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Social and Political Philosophy Classical Western Texts in Feminist and Multicultural Perspectives

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ISBN-10: 053460210X

ISBN-13: 9780534602109

Edition: 3rd 2003 (Revised)

Authors: James P. Sterba

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This anthology, with general and reading-specific introductions by the editor, puts the historical development of Western social and political philosophy into both feminist and multicultural perspectives. Each of the book's sections provides a basic foundation of classic Western readings, followed by articles with feminist and multicultural perspectives.
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Book details

List price: $199.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 7/24/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 608
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.046

Receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, James P. Sterba has gone on to publish (either as author or editor) many notable books, textbooks, and scholarly articles in the fields of ethics and social and political philosophy. He currently teaches at the University of Notre Dame.

General Introduction
Plato
Plato: The Republic
Lynda Lange: The Function of Equal Education in Plato's Republic
Confucius: The Analects
Aristotle and Marsonius Rufus
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle: The Politics
Musonius Rufus: Discourses
Elizabeth V. Spelman: Aristotle and the Politicization of the Soul
Ewe Proverbs
Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica
Thomas Aquinas: On Kingship
Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica
Marie de Gournay: The Equality of Men and Women
Maimonides: Guide for the Perplexed
Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan
Carole Pateman: Hobbes, Patriarchy and Conjugal Right
Bartolome de Las Casas: The Devastation of the Indies
Locke
John Locke: Two Treatises of Government
Lorenne M. G. Clark: Women and John Locke; or, Who Owns the Apples in the Garden of Eden?
Tecumseh: We Must Be United
Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: A Discourse on the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality of Mankind
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: On the Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Emile
Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Ward Churchill: Perversions of Justice: A Native-American Examination of the Doctrine of U.S. Rights to Occupancy in North America
Kant
Immanuel Kant: Theory and Practice
Immanuel Kant: The Metaphysic of Morals
Immanuel Kant: Perpetual Peace
Susan Mendus: Kant: An Honest but Narrow-Minded Bourgeois
Mahatma K. Gandhi: On Satyagraha
Mill and Harriet Taylor
John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill: On Liberty
John Stuart Mill: The Subjection of Women
Harriet Taylor: Enfranchisement of Women
Mary Lyndon Shanley: Marital Slavery and Friendship: John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women
Mo Tzu: Universal Love
Marx and Engels
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx: Critique of the Gotha Program
Friedrich Engels: The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State
Heidi Hartmann: The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union
E. F. Schumacher: Buddhist Economics
Rawls and Hospers
John Rawls: The Theory of Justice
John Rawls: The Domain of the Political and Overlapping Consensus
John Hospers: The Libertarian Manifesto
Susan Moller Okin: Justice as Fairness - For Whom?
Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth
Habermas and Foucault
Jurgen Habermas: Discourse Ethics
Michel Foucault: Power/Knowledge
Sandra Bartky: Foucault, Femininity and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power
Cornel West: Philosophy, Politics, and Power: An Afro-American Perspective
MacIntyre and Charles Taylor
Alasdair MacIntyre: The Privatization of Good
Charles Taylor: Atomism
Marilyn Friedman: Feminism and Modern Friendship: Dislocating the Community
Helena Norberg-Hodge: Ancient Futures
Catharine MacKinnon and Cornel West
Catharine MacKinnon: Toward a Feminist Jurisprudence
Cornel West: The Politics of American Neo-Pragmatism
James P. Sterba: Concluding Philosophical Postscript: Reconciling Social and Political Ideals