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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Transitional Justice Contending with the Past MICHAEL NEWMAN London Metropolitan University ‘A highly readable rendering of the current state of the field of transitional justice; ecumenical and comprehensive, it embraces the project of how to reckon with the past.’ Ruti Teitel, New York Law School and author of Globalizing Transitional Justice ‘This book masterfully contextualizes the dizzying array of theoretical work in transitional justice while doing full service to disagreements. Reflective, critical and persuasive, it is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate study.’ Padraig McAuliffe, University of Liverpool In this book, Michael Newman concisely and accessibly introduces the central debates of transitional justice, outlining the key ideas and giving an overview of the vast literature by reference to a range of examples and case studies. It will be an invaluable contribution for students, scholars and practitioners of transitional justice. 216 x 138mm • 224 pages • 2019 HB • 978-1-5095-2115-9 • £50.00 / $64.95 / €61.90 PB • 978-1-5095-2116-6 • £15.99 / $22.95 / €19.90 ebook available Political Theology A Critical Introduction SAUL NEWMAN Goldsmiths, University of London ‘In Saul Newman’s book, the concepts of political theology and secularization illuminate each other, opening an original perspective on contemporary reality. Rather than opposites, they form a single problematic figure revolving around the enigma of sovereignty. From Marx to Schmitt, from Loewith to Blumenberg, from Habermas to Derrida – the entirety of contemporary philosophy is originally reinterpreted through the political-theological paradigm.’ Roberto Esposito, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa ‘This is an innovative look at a subject we all thought that we understood already (but we didn’t). Newman makes a bold and original pitch to show how we turn our back on the theological at our peril.’ James Martel, San Francisco State University 216 x 138mm • 208 pages • 2018 HB • 978-1-5095-2839-4 • £50.00 / $64.95 / €61.90 PB • 978-1-5095-2840-0 • £15.99 / $22.95 / €19.90 ebook available See backlist for Saul Newman’s Postanarchism. To keep up to date with the latest books publishing in your area of interest, join our mailing list by visiting www.politybooks.com/subscribe Politics and the Anthropocene DUNCAN KELLY University of Cambridge ‘There is something fresh and hopeful about this timely book. Kelly proceeds with a complex understanding of the Anthropocene, avoids the two extremes of climate-induced fatalism or politics that simply deny climate change, and explores resources within theories of representative politics that may enable democratic thought to rise to the challenge of a planetary environmental crisis.’ Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago ‘Kelly takes up the challenge to rethink politics and the history of political thought in the age of the Anthropocene, and illuminates, in the process, both what is recurrent and what is new and urgent.’ Anne Phillips, London School of Economics and Political Science In this book, Duncan Kelly considers how the Anthropocene could shape our future by engaging with the recent past of our political thinking. Rejecting fatalism, Kelly provides a skilful defence of the potential for democratic politics to negotiate this epochral challenge. 216 x 138mm • 160 pages • 2019 HB • 978-1-5095-3419-7 • £45.00 / $59.95 / €55.90 PB • 978-1-5095-3420-3 • £14.99 / $19.95 / €18.90 ebook available Passions and Politics PAUL GINSBORG & SERGIO LABATE University of Florence; University of Macerata Translated by David Broder ‘How should we try to fashion our feelings and imaginations across our lives, so that they equip us best to live well together on the scale we need to, is the oldest and deepest challenge in political and religious thinking. Passions and Politics poses that drastic question bravely once again and offers a fresh answer for the epoch of global neoliberalism.’ John Dunn, King’s College, Cambridge 216 x 138mm • 176 pages • 2018 HB • 978-1-5095-3273-5 • £50.00 / $64.95 / €61.90 PB • 978-1-5095-3274-2 • £15.99 / $22.95 / €19.90 ebook available The Will of the People A Modern Myth ALBERT WEALE University College London ‘An accessible and incisive critique of populism and referendums by a true democrat. The Will of the People is a magisterial contribution of academic political theory to our troubled and confused public debate. Essential reading.’ Cécile Laborde, University of Oxford 190 x 124mm • 144 pages • 2018 HB • 978-1-5095-3326-8 • £35.00 / $45.00 / €42.90 PB • 978-1-5095-3327-5 • £9.99 / $12.95 / €12.90 ebook available WWW.POLITYBOOKS.COM 20
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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY NEW Critique of Rights CHRISTOPH MENKE Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Translated by Christopher Turner ‘An original and fresh critical analysis of the origins, distinctive character, and paradoxes of the modern theories of right and law. Menke combines historical nuance with systematic rigor in his critique of rights – especially at it pertains to political equality. A must read for anyone interested the probing the meaning and limitations of modern conceptions of right, law, and political community.’ Richard J. Bernstein, New School for Social Research ‘With Menke’s brilliant book, the entire problem of bourgeois rights appears in a new light. Menke concentrates on their form to reveal the depoliticized and depowering social ontology that this form encodes. More extraordinary still, Menke identifies an alternate form that would escape this predicament and re-secure rights as emancipatory.’ Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley The declaration of equal rights arguably created the modern political community. But this act of empowering individuals caused the disempowering of the political community. Exposing this, Menke opens up a new way of understanding rights that no longer involves the disempowering of the political community. 229 x 152mm • 384 pages • UK January 2020, US March 2020 HB • 978-1-5095-2038-1 • £55.00 / $69.95 / €67.90 PB • 978-1-5095-2039-8 • £18.99 / $28.95 / €22.90 ebook available Civil Disobedience WILLIAM E. SCHEUERMAN Indiana University ‘This is a timely, useful, and insightful book. William Scheuerman offers both an introduction to but also a spirited defense of civil disobedience and its central place in our political world. From Gandhi and M. L. King Jr. to Black Lives Matter, the book lays out the arguments for and against various conceptions of civil disobedience in clear and elegant prose.’ Simone Chambers, University of California, Irvine ‘This timely and wide-ranging introduction is at once historically instructive, analytically clear and politically engaged. It will be of great use to large numbers of students and specialists in politics, law and philosophy.’ Robin Celikates, University of Amsterdam What is civil disobedience and why have so many different activists and intellectuals embraced it, and to what ends? This elegant introductory text systematically analyzes the most important interpretations and examples of civil disobedience, arguing that it remains a pivotal tool for anyone hoping to bring about political and social change. Series: Key Concepts 216 x 138mm • 224 pages • 2018 HB • 978-1-5095-1862-3 • £50.00 / $64.95 / €61.90 PB • 978-1-5095-1863-0 • £15.99 / $22.95 / €19.90 ebook available Ex Captivitate Salus Experiences, 1945-47 CARL SCHMITT Translated by Matthew Hannah ‘Ex Captivitate Salus is Carl Schmitt’s poetic, apocalyptic, seductive but ultimately unsatisfying attempt at self-exculpation after the fall of the Third Reich – which, in its early years, Schmitt served so faithfully.’ John McCormick, University of Chicago Ex Captivitate Salus, written during Schmitt’s internment after the war, considers a range of issues relating to history and political theory as well as the Nazi defeat and emerging Cold War. Schmitt urged readers to view the book as a series of letters personally directed to them, hence the text’s unusually personal, reflective dimension. 216 x 138mm • 112 pages • 2017 HB • 978-1-5095-1163-1 • £45.00 / $59.95 / €55.90 PB • 978-1-5095-1164-8 • £15.99 / $19.95 / €19.90 ebook available Dialogues on Power and Space CARL SCHMITT Translated by Samuel Garrett Zeitlin ‘These short dialogues, written in the 1950s when Carl Schmitt was no longer centre stage, are primers on two essential themes of his thought: the inescapable reality of power that cannot be normatively wished away; and the spatial shift from a terrestrial to a maritime view of the world, which unleashes the total mobilization of technology that shapes global modernity.’ William Rasch, Indiana University Schmitt develops here a new ‘dialectics’ of modern power and understanding of the global spatial transformations of the Cold War. He anticipates debates on new geo-political possibilities and threats related to cosmic spaces, overpowering technological advances, and the existential predicament of the human in an increasingly multipolar world. 216 x 138mm • 120 pages • 2015 HB • 978-0-7456-8868-8 • £45.00 / $59.95 / €55.90 PB • 978-0-7456-8869-5 • £14.99 / $19.95 / €18.90 Carl Schmitt A Biography REINHARD MEHRING Heidelberg University of Education Translated by Daniel Steuer ‘In this fascinating biography, Mehring has used Schmitt’s only recently available diaries and calendar entries to lay bare the obsessions of this brilliant thinker – often referred to as the Hobbes of the twentieth century.’ George Schwab, President, National Committee on American Foreign Policy 229 x 152mm • 768 pages • 2014 HB • 978-0-7456-5224-5 • £30.00 / $45.00 / €36.90 WWW.POLITYBOOKS.COM 21

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Transitional Justice Contending with the Past MICHAEL NEWMAN London Metropolitan University ‘A highly readable rendering of the current state of the field of transitional justice; ecumenical and comprehensive, it embraces the project of how to reckon with the past.’ Ruti Teitel, New York Law School and author of Globalizing Transitional Justice ‘This book masterfully contextualizes the dizzying array of theoretical work in transitional justice while doing full service to disagreements. Reflective, critical and persuasive, it is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate study.’ Padraig McAuliffe, University of Liverpool In this book, Michael Newman concisely and accessibly introduces the central debates of transitional justice, outlining the key ideas and giving an overview of the vast literature by reference to a range of examples and case studies. It will be an invaluable contribution for students, scholars and practitioners of transitional justice. 216 x 138mm • 224 pages • 2019 HB • 978-1-5095-2115-9 • £50.00 / $64.95 / €61.90 PB • 978-1-5095-2116-6 • £15.99 / $22.95 / €19.90 ebook available

Political Theology A Critical Introduction SAUL NEWMAN Goldsmiths, University of London ‘In Saul Newman’s book, the concepts of political theology and secularization illuminate each other, opening an original perspective on contemporary reality. Rather than opposites, they form a single problematic figure revolving around the enigma of sovereignty. From Marx to Schmitt, from Loewith to Blumenberg, from Habermas to Derrida – the entirety of contemporary philosophy is originally reinterpreted through the political-theological paradigm.’ Roberto Esposito, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa ‘This is an innovative look at a subject we all thought that we understood already (but we didn’t). Newman makes a bold and original pitch to show how we turn our back on the theological at our peril.’ James Martel, San Francisco State University 216 x 138mm • 208 pages • 2018 HB • 978-1-5095-2839-4 • £50.00 / $64.95 / €61.90 PB • 978-1-5095-2840-0 • £15.99 / $22.95 / €19.90 ebook available See backlist for Saul Newman’s Postanarchism.

To keep up to date with the latest books publishing in your area of interest, join our mailing list by visiting www.politybooks.com/subscribe

Politics and the Anthropocene DUNCAN KELLY University of Cambridge ‘There is something fresh and hopeful about this timely book. Kelly proceeds with a complex understanding of the Anthropocene, avoids the two extremes of climate-induced fatalism or politics that simply deny climate change, and explores resources within theories of representative politics that may enable democratic thought to rise to the challenge of a planetary environmental crisis.’ Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago ‘Kelly takes up the challenge to rethink politics and the history of political thought in the age of the Anthropocene, and illuminates, in the process, both what is recurrent and what is new and urgent.’ Anne Phillips, London School of Economics and Political Science In this book, Duncan Kelly considers how the Anthropocene could shape our future by engaging with the recent past of our political thinking. Rejecting fatalism, Kelly provides a skilful defence of the potential for democratic politics to negotiate this epochral challenge. 216 x 138mm • 160 pages • 2019 HB • 978-1-5095-3419-7 • £45.00 / $59.95 / €55.90 PB • 978-1-5095-3420-3 • £14.99 / $19.95 / €18.90 ebook available

Passions and Politics PAUL GINSBORG & SERGIO LABATE University of Florence; University of Macerata Translated by David Broder ‘How should we try to fashion our feelings and imaginations across our lives, so that they equip us best to live well together on the scale we need to, is the oldest and deepest challenge in political and religious thinking. Passions and Politics poses that drastic question bravely once again and offers a fresh answer for the epoch of global neoliberalism.’ John Dunn, King’s College, Cambridge 216 x 138mm • 176 pages • 2018 HB • 978-1-5095-3273-5 • £50.00 / $64.95 / €61.90 PB • 978-1-5095-3274-2 • £15.99 / $22.95 / €19.90 ebook available

The Will of the People A Modern Myth ALBERT WEALE University College London ‘An accessible and incisive critique of populism and referendums by a true democrat. The Will of the People is a magisterial contribution of academic political theory to our troubled and confused public debate. Essential reading.’ Cécile Laborde, University of Oxford 190 x 124mm • 144 pages • 2018 HB • 978-1-5095-3326-8 • £35.00 / $45.00 / €42.90 PB • 978-1-5095-3327-5 • £9.99 / $12.95 / €12.90 ebook available

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