Books in the Rethinking Political and International Theory series

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Interest in Aristotelianism and in virtue ethics has been growing for half a century but as yet the strengths of the study of Aristotelian ethics in politics have not been matched in economics. This ground-breaking text fills that gap. Challenging the premises of neoclassical economic theory, the contributors take issue with neoclassicism's foundational separation of values from facts, with its treatment of preferences as given, and with its consequent refusal to reason about final ends. Contributions critically engage with aspects of corporate capitalism, managerial power and neoliberal economic policy, and reflect on the recent financial crisis from the point of view of Aristotelian virtue ethics. Containing a new chapter by Alasdair MacIntyre, and deploying his arguments and conceptual scheme throughout, the book critically analyses the theoretical presuppositions and institutional reality of modern capitalism.

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.