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International Political Thought of Carl Schmitt
Terror, Liberal War and the Crisis of Global Order
Av Louiza Odysseos, Fabio Petito
Inbunden, 2007
2586 kr
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Presenting the first critical analysis of Carl Schmitt's The Nomos of the Earth and how it relates to the epochal changes in the international system that have risen from the collapse of the ‘Westphalian’ international order. There is an emerging recognition in political theory circles that core …
Equality Renewed
Justice, Flourishing and the Egalitarian Ideal
Häftad, 2018
747 kr
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How should we approach the daunting task of renewing the ideal of equality? In this book, Christine Sypnowich proposes a theory of equality centred on human flourishing or wellbeing. She argues that egalitarianism should be understood as seeking to make people more equal in the constituents of a …
Democracy, the Courts, and the Liberal State
A Comparative Analysis of American and German Constitutionalism
Av David Miles
Inbunden, 2020
2317 kr
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Reformulating a problem of both constitutionalism and liberalism discussed in the works of Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, Hannah Arendt, and Alexis de Tocqueville, the book examines one generally overlooked manifestation of constitutionalism: the role of the courts in shaping democratic politics and …
Democracy Beyond the Nation State
Practicing Equality
Av Joe Parker
Häftad, 2019
825 kr
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Democracy promises rule by all, not by the few. Yet, electoral democracies limit decision-making to representatives and have always had a weakness for inequality. How might democracy serve all rather than the few? Democracy Beyond the Nation State: Practicing Equality examines communities that …
Critical Urban Theory, Common Property, and “the Political”
Desire and Drive in the City
Av Dan Webb
Häftad, 2019
795 kr
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Dan Webb explores an undervalued topic in the formal discipline of Political Theory (and political science, more broadly): the urban as a level of political analysis and political struggles in urban space. Because the city and urban space is so prominent in other critical disciplines, most notably, …
Reclaiming Representation
Contemporary Advances in the Theory of Political Representation
Häftad, 2019
795 kr
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Representation is integral to the functioning and legitimacy of modern government. Yet political theorists have often been reluctant to engage directly with questions of representation, and empirical political scientists have closed down such questions by making representation synonymous with …
Conceptual Investigation of Justice
Häftad, 2019
795 kr
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Conceptual analysis has fallen out of favor in political philosophy. The influence of figures like John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin has led political philosophy to focus on questions about what should be done, and to ignore questions about the usage of words. In this book, Kyle Johannsen calls for …
Epistemontology in Spinoza-Marx-Freud-Lacan
The (Bio)Power of Structure
Häftad, 2019
795 kr
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A. Kiarina Kordela steps beyond extant commentaries on Marx’s theory of commodity fetishism—from A. Sohn-Rethel to L. Althusser, É. Balibar, Slavoj Žižek, and others—to show that in capitalism value is the manifestation of the homology between thought and being, while their other aspect—power—is …
Compromise and Disagreement in Contemporary Political Theory
Av Christian Rostboll, Theresa Scavenius
Häftad, 2019
795 kr
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Until recently, discussions of compromise have been largely absent in political theory. However, political theorists have become increasingly interested in understanding the practice and justification of compromise in politics. This interest is connected to the increased concern with pluralism and …
Democratic Political Tragedy in the Postcolony
The Tragedy of Postcoloniality in Michael Manley’s Jamaica and Nelson Mandela’s South Africa
Häftad, 2019
819 kr
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A ground-breaking work in Africana political thought that links the plight of progressive political endeavors in Africa with those in the Diaspora and beyond, Democratic Tragedy in the Postcolony engages with two of the defining political sagas of the postcolonial era. The book presents Michael …
On Biopolitics
An Inquiry into Nature and Language
Häftad, 2022
797 kr
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How do humans fit into the natural world? What are the political consequences of viewing humans as animals? On Biopolitics is the first scholarly attempt to answer these questions, bringing critical thought into dialogue with naturalism.Effectively demonstrating that biology cannot serve as a …
Utilitarianism in the Early American Republic
Inbunden, 2021
2519 kr
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In Utilitarianism in the Early American Republic James E. Crimmins provides a fresh perspective on the history of antebellum American political thought.Based on a broad-ranging study of the dissemination and reception of utilitarian ideas in the areas of constitutional politics, law education, law …
Utilitarianism in the Early American Republic
Häftad, 2023
693 kr
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In Utilitarianism in the Early American Republic James E. Crimmins provides a fresh perspective on the history of antebellum American political thought.Based on a broad-ranging study of the dissemination and reception of utilitarian ideas in the areas of constitutional politics, law education, law …
Legislative Deliberative Democracy
Debating Acts Restricting Freedom of Speech during War
Inbunden, 2020
2504 kr
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Freedom of speech is a basic right in a democracy. During war, however, national legislatures tend to enact laws that restrict this basic right. Under what circumstances can such laws be democratically legitimate?Avichai Levit argues that the degree of democratic legitimacy of laws that restrict …
Post-Fukushima Activism
Politics and Knowledge in the Age of Precarity
Av Azumi Tamura
Häftad, 2020
718 kr
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Political disillusionment is widespread in contemporary society. In Japan, the search for the ‘outside’ of a stagnant reality sometimes leads marginalised young people to a disastrous image of social change. The Fukushima nuclear disaster was the realisation of such an image, triggering the largest …
Aesthetics and Political Culture in Modern Society
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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Do aesthetic appeals to senses and emotions in political debate necessarily marginalise political reason and reduce citizens to consumers – thus dangerously undermining democracy? Or is sensuous-emotional engagement, on the contrary, a basic fact of the political process and a crucial precondition …
Legislative Deliberative Democracy
Debating Acts Restricting Freedom of Speech during War
Häftad, 2022
689 kr
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Freedom of speech is a basic right in a democracy. During war, however, national legislatures tend to enact laws that restrict this basic right. Under what circumstances can such laws be democratically legitimate?Avichai Levit argues that the degree of democratic legitimacy of laws that restrict …
Democracy, the Courts, and the Liberal State
A Comparative Analysis of American and German Constitutionalism
Av David Miles
Häftad, 2022
638 kr
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Reformulating a problem of both constitutionalism and liberalism discussed in the works of Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, Hannah Arendt, and Alexis de Tocqueville, the book examines one generally overlooked manifestation of constitutionalism: the role of the courts in shaping democratic politics and …
Liberal Progressivism
Politics and Class in the Age of Neoliberalism and Climate Change
Av Gordon Hak
Inbunden, 2021
2504 kr
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In Liberal Progressivism, Gordon Hak makes the case for the value of theory and philosophy in understanding the day-to-day political realm of elections, politicians, scandals, fund-raising, and law-making. Running through the book is the big question of how political attitudes and actions are …
Liberal Progressivism
Politics and Class in the Age of Neoliberalism and Climate Change
Av Gordon Hak
Häftad, 2023
689 kr
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In Liberal Progressivism, Gordon Hak makes the case for the value of theory and philosophy in understanding the day-to-day political realm of elections, politicians, scandals, fund-raising, and law-making. Running through the book is the big question of how political attitudes and actions are …
Eric Voegelin’s Political Readings
From the Ancient Greeks to Modern Times
Av Bernat Torres, Josep Monserrat Molas
Inbunden, 2021
2504 kr
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Eric Voegelin’s Political Readings fills a critical void by providing an original approach to studying the work of Eric Voegelin, one of the major political philosophers of the twenty-first century.Across six chapters, experts guide the reader from classical to modern times presenting six political …
Eric Voegelin’s Political Readings
From the Ancient Greeks to Modern Times
Av Bernat Torres, Josep Monserrat Molas
Häftad, 2023
689 kr
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Eric Voegelin’s Political Readings fills a critical void by providing an original approach to studying the work of Eric Voegelin, one of the major political philosophers of the twenty-first century.Across six chapters, experts guide the reader from classical to modern times presenting six political …
Legitimacy of Modern Democracy
A Study on the Political Thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen
Häftad, 2022
689 kr
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By re-examining the political thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen, this book offers a reflection on the nature of modern democracy and the question of its legitimacy. Pedro T. Magalhães shows that present-day elitist, populist and pluralist accounts of democracy owe, in diverse and …
Confucian Sentimental Representation
A New Approach to Confucian Democracy
Inbunden, 2022
2504 kr
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Kwon conceptualizes a unique mode of political representation in East Asian society, which derives its moral foundation from Confucian virtue politics.Contemporary East Asian societies understand democracy differently than Western societies do. Even citizens in consolidated democracies such as …
Confucian Sentimental Representation
A New Approach to Confucian Democracy
Häftad, 2023
689 kr
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Kwon conceptualizes a unique mode of political representation in East Asian society, which derives its moral foundation from Confucian virtue politics.Contemporary East Asian societies understand democracy differently than Western societies do. Even citizens in consolidated democracies such as …
Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty
Häftad, 2021
689 kr
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This book argues that the distinction between positive and negative freedom remains highly pertinent today, despite having fallen out of fashion in the late twentieth century. It proposes a new reading of this distinction for the twenty-first century, building on the work of Constant, Green and …
Love and Politics
Persistent Human Desires as a Foundation for Liberation
Inbunden, 2021
2504 kr
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In, Love and Politics Jeffery L. Nicholas argues that Eros is the final rejection of an alienated life, in which humans are prevented from developing their human powers; Eros, in contrast, is an overflowing of acting into new realities and new beauties, a world in which human beings extend their …
Rational Woman
A Feminist Critique of Dichotomy
Inbunden, 1999
2519 kr
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To feminists and some postmodernists reason/emotion and man/woman represent two fundamental polarities, fixed deep within Western philosophy and reflected in the structures of our languages, and two sets of hierarchical power relations in patriarchal society. Raia Prokhovnik challenges the …
Gramsci and Contemporary Politics
Beyond Pessimism of the Intellect
Inbunden, 1999
766 kr
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Can politics now be both radical and realistic? Gramsci and Contemporary Politics is a collection of Anne Showstack Sassoon's writing which spans the major transitions from Thatcher and Reagan to Clinton and Blair; the collapse of communism to the regeneration of social democracy. Applying original …
Political Theory of Global Citizenship
Av April Carter
Inbunden, 2001
2519 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the meaning of cosmopolitanism and world citizenship in the history of Western political thought, and in the evolution of international politics since 1500.Providing an invaluable overview of earlier political thought, recent theoretical literature and …
