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Author: Scott R. Sehon (Joseph E. Merrill Professor of Philosophy, Joseph E. Merrill Professor of Philosophy, Bowdoin College)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.50cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 15.60cm
Weight: 0.513kg
ISBN: 9780197753330
ISBN 10: 0197753337
Pages: 268
Publication Date: 15 March 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
If you think a logical introduction to socialism must be dry or difficult, Scott Sehon will make you think again. With prose that is infectious, often witty, and crystal clear, Sehon provides powerful economic and moral arguments that will support those who are already leaning towards socialism and surprise those who are not. If you haven't been convinced after reading this book, you'd better have some very good reasons why. * Susan Neiman, Author of Left Is Not Woke and Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil * Academic socialists often couch their arguments in impenetrable language. Socialism: A Logical Introduction dispenses with jargon and presents the socialist view of economics, political science, and ethics in plain, simple-to-understand language, so readers can easily see what's at stake. This book will serve as a valuable means of allowing good faith people of all sides to talk to each other rather than past each other. * Jason Brennan, Author of Democracy: A Guided Tour and Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know. * Scott Sehon has produced a powerful and refreshingly clear introduction to the arguments for socialism. Getting beyond sloganeering, he offers an intellectually serious explanation and defense of the socialist project. Any critic of socialism needs to reckon with the compelling, tightly-reasoned case that Sehon provides. He takes the arguments of his opponents seriously, but then systematically dismantles them. * Nathan Robinson, Editor-in-chief of Current Affairs and author of Why You Should Be a Socialist *
Author Information
Scott Sehon is the Joseph E. Merrill Professor of Philosophy at Bowdoin College, where he has been teaching for over 30 years. He is the author of Free Will and Action Explanation: a Non-Causal, Compatibilist Account (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Teleological Realism: Mind, Agency, and Explanation (MIT Press, 2005), and has appeared in such journals as American Philosophical Quarterly and Philosophical Issues. He has also written for Jacobin, Mises Institute: Power & Market Blog, and Aeon.
