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The Historical Mind
(May 2020)
Humanistic Renewal in a Post-Constitutional Age
Justin D. Garrison - Editor
Ryan R. Holston - Editor
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Capital in the Mirror
(April 2020)
Critical Social Theory and the Aesthetic Dimension
Dan Krier - Editor
Mark P. Worrell - Editor
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Cosmopolitan Civility
(February 2020)
Global-Local Reflections with Fred Dallmayr
Ruth Abbey - Editor
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Essays reflecting on the prolific, pioneering, and wide-ranging scholarship of Fred Dallmayr.
Prolific and pioneering, Fred Dallmayr has been an active scholar for over fifty years. His research interests include modern andcontemporary political theory, hermeneutics, phenomenology, the FrankfurtSchool, continental political thought, democratic theory, multiculturalism, environmentalism, and cosmopolitanism. Dallmayr is also one...(Read More) |
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Announcements
(January 2020)
On Novelty
Kristina Mendicino - Author
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Friedrich Engels and Modern Social and Political Theory
(December 2019)
Paul Blackledge - Author
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Offers a powerful new interpretation of Engels’s contributions to modern social and political theory.
In this comprehensive overview of Friedrich Engels’s writings, Paul Blackledge critically explores Engels’s contributions to modern social and political theory generally and Marxism specifically. Through a careful examination both of Engels’s role in the forging of Marxism in the 1840s, and his contributi...(Read More) |
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Conflict in Aristotle's Political Philosophy
(November 2019)
Steven Skultety - Author
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Offers a careful analysis of how Aristotle understands civil war, partisanship, distrust in government, disagreement, and competition, and explores ways in which these views are relevant to contemporary political theory.
Do only modern thinkers like Machiavelli and Hobbes accept that conflict plays a significant role in the origin and maintenance of political community? In this book, Steven Skultety argues that Aristotle not on...(Read More) |
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Homer's Hero
(November 2019)
Human Excellence in the Iliad and the Odyssey
Michelle M. Kundmueller - Author
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Draws on Plato to argue that Homer elevated private life as the locus of true friendship and the catalyst of the highest human excellence.
Offering a new, Plato-inspired reading of the Iliad and the Odyssey, this book traces the divergent consequences of love of honor and love of one’s own private life for human excellence, justice, and politics. Analyzing Homer’s intricate character portraits, Michell...(Read More) |
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The Art of Jihad
(October 2019)
Realism in Islamic Political Thought
Malik Mufti - Author
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Identifies and traces the evolution of a forgotten “realist” tradition in medieval Islamic political thought, and considers the prospects for its revival in the context of the contemporary Middle East.
Now all but forgotten, there exists within medieval Islamic political thought a coherent “realist” tradition analogous to its Western counterpart. In The Art of Jihad, Malik Mufti begins by analyzing...(Read More) |
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The Politics of People
(September 2019)
Protest Cultures in China
Shih-Diing Liu - Author
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Explores the cultural dimensions of protest and dissent in China, focusing on dramatic forms of bodily, spatial, strategic, and artistic performativity.
Since the 1989 Tiananmen Square occupation, mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau have experienced an increase in and persistence of mass gatherings, demonstrations, and blockades staged as a means of protesting the ways in which people are governed. In this book, Shih-Diing Liu...(Read More) |
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