadly, and The Big Sleep is also found in episodic television from the mid-1950s to the present. In this first-of-its-kind collection, contributors from philosophy, film studies, and literature raise fundamental questions about the human predicament, giving this unique volume its moral resonance and demonstrating why television noir deserves our attention. The introduction traces the development of TV noir and provides an overview and evaluation of the book's thirteen essays, each of which discusses an exemplary TV noir series. Realism, relativism, and integrity are discussed in essays on Dragnet, Naked City, The Fugitive, and Secret Agent. Existentialist themes of authenticity, nihilism, and the search for life's meaning are addressed in essays on Miami Vice, The Sopranos, Carnivale, and 24. The methods of crime scene investigation in The X-Files and CSI are examined, followed by an exploration of autonomy, selfhood, and interpretation in The Prisoner, Twin Peaks, The X-Files, and Millennium. With this focus on the philosophical dimensions of crime, espionage, and science fiction series, The Philosophy of TV Noir draws out the full implications of film noir and establishes TV noir as an art form in its own right.

The Philosophy of TV Noir (Philosophy Of Popular Culture)

Humor & Entertainment

Sanders, Steven

Television

University Press of Kentucky

* ¿Justificaría Nietzsche las gamberradas de Bart? * ¿Es Lisa una socrática insoportable? * ¿Puede Homer ser esencialmente virtuoso, pero ofrecer su familia a los extraterrestres para salvar el pellejo? * ¿Marge nos hace sentir como en casa porque es una madre y ama de casa machista? * ¿Podemos aprender algo sobre la felicidad gracias a las miserias del señor Burns? * ¿Puedes ser de izquierdas y mofarte de un pueblo como Springfield? Los Simpson y la filosofía no solo es un análisis sobre la filosofía en el último gran artefacto cultural, sino también una introducción divertida pero rigurosísima a la obra de pensadores como Aristóteles, Kant, Heidegger o Sartre, entre muchos otros. Dice la leyenda que no sucede nada que no haya sucedido antes en Los Simpson. Así que si aprendemos de ellos, aprendemos del mundo. Nueva edición revisada. ¡Más de 70.000 ejemplares vendidos!

Los Simpson y la filosofía. Nueva edición: CÓMO ENTENDER EL MUNDO GRACIAS A HOMER Y COMPAÑÍA

Irwin,William

Conrad, Mark T.

Petruska, Felix

Blackie Books

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