Property damage constitutes a commonplace feature of global political protest. How then to evaluate it? Rejecting the tendency to conflate it with political violence, William E. Scheuerman grapples with the question of when, if ever, politically motivated property harms are justifiable, drawing on a wide range of timely real-world examples.
José Ortega y Gasset’s Liberalism Against Populism
Brendon Westler
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512826005
Pub Date: June 2024
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
In The Revolting Masses, Brendon Westler argues that we need to look beyond José Ortega y Gasset’s arguments about populism and democracy in his most famous work to recover the philosopher’s expansive political outlook and to identify his valuable contributions to the history and advancement of liberalism.
The essays collected in Between Utopia and Realism reflect on and refract Judith N. Shklar's major preoccupations throughout a lifetime of thinking and demonstrate the ways in which her work illuminates contemporary debates across political theory, international relations, and law.
In this book, political philosopher Adam Lovett combines empirical research and original philosophical analysis to reveal the failings of American democracy and examine their ethical consequences. He argues that these failings undermine the ethics of democracy and in turn, transform or even negate the rights and duties of ordinary citizens.
From kabbalistic theology to economic philanthropy, from race and nationalism in the United States to Israeli legal discourse and feminist activism, this key study of Jewish political thought holds the promise to reorient the field of political thought as a whole by expanding conceptions of what counts as “political.”
Examining conceptualizations of fanaticism from different geographical, political, temporal, and contextual backgrounds, Zachary R. Goldsmith’s political-philosophical history of the concept offers an argument and warning against fanaticism, demonstrating that it is antidemocratic, illiberal, antipolitical, and never necessary.
Human Rights as Human Independence offers a comprehensive, systematic, and complete account of the nature, sources, and scope of human rights that can be used to interpret international documents and make informed decisions about how human rights practice must be continued in the years to come.
