Social & Political Philosophy

From a renowned foreign-policy expert, a new paradigm for strategy in the twenty-first century In 1961, Thomas Schellings The Strategy of Conflict ...

Drawing on evolutionary epistemology, process ontology, and a social-cognition approach, this book suggests cognitive evolution, an evolutionary-co...

'Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains.' These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has stirred vigorous debate ever since i...

A landmark work of political theory on the central importance of group identity and cultural pluralism in political lifeJustice and the Politics of...

'Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival'Advocating lov...

Explores Deleuze and Guattari''s own diverse conceptions of anarchism and expands it in the spirit of their philosophy This collection of 13 essays...

Why is science so powerful? Why did it take so longtwo thousand years after the invention of philosophy and mathematicsfor the human race to star...

In this work, Mill reflects on the struggle between liberty and authority and defends the view that the only purpose for which power can be rightfu...

Investigating insecurity as the predominant logic of life in the present moment Challenging several key concepts of the twenty-first century, inclu...

An essential read for anyone who has encountered a crisis of confidence. Where does self-confidence come from? H...

The fundamental issues that structure social and political philosophy revolve around the tensions between cooperative (ethical) values and competit...

Liam Shields systematically clarifies and defends the political philosophy of Sufficientarianism, which insists that securing enough of some things...

Karl Marx was not only the great theorist of capitalism, he was also a superb journalist, politician and historian. In these brand-new editions of ...

Proletarian Nights, previously published in English as Nights of Labor and one of Rancière's most important works, dramatically reinterprets the Re...

This book demonstrates that philosophy matters to everyday living and that people who ignore the enduring, fundamental questions of life thereby un...

Rethinking politics in a new vocabulary, Hans Sluga challenges the firmly held assumption that there exists a single common good which politics is ...