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...
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...
Edizione di riferimento: in Tutte le opere, a cura di Mario Martelli. — Firenze: Sansoni, 1971. — 198 p. In quest'opera Machiavelli riprende i temi militari che gli stavano a cuore. Dell'arte della guerra è diviso in sette libri preceduti da un proemio e composti da una serie di dialoghi tra Cosimo Rucellai, un amico di Machiavelli morto in giovane età, e Fabrizio Colonna, con...
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...
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...
Cambridge, Massachussets: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. — 468 p. — ISBN: 978-0-674-0361-0. Sen's book is principally a critique and revision of John Rawls' basic ideas in A Theory of Justice. He wrote the book in 2009. Sen drew extensively upon Rawl's work, mostly composed while the former was a Professor in India. In this book, Sen makes a radical break...
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...
Published in: European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy. — 2013. — Vol.2. — P. 90-104. This article describes a generally trend in American thought that is skeptical of social and political institutions. This trend can be described as a sort of philosophical anarchism. It develops out of pragmatist and skeptical criticism of absolutism in both philosophical and...
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...
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...
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...
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, 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...
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...
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...
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...