Social and political philosophy

This handbook provides an overview of scholarly research on sexuality in East Central Europe for both students and academics, focusing on the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, from the late nineteenth century to the present.

In the early 1970s, the major industrial states were preparing to shift to nuclear fission as their principal source of electrical power.

This book illustrates how cities possess unique normative identities, referred to as 'ethoses', and how the residents shape and perceive them.

Worldwide every year, 83 billion animals are slaughtered on factory farms, at the end of brief lives full of suffering.

This book examines the relationship between neoliberalism and insecurity, beginning with the post World War II period and continuing up through the present.

In summer 2024, France stood on the brink of a far-right takeover.

Unlock a transformative perspective on peace and reconciliation with Nature and Time, Volume II: Paths to Justice and Transformation.

This collection of chapters explores the often-overlooked concept of fraternity, positioning it alongside freedom and equality as a vital pillar of political discourse from its ancient origins to contemporary practice.

This book offers a critical re-examination of the relationship between caste and class.

The Internet is a hub for gathering political information and accounts for significant political activity; however, social interactions online are often disrupted by trolling.

What actions should be punished?

The book discusses boundaries of electoral inclusion and mechanisms of electoral representation in contemporary democracies.

This book, spanning the years 1961-1964, is the third in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the State of Israel.

The Latinx Philosophy Reader showcases a wide range of significant philosophical works about Latinx people and their experiences, displaying the breadth, distinctiveness, originality, and diversity of Latinx philosophy.

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine, Gilbert Ryle has said.

Transformative Feminist Mobilization in the Arab Region aims to identify how intersectional feminist civil society groups in selected countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)/ Southwest Asia and North Africa SWANA region advocate for change and how they interact with governments and the strategies, tools, and skills they utilize.

Corruption is expanding internationally and so are strategic accusations of others being corrupt.

The Spirit of Philadelphia is America's story told through the history of ideas and a cautionary tale of what happens when a nation's Spirit goes dormant.

Immigration poses some of the major moral, economic, and political challenges of the twenty-first century.

This book, spanning the years 1954-1956, is the first in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the State of Israel.

Drawing upon a range of resources of critique (including critical realist social theory, realist international relations theory, the sociology of globalization, the Marxist critique of imperialism, and dependency theory), this book is an essential contribution to the critical understanding of nationalism and imperialism in the global age.

Karl Marx gave us not just a critique of the political economy of capital but a way of confronting the impoverished ethical quality of life we face under capitalism.

This book addresses the crisis of the juridical-political foundation within contemporary democracies.

Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind is an elegant survey of Stoic and Epicurean ideas about the soul-an introduction to two ancient schools whose belief in the soul's physicality offer compelling parallels to modern approaches in the philosophy of mind.

The comprehensive volume delves into the discursive valences and contingencies of resistance.

This book offers a critical re-examination of the relationship between caste and class.

First published in 1994, in The Crisis of the Self in the Age of Information Raymond Barglow shows how contemporary technological environment furnish the unconscious with internal objects that hark back to a time in our lives prior to personal boundary formation and identity.

This book explores the ways in which process philosophers extend and strengthen peace scholars' outlines of a paradigm of/for peace.

The Routledge Handbook of the Northern Ireland Conflict and Peace is the first multi-authored volume to specifically address the many facets of the 30-year Northern Ireland conflict, colloquially known as the Troubles, and its subsequent peace process.

The New Scientist recently declared that "e;Philosophers of knowledge, your time has come"e; and even Barack Obama has warned of an "e;epistemological crisis.

This volume features original essays on the ethics of ending wars (jus ex bello).