Polity

In this new book Zygmunt Bauman and Riccardo Mazzeo examine the contentious issue of the relation between literature (and the arts in general) and ...

Why bother to praise mathematics when you claim, as Alain Badiou does, that philosophy is first and foremost a metaphysics of happiness, or else it...

Why bother to praise mathematics when you claim, as Alain Badiou does, that philosophy is first and foremost a metaphysics of happiness, or else it...

In this important volume, the leading political theorist and philosopher Norberto Bobbio confronts some of the most enduring moral questions of our...

In this important volume, the leading political theorist and philosopher Norberto Bobbio confronts some of the most enduring moral questions of our...

What kind of philosophy do we need for the 21st century? To answer to this question, Alain Badiou imagines a dialogue between Tocéras, an earnest ...

What kind of philosophy do we need for the 21st century? To answer to this question, Alain Badiou imagines a dialogue between Tocéras, an earnest ...

Against the backdrop of an alarming rise in authoritarianism and the crisis of liberal democracy, few would consider extoling the virtues of politi...

Against the backdrop of an alarming rise in authoritarianism and the crisis of liberal democracy, few would consider extoling the virtues of politi...

The earth is not a dead, mute landscape but an eloquent, living being. Sometimes it just takes a spade, a packet of seeds, and a pair of sturdy boo...

In Praise of Theatre is Alain Badiou’s latest work on the ‘most complete of the arts,’ the theatrical stage. This book, certain to be of great inte...

In Praise of Theatre is Alain Badiou’s latest work on the ‘most complete of the arts,’ the theatrical stage. This book, certain to be of great inte...

This important book by two leading scholars of Africa examines a series of issues that are central to the question of the postcolonial. The postco...

This important book by two leading scholars of Africa examines a series of issues that are central to the question of the postcolonial. The postco...

The world cannot address its pressing environmental problems without China. But can China be relied upon as a steadfast steward of nature, as its l...

The world cannot address its pressing environmental problems without China. But can China be relied upon as a steadfast steward of nature, as its l...

We live in a world which no longer questions itself, which lives from one day to another managing successive crises and struggling to brace itself ...

We live in a world which no longer questions itself, which lives from one day to another managing successive crises and struggling to brace itself ...

It is commonly assumed that the rise of modern democracies put an end to the spectacular and ceremonial aspects of political rule that were so char...

It is commonly assumed that the rise of modern democracies put an end to the spectacular and ceremonial aspects of political rule that were so char...

Twenty metres below water, the oceanographer François Sarano came face to face with a five-and-a-half metre great white shark. Seduced by the gentl...

Twenty metres below water, the oceanographer François Sarano came face to face with a five-and-a-half metre great white shark. Seduced by the gentl...

The work of Michel Houellebecq – one of the most widely read and controversial novelists of our time – is marked by the thought of Schopenhauer. Wh...

The work of Michel Houellebecq – one of the most widely read and controversial novelists of our time – is marked by the thought of Schopenhauer. Wh...