Social and political philosophy

This book advances a comprehensive moral defense of freedom of expression-one with implications for law and policy, but also for the choices of individuals and non-governmental institutions.

George Orwell has had a profound influence on modern politics and culture.

The Wisdom of the Commons examines the history and philosophy of civic education as the essential political part of liberal education.

 Agon Hamza offers an in-depth analysis of the main thesis of Louis Althusser's philosophical enterprise alongside a clear, engaging dissection of Pier Paolo Pasolini's most important films.

How you can learn to focus like a monk without living like oneDistraction isn't a new problem.

In both Europe and North America it can be argued that the associational and institutional dimensions of the right to freedom of religion or belief are increasingly coming under pressure.

Politics cannot function without responsibility, but there have been serious disagreements about how responsibility is to be understood and huge controversies about how it is to be distributed, rewarded, legislated, and enforced.

Social justice is a concept which is widely touted and lauded as desirable, yet its meaning may differ depending on whether its focus is on the underlying values of social justice, the more specific objectives these entail, or the actual practices or policies which aim to achieve social justice.

Gender and Human Rights in a Global, Mobile Era delves into feminist debates surrounding the relationship between gender and human rights through engaging feminist perspectives on the multifaceted issue of human trafficking.

Originally published in 1973.

This book puts forward the concept of "e;subjective anthropology"e; and outlines a theoretical system that will allow subjective anthropology to qualify as a new academic discipline in its own right.

We are all guilty of it.

This book explains why we should stop thinking of freedom as limited to a right to be left alone.

This book offers the first realist reconstruction of Marx's critique of capitalism.

​Evolutionäre Ethik zielt darauf ab, moralisches Verhalten beim Menschen vor dem Hintergrund seiner evolutionären Disposition zu verstehen und zu beurteilen.

From the perspective of a number of different social science disciplines, this book explores the ways in which the election of politicians can be made more fair and credible by adopting a human rights approach to elections.

This book examines how civil society actors operate under authoritarian constraints, and examines how this is linked to regime change.

In 1989, the International Labor Organization stated that all indigenous peoples living in the postcolonial world were entitled to the right to prior consultation, over activities that could potentially impact their territories and traditional livelihoods.

Imagining Alternative Worlds explores how the far right employs fictionality as a powerful political tool in the 21st century.

Inspired by Michel Foucault's The Order of Things, this book tells a story about epochal change in the modern world.

For over a decade, the world has experienced an accelerating erosion of a language that took hundreds of years to emerge.

This volume addresses the question of 'identity' in East-Central Europe.

In Climate Obstruction: How Denial, Delay and Inaction are Heating the Planet, Kristoffer Ekberg, Bernhard Forchtner, Martin Hultman and Kirsti Jylha bring together crucial insights from environmental history, sociology, media and communication studies and psychology to help us understand why we are failing to take necessary measures to avert the unfolding climate crisis.

This book is a re-interpretation of labour market policy models from a gender perspective, providing an analysis of within-gender inequality and how these policies affect inequality.

This book corrects an imbalance in Canadian political literature through offering a conservative account of Canadian political thought.

Classical antiquity has become a political battleground in recent years in debates over immigration and cultural identity-whether it is ancient sculpture, symbolism, or even philosophy.

'Never before has there been so many and such dreadful weapons in so many irresponsible hands.

Can social scientific description capture the historically individual?

This title was first published in 2002: 'I sincerely believe that Dr Kolnai is one of the most original and stimulating thinkers in the field of political philosophy alive today.

Prostitution is often referred to as "e;oldest profession.

Madison uses the concept of civil society and his distinctive version of 'communicative rationality' to provide a closely-argued and robust defence of the neo-liberal political and economic tradition.

This work presents Kant as a vital revolutionary thinker, showing that his Practical Philosophy has been marred by views that it is formalist and centred on categorical imperative.

Since its publication in 1993, John Rawls's Political Liberalism has been central to debates concerning political legitimacy, democratic theory, toleration, and multiculturalism in contemporary political theory.

Gender, Development, and Globalization is the leading primer on global feminist economics and development.

Contrary to predictions that it would become increasingly redundant in a globalizing world, citizenship is back with a vengeance.

This book studies the role of serious philosophizing in everyday life and looks at how authoritarianism negates philosophical and public reason.

This book, first published in 1977, sets out two models of administration and participation used in Communist China, one worked out by the CCP during the war against Japan and one imported from the Soviet Union in the 1950s.

This book investigates the struggles for hegemony, and a possible 'crisis of crisis management' at the core of Italy's political economy.

Thirty years after the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands, the war remains a source of continued debate and analysis for politicians, historians and military strategists.

Johann Gottfried Herder was a philosopher and important intellectual presence in eighteenth-century Germany.

This brief history connects the past and present of utopian thought, from the first utopias in ancient Greece, right up to present day visions of cyberspace communities and paradise.

This book examines the life, major ideas and lasting influence of the Italian militant and political thinker Antonio Gramsci.

This book focuses on the Korean People's Army (KPA) - the armed forces of North Korea - covering its history, structural organisation and lives of the soldiers and officers within its ranks.

Elector Palatinate Frederick V - the Winter King - would be an insignificant figure in the history of Europe were it not for the tremendous conflagration that he helped to ignite.

In this bold new book, Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth traces the broadly established challenges to modernity that now confront historians and citizens of Western societies generally.

This book aims to rethink systemic intervention to enhance its relevance for supporting social change in the 21st Century.