Social and political philosophy

This two-volume handbook provides readers with a comprehensive interpretation of globality through the multifaceted prism of the humanities and social sciences.

This book explores the complicated relationship between constitutions and transitional justice.

A thought-provoking exploration of assertiveness within Aristotle's work and how it affects democratic functioning.

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

Political theorists have long been frustrated by Nietzsche's work.

A book to let you know you're not alone: the wisdom of the ages can guide us through the struggles of the present.

This volume explores evidentialism, a major theory of epistemic justification.

Local government affects us all.

This collection of chapters advances critical psychology by incorporating praxis (theory and practice) and decolonial streams of thought.

The protest against meat eating may turn out to be one of the most significant movements of our age.

John Stuart Mill's On Liberty is widely regarded as one of the most influential and stirring pieces of political philosophy ever written.

Originally published in 1989 Liberal Neutrality approaches the recommendation of neutrality by confronting the abstract prescription (that we should be neutral) with the implications for particular people and institutions.

'Lucid, fluent and compelling' Observer'We need writers like Andrews .

Emerging Trends in Smart Societies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives"e; captures the essence of the groundbreaking initiative heralded by the inaugural International Conference on Humanities for Smart Societies 2023 (HMSS 23).

The global capitalism perspective is a unique research program focused on understanding relatively recent developments in worldwide social, economic, and political practices related to globalization.

This book argues that the insulation of public life from the ethical standpoint puts in jeopardy the legitimacy and survival of our political communities.

Syrians crossing the Mediterranean in ramshackle boats bound for Europe; Sudanese refugees, their belongings on their backs, fleeing overland into neighboring countries; children separated from their parents at the US/Mexico border--these are the images that the Global Refugee Crisis conjures to many.

The question of to what extent, manifestations of religious beliefs should be permitted in the European public sphere has become a salient and controversial topic in recent years.

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City is an outstanding reference source to this exciting subject and the first collection of its kind.

This book addresses the issue of agency in relation to child marriage.

This book comprehensively investigates the position of China's working class between the 1980s and 2010s and considers the consequences of economic reforms in historical perspective.

The Evolution of Socialist Feminism from Eleanor Marx to AOC traces the intersection of feminism and socialism as it has played out in the socialist movements arising in Europe and North America in the nineteenth through early twenty-first centuries.

A comprehensive and scholarly exploration of the personal and philosophical origins of Andre Gorz's work, this book includes a unique analysis of his early untranslated texts, as well as critical discussion of his relationship to the work of Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Marx and Habermas.

What is the difference between civil and uncivil disobedience?

This book concentrates upon how economic rationalities have been embedded into particular historical practices, cultures, and moral systems.

This textbook introduces students to the various arguments for and against the prohibition of recreational drugs.

For decades, framing an issue as a 'human rights' issue carried certain power and effect in politics and international relations, one that has been challenged by the recent rise of populist political forces.

With a combined focus on social democrats in Northern and Southern Europe, this book crucially broadens our understanding of the transformation of European social democracy from the mid-1970s to the early-1990s.

In this book, renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson draws on philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the meanings and affordances of friendship-a relationship just as significant as, yet somehow different from, kinship and love.

Liberal defences of nationalism have become prevalent since the mid-1980's.

This volume explores the scope and limits of Mahatma Gandhi's moral politics and its implications for Indian and other freedom movements.

A bold new interpretation of Augustine's virtue of hope and its place in political lifeWhen it comes to politics, Augustine of Hippo is renowned as one of history's great pessimists, with his sights set firmly on the heavenly city rather than the public square.

Hannah Arendt's work inspires many to stand in solidarity against authoritarianism, racial or gender-based violence, climate change, and right-wing populism.

This book provides the first comprehensive and critical examination of Maki's realist philosophy of economics.

This book argues that the science of reasoning will prove most useful if focused on studying what human reasoning does best - understanding people.

Without of course adopting a Platonic metaphysics, the eighteenth-century philosophes were Grecophiles who regarded the Athenian philosophers as their intellectual forbearers and mentors.

»Kaum ein anderer Denker veranschaulicht die Widersprüche des heutigen Kapitalismus besser als Slavoj Žižek.

After the collapse of the Soviet world, North Korea alone has continued on the rigid communist way, in spite of its economic consequences leading the state beyond ruin to famine.

The book examines some of the most important forms of normativity and the relation between facts and values in the context of criminological investigation.

Charting new directions for cultural theory and practice and offering alternatives to the project of neoliberal class restoration.

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.

A revisionist interpretation of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century political ideas, including novel readings of canonical authors such as Burke and Mill.

Less than a year after the assassination of President Kennedy brought Lyndon B.

This book offers a new perspective on sociological studies of the consumer society, introducing neglected normative questions relating to the good life and human flourishing - subjects more commonly discussed in fields of moral, political, and social philosophy.

John Locke's theory of toleration is generally seen as advocating the privatization of religion.

EU external democracy promotion has traditionally been based on 'linkage', i.

A new, hands-on approach to social inquiry for social scientists who wish to make a difference to policy and practice.