Books like Contingency, hegemony, universality by Judith Butler

An examination of how democracy shapes politics, business, economics, law, culture, and religion worldwide, its hidden flaws, and the prospects for the future of global democracy.

A philosophical exploration of how to articulate and account for the self, proposing an ethical practice rooted in critical autonomy.

"This book challenges the prevailing philosophical reduction of social justice to distributive justice. It critically analyzes basic concepts underlying most theories of justice, including impartiality, formal equality, and the unitary moral subjectivity. Starting from claims of excluded groups about decision making, cultural expression, and division of labor, Iris Young defines concepts of domination and oppression to cover issues eluding the distributive model. Democratic theorists, according to Young do not adequately address the problem of an inclusive participatory framework. By assuming a homogeneous public, they fail to consider institutional arrangements for including people not culturally identified with white European male norms of reason and respectability. Young urges that normative theory and public policy should undermine group-based oppression by affirming rather than suppressing social group difference. Basing her vision of the good society on the differentiated, culturally plural network of contemporary urban life, she argues for a principle of group representation in democratic publics and for group-differentiated policies."--Back cover.

Hannah Arendt’s Essays in Understanding compiles her early works from 1930 to 1954, covering philosophy, politics, and the rise of totalitarianism.