Social and political philosophy

Reviving the ancient political wisdom of St.

How have Muslim marriages legally ended around the turn of the 21st century?

Some American intellectual traditions, although pristine in appearance, are racist at their core.

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

This book addresses the problem of fully explaining Socrates' motives for philosophic interlocution in Plato's dialogues.

During the 2000's, online literature in Arabic language was popular among a larger readership.

The book offers the first systematic account of Iran's foreign policy following the nuclear agreement (JCPOA) of July 14, 2015.

This book provides close readings of primary texts to analyze the linkage between G.

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 explores the ways in which democratizing Muslim countries treat their ethnic minorities' requests of inclusiveness and autonomy.

What lies at the foundation of our moral beliefs?

This book advances a comprehensive moral defense of freedom of expression-one with implications for law and policy, but also for the choices of individuals and non-governmental institutions.

Language policies are increasingly acknowledged as being a necessary component of many decisions taken in the areas of the labor market, education, minority languages, mobility, and social inclusion of migrants.

Taking philosophical principles as a point of departure, this book provides essential distinctions for thinking through the history and systems of Western psychology.

This book offers a comprehensive investigation of privacy in the modern world.

This book aims to recover from ancient and modern thinkers valuable arguments about statesmanship, leadership, and tyranny which illuminate reassessments of political science and practice after the election of Donald Trump.

This book seeks to address the relation of political philosophy and Donald Trump as a political phenomenon through the notions of patriotism, cosmopolitanism, and civic virtue.

This book explores ways in which creative research practice can be explicitly and mindfully geared to make a difference to the quality of social and ecological existence.

The book considers some of the solutions proposed by Muslim activists and thinkers in their attempts to renew (tajdid) their ways of life and thought in accord with the demands of the age in which they lived.

This book discusses the ethical dilemmas of migration in the era of globalization.

This monograph examines the relationship between science and democracy.

As the epicenter of Christianity has shifted towards Africa in recent decades, Pentecostalism has emerged as a particularly vibrant presence on the continent.

This book presents the first full translation of the correspondence of Leo Strauss and Gerhard Kruger, showing for each the development of key and influential ideas, along with seven interpretative essays by leading Strauss scholars.

This book provides a critical account of the main controversies involving Norman Geras, one of the key modern political thinkers.

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

This book explores the relationship between schizophrenia and common sense.

Drawing on interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives, this book critically examines intercultural theory and its interrelations with globalisation, education and dialogue in multicultural societies.

In the economical changing and political disturbing times we are living a question concerns us all: Is this the society I want to live in?

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the various sociologies of New Zealand from the late 19th century to the present day.

This book focuses on a little-studied yet virulent and devoted fascist faction that was active within Zionist circles during the 1920s and 1930s.

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

Youth justice has always focused on criminal justice but this work argues that taking a social justice approach is the best way to reduce youth crime.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to global legal thought.

This volume examines the impact of the Trump presidency on development aid.

This broad and insightful book presents current scholarship in important subfields of philosophy of science and addresses an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary readership.

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

Christianity flourishes in areas facing profound dislocations amidst regime change and warfare.

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

This book provides a critical assessment of Benjamin's writings on Franz Kafka and of Benjamin's related writings.

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

Pope Francis confuses many observers because his papacy does not fit neatly into any pre-established classificatory schemes.

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 explores the phenomenological investigations of Edith Stein by critically contextualising her role within the phenomenological movement and assessing her accounts of empathy, sociality, and personhood.

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

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.

This book is about the ways in which modern enlightenment, rather than liberating humanity from tyranny, has subjected us to new servitude imposed by systems of mass manipulation, electronic vigilance, compulsive consumerism, and the horrors of a seemingly unending global war on terror.

This book is the first comprehensive, in-depth English language study of the animals that were left behind in the exclusion zone in the wake of the nuclear meltdown of three of the four reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in March 2011, triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake of magnitude 9.

This book analyzes narrations embedded in political disputes, allowing readers to gain a deeper understanding of modern political reality.