Social & Political Philosophy

This volume offers new perspectives on the appeal and profound cultural meaning of socialism over the past two centuries. It brings together schola...

Culture is at the heart of what it means to be human. But twenty-five years ago, the British government rebranded art and culture as creative indus...

Why have so many people responded to the insecurity, exploitation, alienation, and isolation of precarity capitalism by supporting the far right? I...

Over the last fifty years, scholars in biology, psychology, anthropology, and cognate fields have substantially enriched traditional philosophical ...

This volume offers the most comprehensive introduction to the ideas of ancient Chinese thinkers who looked to perfect a political system thru the e...

Proposes both quantitative and qualitative research approaches.Straddles multiple subject areas, including political philosophy, political history,...

Since his death, the writings of Carl Schmitt (18881985) have been debated, cited, and adopted by political and legal thinkers on both the left and...

A renowned political philosopher updates his classic book on the American political tradition to address the perils democracy confronts today.The 1...

What is gender? More importantly, what should gender look like in the 21st century? This book brings together philosophy with insights from feminis...

Das Handbuch gewährt einen umfassenden Überblick über Tocquevilles Leben, Werk und Wirkung auf dem aktuellen Stand der historischen, philosophische...

Jacob Gorender's (19232013) 1978 book, Colonial Slavery (O Escravismo Colonial), comes alive for English language readers thanks to Bernd Reiter an...

Freedom is celebrated as the definitive ideal of modern western civilization. Yet in western thought and practice, the freedom of some has typicall...

Freedom is celebrated as the definitive ideal of modern western civilization. Yet in western thought and practice, the freedom of some has typicall...

A poetic meditation on the challenges and pleasures of contemporary speculative fiction.

Strategy is the craft of a warrior Miyamoto Musashi Written around 1645, Miyamoto Musashis Five Rings is a classic Japanese work on mastery in swo...

John Stuart Mill (18061873) gehört im angelsächsischen Raum seit jeher zu den Klassikern der Ideengeschichte. Aber auch im deutschsprachigen Raum w...

Lord Acton for Our Time illuminates the thought of the English historian, politician, and writer who gave us the famous maxim: Power tends to corru...

Poetics of the Earth is a work of environmental philosophy, based on a synthesis of eastern and western thought on natural and human history. It dr...

In October 2018, a white supremacist murdered eleven Jewish worshipers and wounded six others at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylv...