Political science and theory

"e;Chomsky's gritty, politically charged essays redefine the nature and practice of democracy in an increasingly unsteady world climate"e; (Foreword Reviews).

Amid a devastating economic crisis, two tragic events coming from the outside the wave of immigration and Islamic terrorism have radically changed the profile and significance of the space we call Europe.

Longtime political analyst and commentator Tod Lindberg goes beyond punditry to address how Jesus's words and teachings—once a radical set of ideas—have come to define our concept of government and our vision for society.

In 1944 Horkheimer and Adorno warned that industrial society turns reason into rationalization, and Polanyi warned of the dangers of the self-regulating market, but today, argues Stiegler, this regression of reason has led to societies dominated by unreason, stupidity and madness.

The pandemic has brought into sharp relief the fundamental relationship between institution and human life: at the very moment when the virus was threatening to destroy life, human beings called upon institutions on governments, on health systems, on new norms of behavior to combat the virus and preserve life.

This innovative approach to freedom starts from an account of what we mean by describing someone, in a psychological vein, as a free subject.

The purpose and location of frontiers affect all human societies in the contemporary world - this book offers an introduction to them and the issues they raise.

How did a top American diplomat's contrarian views on U.

Jeremy Bentham philosopher, theorist of law and of the art of government was among the most influential figures of the early nineteenth century, and the approach he pioneered utilitarianism remains central to the modern world.

What would happen if we could stroll through the revolutionary history of the 20th century and, without any fear of the possible responses, ask the main protagonists - from Lenin to Che Guevara, from Alexandra Kollontai to Ulrike Meinhof - seemingly na ve questions about love?

Michel Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge was published in March 1969; Discipline and Punish in February 1975.

The theory of justice is one of the most intensely debated areas of contemporary philosophy.

Ecological Politics in and Age of Risk by Ulrich Beck is an original analysis of ecological politics as one part of a renewed engagement with the domain of sub-politics.

For some while we have been witnessing a series of destructive phenomena which seem to indicate a full-fledged return to the negative on the world stage from terrorism and armed conflict to the threat of environmental catastrophe.

This is a new introductory text providing an up-to-date account of leading theories of development.

In the aftermath of the First World War, the poet Paul Val ry wrote of a crisis of spirit , brought about by the instrumentalization of knowledge and the destructive subordination of culture to profit.

It is only a decade ago that the eighteenth-century distinction between civil society and the state seemed old-fashioned, an object of cynicism, even of outright hostility.

This outstanding book is the first comprehensive introduction to the English School of International Relations.

Images of killer robots are the stuff of science fiction but also, increasingly, of scientific fact on the battlefield.

The ascendancy of neo-liberalism in different parts of the world has put social democracy on the defensive.

This volume develops a novel approach to state theory.

In this book the influential philosopher Jacques Ranci re, in discussion with Peter Engelmann, explores the enduring connection between politics and aesthetics, arguing that aesthetics forms the fundamental basis for social and political upheaval.

The Anthropocene has become central to understanding the intimate connections between human life and the natural environment, but it has fractured our sense of time and possibility.

It is often remarked that politicians private lives are becoming a feature of political communication in many advanced industrial democracies.

This volume offers an incisive overview of central issues and controversies in political thought and analysis.

Less than a century old, the concept of totalitarianism is one of the most controversial in political theory, with some proposing to abandon it altogether.

'This book uncovers the inner workings of one of the most powerful companies in the world: how it came to exert a poisonous, secretive influence on public life in Britain, how it used its huge power to bully, intimidate and cover up, and how its exposure has changed the way we look at our politicians, our police service and our press.

This wide-ranging and accessible book provides a thorough overview of the key debates in gender and political theory.

Those who advocate ideas about "e;postmodernity"e; and "e;post-industrialism"e; offer radical critiques of existing social and political institutions.

The planet is sick.

The social sciences have long been based upon contrasts drawn between the 'militaristic' societies of the past, and the 'capitalist' or 'industrial' societies of the present.

This book examines when and how public bureaucracies work for disadvantaged citizens through a comparative study of primary education in rural India.

We live in a world which no longer questions itself, which lives from one day to another managing successive crises and struggling to brace itself for new ones, without knowing where it is going and without trying to plan the itinerary.

Modern political revolutions since the 18th century have swept away traditional systems of domination by declaring that all men are created equal .

Frantz Fanon was a French psychiatrist turned Algerian revolutionary of Martinican origin, and one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the postwar period.

What do we know about war crimes and justice?

Max Weber's writings on the politics of Wilhelmine in Germany and the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917 are much less well known than his contributions to historical and theoretical sociology, yet they are essential to any overall assessment of his thought.

“A brave, powerful book from one of freedom’s most courageous defenders.

Can psychology's fundamental ideas be organized into a scientific study?

In 1915, western farmers mounted one of the most significant challenges to party politics America has seen: the Nonpartisan League, which sought to empower citizens and restrain corporate influence.

With the razor pen and keen intellect that have won him numerous loyal readers for his previous books, Egyptian economist Galal Amin here takes on the terms of the debate between the Arab world and the west.