Ronald Beiner 
Political Philosophy 
What It Is and Why It Matters

Winner of the 2022 Commendation for Excellence by the International Association for Legal and Social Philosophy (IVR). What is the value of fictions, metaphors, figures and scenarios in adjudicatio …

For anyone looking to understand Chinese philosophy, here is the place to start. Introducing this vast and far-reaching tradition, Ronnie L. Littlejohn tells you everything you need to know about the …

First published in 2004. This collection brings together five volumes of classic texts of early modern urban planning. These writings stem from the late nineteenth century up to World War II and …

Addressing arguments that comparative philosophy is itself impossible, or that it is indistinguishable from philosophy more generally, this collection challenges myopic understandings of comparative …

How did Nietzsche and Sartre come to represent alternative modes of philosophy as antithetical thinkers? What exactly is their philosophical connection and how far does it extend? Tracing the …

This book provides a rich synthesis of research and theory of nascent and emergent critically engaged work examining changing welfare structures, regimes and technologies and the social suffering tha …

Italian philosophy constitutes one of the most vibrant and fruitful areas in contemporary thought, bringing extraordinary novelty to some of the oldest tropes, from human nature to the relation …

East Asian imagery resonates throughout Martin Heidegger”s writings. In this exploration of the connections between Daoism and his thought, an international team of scholars consider why the …

Kant”s Critique of Pure Reason has had, and continues to have, an enormous impact on modern philosophy. In this short, stimulating introduction, Michael Pendlebury explains Kant”s major claims in …

This is a new guide to reading the Confessions, Augustine”s most important work, and what is widely known as the first Western Christian autobiography ever written. The Confessions consists of …