{"product_id":"5ce07bjmdv1p","title":"Against Obedience : Essays From Prominent Political Thinkers Compiled by Abhishek Rana [Paperback]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhere do our most fundamental political ideas come from—and how have they been challenged, refined, and reimagined across time?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpanning the years between the early eighteenth and late nineteenth centuries, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAgainst Obedience\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e brings together eleven seminal essays that have shaped the intellectual foundations of the modern world. From Immanuel Kant's call to intellectual maturity—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSapere aude\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, dare to know—to Henry David Thoreau's defence of principled resistance, these texts trace the emergence of a powerful and enduring idea: that human beings possess the capacity, and the right, to think for themselves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWithin these pages, Voltaire and David Hume explore the institutions that sustain liberty, while John Stuart Mill offers its most influential philosophical defence. Mary Wollstonecraft and Mill challenge the exclusion of women from political life, while Rousseau, Robert Owen, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels question whether freedom can exist without social and economic justice. Jonathan Swift's devastating satire serves as a warning against the dangers of reducing human beings to mere calculations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTaken together, these essays form not a doctrine but a tradition—one that continues to shape debates about liberty, authority, equality, and justice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Vitasta Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49697613807866,"sku":"5CE07BJMDV1P","price":359.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/0473\/5226\/files\/5CE07BJMDV1P-1.jpg?v=1784388341","url":"https:\/\/versoz.co.in\/products\/5ce07bjmdv1p","provider":"VERSOZ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}