M.B - Political 1

Growing up in America made me think that I was as free as anyone could be. I ran into libertarianism and that changed everything. Do you want to find out the truth about freedom? The truth about why……続きを見る

In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality, militariza……続きを見る

When many people are involved in an activity, it is often difficult, if not impossible, to pinpoint who is morally responsible for what, a phenomenon known as the ‘problem of many hands.’ This term ……続きを見る

Robert A. Levine – former high official of the United States Federal Government – wrote in the New York Times of 9 January 1999 an article entitled: "What the EU Needs Is a Copy of 'The Federalist P……続きを見る

Francis Bacon, long considered a minor figure in the founding of modern political thought, is now recognized as one of its foremost thinkers. Bacon not only championed a new type and method of scien……続きを見る

Hannah Arendt and the History of Thought, edited by Daniel Brennan and Marguerite La Caze, enrichens and deepens scholarship on Arendt’s relation to philosophical history and traditions. Some contri……続きを見る

A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title Africa beyond Liberal Democracy: In Search of Context-Relevant Models of Democracy for the Twenty-First Century explores possible future trajectories……続きを見る

These essays, written over more than thirty years of Vincent L. Wimbush’s career as a scholar, provide a response to the nearly universal, persistent, and sedimented modern-world hyper-signification……続きを見る

In Marx passato, presente, futuro, Umberto Melotti mostra la grande ricchezza dell’articolata analisi marxiana, tuttora rilevante per una corretta messa a fuoco dei problemi e delle prospettive dei ……続きを見る

Este ensayo explora una relación particular que se extiende constantemente y se reconfigura a escala global: la relación de la hostilidad. Retomando algunos de los temas ya abordados en sus obras pr……続きを見る

Comment parler de progrès au sujet de l'économie mondialisée quand la grande majorité de la population en pâtit ? La mondialisation de l’économie devait engendrer pour tous une ère de liberté et de ……続きを見る

Thinking The Plural: Richard J. Bernstein and the Expansion of American Philosophy is a text devoted to highlighting, scrutinizing, and deploying Bernstein’s philosophical research as it has interse……続きを見る

The Who were one of the most memorable and influential of the 1960s British Invasion bandsーmemorable because of their loudness and because they destroyed instruments during performances, and influe……続きを見る

What does political agency mean for those who don't know what to do or can't be bothered to do it? This book develops a novel account of collective emancipation in which freedom is achieved not thro……続きを見る

I denne bog undersøger filosof Christian Lambek samfundet ud fra en tilgang, der tilstræber at formulere en sekulær moral. Lambeks grundtanke er, at livet må leves gennem vækst og udvikling og såled……続きを見る

The friend, the enemy, the stranger, the refugee or deportee, and the survivor. In singular and provocative fashion, Gregg Lambert’s Philosophy after Friendship introduces us to the key social perso……続きを見る

"Is it meaningful to call oneself a democrat? And if so, how do you interpret the word?" In responding to this question, eight iconoclastic thinkers prove the rich potential of democracy, along with……続きを見る

A study of communities in the Horn of Africa where reciprocity is a dominant social principle, offering a concrete countermodel to the hierarchical state. Over the course of history, people have dev……続きを見る

Une initiative citoyenne de la société civile et des citoyens, en 2020, peut amener à constituer SYMBOLIQUEMENT cet embryon de l’Etat Fédéral Africain : Les États-Unis d’Afrique de l’Ouest - EUAO / ……続きを見る

This book offers a critical examination of certain ideas and valuesーsuch as remembering, forgiveness, story-telling through Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, etc.ーthat under-gird the transitio……続きを見る

Warum führte das Attentat von Sarajewo, das serbische Nationalisten am 28.Juni 1914 auf Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand und seine Frau verübten, zum Ersten Weltkrieg? Ist Europa in den Krieg „hineingeschl……続きを見る

What is symbolic representation? Since Hanna Pitkin’s seminal The Concept of Representation, the symbolic has been the least studied dimension of political representation. Innovatively adopting a di……続きを見る

Each country in southern Africa has a unique history but in all of them socio-economic inequalities and high poverty levels weaken the governments’ legitimacy and represent a challenge to models of ……続きを見る

In January 1682, William Culliford, a loyal and experienced officer in the King's customs service, began an extraordinary journey under Treasury orders to investigate the integrity and efficiency of……続きを見る

In the wake of the Iraq war, the term Old Europe was appropriated by politicians, civil society and social movement actors alike to rally in defence of supposedly social and civilized values against……続きを見る

In this wide-ranging study of French intellectuals who represented the Spanish Civil War as it was happening and in its immediate aftermath, Martin Hurcombe explores the ways in which these individu……続きを見る

A standout contribution to post-secular IR theory, this book addresses issues of global politics, from cooperation to conflict, and shows how a religious metaphor, the pilgrim, can help us to rethin……続きを見る

Building the Moral Community: Radical Naturalism and Emergence demonstrates how very simple models of moral engagements based on natural, incomplete, value-laden frames of the world can lead to gene……続きを見る

The Politics of Perfection: Technology and Creation in Literature and Film provides an exploration of the relationship between modern technological progress and classical liberalism. Each chapter pr……続きを見る

What might we learn if the study of ethics focused less on hard cases and more on the practices of everyday life? In Everyday Ethics, Michael Lamb and Brian Williams gather some of the world’s leadi……続きを見る