What does it mean to be disadvantaged? Is it possible to compare different disadvantages? What should governments do to move their societies in the direction of equality, where equality is to be understood both in distributional and social terms? Linking rigorous analytical philosophical theory with[...]

Cities shape the lives and outlooks of billions of people, yet they have been overshadowed in contemporary political thought by nation-states, identity groups, and concepts like justice and freedom. "The Spirit of Cities" revives the classical idea that a city expresses its own distinctive ethos or [...]

This book fills the gap between environmental philosophy and everyday environmental politics. Avner de-Shalit puts forward a radical political theory of environmental protection, which binds together being environmentally friendly with community, deliberative democracy, and socialism.[...]