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Action (1893)

"Let Us Vote!"

Essay on a Critique of Life and a Science of Practice

By Maurice Blondel Translated by Oliva Blanchette

Youth Voting Rights and the 26th Amendment

By Jennifer Frost 2021 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the 26th Amendment to the US Constitution, which lowered the voting age from twentyone to eighteen. Jennifer Frost deftly illustrates how such massive political change occurred, and how it could be brought about again.

New York University Press

This new edition of the English translation of Maurice Blondel’s Action (1893) contains corrections of minor errors in the first edition, and a new preface from the translator, describing what makes this early version of Action unique in all of Blondel’s writings and what has kept it in the forefront of those interested in studying Blondel and his philosophy of Christian religion.

University of Notre Dame Press

December 2021 23 b/w illustrations 384pp 9781479811328 £31.00 Hardback now £21.70

December 2021 480pp 9780268201524 £40.00 Paperback now £28.00

Infrapolitics

Toward the Critique of Violence

A Handbook

By Alberto Moreiras

A Critical Edition

By Walter Benjamin Edited by Peter Fenves and Julia Ng

Elaborates conditions of existence that exceed any definition of world bound to political determinations. It offers a general critique of the political apparatus and seeks to establish an imperative horizon for existential self-understanding. The book provides a genealogy of infrapolitics in the context of contemporary philosophical and politico-theoretical reflection.

Fordham University Press

Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, this critical edition presents an altogether new, fully annotated translation of a work that is widely recognized as a classic of modern political theory.

Stanford University Press

October 2021 272pp 9780823298365 £22.99 Paperback now £16.09

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June 2021 368pp 9780804749534 £18.99 Paperback now £13.29

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10% Less Democracy

Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less

By Garett Jones Drawing together evidence and theory from economics, political science, and finance, Jones argues that the richest, most democratic nations would benefit if they slightly reduced accountability to the voting public, turning up the dial on elite influence.

Stanford University Press March 2021 248pp 9781503628977 £14.99 Paperback now £10.49

A Constitution for the Living

Imagining How Five Generations of Americans Would Rewrite the Nation's Fundamental Law

By Beau Breslin Thomas Jefferson held that each generation should take an active role in shaping the US Constitution. Beau Breslin imagines how historical figures from 1787 to the present might have fashioned their particular generation’s Constitution.

Stanford University Press

An Yves R. Simon Reader

The Philosopher's Calling

By Yves R. Simon Edited by Michael D. Torre with John W. Carlson and Anthony O. Simon Political philosopher Yves R. Simon was a student of Jacques Maritain and one of the most important figures in the revival of Thomism. His work, however, is still little known in English. Michael D. Torre provides an erudite and helpful introduction to Simon’s life and thought.

University of Notre Dame Press May 2021 514pp 9780268108304 £36.00 Paperback now £25.20

Democratic Failure

NOMOS LXIII Edited by Melissa Schwartzberg and Daniel Viehoff Provides thought-provoking insights into how we conceptualize, measure, and address democra�c erosion in our presentday world.

New York University Press

April 2021 384pp 9780804776707 £20.99 Hardback now £14.69

Series: NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy December 2020 272pp 9781479804788 £52.00 Hardback now £36.40

Across the Great Divide

Eros

Between Analytic and Continental Political Theory

By Jeremy Arnold Engages with a range of fundamental political concepts and theorists—from state legitimacy and violence, to personal freedom and its civic institutionalization, and justice —not only illustrating the shortcomings of theoretical synthesis but also demonstrating a productive alternative.

Stanford University Press March 2020 232pp 9781503612143 £20.99 Paperback now £14.69

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Beyond the Death Drive

By Rosaura Martínez Ruiz, Foreword by Judith Butler, Translated by Ramsey McGlazer Elaborates the political and intimate possibilities of going beyond the tendency toward destruction that Freud identified in human nature. Martínez argues that Eros is the force that can help us resist this destructive drive, and that resistance must take the form of unceasing ethical vigilance and political action.

Fordham University Press October 2021 208pp 9780823298280 £18.99 Paperback now £13.29

Hypocrisy and the Philosophical Intentions of Rousseau The Jean-Jacques Problem

By Matthew D. Mendham

Why did Rousseau fail—often so ridiculously or grotesquely—to live up to his own principles? In this book, Mendham is the first to systematically analyze Rousseau's normative philosophy and selfportrayals in view of the yawning gap between them.

University of Pennsylvania Press March 2021 296pp 9780812252835 £60.00 Hardback now £42.00

On Universals

Constructing and Deconstructing Community By Étienne Balibar, Translated by Joshua David Jordan Many on the Left have looked upon “universal” as a dirty word, one that signals liberalism’s failure to recognize the masculinist and Eurocentric assumptions from which it proceeds. Balibar builds on these critiques, yet works to rescue and reinvent what universal claims can offer for a revolutionary politics answerable to the common.

Fordham University Press Series: Commonalities August 2020 160pp 9780823288557 £20.99 Paperback now £14.69

Philosophical Writings

Edited by Simone de Beauvoir and Margaret A. Simons, Foreword by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir An unprecedented collection of complete, scholarly editions of philosophical texts that cover the first twenty-three years of Beauvoir's career, including a number of recently discovered works.

University of Illinois Press

Political Writings

By Simone de Beauvoir, Edited by Margaret A. Simons and Marybeth Timmermann, Foreword by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir Offers an abundance of newly translated essays by Simone de Beauvoir that demonstrate a heretofore unknown side of her political philosophy.

University of Illinois Press Series: Beauvoir Series February 2021 408pp 9780252085949 £18.99 Paperback now £13.29

Protest and Dissent

NOMOS LXII Edited by Melissa Schwartzberg Distinguished scholars from the fields of political science, law, and philosophy provide a fresh, interdisciplinary perspective on the potential—and limits— of mass protest and disobedience in today’s age.

New York University Press Series: NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy March 2020 304pp 9781479810512 £52.00 Hardback now £36.40

Reason and Politics

The Nature of Political Phenomena

By Mark Blitz Examines the central phenomena of political life in order to clarify their meaning, source, and range. Blitzgives particular attention to the notions of freedom, rights, justice, virtue, power, property, nationalism, and the common good.

University of Notre Dame Press March 2021 202pp 9780268109127 £36.00 Hardback now £25.20

Series: Beauvoir Series February 2021 368pp 9780252085932 £18.99 Paperback now £13.29

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The Cult of the Constitution

By Mary Anne Franks

In this controversial and provocative book, Franks examines the thin line between constitutional fidelity and constitutional fundamentalism. This book reveals how deep fundamentalist strains in both conservative and liberal American thought keeps the Constitution in the service of white male supremacy.

Stanford University Press September 2020 272pp 9781503614987 £14.99 Paperback now £10.49

The Kingdom of Man

Genesis and Failure of the Modern Project

By Rémi Brague, Translated by Paul Seaton Brague argues that with the dawn of the Enlightenment, Western society has rejected traditional theophilosphical ideas in favor of human authority and autonomy, ultimately causing the erasure of divinely ordered humanity.

University of Notre Dame Press Series: Catholic Ideas for a Secular World February 2021 352pp 9780268104269 £22.99 Paperback now £16.09

Thinking with Balibar

A Lexicon of Conceptual Practice Edited by Ann Laura Stoler, Stathis Gourgouris and Jacques Lezra The first sustained critical work on the French political philosopher Étienne Balibar, collects essays by sixteen prominent philosophers, psychoanalysts, anthropologists, sociologists, and literary critics who each identify, define, and explore a central concept in Balibar’s thought.

Fordham University Press Series: Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory July 2020 256pp 9780823288489 £26.99 Paperback now £18.89

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Truth and Evidence

NOMOS LXIV Edited by Melissa Schwartzberg and Philip Kitcher The relationship between truth and politics has rarely seemed more troubled, with misinformation on the rise, and the value of expertise in democratic decision-making increasingly being dismissed. This book assembles distinguished scholars to explore pressing questions about the role of truth, evidence, and knowledge in government.

New York University Press Series: NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy November 2021 240pp 9781479811595 £52.00 Hardback now £36.40

Violence and Power in the Thought of Hannah Arendt

By Caroline Ashcroft

Hannah Arendt was one of the foremost theorists of the twentieth century to wrestle with the role of violence in public life. Ashcroft argues that what Arendt opposes in political violence is the use of force to determine politics, an idea central to modern sovereignty.

University of Pennsylvania Press Series: Intellectual History of the Modern Age May 2021 320pp 9780812252965 £56.00 Hardback now £39.20

World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth

Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics

By J. Daniel Elam Foregrounds anticolonial theories of reading to reveal an alternative strain of anticolonialism committed not to the forms of authority that facilitate political recognition or national sovereignty, but rather to inexpertise and inconsequence, with the aim of replacing mastery with collective cultivation.

Fordham University Press December 2020 208pp 9780823289806 £20.99 Paperback now £14.69