Social and political philosophy

Ethical Idealism: An Inquiry into the Nature and Function of Ideals explores the role of ideals in guiding human thought and action.

Practical Inferences is an essential collection of papers by R.

Practical Inferences is an essential collection of papers by R.

Montesquieu's The Spirit of Laws is an enduring classic of social and political theory deserving a fresh reading every generation.

The essays in this volume on the subject of equality are the work of scholars at Bard College and West Point.

In this significant addition to moral theory, George W.

Save Lives or Save the Rhetoric?

One of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture’s value Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human.

In this book, Lawrence Sklar demonstrates the interdependence of science and philosophy by examining a number of crucial problems on the nature of space and time-problems that require for their resolution the resources of philosophy and of physics.

Montesquieu's The Spirit of Laws is an enduring classic of social and political theory deserving a fresh reading every generation.

Adventures in Marxist Theory provides an introduction and overview of Marxian theory to demonstrate its contemporary relevance to social and political theory and a range of disciplines from philosophy to economics in both the humanities and the social sciences.

This book reevaluates the 'consensus' liberal view on minority cultural rights from a new, empirically informed perspective to argue that its justificatory machinery is not very persuasive, and that the normative goals of the view caninstead be efficaciously reached from within the classic liberal framework of equal, universal rights.

By what aesthetic practice might post-politics be disrupted?

Save Lives or Save the Rhetoric?

The essays in this volume on the subject of equality are the work of scholars at Bard College and West Point.

In this book, Lawrence Sklar demonstrates the interdependence of science and philosophy by examining a number of crucial problems on the nature of space and time-problems that require for their resolution the resources of philosophy and of physics.

One of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture’s value Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human.

"e;The chief business of twentieth-century philosophy"e; is "e;to reckon with twentieth-century history,"e; claimed R.

In his most recent book, Ermanno Bencivenga offers a stylistically and conceptually exciting investigation of the nature of language, mind, and personhood and the many ways the three connect.

Ethical Idealism: An Inquiry into the Nature and Function of Ideals explores the role of ideals in guiding human thought and action.

In his most recent book, Ermanno Bencivenga offers a stylistically and conceptually exciting investigation of the nature of language, mind, and personhood and the many ways the three connect.

In this significant addition to moral theory, George W.

"e;The chief business of twentieth-century philosophy"e; is "e;to reckon with twentieth-century history,"e; claimed R.

This seminal volume provides an accessible overview of key ethical and philosophical debates surrounding contemporary education policy, advocating for a future in education that is primarily driven by prioritising social values.

Cedric Robinson's widely acclaimed study on Marxism and race has enjoyed a celebratory renaissance in recent years, becoming commonplace across the disciplines and beyond to activist and left circles.

The studies in this book use Hegelian concepts and methodology to address issues such as the definition of nature, the concept of life, the relationship between humans and their natural environment, the principles of environmental ethics, technique, responsibility, human rights, the climate threat, and the challenges of economics facing the requirement of environmental and social sustainability.

The book attempts to bring out, through a selection of the seminal writings of M.

This book traces the life of Giacomo Leopardi by examining four different yet interrelated aspects: his social origins and class in relation to his evolving conception of nobility; the mixture of idealism and misogynism in his attitude toward women and in his conception of love; his poems and prose on the theme of Italian independence; and his philosophical materialism as expressed in his poetry, intellectual diary, and essays.

This book traces the life of Giacomo Leopardi by examining four different yet interrelated aspects: his social origins and class in relation to his evolving conception of nobility; the mixture of idealism and misogynism in his attitude toward women and in his conception of love; his poems and prose on the theme of Italian independence; and his philosophical materialism as expressed in his poetry, intellectual diary, and essays.

The book attempts to bring out, through a selection of the seminal writings of M.

Can we endorse valuable rights and freedoms-the cherished forms of equality and liberty we might call liberality-without liberalism?

Decolonial Pluriversalism offers a unique, powerful, and crucial perspective on decolonial theories, political thoughts, aesthetics, and activisms.

Decolonial Pluriversalism offers a unique, powerful, and crucial perspective on decolonial theories, political thoughts, aesthetics, and activisms.

We derive a great deal of cognitive pleasure from asking what artworks mean.

We derive a great deal of cognitive pleasure from asking what artworks mean.

As is obvious to the casual newspaper reader, the debt-saddled student, the increasingly precarious university teaching force, the reactionary politician, and the budget-constrained administrator, the entire system of higher education is in crisis.

Power, Freedom, and Voting is an interdisciplinary book that presents a comprehensive insight into current research by economists, mathematicians, philosophers and political scientists on three intimately related concepts that are at the heart of theories of democracy and social welfare.

As is obvious to the casual newspaper reader, the debt-saddled student, the increasingly precarious university teaching force, the reactionary politician, and the budget-constrained administrator, the entire system of higher education is in crisis.

Can we endorse valuable rights and freedoms-the cherished forms of equality and liberty we might call liberality-without liberalism?

Political morality concerns what programs and policies government ought to adopt.

The basis of this collection of essays is the reading of a common topic from different perspectives.

The revised edition of The Ontological Foundation of Ethics, Politics, and Law adds new concepts and discusses the views of additional thinkers.

Complicity argues that all existing modes of cultural critique are regarded as legitimate and productive if and only if they are complicit with the very ideologies and values that the criticism sets out to undermine.

This book examines the philosophical thought of the young Walter Benjamin and its development in his later work.

Simone Weil is an often-overlooked thinker whose insights could radically reshape contemporary discourses on religion, nature, art, ethics, work, politics, and education.

Michel Foucault's account of the subject has a double meaning: it relates to both being a "e;subject of"e; and being "e;subject to"e; political forces.