How secular are the political and legal concepts that underpin liberal democracy? Carl Schmitt fi...

This book takes up Foucault's hypothesis that liberal 'civil society,' far from being a sphere of...

Foucault's late work on biopolitics and governmentality has established him as the fundamental th...

Tocqueville suggested that 'the people reign in the American political world like God over the un...

This book critically examines the COVID-19 pandemic and its legal and biological governance using...

This book critically examines the COVID-19 pandemic and its legal and biological governance using...

Tocqueville suggested that 'the people reign in the American political world like God over the un...

Cacciari, academic (aesthetics, U. of Venice) and mayor of Venice as of 1993, surveys the history...

This book takes up Foucault's hypothesis that liberal 'civil society,' far from being a sphere of...

It is often assumed that modern democratic government has a special link with Christianity or was...

Machiavelli uncovers the productive function of social conflict in establishing a new idea of pop...

Machiavelli's influence on modern politics and the importance of his thought for the development ...