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)
Bastard Politics
(February 2021)
Sovereignty and Violence Nick Mansfield - Author
Argues that we need to reinvent sovereignty as a motive for democratic political action while remaining alert to its dangers, specifically its relationship to violence.
Sovereignty is usually seen as either the assertion of national rights in the face of external challenge or the cruel license of unaccountable power. In philosophy, sovereignty has been presented as the eart...(Read More)
Abolishing Boundaries
(January 2021)
Global Utopias in the Formation of Modern Chinese Political Thought, 1880–1940 Peter Zarrow - Author
Offers new perspectives on modern Chinese political thought.
Focusing on four key Chinese intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century, Abolishing Boundaries offers new perspectives on modern Chinese political thought. These four intellectuals—Kang Youwei, Cai Yuanpei, Chen Duxiu, and Hu Shi—were deeply familiar with the Confucian and Buddhist classical texts, w...(Read More)
The Specter of Babel
(November 2020)
A Reconstruction of Political Judgment Michael J. Thompson - Author
Presents a new way of thinking about fundamental political concepts such as freedom, justice, and the common good.
In an age of rising groupthink, reactionary populism, social conformity, and democratic deficit, political judgment in modern society has reached a state of crisis. In The Specter of Babel, Michael J. Thompson offers a critical reconstruction of the concept of political judgment that can help resuscitate cri...(Read More)
Contesting the Global Order
(September 2020)
The Radical Political Economy of Perry Anderson and Immanuel Wallerstein Gregory P. Williams - Author
Examines how events in the Cold War and post–Cold War periods shaped the intellectual projects of Perry Anderson and Immanuel Wallerstein.
Contesting the Global Order explores what it means to be a radical intellectual as political hopes fade. Gregory P. Williams chronicles the evolution of intellectual visionaries Perry Anderson and Immanuel Wallerstein, who despite altere...(Read More)
