Political science and theory

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 central paradox of the contemporary world is the simultaneous presence of wealth on an unprecedented scale, and mass poverty.

In this engaging and comprehensive introduction to the topic of toleration, Andrew Jason Cohen seeks to answer fundamental questions, such as: What is toleration?

Pragmatism: An Introduction provides an account of the arguments of the central figures of the most important philosophical tradition in the American history of ideas, pragmatism.

Carole Pateman is one of the foremost political theorists writing in English today.

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

Where are we today and what is to be done?

Multiculturalism is one of the most controversial ideas in contemporary politics.

Politicians invoke grand ideas: social justice, democracy, liberty, equality, community.

Bruno Latour s long term project is to compare the felicity and infelicity conditions of the different values dearest to the heart of those who have never been modern .

We live in a time when we are overwhelmed with talk and images of violence.

A tension between the desire to be respected as an equal and the desire to distinguish oneself as a unique person lies at the heart of the modern social order.

Governments have failed to stem global emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases causing climate change.

The planet is sick.

All aspire to liberty and security in their lives but few people truly enjoy them.

This book is about the global crisis and the right to resistance, about neoliberal biopolitics and direct democracy, about the responsibility of intellectuals and the poetry of the multitude.

This book is a highly original and provocative contribution to democratic theory.

Jean-Fran ois Lyotard was one of the most influential European thinkers in recent decades.

This book provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the major political thinkers of modern Germany.

In this major new work, Thompson develops an original account of ideology and relates it to the analysis of culture and mass communication in modern Societies.

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

The writings of the Frankfurt school, in particular of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas, caught the imagination of the radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s and became a key element in the Marxism of the New Left.

Democracy and democratization are now high on the political agenda, but there is growing indifference to the gap between rich and poor.

A new emphasis on diversity and difference is displacing older myths of nation or community.

This book offers a fresh, accessible and original interpretation of the modern state, concentrating particularly on the emergence and nature of democracy.

Democracy is the central political issue of our age, yet debates over its nature and goals rarely engage with feminist concerns.

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

A good political community is one whose citizens are actively engaged in deciding their common future together.

Sovereign nation states, which were formed in the context of major war, have been deeply exclusionary in their dealings with minority cultures and alien outsiders.

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

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 volume develops a novel approach to state theory.

This book provides a highly original account of the changing meaning of democracy in the contemporary world, offering both an historical and philosophical analysis of the nature and prospects of democracy today.

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

This book provides an accessible account of popular political, social and economic movements in the Third World.

The new study provides a fresh and timely reassessment of the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt.

Structured analytically, the book introduces the reader to all the facets of citizenship.

This book examines the key institutional structures and processes of modernity.

This volume of especially commissioned essays explains what is meant by "e;civil society"e;, paying particular attention to the relationships between civil society and other social forces such as nationalism and populism.

With their remarkable electoral successes, Green parties worldwide seized the political imagination of friends and foes alike.

The idea of finding a 'third way' in politics has become a focus of discussion across the world.

Built upon a series of critical encounters with major figures in classical and present-day social and political thought, this volume offers not only a challenging critique of major traditions of social and political analysis, but unique insights into the ideas which Giddens has developed over the past two decades.

How should one understand the nature and possibilities of political radicalism today?

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.

Politics was once regarded as an activity which could give human societies control over their fate.

Hayek has been one of the key liberal thinkers of the twentieth century.

This exciting new book is the first comprehensive and critical study of the relationship between the Pragmatist tradition and political theory.

This book provides a comprehensive view of women's political participation in Latin America.

In this major new work, Bernstein explores the ethical and political dimensions of the modernity/post-modernity debate.

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.