Social & Political Philosophy

A philosophical challenge to the ableist conflation of disability and pain More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle said: “let there be a law that no d...

A surprising look at how Rousseau defended the philosophic life as the most natural and best of lives.  Dreaming of Justice, Waking to Wisdom revea...

We live in an era defined by a sense of separation, even in the midst of networked connectivity. As cultural climates sour and divisive political s...

We live in an era defined by a sense of separation, even in the midst of networked connectivity. As cultural climates sour and divisive political s...

What is it like to live in an illiberal regime? Ethical life in totalitarian regimes is easy to critique because it deviates from everything we thi...

Based on award-winning research, Love and revolution brings classical and contemporary anarchist thought into a mutually beneficial dialogue with a...

Critical theory is one of the most important and exciting areas within the study of international relations. Its purpose is not only to describe ho...

In the neoliberal world of the twenty-first century, the progressive academy urgently needs a vehicle for normative social research. Critical theor...

When we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. In their sharing of the term,...

Lord Acton (1834–1902) is often called a historian of liberty. A great historian and political thinker, he had a rare talent to reach beneath the s...

The state of emergency, thinkers such as Carl Schmidt, Walter Benjamin, and Giorgio Agamben have argued, is at the heart of any theory of politics....

The twentieth-century Dutch philosopher Herman Dooyeweerd (1894–1977) left behind an impressive canon of philosophical works and has continued to i...

Adopting and developing a ‘cultural politics’ approach, this comprehensive study explores how Hollywood movies generate and reflect political myths...

Developing Africa? New Horizons with Afrocentricity aims to contest the Eurocentric narrative of an African development discourse. This book deploy...

Popular virtue is the first in-depth study of the changing nature of moral politics within working-class Radicalism between 1820 and 1870. Through ...

By both its supporters and detractors, neoliberalism is usually considered an economic policy agenda. Neoliberalism's Demons argues that it is much...