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Teleological Structures in Human Life Essays in Honor of Anselm W. Müller

Teleological Structures in Human Life Essays in Honor of Anselm W. Müller

This is the first collection of essays devoted to the thought of Anselm W. Müller. It brings to the attention of the English-speaking world an influential and highly regarded philosopher who has made important contributions to a wide range of philosophical debates. Arguably Müller’s most important contributions are to the philosophy of action and virtue ethics. The contributors who include friends colleagues and former students engage with different aspects of Müller’s thought in these areas. Subjects include his interpretation of Aristotle and Wittgenstein the teleology of thought and action the Aristotelian distinction between poiēsis and praxis and its application to ethical upbringing and the possibility of practical knowledge and practical truth. Teleological Structures in Human Life will be of interest to researches and advanced students working on virtue ethics philosophy of action and practical reasoning. | Teleological Structures in Human Life Essays in Honor of Anselm W. Müller

GBP 120.00
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The Frankfurt School The Critical Theories of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno

The Frankfurt School The Critical Theories of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno

The Frankfurt School refers to a school of neo-Marxist interdisciplinary social theory particular established at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt Germany in 1923. Tarr's investigation focuses on three key issues. The first is the Frankfurt School's original program of providing a general theory of modern capitalist society. The second is the claim to represent a continuation of the original Marxian theory through the school's Critical Theory. The third is the scientific validity of Critical Theory in light of the generally accepted canons of the natural and social sciences. Tarr proposes that in the last analysis Critical Theory is simply another existentialist philosophy. As such it is a specific expression of certain socio-historical conditions and of the situation of a particular social group the marginal Jewish bourgeois intelligentsia of Central Europe. This European-Jewish contribution became apparent after the great metaphysical impulse of the pre-Socratic and Platonic-Aristotelian philosophies had run their respective courses. Both philosophies represented philosophical schools of ethics and both wanted to help man take up a defense against the storms of passions and fate. It was from these ancient sources that the Frankfurt School emerged. The Frankfurt School derived its impetus in the twentieth century in which Tarr claims a shift occurred from the ontological to the subjective realm. This in turn led to deep changes in philosophical theory and practice which led to a more psychologically oriented mode of social thought. This in-depth study covers the entire career of the Frankfurt School's Critical Theory from 1923 to 1974. It does so by applying the same standards of criticism to its primary doctrines as it turned on other theories but with a keen sense of balance and fairness. | The Frankfurt School The Critical Theories of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno

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Conceptualising Religion and Worldviews for the School Opportunities Challenges and Complexities of a Transition from Religious Education

Conceptualising Religion and Worldviews for the School Opportunities Challenges and Complexities of a Transition from Religious Education

This timely volume addresses current debates surrounding the transition from the teaching of religious education (RE) to the more holistic subject of Religion and Worldviews (R&W) in England and posits criteria for best practice among educators in varied settings and in a broader international context. By examining empirical sources governmental reports and in particular the 2018 final report from the Commission on Religious Education (CORE) the volume suggests key principles needed to guide the transition and ensure that R&W is effectively integrated into curricula pedagogy and teaching resources to meet the needs of all student groups. By effectively conceptualising R&W the volume gives particular attention to the intersections of the subject with democratic citizenship education intercultural competence and religious literacy. This text will benefit researchers academics and educators with an interest in religious education and teacher education as well as the philosophy and sociology of education more broadly. Those interested in education policy and politics as well as citizenship and schooling in the UK will also benefit from this volume. | Conceptualising Religion and Worldviews for the School Opportunities Challenges and Complexities of a Transition from Religious Education

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Schelling Hegel and the Philosophy of Nature From Matter to Spirit

Schelling Hegel and the Philosophy of Nature From Matter to Spirit

This book develops an original interpretation of the relationship between F. W. J. Schelling and G. W. F. Hegel. It argues that the difference between these philosophers should be understood in light of their shared commitment to the philosophy of nature and the idea that spirit or humanity emerges from the natural world. The author makes a case for the contemporary relevance of German idealist philosophy of nature by walking the reader through its major themes motivations and arguments. Along the way Schelling and Hegel are shown to develop key insights about the structure of reality and the dependence of living things and human beings upon inorganic natural processes. In elucidating the details of Schelling’s and Hegel’s respective philosophies of nature the book challenges some of our most basic assumptions about the scope of philosophical inquiry and the relationship between matter life and human existence. Schelling Hegel and the Philosophy of Nature will appeal to scholars and advanced students working on German idealism as well as those interested in contemporary philosophies of nature and the topic of emergence. | Schelling Hegel and the Philosophy of Nature From Matter to Spirit

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Middle East Geography and Geopolitics

Middle East Geography and Geopolitics

Middle East is a lively and much-needed update of a well-respected work. Based on W. B. Fisher's book of the same name published in 1978 Anderson provides a comprehensive account of the physical geography which has been so instrumental to the make-up of the geopolitics of the region. The book also covers the sociology religion society and economy of the region. With comprehensive illustrations and maps it provides an excellent synopsis and critique of the complexities which have made this an intriguing and important regional geographical study. | Middle East Geography and Geopolitics

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Chakshudana or Opening the Eyes Seeing South Asian Art Anew

Chakshudana or Opening the Eyes Seeing South Asian Art Anew

Chakshudana or rituals of opening the eyes are practiced across multiple South Asian communities by artists sculptors and priests. The ritual offers gods access to the mortal world. This practice applied to the study of material and visual culture offers a distinctive perspective to interrogate the complex engagements with paintings sculptures found objects fragments built environments and ecologies. This volume takes the process of seeing as its focus—to look closely remaining true to the object but also to see widely—from multiple subjective stances and diverse bodily engagements such as walking to dreaming glancing to looking askance hypnotic stares and to see beyond the visible. It examines art history through nuanced considerations of materiality aesthetics and regional specificities. The essays emerge from current research that builds on the contributions of Michael W. Meister W. Norman Brown Distinguished Professor of History of Art and South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania whose works laid the foundations for the study of South Asian visual and material culture. The essays in this book underscore methodological resonances rather than privileging conventional categories of media or chronology exploring artistic media including temples and paintings as well as Bengali-quilted textiles manuscript ‘lozenges ’ and metal repousse. This volume part of the Visual Media and Histories Series will be of interest to students and researchers of history of art religious studies and history as well as the allied disciplines of anthropology and folklore studies. Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Chakshudana or Opening the Eyes Seeing South Asian Art Anew

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Myth Literature and the Unconscious

Myth Literature and the Unconscious

At a time when the place and significance of myth in society has come under renewed scrutiny Myth Literature and the Unconscious contributes to shaping the new interdisciplinary field of myth studies. The editors find in psychoanalysis a natural and necessary ally for investigations in myth and myth-informed literature and the arts. At the same time the collection re-values myths and myth-based cultural products as vital aids to the discipline and practice of psychoanalysis. The volume spans a vast geo-cultural range (including ancient Egypt India Japan nineteenth-century France and twentieth-century Germany) and investigates cultural products from the Mahabharata to J. W. Goethe's opus and eighteenth-century Japanese fiction and from William Blake's visionary poetry to contemporary blockbuster television series. It encompasses mythic topics and figures such as Oedipus Orpheus the Scapegoat and the Hero while mobilising Freudian Jungian object relations and Lacanian psychoanalytic approaches.

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The Progress of a Biographer

The Progress of a Biographer

First published in 1949 The Progress of a Biographer follows a general principle that there are absolute truths which an individual can in some degree apprehend and live by but which churches and institutions can only obscure and pervert. This principle is followed for the sketches in this book most of which were written between the end of World War II and the spring of 1948. The subjects range from P. G. Wodehouse to Karl Marx from W. B. Yeats to Thackeray and from Rainer Maria Rilke to Lloyd George. Believing that to understand a man’s work one must form a coherent impression of the man the author has tried to suggest the leading characteristics and governing impulses of his subjects. His intention has been to clarify rather than to criticise though doubtless the affect may sometimes be one of criticism falling short of clarification. The book will be of interest to students across disciplines but will particularly appeal to students of English literature.

GBP 99.99
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The Privacy of the Self

The Privacy of the Self

The Privacy of the Self was the first collection of papers showing the development of the author's thinking over twenty five years of clinical work. He was nurtured in the tradition of Anna Freud John Rickman and D. W. Winnicott but his contribution to psychoanalytic literature was a distinctive and personal one. What emerges from this book is the natural and private crystallization of his experiences with his patients and teachers. As he says in his preface: Psychoanalysis is an extremely private discipline of sensibility and skill. The practice of psychoanalysis multiplies this privacy into a specialized relationship between two persons who through the very nature of their exclusivity with each other change each other. The first thing I wish to say about my work reported in these papers is that my patients have helped me become and personalize my potential of thought affectivity and effort into a way of life that I find deeply satisfying.

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The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic Transformative New Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory

The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic Transformative New Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory

The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic: Transformative New Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory brings together the theories of Melanie Klein and Donald W. Winnicott two giants and geniuses of the British school of object relations clinical and developmental theory and psychoanalytic technique. In this book The author attempts to integrate the theories of Klein and Winnicott rather than polarising them as has been done often in the past. This book takes the best of Klein and Winnicott for use by clinicians on an everyday basis without having the disputes between their followers interfere with the full and rich platter of theoretical offerings they each of them provided. In addition this book looks at the biographies of Klein and Winnicott to show how their theories were inspired by their contrasting lives and contrasting parenting and developmental dynamics. By examining their theories in relation to their biographies one can see why their dialectical theoretical focuses emerged highly contrasted in their major emphasis and yet highly complementary when applied together to clinical work. | The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic Transformative New Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory

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The Public Policy Theory Primer

The Public Policy Theory Primer

Public policy is a broad and interdisciplinary area of study and research in the field tends to reflect this. Yet for those teaching and studying public policy the disjointed nature of the field can be confusing and cumbersome. This text provides a consistent and coherent framework for uniting the field of public policy. Authors Kevin B. Smith and Christopher W. Larimer offer an organized and comprehensive overview of the core questions and concepts major theoretical frameworks primary methodological approaches and key controversies and debates in each subfield of policy studies from the policy process and policy analysis to program evaluation and policy implementation. The third edition has been updated throughout to include the latest scholarship and approaches in the field including new and expanded coverage of behavioral economics the narrative policy framework Fourth Generation implementation studies the policy regime approach field experiments and the debate of program versus policy implementation studies. Now with an appendix of sample comprehensive exam questions The Public Policy Theory Primer remains an indispensable text for the systematic study of public policy.

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Globalization Multipolarity and Great Power Competition

Globalization Multipolarity and Great Power Competition

In his new book Hanna Samir Kassab examines changes and trends in international politics and the competition between great powers for control of the international system. He argues that the increase in geopolitical economic nationalist and resource competition between three great powers the United States China and Russia points to the changing structure of the international system. This competition is a systemic one focusing more on the rules and norms that defined the system since the end of the Cold War. This American-led unipolar order is translating into a multipolar one. Kassab begins by tracing the decline of the United States after the Iraq War (2003) and the Great Recession (2008) as well as the rise of China and the resurgence of Russia. He describes major foreign policy changes from George H. W. Bush to Donald J. Trump and how the various administrations approached the international system. Russia and China will increase their international influence as the United States pulls back from the international system. Written using simple jargon Globalization Multipolarity and Great Power Competition is equally accessible to academics and casual readers and laypeople interested in international politics.

GBP 130.00
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Onward Christian Soldiers? The Religious Right in American Politics

Onward Christian Soldiers? The Religious Right in American Politics

They have money influence power - and they turn out to vote. They are groups like Focus on the Family Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America (all parts of the Christian Right. But are they a serious threat to religious liberty bent on creating a theocratic state or the last defenders of religion and family values in America). Bringing the story of the religious right up to the Obama administration this revised fourth edition explores the history of the movement in twentieth and early twenty-first century American politics. The authors review the expansion of the Christian Right through George W. Bush's second administration and evaluate how the religious right fared in the 2006 and 2008 elections. Although figureheads of the religious right remain in the news their power in Washington may be declining and the authors consider the fate of the religious right under the Obama administration. Examining how the religious right both does and does not fit into the proper role of religious groups in American politics Onward Christian Soldiers? is an essential addition to the Dilemmas in American Politics series. | Onward Christian Soldiers? The Religious Right in American Politics

GBP 130.00
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Faith War and Violence

Faith War and Violence

Faith War and Violence analyzes the age-old links between religion and violence perpetrated in the name of God and the role religion performs in politically infusing the state with romantic spiritualism. The volume examines instances of this phenomenon from ancient Rome to the modern day; it finds that religion-inspired violence is not restricted to Abrahamic faiths or to one geographic region. The fact that symbolically charged religious violence has destructive consequences is not lost on contributors to Faith War and Violence. Among the subjects tackled are: the ideological and religious foundations that inspired the founders of Al-Qaeda and its role in the Arab Spring; the long history of religious conflict in Ireland known as the Troubles; Sikh extremism; and the evolution of the Christian approach to war. As the contributors demonstrate in Western societies the unity of religious fervor and warmongering stretches from Constantine's incorporation of Christian symbols into Roman army flags to slogans like Gott mit uns (God is with us) which appeared on the belt buckles of German soldiers in World War I. In recent years George W. Bush declared the war on terror a crusade and his speechwriter David Frum coined the religiously inspired term Axis of Evil to describe Iraq and other countries opposing the United States.

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Afrofuturism and Digital Humanities Show Me and I Will Engage Differently

Afrofuturism and Digital Humanities Show Me and I Will Engage Differently

This book brings Afrofuturism into conversation with digital humanities to pioneer the field of Digital Africana Studies and shows how students and academics can engage with the vision of Afrofuturism both theoretically and practically in the classroom and through research. As Black people across the globe consider their place in the future following the past two decades of technological advancement Afrofuturism and its relevance for the humanities has become ever pertinent. While Afrofuturism has thus far been discussed through a literary artistic or popular culture lens growing use of new technologies and its resultant intersections with the reality of our racial experiences has created a need for approaching Afrofuturism from a digital studies perspective. Via detailed case studies Bryan W. Carter introduces the field of Digital Africana Studies to demonstrate how this new area can be experienced pedagogically. Alongside the book readers can also visit select Digital Africana Studies projects that exemplify the various technologies and projects described at the author’s website: ibryancarter. com/projects. Given its unique approach to the path-breaking tradition of Afrofuturism the book will be indispensable for scholars and students across fields such as digital humanities media studies black studies African American studies and Africana studies. | Afrofuturism and Digital Humanities Show Me and I Will Engage Differently

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Neighborhood Futures Citizen Rights and Local Control

Neighborhood Futures Citizen Rights and Local Control

Two conflicting developments have recently characterized civic life in the United States. The first the centralization of formal agencies of government too often leads to diminishing political liberties and tyranny. The second which is characterized by a greater amount of civic participation and individual self-actualization is the formation of a whole new layer of sublocal institutions both public and private. These include residential community and condominium associations; property owner-based business improvement districts in nearly all major cities; neighborhood improvement districts in large cities; and even self-governing public schools. Neighborhood Futures is a realistic exploration of how for a society to move forward and improve its citizens must exercise the power to act creatively and feel they are both competent and responsible individuals. Supporting his ideas with the Dutch innovation of the woonerf or neighborhood street government Liebmann follows through by discussing other foreign models of civic life forms and illustrating how they have resulted in resident satisfaction. George W. Liebmann is a partner of Liebmann & Shively P. A. a Baltimore law firm that specializes in local government and education law. In addition to having served as a top aide to one of Maryland's governors he is a former faculty associate of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and is the author of Little Platoons and The Gallows in the Grove. | Neighborhood Futures Citizen Rights and Local Control

GBP 130.00
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Revise AS Level Psychology

Revise AS Level Psychology

Revise AS Level Psychology is designed to give a clear framework of the content of the course. It will help both the hard-working student who has worked solidly throughout the course and the 'I should have worked harder' student who urgently needs to gain sufficient knowledge to pass the exam. It has been updated in line with the latest syllabus specification and includes page references to AS Level Psychology 4th Edition by Michael W. Eysenck. Although it is designed to supplement this book it can be used alongside any AS-level psychology textbook. This revision guide is written for a broad spectrum of students taking the AQA-A AS psychology exam. It gives excellent guidance not only on how to pass the exam but also on how to avoid the panic and pitfalls that so many students face at exam time. It includes a number of helpful features: An outline of the format of the exam following the most up-to-date syllabus requirements along with tips on how to perform well and advice on raising grades Essential topic information presented as flow charts and summary lists Clear and full definitions of important terms and concepts studies and theories An explanation of how examiners assess students Guidance throughout the text that encourages active engagement with the material Can be used with any AS-level psychology textbook though there are cross-references throughout to the appropriate pages in Eysenck's AS Level Psychology

GBP 175.00
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Psychology and Politics

Psychology and Politics

In applying psychology to the field of politics the eminent British anthropologist and psychologist W. H. R. Rivers deals with social or collective psychology rather than with the psychology of the individual. This choice presents a number of problems. These include the relation between individual and collective psychology the concept of a collective or group mind and the question of how far society can be regarded as an organism. The choice also presents the need to explain the fact that when a number of individuals act together the product of their combined activity is not the same as what might have emerged from the separate activity of individuals. Rivers' belief in the political process prompted him to deliver the lectures on psychological theory that are printed in this volume. Three other addresses are also included in this volume one on socialism and human nature another on education and mental hygiene and a lecture on the aims of ethnography. Rivers considered the relation between psychology and sociology putting forward the position that the formulation of an adequate science of social psychology lies in the observation of social conduct including not merely the social conduct of everyday life but still those forms of it which are subsumed under the headings of religion economics and politics as well as the social institution of language. The social behavior of mankind is capable of being studied as a methodological principle independently of the psychological basis of behavior. | Psychology and Politics

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Black Reconstruction in America Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America 1860-1880

Black Reconstruction in America Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America 1860-1880

After four centuries of bondage the nineteenth century marked the long-awaited release of millions of black slaves. Subsequently these former slaves attempted to reconstruct the basis of American democracy. W. E. B. Du Bois one of the greatest intellectual leaders in United States history evaluates the twenty years of fateful history that followed the Civil War with special reference to the efforts and experiences of African Americans. Du Bois's words best indicate the broader parameters of his work: the attitude of any person toward this book will be distinctly influenced by his theories of the Negro race. If he believes that the Negro in America and in general is an average and ordinary human being who under given environment develops like other human beings then he will read this story and judge it by the facts adduced. The plight of the white working class throughout the world is directly traceable to American slavery on which modern commerce and industry was founded Du Bois argues. Moreover the resulting color caste was adopted forwarded and approved by white labor and resulted in the subordination of colored labor throughout the world. As a result the majority of the world's laborers became part of a system of industry that destroyed democracy and led to World War I and the Great Depression. This book tells that story. | Black Reconstruction in America Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America 1860-1880

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Sexual Harassment and Sexual Consent

Sexual Harassment and Sexual Consent

Sexual Harassment and Sexual Consent serves as a compelling forum for the analysis of ethical cultural social and political issues related to sexual relationships and sexual behavior. These issues include but are not limited to: sexual consent and sexual responsibility; sexual harassment and freedom of speech and association; sexual privacy; censorship and pornography; impact of film/literature on sexual relationships; and university and governmental regulation of intimate relationships. The premier volume deals with a central theme: sexual harassment and sexual consent with emphasis on academia. Theoretical articles research reports editorials and book reviews analyze issues from psychological sociological political and artistic perspectives. Contributions include: Eight Reasons Not to Prohibit Relationships between Professors and Students by Peg Tittle; The Impact of Sexual Misconduct on the Reputation of Martin Luther King Jr. by A. B. Assensoh and Y. Alex-Assensoh; Homosexuality Sexual Harassment and Military Readiness by Deborah E. Kapp and Gary A. Kustis; and College Students' Perceptions of the Relationship between Sex and Drinking by Gwendell W. Gravitt Jr. and Mary M. Krueger. Also included are reviews of Sexual Harassment on Campus edited by B. R. Sandler and R. J. Shoop; Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture by S. B. Ortner; The Power of Beauty by N. Friday; Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America by L. Kipnis; and Mediated Sex by B. McNair. In addition Warren Farrell reviews the film First Wives Club. This initial volume of Sexuality and Culture will be of interest to all those who participate in campus life as well as sociologists psychologists and government and university policymakers.

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Foundations of Political Sociology

Foundations of Political Sociology

When initially published in 1972 Foundations of Political Sociology was acknowledged to be the first unified study of the field. It still provides a cross-fertilization of knowledge concerning the interrelation of social class and political power. Taking into account new specializations in social theory the book covers all major social systems on a comparative international basis. The opening remarks prepared for this new printing provide an estimate of how the field has changed during the past quarter century and what unexpected challenges have arisen in areas of public trust and personal privacy. This book examines fascism communism anarchism conservatism and liberalism as systems of rule as well as domains of theory. It is thus a unique effort at linking problems of history with problems of policy. The six sections of the book detail the historical and theoretical antecedents of this relatively new hybrid area in social research: policy coordinates of political sociology types of social systems forms of political ideologies polarities of revolution and counter-revolution civil-military relations mass vs. elite contradictions and threads of consensus and conflict running through these themes. Horowitz presents as his central thesis that in today's world no economic determinism can do justice to social reality. Foundations is the work of a politically sensitive and knowledgeable scholar. Louis Schneider Social ForcesFoundations of Political Sociology reflects extensive teaching and research in the area of political sociology. The book combines analytical insight with a provocative cutting edge and represents the best of Professor Horowitz. Thomas R. McFaul The AnnalsHorowitz's political stance is interesting. Though he knows the radical literature he distances himself from it. He sympathizes with everyone and strives to be provocative and yet elusive a personal voice in a dogmatic discipline. W. J. M. Mackenzie Political Studies

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The State in Relation to Labour

The State in Relation to Labour

W. Stanley Jevons was a central figure linking political economy with social policy and The State in Relation to Labour is the quintessential product of that fusion. Jevons reviews how legislation enacted for the protection of labor re-established the social contract on a new industrial footing. The concept of industrial partnership insured that the state continued to hold a monopoly of power while taking account of rising labor agitation. Jevons' scholarly brilliance is evident in this pathbreaking work on economics and policy construction. The State in Relation to Labour deals with the economic role of government in resolving conflicts between different groups of English citizens. The issue of class is central to the topic and two further points are implicit. The first is the market economy as a product of the institutions which form and operate through it. Jevons argues that markets can be and indeed have been formed to favor one class interest or another. Second he asserts that conventional arguments favor the class interests they serve whether or not they are recognized to doing so. Jevons neither shrinks from candid analysis of English social political and economic history and institutions nor espouses an openly pragmatic approach to the economic role of government. He eschews the erection of class or other ideological sentiment into principles of policy. Implicit in his analysis is an understanding that some law some set of legal rights and limitations is necessary. The issue is not whether government will establish relative rights and responsibilities but what they will be and further when they will be changed. Among the topics discussed are principles of industrial legislation direct interference of the state with labor the Factory Acts and similar legislation directly affecting laborers trade union legislation the law of industrial conspiracy cooperation and industrial partnership and arbitration and conciliation. In a new introduction Warren J. Samuels examines the life and works of William Stanley Jevons. He discusses the various arguments put forth in The State in Relation to Labour and the consequences of Jevons' approach.

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