.... The chapter first considers how dictatorship became marginal, a minor presence throughout the development of medieval legal and political philosophy, and more specifically how the Roman model of dictatorship was displaced by the medieval theory of emergency. It then explains how the civic humanism...

...This chapter discusses the ways that community is presented in both modern political philosophy and literary criticism. It argues that a community-based discussion of literature that includes ideas from nationalist and regional discourses is a relevant step for considering the literary depictions...

...This book asserts that William Shakespeare's plays and poems possess elements of politics and political philosophy, or, more specifically, the rise of modern secular nationalism. Such a phrase can be defined as the decline in the political legitimacy of warrior and priestly castes...

... among the crofters and fishermen’ of Whalsay. The political philosophy of Red Scotland derives from John Maclean’s August 1920 declaration for a Scottish Workers’ Republic. From his exilic home in Whalsay, MacDiarmid’s poetry exhibits both revolutionary ardour and the loneliness of loss...

... exemplification experience human nature political ethics agonism Canovan Margaret theorist role of Hannah Arendt political thinker political philosophy theorising politics My assumption is that thought itself arises out of incidents of living experience and must remain bound to them as the only...

... the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus and the Tractatus Politicus. Caporali’s reconstruction of Spinoza’s political philosophy, alongside the historical context and events, is interwoven with with comparisons and references to Machiavelli, Descartes, Hobbes, Vico and Hegel, as well...

... this work, enables Deleuze's political philosophy to be better situated. It then argues that Deleuze provides a concept that can engage fruitfully with the work of Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben. Moreover, it reports how for Deleuze ‘becoming-imperceptible’ is indispensable to ‘becoming-revolutionary...

...Religion has long been a target for the critical weaponry of modern political philosophy. This book recognises the validity of many secular critiques of religion and the way in which they identify the potential perils of traditional modes of authority. It also suggests that religious faith can...

..., and belies misconceptions about patterns and causes of international migration that, the book later argues, pervade philosophical reasoning about immigration justice. This chapter also seeks to justify immigration as an important topic for political philosophy. It makes this case positively, and responds...

...G. W. F. Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important works in the history of political philosophy. It is broadly agreed that Hegel intended this work to be interpreted as a significant part of his greater system of speculative...

... senses of nature. dialectic absolute the Nature Second Nature Concrete Freedom Metaphysics/Ontology Social and Political Philosophy We learn the extent of [spirit’s] energies from the multiplicity of its forms and productions. In this longing for activity, it is only engaged with itself...

... culture, it explains how political philosophy in Russia has been the work both of academic philosophers and unaffiliated thinkers, including writers like Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. It examines the past and present state of political philosophy in Russia, both chronologically and conceptually, to highlight...

...This book is intended to be a contribution to the theological turn in political philosophy. It reinscribes contemporary political concepts and experiences in the ‘theological locus’ from which they supposedly come and at the same time looks for alternative semantic derivations for the political...

...It is now widely accepted that political representation is not merely a passive, ‘mirroring’ process, but that the process of political representation plays a constitutive role in the construction of citizens’ ideas and preferences. This chapter argues that French political philosophy points...

... with the work of Simone de Beauvoir. Building upon Kristeva's insistence on the singularity and plurality of life, it will be suggested that her engagement with Arendt's ideas establishes the framework of a political philosophy that could, potentially, come to shape a feminist appropriation of Kristeva's work...

...This chapter further develops the reference points of Kristeva's political philosophy that were established in the preceding chapter, but it asks a more specific question: how can we read Kristeva's philosophy of freedom as a feminist philosophy? And how does Kristeva's conception of freedom...

...This book explores the crucial concept of responsibility and the critical role it plays in Raymond Aron’s political philosophy. This book argues that it is a key concept that is found throughout Aron’s political thinking. Aron learned to appreciate the importance of responsibility from several...

... context of the history of political philosophy. What this experimental intersection serves to illuminate with great clarity and nuance is that from ancient times to the present day, democracy can be thought as a profound emancipatory and transformative project offering an unprecedented challenge to modes...