Political Theory
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Crediting God (Hardcover)
Sovereignty and Religion in the Age of Global Capitalism Edited by Miguel VatterPrice: $80.00Tocqueville suggested that "the people reign in the American political world like God over the universe.” This intuition anticipates the crisis in the secularization paradigm that has brought theology back as a fundamental part of sociological and political analysis. It has become more...
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Speaking about Torture (Hardcover)
Edited by Julie A. Carlson, and Elisabeth WeberPrice: $95.00This collection of essays is the first book to take up the urgent issue of torture from the array of approaches offered by the arts and humanities. In the post-9/11 era, where we are once again compelled to entertain debates about the legality of torture, this volume speaks about the practice in...
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Terms of the Political (Hardcover)
Community, Immunity, Biopolitics Roberto Esposito, Translated by Rhiannon Noel Welch, with an Introduction by Vanessa LemmPrice: $75.00Terms of the Political: Community, Immunity, Biopolitics presents a decade of thought about the origins and possibilities of political theory from one of contemporary Italy’s most prolific and engaging political theorists, Roberto Esposito. He has coined a number of critical concepts in...
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Lost Unicorns of the Velvet Revolutions (Hardcover)
Heterotopias of the Seminar Miglena NikolchinaPrice: $65.00This book examines the eastern European seminar of the late 1980s and early 1990s—an ongoing academic meeting place outside the formal rubric of the university—tracing its evolution into a social movement on the street and identifying the political force of the theoretical...
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Against Democracy (Hardcover)
Literary Experience in the Era of Emancipations Simon DuringPrice: $70.00This book argues that we can no longer envision a political system that might practically displace democracy or, more accurately, global democratic state capitalism. Democracy has become fundamental: It extends deeper and deeper into everyday life; it grounds and limits our political thought and...
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