Social and political philosophy

This volume explores the role of violence generally but with specific reference to African concepts and themes, and the significance they have for social redress.

Since the publication of Homo Sacerin 1995, Giorgio Agamben has become one of the world's most revered and controversial thinkers.

This book approaches the field of Political Islam from a European security perspective.

Goodbye, Good Men uncovers how radical liberalism has infiltrated the Catholic Church, overthrowing traditional beliefs, standards, and disciplines.

This volume explores the role of violence generally but with specific reference to African concepts and themes, and the significance they have for social redress.

Violence has always played a part in the religious imagination, from symbols and myths to legendary battles, from colossal wars to the theater of terrorism.

How do international students and alumni contribute to development in their countries of origin?

In Secularism as Misdirection, Nivedita Menon traces how the discourse of secularism fixes attention to and hypervisualizes women and religion while obscuring other related issues.

Mary Wollstonecraft's 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' is a feminist masterpiece that challenges the societal norms of her time by advocating for equal rights and education for women.

Voltaire's 'Candide' is a satirical novella that follows the young and naive Candide as he traverses the world, experiencing various misfortunes and witnessing the absurdity of human nature.

Das Werk 'Karl Marx: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei' ist ein grundlegendes Manifest, das die Ideen des Kommunismus herausfordert und debattiert.

Economy and Theology: Cusanus's Theory of Value, a study from the field of the history of philosophy, responds to the present-day interest in what is referred to as economic theology.

The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson is a compendium of essays, speeches, and poems that epitomize the transcendentalist movement in 19th-century American literature.

Digital technology has revolutionized connectivity, but it has also overcome spatial obstacles that used to shield people from subjugating gazes and unlimited exercise of power.

Architecture has always been a decisive manifestation of power.

A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!

This book investigates the relationship between human rights and taxation, exploring how human rights have been impeded or enhanced through tax laws and policies, and what this means for sustainable development in the Global South.

This is the annotated edition including the rare biographical essay by Edwin E.

In The Most Influential Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the reader is presented with a comprehensive analysis of Rousseau's literary endeavors, exploring his groundbreaking ideas and philosophical musings.

In this ground-breaking work, Frederick Beiser argues that Georg Simmel was one of the foremost yet overlooked philosophers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Catholic Church still takes an ambivalent stance toward homosexuality, declaring that homosexuals should be respected and not discriminated against while morally condemning their intimate relationships.

In 'Die freie Gesellschaft' präsentiert Johann Most eine umfassende Abhandlung über die Prinzipien und Taktik der kommunistischen Anarchisten.

What the #MeToo Movement Highlights and Hides about Workplace Sexual Harassment seeks to examine both the spotlights (Part I) and the shadows (Part II) of the #MeToo movement, setting a research agenda to examine both more carefully in management research.

This book presents an analysis of the cultural memory of women's participation in the Yugoslav People's Liberation Struggle (1941-1945), with a particular focus on the figure of the female soldier.

Digital technology has revolutionized connectivity, but it has also overcome spatial obstacles that used to shield people from subjugating gazes and unlimited exercise of power.

Charting the life and writings of Wladyslaw Bienkowski, a leading politician and writer in communist Poland and sometime right-hand man and ideologue of the Polish leader Wladyslaw Gomulka, this book outlines the shifts in the nature of communism in Poland throughout the period of communist rule.

'Brimming with ideas and insights, this is a welcome, important and clear-eyed view of how understanding the past can help us better prepare for the future' - Peter Frankopan, bestselling author of The Earth Transformed and The Silk Roads'Enlightening and thrilling.

The book provides a comprehensive, critical overview of philosophical, social-scientific, and humanistic arguments about the design and desirability of "e;post-work"e; society.

'Pantheisticon, o fórmula per a celebrar una fraternitat socràtica' (1720), la darrera obra de Toland, és una brillant exposició de la força i la perennitat de la natura, un exercici d'interpretació del pensament clàssic i un irònic pamflet antireligiós en forma de litúrgia paròdica.

How can we make sense of the persistent political instability in Guinea-Bissau, a small country that has hosted extensive international interventions and made world news headlines over several decades?

This handbook provides a comprehensive exploration of International Political Theory, which in its broadest terms examines the ways in which ideas about justice, sovereignty, and legitimacy shape international politics.

This volume brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the intersections between crisis, scholarship, and action.

Contemporary bipartisan politics undermines socialist solidarity by ignoring class issues and pitting advocates of social justice against ethno-national chauvinists.

Contemporary History in the Soviet Mirror (1964) is devoted to a critical examination of Soviet writings on contemporary history.

Poner a los científicos en contra de un «público dispuesto a creer lo que sea», al que hay que mantener a distancia, es un desastre político.

Das Buch "Jean Jacques Rousseau: Romane, Philosophische Werke, Essays & Autobiografie" bietet einen faszinierenden Einblick in das breite Spektrum von Rousseaus literarischem Schaffen.

Immanuel Kant's 'The Kantian Ethics: Metaphysics of Morals' delves into the realm of moral philosophy with a focus on the rational foundation of ethics.

In 'Die Bekenntnisse' von Jean Jacques Rousseau handelt es sich um eine autobiografische Darstellung seines Lebens und seiner Gedanken.

Dans son livre intitulé 'Essai sur les femmes', Arthur Schopenhauer explore de manière profonde et provocante la nature de la femme selon sa vision philosophique.

In 'The Rights of Man: The French Revolution - Ideals, Arguments & Motives', Thomas Paine discusses the importance of human rights and the principles of the French Revolution.

In Niccolo Machiavelli's 'The Prince', readers are introduced to a groundbreaking political treatise filled with astute observations and controversial advice on acquiring and maintaining power.

In 'Das System der Rechtslehre' präsentiert Johann Gottlieb Fichte eine tiefgreifende Untersuchung über die Grundlagen und Prinzipien des Rechtssystems.

Tommaso Campanellas Werk 'Sonnenstaat' ist ein bahnbrechendes utopisches Werk aus dem 17.

In 'Kraft & Stoff' präsentiert Ludwig Büchner seine bahnbrechende wissenschaftliche Arbeit, die die Grundpfeiler der Materie und Energie erforscht.

Der Mensch und die Technik (Beitrag zu einer Philosophie des Lebens) von Oswald Spengler ist ein bahnbrechendes Werk, das die Beziehung des Menschen zur Technik in einer philosophischen Perspektive beleuchtet.