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Making All the World America
Native Information and the Doctrine of Discovery
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512829297
Pub Date: April 2026
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
England’s Israel and the Foundations of Modern Political Thought
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512827804
Pub Date: July 2025
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
Meirav Jones shows how political theory did not develop solely from within a conversation among elites; neither was it conceived as a Godless enterprise. She argues that the foundations of modern politics were laid in conversation with theological politics and in negotiation with Jewish ideas and ideas of the Jews.
Xenophon's Socratic Education
Reason, Religion, and the Limits of Politics
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512826845
Pub Date: September 2024
Format: Paperback
240 Pages
In Xenophon's Socratic Education, through a careful reading of Book IV of Xenophon's Memorabilia, Dustin Sebell shows how Socrates ascended, with his students in tow, from moral or political opinion to knowledge.
The Revolting Masses
José Ortega y Gasset’s Liberalism Against Populism
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.
Artificial Life After Frankenstein
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512826173
Pub Date: May 2024
Format: Paperback
306 Pages
Beginning with Mary Shelley's great novels, Frankenstein and The Last Man, Eileen Hunt Botting's Artificial Life After Frankenstein reveals the techno-political stakes of modern political science fiction and brings them to bear upon the ethics and politics of making artificial life and intelligence in the twenty-first century.
Democratic Failures and the Ethics of Democracy
Price: $74.95
ISBN: 9781512825794
Pub Date: April 2024
Format: Hardcover
304 Pages
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.
The First Last Man
Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812254020
Pub Date: April 2024
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
Mary Shelley’s enduring contribution stems perhaps from the legacy of her lesser-known novel, The Last Man (1826). Reading Shelley’s fiction alongside her other writings, including her personal journals, Eileen M. Hunt reveals how Shelley gave rise to a tradition of postapocalyptic thought that asks: What do humans do after disaster?
The King Is in the Field
Essays in Modern Jewish Political Thought
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512824094
Pub Date: June 2023
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
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.”
Fanaticism
A Political Philosophical History
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780812254037
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Hardcover
208 Pages
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.
Referendums and Ethnic Conflict
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812225266
Pub Date: April 2022
Format: Paperback
208 Pages
This updated and revised edition of Referendums and Ethnic Conflict features recent referendums, including Scotland (2014), Catalonia (2017), and the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom (2016), among others, through 2020. The book's political framework also addresses new developments such as identity politics, social media, and populism.
Making All the World America
Native Information and the Doctrine of Discovery
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512829297
Pub Date: April 2026
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
England’s Israel and the Foundations of Modern Political Thought
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512827804
Pub Date: July 2025
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
Meirav Jones shows how political theory did not develop solely from within a conversation among elites; neither was it conceived as a Godless enterprise. She argues that the foundations of modern politics were laid in conversation with theological politics and in negotiation with Jewish ideas and ideas of the Jews.
Xenophon's Socratic Education
Reason, Religion, and the Limits of Politics
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512826845
Pub Date: September 2024
Format: Paperback
240 Pages
In Xenophon's Socratic Education, through a careful reading of Book IV of Xenophon's Memorabilia, Dustin Sebell shows how Socrates ascended, with his students in tow, from moral or political opinion to knowledge.
The Revolting Masses
José Ortega y Gasset’s Liberalism Against Populism
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.
Artificial Life After Frankenstein
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512826173
Pub Date: May 2024
Format: Paperback
306 Pages
Beginning with Mary Shelley's great novels, Frankenstein and The Last Man, Eileen Hunt Botting's Artificial Life After Frankenstein reveals the techno-political stakes of modern political science fiction and brings them to bear upon the ethics and politics of making artificial life and intelligence in the twenty-first century.
Democratic Failures and the Ethics of Democracy
Price: $74.95
ISBN: 9781512825794
Pub Date: April 2024
Format: Hardcover
304 Pages
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.
The First Last Man
Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812254020
Pub Date: April 2024
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
Mary Shelley’s enduring contribution stems perhaps from the legacy of her lesser-known novel, The Last Man (1826). Reading Shelley’s fiction alongside her other writings, including her personal journals, Eileen M. Hunt reveals how Shelley gave rise to a tradition of postapocalyptic thought that asks: What do humans do after disaster?
The King Is in the Field
Essays in Modern Jewish Political Thought
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512824094
Pub Date: June 2023
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
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.”
Fanaticism
A Political Philosophical History
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780812254037
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Hardcover
208 Pages
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.
Referendums and Ethnic Conflict
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812225266
Pub Date: April 2022
Format: Paperback
208 Pages
This updated and revised edition of Referendums and Ethnic Conflict features recent referendums, including Scotland (2014), Catalonia (2017), and the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom (2016), among others, through 2020. The book's political framework also addresses new developments such as identity politics, social media, and populism.