Social and political philosophy

Simone Weil is one of the most profound and thought-provoking thinkers of the 20th century.

This book draws on a range of key archives and oral testimonies to provide the first systematic and historical study of the origins, context, development, frustrations, inner contradictions, and legacies of the Columbus Centre.

Citizenship has been an ill-explored subject within Conservative Party studies.

Die Menschenrechte stehen heute vielfach in der Kritik – ob man ihnen vorwirft, eine «Sakralisierung von Minderheiten» zu verfolgen, oder ob man in ihnen das rechtlich-moralische Instrument ausmacht, um eine vermeintliche Hegemonie des Westens zu etablieren.

This book presents a comprehensive narrative and historical analysis of the political and economic relations between China and Italy from the Treaty of Friendship and Commerce signed in October 1866 to the Second World War.

The psychological dependence of humanity on playing is huge.

Wir leben in einer Demokratie, doch das ist nicht selbstverständlich.

Our age - saturated with media images and ever-present political crises - traces back to the beginning of Christianity and its messianic vision of the world.

With political power in Russia flowing directly from the ruler to his subjects, the distinction between the public and private became porous.

This book explores the QAnon movement by examining its history, fluctuations, and evolution, stemming from the likelihood of multiple users behind the "e;Q"e; account, as well as from the changes in the sociopolitical landscape since the creation of the movement.

Our age - saturated with media images and ever-present political crises - traces back to the beginning of Christianity and its messianic vision of the world.

This book offers a systematic assessment of how International Relations scholars in mainland China and analysts at Chinese foreign policy think tanks influence the construction of China's national interest.

Technological advancements frequently hinder the progress of women in the business sphere.

This study is the first to examine the experiences of the millions of Soviet civilians evacuated to the interior of the country during the Second World War in the context of their encounters and relations with local communities and populations across Soviet Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Siberia, and the Urals.

This book brings together diverse sets of standpoints on liberalism in an era of growing skepticism and distrust regarding liberal institutions.

This study is the first to examine the experiences of the millions of Soviet civilians evacuated to the interior of the country during the Second World War in the context of their encounters and relations with local communities and populations across Soviet Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Siberia, and the Urals.

This book brings together diverse sets of standpoints on liberalism in an era of growing skepticism and distrust regarding liberal institutions.

An innovative argument that vindicates our normative commitment to basic equality, synthesising philosophy, history, and psychologyWhat makes human beings one another's equals?

This book addresses the current crisis of democratic politics and its phase of 'interregnum' - in which the past finds it hard to die and the future finds it difficult to be born - by proposing a radical redefinition of the concept of the Political.

This book addresses the current crisis of democratic politics and its phase of 'interregnum' - in which the past finds it hard to die and the future finds it difficult to be born - by proposing a radical redefinition of the concept of the Political.

Is it wrong for a man to buy sex from a woman?

Azade Seyhan provides a concise, elegantly argued introduction to the critical theory of German Romanticism and demonstrates how its approach to the metaphorical and linguistic nature of knowledge is very much alive in contemporary philosophy and literary theory.

Here is the final volume of Norman O.

We tend to suppose that the ancient Greeks had primitive ideas of the self, of responsibility, freedom, and shame, and that now humanity has advanced from these to a more refined moral consciousness.

Drawing on the phenomenological tradition in the philosophy of science and philosophy of nature, Patrick Heelan concludes that perception is a cognitive, world-building act, and is therefore never absolute or finished.

Few twentieth-century thinkers have proven as influential as Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and cultural and literary critic.

This synoptic survey examines critically the origins, development, decline, and historical significance of the European Enlightenment.

Never translated before, 'Thoughts on Death and Immortality' was the first published work of Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872).

A bold new interpretation of Aristotelian thought is central to Bernard Yack's provocative new book.

The Languages of Psyche traces the dualism of mind and body during the "e;long eighteenth century,"e; from the Restoration in England to the aftermath of the French Revolution.

Augustine, probably the single thinker who did the most to Christianize the classical learning of ancient Greece and Rome, exerted a remarkable influence on medieval and modern thought, and he speaks forcefully and directly to twentieth-century readers as well.

Der Band Cassirer in Contexts ist Bestandteil des wiederauflebenden Interesses an den philosophischen Errungenschaften Ernst Cassirers.

Modern political life is a confusing and disorientating terrain of competing ideologies.

Azade Seyhan provides a concise, elegantly argued introduction to the critical theory of German Romanticism and demonstrates how its approach to the metaphorical and linguistic nature of knowledge is very much alive in contemporary philosophy and literary theory.

Here is the final volume of Norman O.

We tend to suppose that the ancient Greeks had primitive ideas of the self, of responsibility, freedom, and shame, and that now humanity has advanced from these to a more refined moral consciousness.

Drawing on the phenomenological tradition in the philosophy of science and philosophy of nature, Patrick Heelan concludes that perception is a cognitive, world-building act, and is therefore never absolute or finished.

Few twentieth-century thinkers have proven as influential as Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and cultural and literary critic.

This synoptic survey examines critically the origins, development, decline, and historical significance of the European Enlightenment.

Never translated before, 'Thoughts on Death and Immortality' was the first published work of Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872).

A bold new interpretation of Aristotelian thought is central to Bernard Yack's provocative new book.

European Union in the Global Context explores the interplay between the state and state sovereignty, nationalism, European integration and globalisation.