Social and political philosophy

This book addresses the problem of fully explaining Socrates' motives for philosophic interlocution in Plato's dialogues.

No social life is possible without order.

Much like the rest of the country, American Catholics are politically divided, perhaps more so now than at any point in their history.

The theory of alienation occupies a significant place in the work of Marx and has long been considered one of his main contributions to the critique of bourgeois society.

Why broach and challenge the question of neutrality?

Drawing on interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives, this book critically examines intercultural theory and its interrelations with globalisation, education and dialogue in multicultural societies.

This book attempts to develop a Marxist theory of the human individual.

In Choreographing Agonism, author Goran Petrovic Lotina offers new insight into the connections between politics and performance.

This book approaches migration from Marxist feminist, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial perspectives.

Moving from a historical and cultural perspective, this book examines the geo-political and socio-economic changes involving the enlarged Mediterranean.

Drawing on the culture's history before and after the birth of rap music, this book argues that the values attributed to Hip Hop by 'postmodern' scholars stand in stark contrast with those that not only implicitly guided its aesthetic elements, but are explicitly voiced by Hip Hop's pioneers and rap music's most consequential artists.

This book is an attempt to save "e;the sexual"e; from the oblivion to which certain strands in queer theory tend to condemn it, and at the same time to limit the risks of anti-politics and solipsism contained in what has been termed antisocial queer theory.

This book addresses the paucity of robust reflections on ethics as a distinct field of experience in recent Black Studies scholarship.

This book draws on five philosophers from the continental tradition - Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, and Jacques Ranciere - in order to "e;think about thinking"e; and offer new and surprising answers to the question: How can we educate students to think creatively and critically?

This book offers a critical analysis of the rise of the US to global hegemony against a background of increased erosion of democracy and rule of law, and a rising linear pattern of near-absolute capitalist development.

This book outlines essential issues of Antonio Gramsci's thought, from his relationship to other political thinkers, including Rosa Luxemburg, Lenin, and Machiavelli; the development of his key conceptual categories; and the applicability of those categories in contemporary contexts.

This book examines both the evolution of the Catholic vote in the US and the role of Catholic voters in the historic 2016 elections.

This book draws attention to the non-biological-political, economic, societal and cultural-variables shaping both the emergence and persistence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the global response to it, with a particular focus on political decisionmakers' role in the domestic and international politics surrounding the process of the pandemic.

This book addresses the endangerment of children's bodies in affluent societies.

From sending imams abroad to financing mosques and Islamic associations, home states play a key role in governing Islam in Western Europe.

The observation that our world is signed by a lasting crisis is as much underwritten as it is questioned.

This book is a theoretically and historically informed exploration of 'secularism' in Muslim contexts.

This book concentrates upon how economic rationalities have been embedded into particular historical practices, cultures, and moral systems.

This book chronologically analyzes thirteen key US Presidents, from Washington to Trump, to highlight how religion has informed or influence their politics and policies.

This book is the collaborative response of engaged scholars from diverse countries and disciplines who are disturbed by the contemporary resurgence of anti-democratic movements and regimes throughout the world.

In this book - the first of three volumes - Franco Archibugi sets out to create an epistemology of economics, arguing for a radical overturning of the conventional analysis from a "e;positive"e; approach to a "e;programming"e; approach.

This book explores post-communist thresholds as materializations of a specific crisis of modern European identity that was caused by the existence and sudden breakdown of Soviet-type communism.

This book offers a comprehensive investigation of privacy in the modern world.

This book is an interdisciplinary study of the cultural representations of Jesus in the context of contemporary religious theory and continental philosophy.

This book explores the application of Scalia's textualism and originalism to education law and reflects upon Scalia's teachings and his pedagogy.

Beginning with the economic meltdown of 2007/8, this book shows that the predatory mortgage lending and overleveraging-which is to say, the overextension of credit-which precipitated The Great Recession was a response to a crisis of overproduction reflective of an unavoidable contradiction at the heart of competitive capitalism.

This first volume, History and its Betrayal, traces the development of major themes of liberalism from the increase in human population beyond the limits of the face-to-face society of tribalism and small groups up until the present day.

This book argues for the importance of the theory of the culture industry in today's world.

 This book is about the life and times of Richard Congreve.

This book analyzes contemporary issues in governance, policy management, and policy performance both at the central and local levels in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.

This book focuses on the idea of a modus vivendi as a way of governing political life and addressing problems characterized by pluralism or deep-rooted diversity.

This book discusses the ethical dilemmas of migration in the era of globalization.

This book explores the complexity of the Syrian question and its effects on the foreign policies of Russia, Iran, and Turkey.

Ben Lazare Mijuskovic has spent 40 years researching theories of consciousness in relation to human loneliness, using an interdisciplinary and "e;history of ideas"e; approach.

This book reveals the core features of digital culture, examined by means of semiotic models and theories.

This book studies nineteenth-century American individualism and its relationship to the simultaneous rise of the market economy as articulated in the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William Graham Sumner.

This book sheds new light on the emergence and fluctuation of Iran's connections with non-state entities in the Middle East.

This volume presents discussions on a wide range of topics focused on eco-phenomenology and the interdisciplinary investigation of contemporary environmental thought.

This book suggests that applied linguistics research is inherently concerned with complexity, emergence and causality, and because of this it also requires a robust social ontology.

The book consolidates systems thinking as a new world-hypothesis that is already suggesting itself behind the advancement of quantum mechanics and Ashby's cybernetics.

How might political emotions contribute to the creation of a decent public sphere?

Given the current climate of political division and global conflict it is not surprising that there has been an increasing interest in how we ought to respond to perceived wrongdoing, both personal and political.

This book is the first to systematically examine the connection between religion and transitional justice in post-communism.

This book offers the reader a deeper understanding of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality's green and ecological infrastructure policy landscape.

This first study of faith-based development NGOs' (FBOs) political roles focuses on how U.