Social and political philosophy

This volume is designed to be an in-depth and nuanced philosophical treatment of the virtue of obedience in the context of the professional military and the broader civilian political community, including the general citizenry.

Dieser Band der Sämtlichen Schriften von Karl Löwith hat drei thematische Schwerpunkte.

Von Hegel zu Nietzsche ist Löwiths bekanntestes Buch, das ihm weltweiten Ruf eingetragen hat – es wurde ins Französische, Englische, Japanische und Italienische übersetzt und ist deutschsprachig bisher in neun Auflagen erschienen.

Der dritte Band der Sämtlichen Schriften des Philosophen Karl Löwith faßt die Arbeiten aus vier Jahrzehnten zusammen, in denen er sich mit dem christlichen Offenbarungsdenken und der protestantischen Theologie auseinandergesetzt hat.

Karl Löwith gilt als eine der herausragenden Persönlichkeiten der deutschen Philosophie des 20.

This volume is designed to be an in-depth and nuanced philosophical treatment of the virtue of obedience in the context of the professional military and the broader civilian political community, including the general citizenry.

The volume presented here seeks to shift the concept of “media” from its traditional domain to the political field.

The volume presented here seeks to shift the concept of “media” from its traditional domain to the political field.

This book examines how Gustav Radbruch, H.

This book introduces a comprehensive model for evaluating the effects of artificial intelligence (AI) on human rights, democracy, and the rule of law and an innovative framework that merges Human Rights Impact Assessments (HRIAs) practices with AI-focused algorithmic impact assessment approaches.

Offers a fresh narrative of ancient ethics that does justice to neglected perspectives on the value of human life.

The public sphere can undermine liberal democracy, law, and morality.

Reconstructs the origins of the idea that social conflict, and not concord, makes political communities powerful.

Weinstein argues that Plato''s ''fighting spirit'' in the Republic plays an essential role in rational agency.

This book examines how Gustav Radbruch, H.

Offering a radical interdisciplinary exploration of human-wilderness relationships during our current climate crisis, and drawing on psychoanalytic insight, political critique, and ecological wisdom, this volume diagnoses the profound alienation endemic to late capitalist modernity while delineating pathways toward regenerative forms of being.

Offering a radical interdisciplinary exploration of human-wilderness relationships during our current climate crisis, and drawing on psychoanalytic insight, political critique, and ecological wisdom, this volume diagnoses the profound alienation endemic to late capitalist modernity while delineating pathways toward regenerative forms of being.

Offers a pluralist reading of transitional justice to deal with conflicts constructively and to enable diversity in approaches.

Discusses state and religion relations in Israel by applying a general theory regarding the role of religion in liberal countries.

Applies Aristotle''s argument - that citizenship is like friendship - to the liberal and democratic societies of the present day.

Presents a shift from the accepted IR standard of theorizing, by analyzing policy decisions made in non-ideal conditions within a broader framework of practical choices.

A new analysis of John Rawls''s theory of distributive justice, focusing on the ways his ideas have both influenced and been misinterpreted by the current egalitarian literature.

A comprehensive and novel interpretation of Spinoza''s political writings that reveals the significance of the affects for political life.

Explores the moral quandaries of multiple citizenship in the context of broader debates in normative political theory.

Machiavelli believes republicans must be prepared to defend strict limits on elite power even when elites are ''good''.

Makes Mencius'' and Xunzi''s political thought accessible to political theorists, philosophers and scientists with no expertise in classical Chinese or sinology.

Links democracy with the process of overcoming severe social inequality, rather than with ideal forms of political debate.

Examines how distinctive liberalisms respond to racial, cultural, gender-based and class-based forms of diversity and difference.

The book develops the model of institutional constructivism to aid socio-legal research and to account for patterns of socio-legal change.

Advances our understanding of global and international relations through a ground-breaking philosophical analysis of social practices indebted to Oakeshott, Wittgenstein and Hegel.

Explores the nature of the ideal of relational equality and how it relates to distributive ideals of justice.

Historically and philosophically informed introduction to the embryological, zoological, and medical views presented in this sophisticated and challenging text.

Offers an innovate approach to ethics and security, combining securitization theory and the just war tradition.

John Locke, whose ideas helped give birth to the United States, predicated his political theory on the Hebrew Bible.

Explores self-deception and its consequences for political decision-making.

Analyses European Union governance from the perspective of polycentric theory, aimed at improvements in achieving individual self-governance.

A study of William James'' philosophy of democracy and pluralism, and its relevance to modern debates.

The first book-length study in English of Thomas Hobbes''s On the Citizen, containing twelve original essays by leading Hobbes scholars.

The book examines the impact of poverty and other global crises in generating forms of structural coercion that cause agential and societal underdevelopment.

Develops an approach to contemporary religious, moral, and political conflicts in which conflict may be constructively reframed and creatively engaged toward productive democratic practice.

This book examines how justice and reconciliation in world politics should be conceived in response to the injustice and alienation of modern colonialism?

This book is a balanced and incisive analysis of Heidegger''s ethical, cultural and political thought, arguing that his work remains relevant to modern debates.

Details the current state of scholarly debate on crucial elements of Hobbesian political philosophy and presents innovative and original arguments.

Economists, philosophers, and policy experts from the Global North and South advance the conversation on the ethical dimensions of agency and democracy in development.

These specially commissioned essays by prominent lawyers and philosophers analyse a range of approaches to legal authority beyond the state.

The first book to show how Cicero invented the idea of ''the will of the people'' and its ramifications today.

This volume offers the most important essays of the leading liberal theorist Gerald Gaus.

Develops a framework to explain shifts in judicial assertiveness towards militaries, using Pakistan as an illuminating case study.

The first systematic analysis and explanation of the political success of the Israeli settler movement based on a novel theoretical framework and rich empirical analysis.