Throughout American history, some social movements, such as organized labor and the Christian Right, have forged influential…

Explores how diverse ethical traditions understand the political and property rights reflected in territorial and…

Sets out an understanding of personal identity and the self, thereby providing a naturalistic account of surviving death.…

Did post-Enlightenment philosophers reject the idea of original sin and hence the view that life is a quest for redemption…

"Updated with a new chapter on the Age of Obama."--Cover.…

Hume's Politics provides a comprehensive examination of David Hume's political theory, and is the first book to focus on…

Testing the revisionist model of global regulatory governance on an unusually wide variety of cases, including the Internet,…

In work, as in other areas of life, it is not always clear what standards we are being judged by or how our worth is being…

Brings together economists, anthropologists, historians, and philosophers for an examination of the practical and ethical…

In this lively and informative volume Professor Corbett examines the role of law in the relations of nations, focusing on…

Camille Saint-Sans - perhaps the foremost French musical figure of the late nineteenth century and a composer who wrote in…

Brings together a range of leading philosophers and social scientists to probe the political controversy surrounding…

Whether our personality, intelligence, and behavior are more likely to be shaped by our environment or our genetic coding is…

What should we expect from democracy, and how likely is it that democracies will live up to those expectations? This work…

Explores the moral terrain of America, analyzing the widely held perception that the nation is in moral decline. This book…

Hobbes' extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and…

What does it mean to live during wartime away from the battle zone? This title considers how those left on the home front…

Anatomizes what's fundamentally at stake when we think of literature in terms of the experience of the reader rather than…

Why did Greek tragedy and "the tragic" come to be seen as essential to conceptions of modernity? And how has this belief…

Allan Christelow examines the Muslim courts of Algeria from 1854, when the French first intervened in Islamic legal matters,…

The Shadow of Death is a timely and ambitious reassessment of English Romantic literature and the unique role it played in…

Presents an analytical framework to explain regulatory outcomes at the global level. This book offers a series of case…

A collection of essays, addressing the core subjects of political philosophy such as justice, liberty, and equality; the…

Multiculturalism has been blamed for encouraging oppression of women. Many critics opportunistically deploy gender equality…

Compares the demographic characteristics and political views of voters and nonvoters in American presidential elections…

Offers a reading of certain of Simonides' texts and aligns these with writings of the modern Romanian poet Paul Celan.…

For much of the twentieth century, Confucianism was condemned by Westerners and East Asians alike as antithetical to…

Outlines the various ways in which theorists from Hobbes to Rawls have gone wrong in denying or ignoring indeterminacy, and…