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This is a compelling book featuring six case studies which are confronted with problems involving their identities. How can we tackle their dilemmas? By adapting Greek philosopher Thucydides' fivefold classification of societal fears.Understanding...

Andrea Sangiovanni presents a ground-breaking essay on the important but contested concept of solidarity, which is then critiqued by a group of leading philosophers and political theorists.In a world of deep political divisions and rising inequality,...

Associational anarchism presents a ground-breaking alternative to both liberal democracy and state socialism, derived from the ideas of Karl Marx and G. D. H. Cole.Uniting the public sphere of citizenship with the private sphere of production in a system...

On the centennial of Amlcar Cabral's birth, and fifty years after his passing,Claim No Easy Victoriesbrings to life the resonance of his thought for today's freedom movements."Never has it been more certain that our victory depends principally on our own...

After the dissolution of empires, was the nation-state the only way to unite people politically, culturally and economically? In Post-Imperial Possibilities, historians Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper examine three large-scale, transcontinental...

An invaluable reflection on the essence of liberal democracy - and an ideal introduction to the work of political philosopher Raymond Aron.Liberty and Equality is the first English translation of the last lecture delivered at the Collge de France by...

Howrace shapes expectations about whose losses matterIn democracies, citizens must accept loss; we can't always be on the winning side. But in the United States, the fundamental civic capacity of being able to lose is not distributed equally. Propped up...

In 2017, the Government's attempt to trigger Article 50 and so leave the European Union resulted in a judgement by the Supreme Court, which stated that the Government was unentitled to do so without the consent of Parliament, directly citing the Bill of...

A powerful case for democracy and how it can adapt and survive - if we want it to.Is democracy in trouble, perhaps even dying? Pundits say so, and polls show that most Americans believe that their country's system of governance is being...

How the utopian tradition offers answers to today's environmental crisesIn the face of Earth's environmental breakdown, it is clear that technological innovation alone won't save our planet. A more radical approach is required, one that involves profound...

Barcelona Proseis a collection of autobiographical essays by the gifted translator, literary scholar, and dissident, Efim Etkind. These engaging, deeply psychological vignettes capture the reality of daily life and work in the Soviet Union. Unlike other...

This volume of original essays, by some of Israel's most remarkable public and academic voices, offers a series of state-of-the art, accessible analyses of Israel's ever-evolving theater of statecraft, public debates, and legal and cultural dramas, its...

The U.S. Supreme Court has eliminated the right to abortion and is revisiting other fundamental questions today - about voting rights, affirmative action, gun laws, and much more. Once-arcane theories of constitutional interpretation are profoundly...

<p>Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his powerful “I Have a Dream” speech on August 28, 1963. Sixty years later, the speech endures as a defining moment in the civil rights movement and remains a beacon in the ongoing...

A provocative new history of liberalism that also provides a road map for today's liberalsFreedom from Fear offers a striking new account of the dominant political and social theory of our time: liberalism. In a pathbreaking reframing of the historical...

Why debunked political rumors persist and how to combat themPolitical rumors and misinformation pollute the political landscape. This is not a recent phenomenon; before the currently rampant and unfounded rumors about a stolen election and vote-rigging,...

Provides a comparative ten-step model for revolutions and shows that these must be considered a global phenomenon of modernity.This book will analyse several revolutions of the 'long' nineteenth and 'short' twentieth...

In Pluralist Politics, Relational Worlds, Didier Ziga examines the possibility for dialogue and mutual understanding in human and more-than-human worlds. The book responds to the need to find more democratic ways of listening to, giving voice to, and...

Tracing the origins of modern political thought through three sets of arguments over history, morality, and freedom.In this wide-ranging work, Michael Sonenscher traces the origins of modern political thought and ideologies to a question, raised by...

Utopia poses a question. Not simply in the sense of a problem to be resolved and at the same time eliminated . . . but in the sense that, within the economy of the human condition, utopia, the aim of social alterity of all social otherness is ceaselessly...

By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism-New York City. This book, a collection...

The manifesto that launched the Situationist International (SI) into the public eye and sparked an uprising is back-with the story of its creation and the histories of its publication told like never before.When the Situationist International was a...

Mario Tronti was the principal theorist of the radical political movement of the 1960s known in Italy asoperaismoand in the Anglophone world as Italian workerism, a current which went on to inform the development of autonomist Marxism. His "Copernican...

"The interconnected works of Volodine-think Faulkner, but after an apocalypse-constitute the most exciting project in contemporary French literature."-Maria ClementiThat is what we had called post-exoticism. It was a construction connected to...

Fully revised and expanded, this stirring account reveals how the U.S. government permitted the illegal entry of Nazis into North America in the years following World War II. This extraordinary investigation exposes the secret section of the State...

Universality and Utopia explores the intersection between philosophical universalism and revolutionary politics in 20th Century Peruvian indigenista literature. It traces a tradition of thought whose basic tenets originate in the philosophical works of...

This volume seeks to bring to light the lived experiences of those who are at the lowest intersections ofinjustice - Indigenous peoples, ethnic minorities, refugees, disabled people, the youth, women, childrenand the poor.It is the fruit of a series of...

The Spirit of the Laws not only systematises the foundational ideas of 'separation of powers' and 'balances and checks,' it provides the decisive response to the question of whether power in the nation-state can be...

Raymond Aron is an exceptional figure among twentieth-century sociological and political thinkers. The book focuses on the sociological work of this author of the century, who analyzed his age both in its grand-scale political and socio-economic traits...

Second edition of the classic historical study on the political economy of deregulatory reform before the French RevolutionA new edition of Kaplan's landmark study on eighteenth-century French political economy, reissued with a new Foreword by Sophus A...

Rethinking Pakistan is a wide-ranging analytical dissection of the Pakistani polity and offers a well-meaning, progressive prescription for present-day Pakistan, stitched together by an eclectic list of experts spanning diverse backgrounds and subjects...

An enlightening study that explains how negative moralism shelters professional privilege and competition from scrutinyLargely erased from disciplinary memory, Paul de Man's replacement of canon with literariness as the object of literary studies...

A consideration of the historical intellectual developments that provided the fundamentals of the modern stateThe Modern State and Its Enemies considers the historical intellectual developments that provided the fundamentals of the modern state and...

An exploration of the problem of social order in modern German urban history. Hometown Hamburg explores the role of institutionalised historical continuity in the collapse of urban democracy in the Weimar Republic.'The publication of...

A constitutionalist reading of Plato's political thought.Plato famously defends the rule of knowledge. Knowledge, for him, is of the good. But what is rule? In this study, Melissa Lane reveals how political office and rule were woven together in Greek...

From the Great Depression to the pandemic, a new history of British democracy, revealing how politics is transformed through fear.Over Britain's first century of mass democracy, politics has lurched from crisis to crisis. How does this history of...

How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracy.Maximilien Robespierre (17581794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory figure of the French Revolution, inspiring passionate debate like no other...

"Senator Hart's voice can heal the country and chart a real course toward equality, freedom, and hope for all." -Hugh Jackman In 1776, America's Founders proclaimed the new nation a republic with a democratic form of government. Although American...

Bernie Sanders' tilt at the US presidency has come under fire from an establishment that derides his social democratic policies as alien to the American way. But, as Ted Hamm reveals in this engaging and concise history, the sort of socialism Bernie...

On Shedding an Obsolete Pastprovides a much-needed and comprehensive critique of recent US national security policies in both the Trump and Biden administrations. These policy decisions have produced a series of costly disappointments and outright...

After Lifeis a collective history of how Americans experienced, navigated, commemorated, and ignored mass death and loss during the global COVID-19 pandemic, mass uprisings for racial justice, and the near presidential coup in 2021 following the 2020...

Amadeo Bordiga was one of the greatest figures of the Third, or Communist, International. His formidable body of writings remains energizing, instructive, and often surprisingly topical today.The Science and Passion of Communism presents the battles of...

Kevin Slack sounds the alarm on how America's failed neoliberal regime has given way to a woke oligarchy that has deployed a radical toolkit to rapidly strip away the rights of citizens. Americans often use the wordsprogressive,liberal, andradicalmore or...

It has great seeds of wisdom. -Sen. J.D. Vance The Conservative Establishment's consensus of the past two generations has almost totally broken down. Conservatism was unable to stop or even slow the Left's rolling revolutions in nearly every sector of...

After the Democratic Party divided Americans along gender and racial lines, F.H. Buckley argues that the Republican Party can become the natural governing party again by uniting Americans around a return to their roots-championing the common good,...

In his newest book, Daniel J. Mahoney offers refreshing historical antidotes to the displays of despotism in today's political arena."Abrilliantly written and researched tribute to the pantheon of classically trained and thinking men of action."-Victor...

W.H. Auden famously wrote: "Poetry makes nothing happen." Journalism is a different matter. In a brilliant study that is, in part, a memoir of his 40 years as an essayist and critic at TIME magazine, Lance Morrow returns to the Age of Typewriters and to...