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Recent Books

The Pecking Order by Niko Kolodny
Call Number: (RH) HM821 .K65 2023
Publication Date: 2023-02-21
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2023.

A trenchant case for a novel philosophical position: that our political thinking is driven less by commitments to freedom or fairness than by an aversion to hierarchy.
Plato Goes to China by Shadi Bartsch
Call Number: (RH) JC311 .B37 2023
Publication Date: 2023-01-10
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2023]

The surprising story of how Greek classics are being pressed into use in contemporary China to support the regime's political agenda
The Tragic Mind by Robert D. Kaplan
Call Number: (RH) JA71 .K345 2023
Publication Date: 2023-01-17
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2023]

A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy
Rethinking European Social Democracy and Socialism by Alan Granadino (Editor); Stefan Nygård (Editor); Peter Stadius (Editor)
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

With a combined focus on social democrats in Northern and Southern Europe, this book crucially broadens our understanding of the transformation of European social democracy from the mid-1970s to the early-1990s.
Deliberative Agency by Uchenna Okeja
Call Number: (RH) JA71 .O36 2022
Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2022]

Public deliberation, highly valued by many African societies, becomes the cornerstone of a new system of African political philosophy in this brilliant, highly original study.
Instituting Thought by Roberto Esposito; Mark Epstein (Translator)
Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA, USA : Polity Press, [2021]

This new book by the Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito addresses the profound crisis of contemporary politics and examines some of the philosophical approaches that have been used to try to understand and go beyond this crisis.
The Shadow of Totalitarianism by BURDMAN
Call Number: (RH) JC480 .B865 2022
Albany : State University of New York Press, [2022]

The Shadow of Totalitarianism develops a new way to think about the problem of evil in politics.
Prisoners of Their Premises by George C. Edwards III
Call Number: (RH) JF1525.D4 E39 2022
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2022.

A timely look at the real costs of leaders not examining their assumptions.
A History of Political Science by Mark Bevir
Call Number: (RH) JA83 .B48 2022
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

This Element denaturalises political science, stressing the contestability and contingency of ideas, traditions, subfields, and even the discipline itself.