Social and political philosophy

This book illuminates the interconnections between politics and religion through the lens of artistic production, exploring how art inspired by religion functioned as a form of resistance, directed against both Romanian national communism (1960-1989) and, latterly, consumerist society and its global market.

This book argues that the primary function of human thinking in language is to make judgments, which are logical-normative connections of concepts.

This collection stages a dynamic scholarly debate about the ambivalent workings of technocapitalism and humanism in urban spaces.

This book considers the political potential of affective experiences of desire as reflected in contemporary South African literature.

This new book gathers together essays concerning the strategic modes of appropriation that Bourdieu practiced with regard to Marx, together with their various outcomes.

Throughout their shared history, Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches have lived through a very complex and sometimes tense relationship - not only theologically, but also politically.

Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of Conversion takes a close look at Shakespeare's engagement with the flurry of controversy and activity surrounding the concept of conversion in post-Reformation England.

This book offers the first realist reconstruction of Marx's critique of capitalism.

This edited collection showcases some of the best recent research in the philosophy of science.

This book uses the conceptual tools of philosophy to shed light on digital media and on the way in which they bear upon our existence.

Throughout their shared history, Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches have lived through a very complex and sometimes tense relationship --not only theologically, but also politically.

This volume presents the most recent joint study of the research group Religion and Human Rights.

This book focuses on educational praxis-connecting work inside schools with work outside school-to produce a revitalized critical theory of education that shows its slide away from Marxism and toward culturalism.

This book is designed to provide specialists, spectators, and students with a brief and engaging exploration of media usage by radical groups and the laws regulating these grey areas of Jihadi propaganda activities.

This book is an empirical comparative study of the complexity of religion in the public spheres of the five Nordic countries.

This interdisciplinary volume brings together specialists from different backgrounds to deliver expert views on the relationship between morality and emotion, putting a special emphasis on issues related to emotional shocks.

This book explores how the recent development of Muslim countries as a group has fallen far short of non-Muslim countries, which, some have concluded, may be a result of Islamic teachings.

This book considers whether critical theory is up to the task of addressing our contemporary crises, including the question of 'post-truth' discourse, psycho-social pathologies, the rise of right-wing populism, the Covid-19 pandemic, the anticolonial deficit in critical theory, and the neo-liberal management of the academy.

This first volume has as its main focus the philosophical foundations of Michalos' work and describes it in the broad context of the study of logic, the philosophy of social sciences, and a general theory of value.

This book explores how contemporary approaches to the meaning of time and history follow patterns that are simultaneously political and theological.

In this book, translated into English for the first time, Lelio Demichelis takes on a modern perspective of the concept/process of alienation.

This book deals with good, evil, happiness and morally enhanced post-humans.

This book analyzes women entrepreneurs in Muslim countries who are using Islamic values to develop and run small businesses.

This volume employs new empirical data to examine the internationalization of the social sciences and humanities (SSH).

Raphael Sassower examines the concept of hypocrisy for its strategic potential as a means of personal protection and social cohesion.

This book critically introduces two compelling contemporary schools of Marxian thought: the New Reading of Marx of Michael Heinrich and Werner Bonefeld, and the postoperaismo of Antonio Negri.

This book provides original and controversial contributions into specific areas of Johannine studies, along with defenses of various traditional theological interpretations of John that are commonly overlooked in New Testament scholarship.

This book discusses Marx's thinking on human emancipation based on his critique of capitalism and the prospect of socialism.

This book deals with 18 voting procedures used or proposed for use in elections resulting in the choice of a single winner.

This edited collection evaluates the relationship between Marxism and religion in two ways: Marxism's treatment of religion and the religious aspects of Marxism.

This book presents argumentation for an evolutionary continuity between human persons and cyborg persons, based on the thought of Joseph Margolis.

It is a commonly held assumption among cultural, social, and political psychologists that imagining the future of societies we live in has the potential to change how we think and act in the world.

This trilogy deals with an epistemology of economics, arguing for a radical overturning of conventional analysis and providing an alternative to political economy and social sciences, based not on positivism, but on a normative and programming paradigm.

This volume is an interdisciplinary exploration of the modalities, meanings, and practices of silence in contemporary social discourse.

This edited volume examines the critical issues of the 21st century through the prism of Ernest Gellner's work.

This book offers fresh insights to enhance and diversify our understanding of the modern history of the state and societies in today's Jordan, while also providing examples of why and how scholars can challenge the static and discursively government-minded approaches to minorities and minoritisation - especially the traditional emphasis on demographic balances.

This book proposes a new way for scholars in, for example, Education, Literary Studies, and Philosophy to approach texts and other phenomena through the concept and practice of translation.

This volume is based to a large extent on the understanding of biosemiotic literary criticism as a semiotic-model-making enterprise.

This edited volume offers a new approach to understanding social conventions by way of Martin Heidegger.

This book investigates agency in the historical resistance movement in Kashmir by initiating a fresh conversation about Muslim Kashmiri women.

This book is about the function and use of official statistics.

This book discusses socialism and democracy.

Deliberative democracy is an embattled political project.

This book will offer a full reconstruction of the history of Theoretical Marxism in Italy between 1895 and 1935, based on a rigorous philological method.

The Absolute, philosophized most saliently about by Georg Hegel, encompasses the entirety of reality.

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This book argues that political Islam (represented by its moderate and militant forms) has failed to govern effectively or successfully due to its inability to reconcile its discursive understanding of Islam, centered on literal justice, with the dominant neo-liberal value of freedom.

This book is a timely intervention in the areas of philosophy, history, and literature.

This volume considers the ethics of policing and imprisonment, focusing particularly on mass incarceration and police shootings in the United States.

Das vorliegende Handbuch bietet eine umfassende Darstellung von Leben, Werk und Wirkung Georg Simmels (1858–1918).