Author: Derek Matravers
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: emotion, art
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2001-03-29
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0199243166
ISBN-13: 9780199243167

Emotions very often form a bridge between our experience of art and of life. We frequently find that a particular poem, painting, or piece of music carries an emotional charge; we may even experience emotions towards, or on behalf of, a fictional character. These experiences are philosophically puzzling, for their causes seem quite different from the causes of emotion in the rest of our lives. Here, Derek Matravers shows that what these experiences have in common, and what links them to the expression of emotion in non-artistic cases, is the role of feelings. He analyzes various accounts of th

Authors:Derek Matravers, Jonathan Pike,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: anthology, philosophy, political, contemporary, debates
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2003-02-21
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0415302102
ISBN-13: 9780415302104

This book provides a comprehensive collection of influential essays that present a balanced survey of the major ideas that have come out of this area of study in the last two decades. Each article has been carefully chosen to enable any student of political philosophy to grasp the main debates within the topic. Clearly divided into two parts, Part One deals with fundamental philosophical issues: the nature of social explanation; distributive justice and liberalism and communitarianism. Part Two contains seminal papers in more specific areas: citizenship and multiculturalism; nationalism; de

Authors:Arthur Marwick, Derek Matravers, L. Walsh,
Publisher: Open University Worldwide
Keywords: revolution, block, classicism, history, humanities, introduction
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2006-01-14
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0749296658
ISBN-13: 9780749296650

Authors:Derek Matravers, Jonathan Pike, Nigel Warburton,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: mill, machiavelli, philosophy, political, reading
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2001-04
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0415211972
ISBN-13: 9780415211970

This book is a clear and thorough introduction to political philosophy and thought and introduces the reader to major political thinkers and complementary secondary readings. It is structured around major works such as Machiavelli’s Prince, Hobbes’ Leviathan, Locke’s Second Treatise on Government, Rousseau’s Social Contract, Marx and Engels’ German Ideology (Part 1) and Mill’s On Liberty and The Subjection of Women.

Author: Matt Matravers
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: coercion, rationale, punishment, justice
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2000-10-05
List price: $175.00
ISBN-10: 0198295731
ISBN-13: 9780198295730

This book aims to answer the question of why, and by what right, some people punish others. With a groundbreaking new theory, Matravers argues that the justification of punishment must be embedded in a larger political and moral theory. He also uses the problem of punishment to undermine contemporary accounts of justice.

Author: Matt Matravers
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: contractualism, scanlon
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2004-03-05
List price: $170.00
ISBN-10: 0714655732
ISBN-13: 9780714655734

This collection brings together essays by distinguished political philosophers which reflect on the detailed arguments of What We Owe to Each Other, and comment critically both on Scanlon’s contractualism and his revised understandings of motivation and morality. The essays illustrate the uses of Scanlon’s contractualism by applying it to moral and political problems and in so doing they provide an assessment of the ability of Scanlon’s contractualism by applying it to other forms of ethical theory. The resulting volume makes an important and original contribution to the lite

Author: Amanda Matravers
Publisher: Willan Publishing (UK)
Keywords: cambridge, criminal, justice, series, risks, reducing, offenders, community, managing, sex
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2003-11
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 1843920158
ISBN-13: 9781843920151

This title explores current criminal justice responses to the management of individuals who are convicted of sexual offences. It aims to help policy-makers, practitioners and students to develop an informed position on this complex and increasingly controversial issue. Although the focus is primarily upon the UK context, contributions from North America (USA and Canada) provide an important comparative perspective.