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Even Paranoids Have Enemies
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 40.95'Even paranoids have enemies' is the reply Golda Meir is said to have made to Henry Kissinger who, during the 1973 Sinai talks, accused her of being paranoid for hesitating to grant further concessions to the Arabs. It is used as part of the title of this book to highlight the complex relationship between paranoia and persecution. The politics of... more...
Identifying Citizens
Wiley 2013; US$ 59.95New ID card systems are proliferating around the world. These may use digitized fingerprints or photos, may be contactless, using a scanner, and above all, may rely on computerized registries of personal information. In this timely new contribution, David Lyon argues that such IDs represent a fresh phase in the long-term attempts of modern states to... more...
Plato's Republic
Wiley 2013; US$ 39.95Plato's Republic is one of the most well-known and widely discussed texts in the history of philosophy, but how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2500 years after it was originally composed? Alain Badiou invents a new genre in order to breathe fresh life into Plato's text and restore its universality. Rather than producing yet another... more...
Justice in a Changing World
Wiley 2013; US$ 24.95Should governments give special rights to ethnic and cultural minorities? Should rich countries open their borders to economic immigrants or transfer resources to poor countries? When framing and implementing economic and environmental policies, should current generations take into account the interests of future generations? If our political community... more...
The Message of Plato (RLE: Plato)
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 115.00Edward Urwick?s original work draws upon Plato?s best known work, the Republic, to provide a new interpretation of Plato?s teaching based upon Indian religious thought. Most scholars have sought to interpret the Republic from the standpoint of politics, ethics, and metaphysics and indeed the accepted title of the dialogue ? Concerning a Polity or... more...
The Strange Non-death of Neo-liberalism
Wiley 2013; US$ 19.95Winner of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung prize The financial crisis seemed to present a fundamental challenge to neo-liberalism, the body of ideas that have constituted the political orthodoxy of most advanced economies in recent decades. Colin Crouch argues in this book that it will shrug off this challenge. The reason is that while neo-liberalism... more...
The Rise and Fall of Human Rights
Stanford University Press 2013; US$ 24.95The Rise and Fall of Human Rights provides a groundbreaking ethnographic investigation of the Palestinian human rights world—its NGOs, activists, and "victims," as well as their politics, training, and discourse—since 1979. Though human rights activity began as a means of struggle against the Israeli occupation, it has since been professionalized... more...
Responsibility and Justice
Wiley 2013; US$ 64.95In this lively and accessible book, Matt Matravers considers the role of responsibility in politics, morality and the law. In recent years, responsibility has taken a central place in our lives. In politics, both Tony Blair and George W. Bush have claimed that individual responsibility is at the centre of their policy agendas. In morality and the law,... more...
Letters to a Young Progressive
Regnery Publishing 2013; US$ 24.95Born the son of a farmer, 19-year old Ty goes off to college, fulfilling his father?s dream of a better life. The only mistake was sending Ty to a liberal university. Sure enough, in his second year, Ty begins to reject his father?s values?the very values of hard work and individual responsibility that provided him his education. The biggest fear... more...
Freedom
Wiley 2013; US$ 22.95In this engaging new book, Katrin Flikschuh offers an accessible introduction to divergent conceptions of freedom in contemporary liberal political philosophy. Beginning with a discussion of Isaiah Berlin's seminal distinction between negative and positive liberty, the book goes on to consider Gerald MacCallums alternative proposal of freedom as a... more...









