Social and political philosophy

This edited volume examines the relationship between collective intentionality and inferential theories of meaning.

In the last two decades there has been an explosion of research inspired by Michel Foucault's suggestion of a new concept, 'governmentality'.

This book presents solutions to problems that are total and based on thinking about how and why humans have organized themselves.

These celebrated lectures constitute one of Isaiah Berlin's most concise, accessible, and convincing presentations of his views on human freedom-views that later found expression in such famous works as "e;Two Concepts of Liberty"e; and were at the heart of his lifelong work on the Enlightenment and its critics.

This textbook delivers a new thematic introduction to social theory that explores theoretical issues in their contemporary social contexts.

The Communist Economic Challenge (1965) examines the substantial industrial development in the Soviet Union, and its European satellites, and China, looking at Khrushchev's boast that by 1970 the USSR's industrial output would surpass that of the USA.

Timeless political wisdom from ancient history's greatest statesmanMarcus Cicero, Rome's greatest statesman and orator, was elected to the Roman Republic's highest office at a time when his beloved country was threatened by power-hungry politicians, dire economic troubles, foreign turmoil, and political parties that refused to work together.

Although the moral and ethical dimensions of NATO presence in Afghanistan has been the focus of debate by politicians and media alike, questions of the religious culture and spirituality that underlie the complexities of both the conflict and convictions of those affected have rarely been discussed.

Americans are joiners.

This is a book about the theory of the city or commonwealth, what would come to be called the state, in early modern natural law discourse.

The seemingly endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have renewed the age-old debate over what constitutes military victory.

To what extent are the concepts of fatherhood and family, as proposed by Sigmund Freud, still valid?

The president of Southern Seminary reveals how secularism has infiltrated every aspect of society and how Christians, equipped with the gospel of Jesus Christ, can meet it head on with hope, confidence, and steadfast conviction.

Why it's wrong to single out religious liberty for special legal protectionsThis provocative book addresses one of the most enduring puzzles in political philosophy and constitutional theory-why is religion singled out for preferential treatment in both law and public discourse?

The protection of vulnerable groups varies under international human rights law.

The rise of populism, Donald Trump's election and the result of the EU referendum in the UK have been widely interpreted as a rejection of the post-war liberal order - the manifestation of a desire to undermine the political system that people feel has let them down.

The rise of populism, Donald Trump's election and the result of the EU referendum in the UK have been widely interpreted as a rejection of the post-war liberal order - the manifestation of a desire to undermine the political system that people feel has let them down.

Are Eastern Orthodoxy and evangelicalism at all compatible?

Win the War for Your Own IntegrityAfter Phil Robertson quoted Scripture in an interview with a national magazine, his hit show, Duck Dynasty, put him on ';indefinite hiatus.

The engaging and inquiring mind of French philosopher Jacques Maritain reflected on subjects as varied as art and ethics, theology and psychology, and history and metaphysics.

Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought.

Based on two years of ethnographic research in the southern suburbs of Beirut, An Enchanted Modern demonstrates that Islam and modernity are not merely compatible, but actually go hand-in-hand.

The dominant paradigm of the economy is based on homo economicus and its positivist, mechanistic and utilitarian approach.

This book provides an innovative and policy-oriented analysis of gender stereotypes in advertising regulation from a socio-legal perspective.

Pasan los años y, lejos de diluirse entre la cháchara del tiempo, el pensamiento de Guy Debord (1931-1994) —su aportación teórica y práctica— se percibe con mayor nitidez.

One of the world's leading political thinkers explores the history, nature, and prospects of the liberal traditionThe Making of Modern Liberalism is a deep and wide-ranging exploration of the origins and nature of liberalism from the Enlightenment through its triumphs and setbacks in the twentieth century and beyond.

Why did Karl Marx want to exclude politics and the market from his vision of a future socialism?

Hegel's Social Ethics offers a fresh and accessible interpretation of G.

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In this book, Nicolas Laos studies the meaning of the terms "e;world"e; and "e;order,"e; the moral dimensions of each world order model, and wider issues of meaning and interpretation generated by humanity's attempt to live in a meaningful world and to find the logos of the beings and things in the world.

This volume sheds new light on Immanuel Kant's conception of anthropology.

What Kansas really tells us about red state AmericaNo state has voted Republican more consistently or widely or for longer than Kansas.

The book is an accurate and accessible introduction to the complex and dynamic field of transitional and post-conflict justice, providing an overview of its recurring concepts and debated issues.

In An Age of Risk, Emily Nacol shows that risk, now treated as a permanent feature of our lives, did not always govern understandings of the future.

As the post-WWII liberal democratic consensus comes under increasing assault around the globe, Zachary R.

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Thomas Kilian untersucht die Ausdifferenzierung von Wissenssystemen in der modernen Gesellschaft anhand von Wissenschaft, Bildung, Journalismus und Medizin.

A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics provides of historical survey of feminist virtue ethics, and shows how the ethical theorizing of women in the past can be brought to bear on that of women in the present.

The belief in equality as the basis of a just society is fundamental to the dominant western, liberal viewpoint.

This book examines how parties negotiate coalition deals at the subnational level using the examples of Germany and Spain.

First published in 1935, The Life and Writings of Giambattista Vico is a succinct biography of the Italian philosopher, Giambattista Vico.

Drawing on work in social psychology, narrative ethics, and feminist philosophy, the author presents a new account which answers the standard objections while also giving practical guidance to individuals who take their group-related responsibilities seriously.

This first full length treatment of interventionist theories of causation in the social sciences, the biological sciences and other higher-level sciences the presents original counter arguments to recent trends in the debate and serves as useful introduction to the subject.

Influenced most notably by Emile Durkheim and Zygmunt Bauman, Dawson outlines how this long neglected stream of socialist theory can help us more fully understand, and possibly move beyond, the problems of neoliberalism and our conceptions of political individualism.

Public space, both literally and figuratively, is foundationally important to political life.

Policy-Driven Democratization  offers a comprehensive conceptual analysis of each one of these fuzzy terms separately to then sew them together in one complete and coherent package of democratization.

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The book examines the problems that plague contemporary American democracy.

The ethics of care has flourished in recent decades yet we remain without a succinct statement of its core theoretical commitment.

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