This book explores the logic of value extraction that characterises infrastructures capitalism as the most advanced phase of a modernity and the ruin that it has piled up, and argues instead for a logic of reproduction based on a real politics of ca...Daugiau...
Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy, and Modernity provides a new interpretation of the work of Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991), reframing it as being above all a metaphilosophy of modernity....Daugiau...
This book invites the reader to understand how the practice of political forgiveness and sovereignty have changed, evolved, and developed over time. Londrigan offers original insights into forgiveness as part of an analysis of prerogative power, and...Daugiau...
This book argues that Aristotelian character education cannot work in liberal democracies today. It shows that when we clearly understand the basic structure of Aristotles value theory and correctly grasp the core requirements of liberalism, we will...Daugiau...
First published in 1983, Explaining and Predicting Elections is the first cross-national and comprehensive explanation of election results. It considers why one election differs from another and attempts to account for party gains and losses in the...Daugiau...
This book uses Paul Ricoeurs hermeneutic phenomenology of suspicion and naïveté to shift the focus of the ideology of humanitarian intervention from the distorting (Marxism, realism) and legitimising (social constructivism) to the integrating functi...Daugiau...
The State and Democracy (originally published in 1988) proposes a new public philosophy for America: one which comprises communitarian values; governments at all levels which actively pursue the public interest; a participatory political culture; an...Daugiau...
Silence and Society addresses the reality that social sciences have ignored the importance of silence in human communication. Without communication, there is no community and thus no society. Yet, as classic communication theory explains, communicat...Daugiau...
This book brings clarity and understanding to the concept of accountability through the lens of conceptual political analysis. It is argued here that accountability has emerged to become a concept with adjectives and there is a real need to properly...Daugiau...
First published in 1949, The Freedom of Necessity explores various aspects of the transformation of human society in the mid-20th century....Daugiau...
This revised edition of Analysing Political Discourse features the historically significant case studies from the first edition, and adds new analyses that reflect the 2010s and 2020s. It retains the original analytical tools, including the discours...Daugiau...
This book approaches the relationship between Russia and the EU as an intersubjective one, a social context where diverging interpretations of the world struggle for hegemony. Its theoretical framework marries poststructuralist thought with insights...Daugiau...
Reconsidering Global Environmental Governance: Coloniality, Extractivism, and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice uses the concept of coloniality to illuminate the relationship between global environmental governance and environmental justice....Daugiau...
This book brings together historians, sociologists, political scientists and philosophers to reconstruct how the Paris Commune of 1871 has continued to serve as a source of inspiration to different movements throughout the past 150 years, and how co...Daugiau...
Drawing on key published works, as well as those of his contemporaries, this book explores the political and economic thought of the seventeenth century diplomat William Temple and his proposals for change in Restoration England and Ireland....Daugiau...
When Nietzsche and Philosophy published in 1962, its Nietzschean critique of Hegelian dialectics played a pivotal role in the emergence of the current of thought we call poststructuralism. However, to what extent is this critique valid and justified...Daugiau...
This book argues thatfar from abandoning the oft-emphasized, but little realized promise of civic education as a means of cultivating critical thinking skills and democratic characterwe should embrace it, proposing a reimagined civic education found...Daugiau...
Bringing together the main critical Marxist perspectives from around the world on contemporary urban studies, it engages with a range of issues connected to the urban question, such as urban sprawl, housing and increasing rates of urbanization acros...Daugiau...
This macro sociological theory offers policy guidelines that might lead to future jobs for sociologists, provide tools to overcome managerial satisficing, and speed responses to change. A detailed case study is provided with a discussion of the feas...Daugiau...
In this path-breaking study, George Crowder argues that Isaiah Berlins ideas have application beyond their original context to the problems of our own time. Focusing on three central themes liberty, identity, and value pluralism this book is essen...Daugiau...
