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Descent of the Dialectic - Phronetic Criticism in an Age of Nihilism

This book reconstructs the concept and practice of dialectics as a means of grounding a critical theory of society. At the center of this...

Secular Religions - The Key Concepts

Secular Religions: The Key Concepts provides a concise guide to those ideologies, worldviews, and social, political, economic, and cultur...

The Far-Right in World Politics

This book addresses the reasons why the contemporary far-right has gained political resonance in a variety of states across both the Glob...

Democratic Backsliding in Post-Mubarak Egypt

Arshad examines the phenomenon of 'democratic backsliding' in post-2011 Egypt. Capturing a critical juncture in Egyptian politics, this b...

How Much Religion is Good for Us? - If Religion Were a Game

This provocative book examines parallels between play and religion from a philosophical, theological, and anthropological perspective. In...

Pink Tides, Right Turns in Latin America

This book presents case studies around issues of national development, right wing populism and use of social media, left wing authoritari...

Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as Refuge

How do we, as individuals, accommodate a pessimistic and misanthropic view of the world? If the human condition is impossible to ameliora...

People, Power, Change - Organizing for Democratic Renewal

Marshall Ganz is one of the world's leading authorities on democratic organizing, and this book is the culmination of his decades of teac...

Transversal Democracy Projection in the Mediterranean - A De-Centred Practice Analysis

This book expands on the existing literature on the international dimension of democratization by introducing the concept of democracy pr...

Culinary Man and the Kitchen Brigade - Normative Subjectivity in Western Fine Dining Traditions

offers an exploration of the field of normative subjectivity circulated within western fine dining traditions, presenting a theoretical a...

The Feminist Legislation Project - Rewriting Laws for Gender-Based Justice

In this book, leading law academics along with lawyers, activists and others demonstrate what legislation could look like if its concern ...

What Are Children For? - On Ambivalence and Choice

Having children is one of the biggest decisions you'll make in your life. Increasingly, we aren't making it at all. Across the developed ...

Civil Society - Ideas, Interpretations, Transgressions

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

Authoritarian Populism and the Challenges for News Journalism - A Discourse Approach

Authoritarian Populism and the Challenges for News Journalism: A Discourse Approach is a cutting-edge study of the practices of news jour...

Liberty, Governance and Resistance - Competing Discourses in John Locke's Political Philosophy

John Locke is widely perceived as a foundational figure within the liberal tradition. This book investigates the competing purposes that ...

From 'Carbon Democracy' to 'Climate Democracy'?

This book examines these requirements. It debates the political constituencies, agendas and institutions that are emerging from climate c...

John Dewey and Contemporary Challenges to Democratic Education

This volume reconsiders pragmatist conceptions of democratic education, especially John Dewey's. It addresses what democratic education c...

Perspectives on Spiritual Intelligence

The topic of intelligence involves questions that cut deep into ultimate concerns and human identity, and the study of intelligence is id...

Deleuze's Conception of Philosophy - Creation of Concepts

Migration, Cosmopolitanism and Civil Society - Fostering Cultural Pluralism through Citizenship Politics

This book discusses the ways civil society initiatives open communities to newcomers and why, how,and under what circumstances some are m...

The Greatest of All Plagues - How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx

"Economic inequality is one of the most daunting challenges of our time, with public debate often turning to questions of whether it is a...

Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal

Now in its 12th edition, Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal continues the tradition of clear, concise and comprehensive explan...

The Academic Trumpists - Radicals Against Liberal Diversity

The Academic Trumpists addresses a gap in the research literature by looking at the impact of Trumpism on conservative faculty and will a...

Divine Revelation and the Sciences - Essays in the History and Philosophy of Revelation

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the relationship between the sciences and the concept of divine revelation. It includes a hist...

The Evolution of Socialist Feminism from Eleanor Marx to AOC

The Evolution of Socialist Feminism from Eleanor Marx to AOC traces the socialist feminism as it has played out in the socialist movement...

Ideals and Ideologies - A Reader

Presenting key selections from an array of original sources and a wide range of ideological visions, Ideals and Ideologies puts students ...

Religious Belief and the Will

Can we ever achieve belief by a direct act of will? If it will help us to be happier, should we make ourselves believe propositions which...

Activated Citizenship - The Transformative Power of Citizens' Assemblies

To counter pervasive levels of citizen disengagement from political institutions, this book examines democratic innovations that meaningf...

Religion, Death and the Senses

"The uniqueness of this collection lies in two areas, firstly its deep engagement with a range of physical and socio-cultural sensual res...

Hortense J. Spillers - Subject, Abject, and Insurgent in Black Radical Thought

This book anchors literary critic Hortense J. Spillers' thought into conceptual forms of subject, abject, and insurgent, distilling each ...

Contemporary Capitalism and Mental Health - Rhythms of Everyday Life

What is the relationship between contemporary capitalism and mental health?

Surveillance Law, Data Retention and Human Rights - A Risk to Democracy

This book analyses the compatibility of data retention in the UK with the European Convention on Human Rights. This is explored through a...

Divine Presence as Activity and the Incarnation - Revisiting Chalcedonian Christology

This book offers an original perspective on the doctrine of incarnation through a discussion of divine presence and action, arguing for t...

Pure Excess - Capitalism and the Commodity

Todd McGowan forges a new theory of capitalism as a system based on the production of more than what we need: pure excess.

Progress in Theology - Does the Queen of the Sciences Advance?

This volume explores the intriguing relationship between theology, science and the ideal of progress from a variety of perspectives.

Decolonial Pluriversalism

This book explores how decolonial epistemologies are concretely translated in thinking and theorizing about cultural and political practi...

Populism, Artificial Intelligence and Law - A New Understanding of the Dynamics of the Present

This book argues that the current analysis of anti-Constitutional populism is focused too narrowly and that, due to an obscured complex o...

On Freedom

A brilliant exploration of freedom - what it is, how it's been misunderstood, and why it's our only chance for survival - by the acclaime...

Antinomy and Symbol: Pavel Florensky's Philosophy of Discontinuity

This book is the first comprehensive English-language study to examine the entire philosophical work of the Russian philosopher, theologi...

Brill's Companion to the Legacy of Greek Political Thought

This volume includes a range of disciplinary responses to issues surrounding the legacy of Greek political thought, demonstrating the way...

Alternative Conceptions of the Spiritual - Polytheism, Animism, and More in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion

Contemporary analytic philosophy of religion and philosophical theology are known for being focused on issues pertaining specifically to ...

Recovering Economic and Environmental Traditions in Islamic World

Recovering Economic and Environmental Philosophies in the Muslim World offers interdisciplinary approaches to environmental and economic ...

Art as Communication - Aesthetics, Evolution, and Signaling

Questions surrounding the nature of artistic communication are often approached from one angle, such as linguistics, art theory, evolutio...

An Introduction to Modern Political Thought - Machiavelli to Foucault

This book is an excellent critical introduction to modern political thought. It studies the ideas and contributions of sixteen major poli...

Lawless Zones, Rightless Subjects - Migration, Asylum, and Shifting Borders

Focusing on the hot-button issues of migration and sovereignty, this volume highlights the radical reconfiguration of territory, rights, ...

The Spirit of Chinese Confucianism

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the spirit of Chinese Confucianism, which is usually regarded as one of the most important...

New Approaches to Social Contract Theory - Liberty, Equality, Diversity, and the Open Society

This book discusses new directions in social contract theory. While social contract theory has a long history in moral and political phil...

Hannah Arendt and Cosmopolitanism

Hannah Arendt and Cosmopolitanism presents the first comprehensive study of Hannah Arendt's cosmopolitanism. Challenging the common misco...

The Human as the Other - Towards an Inclusive Philosophical Anthropology

Philosophical anthropology investigates what makes us human, but it has produced accounts that exclude some members of our species. It re...

Shrimad Bhagavad Gita

The Right to Oblivion - Privacy and the Good Life

Constant digital surveillance has inspired a heated but also limited privacy debate. Lowry Pressly looks beyond the narrow discourse of r...

Citizen Rights, Migrant Rights, and Civic Stratification

This book addresses the concept of civic stratification and examines its contemporary relevance for analysis and understanding of the fun...

An Instrumentalist Theory of Political Legitimacy

What justifies political power? Most philosophers argue that consent or democracy are important, in other words, it matters how power is ...

Alienation and Identity in Romantic Love

This book explores the relationship between romantic love and personal identity by examining work in both areas by philosophers in the co...

The Marginal Self - An Existential Inquiry Into Narcissism

In The Marginal Self: An Existential Inquiry into Narcissism drawing from existential philosophy, psychiatry and literature, René J. Mull...

For the People? - Democratic Representation in America

Many observers of American politics believe that representative government, particularly in the Congress, is failing. This book examines ...

Han Feizi, a Complete Translation - The Art of Statecraft in Early China

This translation introduces the reader to Han Feizi, one of the masterpieces of early Chinese political thought. Deplored for its cynicis...

Same Difference - Feminism and Sexual Difference

Are women the same as or different from men? Should women seek 'equality' with men or admit their 'difference'? First published in 1990, ...

Plotinus on What We Think We Are

This book concerns Plotinus and his notice on how our ordinary experience of identity conflicts with what the Platonic tradition claims w...

Earthborn Democracy - A Political Theory of Entangled Life

This book offers a new vision of ecological and participatory democratic life for a time of crisis, allying visionary political theory wi...