This book explores democratic fragility, an underdeveloped concept in the analyses of contemporary political regimes. Diagnoses of fragility commonly occur when states are brought to the brink of the abyss. Democracy and Its Fragility: Mapping...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031918780)
This edited volume operationalizes the figure of the ghost and subsequent hauntings through Derrida’s framing of hauntology—in an effort to attend to the liminal spaces that exist between presence and absence throughout social...Loe edasi...
This volume provides a broad and comprehensive overview of the many ways in which pragmatism has influenced contemporary debates in philosophy of science....Loe edasi...
The collection offers a contribution to resistance to autocratization from scholars of eight countries in different stages of autocratization, as well as cross-cutting themes on international human rights institutions, sanctions, the political econo...Loe edasi...
An engrossing history of how Western philosophers have theorized the ugly from ancient times to the present day. Why has our preoccupation with concepts, standards, and theories of the beautiful not resulted in a correspondingly compreh...Loe edasi...
An engrossing history of how Western philosophers have theorized the ugly from ancient times to the present day. Why has our preoccupation with concepts, standards, and theories of the beautiful not resulted in a correspondingly compreh...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Open Universe, ISBN-13: 9781637700730)
Pokémon is one of the most amazing pop culture phenomena of our epoch, with deep metaphysical roots and profound philosophical implications. Pokémon and Philosophy celebrates this cultural icon while helping its readers unpack the hidden secrets of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Bodley Head Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781847928405)
What if a lie is told to reveal some underlying truth? Are feelings that seem inappropriate, such as the hysteria following the death of a celebrity, any less real or true than the grief we feel over the death of a loved one? Even if the plot of an...Loe edasi...
Focusing on the concept of slowness in Gilles Deleuzes philosophy, this book diverges from the conventional interpretation of Deleuze as a philosopher of speed or even accelerationism, instead delving into the minor but critical themes in his...Loe edasi...
This book explores the link between political revolt and philosophical pursuit of true life in Badious work. Approaching Alain Badiou as a militant thinker committed to diagnosing political disorders of his time and waging theoretical...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197692769)
What does it mean for something to be public? Its not always clear what this ever-important word means. Are we using the same idea of public when we talk about public education, or public safety, or public works? And how should we think a...Loe edasi...
This book provides a philosophical account of Martin Heideggers significant impact on contemporary Russian philosophy, specifically Aleksandr Dugin (1962-) and Vladimir Bibikhin (1938-2004)-- Provided by publisher. This book gives a...Loe edasi...
This book proposes an original reading of Foucault’s theory of the state in relation to the social sciences. In this text, Skornicki deconstructs the pseudo-obviousness in Foucauldian thought, namely that Michel Foucault’s new approach in political p...Loe edasi...
Feminist Responses to Crises and Dehumanization brings together academic knowledge with activist strategies and lived experiences from different socio-geographic angles bridging the gap between theory and on-the-ground impact....Loe edasi...
In this profoundly important reassessment of constitutional interpretation, the eminent legal philosopher Hadley Arkes argues that originalism alone is an inadequate answer to judicial activism. Untethered from “mere Natural Law”—the...Loe edasi...
On the forms of sabotage, insubordination, and invisible activity that evade the terrain of politics.Inhuman Resources centers on what gets stranded outside the border of the political. It develops an account of the forms of sab...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478032625)
In Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being, Ghassan Hage explores the great French social theorist’s work and revitalizes conventional and undertheorized aspects of his thinking. Hage focuses on Bourdieu’s concern with social being and...Loe edasi...
