Social and political philosophy

This book focuses on the ethical demands of extreme poverty and develops a political theory of practical change.

How Tocqueville's ideas can help us build resilient liberal democracies in a divided worldHow can today's liberal democracies withstand the illiberal wave sweeping the globe?

This book explores how politics, religion and cinema encounter and re-invent each other in contemporary Turkish cinema.

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This book is a comparative study of two major Shi?

This book argues that Islam has been securitized in US foreign policy, especially during the W.

This book proposes a cosmopolitan ethics that calls for analyzing how economic and political structures limit opportunities for different groups, distinguished by gender, race, and class.

In addition to war, terrorism, and unchecked military violence, modernity is also subject to less visible but no less venomous conflicts.

This book identifies a new methodological strategy for the interpretation of film philosophizing.

This book introduces architects to a philosopher, Immanuel Kant, whose work was constantly informed by a concern for the world as an evolving whole.

Libertarians often bill their theory as an alternative to both the traditional Left and Right.

The Enduring Importance of Leo Strauss takes on the crucial task of separating what is truly important in the work of Leo Strauss from the ephemeral politics associated with his school.

This book addresses the need to develop a holistic approach to countering violence that integrates notions of peace, justice and care of the Earth.

What is character education?

Progress in American society comes through careful analysis of the past, choosing the best path forward by interrogating what has come before.

First published in 1995.

Written in political exile in New Zealand during the Second World War and published in two volumes in 1945, The Open Society and its Enemies was hailed by Bertrand Russell as a 'vigorous and profound defence of democracy'.

Unashamedly polemical, this reissue of Freedom & Equality, first published in 1986, presents a strong and persuasively argued case for democratic socialism.

The central theme of this book is that it's not enough to invoke omnipotence and omniscience as answers to the questions of God's ability to create and causally affect the world (i.

Written between 1857 and 1858, the Grundrisse is the first draft of Marx's critique of political economy and, thus, also the initial preparatory work on Capital.

This book answers questions about secularization: Does it dissolve religion, or transform it into faith in a universally valid value?

Many have wondered about the similarity in name of American critical realism and the movement of the same name begun by Roy Bhaskar.

This book initiates the discussion between psychoanalysis and recent humanist and social scientific interest in a fundamental contemporary topic - the nonhuman.

This book focuses on the domains of moral philosophy, political philosophy, and political theory within African philosophy.

This is the first book-length examination of the impact Leo Strauss' immigration to the United States had on this thinking.

This edited collection offers a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of human-animal interactions in Asia throughout history.

This book addresses pioneering views and hot topics in contemporary Marxist philosophy, reflecting the latest advances and important achievements made over the past 30 years in China.

This book uniquely recovers and assesses Stoic political thought by tracking its uptake into Western modernity and exploring the extent of its impact.

This book interrogates white responses to black-led movements for racial justice.

The book assesses emerging powers' influence on international economic law and analyses whether their rhetoric of reforming this 'unjust' order translates into concrete reforms.

This book offers a broad and diverse reflection of the ways in which child poverty could be conceptualised, and the ways in which it is intertwined with childhood as a specific social condition.

This Key Concepts pivot discusses the contemporary relevance of the ancient Chinese concept of Tianxia or 'All-Under-Heaven' and argues the case for a new global political philosophy.

This book is the first comprehensive study to respond to the ongoing debates on political sciences' fragmentation, doubtful relevance, and disconnect with the larger public.

This book offers an analysis of experimental psychology that is embedded in a general understanding of human behavior.

This book explores the agency of Jinn, the so-called "e;demons of Islam"e;.

This book introduces political science of religion - a coherent approach to the study of the political role of religion grounded in political science.

This book has two aims.

This book seeks to understand white conservative Christians' support for Donald Trump, using their own words.

This book contains fresh insights into ecumenism and, notwithstanding claims of an "e;ecumenical winter,"e; affirms the view that we are actually moving into a "e;new ecumenical spring.

This book considers the work of Charles Taylor from a theological perspective, specifically relating to the topic of ecclesiology.

Overcoming Uncertainty in Ancient Greek Political Philosophy  makes an historical and theoretical contribution by explaining the role of opinion in ancient Greek political philosophy, showing its importance for Aristotle's theory of deliberation, and indicating a new model for a deliberative republic.

This book explores the changes underwent by the Orthodox Churches of Eastern and Southeastern Europe as they came into contact with modernity.

This book traces the connections between diverging postwar European integration policies and intra-Christian divisions to argue that supranational integration originates from Roman Catholic internationalism, and that resistance to integration, conversely, is based in Protestantism.

This book presents an account of Hannah Arendt's performative and non-sovereign theory of freedom and political action, with special focus on action's disclosure of the unique 'who' of each agent.

This book is the first monograph fully devoted to analyzing the philosophical aspects of affordances.

This book examines modernity itself.

This book presents a Marx that is in many ways different from the one popularized by the dominant currents of twentieth-century Marxism.

This volume explores challenges posed by plurality, as understood by Hannah Arendt, but also the opportunities it offers.

This book describes and compares the circumstances and lived experiences of religious minorities in Tunisia, Morocco, and Israel in the 1970s, countries where the identity and mission of the state are strongly and explicitly tied to the religion of the majority.