Social and political philosophy

This book outlines essential issues of Antonio Gramsci's thought, from his relationship to other political thinkers, including Rosa Luxemburg, Lenin, and Machiavelli; the development of his key conceptual categories; and the applicability of those categories in contemporary contexts.

In this highly-interdisciplinary volume, we systematically study the role of metaphors and analogies in (mis)shaping our understanding of the world.

Ben Lazare Mijuskovic has spent 40 years researching theories of consciousness in relation to human loneliness, using an interdisciplinary and "e;history of ideas"e; approach.

This book introduces a refreshing approach to twenty-first-century scientific approach in an age, which is also known as the Century of Complexity.

This book offers a detailed analysis of John Locke's case for toleration and proposes an interpretation that shows the links between his political reasoning and his reflection on the ethics of belief.

This edited collection evaluates the relationship between Marxism and religion in two ways: Marxism's treatment of religion and the religious aspects of Marxism.

This book explores the significance of psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott's ideas for contemporary debates about care.

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

This book offers a critical examination of certain ideas and values-such as remembering, forgiveness, story-telling through Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, etc.

This book examines the link between sensual austerity and moral leadership-a topic largely neglected in contemporary academic scholarship and public policy-by exploring the comparative cross-cultural perspectives of Plato, Confucius, and Gandhi, on this theme.

The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures celebrates a literary genre already over 500 years old.

This book explores the peacebuilding ideas and experiences of Maasai and Gusii women of faith in Kenya.

This collection stages a dynamic scholarly debate about the ambivalent workings of technocapitalism and humanism in urban spaces.

This book offers a new theoretical framework for free speech by critically analyzing the major justifications for free speech.

This monograph examines the relationship between science and democracy.

This book provides critical and reflective discussions of a wide range of issues arising in education at the interface between philosophy, research, policy and practice.

This book presents a set theoretical approach to sociological research.

Literary Representations of Precarious Work, 1840 to the Present sheds new light on literary representations of precarious labor from 1840 until the present.

This book suggests that applied linguistics research is inherently concerned with complexity, emergence and causality, and because of this it also requires a robust social ontology.

This handbook brings together a range of global perspectives in the field of critical studies in education to illuminate multiple ways of knowing, learning, and teaching for social wellbeing, justice, and sustainability.

This book explores how contemporary approaches to the meaning of time and history follow patterns that are simultaneously political and theological.

The ethics of human/animal relationships is a growing field of academic research and a topic for public discussion and regulatory interventions from law-makers, governments and private institutions.

This book offers students a philosophical introduction to the ethical foundations of business management.

This Pivot book provides a wide-ranging and diverse commentary on issues of legibility (and illegibility) around poetry, antifascist pacifist activism, environmentalism and the language of protest.

This book offers an extensive comparative analysis of populism and radical democratic theories, tracing the line dividing the respective conceptions of 'people' and 'popular sovereignty'.

In current debates about coming to terms with individual and collective wrongdoing, the concept of forgiveness has played an important but controversial role.

This text explores how self-consciousness and self-understanding differ phenomenologically from the experience and comprehension of others, and the extent to which such relations are constitutively interdependent.

Offering the first developed account of political liberal education, this book combines a thorough analysis of the theoretical groundwork of political liberal education with application-oriented approaches to contemporary educational challenges.

This book is the first to articulate and challenge the consensus on the right and left that knowledge is the key to any problem, demonstrating how the left's embrace of knowledge productivity keeps it trapped within capital's circuits.

This book advances an original conception of the relationship between state and corporate power in the United States.

This book explores post-communist thresholds as materializations of a specific crisis of modern European identity that was caused by the existence and sudden breakdown of Soviet-type communism.

This book attempts to develop a Marxist theory of the human individual.

Eminent Italian historian Giovanni Levi once notably remarked that "e;no one is a Marxist anymore,"e; pointing to a paradox in Italian cultural history.

This book suggests that more can be said about cosmopolitanism than either the bold endorsement of a world state or the humble recognition of the equal moral worth of individuals, which makes everybody cosmopolitan.

 This book is about the life and times of Richard Congreve.

This edited volume traces the development of the Marxian theory of finance in Japan.

This collection engages the work of Michael Oakeshott predominantly on the themes of his skepticism, politics, and aesthetics.

This book investigates communism in Marx's writings, incorporating a consideration of communist politicity.

This book brings together leading academics and activists to address the possibilities for qualitative social change beyond neoliberalism, providing introductory essays on alternative societies, transition, and resistance.

This book presents a Marx that is in many ways different from the one popularized by the dominant currents of twentieth-century Marxism.

The edited volume New Economies for Sustainability: Limits and Potentials for Possible Futures brings together a range of alternative views on economy and organization to illustrate different perspectives on how to work towards more sustainable solutions to production, consumptions and economic organization more generally.

This volume explores challenges posed by plurality, as understood by Hannah Arendt, but also the opportunities it offers.

To what extent are the concepts of fatherhood and family, as proposed by Sigmund Freud, still valid?

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 volume offers new insights into food and culture.

The book examines the nexus between political and religious thought within the Prussian old conservative milieu.

This book studies how the relationship between philosophy, morality, politics, and science was conceived in the Vienna Circle and how this group of philosophers tried to position science as an antidote to totalitarianism and irrationalism.

This book explores the complexity of the Syrian question and its effects on the foreign policies of Russia, Iran, and Turkey.

This edited volume examines the psychosocial transformations experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, and envisions those that might lead to a more equitable society as we 'open up'.