Social and political philosophy

Platons Politeia ist eine der wirkmächtigsten Schriften der Antike.

Ein höchst aktuelles Lehr- und Lernbuch für Schule, Studium und Selbststudium: Dieter Birnbacher gilt als einer der einflussreichsten deutschen Klimaethiker.

In ihrem bereits 1848, noch vor der französischen Februar-Revolution und der deutschen März-Revolution, erschienenen Manifest entwickelten Marx und Engels das, was später als »Marxismus« so entscheidenden Einfluss nehmen sollte.

The Psychosocial Imaginaries of Defence Nationalism interrogates the emergence of far-right nationalist 'defence leagues' in Australia and the UK.

This volume develops and describes an ontology of modern conflict.

No detailed description available for "e;Physiological Theory and the Doctrine of the Mean in Plato and Aristotle"e;.

This book discusses the growing interest in realism in social sciences of the twenty-first century.

This book seeks to show how Karl Marx's vision of communism was a continuation of Aristotle's classical humanist philosophy.

"e;Given their ethnic diversity, to what extent, and at what cost and benefit to human dignity, can European countries adopt and adapt plural democracy?

This volume features forty-two essays written in honor of Joseph Agassi.

This book explores the relationship between schizophrenia and common sense.

More than 300 years ago, Isaac Newton created a mathematical model of the solar system that predicted the existence of a yet unknown planet: Neptune.

This book addresses the topic of 'being bound' from a philosophical and a sociological perspective.

This book is concerned with the evaluation of natural argumentative discourse, and, in particular, with the language in which arguments are expressed.

This book analyzes the social and contextual causes of suicide, the existential and philosophical reasons for committing suicide, and the prevention strategies that modern fictional literature places at our disposal.

Gerechtigkeit findet nicht nur zwischen Zeitgenossen statt - auch das Handeln früher lebender Menschen kann Ansprüche und Pflichten gegenwärtig und zukünftig lebender Menschen begründen.

This book showcases Elisabeth of Bohemia, Princess Palatine (1618-1680), one of the foremost female minds of the 17th century.

This book offers a new and externalist perspective in ignorance studies.

This book offers a re-evaluation of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the prominent Italian Renaissance philosopher and prince of Concord.

This book describes the millennia-long process of the genesis, formation, struggle, and change of views on the management of social organizations in various countries around the world; in other words, it characterizes the worldwide evolution of the History of Management Thought (HMT) - ideas, concepts, theories, paradigms, and scientific schools - from Antiquity to the present.

This book offers a nuanced and muti-layered approach towards comprehending the possibilities of democratization or likelihood of authoritarian resilience in the Muslim world.

This book explores how Wittgenstein's personal life provided more of a reference point for his philosophical work than has been previously thought.

This edited collection examines the contemporary relevance of Lacan's 1965 essay "e;Science and Truth"e; to debates on science, psychoanalysis, ethics and truth.

The book shows the ideological underpinning of the economist's work, and the ideological perspectives are those that have largely prevailed in the last couple of centuries: liberalism, nationalism and socialism.

This book analyzes Ohira's ideology, philosophy, and actions as a politician and a minister, based on primary sources from Japan and the USA, and makes a significant contribution to the field of Japanese political and diplomatic history.

This book discusses how Plato, one the fiercest legal critics in ancient Greece, became - in the longue duree - its most influential legislator.

This book offers one of the most comprehensive studies of social pathology to date, following a cross-disciplinary and methodologically innovative approach.

While Nietzsche's influence on philosophy, literature and art is beyond dispute, his influence on sociology is often called into question.

This book chronicles the way Keynes's generous philosophy of practice evolved in consonance with the needs of his epoch.

Diese erste umfassende Studie über das Werk Friedrich Schleiermachers in gendertheoretischer Perspektive untersucht die Entwicklung seines Denkens im Blick auf die zeitgenössische Geschlechterdebatte.

This volume features a critical evaluation of the recent work of the philosopher, Prof.

Verfassungsgerichtliche Institutionen- und Kompetenzprofile finden sich gegenwärtig in vielen politischen Gemeinwesen.

Im Zentrum des Buches steht die Rekonstruktion der Debatte, die im Europa des späten 18.

Christian Hiebaum untersucht die politische Dimension der juristischen Argumentation.

Eine moralische Praxis kann man mit ihrer Vorteilhaftigkeit begründen, ohne Moral und Vorteil gleichzusetzen.