Social and political philosophy

Niccolo Machiavelli's 'The Art of War' and 'The Prince' are seminal works that provide valuable insights into politics, power, and leadership.

The Russian Workers' Republic (1921) is a result of the author's two-month travels through Soviet Russia.

Das vorliegende Buch zeigt auf, dass das politische Denken Niccolò Machiavellis (1469-1527) auf einen Politikbegriff zurückgeht, der sich bereits im Spätmittelalter herausbildete.

This book explores how considerations of justice apply to procreative decision-making.

This book introduces a study of ethics and values to develop a deeper understanding of markets, business, and economic life.

Friedrich Schlegel, einer der führenden Köpfe der deutschen Romantik, präsentiert in 'Friedrich Schlegel: Politische & Ästhetische Schriften' eine Sammlung seiner bedeutendsten Werke.

Demons in the USA argues that the discourse on the demonic that developed in the nineteenth century continues to exert a powerful hold over the American spiritual imagination.

In Henry David Thoreau's 'Walden, Slavery in Massachusetts & Civil Disobedience', Thoreau explores themes of simple living, self-sufficiency, and environmental consciousness.

»Vom Leben des Geistes«, das letzte große Werk Hannah Arendts, hat den Charakter eines Vermächtnisses.

An earthquake in Mexico City spurs the rise of democracy.

Technik von gestern - Herausforderung für heute - Chance für morgen!

End of Days is both a meditation on Jewish morality in the age of Israeli Jewish power, and a cri du coeur by an Orthodox Israeli Jew, a former combat officer in the IDF, for Israelis to look into the Jewish religious ethical tradition for an alternative to the secular and religious Zionism that sanctifies power, statehood, and sovereignty.

Roger Garaudy was for many years at the centre of the French Communist Party but was eventually expelled for his liberal views.

"A los Pies del Maestro" es un breve libro considerado una joya espiritual que presenta las enseñanzas esenciales de Jiddu Krishnamurti.

This new edition examines the theory, structure, and the contemporary electoral process, analyzing how the system has evolved, how it is working today, and its challenges for the future.

Das Jahr und seine festlichen BesonderheitenMit einer ganz besonderen Hingabe ist Emil Bock (1895-1959) immer wieder neue Wege gegangen, um ein tieferes Verständnis der christlichen Feste zu vermitteln.

This book offers a timely and compelling look at religion and poverty, focusing primarily on the two largest world religions, Christianity and Islam, and considering religion and poverty in the United States and international contexts.

A wide-ranging history tracing the birth of biopolitics in Enlightenment thought and its aftermath.

First Published in 1975, Philosophy and Its Place in Our Culture aims to show what relevance philosophy may have to human affairs.

Remapping Biology with Goethe, Schelling, and Herder recruits a Romantic philosophy of biology into contemporary debates to both integrate the theoretical implications of ecology, evolution, and development, and to contextualize the successes of the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis's gene's-eye-view of biology.

The Rise and Fall of Communist Yugoslavism: Soft Nation Building in Yugoslavia examines how the Communist Party of Yugoslavia incorporated the idea of a Yugoslav nation into its ideology and created the Yugoslav Soft Nation Building project after the Second World War.

How do social practices prefigure experiences, and how does embodied experience organize the performance of practices?

A reappraisal of Ecce Homo and The Antichrist within Nietzsche's oeuvre.

The book probes how the serious and sometimes fatal decision was made to admit individuals to asylums during Germany's age of extremes.

Dieses eBook: "Die deutsche Ideologie: Thesen über Feuerbach" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

A philosophical exploration of aesthetic experience during bereavement.

This book analyses how protecting the rights of local communities can contribute to the alleviation of ecological harms through the development of an innovative 'Rights for Ecosystem Services' framework.

This volume focuses on Serbia's need to manage change while preserving community identities, a narrative that avoids the common depiction of Serbian culture as a hostile struggle between modernizers supporting foreign models and traditionalists advocating forms of national cultural patrimony.

This book reconstructs the concept and practice of dialectics as a means of grounding a critical theory of society.

In this book, renowned Latin American intellectuals, Pablo Alabarces and Nestor Garcia Canclini, bring us up to date on the changes in the status and role of the popular classes in Latin American democracies over the past two decades.

This book sets up a rich intercultural dialogue between the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Michel Foucault, and that of key African thinkers such as Kwame Anthony Appiah, Achille Mbembe, Kwasi Wiredu, Kwame Gyekye, Tsenay Serequeberhahn, and Henry Odera Oruka.

This book sets up a rich intercultural dialogue between the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Michel Foucault, and that of key African thinkers such as Kwame Anthony Appiah, Achille Mbembe, Kwasi Wiredu, Kwame Gyekye, Tsenay Serequeberhahn, and Henry Odera Oruka.

In Black X: Liberatory Thought in Azania, Tendayi Sithole elaborates on the problematic signifier X, a marker of the dehumanization of the black subject, and makes an argument for the struggle for Azania as a liberatory project.

›Die Erfindung der Wiedergeburt‹ entführt die Leserschaft in eine faszinierende Expedition durch die Tiefen des menschlichen Bewusstseins.

This book studies the first 50 years of Bangladesh politics since independence.

First Published in 1975, Philosophy and Its Place in Our Culture aims to show what relevance philosophy may have to human affairs.

An Instant Sunday Times Bestseller'A profoundly urgent intervention' Naomi KleinFrom one of the most influential thinkers of our time, an enlightening, essential account of how a fear of gender is fuelling reactionary politics around the world Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on gender that have become central to right-wing movements today.

In ›Die Erfindung des Astralkörpers‹ begibt sich der Leser auf eine faszinierende Reise durch die schillernde Welt des metaphysischen Phänomens, das seit Jahrhunderten die menschliche Vorstellungskraft beflügelt – den Astralkörper.

This new edition examines the theory, structure, and the contemporary electoral process, analyzing how the system has evolved, how it is working today, and its challenges for the future.

Ängste sind Teil einer krisenhaften Lebenswelt.

Im Buch ›Die Erfindung des freien Willens‹ taucht der Leser in eine faszinierende Reise durch die Tiefen des menschlichen Bewusstseins ein.

Are you discouraged by our divided, angry culture, where even listening to a different perspective sometimes feels impossible?

Are you discouraged by our divided, angry culture, where even listening to a different perspective sometimes feels impossible?

This book demonstrates how populist security narratives served as the driving force behind the mobilization of Republican voters and the legitimation of an 'America First' policy agenda under the Trump presidency.

Responding to the unprecedented violence of our times, and the corresponding interest in nonviolent solutions, this book takes up the heart of pacifism: its critique of what pacifists have termed the war system.

Ängste sind Teil einer krisenhaften Lebenswelt.