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In praise of meekness: essays on ethics and politics

In praise of meekness: essays on ethics and politics

Norberto Bobbio

In this important volume, the leading political theorist and philosopher Norberto Bobbio confronts some of the most enduring moral questions of our time.
Democracy and Dictatorship: The Nature and Limits of State Power

Democracy and Dictatorship: The Nature and Limits of State Power

Norberto Bobbio

In this important volume Norberto Bobbio examines some of the central themes of political theory and presents a systematic exposition of his views.
Future of Democracy

Future of Democracy

Norberto Bobbio

Norberto Bobbio is the foremost political theorist in Italy today. Written with verve and passion as well as erudition, this important work will make a major contribution to current debates in social and political theory.
Left and Right: The Significance of a Political Distinction

Left and Right: The Significance of a Political Distinction

Norberto Bobbio

In this book - which was a tremendous success in Italy - Norberto Bobbio challenges these views, arguing that the fundamental political distinction between Left and Right, which has shaped the two centuries since the French Revolution, has ...
Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law Tradition

Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law Tradition

Norberto Bobbio

Pre-eminent among European political philosophers, Norberto Bobbio has throughout his career turned to the political theory of Thomas Hobbes.
Ideological Profile of Twentieth-Century Italy

Ideological Profile of Twentieth-Century Italy

Norberto Bobbio

In this book, Bobbio, who himself played an outstanding role in the development of Italian civic culture, follows each of the major ideologies, explaining how they developed, describing the key actors, and considering the legacies they left ...
Old Age and Other Essays

Old Age and Other Essays

Norberto Bobbio

This book by one of Italy's oldest and wisest intellectuals is a philosophical and personal meditation on ageing.
The Age of Rights

The Age of Rights

Norberto Bobbio

This book presents a valuable clarification and defence of human rights by Italy's leading political theorist.
The Idea of the Republic

The Idea of the Republic

Norberto Bobbio

This book is an exciting example of political philosophy in action, with a breadth of reference (Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Kant, Rousseau, Pettit and Skinner), and a lightness of touch which is uncommon to works in this field.
Liberalism and Democracy

Liberalism and Democracy

Norberto Bobbio

A magisterial introduction to the relationship between liberalism and democracy, from its beginnings in classical Greek thought to our own times.
Urban Ecological Design: A Process for Regenerative Places

Urban Ecological Design: A Process for Regenerative Places

Danilo Palazzo

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The Bobbio Missal, A.D. 700

The Bobbio Missal, A.D. 700

Paul Berry

This study examines the basis for the union between the Latin language and Christianity.
Revista bancária brasileira

Revista bancária brasileira

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Cloud Computing and Big Data

Cloud Computing and Big Data

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