This book traces the rise of the modern state - a mode of organizing political power within a closed territory - in post-Enlightenment Europe and its spread to the remainder of the world, especially c
Luther and Calvin applied the term fanatic to those who sought to destroy civil society in order to establish the Kingdom of God, the "false prophets" and their followers who, early on in the Reformat
Luther and Calvin applied the term fanatic to those who sought to destroy civil society in order to establish the Kingdom of God, the "false prophets" and their followers who, early on in the Reformat
First published in 1986, Knowledge, Belief and Witchcraft remains the only analysis of indigenous discourse about an African belief system undertaken from within the framework of Anglo-American analyt
Inquiries into the meaning and force of race in American culture have largely focused on questions of identity and difference—What does it mean to have a racial identity? What constitutes racial diffe
Taking as its point of departure a sharp critique of Rawls's influential A Theory of Justice - which, like most Western political philosophy since the seventeenth century, considers ethics to be found
Taking as its point of departure a sharp critique of Rawls's influential A Theory of Justice, this book looks at politics from an aesthetic perspective.
