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Recent Books

Political Theory of the Digital Age by Mathias Risse
Call Number: (RH) JA80 .R636 2023
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

With the rise of far-reaching technological innovation, from artificial intelligence to Big Data, human life is increasingly unfolding in digital lifeworlds.
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.
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.