Human Science / Philosophy / Political

Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism: Theories in Tension

by Stephen C. Dilley

Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism brings together a collection of new essays that examine the multifaceted ferment between Darwinian biology and classical liberalism. The volume will be of interest...

Dispatches from the Occupation: A History of Change

by Stephen Collis

Investigates one of philosophy's ongoing preoccupations—change—articulating its patterns across disciplines and through eras, from Ancient Rome to the Occupy Movement.

Bloodrites of the Post-Structuralists: Word Flesh and Revolution

by Anne Norton

How do you write history when it's no longer linear? In Bloodrites of the Post-Structuralists, respected political theorist Anne Norton reminds us of the real interplay between words (laws, scriptures, myths,...

Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare

by Bertrand Russell

Available for the first time in many years, Commonsense and Nuclear Warfare presents Russell's keen insights into the threat of nuclear conflict, and his argument that the only way to end this threat is to end...

Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics: An Introduction

by Todd Landman

Building on the strengths of the first edition, this accessible and user-friendly textbook explores the strategies of comparative research in political science. It begins by examining different methods, then...

Richard Wagner and the Centrality of Love

by Barry Emslie

Richard Wagner and the Centrality of Love' is a bold book which argues that Wagner's music dramas cannot be understood if treated separately from his essays, his life, the intellectual and artistic climate of...

Pliny's Defense of Empire

by Thomas R. Laehn

Despite perennial interest in Pliny the Elder's Natural History, the world's first encyclopedia, as a record of the prodigious, the quotidian, and the useful in Rome in the first century AD, for centuries Pliny...

Deleuze & Guattari: Emergent Law

by Jamie Murray

Deleuze & Guattari: Emergent Law is an exposition and development of Deleuze & Guattari's legal theory. Although there has been considerable interest in Deleuze & Guattari in critical legal studies, as well...

The Prince

by Niccolo Machiavelli & George Bull

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves—and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged,...

Social and Political Thought of Noam Chomsky

by Alison Edgley

The Social and Political Thought of Noam Chomsky questions Chomsky's claim not to have a theory about the relationship between human beings and their society other than that which 'can be written on the back...

Hobbes's Theory of Will: Ideological Reasons and Historical Circumstances

by Jürgen Overhoff

In Hobbes's Theory of the Will, Jurgen Overhoff reveals the religious, ethical, and political consequences of Thomas Hobbes's doctrine of volition. The author gracefully describes how Hobbes's thought was governed...

History of American Political Thought

by Bryan-Paul Frost & Jeffrey Sikkenga

This book is a collection of secondary essays on America's most important philosophic thinkers-statesmen, judges, writers, educators, and activists-from the colonial period to the present. Each essay is a comprehensive...

Historical Sociology and Eastern European Development: A Rokkanian Approach

by Arne Kommisrud

Covering a period from the Middle Ages through the 1990s, and addressing phenomena overlooked by Rokkan such as statebuilding and nationalism, this book demonstrates that Rokkan's models continue to be relevant...

Gandhi the Man iPad Edition: How One Man Changed Himself to Change the World

by Eknath Easwaran

Designed for the iPad, with more than 70 photographs, this is the moving story of a nonviolent hero, told by a highly respected author who grew up in Gandhi’s India.

Gandhi’s life continues to inspire and...

Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities

by Anna Sun

Is Confucianism a religion? If so, why do most Chinese think it isn't? From ancient Confucian temples, to nineteenth-century archives, to the testimony of people interviewed by the author throughout China over...

The Open Society and Its Enemies (New One-Volume Edition)

by Karl Raimund Popper, E. H. Gombrich & Alan Ryan

One of the most important books of the twentieth century, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of...

Socratic Charis: Philosophy without the Agon

by Lisa Atwood Wilkinson

This work offers an evaluation of Plato’s portrayal of “Socrates” in relation to models of the ancient Greek “agon”, oral poetic performance, and the practices of “xenia”. The author reinterprets...

Why Not Socialism?

by G. A. Cohen

Is socialism desirable? Is it even possible? In this concise book, one of the world's leading political philosophers presents with clarity and wit a compelling moral case for socialism and argues that the obstacles...

Arab-Jewish Activism in Israel-Palestine

by Marcelo Svirsky

Not just another book on Israel and Palestine, Arab-Jewish Activism in Israel-Palestine sets out to re-conceptualise the relationship between resistance and power in ethnically segregated spaces in general and...

The Ashgate Research Companion to Secession

by Aleksandar Pavkovic & Peter Radan

This research companion has three complementary aims. First, to offer an overview of the current theoretical approaches to secession in the social sciences, international relations, legal theory, political theory...