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Book SynopsisThis book is a study of pragmatic conservatism, an underappreciated tradition in modern American political thought, whose origins can be located in the ideas of Edmund Burke.Trade Review“Lacey chiefly discusses four writers he believes exemplify pragmatic conservatism: Edmund Burke, Walter Lippmann, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Peter Viereck. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.” (M. Blitz, Choice, Vol. 54 (6), February, 2017) Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Edmund Burke: Pragmatic ConservativeChapter 3: Walter Lippmann: Unlikely ConservativeChapter 4: Reinhold Niebuhr: Prophetic ConservativeChapter 5: Peter Viereck: Reverent ConservativeChapter 6: Conservatism Agonistes: Leaving the Stag HuntChapter 7: ConclusionBibliography  

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Book SynopsisKatharine Adeney demonstrates that institutional design is the most important explanatory variable in understanding the different intensity and types of conflict in the two countries rather than the role of religion. Adeney examines the extent to which previous constitutional choices explain current day conflicts.Trade Review"Katharine Adeney's book sets a new standard in the literature on comparative federalism and South Asian studies...The book's impressive empirical underpinnings will be invaluable in predicting the expected levels of federal stability in India and Pakistan." - Lawrence Saez, Political Studies Review "This book breaks new ground . . . Adeney's conclusions are particularly instructive to both practitioners and federalism think-tanks currently contemplating the institutionalisation of federalism in states like Sri Lanka, Iraq, Nepal and Afghanistan." - Contemporary South Asia "Katharine Adeney has written a book of exceptional analytical clarity. Theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, this study moves beyond the tired clichés that have afflicted much of the comparative scholarship on India and Pakistan. Explaining why federal structures are sometimes able to manage diversity (and sometimes not), Adeney provides an original and historically informed account of institutions as both cause and effect - as a reflection of social realities as well as key determinants of political behavior. This is a book of significance well beyond South Asian studies." - Robert Jenkins, Professor of Political Science, Birkbeck College, University of London "Katharine Adeney's searching and finely nuanced study argues that federalism and consociationalism take many forms. Their achievement as strategies for dealing with ethnic conflict varies with context. Her historically informed analysis makes an important contribution to our understanding of federalism and consociationalism in general, while the particular cases, India's relative success and Pakistan's relative failure, illuminate the contextual quality of causality." - Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, Professor of Political Science Emerita, University of Chicago "Katharine Adeney's book deserves an enthusiastic welcome for several reasons. Comparative research on Pakistan and India is a rarity - and it is rarer still to see analyses that are as penetrating and dispassionate as this one. Her discussion of 'ethnic' conflict is extremely valuable because - unlike many that have recently appeared - it breaks 'ethnicity' down into linguistic and religious dimensions. And it also demonstrates that what sometimes appear to be 'ethnic' conflicts are actually rooted in disputes over material issues, such as the control of resources. Finally, this is a major and subtle contribution to the literature on comparative federalism. It is unusual for a book - especially a first book - to enrich our understanding on so many fronts; but that is what this one does." - James Manor, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex "Adeney's astute comparison of India and Pakistan is an important addition to the literature explaining that institutions matter to the democratic health of the countries that adopt them." - Donald L. Horowitz, James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsComparative Federalism and Ethnic Conflict: A Theoretical Examination * Federal Plans in Pre-independence India * The Federal "Problem" in South Asia: Institutional Design before Partition * Partition: Differences in Federal Design * Federal Segregation or Multiculturalism? * Federal (in)Stability in India * Federal (in)Stability in Pakistan * Future Prospects for India and Pakistan and Lessons for Ethnically Divided Societies

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Book SynopsisPolitics in the Times of Indignation provides a critical look at Western liberal democracies in crisis, to provide us with the theoretical tools to make sense of the political disorientation of our times.Indispensable for understanding the present state of democratic societies, this book is a lens through which we can study numerous contemporary developments. He examines the popular indignation that has accompanied the crisis of governmental legitimacy, which is aggravated by the economic crisis in various countries and demonstrated by groups such as the Occupy Wall Street Movement in the US, Podemos in Spain, or La France Insoumise in France.At the same time, Innerarity endeavors to offer a universal, rather than a merely circumstantial, interpretation of the transformations that are still ongoing in our political systems, as well as of those that need to be put in place in order to satisfy the expectations and rights of democratic citizenship. Politics inTrade ReviewIn this original and timely book, Daniel Innerarity implores us to rethink the “game of politics,” and the concepts that we use to understand it, in order to judge it with all the severity it deserves. As he pushes against the cynics, Innerarity reminds us that political philosophy can still be done and that it matters that it is. -- Carlos Alberto Sanchez, Professor of Philosophy, San Jose State University, USAPenetrating, provocative and precise: this book is a major contribution to the evolving global debate about the future of democracy * Lord Anthony Giddens, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and former Director of the London School of Economics, UK *Innerarity provides a thought-provoking analysis of the political culture in liberal democracies as a changing world undermines the basis of its stability. He poses important questions, and makes a powerful case for seeking answers in a politics that is an intelligent, responsive and - above all - universal activity. * Roger Mortimore, Professor of Public Opinion and Political Analysis, King's College London, UK *Table of ContentsIntroduction: politics explained to idiots I. Who Does Politics? 1. Old and New Political Subjects 2. The End of Political Parties? 3. Politics of Recognition 4. Right to Decide? II. The Political Condition 5. Political Time 6. Political Discourse 7. Politics of Emotions 8. The Importance of Coming to an Agreement 9. The Democratic Deception III. Politics in Hard Times 10. The Age of Limits 11. Politics after Indignation 12. Democracy without Politics IV. Some Platitudes 13. Democracies of Representative Proximity and Distance 14. How Much Transparency Do Our Democracies Require and Tolerate? 15. The Importance and Limits of Raising the Moral Standards of Politics 16. What Remains on the Left and Right V. The Future of Politics 17. What is this thing called Governance? 18. Politics as an Intelligent Activity Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitlesThe first woman elected to lead a major Western power and the longest serving British prime minister for 150 years, Margaret Thatcher is arguably one the most dominant and divisive forces in 20th-century British politics. Yet there has been no overarching exploration of the development of Thatcher''s views towards Northern Ireland from her appointment as Conservative Party leader in 1975 until her forced retirement in 1990. In this original and much-needed study, Stephen Kelly rectifies this. From Thatcher's no surrender' attitude to the Republican hunger strikes to her nurturing role in the early stages of the Northern Ireland peace process, Kelly traces the evolutionary and sometimes contradictory nature of Thatcher's approach to Northern Ireland. In doing so, this book reflects afresh on the political relationship between Britain and Ireland in the late-20th century. An engaging and nuanced analysTrade ReviewFilled with new detail after new detail gleaned from a host of archives and first-hand interviews, this book tells the fascinating story of an iconic party leader and prime minister forced by events into making more concessions than she and her colleagues ever imagined possible. Required reading for anyone interested in the Thatcher era, as well as in the Troubles and the tortuous route out of them. * Tim Bale, Professor of Politics, Queen Mary University of London, UK. *A major subject, examined through the interrogation of very rich source material. A fascinating study of painfully evolving relationships. * Richard English, author of Does Terrorism Work? A History. *This detailed and meticulously researched study, based on an examination of a wide range of archival sources and on first-hand interviews, shows that the development of events forced Thatcher and her governments into making more concessions than they had ever imagined making. It’s a compelling exploration of a central dimension of the Troubles. -- Brian Maye * The Irish Times *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Glossary Notes on Primary Sources Introduction Part I: Leader of the Opposition, 1975-1979 1. Thatcher and the Conservative Party's Northern Ireland Policy, 1975-1979 2. Airey Neave and the Conservative Party's Northern Ireland Policy, 1975-1979 Part II: First-Term in Office, 1979-1983 3. Thatcher and the Evolution of the British Government's Northern Ireland Policy, 1979 4. The Atkins' Talks and the Haughey-Thatcher Relationship, 1980 5. Thatcher, the Second Republican Hunger-Strike and Anglo-Irish Relations, 1981 6. The Prior Initiative, the Falklands War and Anglo-Irish Relations, 1982 Part III: Second-Term in Office, 1983-1987 7. Thatcher, Fitzgerald and the Evolution of Anglo-Irish Relations, 1983-1984 8. Thatcher, American-Anglo Relations and the Anglo-Irish Agreement, 1985-1986 Part IV: Third-Term in Office, 1987-1990 9. Thatcher and the Genesis of the Northern Ireland Peace Process, 1987-1990 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume surveys democracy broadly as a cultural phenomenon operating in different ways across a very wide range of ancient societies throughout Antiquity. It examines the experiences of those living in democratic communities and considers how ancient practices of democracy differ from our own.The origins of democracy can be traced in a general way to the earliest civilizations, beginning with the early urban societies of the Middle East, and can be seen in cities and communities across the Mediterranean world and Asia. In classical Athens, male citizens enjoyed full participation in the political life of the city and a flourishing democratic culture, as explored in detail in this volume. In other times and places democratic features were absent from the formal structures of regimes, but could still be found in the participatory structures of local social institutions.Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: sovereignty; liberty and the rule of law; the Table of ContentsList of Illustrations General Editor’s Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Carol Atack and Paul Cartledge (University of Cambridge, UK) 1. Sovereignty Andrew Monson (New York University, USA) and Carol Atack (University of Cambridge, UK) 2. Liberty and the Rule of Law Valentina Arena (University College London, UK) 3. The Common Good Dhananjay Jagannathan (Columbia University, USA) 4. Economic and Social Democracy Emily Mackil (University of California, Berkeley, USA) 5. Religion and the Principles of Political Obligation Georgia Petridou (University of Liverpool, UK) 6. Citizenship and Gender Carol Atack (University of Cambridge, UK) 7. Ethnicity, Race, and Nationalism Denise Eileen McCoskey (Miami University, USA) 8. Democratic Crises, Revolutions, and Civil Resistance Paul Cartledge (University of Cambridge, UK) 9. International Relations Carol Atack with Paul Cartledge (University of Cambridge, UK) 10. Beyond the Classical Polis Benjamin Gray (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) Notes References Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume surveys democracy broadly as a cultural phenomenon operating in different ways across a very wide range of societies in the nineteenth-century world. In the long nineteenth century, democracy evolved from a contested, maligned conception of government with little concrete expression at the level of the state, to a term widely associated with good governance throughout the diverse political cultures of the Atlantic world and beyond. The geographical scope and public range of discussions about the meaning of democracy in this era were unprecedented in comparison to previous centuries. These lively debates involved fundamental questions about human nature, and encompassed subjects ranging from the scope of the people who would participate in self-government to the importance of social and economic issues. For these reasons, the nineteenth century has proven the formative century in the modern history of democracy. Each chapter takes a different theme as its Table of ContentsList of Illustrations General Editor’s Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Tom Brooking (University of Otago, New Zealand) and Todd M. Thompson (Biola University, USA) 1. Sovereignty John E. Martin (Independent scholar, New Zealand) 2. Liberty and the Rule of Law Andrew Geddis (University of Otago, New Zealand) 3. The Common Good Frank Bongiorno (Australian National University, Australia) 4. Economic and Social Democracy Andrew Sartori (New York University, USA) 5. Religion and the Principles of Political Obligation Colin Barr (University of Aberdeen, UK) and Eugenio F. Biagini (University of Cambridge, UK) 6. Citizenship and Gender Laura E. Nym Mayhall (Catholic University of America, USA) 7. Ethnicity, Race, and Nationalism Joshua D. Smith (Biola University, USA), Tom Brooking (University of Otago, New Zealand), and Todd M. Thompson (Biola University, USA) 8. Democratic Crises, Revolutions, and Civil Resistance Aishwary Kumar (University of Göttingen, Germany) 9. International Relations Michelle Tusan (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA) 10. Beyond the Polis Jim McAloon (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Notes References Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume surveys the burst of political imagination that created multiple Enlightenment cultures in an era widely understood as an age of democratic revolutions. Enlightenment as precursor to liberal democratic modernity was once secular catechism for generations of readers. Yet democracy did not elicit much enthusiasm among contemporaries, while democracy as a political system remained virtually nonexistent through much of the period. If seventeenth- and eighteenth-century ideas did underwrite the democracies of succeeding centuries, they were often inheritances from monarchical governments that had encouraged plural structures of power competition. But in revolutions across France, Britain, and North America, the republican integration of constitutional principle and popular will established rational hope for public happiness. Nevertheless, the tragic clashes of principle and will in fraught revolutionary projects were also democratic legacies. Each chapter focuses on aTable of ContentsList of Illustrations General Editor's Preface Introduction Michael Mosher (University of Tulsa, USA) and Anna Plassart (Open University, UK) 1. Sovereignty Daniel Lee (University of California, Berkeley, USA) 2. Liberty and the Rule of Law Yoshie Kawade (University of Tokyo, Japan) 3. The "Common Good" Rebecca Kingston (University of Toronto, Canada) 4. Economic and Social Democracy Alexander Schmidt (Vanderbilt University, USA) 5. Religion and the Principles of Political Obligation Niall O’Flaherty (King's College London, UK) 6. Citizenship and Gender Dorinda Outram (University of Rochester, USA) 7. Ethnicity, Race and Nationalism Inder Marwah (McMaster University, Canada) 8. Democratic Crises, Revolutions, and Civil Resistance Michael Mosher (University of Tulsa, USA) 9. International Relations James Stafford (Columbia University, USA) 10. Beyond the Polis, Transforming Sovereignty Joanna Innes (University of Oxford, UK) Notes References Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores democracy in the 20th century, examining the triumph, crises, recovery, and resilience of democracy and its associated cultures in this period. From 1920 democracy became the hegemonic discourse in political cultures, to the extent that even its enemies claimed its legacy. The end of empires ushered in an unprecedented globalization of democratic aspirations. Barriers of gender and race were gradually removed, and greater equality gave new meaning to citizenship. Yet, already in 1922 democracy was on its back foot with the rise of fascism. Even after the latter's defeat in 1945, liberal democracy died wherever communist democracy triumphed. The situation changed again from 1989, but democratic hubris was then checked by the rise of a new enemypopulism. The paradox is that the century of democracy's triumph was also that of its near final defeat, while the peace and stability that everybody desired and many expected as the outcome of the extension of demoTable of ContentsList of Illustrations General Editor's Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Eugenio F. Biagini and Gary Gerstle (University of Cambridge, UK) 1. Sovereignty Emma Hunter (University of Edinburgh, UK) and Joel Isaac (University of Chicago, USA) 2. Liberty and the Rule of Law H. Kumarsasingham (University of Edinburgh, UK) and Marius Strubenhoff (University of Sheffield, UK) 3. The Common Good Eugenio Biagini (University of Cambridge, UK) and Ornit Shani (University of Haifa, Israel) 4. Social and Economic Democracy James T. Kloppenberg and John Gee (Harvard University, USA) 5. Religion and the Principles of Political Obligation Eugenio Biagini (University of Cambridge, UK) and Todd M. Thompson (Biola University, USA) 6. Citizenship and Gender Ragnheiður Kristjánsdóttir (University of Iceland, Iceland) and Anupama Roy (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) 7. Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism Saul Dubow (University of Cambridge, UK) and Gary Gerstle (University of Cambridge, UK) 8. Democratic Crises, Revolutions and Civil Resistance Franco Andreucci (University of Pisa, Italy) 9. International Relations Elizabeth Bogwardt (Washington University, USA) and Eugenio Biagini (University of Cambridge, UK) 10. Beyond the Polis Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University, USA) and Vikram Visana (University of Huddersfield, UK) Notes References Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisNuclear tests have caused public concern ever since the first such test was conducted, more than six decades ago. During the Cold War, however, con- tions were not conducive to discussing a complete ban on nuclear testing. It was not until 1993 that negotiations on such a treaty finally got under way. From then on, things moved relatively quickly: in 1996, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). To date, the Treaty has been signed by 178 states and ratified by 144, though it has yet to enter into force, as nine out of 44 Annex 2 states'', whose ratification is mandatory, have not heeded the call. Nevertheless, the CTBT verification system is already provisionally operational and has proven its effectiveness. We commend the CTBT organisation in Vienna for its successful efforts to build a verification network. This book is an excellent overview of the evolution of the CTBT and its verification regime. The authors are eminent scholarsTrade ReviewFrom the reviews:"Drawing from their experience, the authors provide a well-structured and comprehensive view of the CTBT, from the construction of nuclear devices to the promising first results of the monitoring system of the treaty. In an impeccable edition, the chapters are clearly divided into subsections, and numerous illustrations are used to clarify the arguments in the text."G. Suarez, EOS Newsletter, Vol. 91, No. 21, p. 193“The book focuses on the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and the CTBT Organization (CTBTO) that runs the International Monitoring System (IMS) and the International Data Centre (IDC). The authors are experienced researchers with outstanding experience in seismic monitoring and who have helped to create what is now CTBTO. … seems very important to scientists dealing with seismic- or hydroacoustic, infrasound and radionuclide monitoring … .” (Pawel Wiejacz, Pure and Applied Geophysics, Vol. 167, 2010)“It is a solid reference edition concerning the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), International Nuclear Explosion Monitoring System (IMS) and Preparatory Commission of the CTBT Organization. … the authors produced a multilayered book in which one can distinguish several conceptual layers. … the text is supplied with a lot of photographs, maps and diagrams … . The structure of the book is designed to make good that thesis. … gives the reader a holistic view of the diplomatic struggle for the nuclear test ban.” (Alexey Fenenko, International Trends, Vol. 8 (3), September-December, 2010)Table of ContentsForeword Preface Chapter 1 To test or not to test… 1.1 Testing history - more than 2000 nuclear explosions 1. 2 Nuclear weapons – with and without testing 1. 3 Why a Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty? 1.4 Related nuclear arms control and disarmament treaties Chapter 2. Monitoring technologies 2.1 Nuclear explosions - detectable features 2.2 Detection, location and identification 2.3 Seismological monitoring 2.4 Hydroacoustic monitoring 2.5 Infrasound monitoring 2.6 Radionuclide monitoring 2.7 Detection from space 2.8 Enabling technologies Chapter 3 A long journey to a treaty 3.1 Past test ban initiatives 3.2 Group of Scientific Experts 3.3 The CTBT negotiations 1994 – 96 3.4 Critical issues during the negotiations 3.5 Reflections on the negotiations Chapter 4 The Treaty 4.1 The preamble 4.2 Basic obligations 4.3 The Organization 4.4 Verification 4.5 National implementation measures 4.6 Entry into force 4.7 Reflections Chapter 5 The birth of an organization 5.1 The mandate of the CTBTO Preparatory Commission 5.2 Preparations for the first session of the CTBTO Preparatory Commission 5.3 The first session of the CTBTO Preparatory Commission 5.4 The initial enthusiasm 5.5 The early challenges Chapter 6 Establishing the verification regime 6.1 A complex monitoring system in a political environment 6.2 Building the monitoring system - a gradual but slow process 6.3 Some specific IMS issues 6.4 On-site inspections a politicized issue on a slow path Chapter 7 Testing shows high performance 7.1 Frombuilding to testing 7.2 Global tests show high performance of IMS/IDC 7.3 Exercises also get OSI on the move Chapter 8 National technical implementation of the CTBT 8.1 National commitments 8.2 National institutions play key roles in the global verification system 8.3 Basis for national interpretation 8.4 Regional cooperation 8.5 An assessment of the status of national technical implementation Chapter 9 The CTBTO Preparatory Commission and the PTS - an organizational perspective 9.1 The Policy Making Organs 9.2 Provisional Technical Secretariat (PTS) 9.3 Changing the guard Chapter 10 The CTBTO Preparatory Commission and the world 10.1 States Signatories, the CTBTO Preparatory Commission and the PTS 10.2 The CTBTO Preparatory Commission and international organizations 10.3 Synergy with science 10.4 The CTBT - hostage to today’s politics Chapter 11 Always too early to give up 11.1 Finally a CTBT - and then? A political perspective 11.2 Most complex verification system ever - a scientific perspective 11.3 Challenge to establish a technical organization in a political environment - a managerial perspective 11.4 Bringing the CTBT back on track 11.5 A new security agenda Annex 1 Annex 2 Abbreviations and acronyms References

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Book SynopsisThis widely used and popular text provides a broad-ranging analysis of the relationship between the media and politics. Revised and updated throughout, this second edition includes coverage of the mediatization of politics; of E-politics and governance; of the impact of ''reality TV''; and of issues raised by the reporting of war in Iraq.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the development of Italian southern question discourse based on the perceived cultural, political, and economic divide between north and south.Trade Review"A rich feast of Italian ideas about race from 1861 to 1911. Recommended." - CHOICE "This impressively researched study traces how the achievement of Italian unity forced northern Italians to confront a part of the new country that was profoundly different. Northerners moved from a belief that the South was not just a victim of bad government to one that made southern Italians into classic outsiders, an alien element in the new Italy - an extension of Africa into the peninsula. In a final ironic twist Wong shows how imperialism allowed Italian nationalists a way to reintegrate southerners into the nation as part of the Italian colonial vanguard in North Africa. Wong's research deepens our understanding of liberal Italy as it grappled with the great intractable challenge to national unity that emerged from the Risorgimento." - Alexander de Grand, Emeritus Professor of History, North Carolina State University "This timely and original book recasts modern Italian history by arguing for the centrality of the 'southern problem' to Italy's nation-building process in such diverse areas as racial science, imperialism, and immigration. A highly readable account of the political utility of the Italian south, Race and the Nation in Liberal Italy is a much-needed contribution to the history of race and difference in modern Italy and a fascinating history of a regional stereotype that still has resonance today in discussions about nation, identity, and belonging." - Carol Helstosky, Associate Professor of History, University of Denver"Aliza Wong has produced a very well written, effectively argued, and rich study on the debate of the Southern Question in post unification Italy and the interconnection between the meridionalist discourse and physiognomy, imperialism, and emigration. This valuable book is relevant to the understanding of present day Italy. The volume is highly recommended to scholars of Italian history and present day Italy as well as to students interested in nationalism and national identity, imperialism, and emigration." - Alexander Grab, author of Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe, Adelaide & Alan Bird Professor of History, University of Maine"It is a revelation to read about how the 'European' North constructed the stereotype of the 'Africa-like' South at the moment of Italian unification and nation-building in the 19th c.., a complicated yet transparent process that is meticulously delineated here and, as the author makes clear, produces language, arguments and images that veer perilously close to a racist ideology. What makes this story even more compelling is how these discourses of difference followed the massive migration of southern Italians to America, where they encountered an even more virulent brand of American racism." - Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Professor of History and Ethnic Studies and Director, Center for the Sudy of Race and Ethnicity in America, Brown UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Complexities of Language: Lexicons of Race, Nation, and Identity The Dawning of the Mezzogiorno: The South in the Construction of Italy Making the South 'Italian': Writing the Post-Risorgimento Southern Question Science and the Codification of Race: Physiognomy and the Politics of Southern Identity The Nature of Conquest: Imperial Endeavor and Race Politics and Permeability: Southern Italian Immigration and the New Imperialism Land of Emigration, Land of Immigration: Toward a New Diasporic Italy

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Book SynopsisAt the intersection of the warmth of hearth and home and the dangers of the street lies the tenuous position of women engaged in reproductive labour, those involved in the sex trade and those in domestic positions.Trade ReviewThis book shows us what feminist international political-economy looks like: a Ukrainian woman trying to cope with neo-liberal restructuring by risking migration to work in a Turkish cabaret; a Chechen male 'impressario' importing women into Cyprus to reap profits; a Greek professional woman calculating the pros and cons of hiring a Filipina or a Sri Lankan woman as her domestic worker ; government officials using women's cheapened labor to solve their states' problems. Anna Agathangelou reveals how these very specific relationships together comprise the new global system. This is an engaging, valuable book for us all. - Cynthia Enloe, author of Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics Reproductive labor has for too long been sidelined in debates and actions around globalization. This thought-provoking and politically engaged book demonstrates the complicity of the state in the exploitation of reproductive labor in the interests of global capitalism and the importance of learning from the lives of female migrant workers. Drawing on empirical material to theorize the racialized feminization of the 'desire industries' and to explore the possibilities for organizing and change, Anna Agathangelou succeeds in making theory accessible and relevant. - Bridget Anderson, Centre On Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) Madam and maid, master and slave: these remain central to capitalism even though we imagine them to be replaced by private relations of contract and choice. Agathangelou makes us look at the violence that lies beneath how people of rich countries come to know themselves as a people who possess the freedom to consume people and things, and how peripheral states come to participate in these arrangements. An utterly compelling analysis of the international 'commodification of the intimacies' of sex and domestic work, and of the race, gender, and class hierarchies of the global economy. - Sherene H. Razack, Professor, University of Toronto, and author of Looking White People in the Eye: Gender, Race, and Culture in Courtrooms and Classrooms and Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping, and the New Imperialism This book shows us what feminist international political-economy looks like: a Ukrainian woman trying to cope with neo-liberal restructuring by risking migration to work in a Turkish cabaret; a Chechen male 'impressario' importing women into Cyprus to reap profits; a Greek professional woman calculating the pros and cons of hiring a Filipina or a Sri Lankan woman as her domestic worker ; government officials using women's cheapened labor to solve their states' problems. Anna Agathangelou reveals how these very specific relationships together comprise the new global system. This is an engaging, valuable book for us all. - Cynthia Enloe, author of Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics Reproductive labor has for too long been sidelined in debates and actions around globalization. This thought-provoking and politically engaged book demonstrates the complicity of the state in the exploitation of reproductive labor in the interests of global capitalism and the importance of learning from the lives of female migrant workers. Drawing on empirical material to theorize the racialized feminization of the 'desire industries' and to explore the possibilities for organizing and change, Anna Agathangelou succeeds in making theory accessible and relevant. - Bridget Anderson, Centre On Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) Madam and maid, master and slave: these remain central to capitalism even though we imagine them to be replaced by private relations of contract and choice. Agathangelou makes us look at the violence that lies beneath how people of rich countries come to know themselves as a people who possess the freedom to consume people and things, and how peripheral states come to participate in these arrangements. An utterly compelling analysis of the international 'commodification of the intimacies' of sex and domestic work, and of the race, gender, and class hierarchies of the global economy. - Sherene H. Razack, Professor, University of Toronto, and author of Looking White People in the Eye: Gender, Race, and Culture in Courtrooms and Classrooms and Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping, and the New ImperialismTable of ContentsSex and Domestic Work in the Peropheries: The Fenced-Off Economies of Desire Invisible and Silent Female Migrant Reproductive Labour: Cyprus, Greece and Turkey Peripheral Economies Working and Playing Hard: Social Reproduction and Racial and Sexual Desire in the Mediterranean Desiring Power in the European Union: Peripheral Development and 'Mimicry' National Desires for Security Conclusion: A Global Political Economy of Sex?

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Book SynopsisThis book reviews the main policy paradigms and analyzes the processes whereby they have changed in the most salient policy areas, and is based on recent interviews with more than two hundred and fifty senior policy actors in seven West European countries.Trade Review'[A] good and enjoyable read...[,] should certainly be considered by anyone interested in welfare reform, ideas, discourses and policy paradigms in Western Europe.' - Social Policy 'This book makes a worthwhile contribution to the debate on the role of ideas in welfare state change...' - Julia S. O'Connor, International Journal of Social Welfare '...an exposition of an extensive and important piece of research carried out within a rigorously comparative methodology and with carefully developed accounts of its findings.' - Robert Sykes, Social Policy& AdministrationTable of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Preface Notes on Contributors Ideas and Policy Change; P.Taylor-Gooby Paradigm Shifts, Power Resources and Labour Market Reform; P.Taylor-Gooby Policy Paradigms and Long-Term Care: Convergence or Continuing Difference?; V.Timonen The Myth of an Adult Worker Society: New Policy Discourses in European Welfare States; T.P.Larsen Changing Ideas on Pensions: Accounting for Differences in the Spread of the Multipillar Paradigm in Five EU Social Insurance Countries; F.Bönker Towards Activation? Social Assistance Reforms and Discourses; A.Aust & A.Arriba Current Employment Policy Paradigms in the UK, Sweden and Germany; J.Kananen The Europeanisation of Welfare; Paradigm Shifts and Social Policy Reforms; L.Moreno & B.Palier Index

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Book SynopsisExplores the concept of "moral horror" as the experience of living amidst unjustifiable state violence.Can state violence ever be morally justified? In State Violence and Moral Horror, Jeremy Arnold critically engages a wide variety of arguments, both canonical and contemporary, arguing that there can be no justification. Drawing on the concept of singularity found in the work of French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, Arnold demonstrates that any attempt to justify state violence will itself be violent and, therefore, must fail as a justification. On the basis of this argument, the book explores the concept of "moral horror" as the experience of living amidst and acquiescing to unjustifiable state violence. The careful explanation of arguments from across the spectrum of political theory and exceptionally clear prose will enable both advanced undergraduates and more general readers interested in political thought to understand and engage the central argument. State Violence and Moral Horror is a unique contribution to the growing literature on violence and will be of interest to political theorists and philosophers in both the analytic and continental traditions, philosophers of law, international relations theorists, law and society scholars, and social scientists interested in normative aspects of state violence.

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Book SynopsisA uniquely hybrid approach to welfare state policy, ecological sustainability and social transformation, this book explores transformative models of welfare change. Using Ireland as a case study, it addresses the institutional adaptations needed to move towards a sustainable welfare state.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The case for a welfare imagination Part 1: From problems to solutions: a post-growth ecosocial political economy 1. Commodification and decommodification 2. From unsustainable environmental outcomes to a post-growth world 3. From an unequal society to ecosocial welfare Part 2: Building an ecosocial imaginary 4. Reciprocity and interdependence: enabling institutions 5. Universal basic services 6. Participation income Part 3: An ecosocial political imaginary 7. Power and mobilisation 8. Imaginaries and ideas 9. Achieving change through high-energy democracy and coalition-building Conclusion

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Book SynopsisMost governments in the world have taken responsibility for social policy and elected to develop services in health, education and social security. This book explores the role of government and the state in the contemporary world and discusses views about government responsibility for social welfare services.Table of Contents1. Introduction: the state, and what it has become Part 1: On government 2. Government 3. Public Policy 4. The state and civil society 5. Global public policy Part 2: Salus populi suprema lex: the welfare of the people is the highest law 6. The scope of legitimate action 7. Welfare 8. Which people? 9. The commitment to welfare 10. Disputed principles 11. The duties of a government

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Book SynopsisAdopting a unique situation-oriented perspective, this book studies the occurence and control of aggression on the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels of physical and social ecologies.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The PersonEnvironment Duet. Physical Ecology: Microlevel: The Site. MesoLevel: The Neighborhood. Macrolevel: The Region. Social Ecology: Microlevel: The Victim. Mesolevel: The Group. Macrolevel: The Mob. Intervention: Physical Ecological Intervention: Environmental Design. Social Ecological Intervention: Interpersonal Contact. Conclusion: Future Directions. Index.

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Book SynopsisMuch is known about America's history of Asian immigrant exclusion laws, but how did these laws end? Why did the US begin opening its borders to Asians after barring them for decades? Jane Hong argues that the transpacific movement to repeal Asian exclusion was part of US empire-building efforts and the rise of a new informal US empire in Asia.

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Book SynopsisWeaving together biography and political history, Michael Woods restores Jefferson Davis and Stephen Douglas's fatefully entwined lives and careers to the centre of the Civil War era. Operating on personal, partisan, and national levels, Woods traces the deep roots of Democrats' internal strife.Trade ReviewSpeaks to the internal tensions within party organizations, the blinding force of ambition, and the ways distrust of democratic processes and institutions can destroy democracy itself. In that, it is a book for our time.--Library Journal Even readers who find the Civil War or politics boring could find this well-written narrative gripping. It helps especially now for readers needing to escape the present. All this solid but entertaining history really lacks for is background music.--New York Journal of Books This impressive new book . . . deftly recovers the dynamism and disagreements that animated, and ultimately destroyed, the Democratic Party on the eve of the Civil War. . . . Diligently researched, closely argued, and clearly written, Arguing Until Doomsday is an essential book for students of antebellum politics and the road to Civil War.--Civil War News Woods has written one of the most engaging and accessible histories of the pre-Civil War Democratic Party to date. . . . [Arguing Until Doomsday] advances the field of American political history and affords nuance to a period that is always in danger of becoming oversimplified.--The Civil War Monitor

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Book SynopsisWith attention to the ways in which new reproductive technologies facilitate the gradual disembodiment of reproduction, this book reveals the paradox of women''s reproductive experience in patriarchal cultures as being both, and often simultaneously, empowering and disempowering. A rich exploration of birth appropriation in the West, New Reproductive Technologies and Disembodiment investigates the assimilation of women''s embodied power into patriarchal systems of symbolism, culture and politics through the inversion of women''s and men''s reproductive roles. Contending that new reproductive technologies represent another world historical moment, both in their forging of novel social relations and material processes of reproduction, and their manner of disembodying women in unprecedented ways - a disembodiment evident in recent visual and literary, popular and academic texts - this volume locates the roots of this disembodiment in western political discourse. A call to feminist politTrade Review’In a time that is oddly quiet in terms of critical feminist voices, this work on materialist feminist implications of new reproductive technologies is welcome and overdue. Treading carefully between the dominant theoretical posts of recent social and political thought, and engaging with shifting forms of capitalism, Lam brings useful critical insight into how and why new reproductive socio-technical systems form and how they erode a pluralism of being that sustained, collective feminism began.’ Annette Burfoot, Queen’s University, CanadaTable of ContentsNew Reproductive Technologies and Disembodiment

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Book SynopsisBy placing political condition of our time in its long-term historical context, this book radically reconsiders key issues of political thought and gives you a comparative exploration of the current experiences of democracy in several world-regions.

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Book SynopsisCombining careful historical and textual analysis with comparisons across past and present political theory, this book re-establishes Spinoza as a collectivist philosopher.

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Book SynopsisExploring the question of human agency amidst a world teeming with powerful nonhuman influences, Jane Bennett draws upon Whitman, Thoreau, Caillois, Whitehead, and other poetic writers to link a non-anthropocentric model of self to a democratic pluralism and a syntax and style of writing appropriate to the entangled world in which we live.Trade Review“Jane Bennett has always been interested in reading the ecological from a political point of view and articulating an ecological politics. But this book will be a new moment in how we think about ecology and democracy. For it explains to us not only the possibility of ‘ecological democracy’ but also why a truly democratic personality must be ecological: open and attentive, susceptible to otherness, and welcoming influences. Influx & efflux is a wonderful achievement.” -- Branka Arsic, author of * Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau *“In this remarkable book Jane Bennett shows us just why a capacious sense of influence matters so much to our efforts to shape the circumstances we find ourselves in. Generous, surprising, and beautifully illustrated, influx & efflux resounds as a compelling affirmation of the value of drawing diverse elements and agencies into new lines of thinking and feeling. This book does nothing less than shift the tone and terms of political theory, offering us a vital poetic vocabulary for making more of the world's participation in the political and ecological stances we take.” -- Derek P. McCormack, author of * Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Elemental Envelopment *"Arguing for an aspirational rather than a polemical Whitman, Bennett charts a body of work generous, egalitarian, and democratic 'wherein the forces of nonhuman agencies and the ubiquity of stupendous, ethereal influences are acknowledged' (p. 116). Ultimately, she concludes that Whitman’s 'I is creative in that it alters and inflects what is taken in, taken on, taken up' (p. 117). Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty." -- J. N. Barron * Choice *"Theorists who figure prominently in Bennett’s argument include Gilles Deleuze, Alfred North Whitehead, Harold Bloom, and Michel Serres. This amalgam of influences gives rise to a hybrid style of theorising that blends conventional literary analysis with philosophical and political argument. The result is an exciting and rich intervention in several fields at once." -- Sean Seeger * Green Letters *“Influx and Efflux is a welcome contribution to political theory, and the thoughtful, challenging, and charming approach to things here is one that will be of benefit to any reader.” -- Michael Epp * Political Theory *“Influx & Efflux is an excellent follow-up to Vibrant Matter.... Influx & Efflux manages no easy task: bringing out the vibrancy of Whitman’s poetry as a living political force that needs to be reckoned with in the present.” -- Christian P. Haines * ALH Online Review *“[Influx and Efflux] calls the reader to respond with distinctly spiritual and artistic gestures. . . . Bennett effectively exemplifies that democracy does not come from political policies alone, but from a community that prioritizes a porosity, that allows for an influx of the world into the self, and is committed to the efflux of speaking back out and into the world of human, animal, and vibrant matter.” -- Karah Lain * Religion and the Arts *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Prologue.Influx and efflux ix 1. Position and Disposition 1 2. Circuits of Sympathy 27 3. Solar Judgment 46 Refrain. The Alchemy of Affects 63 4. Bad Influence 75 5. Thoreau Experiments with Natural Influences 92 Epilogue. A Peculiar Efficacy 113 Notes 119 Bibliography 173 Index 189

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Book SynopsisA rich set of feminist perspectives on the varied and often contradictory nature of state practices, structures, and ideologies Growing socio-economic inequality and exclusion are defining features of the twenty-first century. While debates on globalization, free trade, and economic development have been linked to the paradigm of neo-liberalism, it does not explain all the forms of social change that have been unfolding in comparative contexts. Feminists Rethink the Neoliberal State provides a timely intervention into discussions about the boundaries, practices, and nature of the post-liberalization state, suggesting that an understanding of economic policies, the corresponding rise of socio-economic inequality, and the possibilities for change requires an in-depth reconceptualization. Drawing on original field research both globally and within the United States, this volume brings together a rich set of perspectives on the varied and often contradictory nature of state practices, stTrade Review"Scholars of feminist theory and politics will find in this collection some very interesting ... detailed case studies of particular configurations of state power in specific contexts and countries." -- Hypatia

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Book SynopsisFinalist, 2024 Governor General's Literary Award for NonfictionFinalist, 2024 Writers' Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political WritingThese days, everyone feels insecure. We are financially stressed and emotionally overwhelmed. The status quo isn't working for anyone, even those who appear to have it all. What is going on?In this urgent cultural diagnosis, author and activist Astra Taylor exposes how seemingly disparate crisesrising inequality and declining mental health, the ecological emergency, and the threat of authoritarianismoriginate from a social order built on insecurity. From home ownership and education to the wellness industry and policing, many of the institutions and systems that promise to make us more secure actually undermine us. Mixing social critique, memoir, history, political analysis, and philosophy, this genre-bending book rethinks both insecurity and security from the ground up. By facing our existential insecurity and embracing our vulnerability, Taylor aTrade ReviewTaylor asks us to contemplate a better world … This ethic of insecurity, collectivism and egalitarianism should be on the forefront of every educator’s mind. * Winnipeg Free Press *The ideas that Taylor puts forth are not only radical, but world changing … The Age of Insecurity is exactly the right book at exactly the right time. That time is now. * The Tyee *Taylor makes the case for clearing away capitalism’s distracting, destabilising regime; Keltner for expanding and more clearly valuing our connections to each other, to our own depths and capacities, and to the grandeur and order of the world beyond. * New Statesman *A handbook for a new way forward. * Literary Review of Canada *Astra Taylor’s The Age of Insecurity made me feel I understood something obvious that I had overlooked before ... that we on the left can (and need to) offer a different, better conception of security. * Current Affairs *

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Book SynopsisDo negative campaigns win elections? Do voters abandon candidates accused of scandalous behaviour? Do government apologies affect prospects for re-election? While many people assume the answer to each of these questions is yes, there is limited empirical evidence to support these assumptions. In this book, Jason Roy and Christopher Alcantara use a series of experiments to test these and other commonly held beliefs. Each chapter draws upon contemporary events and literature to frame the issues and strategies. The findings suggest that not all of the assumptions that people have about the best strategies for winning and keeping political power hold up to empirical scrutiny. In fact, some work in ways that many readers may find surprising. Original and innovative in its use of experimental methods, Winning and Keeping Power in Canadian Politics is a persuasive analysis of some of our most prominent and long-standing political myths. It will be a go to resoTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables List of Appendices Preface Acknowledgments 1. An Overview of Winning and Keeping Power in Canadian Politics Part One: Winning Power – Election Campaigns 2. Going Negative in Canadian Federal Elections 3. Political Scandals 4. Candidate Endorsements 5. The Quality of Local Candidates Part Two: Keeping Power – Public Opinion and Incumbency 6. Parliamentary Configurations and Assigning Political Responsibility 7. Election Timing 8. The Supreme Court of Canada, Parliament, and the Role of Experts 9. Framing Public Budgeting 10. Political Apologies 11. Reflections, Recommendations, and Future Research

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Book SynopsisPhenomenology, Transversality, and World Philosophy explores the concept of world philosophy (Weltphilosophie) to take into account the reality of today's multicultural and globalizing world. It challenges the assumption that the particular in the West is universalizable, but the particular in the non-West is particular forever, using the concept of transversality to construct an intercontinental philosophy. In the tradition of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's world literature (Weltliteratur), and in dialogue with work in ethics and political philosophy, Hwa Yol Jung examines the roles that phenomenology and transversality play in constructing world philosophy. Trade Review“Hwa Yol Jung charts incisively how transversality, as an ethics, philosophy, and way of being, moves creatively in-between the binary ‘anarchy of differences’ versus ‘totalitarianism of identity’ that paralyzes contemporary political praxis. Whether it be discussing sincerity, harmony, alterity, or the ethics of responsibility, Jung’s scholarly reflections, with a Sinic accent, embodies the Dao of transversal phenomenology – a dialogic engagement with the other so desperately needed in a time of polarization.” -- John Francis Burke, Trinity UniversityTable of ContentsForeword by Michael JungAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I Origins of Transversality1The Dao of Transversality as a Global Approach to Truth: A Metacommentary on Calvin O. SchragChapter 1 Addendum: Review Essay on Calvin O. Schrag’s The Self after Postmodernity (1997)2Transversality and Geophilosophy in the Age of Globalization3The Task of Public Philosophy in the Transversal World of Politics4Edward O. Wilson’s Theory of Consilience: A Hermeneutical CritiquePart II Two Elemental Preconditions of World Philosophy5Transversality, Harmony, and Humanity between Heaven and Earth6Phenomenology and Body PoliticsPart III World Literature and World Philosophy7Zhang Longxi’s Contribution to World Literature in the Globalizing World ofMulticulturalism8Wang Yangming and the Way of World Philosophy9Transversality and Fred Dallmayr’s Comparative Political Theory10Edouard Glissant’s Aesthetics of Relation as Diversality and CreolizationPart IV Heterotopia and Responsibility as First Ethics11Reading Maurice Natanson Reading Alfred Schutz12Responsibility as First Ethics: John Macmurray and Emmanuel Levinas13Taking Responsibility Seriously14Václav Havel’s New Statecraft of Responsible PoliticsBibliography

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Book SynopsisMichel Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge was published in March 1969; Discipline and Punish in February 1975. Although only six years apart, the difference in tone is stark: the former is a methodological treatise, the latter a call to arms. What accounts for the radical shift in Foucault's approach? Foucault's time in Tunisia had been a political awakening for him, and he returned to a France much changed by the turmoil of 1968. He taught at the experimental University of Vincennes and then moved to a prestigious position at the Collège de France. He quickly became involved in activist work concerning prisons and health issues such as abortion rights, and in his seminars he built research teams to conduct collaborative work, often around issues related to his lectures and activism. Foucault: The Birth of Power makes use of a range of archival material, including newly available documents at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, to provide a detailed intellectual history of Foucault as writer, researcher, lecturer and activist. Through a careful reconstruction of Foucault's work and preoccupations, Elden shows that, while Discipline and Punish may be the major published output of this period, it rests on a much wider range of concerns and projects.Trade Review"Foucault: The Birth of Power opens an illuminating window into the process of political awakening and philosophical transformation as intellectual history. Drawing on lectures, talks and unpublished as well as published material, Stuart Elden has marshalled the contents of a massive archive to substantiate this pivotal period in the development of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century." Caren Kaplan, University of California, Davis "This is a brilliant prequel to Elden’s masterful book, Foucault’s Last Decade. Here, Elden offers a meticulous, erudite reading of the thinker’s early years at the Collège de France – a critical time in the arc of his research, which included seminars and conferences on disciplinary power, with deep political engagement and activism on behalf of prisoners. With his unmatched knowledge of Foucault, Elden unearths key intellectual moments and carefully traces Foucault’s intellectual journey to the mid-1970s, the publication of Discipline and Punish and the lectures on psychiatric power. Foucault: The Birth of Power is the perfect reading companion to Foucault’s “power-knowledge” period." Bernard Harcourt, Columbia University"fascinating"The NationTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Out of the 1960s 1. Measure: Greece, Nietzsche, Oedipus 2. Inquiry: Revolt, Ordeal, Proof 3. Examination: Punishment, War, Economy 4. Madness: Power, Psychiatry and the Asylum 5. Discipline: Surveillance, Punishment and the Prison 6. Illness: Medicine, Disease and Health Conclusion: Towards Foucault�s Last Decade Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIdiots burn books for the same reason philosophers write them – they matter. But why exactly do political philosophy books matter, not to mention the hundreds of articles published every year? In part because they are interesting, but also because they are influential. They are mind-altering and, in turn, world-altering. Political philosophers write their books for the same reason political revolutionaries read them – they change the world. In this short and original book, Jonathan Floyd explains three things: what political philosophy is, how you can do it, and why you might want to. Accessibly written for those coming to the subject for the first time, it is also a must-read for scholars whose research takes in the nature, methods, and purposes of their field. It is also a must-burn for anyone who dreams of a dumber, thicker, less enlightened world.Trade Review�Although politics and politicians have dismal reputations, we need to take political philosophy seriously. Jonathan Floyd does so by addressing the overarching question �How ought we to live?� in a conversational tone and by engaging with serious political thinkers, past and present.�Onora O'Neill, University of Cambridge �This book makes a passionate and compelling case for the importance of political philosophy. Floyd tells us not only what it is to do political philosophy but why we ought to want to do it in the first place.�Matt Sleat, University of Sheffield �Jonathan Floyd�s new book What�s the Point of Political Philosophy? is special � it proposes an original and vivid approach. It is relatively short, written in a simple and lively language, has great examples, discusses current cases, and includes ideas and arguments from key figures in political philosophy. Finally, this book is universal, that is, everyone can find something useful for oneself.�Changing Societies & PersonalitiesTable of Contents Contents Acknowledgements Foreword 0.0 Introduction 1.0 What? 2.0 How? 3.0 Why? Notes

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Book SynopsisThe political crises and upheavals of our age often originate from the periphery rather than the center of power. Figures like Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning acted in ways that disrupted power, revealing truths that those in power wanted to keep hidden. They are thorns in the side of power, troublemakers in the eyes of the powerful, though their actions may be valuable and lead to positive changes. In this important new book, Dieter Thomä examines the crucial but often overlooked function of these figures on the margins of society, developing a philosophy of troublemakers from the seventeenth century to the present day. Thomä takes as his starting point Hobbes’s idea of the puer robustus (literally “stout boy”), meaning a figure who rebels against order and authority. While Hobbes saw the puer robustus as a threat, he also recognized the potential, in the right conditions, for figures to rise up and become agents of positive change. Building on this notion, Thomä provides a rich survey of intellectuals who have been inspired by this idea over the past 300 years, from Rousseau, Diderot, Schiller, Victor Hugo, Marx, and Freud to Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, and Horkheimer, right up to the recent work of Badiou and Agamben. In doing so, he develops a typology of the puer robustus and a means by which we can evaluate and assess the troublemakers of our own times. Thomä shows that troublemakers are an inescapable part of modernity, for as soon as social and political boundaries are defined, there will always be figures challenging them from the margins. This book will be of great interest not only to students and scholars in the humanities and social sciences but to anyone seeking to understand the crucial impact of these liminal figures on our world today.Trade Review“In fluent and energetic style, Dieter Thomä offers a compelling response to the current threats facing our economic, social, and political order. This timely and important book will be of great interest to anyone who is struggling to understand what is going on in the world today.”Joachim Whaley, University of Cambridge “For some years now, Dieter Thomä has been writing extraordinarily original, elegantly conceived and executed books about topics as varied as parents, fathers, and Americans – in effect, he has been re-defining the proper topics of philosophical reflection. His new book on the puer robustus, a notion introduced by Hobbes about the ‘troublemakers’ in society, is a masterpiece of this genre, the literate philosophical essay. The scholarship is astonishing, ranging over Hobbes, Rousseau, Diderot, Schiller, Hugo, Marx, Freud, and others, the insights acute and important, and the pleasure of reading it constant.”Robert Pippin, University of Chicago “With an admirable combination of historical serendipity, hermeneutical sensitivity, and philosophical farsightedness, Dieter Thomä manages in this fascinating book to reanimate a political figure always present in the imaginary of democratic societies but never fully disclosed or theorized: the puer robustus, the troublemaker, who since the times of Hobbes has again and again haunted the fantasy of political philosophers as someone either undermining or rejuvenating the democratic order of modern societies. It is the path-breaking thesis of this masterful study that, without revealing the exact role of these troublemakers, we are not capable of understanding both the risks and the potentials for renewal, the dangers and the vitality of democratic regimes. A must read for everyone interested in political theory and philosophy.”Axel Honneth, University of Frankfurt “As the philosopher Dieter Thomä shows in this brilliant study, the puer robustus is a central element of societies marked by division and uncertainty. His book could not be more timely.”NZZ am Sonntag “Dieter Thomä tells a captivating adventure story of the troublemakers who have disrupted social order.”Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung“Endlessly lively… tremendous entertainment”Catholic HeraldTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction I. The puer robustus as an evil man: Thomas Hobbes 1. The threshold creature caught between power, morality and history 2. Self-interest and reason 3. Hobbes’s egocentric troublemakers: Fools, epileptics, madmen, the poor and the rich 4. Author-actor-audience theory: The eccentric troublemaker in the belly of the Leviathan 5. The puer robustus of Horace – a model for Hobbes? II. The puer robustus as a good man: Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1. The power and morality of the savage 2. The transformation of the puer robustus into a citizen 3. What does Rousseau’s puer robustus do after his victory? Democracy and disturbance of the peace III. Rameau’s nephew as a puer robustus: Denis Diderot 1. Hobbes’s sublime definition 2. The puer robustus as a social problem or ambivalent character: Diderot beyond Helvétius, Hobbes and Rousseau 3. Life on the threshold: Rameau’s Nephew 4. Hegel’s and Foucault’s nephew IV. Unloving child, wicked son, strong savior: Friedrich Schiller 1. The puer robustus as a “freedman of creation” 2. Franz and Karl Moor: All power for me – or a different power for all? 3. Wilhelm Tell’s journey from loner to league founder V. The puer robustus as victim and hero: Victor Hugo 1. Quasimodo as a monkey gone wrong 2. The birth of wickedness from humiliation 3. Moral emancipation 4. The street urchin as a puer robustus 5. The relatives of the street urchin: Balzac’s real man and Baudelaire’s little savage VI. Siegfried, foolish boy: Richard Wagner 1. The contract as a crime against nature 2. External salvation 3. The hero as child and dullard: Siegfried’s recipe for success VII. The puer robustus between Europe and America: Alexis de Tocqueville 1. The birth of the puer robustus under the yoke of despotism: Tocqueville’s first insight 2. Praise for America and a warning against the Wild West 3. The birth of the puer robustus from the spirit of capitalism: Tocqueville’s second insight 4. Life as a revolution and experiment: Tocqueville, Mill, Nietzsche VIII. The puer robustus as a revolutionary: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 1. The people is by far the most dangerous 2. The fight against dependence and separation 3. The lumpenproletariat as the spoilsport of the revolution 4. The revolutionary subject as a species-being or community-being IX. The puer robustus as Oedipus: Sigmund Freud 1. The little savage 2. Democracy and dictatorship 3. Politics after Freud: A debate between Walter Lippmann, Paul Federn, Hans Blüher, Thomas Mann and Hans Kelsen X. Anarchists, adventurers, young rowdies and little savages: Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, Helmut Schelsky and Max Horkheimer 1. Blossoming in dark times: Hobbes da capo 2. Carl Schmitt on the total state and its enemies 3. Leo Strauss on the closed society and adventurers 4. Helmut Schelsky on power and young rowdies 5. Max Horkheimer on the authoritarian state and little savages XI. Good spirits and poisonous weeds: The puer robustus in Italy in 1949 and China in 1957 1. Togliatti’s New Year’s message to his comrades 2. Mao Zedong and Tan Tianrong on fragrant flowers and poisonous weeds 3. From China back to Europe: We can forget Alain Badiou XII. The puer robustus today 1. No end to history 2. The egocentric troublemaker and the financial crisis 3. The eccentric and nomocentric troublemaker – and the democratic paradox 4. The massive troublemaker and fundamentalism 5. The little savage and the populism of Donald Trump 6. On the threshold Notes List of abbreviations Literature Index

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Book SynopsisOver the past century alone, Russia has lived through great achievements and deepest misery; mass heroism and mass crime; over-blown ambition and near-hopeless despair – always emerging with its sovereignty and its fiercely independent spirit intact. In this book, leading Russia scholar Dmitri Trenin accompanies readers on Russia’s rollercoaster journey from revolution to post-war devastation, perestroika to Putin’s stabilization of post-Communist Russia. Explaining the causes and the meaning of the numerous twists and turns in contemporary Russian history, he offers a vivid insider’s view of a country through one of its most trying and often tragic periods. Today, he cautions, Russia stands at a turning point – politically, economically and socially – its situation strikingly reminiscent of the Russian Empire in its final years. For the Russian Federation to avoid a similar demise, it must learn the lessons of its own history.Trade Review"Trenin's succinct, balanced, and thoughtful book is a valuable guide to modern Russian history as seen from the other side."Sir Rodric Braithwaite, former British ambassador in Moscow and author of Armageddon & Paranoia: The Nuclear Confrontation "A brilliant, concise interpretation of 120 years of Russian history, plus an insightful look at the future. Essential reading for all concerned about the dangerous – and unnecessary – revival of Cold War tensions."Jack Matlock, former US ambassador and author of Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended “Admirably succinct and thought-provoking”Edward Lucas, The Times “Trenin provides a succinct account of Russia’s turbulent twentieth-century history in this informative book.”Angela Stent, SurvivalTable of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Russia’s Many Russias Chapter One: Revolutionary Upheaval (1900-1920) Chapter Two: The Rise of the Soviet State (1921-1938) Chapter Three: The War and its Aftermath (1939-1952) Chapter Four: Mature Socialism and its Stagnation (1953-1984) Chapter Five: Democratic Upheaval (1985-1999) Chapter Six: From Stability to Uncertainty (2000-2018) Conclusion: Forever Russia Further Reading Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume of conversations between Alain Badiou and Peter Engelmann focuses on the concrete political situation in the world of today. Here the validity and applicability of Badiou’s ideas are tested in relation to the great social and political problems of our time, including terrorism, migration, the surge in support for nationalist and populist parties and the growing gap between rich and poor. Badiou argues that in the age of today’s globalized capitalism, with its division of labour on a global scale and the worldwide interconnection of information through the Internet, there are no longer any national solutions. Because nations and states lose meaning in favour of transnational corporations in globalized capitalism, resistance to capitalism must by definition be global too. Only a politics that defines itself as a politics for all and does not act in the interests of one particular group – whether a nation, religion or community of shared values – can lead the world out of the current crisis of globalized capitalism.Trade Review‘Badiou's powerful exposition of the unfinished project of revolutionary Marxism makes a compelling case for the universality of communist politics. Elaborated with respect to pressing contemporary problems, his vision for a communist politics for us is inspiring, necessary, and – best of all – possible.’Jodi Dean, Hobart and William Smith Colleges “[a] lively and engaging discussion.”Marx & Philosophy Review of BooksTable of ContentsContents Foreword by Peter Engelmann First Conversation The Situation of the Left Today and the Necessity of an Alternative The Democratic Discourse Communism as Modern Politics? Second Conversation The New Imperialism Politics of Identity The Principle of the Common Good, or: Beyond the Economy Afterword: On Trump Notes

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Book SynopsisWhat causes climate change, social breakdown, rampant inequality and the creeping spread of ubiquitous surveillance? Capitalism. What is the only alternative to capitalism? Socialism. Socialism cannot, however, remain static if it is going to save civilisation from these catastrophes. In this urgent manifesto for a 21st century left, Jeremy Gilbert shows that we need a revitalised socialist politics that learns from the past to adapt to contemporary challenges. He argues that socialism must overcome its industrial origins and give priority to an environmental agenda. In an age of global networks, digital technology and instant communication, central government diktat and restrictions on free speech and movement must be jettisoned. We need to control the economy rather than let it control us - but we must do this by empowering workers, citizens and communities to run their world their way. It’s time to take back the wealth, the services and the platforms that our own energy has built. In the digital age, it’s time for a new socialism.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Capitalism and Socialism Chapter One: The Cause of the Trouble Chapter Two: Why Socialism? Part Two: Welcome to the Twenty-First Century Chapter Three: How did We Get Here? Chapter Four: Where are We Now? Part Three: Twenty-First Century Socialism Chapter Five: The Programme Chapter Six: The Strategy Notes

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Book SynopsisIn an age of demagogues, hostile great powers and trade wars, foreign policy traditionalists dream of restoring liberal international order. This order, they claim, ushered in seventy years of peace and prosperity and saw post-war America domesticate the world to its values. The False Promise of Liberal Order exposes the flaws in this nostalgic vision. The world shaped by America came about as a result of coercion and, sometimes brutal, compromise. Liberal projects – to spread capitalist democracy – led inadvertently to illiberal results. To make peace, America made bargains with authoritarian forces. Even in the Pax Americana, the gentlest order yet, ordering was rough work. As its power grew, Washington came to believe that its order was exceptional and even permanent – a mentality that has led to spiralling deficits, permanent war and Trump. Romanticizing the liberal order makes it harder to adjust to today’s global disorder. Only by confronting the false promise of liberal order and adapting to current realities can the United States survive as a constitutional republic in a plural world.Trade Review“This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the future of the liberal international order, so worshipped by Western foreign policy elites. Porter argues with great erudition that it was never liberal – indeed, it never could be – because it was built on the ruthless employment of American power.”John J. Mearsheimer, University of Chicago “Erudite, sharp, and insightful, Porter's forensic dissection of the dream of liberal international order is essential reading for those trying to make sense of the current moment.”Duncan Bell, University of Cambridge “At a time when politics seems to have become a battle between rival nostalgias, Patrick Porter refuses to let them colonize our imagination. He has penned a bracing manifesto that exposes the alluring but dangerous myth that the United States ever led a "liberal international order." Ordering the world, he shows, is rough business. Intrinsic to the project are the most illiberal of actions — the deployment of massive and endless violence, the exercise of exclusive privilege, the concentration of power and diminishment of restraint. Not only, Porter argues, does the U.S.-led order constitute a hollow response to dangerous demagogues like Donald Trump; that very order helped to produce them. No one can speak of the "liberal international order" again without grappling with Porter's cutting analysis and lyrical reflection — and, one hopes, heeding it.”Stephen Wertheim, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft “A razor sharp, tour de force which systematically unpacks the powerful and dangerous myth of the liberal world order and mounts a serious challenge to a wilfully blind American foreign policy establishment. It should be required reading for International Relations students everywhere.”Jeanne Morefield, University of Birmingham “Persuasive”Nick Timothy, The Critic “...the single best book on US foreign policy written from a non-interventionist perspective since Barry Posen’s Restraint.”Colin Dueck, George Mason University“I hope that Porter’s book, an international security scholar’s take on history, will prove to be the beginning of a conversation that more historians should enter. The philosophical arguments in this book are creative and compelling . . .”War on the Rocks“[The False Promise of Liberal Order] is not only an incisive critique of the failures of modern U.S. foreign policy, but it is also a much-needed dispelling of the central myth that 'foreign policy traditionalists' cling to.”The American Conservative “bracing”The New Yorker“a trenchant text, written with verve and conviction”Ed McNally, New Left ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction - Nostalgia in an End TimeChapter One - The Idea of Liberal OrderChapter Two - Darkness Visible: World Ordering in PracticeChapter Three - Rough Beast: How the Order Made TrumpChapter Four - A Machiavellian Moment: Roads AheadAfterword - Before Our EyesNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisOn 20 May 1961 Foucault defended his two doctoral theses; on 2 December 1970 he gave his inaugural lecture at the Collège de France. Between these dates, he published four books, travelled widely, and wrote extensively on literature, the visual arts, linguistics, and philosophy. He taught both psychology and philosophy, beginning his explorations of the question of sexuality. Weaving together analyses of published and unpublished material, this is a comprehensive study of this crucial period. As well as Foucault’s major texts, it discusses his travels to Brazil, Japan, and the USA, his time in Tunisia, and his editorial work for Critique and the complete works of Nietzsche and Bataille. It was in this period that Foucault developed the historical-philosophical approach he called ‘archaeology’ – the elaboration of the archive – which he understood as the rules that make possible specific claims. In its detailed study of Foucault’s archive the book is itself an archaeology of Foucault in another sense, both excavation and reconstruction. This book completes a four-volume series of major intellectual histories of Foucault. Foucault’s Last Decade was published by Polity in 2016; Foucault: The Birth of Power followed in 2017; and The Early Foucault in 2021.Trade Review"This final volume of Elden’s magisterial history offers a fascinating insight into Foucault’s life and work throughout the 1960s."Camille Robcis, Columbia University"For we students of Foucault and avid readers of his books, the articulation with debates of the time and the reorientations of his thought seemed clear enough. What an illusion! Building on the new archive and testimonies with amazing intellectual empathy, Stuart Elden recreates the latent discourse. We can embark on a new reading and understanding of the great archaeologist of our culture."Étienne Balibar, author of On Universals"Stuart Elden concludes his series on Foucault with another work of meticulous scholarship, unearthing archival sources, variants of Foucault’s publications, and links to his contemporaries in the exciting intellectual context of the 1960s."Clare O’Farrell, Queensland University of TechnologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations and Archival References Introduction 1 Madness and Medicine 2 Literature 3 Art 4 Order 5 Sexuality, Psychology, Biology 6 Linguistics and Structuralism 7 Discourse, Tunisia 8 The Archaeology of Knowledge 9 Nietzsche Coda: Into the 1970s Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA spirit is haunting contemporary thought – the spirit of Hegel. All the powers of academia have entered into a holy alliance to exorcize this spirit: Vitalists and Eschatologists, Transcendental Pragmatists and Speculative Realists, Historical Materialists and even ‘liberal Hegelians’. Which of these groups has not been denounced as metaphysically Hegelian by its opponents? And which has not hurled back the branding reproach of Hegelian metaphysics in its turn? Progressives, liberals and reactionaries alike receive this condemnation. In light of this situation, it is high time that true Hegelians should openly admit their allegiance and, without obfuscation, express the importance and validity of Hegelianism to the contemporary intellectual scene. To this end, a small group of Hegelians of different nationalities have assembled to sketch the following book – a book which addresses a number of pressing issues that a contemporary reading of Hegel allows a new perspective on: our relation to the future, our relation to nature and our relation to the absolute.Trade Review“If our situation is marked by the fact that an order seems to continue that has long since begun to disintegrate, then Hegel is the thinker of the present. He is not the guardian of this order, which the current liberal, pragmatist reading makes him out to be. Instead, he thinks of what dissolves it from within. Reading Hegel shows what the true Hegelian presence is.”Christoph Menke, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main “The authors take a firm stance against all attempts to normalize or domesticate Hegel – what they find most inspiring in him is precisely what is usually seen as his most problematic points: the notion of absolute knowing, his philosophy of nature, his advocacy of the state, his take on religion. In what appears outrageous in Hegel, they find the formidable thinker of the future.”Mladen Dolar, University of LjubljanaTable of ContentsNotes on the textIntroduction1. Hegel: The Spirit of Distrust2. Hegel on the Rocks: Remarks on Hegel’s Concept of Nature3. The Future of the AbsoluteNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisAfter the harrowing experience of the pandemic and lockdown, both states and individuals have been searching for ways to exit the crisis, many hoping to return as soon as possible to ‘the world as it was before the pandemic’. But there is another way to learn the lessons of this ordeal: as inhabitants of the earth, we may not be able to exit lockdown so easily after all, since the global health crisis is embedded in another larger and more serious crisis – that brought about by the New Climate Regime. Learning to live in lockdown might be an opportunity to be seized: a dress-rehearsal for the climate mutation, an opportunity to understand at last where we – inhabitants of the earth – live, what kind of place ‘earth’ is and how we will be able to orient ourselves and exist in this world in the years to come. We might finally be able to explore the land in which we live, together with all other living beings, begin to understand the true nature of the climate mutation we are living through and discover what kind of freedom is possible – a freedom differently situated and differently understood. In this sequel to his bestselling book Down to Earth, Bruno Latour provides a compass for this necessary re-orientation of our lives, outlining the metaphysics of confinement and deconfinement with which we will all be obliged to come to terms by the strange times in which we are living.Trade Review"astonishing meditation"New York Times "In After Lockdown, the French philosopher and anthropologist Bruno Latour takes a more radical stance. With the current pandemic we experience a dress-rehearsal for what climate change has in store, he thinks. So, we'd better learn to re-orient ourselves and take stock of our lives. For that, we need a new compass, an entirely different cosmology, he claims – different, that is, from the metaphysics which provides the basic conceptual framework of most modern thought."The Montreal Review "In After Lockdown: A Metamorphosis, Bruno Latour explores how the experience of lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic has led us to better understand our connections with other living beings, in ways that might be conducive to confronting our climate crisis. This book will be of interest to anyone wanting to explore the philosophical meanings of lockdowns, Gaia theories and climate politics."LSE Review of Books "a novel and important contribution"Journal of Ecohumanism"Readers new to Latour will find this book intriguing and relevant, an eminently useful introduction to his approach to social science… [a] provocative and beautiful book…"Social ForcesTable of Contents1. One way of becoming a termite 2. Locked-down in a space that's still pretty vast 3. 'Earth' is a proper noun 4. 'Earth' is feminine, 'Universe' is masculine 5. A whole cascade of engendering troubles 6. 'Here below' – except there is no up above 7. Letting the economy bob to the surface 8. Describing the territory, only, the right way round 9. The unfreezing of the landscape 10. Multiplying the number of mortal bodies 11. The return of ethnogeneses 12. Some pretty strange battles 13. Scattering in all directions 14. A little further reading

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Book SynopsisThe toppling of statues in the name of anti-racism is disconcerting, as is the violence sometimes displayed towards others in the name of gender equality. The emancipation movements of the past seem to have undergone a subtle transformation: the struggle now is not so much to bring about progress but rather to denounce offenses, express indignation, and assert identities, sometimes in order to demand recognition. The individual’s commitment to self-definition and self-appreciation, understood as the exercise of a sovereign right, has become a distinctive sign of our time. Elisabeth Roudinesco takes us into the darker corners of identity thinking, where conspiracy theories, rejection of the other, and incitement to violence are often part of the mix. But she also points to several paths that could lead us away from despair and toward a possible world in which everyone can adhere to the principle according to which “I am myself, that’s all there is to it” without denying the diversity of human communities or essentializing either universality or difference. This bold and courageous interrogation of identity politics will be of great interest to anyone concerned with the state of our world today.Trade Review“In this profoundly compelling and exceptionally far-reaching book, Elisabeth Roudinesco ruthlessly exposes the benighted logic behind the emancipatory countenance of contemporary identity politics. Fierce, fearless, and forward-looking, she reclaims the legitimate right to an open debate in a world in which people’s desperate search for a redemptive identity has elicited new forms of intellectual, social, and ideological violence. I expect this book to create a storm, which will not only be perfect, but totally unavoidable and absolutely necessary.”Dany Nobus, Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychology, Brunel University London“Roudinesco’s book makes an important, timely, and courageous contribution to the vexed issue of identity politics. Debunking ideologies that take ‘his majesty the ego’ as a weapon, her book shows concretely how the truth of the political subject emerges where identity fails. This is the work of a true historian, while touching the nerve of crucial debates of our present times.”Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania and American Academy of Arts and Sciences“We are blessed to have such a guide into the murkiest regions of high theory.”Law & LibertyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface 1. Assigning Identities Beirut 2005: who am I? Secularisms The politics of Narcissus Berkeley 1996 2. The Galaxy of Gender Paris 1949: one is not born a woman Vienna 1912: Is anatomy destiny? Highlights and disappointments of gender studies Transidentities Inquisitorial follies Psychiatry in full retreat New York: Queer Nation Disseminating human gender I am neither white nor woman nor man, but half Lebanese 3. Deconstructing Race Paris 1952: race does not exist Colonialism and anticolonialism “Nègre je suis” Writing toward Algeria Mixed-race identities 4. Postcolonialities “Is Sartre still alive?” Descartes, a white male colonialist Flaubert and Kuchuk Hanem Tehran 1979: dreaming of a crusade The subaltern identity 5. The Labyrinth of Intersectionality Memories in dispute “Je suis Charlie” Iconoclastic rage 6. Great Replacements Oneself against all The terror of invasion “Big Other”: from Boulouris to La Campagne de France Epilogue Works Cited Notes Index

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