Books in the Rethinking Political and International Theory series

Connecting three generations of critical theorists, this edited collection focuses on the mutual complementarity between the concept of 'human dignity' and the theory and practice of human rights.

Focuses on the importance of misrecognition for the understandings of our political and personal experience. This title presents different theoretical frameworks in which the politics of misrecognition may be understood.

Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of St Andrews, 2013) issued under title: A comparative assessment of constitutionalism in Western and Islamic thought.

This book proposes a new agenda for research into a Critical Theory of Human Rights. Each chapter pursues three goals: to reconstruct modern philosophical theories that have contributed to our views on human rights; to highlight the importance of humanity and human dignity as a complementary dimension to liberal rights; and, finally.

Is al-Qaeda a rigidly organisation, a global network of semi-independent cells, a franchise, or simply an ideology? What role did Osama bin Laden play within the group and its terrorist campaign? This volume offers a critical reflection on Western ways of talking and of thinking about the frightening experience of global terrorism.

What would a sustainable society look like? How could it be achieved? By challenging conventional wisdom about the ecological crisis and reframing the traditional values of green politics this book offers answers to the key questions of the environmental debate.

Since the onset of the Global Financial Crisis the ideas of Karl Marx have once again become prominent in social and political thought. This book turns to Marx's theory of revolutionary subjectivity to assess the work of three contemporary global theorists: Ernesto Laclau, Antonio Negri, and Alain Badiou.

Examines Hannah Arendt's ideas about thinking, acting and political responsibility. This book investigates the relationship between the life of the mind and the life of action that preoccupied Arendt throughout her life.

A study of agonism as a mature account of democratic politics. Situating agonistic democracy within and against debates about radical democracy, foundationalism, liberal democracy, and pluralism, it engages the texts of Mouffe, Connolly, Ranciere, Tully, Honig, Owen, and others to map the contours of agonistic democratic theories.