Social and political philosophy

This book argues for the pragmatist thesis of the primacy of praxis on a phenomenological basis.

This book summarizes and explains the way in which political thinkers in England, Scotland, and North America reshaped Western thinking about government and citizens.

This book summarizes and explains the way in which political thinkers in England, Scotland, and North America reshaped Western thinking about government and citizens.

This book is about how best to respond to existential global threats posed by war and global heating.

This book is moved by two main questions.

This book offers a political anthropological discussion of our contemporary situation regarding sceptical attitudes towards scientific expertise and authority, and the increasing role of power and politics.

Faith Based explores how the Religious Right has supported neoliberalism in the United States, bringing a particular focus to welfare-an arena where conservative Protestant politics and neoliberal economic ideas come together most clearly.

Although the expression "e;responsibility to future generations"e; is firmly established in public and political vocabulary, its operational meaning and practice are inadequately understood and yet to be systematically evaluated.

Although the expression "e;responsibility to future generations"e; is firmly established in public and political vocabulary, its operational meaning and practice are inadequately understood and yet to be systematically evaluated.

Philosophical thinking allows itself to be nourished by seemingly non-committal exercises of thought but at the same time seeks forms of irrefutable knowledge.

There has been a steady stream of articles written on the relations between political thought and the interpretation of literature, but there remains a need for a book that both introduces and significantly contributes to the field - particularly one that shows in detail how we can think more freely and creatively about political possibilities by reading and reflecting on politically significant literature.

This book explores the philosophical foundations of communication studies, suggesting that communication phenomena extend beyond the scope of traditional scientific methods.

Universities have long been dominated by a philosophy of inquiry that may be called knowledge-inquiry.

When is a person free to do something?

This book contends that the development of modern Chinese international thought has been profoundly shaped by the distinctive nature of the Chinese state as a contender state and its global positioning since 1912.

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

In this book, Stefan Borg reconstructs and engages a contemporary strand of thought known as postliberalism.

In Pierre Bourdieu's Political Economy of Being, Ghassan Hage explores the great French social theorist's work and revitalizes conventional and undertheorized aspects of his thinking.

Roman Catholics constitute the most populous religious denomination in the United States, comprising one in four Americans.

Based on studying political systems and the news industry, this book examines the tension between the hierarchical configurations of racial discrimination and the ideals of equality found in Western democracy to explore how and why the reality of racism persists in modern-day democratic societies.

Based on studying political systems and the news industry, this book examines the tension between the hierarchical configurations of racial discrimination and the ideals of equality found in Western democracy to explore how and why the reality of racism persists in modern-day democratic societies.

Religionen stellen sich heute als friedliebend dar.

Die Welt ist in Aufruhr.

This book explores two themes in connection with contemporary capitalism: infrastructural capitalism as the most advanced phase of a modernity, of which the "e;workman"e; or homo faber is the embodiment, who exists within an infrastructure whose logic of connectivity is aimed at value extraction; and a landscape of ruins - in the form of symbolic misery, the Anthropocene and a process of refeudalisation - that the homo faber has been piling up around himself as a result.

Allen Jayne analyzes the ideology of the Declaration of Independenceand its implicationsby going back to the sources of Jefferson's ideas: Bolingbroke, Kames, Reid, and Locke.

Soziale Welt Wie ist eine Philosophie der sozialen Welt möglich?

En el marco del "e;giro afectivo"e; en la filosofia contemporanea, este volumen indaga en la importancia de la afectividad en la obra de Jean-Luc Marion.

In Facetten des Sozialen ergänzt Meggle seine systematischen Arbeiten über kommunikatives Handeln und sprachliche Bedeutung und konzentriert sich auf einige konkrete Aspekte einer allgemeineren Theorie der Sozialität.

This book explores how nationalism surrounding territorial sovereignty requires a domestic nationalist ecosystem, aka the Nationalist Industrial Complex, to sustain public interest.

Der Anspruch gesellschaftlicher Gerechtigkeit uberschreitet heute die raumlichen Grenzen des Nationalstaates ebenso wie die zeitlichen Grenzen der aktuell lebenden Generationen und fordert uberkommene Beteiligungsmuster heraus.

Schon beim frühesten Auftauchen des lateinischen Wortes "Potentialis" lässt sich eine entscheidende Ambiguität beobachten: Einerseits bezeichnet "Potential" etwas, das noch nicht aktuell ist, aber sein könnte, andererseits stellt "Potential" ein Merkmal der Macht und der Mächtigen dar.

Two principal issues interact and overlap in this penetrating analysis: the relationship between Hobbes' natural philosophy and his civil philosophy, and the relationship between Hobbes' thought and the Aristotelian world view that constituted the philosophical orthodoxy he rejected.

Lacan on Society is an exhaustive archeological and contingent review of Lacan's approaches to society throughout his work, seminars, and ecrits.

The 21st century looks quite different in reality to the predictions made by science fiction writers.

Widely acclaimed for its originality and penetration, this award-winning study of American thought in the twentieth century examines the ways in which the spread of pragmatism and scientific naturalism affected developments in philosophy, social science, and law, and traces the effects of these developments on traditional assumptions of democratic theory.

In this study, Merle L.

As early as the eighteenth century, New England's ministers were decrying public morality.

Historical and systematic in its treatment, this work reviews the idea of progress in Western thought as it relates to civilization, in a more comprehensive survey than is to be found in previous writings on the subject.

Andreas Jürgens erschließt zum ersten Mal Monographien und Aufsätze, die Ernst Cassirer in der Zeit seines amerikanischen Exils in den Jahren 1941 bis 1946 publiziert hat, in ihrem Zusammenhang.

The 21st century looks quite different in reality to the predictions made by science fiction writers.

Black Mirror: Allegories for the Atomised addresses the ways that media and communications technologies shape our relationships with society, with others, and ultimately, with ourselves.

Rolle und Einfluss der Frauen im politischen Katholizismus wurden bislang wenig beleuchtet.

Emphasising the vulnerability and interdependence of humans, care ethics has emerged in recent years as a powerful alternative to dominant modes of thinking in moral philosophy.