Social & politisk filosofi

SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'The most important book of the year' Daily MailThe brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world's foremost political writers'The anti-Western revisionists have been out in force in recent years. It is...

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Varför demokrati? Svaren på frågan ter sig allt mer svävande. Färre tycks ha tilltro demokratins institutioner och diktaturen kallar sig demokratisk. Vi lever i postsanningens tid. I "Därför demokrati" argumenterar Åsa Wikforss för kunskapens cent...

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Martin Heidegger, Carl Schmitt och Ernst Jünger tillhörde den liberala demokratins mest skarpsinniga kritiker, kom alla att på ett eller annat sätt att ansluta sig till nazismen och har var och en satt 1900- och 2000-talets tänkande i rörelse. Sva...

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In these two important lectures, distinguished political philosopher Seyla Benhabib argues that since the UN Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, we have entered a phase of global civil society which is governed by cosmopolitan norms of universal ...

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Populismens segertåg, global avdemokratisering, pandemi, krig i Europa och snabba klimatförändringar. Oroliga tider står för dörren. »Filosofiska klarlägganden i en grumlig tid« är ett urval av filosofen Åsa Wikforss kulturartiklar och debattexter...

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In this hugely influential book, Laclau and Mouffe examine the workings of hegemony and contemporary social struggles, and their significance for democratic theory. With the emergence of new social and political identities, and the frequent attack...

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Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author o...

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År 1972 utkom en bok med titeln "Från Platon till Lenin: de politiska idéernas historia" skriven av idéhistorikern Sven-Eric Liedman, sedermera känd professor och författare till uppmärksammade böcker som "I skuggan av framtiden: modernitetens idé...

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A bold vision of liberal humanism for navigating today's complex world of growing identity politics and rising nationalismCollective identities such as race, nationality, religion, gender, and sexuality clamor for recognition and respect, sometime...

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The World As I See It reveals the idealistic, spiritual, and witty side of this great intellectual. Including letters, speeches, articles, and essays written before 1935, this collection offers a complete portrait of Einstein as a humanitarian and...

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In this urgent response to violence, racism and increasingly aggressive methods of coercion, Judith Butler explores the media's portrayal of armed conflict, a process integral to how the West prosecutes its wars. In doing so, she calls for a recon...

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This book provides balanced, critical, and comprehensive coverage of the theories and realities of autocratization and democratization. It sketches developments in the conceptions of democracy, discusses how to distinguish between different forms ...

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The powerful, beautiful and chilling sequel to the bestselling Straw Dogs John Gray draws on an extraordinary array of memoirs, poems, fiction and philosophy to make us re-imagine our place in the world. Writers as varied as Ballard, Borges, Freud...

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If this life is all there is, what should we do with it? Join Swedish philosopher Martin Hagglund on an original inquiry into the deepest questions of existence, beginning with a radical declaration: 'What I do and what I love can matter to me onl...

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Metapolitics, Algorithms and Violence argues that we need a more finegrained approach to understand contemporary far-right violence - an approach that takes language and cultural production in a digital economy seriously. This book underlines the ...

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When the State Meets the Street probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats: the frontline social and welfare workers, police officers, and educators who represent government's human face to ordinary citizens. Too often dismissed as...

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An Instant Sunday Times BestsellerOne of the most anticipated books of 2024 according to The Times, Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, The Independent, The Scotsman, Time and moreShouldn't we know what we're arguing about?From one of the mo...

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The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere represents a rare opportunity to experience a diverse group of preeminent philosophers confronting one pervasive contemporary concern: what role does or should religion play in our public lives? Reflectin...

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Amoralisk, listig, informativ och skoningslös. Den här bästsäljande boken är manualen för alla som är intresserade av att observera, försvara sig mot eller till och med få makt. De 48 lagarna är baserade på erfarenheter och verk från män och kvinn...

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An analysis of the ways in which capitalism has presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system.

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Why does democracy-as a word and as an idea-loom so large in the political imagination, though it has so often been misused and misunderstood? Setting the People Free starts by tracing the roots of democracy from an improvised remedy for a local G...

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Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen tackles all the major questions concerning luck egalitarianism, providing deep, penetrating and original discussion of recent academic discourses on distributive justice as well as responses to some of the main objections ...

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What is a human right? How can we tell whether a proposed human right really is one? How do we establish the content of particular human rights, and how do we resolve conflicts between them? These are pressing questions for philosophers, political...

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Chantal Mouffe's writings have been innovatory with respect to democratic theory, Marxism and feminism. Her work derives from, and has always been engaged with, contemporary political events and intellectual debates. This sense of conflict informs...

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This book introduces the reader to the political theories of the American philosopher John Rawls. Rawls was arguably the most important political philosopher of the twentieth century. Barely a word of political philosophy is written today that is ...

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The #1 Sunday Times and International Bestseller from 'the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now' (New York Times)What are the most valuable things that everyone should know? Acclaimed clinical psychologist Jordan Pet...

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Future Politics confronts one of the most important questions of our time: how will digital technology transform politics and society? The great political debate of the last century was about how much of our collective life should be determined by...

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We live in scandalous times. Every day some new controversy demands our attention, our emotional investment, and, ultimately, our judgment. Many of these routine transgressions will be understood in ''revelatory'' terms, as peeling back the multip...

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The seventy years since the end of the Second World War have seen dramatic changes in Britain's cultural, intellectual and political climate. Old class allegiances have been challenged by new loyalties to gender, ethnicity, religion or lifestyle a...

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The origins, consequences and limitations of an ideology that has quickly become highly influential around the world. For much of their history, societies have violently oppressed ethnic, religious and sexual minorities. It is no surprise then tha...

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