Social and political philosophy

This book advances our theoretical understanding of the human experience.

This book is the first to systematically investigate how the notion of time is conceptualised in Jacques Lacan's work.

This book brings together philosophical approaches to explore the relation of recognition and poverty.

This edited volume engages a long-standing religious power, the Holy See, to discuss the impact of the structural and postsecular transformations of international relations through the emergence of a global and digital public sphere.

Oscar Wilde: A Literary Life tracks the intellectual biography of one of the most influential minds of the nineteenth century.

This book approaches the field of built heritage and its practices by employing the concept of heterotopia, established by the French philosopher Michel Foucault.

This book discusses the evolution of three philosophical foundations from the twelfth through the eighteenth centuries that converged to form the basis of liberal democracy's approach to the place and role of religion in society and politics.

This book presents an incisive survey of twentieth-century transatlantic ideational exchange.

The Extinction of Experience reveals the true cost of our digital age and shows us how to return to the real world, while we still can.

This book tests critical reassessments of US radical writing of the 1930s against recent developments in theories of modernism and the avant-garde.

This book, written by a prominent German political scientist and specialist for political theory and comparative government, analyses right-wing populism as a topical theme of postmodern party systems in Europe and the United States.

This book introduces a panorama of the philosophical theory of explanation.

Atheism Revisited is a collection of essays that explore the multifaceted nature of atheism.

This book draws on core concepts coined by Adorno, such as identity thinking, the culture industry, and his critique of the autonomous and rational subject, to address the ills that plague neoliberal capitalist societies today.

This book takes the novel approach of framing Political Obligation as a situation rather than a problem.

This book explores secession from three normative disciplines: political philosophy, international law and constitutional law.

Building on contemporary research in embodied cognition, enactivism, and the extended mind, this book explores how social institutions in contemporary neoliberal nation-states systematically affect our thoughts, feelings, and agency.

The revolutionary upheaval currently sweeping across Western democracies on parade under the banner term woke calls for rethinking the foundations of ethics and politics.

This book centers on a relatively neglected theme in the scholarly literature on Hannah Arendt's political thought: her support for a new form of government in which citizen councils would replace contemporary representative democracy and allow citizens to participate directly in decision-making in the public sphere.

The Marxian Legacy, first published in 1977 and released in a second edition in 1988, was and remains distinct in its view of Marxian theory as 'critique, ' aware of its own origins and limitations and self-conscious about its own historical rootedness in changing social and political conditions.

This book puts recently re-popularized ancient Stoic philosophy in discussion with modern social theory and sociology to consider the relationship between an individual and their environment.

By delving into the history of the fetish-object among both modern and contemporary commentators, this book highlights the fetish-object's role as a philosophical and religious concept of the highest significance.

This volume aims to commemorate, criticize, scrutinize and assess the undoubted significance of the Russian Revolution both retrospectively and prospectively in three parts.

Using yet untapped resources from moral and political philosophy, this book seeks to answer the question of whether an all good God who is presumed to be all powerful is logically compatible with the degree and amount of moral and natural evil that exists in our world.

In Matthew's passion narrative, the ethnoracial identity of Jesus comes into sharp focus.

This handbook presents the conceptions and principles central to every aspect of Hegel's systematic philosophy.

This book is an interdisciplinary study centred on the political and legal position of animals in liberal democracies.

This book deals with three key questions about communitarian ideas: how to distinguish what constitutes communitarian thinking; what lessons to take from the historical development of communitarian arguments; and why their practical implications are relevant in devising reforms at the local, national, and global levels.

This book explores the foundations and potential of a theory of need-based distributive justice, supported by experimental evidence.

This book explores the origins of nationalism and the ideal of nation/state congruency since early-modern European thought, their transformation over time and endurance in contemporary political thought and IR theory.

This book studies the relationship between British government and faith groups in its international development agenda within and beyond the context of Brexit.

Based on Catholic and Confucian social ethics, this book develops an ethic of solidarity and reciprocity with the migrants in Asia who are marginalized.

The book offers the first systematic account of Iran's foreign policy following the nuclear agreement (JCPOA) of July 14, 2015.

This book attempts to open up a path towards a phenomenological theory of values (more technically, a phenomenological axiology).

This book develops a philosophy of aesthetic experience through two socially significant philosophical movements: early German Romanticism and early critical theory.

This volume offers novel and provocative insights into vulnerability and exclusion, two concepts crucial for the understanding of contemporary political agency.

This book provides close readings of primary texts to analyze the linkage between G.

Drawing connections between madness, philosophy and autobiography, this book addresses the question of how Nietzsche's madness might have affected his later works.

Christianity flourishes in areas facing profound dislocations amidst regime change and warfare.

In this book, Touko Vaahtera explores how "e;bodies of latent potential,"e; a cultural attachment to the idea of body as potentiality, carries with it hierarchizing hopes about better bodies.

This book examines very important issues in research evaluation in the Social Sciences and Humanities.

This book explores the ways in which democratizing Muslim countries treat their ethnic minorities' requests of inclusiveness and autonomy.

Offering the first developed account of political liberal education, this book combines a thorough analysis of the theoretical groundwork of political liberal education with application-oriented approaches to contemporary educational challenges.

The ethics of human/animal relationships is a growing field of academic research and a topic for public discussion and regulatory interventions from law-makers, governments and private institutions.

This book is a journey into the heart of an Islamic worldview.

This book investigates communism in Marx's writings, incorporating a consideration of communist politicity.

This volume provides a comprehensive account of Wilhelm Ropke as a liberal political economist and social philosopher.

This book constitutes a critical intervention in the theoretical discussion over the political relationship between democracy and communism.

This book analyzes narrations embedded in political disputes, allowing readers to gain a deeper understanding of modern political reality.

This book aims to recover from ancient and modern thinkers valuable arguments about statesmanship, leadership, and tyranny which illuminate reassessments of political science and practice after the election of Donald Trump.