Social and political philosophy

This book offers a conceptual map of Habermas' philosophy and a systematic introduction to his work.

This book investigates to what extent and in what ways Marxist writings and precepts on imperialism informed the so-called idealist stage of International Relations (IR).

This book argues that the primary function of human thinking in language is to make judgments, which are logical-normative connections of concepts.

In times of pandemic and global economic crisis, little more than a decade after the last, there are serious questions about how the liberal order can stand, who its friends are, and what the future will look like.

In Choreographing Agonism, author Goran Petrovic Lotina offers new insight into the connections between politics and performance.

This book analyzes the implication of secular/liberal values in Western and human rights law and its impact on Muslim women.

Although David Riesman wrote over half a century ago, his concept of autonomy as presented in The Lonely Crowd (1950) speaks directly to the intellectual and emotional disarrangements of the twenty-first century.

This book offers the first comprehensive philosophical examination of the free speech 'battles' of the last decade, arguing for a critical republican conception of civility as an explanatory and prescriptive solution.

This book argues that contemporary liberal democracy is reaching a crisis.

Given the current climate of political division and global conflict it is not surprising that there has been an increasing interest in how we ought to respond to perceived wrongdoing, both personal and political.

This book interrogates the nature and state of African American citizenship through the prism of Social Contract Theory.

This book offers a cognitive-semantic insight into the roots of the human decisionmaking process, using the metaphor of CHOICE as CUBE.

This textbook delivers a new thematic introduction to social theory that explores theoretical issues in their contemporary social contexts.

This book studies values and attitudes in the Gulf region.

This book demonstrates how pop culture examples can be used to demystify complex social theory.

This volume presents recent developments in identity theory and research.

This book argues that citizenship is an inadequate solution to the problem of statelessness based on a critical investigation of the lived experiences of Kurdish and Palestinian diasporas in western Europe.

This volume brings together chapters about aging in many non-Western cultures, from Africa and Asia to South America, from American Indians to Australian and Hawaii Aboriginals.

This book examines the socio-psychological dynamics and drivers of terrorism from a humanistic perspective.

"e;In professional and academic contexts nothing is more important than helping people to understand and engage with democratic society.

This book is the collaborative response of engaged scholars from diverse countries and disciplines who are disturbed by the contemporary resurgence of anti-democratic movements and regimes throughout the world.

This book explains the increasing incidences and normalisation of Islamophobia, by analysing the role of signifiers of free speech, censorship, and fatwa during the Satanic Verses affair in problematising the figure of the Muslim.

The economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the unrest in the US following the unlawful death of George Floyd, and other sources of social unrest and insecurity, have brought to a head something that has been brewing in Western societies since the Great Recession of 2008: the disillusionment with liberal democracy as it evolved after World War II.

"e;This brilliant and beautifully written book invokes a radical reorientation of the treatment of psychosis"e; Juliet Flower MacCannell, Author of Figuring Lacan and The Hysteric's Guide to the Future Female Subject.

The main themes and aims of this book are understanding aesthetics, contemporary art and the end of the avant-garde not from the traditional viewpoint of the metaphysics of the beautiful and the sublime but rather thru close connection to the techno-genesis of virtual worlds.

This book investigates the relation between Durkheim's sociology, Critical Theory, and the philosophy of social sciences.

This book illustrates the potential for computer simulation in the study of modern slavery and worker abuse, and by extension in all social issues.

Development and underdevelopment are the main determinants of life-chances worldwide, arguably more so than social class.

Drawing on the culture's history before and after the birth of rap music, this book argues that the values attributed to Hip Hop by 'postmodern' scholars stand in stark contrast with those that not only implicitly guided its aesthetic elements, but are explicitly voiced by Hip Hop's pioneers and rap music's most consequential artists.

This book traces the intersection of dreams and power in order to analyze the complex ways representations of dreams and paradigms of dream interpretation reinforce and challenge authoritarian, hierarchical structures.

This book is an investigation of the role of creative labor and the five senses in Rainer Maria Rilke's prose works, including his "e;Primal Sound"e; essay, the Stories of God, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, and his monograph on Auguste Rodin.

This book provides a diverse contextualization of Popper's critical rationalism concerning knowledge and his generalized attitude of criticism on appropriate social and political reforms in contemporary Africa.

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.

This book attempts to open up a path towards a phenomenological theory of values (more technically, a phenomenological axiology).

This book will offer a full reconstruction of the history of Theoretical Marxism in Italy between 1895 and 1935, based on a rigorous philological method.

This book deals with good, evil, happiness and morally enhanced post-humans.

This book is a complete presentation of the most important themes of Theodor W.

This book argues that Marxist theory is essential for understanding the contemporary industrialization of the form of artificial intelligence (AI) called machine learning.

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

This book brings together philosophical, social-theoretical and empirically oriented contributions on the philosophical and socio-theoretical debate on migration and integration, using the instruments of recognition as a normative and social-scientific category.

This book offers an innovative approach to moral enhancement.

This volume is based to a large extent on the understanding of biosemiotic literary criticism as a semiotic-model-making enterprise.

This book focuses on African metaphysics and epistemology, and is an exercise in decoloniality.

This book compares two major leisure activities - watching sport and engaging with art.

New philosophical essays on love by a diverse group of international scholars.

This book debates the values and ideals of Confucian politics-harmony, virtue, freedom, justice, order-and what these ideals mean for Confucian political philosophy today.

The diagnosis of social pathologies has long been a central concern for social researchers working within, and on the peripheries of, Critical Theory.

This volume presents the most recent joint study of the research group Religion and Human Rights.

This book presents key works of Boris Hessen, outstanding Soviet philosopher of science, available here in English for the first time.