Social and political philosophy

In this work the theories of Marx and Laozi are dialectically combined.

Drawing on Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, this book intervenes into debates concerning the relation between jealousy and envy on the one hand, and sexual difference on the other.

End of Days is both a meditation on Jewish morality in the age of Israeli Jewish power, and a cri du coeur by an Orthodox Israeli Jew, a former combat officer in the IDF, for Israelis to look into the Jewish religious ethical tradition for an alternative to the secular and religious Zionism that sanctifies power, statehood, and sovereignty.

The work of Mich le Le D uff creatively disrupts established notions of what philosophy might be.

This book is a selection of articles by David Zilberman, a prolific author, whose tragic untimely death did not allow to finish many of his undertakings.

This book presents a  philosophical analysis of the different forms of political resistance and protest.

A wide-ranging history tracing the birth of biopolitics in Enlightenment thought and its aftermath.

The human sciences-including psychology, anthropology, and social theory-are widely held to have been born during the eighteenth century.

The fall of the Berlin wall, the uprising at Tiananmen Square, the war in the Persian Gulf, the conflict in Bosnia-such events have been fundamentally affected by modern technology.

First published 1986, The Perversity of Politics talks about the perverse nature of political behaviour.

This fully revised and updated 2nd edition provides a comprehensive reference guide to existentialism, featuring key chapters on key existentialist thinkers, as well as chapters applying existentialism to subject areas ranging across politics, literature, feminism, religion, the emotions, cognitive science, and poststructuralism.

This book is an exploration of Zizek's theory of freedom.

The book examines the meaning of justice in African political philosophy, building on the use-theoretical approach.

Alternde Gesellschaften wie unsere eigene sind von der Gefahr der Stagnation bedroht.

En este libro, Hans Joas desarrolla los fundamentos de una nueva teoría sociológica de la religión, analizando las teorías existentes desde el siglo XVIII hasta nuestros días.

Our tendency to read French Enlightenment political writing from a narrow disciplinary perspective has obscured the hybrid character of political philosophy, rhetoric, and natural science in the period.

Our tendency to read French Enlightenment political writing from a narrow disciplinary perspective has obscured the hybrid character of political philosophy, rhetoric, and natural science in the period.

In a characteristically explosive barrage, Ljubljanas most famous philosopher takes a passionate stance on the war in Ukraine, surveys the latest Hollywood blockbusters, and delivers detonations into a range of contemporary issues, from sexual politics in India to the prospects for a new Cold War.

In this new book, Florian Klinger gives readers a basic action-theoretical account of the aesthetic.

In this new book, Florian Klinger gives readers a basic action-theoretical account of the aesthetic.

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024'ACCESSIBLE AND CONVINCING' - SALLY ROONEYCapitalism by its very nature puts us at odds with the environment.

Understanding the significance of adult play in the life of modern societies Within the social sciences, few matters are as significant as the study of human play--or as neglected.

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.

Why melancholia is a vital form of social critique and a catalyst for political renewalMelancholia is wrongly condemned as a condition of withdrawal and despair that alienates its sufferer from community.

The Oxford Handbook of Indian Philosophy tells the story of philosophy in India through a series of exceptional individual acts of philosophical virtuosity.

This book argues that the poetry of Cesar Vallejo announces the event, as a moment of irruption of a truth that destabilises the usual state of reality.

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Is it possible, in the complex modern world, to have a government 'by the people'?

This book builds on the recent revival of interest in Marx and Marxism, calling for a renewal and refinement of Marxist state theory.

This handbook articulates how sociology can re-engage its roots as the scientific study of human moral systems, actions, and interpretation.

Modern Monetary Theory and Distributive Justice shows how the macroeconomic framework called modern money theory (MMT) is relevant to the field of political philosophy called distributive justice.

This book argues that the poetry of Cesar Vallejo announces the event, as a moment of irruption of a truth that destabilises the usual state of reality.

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De los libros y herejes incinerados en las piras de la Inquisición a las autoinmolaciones en las concentraciones de protesta, de la quema masiva del calentamiento global al crisol de razas, de la imagen de las chispas revolucionarias prestas a encender los espíritus de los oprimidos hasta los atentados con coches de Oriente Medio, el fuego resulta ser la condición sine qua non de la política.

Islamfeindlichkeit ist in Mode gekommen.

Este libro narra tres décadas de intervención constitucional en el mundo penitenciario colombiano.

This book is a genealogical inquiry into the present problem of violence, in the United States and internationally, through the lens of curriculum theory.

This book is a genealogical inquiry into the present problem of violence, in the United States and internationally, through the lens of curriculum theory.

How society can shape individual actions in times of uncertaintyWhen we make decisions, our thinking is informed by societal norms, ';guardrails' that guide our decisions, like the laws and rules that govern us.

Modern Monetary Theory and Distributive Justice shows how the macroeconomic framework called modern money theory (MMT) is relevant to the field of political philosophy called distributive justice.

Almost everyone grows up in a family, and family ties play an important role in daily life.

Almost everyone grows up in a family, and family ties play an important role in daily life.

Through the negative dialectics of Theodore Adorno, Illusion and Fetishism in Critical Theory offers an examination of Nietzsche, Benjamin, Castoriadis and the Situationists, who put the concept of illusion at the forefront of their philosophical thought.

Through the negative dialectics of Theodore Adorno, Illusion and Fetishism in Critical Theory offers an examination of Nietzsche, Benjamin, Castoriadis and the Situationists, who put the concept of illusion at the forefront of their philosophical thought.

Die vorliegende Untersuchung erschließt mit der evangelischen Gefängnisseelsorge in der SBZ und der frühen DDR ein bislang nicht erforschtes Feld im Schnittbereich von Kirchen- und allgemeiner Geschichte.

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