Social & Political Philosophy

What does the name Trump stand for? If branding now rules over the production of value, as the coauthors of Sovereignty, Inc. argue, then Trump ass...

In the seven and a half years before his collapse into madness, Nietzsche completed Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the best-selling and most widely read p...

When social scientists and social theorists turn to the work of philosophers for intellectual and practical authority, they typically assume that t...

All of humanitys problems stem from mans inability to sit quietly in a room alone, Blaise Pascal wrote in 1654. But then theres Walt Whitman, in 18...

At the same time that Gandhi, as a young lawyer in South Africa, began fashioning the tenets of his political philosophy, he was absorbed by a seem...

Josef afaíks Seven Letters to Melin is an exploration of mans alienation from natureand from himselfin the modern technological age. Conceived as a...

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) is the father of modern political thought, but he is also one of the greatest writers of the Renaissance and his wi...

In the history of Western thought, friendship's relationship to politics is checkered. Friendship was seen as key to understanding political life i...

The changing face of the liberal creed from the ancient world to todayThe Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a ...

How do human beings become human? This question lies behind the so-called human sciences. But these disciplines are scattered among many different ...

In this age of nearly unprecedented partisan rancor, you'd be forgiven for thinking we could all do with a smaller daily dose of politics. In his p...

Teaching Plato in Palestine is part intellectual travelogue, part plea for integrating philosophy into our personal and public life. Philosophical ...

This book contains new, annotated, and literal yet accessible translations of Xenophons eight shorter writings, accompanied by interpretive essays ...

In this book, Todd May shows how democratic progressive politics can happen and how it is happening in very different arenas. He takes an intensiv...

Citizen Killings: Liberalism, State Policy and Moral Risk offers a ground breaking systematic approach to formulating ethical public policy on all ...

Machiavelli's influence on modern politics and the importance of his thought for the development of modern political ideas has long been universall...

The significance that people grant to their affiliations as members of nations, religions, classes, races, ethnicities and genders is evidence o...

Unique from his contemporaries, Frantz Fanon examined the dangers of post-colonial power. His monumental contribution was posing questions and expl...

The past three decades have witnessed the emergence of several Kantian theories. Both the critical reaction to consequentialism inspired by Rawlsia...

In current debates, the term cosmopolitanismA often remains quite vague and leads to sweeping generalizations. Unlike many recent publications, th...

The concept of disparity has long been a topic of obsession and argument for philosophers but Slavoj iek would argue that what disparity and negati...