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Confucian Iconoclasm

Challenges deep-seated assumptions about the traditionalist nature of Confucianism by providing a new interpretation of the emergence of modern Confucianism in Republican China.

Damned Agitator

By Michael Gold
Edited by Patrick Chura
Introduction by Patrick Chura
Subjects: Literature

The most comprehensive collection of writings by an important twentieth-century radical writer.

Critical Theory from the Margins

Putting at work a negative pedagogy centered around learning from unlearning, problematizes and boldly challenges today's culturalist discourses, camouflaged racisms, and masked fascisms.

Equality and Excellence in Ancient and Modern Political Philosophy

Edited by Steven Frankel & John Ray
Subjects: Politics And Law

Interpretations of critically important texts in political philosophy from Greek antiquity to modern times on the tension between human excellence and equality and its possible resolution.

Tradition and the Deliberative Turn

Reframes the discussion of deliberative democracy in a unique fashion, approaching the debate as a historical conversation.

Truth and Politics

Endorses the pursuit of paradigm shifts in our understandings of faith, truth, and nature to remedy the "underside" of modernity and thus to inaugurate a post-modern (but not anti-modern) and post-secular (but not anti-secular) view of the world.

Deconstructive Constitutionalism

Investigates, by way of Derrida's engagements with Kant, how the foundations of modern constitutionalism can be differently conceived to address some of the challenges of the twenty-first century.

Animals in the World

Five innovative essays demonstrating how Aristotle's biology is an integral part of Aristotle's understanding of the universe.

Opining Beauty Itself

Argues that Plato thinks that ordinary people grapple with the Forms and can make epistemological progress, even if they never achieve knowledge.

Myth and Authority

Argues that Giambattista Vico's early modern account of Roman mythology was a sophisticated attempt to present an epistemological and political critique of the aristocratic way of conceiving the world.

Plato's Stranger

Meditation on the character of the Eleatic Stranger in Plato's late dialogues, arguing that the prominent place afforded to this foreigner—the other—represents an important philosophical and political legacy regarding the way thought, and life in the community, is understood.

Hobbes and the Democratic Imaginary

A critical interrogation of elements of Hobbes's political and natural philosophy and its capacity to enrich our understanding of the nature of democratic life.

Full Responsibility

Explores the basic forms of responsibility that we willingly assume and the collaborative fulfillment that we find in each.

Liberating Revolution

Provides a novel conceptual and practical theory of revolution, engaging previous theories of revolution, contemporary continental philosophy, and systems theory.

The Shadow of Totalitarianism

Examines the relationship of evil, action, and judgment in the work of Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, and Jean-François Lyotard.

The Future of the World Is Open

Conversations with prominent Italian feminist thinkers Lea Melandri, Luisa Muraro, and Adriana Cavaero, as well as three essays - appearing in English for the first time - by author, journalist, and renown political figure Rossana Rossanda.

Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal Education

The first book-length study of Leo Strauss' understanding of the relation between modern democracy, technology, and liberal education.

A Dangerous Passion

Shows the importance of honor for leaders, both as a source of noble ambition to pursue the public good and as dangerous temptation to seek glory through domination.

Seeing with Free Eyes

Examines the ideas of justice in Euripidean tragedy, which reveals the human experience of justice to be paradoxical, and reminds us of the need for humility in our unceasing quest for a just world.

Ummah

Offers the Islamic concept of ummah as an alternative to the nation-state.

Open Borders

Offers a dialogue about the future of the nature of the human, technology, metaphysical foundations, globalization, and social and political oppression.

Bastard Politics

Argues that we need to reinvent sovereignty as a motive for democratic political action while remaining alert to its dangers, specifically its relationship to violence.

The Specter of Babel

Presents a new way of thinking about fundamental political concepts such as freedom, justice, and the common good.

Contribution to the Correction of the Public's Judgments on the French Revolution

First translation into English of Fichte’s major work on the French Revolution.

Endangered Excellence

A fresh look at Aristotle’s political theory with attention to the resonance of his thought for contemporary concerns.

Recovering the Liberal Spirit

Develops a theory of spiritual freedom and explores its relationship to problems of liberal political regimes.

Leo Strauss and the Theopolitics of Culture

This archive-based study of the philosophy of Leo Strauss provides in-depth interpretations of key texts and their larger theoretical contexts.

Cosmopolitan Civility

Edited by Ruth Abbey
Subjects: Politics And Law

Essays reflecting on the prolific, pioneering, and wide-ranging scholarship of Fred Dallmayr.

On Metaphysical Necessity

Emphasizes the importance of metaphysical necessity to both philosophical theology and, through it, to moral and political theory.

Conflict in Aristotle's Political Philosophy

Offers a careful analysis of how Aristotle understands civil war, partisanship, distrust in government, disagreement, and competition, and explores ways in which these views are relevant to contemporary political theory.

Friedrich Engels and Modern Social and Political Theory

Offers a powerful new interpretation of Engels’s contributions to modern social and political theory.

Thoughtlessness and Decadence in Iran

Bridges Western and non-Western political thought to address the problem of democracy and political decadance in contemporary Iran and, by implication, similar Islamic societies.

Remnants of Hegel

An original philosophical exploration of the limits of Hegel's thought.

Hegel and Right

By Philip J. Kain
Subjects: Philosophy

An especially accessible introduction to Hegel’s moral and political philosophy.

Roberto Esposito

Analyzes key concepts and arguments in the work of one of Europe’s leading philosophers.

Partial Truths and Our Common Future

Argues that a pluralistic understanding of truth can foster productive conversations about common concerns involving religion, science, ethics, politics, economics, and ecology without falling into relativism.

State Violence and Moral Horror

Explores the concept of "moral horror" as the experience of living amidst unjustifiable state violence.

Whitehead's Religious Thought

Presents the process theistic thought of Whitehead as a third alternative between classical theism and religious skepticism.

Plato's Statesman

Explores the interplay between the dramatic form of the dialogue and the basic themes it addresses.

Entanglements

Presents strikingly original and contemporary answers to the most traditional philosophical problems in epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and political theory.

Contemplating Friendship in Aristotle's Ethics

Examines how Aristotle posits political philosophy and the experience of friendship as a means to bind strictly intellectural virtue with morality.

Philosophy, History, and Tyranny

The first comprehensive examination of the debate between Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojève on the subject of philosophy and tyranny.

Freedom from the Free Will

Brings Kafka’s fiction into conversation with philosophy and political theory.

Containing Community

Analyzes the role of community in the writings of Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, and Jean-Luc Nancy.

Political Liberalism

Edited by Shaun P. Young
Subjects: Politics And Law

Leading theorists explore the concept of political liberalism.

Leo Strauss, Philosopher

European scholars discuss Leo Strauss as a major figure in the history of philosophy.

Political Theory and the Animal/Human Relationship

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

Principle and Prudence in Western Political Thought

Reflections on principle and prudence in the thoughts and actions of great thinkers and statesmen.

Constitutionalism, Executive Power, and the Spirit of Moderation

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

Power

Deepens our understanding of power through a survey of how its dynamics have been understood from ancient times to the present.

Chinese Thought as Global Theory

Using Chinese thought, explores how non-Western thought can structure generally applicable social and political theory.

Embracing Our Complexity

Using the thought of Christian thinker Thomas Aquinas and Neo-Confucian Zhu Xi, explores how to exercise and limit authority.

Thomas Hobbes

By Otfried Höffe
Translated by Nicholas Walker
Subjects: Philosophy

An introduction to Thomas Hobbes as a systematic and not merely political philosopher.

Machiavelli's Secret

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

Contemporary Italian Political Philosophy

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

The Ethics of Democracy

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

The Political Philosophy of Francis Bacon

An ambitious and radically original reading of philosopher Francis Bacon.

Honor in Political and Moral Philosophy

Argues for revitalizing the place of honor in contemporary life.

The Sophists in Plato's Dialogues

By David D. Corey
Subjects: Philosophy

Draws out numerous affinities between the sophists and Socrates in Plato's dialogues.

Leo Strauss on the Borders of Judaism, Philosophy, and History

Explores how the thought of Leo Strauss amounts to a model for thinking about the connection between philosophy, Jewish thought, and history.

Res Publica

Analysis of Plato’s influence on the political thinking of Kant, Hegel, and Fichte.

After Leo Strauss

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

The Political Theory of Aristophanes

Examines the political dimensions of Aristophanes’ comic poetry.

The Laws of the Spirit

By Shannon Hoff
Subjects: Philosophy

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

Happiness as Enterprise

Examines the contemporary discourse on happiness through the lens of governmentality theory.

Leo Strauss and the Crisis of Rationalism

Examines the German and Jewish sources of Strauss's thought and the extent to which his philosophy can shed light on the crisis of liberal democracy.

Progressive Minds, Conservative Politics

Compelling account of Strauss's mature Maimonidean writings.

In the Spirit of Critique

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

Moments of Disruption

By Kris Sealey
Subjects: Philosophy

Explores the ethical and political implications of Levinas’s and Sartre’s accounts of human existence.

Catastrophe and Redemption

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

On the Ethics of Torture

By Uwe Steinhoff
Subjects: Philosophy

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

Wonder and Generosity

A compelling understanding of equality and difference in public life.

Bound by the City

Explores the connections between sexual difference and political structure in ancient Greek tragedy.

The Lockean Commonwealth

Timely reappraisal of John Locke’s thoughts on the clash between executive emergency power and the importance of the rule of law.

The Democratic Ideal and the Shoah

An original and revolutionary interpretation of the Jews’ destiny in modern politics.

City of Rhetoric

Examines the relationship of civic discourse to built environments through a case study of the Cabrini Green urban revitalization project in Chicago.

Deliberative Freedom

The first sustained look at the relationship between deliberative democratic theory and the topic of freedom.

Democracy as Culture

Explores the significance of Dewey’s thought on democracy for the contemporary world.

The Illusion of Freedom and Equality

Explores how Enlightenment values have been transformed in a technological civilization.

Toward a Political Philosophy of Race

Examines how liberal society enables racism and other forms of discrimination.

The Ends of Solidarity

An in-depth look at the theory of solidarity of German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, serving also as a comprehensive introduction to his work.

Justice for Children

Applies the concept of personal and political autonomy to children and children’s development.

Imagining Law

Essays consider Drucilla Cornell’s contributions to philosophy, political theory, and legal studies.

Styles of Thought

By David Weissman
Subjects: Philosophy

Differentiates inquiry from interpretation in order to secure a foundation for truth.

Justice and Law

Edited by Steven Scalet
Subjects: Politics And Law

A collection of essays on contemporary issues in justice and law.

Against the State

Irreverent and incisive critique of liberal theories of the state.

Philosophy and the City

Edited by Sharon M. Meagher
Subjects: Philosophy

The definitive source book on philosophy and the city.

The Social Authority of Reason

Explores the social ramifications of Kant's concept of radical evil.

The Step Back

Explores the ethical and political possibilities of philosophy after deconstruction.

Women and Children First

A critique of public policy rhetoric from multiple feminist perspectives.

Exquisite Rebel

Brings the writings of de Cleyre out of undeserved obscurity.

Homelessness, Citizenship, and Identity

Explores the political and economic causes and consequences of homelessness.

Love and Politics

Argues that love plays an essential—if often implicit—role in Hegel's mature theory of moral subjectivity and political community.

Aftereffects of Knowledge in Modernity

Examines the relations among knowledge, politics, aesthetics, and individuality.

Marx and Whitehead

A reading of Marx's critique of capitalism through the lens of process philosophy.

What Moves Man

A critical look at the image of human nature that underlies the realist theory of international relations.

Transforming the Dream

Explores the underlying assumptions of environmental studies and the need for a new paradigm for understanding our world.

Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality

Applies Foucault's ideas to a cultural studies framework.

Justice for All

Edited by Steven Scalet
Subjects: Politics And Law

Collection of essays adapted from an undergraduate honors conference held at Binghamton University which address contemporary issues in political philosophy.