Social & political philosophy books

This book explores the discourses, attitudes, and behaviours of professional politicians and ordinary citizens alike...  Read More >>

This book provides the definitive account of the making of the 1942 Beveridge Report and its influence on wartime...  Read More >>

This book shows how a multidisciplinary approach combining conceptual and methodological tools from political history...  Read More >>

This book reveals an ongoing hegemonic struggle over the representation of Europe among ‘many Europes’ involving...  Read More >>

Contributors to the volume discuss, inter alia, left Kantianism in historical context, the theological origins of...  Read More >>

Real Recognition investigates the complexities of literary and social recognition to put a fresh, cross-disciplinary...  Read More >>

I argue for the importance of Günter Grass as a political thinker in addition to his status as a novelist and public...  Read More >>

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Considering Butler’s “tragic trilogy”—a set of interventions on Sophocles’ Antigone, Euripides’ Bacchae, and Aeschylus’s...  Read More >>

Frowe and Matravers argue that the value of protecting heritage in war needs to be balanced against the need to...  Read More >>

Jessica Brown examines groups both as epistemic and as moral agents, offering original accounts of group evidence,...  Read More >>

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In mid-1947, the authoritarian Right was at its absolute nadir, crushed in the pincers of liberal democracy and...  Read More >>

Deep polarization in our society prevents us from working collaboratively to solve the problems we face. The Solutionary...  Read More >>

Many contemporary political thinkers are gripped by the belief that their task is to develop an ideal theory of...  Read More >>

This book analyses the processes of commodification and decommodification which have wrought changes in Polish society...  Read More >>

The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Money surveys the role of money in the history of ideas. The volume is...  Read More >>

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Eliza Fowler Haywood (c. 1693-1756) was a prolific writer, widely connected actress and critical philosopher. In...  Read More >>

This book uses the concept of dignity as a source of light to illuminate the fundamental critique of liberal social...  Read More >>

The book constructs a new model for attaining power, challenging the traditional Machiavellian approach to construct...  Read More >>