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Capitalism for All
(January 2022)
Realizing Its Liberal Promise
Neil E. Harrison - Author
John Mikler - Author
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Liberating Revolution
(January 2022)
Emancipating Radical Change from the State
Nathan Eckstrand - Author
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Provides a novel conceptual and practical theory of revolution, engaging previous theories of revolution, contemporary continental philosophy, and systems theory.
Liberating Revolution challenges the idea that we understand what revolution is. All current understandings of revolution are different ways of portraying the state. To liberate revolution, we must explain radical ...(Read More) |
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Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal Education
(November 2021)
Timothy W. Burns - Author
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The first book-length study of Leo Strauss' understanding of the relation between modern democracy, technology, and liberal education.
Liberal democracy is today under unprecedented attack from both the left and the right. Offering a fresh and penetrating examination of how Leo Strauss understood the emergence of liberal democracy and what is necessary to sustain and elevate it, ...(Read More) |
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The Tyranny of Common Sense
(November 2021)
Mexico's Post-Neoliberal Conversion
Irmgard Emmelhainz - Author
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Elucidates how neoliberalism rules all areas of life and operates as a form of common sense, taking Mexico as a case study.
As one of the first countries to implement a neoliberal state apparatus, Mexico serves as a prime example of the effects of neoliberal structural economic reform on our sensibility. Irgmard Emmelhainz argues that, in addition to functioning as a form of politi...(Read More) |
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Battling the Prince
(August 2021)
A Woman Fights for Democracy
Claire Snyder-Hall - Author
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This political memoir exposes the weaknesses of democratic culture in the United States and suggests ways to strengthen it in the face of rising authoritarianism.
What happens when a democratic theory professor gets involved with the Democratic Party? In this political memoir, Claire Snyder-Hall shares lessons learned from eight years in party politics. She tells the story of organ...(Read More) |
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Antigone in the Americas
(July 2021)
Democracy, Sexuality, and Death in the Settler Colonial Present
Andrés Fabián Henao Castro - Author
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Argues for a decolonial reinterpretation of Sophocles’ classical tragedy, Antigone, that can help us to rethink the anti-colonial politics of militant mourning in the Americas.
Sophocles’s classical tragedy, Antigone, is continually reinvented, particularly in the Americas. Theater practitioners and political theorists alike revisit the story to hold states accountable for t...(Read More) |
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Material Insurgency
(July 2021)
Towards a Distributed Environmental Politics
Andrew M. Rose - Author
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Examines emerging new materialist and posthuman conceptions of subjectivity and agency, and explores their increasing significance for contemporary climate change environmentalism.
In Material Insurgency, Andrew M. Rose examines emerging new materialist and posthuman conceptions of subjectivity and agency and explores their increasing significance for contemporary climate ch...(Read More) |
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Leo Strauss and Contemporary Thought
(June 2021)
Reading Outside the Lines
Jeffrey A. Bernstein - Editor
Jade Larissa Schiff - Editor
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Broadens the horizons of Strauss’s thought by initiating dialogues between him and figures with whom little or no dialogue has yet occurred.
Leo Strauss’s readings of historical figures in the philosophical tradition have been justly well explored; however, his relation to contemporary thinkers has not enjoyed the same coverage. In Leo Strauss and Contemporary Thought, an in...(Read More) |
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A Dangerous Passion
(May 2021)
Leadership and the Question of Honor
Haig Patapan - Author
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Shows the importance of honor for leaders, both as a source of noble ambition to pursue the public good and as dangerous temptation to seek glory through domination.
A Dangerous Passion argues that leadership and honor are mutually constitutive and that this dynamic relationship fundamentally shapes the character of political practice. Haig Patapan shows how our contemporary...(Read More) |
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Contribution to the Correction of the Public's Judgments on the French Revolution
(March 2021)
J. G. Fichte - Author
Jeffrey Church - Editor, translator and introduction by
Anna Marisa Schön - Editor, translator and introduction by
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First translation into English of Fichte’s major work on the French Revolution.
The reception history of the French Revolution in France and England is well documented among Anglophone scholars; however, the debate over the Revolution in Germany is much less well known. Fichte’s Contribution played an important role in this debate. Presented here for the first time in Engli...(Read More) |
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