Social and political philosophy

The Socratic Way of Life is the first English-language book-length study of the philosopher Xenophon's masterwork.

The right-to-die debate has gone on for centuries, playing out most recently as a spectacle of protest surrounding figures such as Terry Schiavo.

George Herbert Mead is a foundational figure in sociology, best known for his book Mind, Self, and Society, which was put together after his death from course notes taken by stenographers and students and from unpublished manuscripts.

One of Hegel's most controversial and confounding claims is that "e;the real is rational and the rational is real.

"e;Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic,"e; claimed Aristotle.

Thought under Threat reveals and combats the forces diminishing the power and role of critical thinking, whether in our individual lives or collectively.

A fresh account of early American religious history that argues for a new understanding of ritual.

By the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings and lay down universal basic entitlements.

Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Edward Said each steered major intellectual and political schools of thought in American political discourse after World War II, yet none of them was American, which proved crucial to their ways of arguing and reasoning both in and out of the American context.

In Jane Addams's Evolutionary Theorizing, Marilyn Fischer advances the bold and original claim that Addams's reasoning in her first book, Democracy and Social Ethics, is thoroughly evolutionary.

A transcript of Leo Strauss's key seminars on Plato's Protagoras.

Attention to care in modern society has fallen out of view as an ethos of personal responsibility, free markets, and individualism has taken hold.

"e;What does it mean to see the American landscape in a secular way?

Western philosophy has been dominated by the concept or the idea-the belief that there is one sovereign notion or singular principle that can make reality explicable and bring all that exists under its sway.

Torture has lately become front page news, featured in popular movies and TV shows, and a topic of intense public debate.

Decades into its existence as a foundational aspect of modern political and economic life, the welfare state has become a political cudgel, used to assign blame for ballooning national debt and tout the need for personal responsibility.

Rodowick takes after the theories of Hannah Arendt and argues that thinking is an art we practice with and for each other in our communities.

A thought-provoking exploration of assertiveness within Aristotle's work and how it affects democratic functioning.

Designs on the Contemporary pursues the challenge of how to design and put into practice strategies for inquiring into the intersections of philosophy and anthropology.

Secularism is usually thought to contain the project of self-deification, in which humans attack God's authority in order to take his place, freed from all constraints.

In Model Cases, Monika Krause asks about the concrete material research objects behind shared conversations about classes of objects, periods, and regions in the social sciences and humanities.

Repeating Revolutions examines how activists, intellectuals, social scientists, and historians looked to France's Revolutionary past to negotiate Algeria's struggle for decolonization from the 1930s to the 1960s.

In this book Joseph Raz develops his views on some of the central questions in practical philosophy: legal, political, and moral.

In this sweeping look at political and philosophical history, Linda M.

During the twentieth century, the view that assertions and norms are valid insofar as they respond to principles independent of all local and temporal contexts came under attack from two perspectives: the partiality of translation and the intersubjective constitution of the self, understood as responsive to recognition.

Plato dispersed his account of how Socrates became Socrates across three dialogues.

When we think of Catholicism, we think of Europe and the United States as the seats of its power.

What is the opposite of freedom?

When Plato set his dialogs, written texts were disseminated primarily by performance and recitation.

More than two decades have passed since Chicago published the first volume of this groundbreaking work in the Religion and Postmodernism series.

A masterful, nuanced, and novel examination of Nietzsche's Zarathustra.

Rousseau and Nietzsche presented two of the most influential critiques of modern life and much can still be learned from their respective analyses of problems we still face.

There have been many Spinozas over the centuries: atheist, romantic pantheist, great thinker of the multitude, advocate of the liberated individual, and rigorous rationalist.

In John Locke: Economist and Social Scientist Karen Iversen Vaughn presents a comprehensive treatment of Locke's important position in the development of eighteenth century economic thought.

In medieval literature, when humans and animals meet-whether as friends or foes-issues of mastery and submission are often at stake.

From 1940 to 1945, forty thousand patients died in French psychiatric hospitals.

Defining a just economy in a tenuous social-political time.

Reconsiders the centrality and legacy of Hume's economic thought and serves as an important springboard for reflections on the philosophical underpinnings of economics.

In contemporary feminist theory, the problem of feminine subjectivity persistently appears and reappears as the site that grounds all discussion of feminism.

"e;Man is a political animal,"e; Aristotle asserts near the beginning of the Politics.

The word "e;freedom"e; is so overly used-and frequently abused-that it is always in danger of becoming nothing but a cliche.

Explores concepts that bring together the thinking of Spinoza and Marx.

In this groundbreaking work, Richard L.

One of the foremost Marxist critics of his generation forcefully argues against Marx's irrelevancy In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with.

One of the most substantial divides in American politics is the "e;God gap.

The question of when or if a nation should intervene in another country's affairs is one of the most important concerns in today's volatile world.

A chapter-by-chapter explanation of the Book of Exodus, revealing its wisdom about nation building and people formation"e;Kass draws from Exodus' record of the founding of Judaism timely even urgent universal lessons about twenty-first-century preconditions for human flourishing in any community.

How you can learn to focus like a monk without living like oneDistraction isn't a new problem.

Liberalism is egalitarian in principle, but why doesn’t it do more to promote equality in practice?

In this eagerly awaited book, political theorist Michael Walzer reports his findings after decades of reading and thinking about the politics of the Hebrew Bible.