Social and political philosophy

With the originality and energy that have marked his earlier works, Eric Wolf now explores the historical relationship of ideas, power, and culture.

Despite over 200 million adherents, Eastern Orthodox Christianity attracts little scholarly attention.

In the wake of national crises and sharp shifts in the electorate, new members of Congress march off to Washington full of intense idealism and the desire for instant changebut often lacking in any sense of proportion or patience.

Tracing the rise and development of the Ghanaian video film industry between 1985 and 2010, Sensational Movies examines video movies as seismographic devices recording a culture and society in turmoil.

The surprising case for liberal nationalismAround the world today, nationalism is back-and it's often deeply troubling.

The surprising story of how Greek classics are being pressed into use in contemporary China to support the regime's political agendaAs improbable as it may sound, an illuminating way to understand today's China and how it views the West is to look at the astonishing ways Chinese intellectuals are interpreting-or is it misinterpreting?

An updated and expanded edition of the classic introduction to PPE-philosophy, politics, and economics-coauthored by one of the field's pioneersPhilosophy, Politics, and Economics offers a complete introduction to the fundamental tools and concepts of analysis that PPE students need to study social and political issues.

Religion is often viewed as a universally ancient element of the human inheritance, but in the Western Himalayas the community of Himachal Pradesh discovered its religion only after India became an independent secular state.

John Locke's theory of toleration is generally seen as advocating the privatization of religion.

This book investigates whether African cultures can appropriate some useful aspects of Western cultures, or whether doing so risks falling into the metaphysical empire and diluting African identity.

This book examines the nature of totalitarianism as interpreted by some of the finest minds of the twentieth century.

This book explores how Ottoman Muslims and Christians understood the phenomenon of conversion to Islam from the 15th to the 17th centuries.

On Human Conflict excavates the cavernous philosophical foundations of war and peace.

There's a well-known story about an older fish who swims by two younger fish andasks, "e;How's the water?

Why do most people never have sex with close relatives?

The acclaimed philosopher and author of Homo Sacer contemplates the possibility of true human freedom through a deep analysis of monastic stricture.

In this follow-up to The Kingdom and the Glory and The Highest Poverty, Agamben investigates the roots of our moral concept of duty in the theory and practice of Christian liturgy.

Notions of self-determination are central to modern politics, yet the relationship between the self-determination of individuals and peoples has not been adequately addressed, nor adequately allied to cosmopolitanism.

The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation shows how antebellum African Americans used the newspaper as a means for translating their belief in black "e;chosenness"e; into plans and programs for black liberation.

The Italian philosopher and author of Totalitarianism "e;rescues the concept of evil as an element necessary for guidance in political reflection"e; (Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review).

Combining theology, politics and historical analysis, "e;theorizes what might be at stake-ethically-for America's current political life"e; (Andrew Taylor, Journal of American History).

These essays provide important interpretations and analyze critical developments of the political philosophy of Gilles Deleuze.

The work of Henri Bergson, the foremost French philosopher of the early twentieth century, is not usually explored for its political dimensions.

This book offers a close reading of Romans that treats Paul as a radical political thinker by showing the relationship between Paul's perspective and that of secular political theorists.

Antonio Negri is the most important Marxist theorist working today.

This book offers a comprehensive evaluation of the two preeminent post-WWII political philosophers, John Rawls and Jurgen Habermas.

"e;By restoring morality to phenomenology, and phenomenology to East European politics, Gubser has rewritten the intellectual history of the twentieth century.

The renowned philosopher and author of Homo Sacer continues his groundbreaking work with this examination of selfhood and Western ontology.

A critical revaluation of the humanist tradition, Borrowed Light makes the case that the 20th century is the "e;anticolonial century.

The rise of political Islam has provoked considerable debate about the compatibility of democracy, tolerance, and pluralism with the Islamist position.

In Philosophical Essays concerning Human Families, Stanley Vodraska describes a principle of moral practice that he calls ';the principle of familial preference.

What are systems?

What does it mean to be a spectator to war in an era when the boundaries between witnessing and perpetrating violence have become profoundly blurred?

This book offers a much-needed new political theory of an old phenomenon.

This chronicle of observant Muslim women's daily challenges in secular settings is "e;a welcome contribution [that] can be useful in many disciplines"e; (Journal of Church and State).

Originally published in 2002 Culture, Ritual and Revolution in Vietnam is a study of the history and consequences of the revolutionary campaign to transform culture and ritual in northern Vietnam.

The New Scientist recently declared that "e;Philosophers of knowledge, your time has come"e; and even Barack Obama has warned of an "e;epistemological crisis.

Natural disasters and cholera outbreaks.

Social movement scholarship has been dominated, until recently, by work on progressive movements.

What is the philosophy of religion?

This book analyzes the process of national identity formation and identification of children born into formal and informal Polish-German relationships in Poland and Germany, and how that process is impacted by their upbringing at the intersection of two cultures.

The Second World War in Eastern Europe is far from a neglected topic, especially since social, cultural, and diplomatic historians have entered a field previously dominated by operational histories, and produced a cornucopia of new scholarship offering a more nuanced picture from both sides of the front.

Why do "e;peace-loving"e; religions so often cause instability, conflict, and violence?

Was Claus-Artur Scheier in diesem Buch unternimmt, ist nicht weniger als der Entwurf einer Philosophie der Moderne im Zeitalter der Medialität.

 En este libro, Ariadna nombra lo real y lo hace desde un trazo estético, pensante y experiencial de lo femenino en su devenir histórico hasta nuestros días, que cobra sentido en el mundo de la cultura a través de Esquilo, Sófocles, Ovidio, Nietzsche, Marker, Butler, Malabou, entre otros.

Now in its twelfth edition, Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal continues the book's tradition of offering a clear, concise, and comprehensive introduction to the ideas and ideals that shake and shape our political world.

How identity politics failed one particular identity.

This study evaluates how the ideology of Socialist Realism, developed by the Soviets in policies and the practices of art, has been influential in the Asia-Pacific region from 1917 until today.

One sure fact of humanity is that we all cherish our opinions and will often strongly resist efforts by others to change them.

Two centuries after his birth, Karl Marx is read almost solely through the lens of Marxism, his works examined for how they fit into the doctrine that was developed from them after his death.