Social and political philosophy

This book is an introduction to and translation of the 1938 Walter Lippmann Colloquium held in Paris, which became known as the intellectual birthplace of "e;neo-liberalism.

Eminent Italian historian Giovanni Levi once notably remarked that "e;no one is a Marxist anymore,"e; pointing to a paradox in Italian cultural history.

This book explores how Nostra Aetate, the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions of the Second Vatican Council, can influence inter-religious dialogue and understanding in the modern world.

This book provides  the first complete, literal English translation of Alexis de Tocqueville's and Gustave de Beaumont's first edition of On the Penitentiary System in the United States and Its Application to France.

Marx, Spinoza and Darwin presents a common thread in its argument: it shows how these authors-certainly with differences among themselves-consolidated a field of investigation that does not resort to transcendent or religious premises in approaching the phenomena they analyze.

This book explores why and how Thomas  Hobbes - the 17th century founder of political science -- contributed to the modern marginalisation of 'friendship', a concept that stood in the foreground of ancient moral and political thought  and that is  currently undergoing a revival.

This book offers a new theoretical framework for free speech by critically analyzing the major justifications for free speech.

This book traces the intersection of dreams and power in order to analyze the complex ways representations of dreams and paradigms of dream interpretation reinforce and challenge authoritarian, hierarchical structures.

Despite several decades of feminist activism and scholarship, women's bodies continue to be sites of control and contention both materially and symbolically.

This volume uses historical epistemology in order to address several topics in the history of economic thought, with special emphasis on ecological economics, environmental metaphors of scarcity, and mathematical ecology.

The past two decades have witnessed an intensifying rise of populist movements globally, and their impact has been felt in both more and less developed countries.

In current debates about coming to terms with individual and collective wrongdoing, the concept of forgiveness has played an important but controversial role.

This book presents a comprehensive historical account of sociology in Israel the first history of sociology in Israel, from its beginnings in late 19th-century to the early 21st-century.

This interdisciplinary volume represents the first comprehensive English-language analysis of the development of Protestant Christianity in Xiamen from the nineteenth century to the present.

This book offers a unique method for teaching ethics and social/political philosophy by combining primary texts and resource material along with three philosophical novels so that students can apply the abstract principles to real-life situations.

This book interrogates the nature and state of African American citizenship through the prism of Social Contract Theory.

This book introduces a refreshing approach to twenty-first-century scientific approach in an age, which is also known as the Century of Complexity.

This textbook examines interaction, reciprocity, dualism, conflict, and personality in the work of Georg Simmel.

This book offers an epistemological critique of the concept of the individual and of individuality.

This book investigates the causes and consequences of crisis in four countries of the Eurozone periphery - Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland.

This book presents an interpretive analysis of the major themes and purpose of Alexis de Tocqueville's and Gustave de Beaumont's first work, On the Penitentiary System, thereby offering new insights into Tocqueville as a moderate liberal statesman.

This book presents a comprehensive theory of the ethics and political philosophy of public health surveillance based on reciprocal obligations among surveillers, those under surveillance, and others potentially affected by surveillance practices.

This book describes and analyzes the conceptual ambiguity of vulnerability, in an effort to understand its particular applications for legal and political protection when relating to groups.

This book recovers the history of realist theorization on nationalism and the nation-state.

This book directly addresses the social and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The diagnosis of social pathologies has long been a central concern for social researchers working within, and on the peripheries of, Critical Theory.

This book critically analyzes the current historical conjuncture of neoliberal capitalism with an eye to its emergent alternatives.

This innovative edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of modern secularism across Asia which contests and expands prevailing accounts that have predominantly focused on the West.

This book joins the contemporary recovery of Kant's empirical works to highlight the relevance of his concept of culture for understanding the sources of various characteristic modern dilemmas, such as the tension between culture and happiness, the morally ambivalent nature of cultural progress, or the existing conflicts between a factual plurality of cultures and the historical forces pressing toward a universal civilization.

This book provides an evaluation of 18 voting procedures in terms of the most important monotonicity-related criteria in fixed and variable electorates.

This book explores how the weather and city-form impact the mind, and how city-form and mind interact.

This book explores the significance of psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott's ideas for contemporary debates about care.

This book offers vivid insights into policies of religious education in schools since the series of wars in former Yugoslavia in the 1990's.

This edited volume presents an interdisciplinary and international revaluation of Friedrich Engels as much more than "e;junior partner"e; to Karl Marx or "e;second fiddle"e; in the Marxist orchestra.

This book, the last volume in the Social Morphogenesis series, examines whether or not a Morphogenic society can foster new modes of human relations that could exercise a form of 'relational steering', protecting and promoting a nuanced version of the good life for all.

This handbook brings together a range of global perspectives in the field of critical studies in education to illuminate multiple ways of knowing, learning, and teaching for social wellbeing, justice, and sustainability.

This book offers a cognitive-semantic insight into the roots of the human decisionmaking process, using the metaphor of CHOICE as CUBE.

This book examines the post-9/11 God debate in the West.

This book suggests that more can be said about cosmopolitanism than either the bold endorsement of a world state or the humble recognition of the equal moral worth of individuals, which makes everybody cosmopolitan.

This book investigates transdisciplinary, arts-based approaches to developing innovative and pertinent higher education pedagogy.

Reviving the ancient political wisdom of St.

This textbook offers a comprehensive guide to the systematic structure of capitalism, while at the same time introducing readers to all three volumes of Marx's Capital.

This collection of papers investigates the most recent debates about individualism and holism in the philosophy of social science.

Attempting to connect the academic discussion around the anthropology and philosophy of the emotions to real-life, everyday experiences, this collection brings together concrete cases and situations arising from specific social and political contexts throughout the Americas.

This book is the first collection of scholarship featuring both Canadian and American scholarship on the resurgent right-wing extremist movement in the two countries.

Raya Dunayevskaya is one of the twentieth century's great but underappreciated Marxist and feminist thinkers.

The Wisdom of the Commons examines the history and philosophy of civic education as the essential political part of liberal education.

In this book, Munyaradzi Felix Murove explores African traditional ethical resources for African politics.

This book addresses the fate of intellectuals in modern culture and politics.

This book consists of a dialogue between two interlocutors, Pablo and a student, who discuss a great range of issues in social philosophy and political theory, and in particular, the emergence, working properties and economic effects of institutions.