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Animal Liberation
An argument for taking animal suffering seriously, written for a general audience. The first chapter argues that the principle of equal consideration of interests, which condemns racism and…
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Creating Capabilities
A short introduction, subtitled The Human Development Approach, to the capabilities approach to justice and development that Nussbaum built alongside the economist Amartya Sen. It opens with Vasanti,…
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Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?
A book for general readers based on Sandel's popular Harvard course, Justice. It introduces the main theories of justice through hard cases. Sandel starts with price gouging after…
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Prison Notebooks
The notes written by the Italian Communist leader Antonio Gramsci in Mussolini's prisons, where he was held from 1926. Working under censorship and illness, he filled some thirty…
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
A large work of sociology, built on surveys of French tastes carried out in the 1960s, that answers Kant's philosophy of aesthetic judgement with empirical evidence. Bourdieu argues…
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The Rebel
A long essay published in 1951 that continues the argument of The Myth of Sisyphus. Where that book asked whether suicide can be justified in an absurd world,…
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The Revolt of the Masses
A book by the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset, serialised in a Madrid newspaper from 1929 and published in 1930. It opens with a plain observation: everywhere…
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The Need for Roots
Simone Weil's last book, written in London in 1943 for the Free French, who had asked her for ideas on how France might be rebuilt after the war.…
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The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt's first major book, published in 1951 and enlarged in 1958, which asks how Nazism and Stalinism, a new form of government, became possible. It has three…
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Escape from Freedom (The Fear of Freedom)
A study in social psychology by the German-born psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, written in exile in the United States and published in 1941; in Britain it appeared as The…
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