Political Theory

Robert Nozick sharply distinguished his vision of the free society from egalitarian liberals such as John Rawls. Less remarked upon is the distinction he drew between the free society governed by a strictly limited government and the society without any government at all. In this volume, the editors..

Haworth argues that libertarianism is little more than a quasi-religious statement of faith: a market romance. Moreover, it is exposed as profoundly antithetical to the very freedom it purports to advance...

This is the first detailed study of anti-semitism, as an ideology, among the British. First published in 1979, it concentrates on the crucial period between 1876 and 1939 when, against a background of Jewish immigration, war or the threat of war, and social and economic unrest, hostility towards the..

Not just another book on Israel and Palestine, Arab-Jewish Activism in Israel-Palestine sets out to re-conceptualise the relationship between resistance and power in ethnically segregated spaces in general and the Israeli-Palestine context in particular. Marcelo Svirsky provides refreshingly new emp..

Not just another book on Israel and Palestine, Arab-Jewish Activism in Israel-Palestine sets out to re-conceptualise the relationship between resistance and power in ethnically segregated spaces in general and the Israeli-Palestine context in particular. Marcelo Svirsky provides refreshingly new emp..

 Examining legal theory, political theory and discussing specific cases to illustrate its claims, this book operates on three levels to expose the degree to which prisoners’ rights have been suspended and how immigrant policy and detention cast foreigners as inherently criminal...

 Examining legal theory, political theory and discussing specific cases to illustrate its claims, this book operates on three levels to expose the degree to which prisoners’ rights have been suspended and how immigrant policy and detention cast foreigners as inherently criminal...

As a sequel to Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty, this volume, published in 1919, expands Laski’s pluralist doctrine of the state, (using France as its reference) but covers rather broader ground, since its main object is to insist that the probem of sovereignty is only a special case of the pro..

This volume explores and critiques one of the most dynamic terrains of political theory sometimes referred to as 'Autonomist Marxism' or post-Operaismo. Taking three divergent manifestations of Autonomist Marxism found in the works of John Holloway, Antonio Negri and Paul Virno, David Eden examines ..

This book examines issues raised by feminist theory and contemporary political theory around questions of identity and autonomy. Drawing on Hegel, Wollstonecraft, Mill and de Beauvoir, it also features illustrative examples of real-world issues and dilemmas...

First published in 1999, this volume is an exploration of how deep autonomy goes into Western consciousness and whether autonomy is either universally necessary or necessary to democracy...

John Rawls' pioneering work of political philosophy A Theory of Justice has had far reaching influence on modern liberal political philosophy. In this book, Päivänsalo presents a deep analysis of Rawlsian canon and introduces a fresh theoretical framework to clarify and modify different elements o..