Spring 2024 - Politics and Law

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Adorno, Heidegger, and the Politics of Truth

A critical and creative reconstruction of Adorno's conception of truth that shows its relevance for contemporary philosophy, art, and politics.

The China Race

An analysis of the China Race—the global competition for leadership and world order between the US-led West and the People's Republic of China.

The Great Murdering-Heir Case

Uncovers the facts behind the celebrated 1889 case of Riggs v. Palmer and shows how they transform our understanding of the decision.

Emerging from the Shadows

First-of-its-kind study offering a model for understanding vice-presidential influence in the modern era.

Aristotle's Quarrel with Socrates

Makes the case that the different stances Aristotle and Socrates take toward politics can be traced to their divergent accounts of friendship.

Political Bodies

The first edited volume solely dedicated to the philosophy of Adriana Cavaero.

Freedom's Frailty

Draws on Guo Xiang's commentary on the Zhuangzi to construct an account of freedom that is both metaphysical and political.

Imagining the American Polity, Second Edition

Traces the history of the concept of democracy in the United States.

Growing Strong, Growing Apart

Explores the role of democracy in NATO expansion decisions throughout the organizations history and looking forward into the future.

Progressive New York

The exciting story of New York in the progressive era told by the reformers and visionaries who shaped its history,

Agency and Ownership in Reconciliation

Drawing on the cases of South Africa, East Timor, Sierra Leone, and the Solomon Islands, examines how Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) have engaged with youth in ways that represent their stories and reflect their substantive participatory capacity as political stakeholders.

Nietzsche and Politicized Identities

Essays exploring to what extent Nietzsche's thought can aid us in understanding politicized identities.

Between Care and Justice

Proposes a form of moral education that joins care and justice to nurture and develop the desirable moral sentiments for a more just world at the interpersonal, social, political economic, and environmental levels.

Lifemaking

Draws on indigenous African political thought in order to construct a political philosophy that will resist and restrain necropolitics and promote human flourishing in Africa.

The Philosophical Animal

Argues that humans are animals that philosophize about their condition by fictionalizing other animals.

A Politics of Emancipation

A systematic overview of French Philosopher Miguel Abensour’s groundbreaking work and the two inseparable projects that govern it: a radical critique of all forms of domination and a search for a politics of emancipation.