Excavates the experiential structure of Habermas’s communicative action.

Essays describe Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo’s unique and radical hermeneutic philosophy.

Revisionist analysis of the role of strong leadership in democracies, drawing primarily upon the work of Alexis de Tocqueville.

Provocative reinterpretation of Plato's Symposium.

A detailed study of political gridlock in Congress, offering an alternative perspective for evaluating its persistence and charting a course for change.

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

Argues that violence is no more reliable than any other means of conducting politics.

Levinas ahead of his time--and himself--on politics, postcolonialism and globalization, animals and the environment, and science and technology.

Key text never before in English by central figure of the Negritude movement.

A study of attitudes towards tragedy in both democratic and nondemocractic political theory.

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

Essays on Montesquieu and the influence of his thought from the eighteenth century to today.

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

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

Provocative exploration of a new concept of “joy” within psychoanalytic and cultural studies.

Examines the implications of Aristotle’s political thought for contemporary political theory.

Irreverent and incisive critique of liberal theories of the state.

An interdisciplinary study of nationalism drawing on the events of the French Revolution.

Innovative exploration of the relationship of Lacanian psychoanalysis to political and democratic theory.

How music functions as a metaphor and model for democracy.

Interprets Kant's conception of enlightenment within the broader philosophical project of his critique of reason.

Traces how progressive liberals in Edwardian Britain responded to contemporary intellectual trends.

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

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

Suffering and politics in the thought of Luther, Hobbes, Rousseau, and Nietzsche.