New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2009, -206 p. In Greek Tragedy and Political Philosophy, Peter J. Ahrensdorf examines Sophocles’ powerful analysis of a central question of political philosophy and a perennial question of political life: Should citizens and leaders govern political society by the light of unaided human reason or religious faith? Through a fresh...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 217 p. In this provocative book, Larry Alexander offers a skeptical appraisal of the claim that freedom of expression is a human right. He examines the various contexts in which a right of freedom of expression might be asserted and concludes that such a right cannot be supported in any of these contexts. He argues that some legal protection...
Routledge, 2000. — 646 p. This comprehensive Reader brings together foundation work in the study of race and ethnicity and writings from many of the most exciting scholars today. It is divided into the following main sections: origins and transformations sociology, race and social theory racism and anti-Semitism colonialism, race and the other feminism, difference and identity...
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010. — 243 p. — ISBN10: 0804756503; ISBN13: 978-0804756501 This book examines the nature of totalitarianism as interpreted by some of the finest minds of the twentieth century. It focuses on Hannah Arendt's claim that totalitarianism was an entirely unprecedented regime and that the social sciences had integrally misconstrued it. A...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966. — 700 p. — ISBN10: 0691007527; ISBN13: 978-0691007526. Hans Baron was one of the many great German émigré scholars whose work Princeton brought into the Anglo-American world. His Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance has provoked more discussion and inspired more research than any other twentieth-century study of the Italian...
The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England. — 281 p. This biography tells the story of how the great intellect of Noam Chomsky was shaped. It describes the political and intellectual contexts that helped form the unyielding principles by which Chomsky lives, and the arenas of scholarship, political action, and ideology to which he still contributes. Along the way,...
Springer, 2015. — 143 p. This book offers a collection of texts by Carl Friedrich von Weizsaecker (1912-2007), a major German universal scientist who was also a pioneer in physics, philosophy, religion on issues of politics and peace research. He worked with Werner Heisenberg and Otto Hahn in the German “Uranverein”, obtained a patent for plutonium during World War II and was...
International research. Society. Politics. Economics. 2012. - №2 (11). - Astana. - 2012. The paper considers the problem of the Central Asian states in the cultural and civilizational coordinate system in the era of globalization. The Central Asian states can develop successfully only aware of their belonging to a common cultural and civilizational space, as in the conditions...
Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2006. — 216 p. — ISBN10: 0745633994; ISBN13: 978-0745633992 In this new book, Ulrich Beck develops his now widely used concepts of second modernity, risk society and reflexive sociology into a radical new sociological analysis of the cosmopolitan implications of globalization. Beck draws extensively on empirical and theoretical analyses of such phenomena...
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. — 448 p. — ISBN: 0-674-25717-8 "They join the greatest boldness in thought to the most obedient character". So Madame de Stael described German intellectuals at the close of the 18th century, and her view of this schism between the intellectual and the political has stood virtually unchallenged for 200 years. This book lays to rest...
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. — 448 p. — ISBN: 0-674-25717-8 "They join the greatest boldness in thought to the most obedient character". So Madame de Stael described German intellectuals at the close of the 18th century, and her view of this schism between the intellectual and the political has stood virtually unchallenged for 200 years. This book lays to rest...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. — 224 p. — ISBN10: 0195369874; ISBN13: 978-0195369878 — (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures) In these two important lectures, distinguished political philosopher Seyla Benhabib argues that since the UN Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, we have entered a phase of global civil society which is governed by cosmopolitan norms of universal justice...
Wochen Schau Verlag, 2015. - 257 p. Judenfeindschaft aus unterschiedlichen Motiven gipfelte unter nationalsozialistischer Ideologie im 20. Jh. im Völkermord. Der Judenhass lebte fort, daneben entstand nach dem Holocaust ein mit neuen Argumenten operierender Antisemitismus, der Scham- und Schuldgefühlen entspringt. Der oft beschworene „neue Antisemitismus“ ist dagegen nichts...
Princeton University Press, 2000 - 256 p. This book, together with a complementary volume Religion in the Neoliberal Age, focus on religion, neoliberalism and consumer society; offering an overview of an emerging field of research in the study of contemporary religion. Claiming that we are entering a new phase of state-religion relations, the editors examine how this is...
New York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, 1980. — 686 p. — ISBN: 0-465-02405-X This book traces the origins of a faith — perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of traditional...
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. — 326 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-8018-9764-1. This comprehensive, yet compact, introduction examines Plato's understanding of law, justice, virtue, and the connection between politics and philosophy. Focusing on three of Plato's dialogues — The Laws, The Republic, and The Statesman — Mark Blitz lays out the philosopher's principal...
New York: Routledge, 1997. — xvi, 173 p. — ISBN 0-415-16147-9. There are two competing schools of thought about the nature of rule following. One is usually called 'individualism', the other 'collectivism'. For the individualist, a rule in its simplest form is just a standing intention; for the collectivist, it is a shared convention or a social institution. There are also two...
London: McMillan Company, 1899. — 362 p. The present work is an attempt to express what I take to be the fundamental ideas of a true social philosophy. I have criticised and interpreted the doctrines of certain well-known thinkers only with the view of setting these ideas in the clearest light. This is the whole purpose of the book ; and I have intentionally abstained from...
Princeton University Press, 2016. — 280 p. — ISBN: 0691169977. In a pluralistic society such as ours, tolerance is a virtue--but it doesn't always seem so. Some suspect that it entangles us in unacceptable moral compromises and inequalities of power, while others dismiss it as mere political correctness or doubt that it can safeguard the moral and political relationships we...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 225 p. Kantian autonomy is often thought to be independent of time and place, but J. B. Schneewind in his landmark study The Invention of Autonomy has shown that there is much to be learned by setting Kant’s moral philosophy in the context of the history of modern moral philosophy. The distinguished authors in this collection continue...
Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2013. — 889 p. A compelling three-volume exploration of the philosophical, social, and political facets of the theory and practice of communism within the conditions of 21st-century world politics and late capitalism. The world has changed significantly, and so has communism. This groundbreaking three-volume series comprises contributions from over 30...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0521609097; ISBN13: 978-0521609098 Do national boundaries have fundamental moral significance, or do we have moral obligations to foreigners that are equal to our obligations to our compatriots? The latter position is known as cosmopolitanism, and this volume brings together a number of distinguished political...
BRILL, 2011. — 329 p. — (Studies in Moral Philosophy). — ISBN10: 9004203435. — ISBN13: 978-9004203433. Global justice and international affairs is perhaps the hottest topic in political philosophy today. This book brings together some of the most important essays in this area. The essays have all appeared recently in the Journal of Moral Philosophy, an internationally...
London: Routledge, 2016 — 246 p. — ISBN10: 0754668436; ISBN13: 978-0754668435. In his hugely influential book Discipline and Punish , Foucault used the example of Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon prison as a means of representing the transition from the early modern monarchy to the late modern capitalist state. In the former, power is visibly exerted, for instance by the destruction...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 310 p. The Cambridge Companion to the Communist Manifesto covers the historical and biographical contexts and major contemporary interpretations of this classic text for understanding Marx and Engels, and for grasping Marxist political theory. The editors and contributors offer innovative accounts of the history of the text in...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. — 432 p. — ISBN-10: 0231130198; ISBN-13: 978-0231130196 This far-ranging and ambitious attempt to rethink postcolonial theory's discussion of the nation and nationalism brings the problems of the postcolonial condition to bear on the philosophy of freedom. Closely identified with totalitarianism and fundamentalism, the nation-state has...
Routledge, 2002. — 263 p. This book is intended to serve two related purposes. The first is to provide a text that would be useful in general survey courses on contemporary political philosophy or as a companion text for more focused classes on related topics. The series in which this book appears is designed to provide mid-level undergraduate textbooks for students with some...
London; New York: New York University Press, 1999 — 434 p. — ISBN10: 0814715710; ISBN13: 978-0814715710. Utopian literature has given voice to the hopes and fears of the human race from its earliest days to the present. The only single-volume anthology of its kind, The Utopia Reader encompasses the entire spectrum and history of utopian writing - from the Old Testament and...
2nd Ed. — Oxford University Press, 2015. — 208 p. — ISBN: 978-0-198724-65-9. There is now a major new interest in ethical issues about warfare emerging from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, conflict in Syria and Libya, the war on terror, and the introduction of new weapon systems, such as unmanned drones. In this re-written version of the author's classic text, Waging War, Ian...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 169 p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN: 978-0-198728-79-4. Utilitarianism may well be the most influential secular ethical theory in the world today. It is also one of the most controversial. It clashes, or is widely thought to clash, with many conventional moral views, and with human rights when they are seen as inviolable. Would it, for...
Routledge, 2006. — 237 p. A critical introduction to the political thought of one of the most important, original and enigmatic philosophers writing today. Zizek's Politics provides an original interpretation and defence of the Slovenian philosopher's radical critique of liberalism, democracy, and global capital.
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2015. — 144 p. A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline represents nothing less than a sweeping revisionist history of mankind, in a concise and readable volume. Dr. Hoppe skillfully weaves history, sociology, ethics, and Misesian praxeology to present an alternative and highly challenging view of human economic development over the ages. As...
London: Routledge-Cavendish, 2007. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0415427592; ISBN13: 978-0415427593 Erudite and timely, this book is a key contribution to the renewal of radical theory and politics. Addressing the paradox of a contemporary humanitarianism that has abandoned politics in favour of combating evil, Douzinas, a leading scholar and author in the field of human rights and legal...
Bookboon, 2016. — 70 p. — ISBN: 978-87-403-1397-0. This book affirms the global need for moral leadership in the 21st century at a time when the risks to human survival have been increasing. What is particularly needed is leadership with ethical or moral behavior ingrained in its values system. People know that when they are not treated ethically and morally, bad things happen....
Oxford University Press, 1984. — 136 p. — (Very Short Introductions). John Locke (1632-1704) one of the greatest English philosophers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, argued in his masterpiece, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, that our knowledge is founded in experience and reaches us principally through our senses; but its message has been...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 417 p. Is it possible for a deeply religious person to be a good citizen in a liberal democracy? There is room for doubt regarding many religious believers. Why? Many religious people take themselves to be conscience bound to support coercive laws for which they have only religious reasons. But many political theorists claim that such...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 220 p. — ISBN10: 1107173191; ISBN13: 978-1107173194. This book is the first detailed reconstruction of the late work of John Rawls, who was perhaps the most influential philosopher of the twentieth century. Rawls's 1971 treatise, A Theory of Justice, stimulated an outpouring of commentary on 'justice-as-fairness,' his...
New York: New York University Press, 1999. — 285 p. — ISBN10: 0814722075; ISBN13: 978-0814722077. In the absence of noble public goals, admired leaders, and compelling issues, many warn of a dangerous erosion of civil society. Are they right? What are the roots and implications of their insistent alarm? How can public life be enriched in a period marked by fraying communities,...
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1966. — 743 p. — ISBN: 0-691-05121-6; 0-691-10030-6 Although Conservative parties did not exist in Germany until after the Napoleonic Wars, there did emerge, around 1770, traceable organized political activity and intellectual currents of a clearly Conservative character. The author argues that this movement developed as a...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 456 p. Even though political philosophy has a long tradition, it is much more than the study of old and great treatises. Contemporary philosophers continue to press new arguments on old and timeless questions, but also to propose departures and innovations. The field changes over time, and new work inevitably responds both to events in the world...
Cham: Springer, 2018. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 331969622X; ISBN13: 978-33196962 — (Library of Public Policy and Public Administration (Book 11)) This timely book addresses the conflict between globalism and nationalism. It provides a liberal communitarian response to the rise of populism occurring in many democracies. The book highlights the role of communities next to that of the...
Arktos, 2010. — 252 p. Archeofuturism, an important work in the tradition of the European New Right, is finally now available in English. Challenging many assumptions held by the Right, this book generated much debate when it was first published in French in 1998. Faye believes that the future of the Right requires a transcendence of the division between those who wish for a...
Transl. by Michael O'Meara. Foreword by Michael O'Meara and Pierre Krebs. — London: Arktos Media Ltd., 2011. — 274 p. — ISBN10: 1907166181; ISBN13: 978-1907166181. Identitarians and others making up the European resistance lack a doctrine that truly serves as a political and ideological synthesis of who they are - a doctrine that speaks above parties and sects, above rival...
Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010. — 194 p. — ISBN: 9781441124210. Public War, Private Conscience offers a philosophical reflection on the moral demands made upon us by war, providing a clear and accessible overview of the different ways of thinking about war. Engaging both with contemporary examples and historical ideas about war, the book offers unique analysis...
London: Routledge, 2007. — 200 p. — ISBN10: 041539225X; ISBN13: 978-0415392259 — (Key Ideas) The idea of cosmopolitanism has informed some of the most important developments in current sociology. It has changed the way in which we think about a vast array of issues: the forces of globalization, the resurgence of nationalism, the future of political community in Europe, the role...
London: Routledge, 2001. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 0415239087; ISBN13: 978-0415239080 In this highly innovative book Robert Fine compares three great studies of modern political life: Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Marx's Capital and Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism, and argues that they are all profoundly radical texts, which jointly contribute to our...
Cambridge University Press, 1994. — 247 p. List of Contributors page Introduction: the invention of the modern republic Biancamaria Fontana Ancient and modern republicanism: mixed constitution' and 'ephors Wilfried Nippel Checks, balances and boundaries: the separation of powers in the constitutional debate of 1787 Bernard Manin From Utopia to republicanism: the case of Diderot...
New York: New York University Press, 2000. — 447 p. — ISBN10: 0814727018; ISBN13: 978-0814727010. With a new introduction by Eric J. Hobsbawm The most complete one-volume collection of writings by one of the most fascinating thinkers in the history of Marxism, The Antonio Gramsci Reader fills the need for a broad and general introduction to this major figure. Antonio Gramsci...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 314 p. — ISBN-10: 0521761123; ISBN-13: 978-0521761123 — (Ideas in Context. Book 96) This 2010 text pursues Adam Smith's views on moral judgement, humanitarian care, commerce, justice and international law both in historical context and through a twenty-first-century cosmopolitan lens, making this a major contribution not only to...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 663 p. Introduction: toleration in conflict Between power and morality: the historical discourse of toleration Toleration: concept and conceptions. More than a prehistory: antiquity and the Middle Ages. Reconciliation, schism, peace: humanism and the Reformation. Toleration and sovereignty: political and individual. Natural law, toleration...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2002, -598 p. John Rawls is the most significant and influential political and moral philosopher of the twentieth-century. His work has profoundly shaped contemporary discussions of social, political, and economic justice in philosophy, law, political science, economics, and other social disciplines. In this exciting collection of new...
Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2001. — 621 s. Vorliegende Arbeit bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über die Utopiegeschichte, die neueren Utopieentwürfe in der Philosophie von E. Bloch und J. Habermas sowie das utopische Denken in feministischer Perspektive. Sie schließt die Kritik der schwarzen Utopien (Samjatin, Huxley, Orwell) am utopischen Denken ein sowie...
New York: State University of New York Press, 2006. — 264 p. — ISBN10: 0791465500; ISBN13: 978-079146550. Rereading Marx through Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, The Promise of Memory attempts to establish a philosophy of liberation. Matthias Fritsch explores how memories of injustice relate to the promises of justice that democratic societies have inherited from the...
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. — 344 p. Modernization Theory and American Modernism From the European Past to the American Present The Harvard Department of Social Relations and the Intellectual Origins of Modernization Theory The Rise of Modernization Theory in Political Science: The SSRC’s Committee on Comparative Politics Modernization Theory as a...
London- New York: Minor Compositions, 2011. - 134 p. | ISBN: 978-1-57027-228-8 Despite recent crises in the financial system, uprisings in Greece, France, Tunisia, and Bolivia, worldwide decline of faith in neoliberal trade policies, deepening ecological catastrophes, and global deficits of realized democracy, we still live in an era of spectacular capitalism. But what is...
London- New York: Minor Compositions, 2011. - 134 p. | ISBN: 978-1-57027-228-8 Despite recent crises in the financial system, uprisings in Greece, France, Tunisia, and Bolivia, worldwide decline of faith in neoliberal trade policies, deepening ecological catastrophes, and global deficits of realized democracy, we still live in an era of spectacular capitalism. But what is...
London- New York: Minor Compositions, 2011. - 134 p. | ISBN: 978-1-57027-228-8 Despite recent crises in the financial system, uprisings in Greece, France, Tunisia, and Bolivia, worldwide decline of faith in neoliberal trade policies, deepening ecological catastrophes, and global deficits of realized democracy, we still live in an era of spectacular capitalism. But what is...
Leiden: Brill, 2012. — 394 p. — (Studies in Critical Social Sciences (Brill Academic). Book 45). — ISBN10: 9004224688; ISBN13: 978-9004224681 Toward a Dialectic of Philosophy and Organization is an exploration of Hegel's dialectic and its radical re-creation in Marx's thought within the context of revolutions and revolutionary organizations in the nineteenth and twentieth...
Oxford University Press, 2008. - 326 p. In recent years democratic theory has taken a deliberative turn. Instead of merely casting the occasional ballot, deliberative democrats want citizens to reason together. They embrace 'talk as a decision procedure'. But of course thousands or millions of people cannot realistically talk to one another all at once. When putting their...
Transl. From German by Ralph Manheim. — Dan Diego: A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers, 1984. — ISBN: 0-15-169969-0 Introduction by Salman Rushdie On writing Doblin, My Teacher The Tin Drum in Retrospect or The Author as Dubious Witness Kafka and His Executors Racing with the Utopias What Shall We Tell Our Children? On politics Literature and...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 321 p. Notes on Contributors page Introduction: Empire and Liberty Jack P. Greene The Languages of Liberty in British North America, 1607–1776 Elizabeth Mancke Liberty and Slavery: The Transfer of British Liberty to the West Indies, 1627–1865 Jack P. Greene ‘‘Era of Liberty’’: The Politics of Civil and Political Rights in Eighteenth-Century...
Transl. by Christine Irizarry. — Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0804773866; ISBN13: 978-0804773867 — (Cultural Memory in the Present) The concept of the universal was born in the lands we now call Europe, yet it is precisely the universal that is Europe's undoing. All European politics is caught in a tension: to assert a European identity is to be...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 239 p. Contractarianism in some form has been at the center of recent debates in moral and political philosophy. Jean Hampton was one of the most gifted philosophers involved in these debates and provided both important criticisms of prominent contractarian theories and powerful defenses and applications of the core ideas of contractarianism....
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 332 p. — ISBN10: 0521548071; ISBN13: 978-0521548076. Civic Humanism has been one of the most influential concepts in the history of ideas ever since the pioneering work of Hans Baron and J. G. A. Pocock. This book reassesses Renaissance republican thinkers in relation to the medieval and early modern traditions of political...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 289 p. In Hobbes, Locke, and Confusion’s Masterpiece, an important new study of the foundations of modern political theory, Ross Harrison, the eminent political philosopher, analyzes the work of Hobbes, Locke, and their contemporaries. He provides a detailed account of the turbulent historical background that shaped the political,...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 216 p. What is terrorism? How is it different from other kinds of political violence? Why exactly is it wrong? Why is war often thought capable of being justified? On what grounds should we judge when the use of violence is morally acceptable? It is often thought that using violence to uphold and enforce the rule of law can be justified, that...
Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — xxi, 162 p.; 6 col. illus. — (Recovering Political Philosophy Series #1). Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine explores the analogy between the self and political society in the thought of St. Augustine of Hippo. This analogy is an important theme in the history of political thought. Attempts have been made to understand...
A timely and genuine contribution to the discussion of republicanism . distinctive.’ Richard Dagger, Arizona State University ‘Combining a lucid and accessible style with considerable sophistication of thought, Civic Republicanism will be both helpful to students and stimulating to scholars.’ John Horton, University of Keele London: Routledge, 2002. - 224 p. Civic republicanism...
New York: Oxford University Press, 1947. — 204 p. The author discusses how the Nazis were able to project their agenda as "reasonable", but also identifies the Pragmatism of John Dewey as problematic, due to his emphasis on the instrumental dimension of reasoning. It is broken into five sections: Means and Ends, Conflicting Panaceas, The Revolt of Nature, The Rise and Decline...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 323 p. Acknowledgments page On the use of Machiavelli’s texts Another philosophy The republic’s two ends The natural desire of states To destroy them or to live there The triumphator Rhetoric of hope and despair Sublunar writing Conclusion: cui bono?
London, U.K.: Allen Lane, Penguin Books, 2019. — 192 p. 'A compelling vision, an urgent necessity, and not beyond reach' Noam Chomsky. The past is forgotten, and the future is without hope. Dystopia has become a reality. This is the new normal in our apocalyptic politics - but if we accept it, our helplessness is guaranteed. To bring about real change, argues activist and...
Routledge, 2014. — (scan) 271 p. — (Routledge Innovators in Political Theory). — ISBN10: 0415870879, 0415870860. Ernesto Laclau has blazed a unique trail in political theory and philosophy since the early 1970s. In so doing, he has articulated a range of philosophical and theoretical currents into a coherent alternative to mainstream models and practices of conducting social...
Routledge, 2006. — 230 p. Philosophy and morality Philosopical influences Bradley Philosophical system Politics and morality Practice, morality and religion Conversation and intimation History and politics On human conduct The civil condition and the modern European state Oakeshott and contemporary thought Wittgenstein and discourse analysis Liberalism, pragmatism and...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. - 296 p. Pursuing Equal Opportunities: The Theory and Practice of Egalitarian Justice offers original and innovative contributions to the debate about equality of opportunity. Pursuing equality is an important challenge for any modern democratic society but this challenge faces two sets of difficulties: the theoretical question of what sort of...
Columbia University Press (April 15). 352 p. ISBN10: 0231126573; ISBN13: 978-0231126571. Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem are regarded as two of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. Together they produced a dynamic body of ideas that has had a lasting impact on the study of religion, philosophy, and literary criticism. Drawing from Benjamin's and...
Georgetown University Press, 2014. — 131 p. — ISBN: 978-1-62616-056-9. Sovereign Authority and the Right to Use Armed Force in Classic Just War Tradition Sovereignty as Responsibility: The Coming Together and Development of a Tradition Sovereign Authority and the Justified Use of Force in Thomas Aquinas and His Early Modern Successors Sovereign Authority and the Justified Use...
Northwestern University Press, 2009. — 277 p. Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek together have emerged as two of Europe’s most significant living philosophers. In a shared spirit of resistance to global capitalism, both are committed to bringing philosophical reflection to bear upon present-day political circumstances. These thinkers are especially interested in asking what...
South Bend, IN: St. Augustines Press, 2005. — 668 p. — ISBN10: 1587314657; ISBN13: 978-1587314650 "Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but, what is worse, as many masters as he has vices." - St. Augustine, City of God Writing at the time of the collapse of the Roman Empire, St. Augustine both...
The University of Chicago Press, 1998. — 204 p. Using the lives of the three outstanding French intellectuals of the twentieth century, renowned historian Tony Judt offers a unique look at how intellectuals can ignore political pressures and demonstrate a heroic commitment to personal integrity and moral responsibility unfettered by the difficult political exigencies of their...
New York: Atherton Press, 1971. — 172 p. Amid the twentieth century’s seemingly overwhelming problems, some thinkers dare to envisage a world order governed by utopian proposals that would eliminate — or at least alleviate — the evils of society and secure positive advantages for all human beings. Others find this utopian optimism a hopeless fantasy and predict for a utopian...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 271 p. Aquinas, Aristotle, and the Promise of the Common Good claims that contemporary theory and practice have much to gain from engaging Aquinas’s normative concept of the common good and his way of reconciling religion, philosophy, and politics. Examining the relationship between personal and common goods, and the relation of virtue and...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 840 p. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy presents fifty original essays, each specially written by a leading figure in the field, covering the entire subject of the history of political philosophy. They provide not only surveys of the state of research but substantial pieces that engage with, and move forward current...
Routledge, 2011. — 408 p. This comprehensive introduction to the major thinkers and topics in political philosophy explores the philosophical traditions which continue to inform our political judgements. Dudley Knowles introduces the ideas of key political thinkers including Hobbes, Locke, Marx and Mill and influential contemporary thinkers such as Berlin, Rawls and Nozick. He...
Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — x, 228 p.; ills. — (Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism Series). Michael Oakeshott on Authority, Governance, and the State presents contributions on one of the most important British philosophers of the 20th century. These essays address unique and under-analyzed areas in the literature on Oakeshott: authority, governance, and...
London: Arktos, 2012. A Note from the Editor Foreword by Dr. Tomislav Sunic: Titans are in Town Mahapralaya or Europe in the Age of the Dissolution of the West The Moirae Have Re-emerged Onto the Surface of the Earth The West has Ceased to be Europe Judaeo-Christian Monotheism is the Matrix of the West The God of the Bible has Broken the Nervous Fibre that United Man to the...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 396 p. The first comprehensive analysis of the philosophical issues raised by the hijab controversy in France, this book also conducts a dialogue between contemporary Anglo-American and French political theory and defends a progressive republican solution to so-called multicultural conflicts in contemporary societies. It critically assesses the...
2nd edition. Verso 2001. - 240 p. Since its original publication fifteen years ago, this hugely influential book has been at the centre of much debate. The arguments and controversies it has aroused are, furthermore, far from abating: the disintegration of the Soviet bloc, the emergence of new social and political identities linked to the transformation of late capitalism, and...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. — 512 p. — ISBN10: 9780226411293; ISBN13: 978-0226411293 When Moral Politics was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the lens of cognitive political psychology. Today, George Lakoff’s classic text has become all the more relevant, as liberals and conservatives have come to...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. — 512 p. — ISBN10: 9780226411293; ISBN13: 978-0226411293 When Moral Politics was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the lens of cognitive political psychology. Today, George Lakoff’s classic text has become all the more relevant, as liberals and conservatives have come to...
Routledge, 2006. — 204 p. In the last decade of his career, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu became involved in a series of high-profile political interventions, defending the cause of striking students and workers, speaking out in the name of illegal immigrants, the homeless and the unemployed, challenging the incursion of the market into the field of artistic and...
Seuil, 2001. — 364 p. — ISBN: 2020500973, 9782020500975. Dans ces Essais sur le politique, Claude Lefort creuse l'interrogation sur la genèse et l'évolution de la démocratie moderne. Livrée à elle-même, vouée à l'émancipation, cette dernière n'est jamais préservée du risque de briser les ressorts de la liberté. Après une évaluation du rôle de l'État-providence et des métaphores...
Ed. and intr. by David Fernbach. — Leiden: Brill, 2011. — (Historical Materialism series, Volume 31). — ISBN: 978-90-04-19607-0 Paul Levi remains one of the most interesting and controversial figures in the early history of the Communist movement. As leader of the KPD after the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, he successfully built up a party of a third of a...
Mitchell Kenerley, 1914. — 318 p. Routineer and Inventor The taboo The changing focus The Golden rule Well meaning but unmeaning: the Chicago Vice report Some necessary iconoclasm The making of creeds The Red Herring Revolution and culture
Belknap Press, 2007. — 432 p. More than half a century after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights defined what a human being is and is entitled to, Catharine MacKinnon asks: Are women human yet? If women were regarded as human, would they be sold into sexual slavery worldwide; veiled, silenced, and imprisoned in homes; bred, and worked as menials for little or no pay;...
Harvard University Press, 1989. — 330 p. MacKinnon argues that feminism had "no account of male power as an ordered yet deranged whole"; that is, a systematic account of the structural organization whereby male dominance is instantiated and enforced. Although earlier writers, including Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Simone de Beauvoir, had offered "a rich...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. — 372 p. — ISBN: 0-19-881084-9 This seminal work by political philosopher C.B. Macpherson was first published by the Clarendon Press in 1962, and remains of key importance to the study of liberal-democratic theory half-a-century later. In it, Macpherson argues that the chief difficulty of the notion of individualism that underpins...
New York, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 1987. — 201 p. Dante`s political philosophy The goal of the human race The unity of mankind Some questions aboout mankind`s end
Boston: Belknap Press, 1979. — 912 p. — ISBN10: 0674931858; ISBN13: 978-0674931855. This masterly study has a grand sweep. It ranges over centuries, with a long look backward over several millennia. Yet the history it unfolds is primarily the story of individuals: thinkers and dreamers who envisaged an ideal social order and described it persuasively, leaving a mark on their...
Columbia University Press, 2019. — 255 p. Political Categories . Categorial Reduction; or, Reductio ad Conceptum The Real Problem of Republicanism Categories, Not Classifications Infrapolitics and Intrapolitics Ordinary Language Politics A categorial Politics of Truth The Initial Approach: Aristotle . Ousia-Beingness-Presence Quantity Space Relation Positionality and...
Columbia University Press, 2019. — 255 p. Political Categories . Categorial Reduction; or, Reductio ad Conceptum The Real Problem of Republicanism Categories, Not Classifications Infrapolitics and Intrapolitics Ordinary Language Politics A categorial Politics of Truth The Initial Approach: Aristotle . Ousia-Beingness-Presence Quantity Space Relation Positionality and...
Columbia University Press, 2019. — 255 p. Political Categories . Categorial Reduction; or, Reductio ad Conceptum The Real Problem of Republicanism Categories, Not Classifications Infrapolitics and Intrapolitics Ordinary Language Politics A categorial Politics of Truth The Initial Approach: Aristotle . Ousia-Beingness-Presence Quantity Space Relation Positionality and...
NY: Routledge, 2012. — 157 c. Divine Violence looks at the question of political theology and its connection to sovereignty. It argues that the practice of sovereignty reflects a Christian eschatology, one that proves very hard to overcome even by left thinkers, such as Arendt and Derrida, who are very critical of it. These authors fall into a trap described by Carl Schmitt...
Princeton University Press, 2010 - 134 p. This book examines an unlikely development in modern political philosophy: the adoption by a major national government of the ideas of a living political theorist. When Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero became Spain's opposition leader in 2000, he pledged that if his socialist party won power he would govern Spain in accordance with the...
Wrocław: Funna, 2001. — 237 s. Wstęp Zarys historii ruchu eurazjatyckiego Próba periodyzacji Psychologiczne podłoże eurazjatyzmu. Europa i ludzkość Nikołaja Trubieckiego Główne idee eurazjatyzmu Korzenie eurazjatyzmu Próby teoretycznego uzasadnienia eurazjatyzmu Tołsty — „Życie płynie, a eurazjatyzm wciąż żywy...” Zakończenie Bibliografia Indeks nazwisk
Princeton University Press, 2009 - 260 p. This anthology gathers Giuseppe Mazzini's most important essays on democracy, nation building, and international relations, including some that have never before been translated into English. These neglected writings remind us why Mazzini was one of the most influential political thinkers of the nineteenth century--and why there is...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998 — 286 p. — ISBN10: 0520208072; ISBN13: 978-0520208070. In this innovative volume, leading scholars examine the role of the body as a primary site of political signification in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. Some essays focus on the sacralization of the king's body through a gendered textual and visual rhetoric. Others...
Boston: Beacon Press, 2001. — 189 p. Raymond Aron called Merleau-Ponty "the most influential French philosopher of his generation." First published in France in 1947, Humanism and Terror was in part a response to Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, and in a larger sense a contribution to the political and moral debates of a postwar world suddenly divided into two ideological...
Boston: Beacon Press, 2001. — 189 p. Raymond Aron called Merleau-Ponty "the most influential French philosopher of his generation." First published in France in 1947, Humanism and Terror was in part a response to Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, and in a larger sense a contribution to the political and moral debates of a postwar world suddenly divided into two ideological...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 320 p. This book presents a non-cosmopolitan theory of global justice. In contrast to theories that seek to extend principles of social justice, such as equality of opportunity or resources, to the world as a whole, it argues that in a world made up of self-determining national communities, a different conception is needed. The book presents and...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 160 p. — (Very Short Introductions). This Very Short Introduction introduces readers to the key concepts of political philosophy: authority, democracy, freedom and its limits, justice, feminism, multiculturalism, and nationality. Accessibly written and assuming no previous knowledge of the subject, it encourages the reader to think clearly and...
Harvard University Press, 2001. - 352 p. Social justice has been the animating ideal of democratic governments throughout the twentieth century. Even those who oppose it recognize its potency. Yet the meaning of social justice remains obscure, and existing theories put forward by political philosophers to explain it have failed to capture the way people in general think about...
Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2000 — 240 p. — (Contradictions of Modernity, 11) — ISBN10: 0816631344; ISBN13: 978-0816631346. Well-known contributors offer an illuminating look at how modernity develops in non-Western contexts. Modernity has always laid claim to universal certainty-which meant assigning a different and lesser significance to anything deemed purely...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0231151896; ISBN13: 978-0231151894. Jared Diamond and other leading scholars have argued that the domestication of animals for food, labor, and tools of war has advanced the development of human society. But by comparing practices of animal exploitation for food and resources in different societies over time, David...
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. — 573 p. The state of mind following the recent war differs from that subsequent to the previous one. Then everyone supposed there were no ideological conflicts. The war had been fought to “save the world for democracy” and with the defeat of the Kaiser democracy supposedly had won. Only later did disillusionment appear, and even then its...
Tradução do inglês para português por Rafael Borges. Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) es sin duda el filósofo político inglés más importante del siglo XX. Conservador heterodoxo, Oakeshott se reivindica a sí mismo como el heredero de la tradición escéptica europea que va desde Montaigne a Hume. Su pensamiento político constituye una original defensa del conservadurismo. Un...
2nd ed. — Southern Illinois University Press, 1983. — (Alternatives). — ISBN10: 0809311135; ISBN13: 978-0809311132. Writers have created fictions of social perfection at least since Plato s "Republic. "Sir Thomas More gave this thread of intellectual history a name when he called his contribution to it "Utopia, "Greek for "no" "place."With each subsequent author cognizant of...
Stockholm: Stokholm University, 2015. — 208 p. — ISBN 978-91-7649-062-4 — (Stockholm Studies in Politics 161) The Austrian school of economics is an unorthodox approach to economics whose adherents have mostly been libertarian in their political outlook. This dissertation explores the connections between Austrian economic theory and libertarian political philosophy, and casts...
London: Routledge, 2007 — 218 p. — ISBN10: 07546567484; ISBN13: 978-0754656746. John Rawls's pioneering work of political philosophy A Theory of Justice has had far reaching influence on modern liberal political philosophy. Rawls' sprinciples of justice as fairness: the principle of liberty, the principle of fair equality of opportunity and the famous 'difference principle'...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 445 p. This book introduces readers to analytical interpretation of seminal writings and thinkers in the history of political thought, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Bible, Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli, Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, Marx, and Nietzsche. Chronologically arranged, each chapter in the book...
Beograd: Zagorac, 2006. — 446 s. Latinka Perović Uvod: Zoran Đinđić i srpsko društvo O ovom Zborniku Razlozi Izvori Život Razdoblje radikalne levice. Dolazak u Beograd Životno i intelektualno sazrevanje. Odlazak u Nemačku Između nauke i politike. Povratak u zemlju Postkomunistička stvarnost. Traganje za alternativama Promene. Polazište, ciljevi i sredstva Smrt Istorijska...
University of California Press, 1967. — 323 p. The Problem of Thomas Hobbes; Formalistic Views of Representation; 'Standing For' - Descriptive Representation; 'Standing For' - Symbolic Representation; Representing as 'Acting For' - The Analogies; The Mandate-Independence Controversy; Representing Unattached Interests - Burke; Representing People Who Have Interests - Liberalism;...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 294 p. The aim of the book is two-fold. First of all it is to provide a fair, complete and analytical account of the Neo-liberal conception of the role and function of the state in modern society. The second aim is to provide a critical assessment of some of the central elements of this conception. The book will look at the emphasis of...
Brushfire Publishing, 2014. — 101 p. — ISBN10: 0985728310. — ISBN13: 978-0985728311 The information contained in this book contradicts nearly everything you've been led to believe about democracy and "representative government." Based on the groundbreaking research of respected historian Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope 101 reveals an unimaginably devious political system,...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975. — 602 p. — ISBN: 0-691-07560-3 PART ONE. Particularity and Time The Conceptual Background The Problem and Its Modes Experience, Usage and Prudence The Problem and Its Modes Providence, Fortune and Virtue The Problem and Its Modes The Vita Activa and the Vivere Civile PART TWO. The Republic and its Fortune Florentine Political Thought...
London: Verso, 2014. — 284 p. — ISBN10: 1781681481; ISBN13: 978-1781681480. In State, Power, Socialism, the leading theorist of the state and European communism advances a vigorous critique of contemporary Marxist theories of the state. Arguing against a general theory of the state, Poulantzas identifies forms of class power crucial to socialist strategy that go beyond the...
Belknap Press, 2008. — 496 p. This last book by the late John Rawls, derived from written lectures and notes for his long-running course on modern political philosophy, offers readers an account of the liberal political tradition from a scholar viewed by many as the greatest contemporary exponent of the philosophy behind that tradition. Rawls's goal in the lectures was, he...
Leden, Boston: Brill, 2015 — 310 p. — ISBN10: 900421724X; ISBN13: 978-9004217249. "The Politics of Transindividuality" re-examines social relations and subjectivity through the concept of transindividuality. Transindividuality is understood as the mutual constitution of individuality and collectivity, and as such it intersects with politics and economics, philosophical...
Leiden: Brill, 2013. — 457 p. — ISBN: 978-90-04-27179-1; ISBN: 978-90-04-28099-1 — (Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume: 78) Basing his research on Gramsci’s theory of hegemony, Rehmann provides a comprehensive socio-analysis of Max Weber’s political and intellectual position in the ideological network of his time. Max Weber: Modernisation as Passive Revolution shows...
Stanford University Press, 2012 - 366 p. Hannah Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno, two of the most influential political philosophers and theorists of the twentieth century, were contemporaries with similar interests, backgrounds, and a shared experience of exile. Yet until now, no book has brought them together. In this first comparative study of their work, leading scholars...
New York: NYU Press, 2017. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 1479829684; ISBN13: 978-1479829682 "Where are you from?" The word cosmopolitan was first used as a way of evading exactly this question, when Diogenes the Cynic declared himself a “kosmo-polites,” or citizen of the world. Cosmopolitanism displays two impulses — on the one hand, a detachment from one’s place of origin, while on the...
Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2012. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 0822352095; ISBN13: 978-0822352099 For two decades Bruce Robbins has been a theorist of and participant in the movement for a "new cosmopolitanism," an appreciation of the varieties of multiple belonging that emerge as peoples and cultures interact. In Perpetual War he takes stock of this movement, rethinking his own...
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2016. — 312 p. How our everyday interactions as neighbors shape — and sometimes undermine — democracy "Love thy neighbor" is an impossible exhortation. Good neighbors greet us on the street and do small favors, but neighbors also startle us with sounds at night and unleash their demons on us, they monitor and reproach us, and betray...
Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. — 480 p. — ISBN10: 0271022183; ISBN13: 978-0271022185. The Nazis' use and misuse of Nietzsche is well known. The Superman, the "will to power," Nietzsche's equation of bourgeois democracy and decadence, and his denigration of reason were staples of Nazi propaganda. Communists also used and misused Nietzsche, but that fact...
London: Routledge, 2011. — 440 p. — ISBN10: 0754677990; ISBN13: 978-0754677994 — (Ashgate Research Companions) The study of Cosmopolitanism has been transformed in the last 20 years and the subject itself has become highly discussed across the social sciences and the humanities. The Ashgate Research Companion to Cosmopolitanism pursues distinct theoretical orientations and...
London, UK: Basic Books, 2018. — 98 p. — ISBN: 1541616782. Since the end of World War II, democracy's sweep across the globe seemed inexorable. Yet today, it seems radically imperiled, even in some of the world's most stable democracies. How bad could things get? In How Democracy Ends, David Runciman argues that we are trapped in outdated twentieth-century ideas of democratic...
Indiana University Press, 2009. — 704 p. Although he was born in Spain, George Santayana (1863–1952) became a uniquely American philosopher, critic, poet, and best-selling novelist. Along with his Harvard colleagues William James and Josiah Royce, he is best known as one of the founders of American pragmatism and recognized for his insights into the theory of knowledge,...
Dover, 1980. — 419 p. The Life of Reason, subtitled "the Phases of Human Progress", is a book published in five volumes from 1905 to 1906, by Spanish-born American philosopher George Santayana (1863-1952). It consists of Reason in Common Sense, Reason in Society, Reason in Religion, Reason in Art, and Reason in Science. The work is considered to be the most complete expression...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 160 p. — (Very Short Introductions). There are many debates about what constitutes a utopia. Are utopias benign or dangerous? Is the idea of utopianism essential to Christianity or heretical? What is the relationship between utopia and ideology? In this Very Short Introduction, Lyman Sargent, one of the leading scholars in the field of utopian...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 284 p. These essays in political philosophy by T. M. Scanlon, written between 1969 and 1999, examine the standards by which social and political institutions should be justified and appraised. Scanlon explains howthe powers of just institutions are limited by rights such as freedom of expression, and considers why these limits should be...
Monographie, Berlin, Duncker und Humblot, 1932, 40S. Carl Schmitt: Der Begriff des Politischen. Der Begriff des Staates setzt den Begriff des Politischen voraus. Staat ist nach dem heutigen Sprachgebrauch der politische Status eines in territorialer Geschlossenheit organisierten Volkes. Damit ist nur eine erste Umschreibung, keine Begriffsbestimmung des Staates gegeben. Eine...
Bloomsbury, 2015. — 732 p. — ISBN 978-1 — -4081-8735-7. What is the Left? Resentment in Britain: Hobsbawm and Thompson. Disdain in America: Galbraith and Dworkin. Liberation in France: Sartre and Foucault. Tedium in Germany: Downhill to Habermas. Nonsense in Paris: Althusser, Lacan, and Deleuze. Culture Wars Worldwide: The New Left from Gramsci to Said. The Kraken Wakes: Badiou...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 337 p. In this book, Daniel Shapiro argues that the dominant positions in contemporary political philosophy – egalitarianism, positive-rights theory, communitarianism, and many forms of liberalism – should converge in a rejection of central welfare-state institutions. He examines how major welfare institutions, such as government-financed and...
Edinburgh University Press, 2010. — 252 p. In Zizek and Politics, Geoff Boucher and Matthew Sharpe go beyond standard introductions to spell out a new approach to reading Zizek, one that can be highly critical as well as deeply appreciative. They show that Zizek has a raft of fundamental positions that enable his theoretical positions to be put to work on practical problems....
Jossey-Bass, 2010. — 419 p. — ISBN10: 0470381760. — ISBN13: 978-0470381762 While much attention has been given to inclusion, diversity, and multiculturalism within adult education, The Handbook of Race and Adult Education is the first comprehensive work to engage in a dialogue specifically about race and racism and the effect these factors have on the marginalization or...
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. — 168 p. — ISBN10: 0472096737; ISBN13: 978-0472096732. The Subject and Other Subjects theorizes the differences among ethical, aesthetic, and political conceptions of identity. When a person is called beautiful, why does it strike us as an objectification? Is a person whom we consider to be an exemplary person still a person, and...
Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2003 — 256 p. — ISBN10: 0872204316; ISBN13: 978-0872204317. Edited, with an introduction and translation of "What Is the Third Estate?" by Michael Sonenscher. The abbe Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes (1748-1836) distinguished himself as the chief theoretician of the French Revolution--and as a revolutionary constitutional and social...
Oxford University Press, 1981. — 69 p. — (Very Short Introductions.) Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil that good may come of it. Offering the first brief introduction to Machiavelli's thought to appear in twenty-five years, Skinner focuses on his three major works, The Prince, Discourses, and The History of Florence. He discusses the...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 144 p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN: 978-0-198837-57-7. Niccolo Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil so that good may come of it, and his name has been a byword ever since for duplicity and immorality. Is his sinister reputation deserved? In answering this question Quentin Skinner traces the course of...
In association with Theory, Culture & Society. — London: SAGE Publications, 2013. — 152 p. — ISBN10: 1849200645; ISBN13: 978-1849200646 Cosmopolitanism: Uses of the Idea offers an illuminating and dynamic account of an often confusing and widespread concept. Bringing together both historical and contemporary approaches to cosmopolitanism, as well as recognizing its...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1994. — 154 p. — ISBN10: 0333539818; ISBN13: 978-0333539811 — (Themes in Comparative Religion) This fascinating book considers systems of belief and practice which are not religions in the full-blown sense, but which nevertheless affect human life in ways similar to the role played by the recognised religions. Professor Smith's thorough account...
Oxford University Press, 2015 - 336 p. This is the inaugural volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. Since its revival in the 1970s political philosophy has been a vibrant field in philosophy, one that intersects with jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political science departments, and just war theory. OSPP aims to publish some of the best...
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2013. — 415 p. Winner of the 2014 Whitfield Prize from the Royal Historical Society for the best first book on British or Irish historyIn the reign of James II, minority groups from across the religious spectrum, led by the Quaker William Penn, rallied together under the Catholic King James in an effort to bring religious...
Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1990. — 136 p. — ISBN-10: 0889209782; ISBN-13: 978-0889209787 Colin Starnes radical interpretation of the long-recognized affinity of Thomas More’s Utopia and Plato’s Republic confirms the intrinsic links between the two works. Through commentary on More’s own introduction to Book I, the author shows the Republic is everywhere...
This edition was printed several times by several publishers in New York and London up to 1931. Stirner's The Ego and its Own (1844) is striking in both style and content, attacking Feuerbach, Moses Hess and others to sound the death-knell of Left Hegelianism. The work also constitutes an enduring critique of liberalism and socialism from the perspective of an extreme eccentric...
Köln und Opladen: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Gmbh., 1963. — 562 S. — ISBN: 978-3-663-06646-0; ISBN: 978-3-663-07559-2. Einleitung Politischer Messianismus Die Religion der Revolution und die totalitäre Demokratie Kollektivismus des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts und Individualismus des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts - Gegensatz oder Identität? Der Bruch in der historischen Kontinuität...
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1967. — 220 p. A book should speak so clearly for itself that there should be no need for a Foreword to explain the author's intentions or to apologize for his failures. Yet so great is the fear of being misunderstood and so intense the anxiety to forestall criticism for not having done what one had not thought of doing that few authors...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 236 p. — ISBN10: 0521542324; ISBN13: 978-0521542326 — (Contemporary Political Theory) Kok-Chor Tan argues that the cosmopolitan idea of global justice may be understood in such a way that it can accept nationalist and patriotic commitments. Tan believes that cosmopolitan justice need not deny the worth of the ordinary...
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016. — 200 p. — ISBN10: 1472579178, 147257916X Bertolt Brecht's Me-ti, which remained unpublished in his own lifetime, now appears for the first time in English. Me-ti counselled against 'constructing too complete images of the world'. For this work of fragments and episodes, Brecht accumulated anecdotes, poems, personal stories and assessments of...
Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. — 232 p. — (Public Planet Books) — ISBN: 978-0822332930 One of the most influential philosophers in the English-speaking world, Charles Taylor is internationally renowned for his contributions to political and moral theory, particularly to debates about identity formation, multiculturalism, secularism, and modernity. In Modern Social...
London: Routledge, 2006. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 0415586496; ISBN13: 978-0415586498 — (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought) This book combines philosophical, intellectual-historical and political-theoretical methodologies to provide a new synoptic reading of the history of German political philosophy. Incorporating chapters on the political ideas of Luther and Zwingli,...
New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. — 298 p. This is Political Philosophyis an accessible and well-balanced introduction to the main issues in political philosophy written by an author team from the fields of both philosophy and politics. This text connects issues at the core of political philosophy with current, live debates in policy, politics, and law and addresses different...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — xvi, 355 p. — (Ideas in Context). — ISBN13: 978-0-511-46346-4. These two ambitious volumes from one of the world's most celebrated political philosophers present a new kind of political and legal theory that James Tully calls a public philosophy, and a complementary new way of thinking about active citizenship, called civic freedom. Professor...
Dordrecht: Springer, 2010. — 230 p. — ISBN10: 9048187036; ISBN13: 978-9048187034 — (Studies in Global Justice. Book 6) Cosmopolitanism is an emerging theme in studies of global justice and provides a meeting point between theorists of international law, political science, political philosophy, applied ethics, economics, development studies, and international relations. It...
London: Routledge, 2015 — 248 p. — ISBN10: 0415703727; ISBN13: 978-0415703727. The idea that socialism could be established in a single country was adopted as an official doctrine by the Soviet Union in 1925, Stalin and Bukharin being the main formulators of the policy. Before this there had been much debate as to whether the only way to secure socialism would be as a result of...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010. — 208 p. On Žižek's Dialectics explores the theoretical and practical potential of the psychoanalytic method deployed by Slavoj Žižek by investigating its epistemological implications within our contemporary capitalist universe. The book begins by evaluating Zizek's account of the capitalist ideology of enjoyment through the analysis of Lacan's...
Springer, 2019. — 174 p. — (Law and Philosophy Library 132). — ISBN: 978-3-030-30003-6. The notion of sovereignty plays an important part in various areas of law, such as constitutional law and international public law. Though the concept of sovereignty as applied in constitutional law differs from that used in international public law, there is no true consensus on the meaning...
Continuum, 2011. - 208 p. ISBN10: 1441173110 Informed by the pragmatism of John Dewey, this book argues the practical benefits for public policy of a rigorous experimentalist approach to applying moral theory. Extended description: In Morality, Leadership and Public Policy, Eric Weber argues for an experimentalist approach to moral theory in addressing practical problems in...
Edinburgh University Press, 2017. — 272 p. How modern philosophers use and perpetuate myths about prehistory The state of nature, the origin of property, the origin of government, the primordial nature of inequality and war - why do political philosophers talk so much about the Stone Age? And are they talking about a Stone Age that really happened, or is it just a convenient...
New York University Press, 2008. — 463 p. The essays collected here, in this forty-eighth volume of “Nomos”, emerged from the annual meeting of the American Society of Political and Legal Philosophy (ASPLP) in Atlanta on January 2 and 3 of 2004, which was held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools. Our topic, “Toleration and Its...
Chicago: Beacon Press, 1997. — 123 p. — ISBN10: 0807015598; ISBN13: 978-0807015599. Beyond Tolerance. Robert Paul Wolff Tolerance and the Scientific Outlook. Barrington Moore, Jr. Repressive Tolerance. Herbert Marcuse
Columbia University Press, 2012. — 144 p. "Is it meaningful to call oneself a democrat? And if so, how do you interpret the word?" In responding to this question, eight iconoclastic thinkers prove the rich potential of democracy, along with its critical weaknesses, and reconceive the practice to accommodate new political and cultural realities. Giorgio Agamben traces the tense...
Verso, 2007. — 199 p. These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions, and their clarion calls to insurrection remain some of the most stirring of all time. Drawing on a dizzying array of references from contemporary culture and politics, Zizek's firecracker commentary reaches unsettling conclusions about the place of Mao's thought in the revolutionary canon.
In his foreword to Adorno's In Search of Wagner ii Slavoj Žižek intimates that Wagner contains a revolutionary potential that has not been spotted or fully brought out yet and that now, "after the exhaustion of the critical-historicist and aestheticist paradigms" (Žižek 2009a: xxvii), is the right, decisive time. Žižek sees the new phase as ideologico-critical, or, better yet,...
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