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The Law of Peoples with The Idea of Public Reason Revisited

10 best books like The Law of Peoples with The Idea of Public Reason Revisited (John Rawls): Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality, The Promise of Politics, The Return of the Political, Between Facts & Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law & Democracy (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought), Taking Rights Seriously: With a New Appendix, a Response to Critics, Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics, Perpetual Peace and Other Essays, International Organizations: Principles and Issues, The Idea of Justice, Fear: The History of a Political Idea

Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality
AuthorMichael Walzer
ISBN0465081894
Spheres of Justice represents Walzer’s half of a debate with Robert Nozick. (Nozick’s side of the debate is found in his Anarchy, State, and Utopia, which was also written as a response to Rawls’s Theory of Justice. Nozick defends a libertarian ideal of minimal government and a laissez-faire...
The Promise of Politics
AuthorHannah Arendt
ISBN0805212132
In The Promise of Politics, Hannah Arendt examines the conflict between philosophy and politics. In particular, she shows how the tradition of Western political thought, which extends from Plato and Aristotle to its culmination in Marx, failed to account for human action. The concluding section...
The Return of the Political
AuthorChantal Mouffe
ISBN1844670570
A powerful new understanding of citizenship, democracy and pluralism.

In this work, Mouffe argues that liberal democracy misunderstands the problems of ethnic, religious and nationalist conflicts because of its inadequate conception of politics. She suggests that the democratic revolution...
Between Facts & Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law & Democracy (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
AuthorJürgen Habermas
ISBN0262581620
"[A] fascinating synthesis of Continental and Anglo-American legal theory. . . full of interesting insights, acute criticisms, and striking passages".
-- Richard A. Posner, "The New Republic" In "Between Facts and Norms" Jü rgen Habermas works out the legal and political implications of...
Taking Rights Seriously: With a New Appendix, a Response to Critics
AuthorRonald Dworkin
ISBN0674867114
What is law? What is it for? How should judges decide novel cases when the statutes and earlier decisions provide no clear answer? Do judges make up new law in such cases, or is there some higher law in which they discover the correct answer? Must everyone always obey the law? If not, when is a citizen morally...
Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics
AuthorMichael J. Sandel
In this book, Michael Sandel takes up some of the hotly contested moral and political issues of our time, including affirmative action, assisted suicide, abortion, gay rights, stem cell research, the meaning of toleration and civility, the gap between rich and poor, the role of markets, and the place...
Perpetual Peace and Other Essays
AuthorImmanuel Kant
ISBN0915145472
TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Introduction. Bibliography. A Note on the Text.

1. Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Intent (1784)
2. An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment? (1784)
3. Speculative Beginning of Human History (1786)
4. On the Proverb: That...
International Organizations: Principles and Issues
AuthorA. LeRoy Bennett
ISBN0130321850
This comprehensive historical, institutional and functional/programmatic analysis of the development of contemporary international organizations in all forms, examines the activities of salient regional organizations and non-governmental organizations, as well as multinational corporations....
The Idea of Justice
AuthorAmartya Sen
ISBN0674036131
Social justice: an ideal, forever beyond our grasp; or one of many practical possibilities? More than a matter of intellectual discourse, the idea of justice plays a real role in how--and how well--people live. And in this book the distinguished scholar Amartya Sen offers a powerful critique of the...
Fear: The History of a Political Idea
AuthorCorey Robin
ISBN0195189124
For many commentators, September 11 inaugurated a new era of fear. But as Corey Robin shows in his unsettling tour of the Western imagination--the first intellectual history of its kind--fear has shaped our politics and culture since time immemorial.
From the Garden of Eden to the Gulag Archipelago...
Order Without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes
AuthorRobert C. Ellickson
ISBN0674641698
In Order without Law, Robert Ellickson shows that law is far less important than is generally thought. He demonstrates that people largely govern themselves by means of informal rules--social norms--that develop without the aid of a state or other central coordinator. Integrating the latest scholarship...
Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity
AuthorStephen Toulmin
ISBN0226808386
In the seventeenth century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next three hundred years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature. While fueling extraordinary advances in all fields of human endeavor, this vision...
From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law
AuthorMartha C. Nussbaum
ISBN0195305310
A distinguished professor of law and philosophy at the University of Chicago, a prolific writer and award-winning thinker, Martha Nussbaum stands as one of our foremost authorities on law, justice, freedom, morality, and emotion. In From Disgust to Humanity, Nussbaum aims her considerable intellectual...
Pure Theory of Law
AuthorHans Kelsen
ISBN1584775785
Reprint of the second revised and enlarged edition, a complete revision of the first edition published in 1934. A landmark in the development of modern jurisprudence, the pure theory of law defines law as a system of coercive norms created by the state that rests on the validity of a generally accepted...
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
AuthorKwame Anthony Appiah
As a student of philosophy, and as a person genuinely interested in the type of project that Appiah pursues herein, I became increasingly frustrated with his work here. In an attempt to avoid metaphysical claims--and the subsequent alienation such notions entail--but, in the process, fails to come...
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