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Judith N. Shklar
This book, first published in 1969, is widely regarded as one of the best studies of Rousseau’s thought in any language. In it, Professor Shklar examines Rousseau’s central concern: given…
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A critical and creative analysis of the decline of political philosophy in an attempt to understand the nineteenth and twentieth century philosophical and political thinking. Originally published in 1957. The…
Originally published in 1976, this book was written specifically to guide students of political theory who want to understand Hegel’s political ideas as they appear in The Phenomenology of Mind…
Ponders such questions as: How can we distinguish between injustice and misfortune? and What can we learn from the victims of calamity about the sense of injustice they harbour? Shklar…
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Shklar identifies the right to vote and the right to work as the defining social rights and primary sources of public respect. She demonstrates that in recent years, although all…
Incisively and stylishly written, this book constitutes an open challenge to reconsider the fundamental question of the relationship of law to society.
Shklar draws from a brilliant array of writers–Moliere and Dickens on hypocrisy, Jane Austen on snobbery, Shakespeare and Montesquieu on misanthropy, Hawthorne and Nietzsche on cruelty, Conrad and Faulkner on…
A. Hess
Judith Shklar called for a radical shift in political theory, toward a view of the history of ideas through the lens of exile. Hess takes this lens and applies it…
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Amanda Reiter
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Sonstiges, Note: Sehr Gut, Universitat Wien (Institut fur Rechtsphilosophie), Veranstaltung: Seminar Dimensionen des Politischen: Terror , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende…
The essays collected in Between Utopia and Realism reflect on and refract Judith N. Shklar’s major preoccupations throughout a lifetime of thinking and demonstrate the ways in which her work…
Bernard Yack
Before her death in 1992, Judith Shklar was recognized as an outstanding political theorist and a major figure in the reinvigoration of liberal theory since the 1970s. This collection of…
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This is the second volume of Judith Shklar’s work and brings together essays on a number of themes, including the place of the intellect in the modern political world and…
A compelling set of lectures on political obligation that contributes to ongoing debates in political theory and intellectual history
In these 13 essays, Judith Shklar explores two themes crucial to discussions of American democracy: the tension between expansive political equality and persistent social inequality; and redeeming American thought for…
From her position at Harvard University's Department of Government for over thirty-five years, Judith Shklar (1928-92) taught a long list of prominent political theorists and published prolifically in the domains…
