Leading scholars and legal practitioners explore constitutional, legal, and philosophical topics.

Examines how the animal/human divide has influenced power dynamics.

Interprets popular art forms as exhibiting core anarchist values and presaging a more democratic world.

Highlights and critically assesses the work of contemporary Italian political philosophers.

Examines how the Supreme Court has banished free expression from shopping malls and other public spaces.

A profound meditation on Leopardi’s art and thought as well as a reframing and reassertion of Negri’s own philosophical and political project of liberation.

Small college professors from across the United States explain why liberal arts institutions remain the gold standard for higher education.

Uncovers clues regarding the inner life of Machiavelli's political leaders.

Demonstrates how the ethical underpinning of Hegel’s political and social philosophy has relevance for contemporary democratic life.

A fresh reading of Oakeshott’s contributions to the ongoing conversation of modern political thought.

New edition of the provocative history of the tenuous relationship between the scientific study of politics and the real world of American democracy.

An ambitious and radically original reading of philosopher Francis Bacon.

Examines Antigone’s influence on contemporary European, Latin American, and African political activism, arts, and literature.

An account of Hegel's political insights and their contemporary relevance.

Proposes a post-Straussian reading of Plato to advance a reconciliation of ancient and modern theories of natural right.

Examines the political significance of ideas about happiness through the work of utilitarian philosophers William Thompson and Jeremy Bentham.

Offers a striking new reading of Agamben’s political thought and its implications for political action in the present.

Demonstrates how activists and others use art and popular culture to strive for a more democratic future.

Compelling account of Strauss's mature Maimonidean writings.

Offers a new perspective on the political significance of the Hegelian dialectical legacy.

A detailed, clear, and comprehensive overview of the current philosophical debate on toture.

Uncovers a fundamental change that took place in Western thinking, especially its departure from the Sephardic philosophy found in the Iberian Peninsula during the 13th century.

Reveals how state felony disenfranchisement laws are undermining American democracy.

Considers the problems of sovereignty through the work of Rousseau, Arendt, Foucault, Agamben, and Derrida.

Accessible introduction to key thinkers of Marxist theory and the debate on the nature of Marxist ethics.