Ideas and discourse are essential to politics and political analysis. Schmidt evaluates scholarly explanations of how ideas and discourse are used by policymakers and citizens to understand the world, influence others, and mobilize for collective action.
Flourishing Together: Karl Marx's Vision of the Good Society provides a novel interpretation of Karl Marx's vision of the good society that places the idea of self-realization in work at its centre.
This volume brings together some of today's foremost political philosophers to explore the complex relationship between good government and other concepts fundamental to politics: justice, legitimacy, and the common good.