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Political Theory & Philosophy
This multidisciplinary collection of political science and philosophy titles sets the groundwork for studies in political theory or political philosophy, exploring how the theory and philosophy affect or reflect the political realities of the world.
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Applicative Justice
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Zack draws on empirical pragmatism to define applicative justice, because ‘Rawlsian ideal theorizing has nothing to offer for correcting real life injustice.’ The approach is based on Arthur Bentley’s claims in The Process of Government (1908) that just law can coexist with unjust practices, and that institutions and rules are nothing more than the actual realizations associated with them. A central example is the United Nations' Declaration of Human Rights promotion of a ‘general equality principle,’ which has not been a serious interest to world leaders. Applicative justice is the ‘extension of received functions of ordinary justice under ordinary law, to those who have been denied them in modern democratic societies.’ A barrier to achieving this is facing the delusion of the power of academic speech to change reality, and that social construction of race ‘may require the kind of faith found in activists within the black prophetic tradition.’. . .An excellent supplemental text for any course on justice.
Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.
Author
Naomi Zack
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Print publication date
Mar, 2016
EISBN
9781442260023
Word count
94,222
BISAC Keywords
Philosophy--Political
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Atheists in American Politics
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Author
Richard J. Meagher
Publisher
Lexington Books
Print publication date
Feb, 2018
EISBN
9781498558587
Word count
65,431
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Emily Tyler
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Complicity
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Author
Thomas Docherty
Publisher
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD INTERNATIONAL
Print publication date
Oct, 2016
EISBN
9781786601032
Word count
64,079
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Emily Tyler
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Cooperation and Excellence
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George Bragues’s well-written and thoroughly researched book is a much needed reminder to economists and others that there are thinkers before Adam Smith whose work is relevant to the case for capitalism. By also focusing on the pre-modern concern for community and other values often neglected in more modern arguments, Bragues helpfully expands the case for capitalism by emphasizing the importance of elements of human behavior other than self-interest.
Author
George Bragues
Publisher
Lexington Books
Print publication date
Jul, 2017
EISBN
9781498529747
Word count
111,895
BISAC Keywords
Business & Economics--General
Political Science--History & Theory
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Decolonizing Democracy
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Author
Ricardo Sanín-Restrepo
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Print publication date
Jun, 2016
EISBN
9781783487073
Word count
121,038
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Emily Tyler
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Democratization through Migration?
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Author
Christl Kessler
Stefan Rother
Publisher
Lexington Books
Print publication date
Mar, 2016
EISBN
9781498514224
Word count
69,063
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Emily Tyler
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Discourses on Violence and Punishment
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This book probes the extreme variation in discourses on violence and punishment. Its comprehensive examination brings together normative political-theoretical discourses on punishment, historical changes in violence and punishment, and perspectives on punishment from political powers, world religions, literature and film, criminology, and theodicy.
Author
Krešimir Petkovic
Publisher
Lexington Books
Print publication date
Jul, 2017
EISBN
9781498513456
Word count
303,443
BISAC Keywords
Law--Criminal LAW / General
Philosophy--Political
Political Science--History & Theory
Political Science--Public Policy / General
Social Science--Criminology
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Foreign Policy Discourses of the Obama Years
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Author
Melinda Kovács
Publisher
LEXINGTON BOOKS
Print publication date
Dec, 2017
EISBN
9781498520812
Copyright
LEXINGTON BOOKS
Word count
76,168
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Freedom and Dissatisfaction in the Works of Agnes Heller
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In this book, Lucy Jane Ward argues that although contemporary scholarship tends to divide Agnes Heller's work chronologically in terms of her “Marxist” and subsequent “post-Marxist” periods, a closer reading reveals her work as a continuing engagement both with and against Marx's idea of the human being rich in need.
Author
Lucy Jane Ward
Publisher
Lexington Books
Print publication date
Dec, 2016
EISBN
9780739189771
Word count
120,603
BISAC Keywords
Philosophy--Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Philosophy--Political
Philosophy--Hermeneutics
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Freedom and Political Order
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Freedom and Political Order: Traditional American Thought and Practice is an ambitious and thoughtful work of political philosophy by one of America’s greatest political theorists. This book is not only an indispensable resource for scholars, it’s a guide for understanding and thinking further about the relationship between liberty and politics. This book is a gem.
Author
Linda C. Raeder
Publisher
Lexington Books
Print publication date
Jan, 2018
EISBN
9781498566056
Word count
88,280
BISAC Keywords
Law--Constitutional
Philosophy--Political
Political Science--History & Theory
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Emily Tyler
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Honor in America?
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In a fine and unusually comprehensive analysis of honor in Tocqueville, Laurie Johnson shows how Tocqueville understood the sense of honor to shape American life in domains ranging from politics, business, and the military to family, religion, and race relations. The book makes an effective case for the continuing value of honor in liberal democratic societies today, and helps us envision a uniquely American code of honor attuned to the demands of our contemporary times.
Author
Laurie M. Johnson
Publisher
Lexington Books
Print publication date
Dec, 2016
EISBN
9780739190487
Word count
85,398
BISAC Keywords
Philosophy--Political
Political Science--General
Political Science--Civics & Citizenship
Political Science--History & Theory
Political Science--Political Ideologies / Democracy
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Just Liberal Violence
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Just Liberal Violence offers a much needed, carefully developed and highly original critique of the inadequacies of contemporary thinking about violence. Michael Neu masterfully succeeds where most academics fail, writing eloquently about topics of utmost political concern without sacrificing complexity and nuance. This engaging book is political theory at its very best: scholarly, but not scholastic; combative, but not polemical; timely, but not faddish. Anybody interested in understanding and responding to violence will have something to learn from it.
Author
Michael Neu
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield International
Print publication date
Nov, 2017
EISBN
9781786600660
Word count
72,077
BISAC Keywords
Philosophy--Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Philosophy--Political
Political Science--International Relations / General
Political Science--Human Rights
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Justice
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Author
Young Kim
Publisher
LEXINGTON BOOKS
Print publication date
Feb, 2018
EISBN
9781498559003
Word count
91,122
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Emily Tyler
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A Law of Peoples for Recognizing States
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What criteria should determine which states the international community recognizes? Should we set strict minimum standards or be flexible in the interest of bringing lagging states along in their progress toward justice? Should we recognize states that have seceded from other states, and under what conditions? These are the weighty questions Naticchia (California State Univ., San Bernardino) addresses in this work. Beginning from a starting point of John Rawls’s Law of Peoples, the author first provides a multichapter review of the criticism of Rawls’s social contract theory of international justice. The author concedes much of the criticism and, as a solution, seeks to transform Law of Peoples into a theory of state recognition rather than of international justice. While the review of criticism may be useful to the unfamiliar, it is a lengthy and arguably unnecessary windup for a project that stands on its own merits. That is, the author largely succeeds in creating a Rawlsian theory of recognition. He does so, insightfully, by placing recognition in the realm of Rawls’s nonideal theory for, if the community of nations were operating in the ideal realm, the question of recognition would be moot. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
Author
Chris Naticchia
Publisher
Lexington Books
Print publication date
Nov, 2016
EISBN
9781498526142
Word count
131,079
BISAC Keywords
Philosophy--Political
Philosophy--Social
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Emily Tyler
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The Limits of Politics
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This engaging yet deeply serious book deploys great literature to illuminate perennial political issues in the service of discovering the possibilities and limits of politics. The writing is lucid and conversational in the mode of a first-rate teacher. Its intention is to involve diverse readers in the shared joy of discovery, and there’s no superfluous scholarly baggage or pointless critical vanity. A huge amount of insight is displayed on remarkably few pages. The book deserves a wide audience, and I predict it will, in fact, find a place in many classes on politics and literature.
Author
Kyle Scott
Publisher
Lexington Books
Print publication date
Sep, 2016
EISBN
9781498503389
Word count
74,706
BISAC Keywords
Literary Criticism--General
Political Science--General
Political Science--History & Theory
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Emily Tyler
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Locke's Political Thought and the Oceans
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Pemberton uses original archival research and historically informed secondary scholarship to produce an insightful study of the relationship between Locke’s philosophically grounded writings on the origins of government and his role as adviser for imperial policy as a member of the Board of Trade. By examining the issues of piracy, penal slavery, and forced military service (especially naval impressment), she notes the tensions in Locke’s commitment to representative government and liberty and his strong advocacy of colonial settlement in the Americas that required the accoutrements of imperial power. Intersecting this tension was the felt need to turn the unemployed poor into productive citizens, using inducements and coercion to people the colonies with the labor of indentured servants. Locke’s agriculturalist theory of property, combined with his natural law theory of the commons, led to his defense of open seas and advocacy of international treaties to address issues of natural and domestic law jurisdictional conflicts. Locke’s writings on the oceans echo today in discussions of piracy, the extension of national sovereignty far into the ocean beds, and the defense of open international waters. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
Author
Sarah Pemberton
Publisher
Lexington Books
Print publication date
May, 2017
EISBN
9781498538220
Word count
83,664
BISAC Keywords
Law--General
Political Science--General
Political Science--History & Theory
Philosophy--Movements / Empiricism
History--Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714)
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Materialism and Social Inquiry in the Continental Tradition in Philosophy
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Koch (Appalachian State Univ.) provides a productive account of a materialist tradition within Continental philosophy. In lieu of the common narrative regarding Continental philosophy, which highlights the phenomenological tradition, Koch sheds light on an equally valuable tradition of materialist thought. Emphasizing (aspects of) materialism in Kant, Marx, Weber, Nietzsche, and the poststructuralists, he offers a contrast to the empiricist tradition of Hobbes and Hume as well as both positivism and phenomenology. He also takes Darwin to be a contributor to this tradition and gives his reader a concise defense for this. Scholars working in social theory, political theory, sociopolitical philosophy, and Continental philosophy will appreciate Koch’s exploration of materialism. More specifically, this book will be worthwhile for those interested in the divide between metaphysics and epistemology, the functions of consciousness, or the conditions for cognition. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
Author
Andrew M. Koch
Publisher
Lexington Books
Print publication date
Aug, 2017
EISBN
9781498551700
Word count
71,825
BISAC Keywords
Political Science--General
Political Science--History & Theory
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Emily Tyler
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Neoliberalism, the Security State, and the Quantification of Reality
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Author
David R. Lea
Publisher
Lexington Books
Print publication date
Dec, 2016
EISBN
9781498520089
Word count
100,824
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Emily Tyler
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New Neoliberalism and the Other
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What if Brazil, or more generally the South, could be taken seriously in re-conceptualizing global neoliberalism—its domination and resistances? In their brilliant and thought-provoking book, Cocco and Cava offer a strong theoretical and political framework to move beyond multicultural and dialectical traps by convincingly arguing for the centrality of subjectivities and the body as the exit from biopower.
Author
Giuseppe Cocco; Bruno Cava
Publisher
Lexington Books
Print publication date
Feb, 2018
EISBN
9781498526678
Word count
117,658
BISAC Keywords
Philosophy--Political
Political Science--General
Political Science--History & Theory
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Emily Tyler
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Political Science Revitalized
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Author
Michael Haas
Publisher
Lexington Books
Print publication date
Jul, 2017
EISBN
9781498556699
Word count
137,127
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Emily Tyler
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Politics of Anxiety
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Anxiety is arguably more fundamental to the human condition than any other emotion or affect. Yet we know comparatively little about its specificities. This book theorizes anxiety beyond the limits of 20th century psychoanalysis, and offers a novel approach to the politics of anxiety, demonstrating not just the dangers but potentials of anxiety for political subjects of the present.
Author
Emmy Eklundh; Andreja Zevnik; Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield International
Print publication date
Apr, 2017
EISBN
9781783489923
Word count
101,437
BISAC Keywords
Political Science--History & Theory
Political Science--International Relations / General
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Emily Tyler
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Politics of Divination
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Author
Joshua Ramey
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Print publication date
Sep, 2016
EISBN
9781783485543
Word count
88,014
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Emily Tyler
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The Politics of Virtue
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Author
John Milbank
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield International
Print publication date
Aug, 2016
EISBN
9781783486502
Word count
192,057
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Emily Tyler
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The Principle of the Separation of Powers
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Author
Zoltán Balázs
Publisher
LEXINGTON BOOKS
Print publication date
Dec, 2016
EISBN
9781498523356
Word count
89,352
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Emily Tyler
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The Question of Political Community
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Author
Jonna Pettersson
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd
Print publication date
Dec, 2018
EISBN
9781783488933
Word count
94,437
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Emily Tyler
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The Theological Origins of Liberalism
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Ismail Kurun’s book fills a gap in the literature on the emergence of liberalism.
Author
Ismail Kurun
Publisher
Lexington Books
Print publication date
Jul, 2016
EISBN
9781498527415
Word count
116,192
BISAC Keywords
Philosophy--Religious
Political Science--General
Political Science--History & Theory
Religion--Theology
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Emily Tyler
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Thinking about Technology
The author both situates us within the context of the philosophical tradition and opens us up to questions concerning our destiny as humans. This book is both well-conceived and elegantly written, and although it will find much interest among political scientists, political philosophers and those interested in the philosophy of science and technology, it also will be found accessible by generally informed, curious and concerned readers.
Author
Gil Germain
Publisher
Lexington Books
Print publication date
Aug, 2017
EISBN
9781498549547
Word count
78,290
BISAC Keywords
Political Science--History & Theory
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Emily Tyler
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Tolerance and Modern Liberalism
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Author
René González de la Vega
Publisher
LEXINGTON BOOKS
Print publication date
Oct, 2016
EISBN
9781498529075
Word count
102,259
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Emily Tyler
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Vindicating the Commercial Republic
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Author
Anthony A. Peacock
Publisher
Lexington Books
Print publication date
Apr, 2018
EISBN
9781498553483
Word count
199,135
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Emily Tyler
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