From Plato to the present day, political theorists have used models of idealistic societies to think about politics. In this thought-provoking book, David Wiens argues that these models cannot provide the normative guidance many theorists have hoped...Lasīt vairāk
From Plato to the present day, political theorists have used models of idealistic societies to think about politics. In this thought-provoking book, David Wiens argues that these models cannot provide the normative guidance many theorists have hoped...Lasīt vairāk
This book presents a critical history of Yugoslav socialist economics, from its inception in the late 1940s to its dissolution in the late 1980s....Lasīt vairāk
Amidst rising tensions affecting democracy, capitalism and planetary life, this book discusses the multiple crises, processes and conflicts reconfiguring modernity. Tracking the political, social and ecological dynamics at play, it offers a critical...Lasīt vairāk
In the 1980s, the arrests of a group of teachers, doctors, and other professionals triggered a wave of protests the first open resistance against Siad Barres regime in northern Somalia helping to pave the way for Somalilands self-declaration...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198929444)
What is attention? How do we use it? And why does it matter? In an age of distraction-in which we feel overrun by attention-diverting devices-these questions are as important as ever. While scientists and philosophers have explored these questions in...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores democratic fragility, an underdeveloped concept in the analyses of contemporary political regimes. Diagnoses of fragility commonly occur when states are brought to the brink of the abyss. Democracy and Its Fragility: Mapping...Lasīt vairāk
This edited volume operationalizes the figure of the ghost and subsequent hauntings through Derridas framing of hauntologyin an effort to attend to the liminal spaces that exist between presence and absence throughout social...Lasīt vairāk
This volume provides a broad and comprehensive overview of the many ways in which pragmatism has influenced contemporary debates in philosophy of science.Pragmatism has been undergoing a considerable revival in philosophical debates for the...Lasīt vairāk
This book focuses on resistance to autocratization, a less well-researched and understood topic than the rise of authoritarianism. As the editors and authors of this book have experienced both through their academic research and personal lives in au...Lasīt vairāk
An engrossing history of how Western philosophers have theorized the ugly from ancient times to the present day. Why has our preoccupation with concepts, standards, and theories of the beautiful not resulted in a correspondingly compreh...Lasīt vairāk
An engrossing history of how Western philosophers have theorized the ugly from ancient times to the present day. Why has our preoccupation with concepts, standards, and theories of the beautiful not resulted in a correspondingly compreh...Lasīt vairāk
Pokémon is one of the most amazing pop culture phenomena of our epoch, with deep metaphysical roots and profound philosophical implications. Pokémon and Philosophy celebrates this cultural icon while helping its readers unpack the hidden secrets of...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: The Bodley Head Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781847928405)
What if a lie is told to reveal some underlying truth? Are feelings that seem inappropriate, such as the hysteria following the death of a celebrity, any less real or true than the grief we feel over the death of a loved one? Even if the plot of an...Lasīt vairāk
Focusing on the concept of slowness in Gilles Deleuzes philosophy, this book diverges from the conventional interpretation of Deleuze as a philosopher of speed or even accelerationism, instead delving into the minor but critical themes in his...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the link between political revolt and philosophical pursuit of true life in Badious work. Approaching Alain Badiou as a militant thinker committed to diagnosing political disorders of his time and waging theoretical...Lasīt vairāk
What does it mean for something to be public? Its not always clear what this ever-important word means. Are we using the same idea of public when we talk about public education, or public safety, or public works? And how should we think a...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides a philosophical account of Martin Heideggers significant impact on contemporary Russian philosophy, specifically Aleksandr Dugin (1962-) and Vladimir Bibikhin (1938-2004)-- Provided by publisher. This book gives a...Lasīt vairāk
This book proposes an original reading of Foucaults theory of the state in relation to the social sciences. In this text, Skornicki deconstructs the pseudo-obviousness in Foucauldian thought, namely that Michel Foucaults new approach in political p...Lasīt vairāk
Feminist Responses to Crises and Dehumanization brings together academic knowledge with activist strategies and lived experiences from different socio-geographic angles bridging the gap between theory and on-the-ground impact....Lasīt vairāk
In this profoundly important reassessment of constitutional interpretation, the eminent legal philosopher Hadley Arkes argues that originalism alone is an inadequate answer to judicial activism. Untethered from mere Natural Lawthe...Lasīt vairāk
On the forms of sabotage, insubordination, and invisible activity that evade the terrain of politics.Inhuman Resources centers on what gets stranded outside the border of the political. It develops an account of the forms of sab...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 14-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478032625)
In Pierre Bourdieus Political Economy of Being, Ghassan Hage explores the great French social theorists work and revitalizes conventional and undertheorized aspects of his thinking. Hage focuses on Bourdieus concern with social being and...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478029267)
In Pierre Bourdieus Political Economy of Being, Ghassan Hage explores the great French social theorists work and revitalizes conventional and undertheorized aspects of his thinking. Hage focuses on Bourdieus concern with social being and...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 14-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226845524)
An invitation to the habits of good thinking from philosopher Julian Baggini. By now, it should be clear: in the face of disinformation and disaster, we cannot hot take, life hack, or meme our way to a better future. But how should we...Lasīt vairāk
Collects sociologist Jacques Elluls insights on technology and social manipulation. Jacques Ellul was a prolific writer and brilliant sociologist whose work on technological society and propaganda remains relevant today, despite comin...Lasīt vairāk
