![Pragmatism and the Wide View of Democracy]( "Pragmatism and the Wide View of Democracy")
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Frega, R. (2019)
The aim of this book is to provide a fresh, wider, and more compelling account of democracy than the one we usually find in conventional contemporary political theory. Telling the …
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![Arendt on Freedom, Liberation, and Revolution]( "Arendt on Freedom, Liberation, and Revolution")
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Hiruta, K. (Ed) (2019)
This edited volume focuses on what Hannah Arendt famously called “the raison d’être of politics”: freedom. The unique collection of essays clarifies her flagship idea of political …
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![The Philosophy of Affordances]( "The Philosophy of Affordances")
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Heras-Escribano, M. (2019)
This book is the first monograph fully devoted to analyzing the philosophical aspects of affordances. The concept of affordance, coined and developed in the field of ecological …
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![Penal Theories and Institutions]( "Penal Theories and Institutions")
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Foucault, M. (2018)
“What characterizes the act of justice is not resort to a court and to judges; it is not the intervention of magistrates (even if they had to be simple mediators or arbitrators). …
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![Moral Certainty and the Foundations of Morality]( "Moral Certainty and the Foundations of Morality")
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O'Hara, N. (2018)
What lies at the foundation of our moral beliefs? If we dig down far enough do we find that our moral values have no ground at all to stand on, and so are apt to collapse upon …
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![Animals and the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster]( "Animals and the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster")
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Itoh, M. (2018)
This book is the first comprehensive, in-depth English language study of the animals that were left behind in the exclusion zone in the wake of the nuclear meltdown of three of …
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![Knowledge, Morals and Practice in Kant’s Anthropology]( "Knowledge, Morals and Practice in Kant’s Anthropology")
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Lorini, G. (Ed), Louden, R. B. (Ed) (2018)
This volume sheds new light on Immanuel Kant’s conception of anthropology. Neither a careful and widespread search of the sources nor a merely theoretical speculation about Kant’s …
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![The Ethics of Policing and Imprisonment]( "The Ethics of Policing and Imprisonment")
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Gardner, M. (Ed), Weber, M. (Ed) (2018)
This volume considers the ethics of policing and imprisonment, focusing particularly on mass incarceration and police shootings in the United States. The contributors consider the …
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![Relativism and Post-Truth in Contemporary Society]( "Relativism and Post-Truth in Contemporary Society")
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Stenmark, M. (Ed), Fuller, S. (Ed), Zackariasson, U. (Ed) (2018)
This book approaches post-truth and relativism in a multidisciplinary fashion. Researchers from astrophysics, philosophy, psychology, media studies, religious studies, …
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![Transparency, Society and Subjectivity]( "Transparency, Society and Subjectivity")
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Alloa, E. (Ed), Thomä, D. (Ed) (2018)
This book critically engages with the idea of transparency whose ubiquitous demand stands in stark contrast to its lack of conceptual clarity. The book carefully examines this …
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![Towards a Philosophy of Narco Violence in Mexico]( "Towards a Philosophy of Narco Violence in Mexico")
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Misra, A. (2018)
This book explores the politics of narco-killing and public attitudes to violence and death in the Mexican Drug War. It examines questions such as the culture of human sacrifice, …
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![The Fragility of Tolerant Pluralism]( "The Fragility of Tolerant Pluralism")
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Fitz-Gibbon, A. (2017)
Sparked by the recent threats to an open and pluralistic society in both Europe and the United States, The Fragility of Tolerant Pluralism is an exploration of social and …
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![Secularization]( "Secularization")
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Steinvorth, U. (2017)
This book answers questions about secularization: Does it dissolve religion, or transform it into faith in a universally valid value? Is it restricted to the west or can it occur …
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![The Ethics of Silence]( "The Ethics of Silence")
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Billias, N., Vemuri, S. (2017)
This volume is an interdisciplinary exploration of the modalities, meanings, and practices of silence in contemporary social discourse. How is silence treated in different …
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![Retirement, Pensions and Justice]( "Retirement, Pensions and Justice")
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Hyde, M., Shand, R. (2017)
This book addresses the tendency to mischaracterise liberalism as a “neoliberal” reform project, arguing that liberal political philosophy is concerned only to sustain the …
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![Making a Case for Stricter Abortion Laws]( "Making a Case for Stricter Abortion Laws")
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Friberg-Fernros, H. (2017)
This book questions how abortion laws can be regulated in a time when abortion rights are still subject to intense debate. It addresses objections to basing abortion law on …
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![Subjectivity and Truth]( "Subjectivity and Truth")
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Foucault, M., Ewald, F. (Ed), Fontana, A. (Ed), Gros, F. (Ed) (2017)
“The working hypothesis is this: it is true that sexuality as experience is obviously not independent of codes and systems of prohibitions, but it needs to be recalled …
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![A Philosophy of Nationhood and the Modern Self]( "A Philosophy of Nationhood and the Modern Self")
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Rozynek, M. (2017)
This book delves into the philosophical presuppositions of modern political agency. Michal Rozynek explores the place of nationalism in an increasingly cosmopolitan world by …
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![To Be Born]( "To Be Born")
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Irigaray, L. (2017)
“According to the words of Phaedrus in the Symposium of Plato, Love, sometimes named Eros, has no parents, no age, no history, and its origin remains unknown to anyone. Love, …
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![Philosophy of the Anthropocene]( "Philosophy of the Anthropocene")
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Raffnsøe, S. (2016)
The Anthropocene is heralded as a new epoch distinguishing itself from all foregoing eons in the history of the Earth. It is characterized by the overarching importance of the …
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