Analyzes contemporary capitalism through the products of culture and art for fresh insight into emancipatory possibilities concealed within capitalism’s darkest dynamics.

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

Explores the cultural dimensions of protest and dissent in China, focusing on dramatic forms of bodily, spatial, strategic, and artistic performativity.

Draws on Plato to argue that Homer elevated private life as the locus of true friendship and the catalyst of the highest human excellence.

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.

Identifies and traces the evolution of a forgotten “realist” tradition in medieval Islamic political thought, and considers the prospects for its revival in the context of the contemporary Middle East.

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

Offers a history of the role of investigations in radical political struggles from the nineteenth century forward.

A study of John Marshall's political thought with special emphasis on his views of constitutional legitimacy, sovereignty, citizenship, and national identity.

Diagnoses our contemporary spatial experience as fundamentally totalitarian through a multilayered critical theory of space.

Systematically addresses the philosophical implications of the postcolonial.

Examines US foreign and domestic policy through the narratives of post-9/11 US military veterans and the activism they are engaged in.

Studies the revolutionary theory of the Black Power Movement in the 1960s through ʼ70s, placing it within the broader social theory of black revolution in the United States since the nineteenth century.

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.

Discusses the conservative ideological and political attack on welfare in the United States.

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

Argues that affirming the irreducible differences between men and women can lead to more transformative politics than the struggle for abstract equality between the sexes.

Calls for a Foucauldian approach to political thought that is intrinsically resistant to power and subordination to public policy.

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

Defends confrontational modes of citizenship as a means to reinvigorate democratic participation and regime accountability.

In-depth study of the enduring impact of the 1970s debate between state theorists Ralph Miliband and Nicos Poulantzas.

Explores how white supremacist groups use popular music and culture to teach hate and promote violence.

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

Raises concerns about the degree to which the rule of law and emergency powers have become fundamentally entangled, using Israel as a case study.

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