Social & political philosophy books

Shifting from the idea that our current ‘environmental question’ arises from the history of metaphysics and its...  Read More >>

This analysis of the Yugoslav democratization process explains the variation of the regime outcome within a structuralist...  Read More >>

This book analyses the compatibility of data retention in the UK with the European Convention on Human Rights. This...  Read More >>

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Andrzej Zulawski (1940–2016) was born in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine) and educated in Paris. From 1971 to 2015...  Read More >>

This collection of philosophical essays demonstrates that contemporary Western societies and cultures are marked...  Read More >>

Violence, Nonviolence, and Moral Worth explores commonly perceived limitations to living nonviolently. Centering...  Read More >>

A look at war ethics in the age of drones and artificial intelligence. Can there be purely defensive or moral...  Read More >>

A Political Theology of the Bureaucratic State uses political theology to show the growing power of the bureaucratic...  Read More >>

An outstanding and engaging introduction to a central figure in twentieth-century radical thought, Marcuse is essential...  Read More >>

The philosophy of human rights has stalled over a debate between orthodox theorists committed to a moral understanding...  Read More >>

Empowering Affected Interests brings together a group of leading contemporary democratic theorists and philosophers...  Read More >>

This book presents a systematic account of the relationship between political parties and deliberative democracy....  Read More >>

Rorty, Public Reason, and Modernity's Crisis of Critique uses the work of Richard Rorty to discuss modernity’s crisis...  Read More >>

Critical theory has many faces; its complexities and nuances present a challenge to those seeking to engage with...  Read More >>

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Martin Heidegger, Gilbert Simondon, and Bernard Stiegler each argued in their own way that, ever since its inception...  Read More >>

In an era of cancel culture, digital identities and thriving conversation surrounding parasocial relationships,...  Read More >>

An outstanding and engaging introduction to a central figure in twentieth-century radical thought, Marcuse is essential...  Read More >>

This book draws on a range of theoretical frameworks to challenge the limited conception of subjectivity upon which...  Read More >>

This is one of the few critical examinations of the war on the Second World War’s Eastern Front that includes both...  Read More >>

Empowering Affected Interests brings together a group of leading contemporary democratic theorists and philosophers...  Read More >>

Classical liberalism promised to overthrow the old aristocracy, creating an order in which individuals could create...  Read More >>

This volume examines the state of democracy in South Asia after the first two decades of the millennium. It shows...  Read More >>

Our understanding of what it means to be a parent is shaped by our biological, social, legal, and moral concepts...  Read More >>