Social & Political Philosophy

Gramscis theory of common sense is a metanarrative that can be used to explain both religion and political formations. This book examines Gramscis ...

Sophie de Grouchy was a political philosopher and activist practising at the centre of Revolutionary events in France between 1789 and 1815. Despit...

Civil Society: Ideas, Interpretations, Transgressions is essential to learning about the place and importance of civil society in creating and main...

Civil Society: Ideas, Interpretations, Transgressions is essential to learning about the place and importance of civil society in creating and main...

This volume reflects on different regional and national experiences of the Covid 19 pandemic, with contributions from India, Thailand, Singapore, A...

Is laughter a sin? Or is it mans best medicine? Is laughter now trivialised, mechanised or even weaponised by contemporary media? This book explore...

'To a rational being there can be but one rule of conduct, justice, and one mode of ascertaining that rule, the exercise of his understanding.' G...

To Do, To Die, To Reason Why offers a new account of the ethics of war and the legal regulation of war. It is especially concerned with the conduct...

Respect plays a prominent role in contemporary moral philosophy, as well as our every-day moral thought. Ordinary discussion about morality is ofte...

The Authoritarian Personality, which was published by Theordor Adorno and a set of colleagues in the 1950s, was the first broad-based empirical att...

Brought to you by Penguin.The long-awaited sequel to 12 RULES FOR LIFE, which has sold over 5 million copies around the worldIn 12 Rules for Life, ...

Months before the 2016 United States presidential election, universities across the country began reporting the appearance of white nationalist fly...

What is evil? Who does evil things? Who is evil? How do you know? Whether in response to witnessing mass suffering or feeling the sting of personal...

Liberalism is the political philosophy of equal persons - yet liberalism has denied equality to those it saw as sub-persons. Liberalism is the cree...

Subject of numerous interpretations and studies, the vicissitudes of the famous Frankfurt Institute for Social Research nevertheless still contain ...

This edited volume addresses Alexandre Kojève's work from different perspectives, emphasizing the continuity between his early reception of a set o...

Nietzsche's impact on the world of culture, philosophy, and the arts is uncontested, but his political thought remains mired in controversy. By pla...

The birth of philosophical thought across the ancient world brought with it a keen interest in the study of leadership reflections on who should le...

Since the mid-1960s, citizens' rights in the United States have improved across many areas, including race, gender, sexuality, physical disabilitie...

This book presents a comprehensive theory of justice that has a threefold justification. For the first justification, the book presents a rigorousl...

Science and the rule of law are the two pillars of modernity. Even though both result from the attempt to employ reason to limit the exercise of po...

This book develops and defends a novel social epistemological account of indoctrination. It answers important epistemological, ethical, and politic...