polity

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the central questions and debates in contemporary political thought and offers guidelines for the ...

People so often focus on the negative aspects of politics, like greed and corruption, but without politics we would be lost. It frames everything w...

People so often focus on the negative aspects of politics, like greed and corruption, but without politics we would be lost. It frames everything w...

Written by one of the leading ancient historians in the world today, this book shows how politics in the ancient world has been interpreted and re-...

In this book the influential philosopher Jacques Rancière, in discussion with Peter Engelmann, explores the enduring connection between politics an...

In this book the influential philosopher Jacques Rancière, in discussion with Peter Engelmann, explores the enduring connection between politics an...

Politics was once regarded as an activity which could give human societies control over their fate. However, there is now a deep pessimism about th...

Politics was once regarded as an activity which could give human societies control over their fate. However, there is now a deep pessimism about th...

Public disenchantment with politics has become a key feature of the world in which we live. Politicians are increasingly viewed with suspicion and ...

For some while we have been witnessing a series of destructive phenomena which seem to indicate a full-fledged return to the negative on the world ...

For some while we have been witnessing a series of destructive phenomena which seem to indicate a full-fledged return to the negative on the world ...

In an age where film stars become presidents and politicians appear in pop videos, politics and popular culture have become inextricably interlinke...

Islamic fundamentalists wreck the financial heart of New York; Hindus destroy a mosque at Ayodhya; Orthodox Jews battle Palestinians for possession...

Islamic fundamentalists wreck the financial heart of New York; Hindus destroy a mosque at Ayodhya; Orthodox Jews battle Palestinians for possession...

This is the fifth and final volume based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the Collège de France in the early 1980s under the title ‘Gene...

This book provides an interpretation of one of the key aspects of Max Weber’s work: the relationship between his political and sociological writing...

The Anthropocene has become central to understanding the intimate connections between human life and the natural environment, but it has fractured ...

The Anthropocene has become central to understanding the intimate connections between human life and the natural environment, but it has fractured ...

Catastrophic events like the bombing of Hiroshima, Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans, and drone strikes periodically achieve renewed p...

Catastrophic events like the bombing of Hiroshima, Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans, and drone strikes periodically achieve renewed p...

Worldwide, human lives are rapidly improving. Education, health-care, technology, and political participation are becoming ever more universal, emp...

Worldwide, human lives are rapidly improving. Education, health-care, technology, and political participation are becoming ever more universal, emp...

In this book Geoff Mulgan offers a powerful analysis of the crisis of contemporary politics and argues that a new politics based around the quality...

The establishment of durable, democratic institutions constitutes one of the major challenges of our age. As countless contemporary examples have s...