Social & Political Philosophy

Democracy promises rule by all, not by the few. Yet, electoral democracies limit decision-making to representatives and have always had a weakness ...

L. Nandi Theunissen develops a non-Kantian account of the value of human beings. Against the Kantian tradition, in which humanity is absolutely val...

Kirk Ludwig presents a philosophical account of institutional action, such as action by corporations and nation states, arguing that it can be unde...

Human dignity: social movements invoke it, several national constitutions enshrine it, and it features prominently in international human rights do...

According to the terms of Aristotle's Politics, to be alive is to instantiate a form of rule. In the growth of plants, the perceptual capacities an...

Known terrorists are often targeted for death by the governments of Israel and the United States. Several thousand have been killed by drones or by...

The new field of experimental philosophy has emerged as the methods of psychological science have been brought to bear on traditional philosophical...

The new field of experimental philosophy has emerged as the methods of psychological science have been brought to bear on traditional philosophical...

Neil Sinhababu defends the Humean Theory of Motivation, according to which desire drives all human action and practical reasoning. Desire motivates...

Allen W. Wood presents the first book-length systematic exposition in English of Fichte's most important ethical work, the System of Ethics (1798)....

The successor to the legendary activist Saul Alinsky, Edward T. Chambers pioneered a set of principles and practices that have guided community org...

The United States of America is experiencing a housing crisis, which, by some estimates, started in the early 2000s and was made worse by the finan...

Today, we find ourselves surrounded by numerous reasons to despair, from loneliness, suffering and death at an individual level to societal alienat...

Everyone worries about being judged. One foolish tweet can destroy a career, one careless image can ruin a reputation. Yet judgement is inescapable...

In the winter of 1965, Leo Strauss taught a seminar on Hegel at the University of Chicago. While Strauss did not consider himself a Hegelian nor wr...

States claim the right to choose who can come to their country. They put up barriers and expose migrants to deadly journeys. Those who survive are ...

This volume incorporates Darko Suvin’s thinking on utopian horizons in fiction and on eutopian and dystopian readings of historical reality since t...

For over forty years, Shyam Benegal has been one the leading forces in Indian cinema. Informed by a rich political and philosophical sensibility an...