Social and political philosophy

Does recognition of the basic human right to subsistence imply that the needy are morally permitted to take and use other people's property to get out of their plight?

In this fascinating and timely book, Maren Behrensen facilitates a conversation between philosophy and the 'practitioners' of identity.

This book studies the tension between arts and politics in four contemporary artists from different countries, working with different media.

Human rights and development cannot be understood separately.

In the early part of the 20th century, state and corporate propagandists used the mass media to promote the valor and rightness of ascending U.

Since the 2008 financial crisis, the neoliberal ideas that arguably caused the damage have been triumphant in presenting themselves as the only possible solution for it.

How has technology changed what it means to be human and to be a member of a human society?

In David Hume's science of human nature each and every self is located by passions that bind it to groups, repel it from other groups, and rank it on a hierarchy: we call this discovery a 'topology of passions'.

This important volume brings together scientific, cultural, literary, historical, and philosophical perspectives to offer new understandings of the critical issues of our ecological present and new models for the creation of alternative ecological futures.

For the past 30 years, Paget Henry has been one of the most articulate and creative voices in Caribbean scholarship, making seminal contributions to the study of Caribbean political economy, C.

How do we contribute to the decolonisation of Palestine?

What are the still-unknown horizons of world thought?

Inspired by the philosophical framework of Deleuze and Guattari in relation to affect, Affective Connections disavows the dominant oppositional discourse around representation to offer an affirmative approach to perception, cognition and experience.

The Concept of Resistance in Italy brings together experts from different fields to reflect in a new, comprehensive critical approach, on an event that has shaped the young Italian nation from the onset of Fascism in the early 20s.

Discussions of materialism have exploded in recent years.

A popular cliche in contemporary public discourse holds that we live in a time of increasing uncertainty; that the next catastrophe is perpetually imminent and yet increasingly beyond our capacity to foresee.

The European Union seems to have rescued its single currency, but it has not yet put an end to the crisis.

Carl Schmitt is a key figure in modern political thought, but discussion of his work often focuses upon specific elements or themes within his texts.

Critical theory was one of the most vigorous and insightful intellectual traditions of the twentieth-century.

In all cultures and times, the poetic imagination has fed on the natural attributes of islands.

A critique of theory through literature that celebrates the diversity of black being, The Desiring Modes of Being Black explores how literature unearths theoretical blind spots while reasserting the legitimacy of emotional turbulence in the controlled realm of reason that rationality claims to establish.

Money facilitates the rites and rituals we perform in everyday life.

The spatial turn in the Humanities and Social Sciences has produced a considerable body of work which re-assesses space beyond the fixed Cartesian co-ordinates of Modernity and the nation state.

Edouard Glissant's work has begun to make a significant impact on francophone studies and some corners of postcolonial theory.

Gilbert Simondon: Information, Technology and Media is a comprehensive introduction to the work of the French philosopher Gilbert Simondon.

How does the avant-garde create spaces in everyday life that subvert regimes of economic and political control?

Is it possible to think of a counter-hegemonic, progressive nostalgia that celebrates and helps sustain the marginalised?

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In this important and original book, Johann Michel paves the way for a greater understanding of Paul Ricoeur's philosophy by exploring it in relation to some major figures of contemporary French thought-Bourdieu, Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault and Castoriadis.

What is money and how does it acquire its value?

Gunther Anders's prolific philosophy of technology is undergoing a major revival but has never been translated into English.

This highly original collection of essays contributes to a critique of the common understanding of modernity as an enlightened project that provides rational grounds for orientation in all aspects and dimensions of the world.

The Future of Social Epistemology: A Collective Vision sets an agenda for exploring the future of what we - human beings reimagining our selves and our society - want, need and ought to know.

Is it possible to incite a turn towards Media Philosophy, a field that accounts for the autonomy of media, for machine agency and for the new modalities of thought and subjectivity that these enable, rather than dwelling on representations, audiences and extensions of the self?

Since the end of the Cold War, there has been a wealth of discussion and controversy about the idea of a 'postnational' or 'cosmopolitan' politics.

Nobody should really have to point out that political philosophy is political.

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Affective Critical Regionality offers a new approach to developing a sharper, more nuanced understanding of the relations between place, space, memory and affect.

A detailed and inventive study of the thinking at work in modern painting, drawing on a formidable body of scholarly evidence to challenge modernist and phenomenological readings of art history, The Brain-Eye presents a series of interlinked 'case studies' in which philosophical thought encounters the hallucinatory sensations unleashed by 'painter-researchers.

Tracing the complex yet intimate relationship between a present-day national obsession with childhood and a colonial past with which Australia as a nation has not adequately come to terms, Young and Free draws on philosophy, literature, film and testimony.

Representative democracy has long been problematic and subject to erosion through the introduction of components of direct democracy (referenda, voter initiatives and systems of recall).

Virtue as Identity offers a study of how virtue is learned and identity acquired through the selection and internalization of values.

There is massive public interest in same-sex marriage, a controversial topic that is rarely out of the media.

There has been a recent revival of interest in reading Kierkegaard as an ontologist, as a thinker who engages with questions about the kinds of entity or process that constitute ultimate reality.

Revolutionary theories from Marx onward have often struggled to unite the psychological commitments of individuals- understood as ideological- with the larger ethical or political goals of a social movement.

What sort of ethos does democratic politics demand?

This timely volume brings together a diverse group of expert authors in order to investigate the question of phenomenology's relation to the political.

The Dimensions of Difference departs from traditional takes on feminist film criticism, and in particular from the psychoanalytical focus on the gaze, to examine the question of sexual difference through three axes: space, time, and bodies.

Born in Eastern Europe, educated in the West under the guidance of Martin Heidegger and the phenomenological tradition, and forced to flee during the Holocaust because of their Jewish identity, it should come as no surprise that Emmanuel Levinas and Hannah Arendt's ideas intersect in an important way.

Contemporary politics is dominated by a liberal creed that champions 'negative liberty' and individual happiness.