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Offers an account of 'altruistic emotions' (compassion, sympathy, and concern) and friendship that brings out their moral value. This book argues that moral theories centered on rationality, universal principle, obligation, and impersonality cannot capture this moral importance. It emphasizes the moral significance of emotions.

Examines sexual politics in a world which is changed by the challenges of feminism. This title explores how men have responded to feminism, and the contradictory feelings men have towards dominant forms of masculinity. It shows the importance of sexual and personal politics within contemporary politics and culture.

A survey of theories and beliefs about the growth, behaviour, performance and reform of the governments of modern Western democracies. Analysing the external pressures which have shaped modern governments, it examines different schools of political thought which seek to explain the behaviour and performance of governments.

Presents an examination of the essentially masculine nature of Max Weber's social and political thinking. This title demonstrates Weber's masculine reading of 'social life' and shows how his work advocates a masculine form of life that poses a challenge to contemporary women and to feminism.

Presents a philosophical examination of the contemporary state and nature of mankind. This title focuses upon such subjects as the tension between mass-order and individual human life, our conception of human life and the potential for mankind's future existence.

Traces the Development of Christian Democracy in France since its origins in the 1830s, discussing its theories and its importance in French history and politics, with reference to the Fourth Republic (1946-58) when the MRP was one of the key centre parties. This book provides an analysis of MRP, its economic, foreign and colonial policies.

Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) is one of the most important French social theoreticians of the nineteenth century. Proudhon played a great part in the First International and Paris Commune, in French syndicalism and in contemporary movements for currency reform. This book presents the first full-scale biography of Proudhon.

Franz Brentano is recognised as one of the most important philosophers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This work reveals the historical importance through its influence on Husserl's views on internal time consciousness.

Contains the research findings of the Glasgow University Media Group. This book argues that much of what passes as balanced and factual news reporting is produced from a highly partial viewpoint. It focuses on the British economy in crisis, and its thematic linkage with the Social Contract during the first four months of 1975.

Provides a comprehensive analytical guide to liberal thinking and considers the dominance of liberal thought in Anglo-American political philosophy. This book assesses the work of all the major liberal political philosophers including J S Mill, Herbert Spencer, Karl Popper, F A Hayek, John Rawls, and, Robert Nozick.

It is a commonly held belief that television news in Britain, on whatever channel, is more objective, more trustworthy, more neutral than press reporting. This book explodes the illusion. It covers the exhaustive monitoring of all television broadcasts over 6 months, from January to June 1975, with particular focus upon industrial news broadcasts.

Simone Weil - philosopher, trade union militant, factory worker - developed a penetrating critique of Marxism and a powerful political philosophy which serves an alternative both to liberalism and to Marxism. This title shows how Simone Weil's philosophy sought to place political action on a firmly moral basis.

The recapture of Jerusalem, the siege of acre, the fall of Tripoli, the effect in Baghdad of events in Syria; these and other happenings were faithfully recorded by Arab historians during the two centuries of the Crusades. This book presents 'the other side' of the Holy War.

Considers the development of the international economy in the forty years leading up to the First World War, with the adoption of the gold standard, a growth in world trade, the opening up of the continents by the railways, emigration from Europe, India and China, and large-scale international investment.

A collection of essays which combines economics, politics and history to provide insights into the creation of one of the greatest foreign aid programmes of the twentieth century. It is useful to readers interested in the Marshall Plan itself, the inner workings of a major act of US foreign policy, and its many economic and political facets.

Looks at the Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow as a leading figure in the development of contemporary fiction, one whose work has, however, been challenged by more experimental, 'post-modern' developments in the novel. This book draws attention to Bellow's comedy, his sense of contemporary history and its stresses and anxieties.

An introduction to the novels of Virginia Woolf. It is suitable for students starting out on a study of Woolf as a novelist, and for general readers seeking a fresh, helpful entry-point to the challenge of reading Woolf.

Philip Larkin is recognised as one of the most important writers to have emerged in Britain since the Second World War. This study begins with an account of Larkin's life and literary background and discusses his literary relationship with Hardy and Yeats and his association with the Movement.

A study of Philip Roth as a major twentieth-century writer. Setting the novelist's work in the context of Jewish-American writing (and Jewish-American families) and twentieth-century American politics, it explores the characteristic paradoxes in Roth: self-disgust and self-consciousness, stylishness and vulgarity, surrealism and the mundane.

A collection of speeches that explains some of the strategic foundations of Iraq's foreign and internal policies under the Ba'th Arab Socialist Party. It suitable for political and diplomatic departments, and universities and research organisations involved with the Middle East.

Although primarily known as a religious thinker, Weil devoted enormous energy in her formative years to her work as a political activist and as a philosopher/teacher. This book reveals these other sides of Weil and demonstrates the lines of continuity underlying her whole thought.

Offers an appraisal of Durkheim's method that argues that fundamental errors have been made in interpreting Durkheim. This book also argues that to understand 'The Rules' it is necessary also to understand the context of the French society. It establishes the real and unsuspected complexity of Durkheim's position.

Robert Owen and the Owenites were associated with the rise of an early industrial society in Britain and with the development of an agricultural, frontier society in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century. This book tells the story of Robert Owen and the movement associated with his name.

Constitutes a comparative study of the world's only truly successful democratic socialist parties: the Social Democratic Parties of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. This book shows that a political success grounded on the symbiotic relationship between party and trade union movement has been the foundation for a higher level of welfare state provision.

Antonio Gramsci is one of the few Marxist theoreticians to have considered the role and nature of education, yet paradoxically his revolutionary, political and social theory seems at odds with his conservative approach to the content and processes of schooling. This book examines his educational, political and cultural writings.

A work of applied social and political philosophy which relates the philosophical analysis to various forms of community work theory and practice. It takes account of some liberal criticisms of the community ideal, and seeks to re-state a theory of community compatible with a liberal ideology.

Offers a fresh approach to the study of pressure groups, whose importance in the British political system has been increasingly recognised. This book examines the theoretical approaches to an understanding of their role in the political process and presents a number of specific studies.