Classical and contemporary republicans offer a compelling political vision built on a commitment to promoting freedom from domination, establishing popular control over public officials, and securing the empire of law.
Many liberal political philosophers hold that the state should not impose or even promote any particular conception of the good life or human flourishing.
Kantian Commitments comprises ten essays that represent a series of efforts to rethink many of the fundamentals of Kant's ethics and to draw out some implications for moral theory and practice.
Kantian Commitments comprises ten essays that represent a series of efforts to rethink many of the fundamentals of Kant's ethics and to draw out some implications for moral theory and practice.
Many liberal political philosophers hold that the state should not impose or even promote any particular conception of the good life or human flourishing.
The expectation used to be that men would be masculine and women would be feminine, and this was assumed to come naturally to them in virtue of their biology.
The expectation used to be that men would be masculine and women would be feminine, and this was assumed to come naturally to them in virtue of their biology.
Over the past decade cultural theory has seen a number of 'turns' - the materialist turn, the animal turn, the affective turn - that address the human as an affective, embodied, and ultimately vulnerable animal embedded in dense webs of more-than-human relations, in short as a posthuman phenomenon.
Cognitive Science and the Reconceptualization of Social Theory explores how core social science ideas can be naturalized and reconceptualized through the lens of cognitive science.
Tim Mulgan introduces a new thought experiment: the world will end in two hundred years, and humanity faces imminent and unavoidable (but not immediate) extinction.
Tim Mulgan introduces a new thought experiment: the world will end in two hundred years, and humanity faces imminent and unavoidable (but not immediate) extinction.
The literature that explores the compatibility of Islam and human rights is torn between one approach that focuses on reinterpreting Islamic scripture and another that concentrates on reconfiguring Muslim sensibility.
The executive branch in Western democracies has been granted a virtually impossible task: expected to 'imperially' direct the life of the nation through thick and thin, it is concurrently required to be subservient to legislation meted out by a sovereign parliament.
The literature that explores the compatibility of Islam and human rights is torn between one approach that focuses on reinterpreting Islamic scripture and another that concentrates on reconfiguring Muslim sensibility.
Michel Foucault’s seminal realization that security is a species concept opens a new path for understanding how genocide is fundamentally related to aesthetic ideology.
Michel Foucault’s seminal realization that security is a species concept opens a new path for understanding how genocide is fundamentally related to aesthetic ideology.
While technological advancements dominate much of the conversation on virtual platforms and the political power that ensues, there remains a crucial gap in knowledge when addressing fundamental questions about the distribution of power, the formation of political communities and the application of ethical principles in these digital contexts.
While technological advancements dominate much of the conversation on virtual platforms and the political power that ensues, there remains a crucial gap in knowledge when addressing fundamental questions about the distribution of power, the formation of political communities and the application of ethical principles in these digital contexts.
Combining structural analysis, historical enquiry, and intertextual reading, this book offers a fresh interpretation of one of antiquity's most enduring myths, autochthony, and provides a model for studying myths as living processes of cultural imagination.
An internet search of the phrase "e;this is what democracy looks like"e; returns thousands of images of people assembled in public for the purpose of collective action.
An internet search of the phrase "e;this is what democracy looks like"e; returns thousands of images of people assembled in public for the purpose of collective action.
"e;The communists do not preach morality at all"e;; this line from The Communist Manifesto might seem to settle the question of whether Marxism has anything to offer moral philosophy.
