Social & Political Philosophy

Hannah Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno, two of the most influential political philosophers and theorists of the twentieth century, were contemporaries...

What Happened in and to Moral Philosophy in the Twentieth Century? is a volume of essays originally presented at University College Dublin in 2009 ...

All over the world secular rationalist governments and judicial authorities have been challenged by increasingly forceful claims made on behalf of ...

Aristotle offers a conception of the private and its relationship to the public that suggests a remedy to the limitations of liberalism today, acco...

Despite the flood of self-help guides and our current therapeutic culture, feelings of alienation and spiritual longing continue to grip modern soc...

In God as Reason: Essays in Philosophical Theology, Vittorio Hösle presents a systematic exploration of the relation between theology and philosoph...

Butterworth richly deserves to be congratulated for providing advanced students and scholars with authoritative, reliable, and readable translation...

A philosophical consideration of Soviet Socialism that reveals the hidden desire for capitalism in contemporary anticapitalist discourse and theory...

Autonomy is a vital concept in much of modern theory, defining the Subject as capable of self-governance. Democratic theory relies on the concept o...

Humans may be the only creatures conscious of having a future, but all too often we would rather not think about it. Likewise, our societies, unabl...

Humans may be the only creatures conscious of having a future, but all too often we would rather not think about it. Likewise, our societies, unabl...

John Locke's theory of toleration is generally seen as advocating the privatization of religion. This interpretation has become conventional wisdom...

Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning are key figures in the struggles playing out in our democracies over internet use, state secret...

A philosophical consideration of Soviet Socialism that reveals the hidden desire for capitalism in contemporary anticapitalist discourse and theory...

What does it mean to be a spectator to war in an era when the boundaries between witnessing and perpetrating violence have become profoundly blurre...

This second volume continues the story told in the first by focusing on the writings of a selection of seminal thinkers in the seventeenth and eigh...

In Critical Marxism in Mexico, Stefan Gandler, coming from the tradition of the Frankfurt School, reveals the contributions that Adolfo Sanchez Vaz...

René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, marquis dArgenson (1694-1757), minister of state and author, was one of the boldest critics of the social and politi...

A complex and historically rich account of scepticismMaking a sharp break with dominant contemporary readings of David Hume's scepticism Peter S. F...

Analyses the social imaginary of undoing, repair and return underpinning the international norm of restitution-makingApproaches restitution not jus...

Through a radical new reading of the Theological Political Treatise, Dimitris Vardoulakis argues that the Epicurean influence on Spinoza has profou...

In this urgently needed book, Marc Crepon addresses the nature of hatred and its manifestations in international and domestic terrorism, racism, wa...