Social and political philosophy

This book has two aims.

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

This book addresses the field of populisms from a contemporary perspective.

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.

This book seeks to explicitly engage Marxist and post-colonial theory to place Marxism in the context of the post-colonial age.

This book analyses French cultural policies in the face of what the French government perceives as a challenge to its Republican secular raison d'etre.

Multiculturalism is often thought to be defined by its commitment to diversity, inclusivity, sensitivity, and tolerance, but these established values sometimes require contrary practices of homogenization, exclusion, insensitivity, and intolerance.

This book presents a set theoretical approach to sociological research.

This edited collection analyses the reception of a selection of key thinkers, and the dissemination of paradigms, theories and controversies across the social sciences and humanities since 1945.

Critical theory draws on Marxism, psychoanalysis, postmodern and poststructuralist theorists.

Becca Whitla uses liberationist, postcolonial, and decolonial methods to analyze hymns, congregational singing, and song-leading practices.

This book argues that contemporary liberal democracy is reaching a crisis.

This book focuses on oil politics and the development of nuclear technology in Iran, providing a broader historical context to understand Iran's foreign relations and nuclear policy.

This book presents new conceptual and methodological approaches to studying religiosity in Europe.

This book studies values and attitudes in the Gulf region.

This book offers a compelling examination of our moral and epistemic obligations to be reasonable people who seek to understand the social reality of those who are different from us.

This book provides a comprehensive account of the phenomenon of identity in politics, featuring for the first time the question of individual emancipation.

Henri Lefebvre's Critical Theory of Space offers a rigorous analysis and revival of Lefebvre's works and the context in which he produced them.

Considering the history of workers' and socialist movements in Europe, Frontier Socialism focuses on unconventional forms of anti-capitalist thought, particularly by examining several militant-intellectuals whose legacy is of particular interest for those aiming for a radical critique of capitalism.

This book offers a complete presentation of the most important themes of Marx's thought, following the development of Marx's theory from the beginning to his death and offering a reconstruction and analysis that covers the whole of Marx's life and works.

Penal Abolitionism and Transformative Justice in Brazil discusses how penal abolitionism provides fundamental theoretical bases and practical references for the construction of a transformative justice in Brazil, supporting the claim that justice is a socially constructed conception and that victims do not unanimously stand for punishment.

This textbook considers understanding social processes to be the main task of sociology.

This book examines the regional order in the Gulf Region and the wider Middle East, focusing on regional rivalries and security alliances.

This book explores the unsettling ties between colonialism, transnationalism, and anarchism.

This book covers a varied spectrum of ethical topics, ranging from the fundamental considerations regarding ethical values, to the rationale of obligation, and the ethical management of societal and personal affairs.

This book charts the historical development of 'forensic objectivity' through an analysis of the ways in which objective knowledge of crimes, crime scenes, crime materials and criminals is achieved.

This book re-examines Adorno's aesthetics, developing a new literary approach that aims to unveil hidden elements of Adorno's thought.

"e;David Hardwick and Leslie Marsh have assembled a contentious collection of independent thinkers on liberalism's identity and prospects.

This book sets out to determine the validity of an accusation made against Jacques Lacan by Noam Chomsky in an interview in 1989.

This book explores the problem of disagreement concerning the treatment of animals in a liberal society.

Building from the level of individual interaction, this book intends to shed light on what the author terms "e;infrasocial power"e; and the relation between this individual-actor oriented level and public power.

This volume highlights three intertwined aspects of the global context of Orthodox Christianity: religion, politics, and human rights.

The book makes a new contribution to the contemporary debates on nihilism and the sacred.

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This book argues that the macroeconomic policy adjustment models recommended by the IMF and the World Bank for implementation in many Muslim countries, with substantial donor financial support, have not been effective.

This book provides a philosophically informed, institutionalist account of political leadership.

This book uses the concepts of freedom, indeterminism, and fallibilism to solve, in a unified way, problems of free will, knowledge, reasoning, rationality, personhood, ethics and politics.

This book provides a comparative and historical analysis of totalitarianism and considers why Spain became totalitarian during its inquisition but not France; and why Germany became totalitarian during the previous century, but not Sweden.

This innovative new volume analyses the role of emotions in knowledge acquisition.

This book promotes a Lacanian approach to silence, arguing that Lacanian psychoanalysis is distinctive for putting a high value on both silence and language.