Social & Political Philosophy

"Animal Farm" Prophecy Fulfilled in Africa: A Call to a Values and Systems Revolution discusses why deep levels of poverty and suffering persist i...

The essays in this book range broadly over different aspects of value theory and include contributions by Nicholas Rescher, Frances Kamm, Barry Smi...

Neoliberalism has become a dirty word. In political discourse, it stigmatizes a political opponent as a market fundamentalist; in academia, the con...

Decolonizing Democracy: Intersections of Philosophy and Postcolonial Theory analyzes the concept and the discourse of democracy. Ferit Güven demons...

The Bungle Book presents a demythology of six salient concepts central to our modern self-understanding, The “suspects” of the self, the machine, a...

A groundbreaking volume introduces the unique feminist thought of the longstanding Italian group known as Diotima Introducing Anglophone readers to...

This book offers a much-needed new political theory of an old phenomenon. The last decade alone has marked the highest number of migrations in reco...

A bold new critique of dialogue as a method of eliminating dissent Is dialogue always the productive political and communicative tool it is widely ...

Understanding the political and ecological implications of Heidegger’s work without ignoring his noxious public engagements The most controversial ...

Although Haitian revolutionaries were not the intended audience for the Declaration of the Rights of Man, they heeded its call, demanding rights th...

Although Haitian revolutionaries were not the intended audience for the Declaration of the Rights of Man, they heeded its call, demanding rights th...

Conflicting claims about culture are a familiar refrain of political life in the contemporary world. On one side, majorities seek to fashion the st...

Rather than see love as a natural form of affection, Love As Human Freedom sees love as a practice that changes over time through which new social ...

Derrida and the Inheritance of Democracy provides a theoretically rich and accessible account of Derrida's political philosophy. Demonstrating the ...

This book offers a comprehensive evaluation of the two preeminent post-WWII political philosophers, John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas. Both men questi...

Notions of self-determination are central to modern politics, yet the relationship between the self-determination of individuals and peoples has no...

Understanding and harnessing the persuasive powers of narrative is central to U.S. and international counter-terrorism efforts. There is an urgent ...

Dogma’s Primrose Path addresses how the perpetual presence of ignorance, poverty, and war throughout the world is accepted by most people as an ine...

One hundred years after his birth, Nobel laureate Octavio Paz is considered one of the most important thinkers of Mexican identity, one of the most...

A new conceptual diagram of Foucault’s original vision of the biopolitical order  The history around the critical reception of Michel Foucault’s pu...

Distinguished by its readability and scope, Moral Reasons explains how to think critically about issues in ethics and political philosophy. After a...

In this fascinating and timely book, Maren Behrensen facilitates a conversation between philosophy and the ‘practitioners’ of identity. What makes ...

In the 1960s, the strict opposition between the religious and the secular began to break down, blurring the distinction between political philosoph...

Coopted by military operations, humanitarianism has never been neutral. Rather than welcoming refugees, host countries assess the relative risks of...

Vulnerability and resistance have often been seen as opposites, with the assumption that vulnerability requires protection and the strengthening of...

The family is hotly contested ideological terrain. Some defend the traditional two-parent heterosexual family while others welcome its demise. Opin...