Social and political philosophy

In times of pandemic and global economic crisis, little more than a decade after the last, there are serious questions about how the liberal order can stand, who its friends are, and what the future will look like.

Als praktische Philosophie ist der Pragmatismus an Prinzipien und Mechanismen von Gesellschaft interessiert.

This book explores the Chinese Catholic Church as a whole as well as focusing on particular aspects of its activities, including diplomacy, politics, leadership, pilgrimage, youths, and non-Chinese Catholics in China.

This book explores topical issues in military ethics by according peace a central role within an interdisciplinary framework.

This book explores the reception of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W.

This volume examines the impact of the Trump presidency on development aid.

This book compares the thought of Michael Oakeshott and Leo Strauss, bringing Oakeshott's desire for a renaissance of poetic individuality into dialogue with Strauss's recovery of the universality of philosophical enlightenment.

Youth justice has always focused on criminal justice but this work argues that taking a social justice approach is the best way to reduce youth crime.

This book presents the first full translation of the correspondence of Leo Strauss and Gerhard Kruger, showing for each the development of key and influential ideas, along with seven interpretative essays by leading Strauss scholars.

This book provides a critical account of the main controversies involving Norman Geras, one of the key modern political thinkers.

This volume explores evidentialism, a major theory of epistemic justification.

This book provides a critical assessment of Benjamin's writings on Franz Kafka and of Benjamin's related writings.

Liberal democracy today, having aligned itself with capitalism, is producing a generalized feeling of weariness and disillusionment with government among the citizenry of many countries.

Michael Oakeshott on Authority, Governance, and the State presents contributions on one of the most important British philosophers of the 20th century.

This book offers the first comprehensive philosophical examination of the free speech 'battles' of the last decade, arguing for a critical republican conception of civility as an explanatory and prescriptive solution.

This volume is a collection of essays on medieval Spain, written by leading scholars on three continents, that celebrates the career of Thomas F.

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the various sociologies of New Zealand from the late 19th century to the present day.

This edited volume focuses on what Hannah Arendt famously called "e;the raison d'etre of politics"e;: freedom.

We face a crisis of public reason.

Julie Mertus' highly acclaimed text continues to be the only completely up-to-date comprehensive yet succinct guide to the United Nations human rights system.

This book discusses the contribution of philosophers and thinkers whose ideas have recently begun to permeate international relations theory.

This book probes the depths of libertarian philosophy and highlights the need for laws that protect all individuals in society.

This book looks at facets in the history of capitalism from the Enlightenment period, through the emergence of the American Empire in the Pacific, and to the contemporary era of neoliberal globalization.

This book investigates the relation between Durkheim's sociology, Critical Theory, and the philosophy of social sciences.

In this book, author Svein Olaf Thorbjornsen probes the question: What is at stake for human beings in a society dominated by competition, particularly economic competition?

This handbook consists of essays on contemporary issues in criminal law and their theoretical underpinnings.

This book offers a unique method for teaching ethics and social/political philosophy by combining primary texts and resource material along with three philosophical novels so that students can apply the abstract principles to real-life situations.

This edited collection examines the multi-faceted phenomenon of transparency, especially in its relation to social movements, from a range of multi-disciplinary viewpoints.

This book offers an innovative approach to moral enhancement.

Although David Riesman wrote over half a century ago, his concept of autonomy as presented in The Lonely Crowd (1950) speaks directly to the intellectual and emotional disarrangements of the twenty-first century.

Economics originated as a branch of the humane studies that was concerned with trying to understand how some societies flourish while others stagnate, and also how once-flourishing societies could come to stagnate.

The 1989 pro-democracy movement in China constituted a huge challenge to the survival of the Chinese communist state, and the efforts of the Chinese Communist party to erase the memory of the massacre testify to its importance.

This book is an investigation of the role of creative labor and the five senses in Rainer Maria Rilke's prose works, including his "e;Primal Sound"e; essay, the Stories of God, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, and his monograph on Auguste Rodin.

This book analyzes the implication of secular/liberal values in Western and human rights law and its impact on Muslim women.

This book examines the changing dynamics of stabilisation efforts in the Middle East and North Africa.

This book examines the well-covered subject of leadership from a unique perspective: history's vast catalogue of leadership successes and failures.

This volume offers new insights into food and culture.

While human rights have been enjoying unprecedented salience, the concept of the citizen has been significantly challenged.

This book presents a new picture of the politics, economics and process of government in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev.

This book examines reason and unreason in the legal and political responses to terrorism.

This book offers a conceptual map of Habermas' philosophy and a systematic introduction to his work.

This book examines the role of institutions in China's recent large-scale economic, social and political transformation.

The recognition of women's human rights to migrate and work as sex workers is disregarded and dismissed by anti-trafficking discourses of rescue in the latest United Nation's definition of trafficking.

This book examines some of the most pressing issues facing the Turkish political establishment, in particular the issues of political Islam, and Kurdish and Turkish nationalisms.

This book is the first comprehensive, in-depth English language study of the animals that were left behind in the exclusion zone in the wake of the nuclear meltdown of three of the four reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in March 2011, triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake of magnitude 9.

This book investigates terrorism and anti-terrorism as related and interacting phenomena, undertaking a simultaneous reading of terrorist and statist ideologists in order to reconstruct the 'deadly dialogue' between them.

On Tyranny is Leo Strauss's classic reading of Xenophon's dialogue Hiero, or Tyrannicus, in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages of exercising tyranny.

This book presents an innovative investigation of the policies of the Indian Congress during the late colonial period.

Pope Francis confuses many observers because his papacy does not fit neatly into any pre-established classificatory schemes.

What does it mean to be free?