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Peter Conn is Andrea Mitchell Term Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include The Divided Mind: Ideology and Imagination in America, 1898-1917, Literature in America, and Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography, which was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book, was included among the five finalists for the National Book Critics Circle award in biography, and received the Athenaeum Award. Amy Gutmann is President of the University of Pennsylvania. Her most recent books are Identity in Democracy: Why Deliberative Democracy? with Dennis Thompson, and Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race, with Anthony Appiah, which won the Ralph J. Bunche Award of the American Political Science Association, the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award, and the Gustavus Myers Human Rights Award.




16 Ebooks by Amy Gutmann

Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Printer and publisher, author and educator, scientist and inventor, statesman and philanthropist, Benjamin Franklin was the very embodiment of the American type of self-made man. In 1771, at the age …
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€27.99
Ronald J. Daniels & Donald F. Kettl: On Risk and Disaster
Named one of Planetizen’s Top 10 Books of 2006 Hurricane Katrina not only devastated a large area of the nation’s Gulf coast, it also raised fundamental questions about ways the nation can, and shoul …
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€38.99
Charles Taylor: Multiculturalism
A new edition of the highly acclaimed book Multiculturalism and ‘The Politics of Recognition, ‘ this paperback brings together an even wider range of leading philosophers and social scientists to pro …
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€33.99
Kwame Anthony Appiah & Amy Gutmann: Color Conscious
In America today, the problem of achieving racial justice–whether through ‘color-blind’ policies or through affirmative action–provokes more noisy name-calling than fruitful deliberation. In Color …
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€44.99
Robert M. Solow: Work and Welfare
The Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Solow directs his attention here to one of today’s most controversial social issues: how to get people off welfare and into jobs. With characteristic eloquenc …
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€84.99
Amy Gutmann: Democratic Education
A groundbreaking classic that lays out and defends a democratic theory of education Who should have the authority to shape the education of citizens in a democracy? This is the central question posed …
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€57.99
Judith Jarvis Thomson: Goodness and Advice
How should we live? What do we owe to other people? In Goodness and Advice, the eminent philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson explores how we should go about answering such fundamental questions. In doin …
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€39.99
Amy Gutmann: Identity in Democracy
Written by one of America’s leading political thinkers, this is a book about the good, the bad, and the ugly of identity politics.Amy Gutmann rises above the raging polemics that often characterize d …
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€42.99
Amy Gutmann & Dennis F. Thompson: Why Deliberative Democracy?
The most widely debated conception of democracy in recent years is deliberative democracy–the idea that citizens or their representatives owe each other mutually acceptable reasons for the laws they …
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€39.99
Michael Ignatieff: Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry
Michael Ignatieff draws on his extensive experience as a writer and commentator on world affairs to present a penetrating account of the successes, failures, and prospects of the human rights revolut …
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€39.99
Amy Gutmann & Dennis F. Thompson: The Spirit of Compromise
Why compromise is essential for effective government and why it is missing in politics today To govern in a democracy, political leaders have to compromise. When they do not, the result is political …
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€19.99
Antonin Scalia: A Matter of Interpretation
We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. According to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a judge like th …
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€20.99
J. M. Coetzee: The Lives of Animals
The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her …
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€17.99
Amy Gutmann & Jonathan D. Moreno: Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die: Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America
NOW FEATURING A NEW AFTERWORD, ‘PANDEMIC ETHICS’ From two eminent scholars comes a provocative examination of bioethics and our culture’s obsession with having it all without paying the price. Shoc …
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€16.99
Amy Gutmann: Democracy and the Welfare State
The essays in this volume explore the moral foundations and the political prospects of the welfare state in the United States. Among the questions addressed are the following: Has public support for …
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€67.99
Amy Gutmann: Freedom of Association
Americans are joiners. They are members of churches, fraternal and sororal orders, sports leagues, community centers, parent-teacher associations, professional associations, residential associations, …
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€62.99