Social and political philosophy

This book offers an account of ten crucial moments in the history of ideas, which represent ten key moments of the discovery of pluralism.

Der Vorrang des Objekts ist im Werk Theodor W.

En una telaraña quedan hojas de los diarios de Wittgenstein y Kafka.

This book investigates the unresolved issue of democratic legitimacy in contexts of pervasive disagreement and contributes to this debate by defending a relational version of political liberalism that rests on the ideal of co-authorship.

An original account, drawing on both history and social science, of the causes and consequences of the American RevolutionWith America before 1787, Jon Elster offers the second volume of a projected trilogy that examines the emergence of constitutional politics in France and America.

"e;Here is a unique and penetrating postmodernist invitation to reread Pascal's Pensees.

Why we should take Bernard Mandeville seriously as a philosopherBernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees outraged its eighteenth-century audience by proclaiming that private vices lead to public prosperity.

How do people excluded from political life achieve political agency?

This book examines the institutional development of Chinese sociology from the 1890s to the present.

This edited volume examines the relationship between collective intentionality and inferential theories of meaning.

This book presents solutions to problems that are total and based on thinking about how and why humans have organized themselves.

These celebrated lectures constitute one of Isaiah Berlin's most concise, accessible, and convincing presentations of his views on human freedom-views that later found expression in such famous works as "e;Two Concepts of Liberty"e; and were at the heart of his lifelong work on the Enlightenment and its critics.

This textbook delivers a new thematic introduction to social theory that explores theoretical issues in their contemporary social contexts.

The Communist Economic Challenge (1965) examines the substantial industrial development in the Soviet Union, and its European satellites, and China, looking at Khrushchev's boast that by 1970 the USSR's industrial output would surpass that of the USA.

Timeless political wisdom from ancient history's greatest statesmanMarcus Cicero, Rome's greatest statesman and orator, was elected to the Roman Republic's highest office at a time when his beloved country was threatened by power-hungry politicians, dire economic troubles, foreign turmoil, and political parties that refused to work together.

Americans are joiners.

This is a book about the theory of the city or commonwealth, what would come to be called the state, in early modern natural law discourse.

The seemingly endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have renewed the age-old debate over what constitutes military victory.

To what extent are the concepts of fatherhood and family, as proposed by Sigmund Freud, still valid?

Why it's wrong to single out religious liberty for special legal protectionsThis provocative book addresses one of the most enduring puzzles in political philosophy and constitutional theory-why is religion singled out for preferential treatment in both law and public discourse?

The engaging and inquiring mind of French philosopher Jacques Maritain reflected on subjects as varied as art and ethics, theology and psychology, and history and metaphysics.

Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought.

Pasan los años y, lejos de diluirse entre la cháchara del tiempo, el pensamiento de Guy Debord (1931-1994) —su aportación teórica y práctica— se percibe con mayor nitidez.

One of the world's leading political thinkers explores the history, nature, and prospects of the liberal traditionThe Making of Modern Liberalism is a deep and wide-ranging exploration of the origins and nature of liberalism from the Enlightenment through its triumphs and setbacks in the twentieth century and beyond.

Why did Karl Marx want to exclude politics and the market from his vision of a future socialism?

Hegel's Social Ethics offers a fresh and accessible interpretation of G.

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This volume sheds new light on Immanuel Kant's conception of anthropology.

The book is an accurate and accessible introduction to the complex and dynamic field of transitional and post-conflict justice, providing an overview of its recurring concepts and debated issues.

In An Age of Risk, Emily Nacol shows that risk, now treated as a permanent feature of our lives, did not always govern understandings of the future.

As the post-WWII liberal democratic consensus comes under increasing assault around the globe, Zachary R.

Thomas Kilian untersucht die Ausdifferenzierung von Wissenssystemen in der modernen Gesellschaft anhand von Wissenschaft, Bildung, Journalismus und Medizin.

A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics provides of historical survey of feminist virtue ethics, and shows how the ethical theorizing of women in the past can be brought to bear on that of women in the present.

The belief in equality as the basis of a just society is fundamental to the dominant western, liberal viewpoint.

This book examines how parties negotiate coalition deals at the subnational level using the examples of Germany and Spain.

Drawing on work in social psychology, narrative ethics, and feminist philosophy, the author presents a new account which answers the standard objections while also giving practical guidance to individuals who take their group-related responsibilities seriously.

This first full length treatment of interventionist theories of causation in the social sciences, the biological sciences and other higher-level sciences the presents original counter arguments to recent trends in the debate and serves as useful introduction to the subject.

Influenced most notably by Emile Durkheim and Zygmunt Bauman, Dawson outlines how this long neglected stream of socialist theory can help us more fully understand, and possibly move beyond, the problems of neoliberalism and our conceptions of political individualism.

Public space, both literally and figuratively, is foundationally important to political life.

Policy-Driven Democratization  offers a comprehensive conceptual analysis of each one of these fuzzy terms separately to then sew them together in one complete and coherent package of democratization.

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The book examines the problems that plague contemporary American democracy.

The ethics of care has flourished in recent decades yet we remain without a succinct statement of its core theoretical commitment.

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This book represents a new approach to philosophy.

This edited book by Mills and Karp brings together political, legal and moral perspectives on the responsibilities of human rights protection in world politics today.

Interweaving phenomenological, hermeneutical, and sociopolitical analyses, this book considers the ways in which feminists conceptualize and produce the temporalities of feminism, including the time of the trace, narrative time, calendar time, and generational time.

Religion-fuelled terrorism and attacks on freedom of expression have recently drawn headlines across Europe, either in protest or in support of extreme political or religious persuasions.

An assessment of the influence of the Marxism of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on revolutionary developments in China.

Should Christians be involved in political issues?