Social and political philosophy

This volume addresses the issue of the human encounter with the Mystery of God and the purpose of human life.

This book is a philosophical introduction to the field of communication and media studies.

This book explores the relationship between economic thought, proposals for reform of political institutions, and civil society in the period between the rise to power of Napoleon and the eve of the First World War in Italy and France - two countries with a similar cultural and political tradition and with personal mobility of the intellectual class.

This book offers a comprehensive overview and critique of the most important political and philosophical interpretations of the basic results of social choice, assessing their plausibility and seeking to identify the links between the theory of social choice and the more traditional issues of political theory and philosophy.

This book offers a widely interdisciplinary approach to investigating important questions surrounding the cognitive foundations of group attitudes and social interaction.

Presented as a Vorlesung in the German philosophical tradition, this book presents the most detailed account of Nelson's method of argument analysis, celebrated by many luminaries such as Karl Popper.

This volume analyses the evolution of humankind by combining approaches from science and the arts.

"e;Di Iorio offers a new approach to Hayek's Sensory Order, linking neuroscience to the old Verstehen tradition and to contemporary theories of self-organizing systems; this should be on the reading list of everyone who is interested in Hayek's thought.

This work reviews the progress of children's rights 25 years since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

This book extends the discussion of the nature of freedom and what it means for a human to be free.

As a Festschrift, this book celebrates and honours the scholarly achievements of Professor Jaysankar Lal Shaw, one of the most eminent and internationally acclaimed comparative philosophers of our times.

The book presents an overview of the term neuropsychoanalysis and traces its historical and scientific foundations as well as its cultural implications.

This monograph describes the contributions to our current understanding of quality of life made by the most important ancient philosophers in the Western Tradition.

This short book sets out to explore the concept of nature in the context of a changing reality, in which the extent of our transformation of the environment has become evident: What is nature and to what extent has humanity transformed it?

This volume provides the first full, political and philosophically rigorous account of Plato's dialogue Alcibiades Major.

This work is devoted to developing as well as expounding the theory of the cultural sciences of the philosopher Alfred Schutz (1899-1959).

This volume presents philosophical contributions examining questions of the grounding and justification of taxation and different types of taxes such as inheritance, wealth, consumption or income tax in relation to justice and the concept of a just society.

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights is an outstanding resource covering key questions, problems, and debates in scholarship on the nature, justification, authority and relevance of human rights.

This book assesses the rapid transformation of the political agency of religious groups within transnational civil society under the conditions of globalization that have weakened the sovereign nation-state.

The purpose of this book is to initiate a new discussion on liberty focusing on the infinite realms of space.

The book presents the economic policy model known as "e;Social Market Economy"e; in Germany, the country where it originated.

This book develops a philosophico-methodological analysis of prediction and its role in economics.

This book brings together the research of philosophers, sociologists, and social scientists.

This book is about time and its powerful influence on our personal and collective daily life.

This book considers the current domestic and global political and economic landscape and will show that there are three different but related kinds of leverage that together have emerged as the dominant strategy in economics, politics and international relations.

This collection of papers investigates the most recent debates about individualism and holism in the philosophy of social science.

In this book the practical dimension of social justice is explained using the analysis and discussion of a variety of well-known topics.

This collection of essays honouring Dan Felsenthal and Moshe Machover reconsiders foundational aspects of the measurement of voting power.

This interdisciplinary work draws on research from psychology and behavioral economics to evaluate the plausibility of moral contract theory.

This volume contains the English translation of Felix Kaufmann's (1895-1945) main work Methodenlehre der Sozialwissenschaften (1936).

This book develops a philosophical analysis of economic reality and economic science from an Aristotelian point of view.

This work offers a timely philosophical analysis of fundamental principles of democracy and the meaning of democracy today.

This volume analyses, from a computational point of view, how culture may arise, develop and evolve through time.

This book contains a selection of original conference papers covering all major fields in the philosophy of science, that have been organized into themes.

The book tracks the rise of Business Ethics as a discipline in the United States through a review of the basic understandings of the role of business practices in the operations of society, beginning with Aristotle and proceeding to a review of the formative concepts and cases in the history of American business.

This short introduction to the discipline of Ethics in its practical and professional applications teaches, in simplest form, the discipline's vocabulary and forms of reasoning.

The essays collected in this book address legislation from the viewpoint of legal theory and provide an overview of current research in legisprudence as a new scholarly approach to lawmaking.

Officially, Western societies are waging a war on obesity.

Macht ist ein äußerst komplexes Thema, dem man sich auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen nähern kann.

Das 21.

This book analyses how and why we are living at a critical moment in the history of human life on earth and explores how we find grounds for the hopes that will enable us to address the challenges and crises of our time.

In the early 1970s, the major industrial states were preparing to shift to nuclear fission as their principal source of electrical power.

Was ist gerecht?

This is the first of four volumes to be published as part of this book series, on the life and work of Richard Ned Lebow.

In den vergangenen Jahrzehnten hat die religiöse und kulturelle Vielfalt in Deutschland zugenommen und als gesellschaftspolitisches Thema an Gewicht gewonnen.

Die Menschenrechte haben sich als praktische Querschnittaufgabe einer Vielzahl an Politikfeldern etabliert.

In Europa hat es in den letzten Jahren mehr offenen, vor allem auch gewalttätigen Antisemitismus gegeben als in den meisten Jahrzehnten nach 1945.

The link between the individual and the state or religious community on the other hand, does not occur without tension.

»Viele Konflikte, die sich heute an identitätspolitischen Konzepten entzünden, lassen sich in ihrer Logik erhellen, wenn man die abenteuerliche Reise verfolgt, die der Begriff des Privilegs in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten zurückgelegt hat.