Social and political philosophy

In this volume, we examine the challenges and opportunities created by global migration at the start of the 21st century.

First published in 1978, this book rapidly established itself as a classic of modern Marxism.

Hideout in the Apocalypse is about surveillance and the crushing of Australias larrikin culture.

Institutional change is a central driving force behind social changes, and thus a central topic in all major fields of social sciences.

This book argues that the structure of public education is a key factor in the failure of America's public education system to fulfill the intellectual, civic, and moral aims for which it was created.

This book develops and applies a unified interpretation of John Rawls' theory of justice as fairness in order to clarify the account of citizenship that Rawls relies upon, and the kind of educational policies that the state can legitimately pursue to promote social justice.

This book aims to restore Marx's original emancipatory idea of socialism, conceived as an association of free individuals centered on working people's self- emancipation after the demise of capitalism.

The History and Theory of Fetishism, the expanded version of Iacono's enduring classic Teorie del feticismo and available for the first time in English, aims to provide the historical context necessary to understanding the concept of "e;fetishism"e; and offers an overview of the ideologies, prejudices, and critical senses that shaped the Western observer's view of otherness and of his own world.

Rather than contributing to the long-standing discussion about the characteristics of the society that socialism proposes to establish, this Routledge Revival, initially published in 1976, aims to explore the impact of the 'living utopia' of socialism on the development of modern society.

This bookexplores the economic institutions that determine the nature of animal lives assystematically exploited objects traded in a market economy.

Examining questions of statehood, biopolitics, sovereignty, neoliberal reason and the economy, Governmentality explores the advantages and limitations of adopting Michel Foucault's concept of governmentality as an analytical framework.

This book is available either individually, or as part of the specially-priced Arguments of the Philosphers Collection.

When this book was published in Japanese in 1982 it was awarded the prestigious Jiro Osaragi Prize.

This book considers Karl Marx's ideas in relation to the social and political context in which he lived and wrote.

This book explores the politics of narco-killing and public attitudes to violence and death in the Mexican Drug War.

This book provides a historical-sociological analysis of the history of sociology in Belgium from the late-nineteenth until the early-twenty-first century.

This book delves into the philosophical presuppositions of modern political agency.

This book expands the sociological canon by introducing non-Western and female voices, and subjects the existing canon itself to critique.

The years between the American Revolution of 1776, the French Revolution of 1789 and the European Revolutions of 1848 saw fundamental shifts from autocracy to emerging democracy.

This book provides a critical assessment of the impact of UN Resolution 1325 by examining the effect of peacebuilding missions on increasing gender equality within conflict-affected countries.

This book explores the religious concerns of Enlightenment thinkers from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson.

The French philosopher and economist Saint-Simon (1760-1825) propounded a new political, economic and social order in which the quest for economic efficiency and social justice led to putting the workers at the forefront.

Hadley Arkes argues that it is necessary to move "e;beyond the Constitution,"e; to the principles that stood antecedent to the text, if we are to understand the text and apply the Constitution to the cases that arise every day in our law.

Nothing is more integral to democracy than voting.

Philosophic Pride is the first full-scale look at the essential place of Stoicism in the foundations of modern political thought.

A searching examination of the moral limits of political compromiseWhen is political compromise acceptable-and when is it fundamentally rotten, something we should never accept, come what may?

Should "e;hate speech"e; be made a criminal offense, or does the First Amendment oblige Americans to permit the use of epithets directed against a person's race, religion, ethnic origin, gender, or sexual preference?

Why Plato, Hobbes, and Marx are great-despite their argumentsPlato's Republic, Hobbes's Leviathan, and Marx's Communist Manifesto are universally acknowledged classics of Western political thought.

This book is an exploration of Plato's Republic that bypasses arcane scholarly debates.

Richard Ashcraft offers a new interpretation of the political thought of John Locke by viewing his ideas, especially those in the Two Treatises of Government, in the context of his political activity.

Why the human and natural world is not as intelligible to us as we think it isWishful thinking is a deeply ingrained human trait that has had a long-term distorting effect on ethical thinking.

Why the West must overcome its guilty conscience to foster a better global futureFascism, communism, genocide, slavery, racism, imperialism-the West has no shortage of reasons for guilt.

Must we put passions aside when we deliberate about justice?

How do ordinary people come to know or believe what they do?

This is a penetrating reinterpretation and defense of Hegel's social theory as an alternative to reigning liberal notions of social justice.

Security, Religion, and the Rule of Law argues that true, substantive, and sustainable national security is only possible through respect for the rule of law, human rights, and religious freedom.

The freedom to take part in civic life--whether in the exercise of one's right to vote or congregate and protest--has become increasingly less important to Americans than individual rights and liberties.

Davide Panagia's Impressions of Hume: Cinematic Thinking and the Politics of Discontinuity is volume fifteen of Modernity and Political Thought, the Rowman & Littlefield series in contemporary political theory.

This book analyses the processes of commodification and decommodification which have wrought changes in Polish society since 1945.

Global problems require global solutions.

'A rich and subtle exploration of the sacredness of nature, filled with a timeless wisdom and deep humanity' Guardian In this hugely powerful book, Karen Armstrong argues that it isn't enough to change our behaviour to avert environmental catastrophe - we must rekindle our spiritual bond with the natural world.

Our world is increasingly sceptical of happy endings.

This book explores the phenomenon of conversion to Shi'a Islam in Italy.

This book offers an original analysis of the primacy of media spectacle in the politics, social history, and major events of the 21st century which highlights the importance of critical analysis and interpretation of broadcasting, the Internet, and social meaning in understanding the key historical events and the multiple factors that produce them during the contemporary era.

This book considers the work of Erich Fromm as it can be applied to radical Left political strategy.

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The environmental crisis, one of the great challenges of our time, tends to disenfranchise those who come after us.

In 2013, Benedict XVI became only the second pope in the history of the Catholic Church to resign from office.

"e;Brilliantly demonstrates that Marx spent these years opening new and important theoretical horizons.

Frantz Fanon may be most known for his more obviously political writings, but in the first instance, he was a clinician, a black Caribbean psychiatrist who had the improbable task of treating disturbed and traumatized North African patients during the wars of decolonization.