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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
The Routledge Handbook of Political Islam provides a multidisciplinary overview of the phenomenon of political Islam, one of the key political movements of our time. Drawing on the expertise from some of the top scholars in the world it examines the main issues surrounding political Islam across the...
Political Action in Václav Havel's Thought
The Responsibility of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Political Action in Vaclav Havel’s Thought: The Responsibility of Resistance, by Delia Popescu, examines resistance to oppression and individual responsibility in political action, all in the context of Vaclav Havel’s political philosophy. The famous anti-communist dissident, acclaimed playwright,...
Arbitrary Rule
Slavery, Tyranny, and the Power of Life and Death
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Slavery appears as a figurative construct during the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century, and again in the American and French revolutions, when radicals represent their treatment as a form of political slavery. What, if anything, does figurative, political slavery have to do with transatlantic...
Form of Politics
Aristotle and Plato on Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
For statesmen, friendship is the lingua franca of politics. Considering the connections between personal and political friendship, John von Heyking’s The Form of Politics interprets the texts of Plato and Aristotle and emphasizes the role that friendship has in enduring philosophical and contemporary...
Pax Gandhiana
The Political Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Notwithstanding his contributions to religion, nonviolence, civil rights, and civil disobedience, among other areas, Gandhi's most significant contribution is that as a political philosopher. While he is not often treated as such, Gandhi was, as Anthony J. Parel argues, a political philosopher sui...
An Archaeology of the Political
Regimes of Power from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
In the past few decades, much political-philosophical reflection has been dedicated to the realm of "the political." Many of the key figures in contemporary political theory—Jacques Rancière, Alain Badiou, Reinhart Koselleck, Giorgio Agamben, Ernesto Laclau, and Slavoj iek, among...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Aimed at scholars, students and lay persons interested in peace and conflict studies, The Ashgate Research Companion to Political Violence is a comprehensive resource to understand the principal debates on political violence, a field which is becoming an increasingly important part of courses on peace...
Matter and Form
From Natural Science to Political Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Matter and Form explores the relationship that has long existed between natural science and political philosophy. Plato's Socrates articulates the Ideas or Forms as an account of the ultimate source of causality in the cosmos. Aristotle's natural philosophy had a significant impact on his political...
Peacebuilding and Ex-Combatants
Political Reintegration in Liberia
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
The book examines how ex-combatants in post-war and peacebuilding settings engage in politics, as seen in the case of Liberia.
The political mobilization of former combatants after war is often perceived as a threat, ultimately undermining the security and stability of the state. This book...
Liberty, Conscience, and Toleration
The Political Thought of William Penn
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
In a seventeenth-century English landscape populated with towering political and philosophical figures like Hobbes, Harrington, Cromwell, Milton, and Locke, William Penn remains in many ways a man apart. Yet despite being widely neglected by scholars, he was a sophisticated political thinker who contributed...
by Heinrich Meier
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
Heinrich Meier’s guiding insight in Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion is that philosophy must prove its right and its necessity in the face of the claim to truth and demand obedience of its most powerful opponent, revealed religion. Philosophy must rationally justify and...
by Joseph R. Fornieri
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
What constitutes Lincoln’s political greatness as a statesman? As a great leader, he saved the Union, presided over the end of slavery, and helped to pave the way for an interracial democracy. His great speeches provide enduring wisdom about human equality, democracy, free labor, and free society....
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
One of the potentially explosive issues of the modern era is a vast and growing disparity between the overwhelming predominance of elites in the decision-making process and the democratic ideal that people should participate in making decisions that vitally affect them. In this book an impressive...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Until recently, discussions of compromise have been largely absent in political theory. However, political theorists have become increasingly interested in understanding the practice and justification of compromise in politics. This interest is connected to the increased concern with pluralism and...