Social and political philosophy

BUILDING A SOLIDARITY SOCIETY Is it the impossible dream: a caring and sustainable society that fosters the flourishing of people and planet?

Following Marx's own itinerary from Paris to London, from politics to the critique of political economy, The Marx of Communism delves into a creatively unfolding international debate on the democracy-communism relation, while supporting a 21st century communism as a social alternative to capitalism.

This book offers the first realist reconstruction of Marx's critique of capitalism.

This new book gathers together essays concerning the strategic modes of appropriation that Bourdieu practiced with regard to Marx, together with their various outcomes.

This book addresses the manifold crisis of current societies and understands it as a failure of normative social structuration.

This book explores the implications of agonistic democratic theory for political practice.

The past two decades have witnessed an intensifying rise of populist movements globally, and their impact has been felt in both more and less developed countries.

In this book, translated into English for the first time, Lelio Demichelis takes on a modern perspective of the concept/process of alienation.

This edited volume examines the critical issues of the 21st century through the prism of Ernest Gellner's work.

In this book, Touko Vaahtera explores how "e;bodies of latent potential,"e; a cultural attachment to the idea of body as potentiality, carries with it hierarchizing hopes about better bodies.

This collection, written by leading Lacanian psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners, is a unique exploration of the novel aspects of perversion from the perspective of cruelty-a psychoanalytic study that has never been sufficiently undertaken in an English-speaking world.

This book approaches education as a vital human good, both because it fosters the development of intellectual, moral and civic virtues, and because it promotes the development of valuable skills for work and for life.

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

This book presents a skeptical eliminativist philosophy of race and the theory of racelessness, a methodological and pedagogical framework for analyzing "e;race"e; and racism.

This book is the first collection of scholarship featuring both Canadian and American scholarship on the resurgent right-wing extremist movement in the two countries.

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.

This book argues that "e;race"e; and "e;whiteness"e; are central to the construction of the modern world.

This book provides a new theory for how democracy can materialize in the Middle East, and the broader Muslim world.

This book analyzes Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels from a political philosophy perspective.

This book approaches migration from Marxist feminist, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial perspectives.

"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?

Inspired by his lectures on rhetoric and by game theory, this book provides a new interpretation of Adam Smith's system of thought.

This book is a systematic and thorough analysis of what post-modernity is and how it emerged.

This book directly addresses the social and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book proposes a new way for scholars in, for example, Education, Literary Studies, and Philosophy to approach texts and other phenomena through the concept and practice of translation.

This book reviews Marx's contributions to the debate on the working class.

This is a translation of Mehdi Hairi Yazdi's ?

This edited volume presents an interdisciplinary and international revaluation of Friedrich Engels as much more than "e;junior partner"e; to Karl Marx or "e;second fiddle"e; in the Marxist orchestra.

This book examines the post-9/11 God debate in the West.

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

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The Wisdom of the Commons examines the history and philosophy of civic education as the essential political part of liberal education.

This book provides the foundations of trust amidst radical uncertainty.

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the critique of contemporary ideology, offering an innovative genealogy of one of its most fundamental discursive manoeuvres: the ideological effacement of mediation.

This second volume, Basics of a Liberal Psychological, Social and Moral Order, overviews developments in the theory of spontaneously ordered complex phenomena, the psychology of inference and expectation, the nature of anticipatory systems in the psychological and economic domains, and the evolution of scientific thought and knowledge.

This book explores why and how Thomas  Hobbes - the 17th century founder of political science -- contributed to the modern marginalisation of 'friendship', a concept that stood in the foreground of ancient moral and political thought  and that is  currently undergoing a revival.

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.

This book addresses the paucity of robust reflections on ethics as a distinct field of experience in recent Black Studies scholarship.

This first volume, History and its Betrayal, traces the development of major themes of liberalism from the increase in human population beyond the limits of the face-to-face society of tribalism and small groups up until the present day.

This volume uses historical epistemology in order to address several topics in the history of economic thought, with special emphasis on ecological economics, environmental metaphors of scarcity, and mathematical ecology.

Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Family aims to raise a sophisticated and highly accessible debate around the family, self-making and the political and cultural implications of liberation.

This book focuses on critical approaches to the state and state theory in the Global South.

Why broach and challenge the question of neutrality?

This book throws a spotlight on the under-explored African perspective on the mercurial concept of human dignity.

This book uses survey data in "e;hot spots"e; around the globe, to analyse various models of social justice, particularly the principle of equality, from a pragmatic perspective.

This book explores critical pedagogy and issues relating to entrepreneurialism, commodification, and marketization in education, and their deleterious effects on student agency and subjectivity.

This book presents a snapshot of a major challenge, and shares subjective views on various areas of conflict in Africa and the diverse - theoretical and practical - efforts to achieve peace.

This book reveals the core features of digital culture, examined by means of semiotic models and theories.

How might political emotions contribute to the creation of a decent public sphere?

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