Most scholars link the origin of politics to the formation of human societies, but in this innovative work, Tilo Schabert takes it even further back: to our very births.
Less than a century old, the concept of totalitarianism is one of the most controversial in political theory, with some proposing to abandon it altogether.
Selon Luhmann, de nombreuse tentatives, contradictoires entre elles, ont été faites pour ramener le phénomène du pouvoir à un concept théoriquement et empiriquement fécond.
A new world based on fairness, participation, accountability is closer than you thinkif you learn to think like a commoner The biggest "e;tragedy of the commons"e; is the misconception that commons are failures-relics from another era rendered unnecessary by the Market and State.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau is one of the most controversial philosophers of the eighteenth century, and his groundbreaking work still provokes heated debate in contemporary political theory.
Utopia, by Sir Thomas More, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.
Frantz Fanon was a French psychiatrist turned Algerian revolutionary of Martinican origin, and one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the postwar period.
What do the invention of anaesthetics in the middle of the nineteenth century, the Nazis' use of cocaine, and the development of Prozac have in common?
This second volume of a new three-part series of Antonio Negri's work is focussed on the consequences of the rapid process of deindustrialisation that has occurred across the West in recent years.
An abridged edition of the insightful work praised as "e;an impressive contribution both to the history of ideas and to political philosophy"e; (Alasdair MacIntyre, author of After Virtue).
