"Beginning with the proposition that not all art is political but all politics is aesthetic, Crispin Sartwell challenges overly sharp distinctions between the domains of art, craft, rhetoric, poetics, and politics. Political Aesthetics is a lively and provocative book highly rec…
"This book considers what provokes everyday 'views' or framings of inequality"-- "We have a detailed picture of how inequality impacts people’s lives, but a much weaker sense of how people perceive, interpret and understand issues of inequality. What shapes people’s everyday un…
"This volume argues that the commitment to justice is a fundamental motive and that it sometimes takes priority over self-interest"-- "This volume argues that the commitment to justice is a fundamental motive and that, although it is typically portrayed as serving self-interest…
Katrin Flikschuh offers an accessible introduction to divergent conceptions of freedom in contemporary liberal political philosophy.
"Politics is the process by which communities of people collectively decide to pursue certain courses of action and avoid others. It is, as such, always a matter of judgment. Courses of action are chosen at least in part because they are somehow thought to be - are adjudged - be…
A new ontology that forms the groundwork for ethical practices of resistance. What and how should individuals resist in political situations? While these questions recur regularly within Western political philosophy, answers to them have often relied on dogmatically held ideals,…
Offering the first full assessment of Heidegger's philosophy in the fields of International Studies and International Political Theory, this important volume provides a fresh intervention into the debate on globalization from a critical theory perspective. -- Provided by Publish…
Revision of papers originally presented at a conference held at India International Centre in Nov. 1997.
"Charles Taylor is one of the most influential contemporary philosophers, arguably the most important living political philosopher writing in English. Taylor and Politics assesses Taylor's thought and its relevance to contemporary political challenges, especially religion and se…
"Liberal Beginnings examines the origins and development of the modern liberal tradition and explores the relationship between republicanism and liberalism between 1750 and 1830. Andreas Kalyvas and Ira Katznelson consider the diverse settings of Scotland, the American colonies,…
Biografie van de Amerikaanse, uit Duitsland afkomstige filosofe (1906-1975) , hoogleraar in de politieke filosofie
