Political

In Rawls, Dewey, and Constructivism, Eric Weber examines and critiques John Rawls' epistemology and the unresolved tension - inherited from Kant - between Representationalism and Constructivism in Rawls' work. Weber argues that, despite Rawls' claims to...

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This book states that the political systems of China, Vietnam, Cuba and other socialist countries are showing distinct maturity and ability to deal effectively with challenges - the most recent being the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to understand how they...

Since the latest crisis of capitalism broke out in 2008, Marx has been back in fashion, and sometimes it seems that his ideas have never been as topical, or as commanding of respect and interest, as they are today. This edited collection arises from one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781662903519Author Marty StoneFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Gatekeeper PressPublisher Gatekeeper PressWeight(grams) 127g

This striking interpretation of Rancière’s uncompromising view of emancipation draws on his Maoist commitments and invariably rational and Kantian-moralist basis. Tracing the logic of abstract and atemporal space in all of Rancière’s work, it stands in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621371373Author Anthony NapoleonFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Virtualbookworm.com PublishingPublisher Virtualbookworm.com PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956806014Author Lantz McClainFormat PaperbackPage Count 562Imprint Indie Pub PressPublisher Indie Pub PressWeight(grams) 744g

This book argues that punishment's function is to communicate a message about an offenders' wrongdoing to society at large. It discusses both 'paradigmatic' cases of punishment, where a state punishes its own citizens, and non-paradigmatic cases such as...

This book charts and traces state-mandated or state-encouraged "patriotic" histories that have recently emerged in many places around the globe. Such "patriotic" histories can revolve around both affirmative interpretations of the past and celebration of...

Is it allowable for your government, or anyone else, to influence or coerce you 'for your own sake'? This is a question about paternalism, or interference with a person's liberty or autonomy with the intention of promoting their good or averting harm,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783031181863Author Vincenzo MeleFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Palgrave MacMillanPublisher Palgrave MacMillanWeight(grams) 485g

Raimo Tuomela, late Professor Emeritus at the Centre for Philosophy of Social Sciences (TINT), University of Helsinki, is widely regarded as one of the most important philosophers of our time. He published extensively on various topics within social...

This book brings together philosophical approaches to explore the relation of recognition and poverty. This volume examines how critical theories of recognition can be utilized to enhance our understanding, evaluation and critique of poverty and social...

The book examines the meaning of justice in African political philosophy, building on the use-theoretical approach. Currently, most of the philosophical works in this context advocate for a communal interpretation of the meaning of justice, such as the...

Since the 1960s 'New Left' emancipatory movements have claimed that women, ethnic minorities, gays and lesbians, and other groups are oppressed. Some liberal theorists have treated their demands for equality as matters of toleration, of securing by law...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647532895Author Dennis MeadowsFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Urlink Print & Media, LLCPublisher Urlink Print & Media, LLCWeight(grams) 68g

While Adorno has tended to be read as a critic of the administered world and the consumer industry rather than a Marxist, Adorno and Marx establishes Adorno's negative dialectics as fundamental for understanding Marx's critique of political economy. This...

This volume offers novel and provocative insights into vulnerability and exclusion, two concepts crucial for the understanding of contemporary political agency. In twelve critical essays, the contributors explore the dense theoretical content, complex...

Among the theses that for centuries have ensured Niccolo Machiavelli an ambiguous fame, a special place goes to his extremely positive opinion of social conflicts, and, more in particular, to the claim that in ancient Rome 'the disunion between the plebs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438512754Author Bertrand RussellFormat PaperbackImprint Book JunglePublisher Book JungleWeight(grams) 132g

A number of prominent moral philosophers and political theorists have recently called for a recovery of love. But what do we mean when we speak of love today? Love's Enlightenment examines four key conceptions of other-directedness that transformed the...

This is an in-depth analysis of dramatization as method in the work of Deleuze and Guattari. It provides an account of the value of this method for the study of the political with particular emphasis on the relationship between politics and art.Book...

This book argues that when visual jokes are harmful, they harm in a specific way: a subject’s personhood is revoked in a way that differs both in kind and degree depending on whether that person is depicted or described. Such revocation can occur in...

Alessandro Ferrara explains what he terms 'the democratic horizon' - the idea that democracy is no longer simply one form of government among others, but is instead almost universally regarded as the only legitimate form of government, the horizon to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774410721Author PlatoFormat HardbackPage Count 660Imprint Binker NorthPublisher Binker NorthWeight(grams) 152g

This book offers a new and compelling account of distributive justice and its relation to choice. Unlike luck egalitarians, who treat unchosen differences in people's circumstances as sources of unjust inequality to be overcome, Sher views such...

Written by prominent scholars of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's philosophy, this collection celebrates the 300th anniversary of Rousseau's birth and the 250th anniversary of the publication of Emile. The depth and systematic character of Rousseau's thought was...

After more than a decade teaching ancient Greek history and philosophy at University College, Oxford, British philosopher and political theorist Bernard Bosanquet (1848-1923) resigned from his post to spend more time writing. He was particularly...

This book presents a Marx that is in many ways different from the one popularized by the dominant currents of twentieth-century Marxism. The dual aim of this edited volume is to contribute to a new critical discussion of some of the classical themes of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789769678781Author Daurius FigueiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Daurius FigueiraPublisher Daurius FigueiraWeight(grams) 327g

This new edition reintroduces on the central texts of late nineteenth-century political thought. In addition to the fourth and final edition of the Philosophical Theory of the State, the editors have added a comprehensive selection of Bosanquet's most...

Central European dissidents gained global fame by serving as key protagonists in the collapse of communism in 1989. As writers, philosophers, and artists, they should be remembered for their ideas as much as for their political actions. This book takes...

Liberal candidates, scholars, and activists mainly promote pragmatism rather than large and powerful narratives - which may be called 'alpha stories' for their commanding presence over time. Alternatively, conservative counterparts to such liberals tend...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781399972Author VoltaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Benediction BooksPublisher Benediction BooksWeight(grams) 136g

Rethinking the philosophical grounds of police power, Melayna Lamb argues that traditional ideas of sovereignty and the law need to be radically re-evaluated. In placing police at the centre of analysis this book demonstrates the manner in which police...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783952441381Author Samuel Widmer NicoletFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Verlag Basic EditionsPublisher Verlag Basic EditionsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626540859Author John W GardnerFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams) 408g

This book presents a panoramic and extensive exploration of Chinese political philosophy, examining key political problems of the past, and the thinkers who addressed them. As the reader will discover, China’s traditional political philosophy is one with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845493745Author John WakelinFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint arima publishingPublisher arima publishingWeight(grams) 308g