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Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Political science --- Women --- Science politique --- Femmes --- History --- Political activity --- Histoire --- Activité politique --- Women in politics --- Activité politique --- Women in politics - History --- Political science - History

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By 2100, the human population may exceed 11 billion. Having recently surpassed 7.5 billion, it has trebled since 1950. Are such numbers sustainable, given a deepening environmental crisis? Can so many live well? Or should world population be controlled? The population question, one of the twentieth century's most bitterly contested issues, is being debated once again. In this compelling book, Diana Coole examines some of the profound political and ethical questions involved. Are ethical objections to government interference with individuals reproductive freedom definitive? Is it possible to limit population in a non-coercive way that is consistent with liberal-democratic values? Interweaving erudite original analysis with an accessible overview of the crucial debates, Coole argues that a case can be made for reducing our numbers in ways that are compatible with human rights. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in one of the most important questions facing our planet, from concerned citizens to students of politics, sociology, political economy, gender studies and environmental studies.

Population policy --- Reproductive rights --- Birth control --- Overpopulation --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Population policy - Moral and ethical aspects

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In this important new book, Diana Coole shows how existential phenomenology illuminates and enlivens our understanding of politics. Merleau-PontyOs focus on embodied experience allows us to approach political life in a manner that is both critical and engaged. With breadth of vision and penetrating insight, Coole demonstrates that political questions were always central to Merleau-PontyOs philosophical project. Her examination of his complete body of work presents us with a rigorous philosophy that maintains our capacities for agency despite moving beyond a philosophy of the subject.

Political science --- Existential phenomenology. --- Philosophy. --- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice,

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New Materialisms brings into focus and explains the significance of the innovative materialist critiques that are emerging across the social sciences and humanities. By gathering essays that exemplify the new thinking about matter and processes of materialization, this important collection shows how scholars are reworking older materialist traditions, contemporary theoretical debates, and advances in scientific knowledge to address pressing ethical and political challenges. In the introduction, Diana Coole and Samantha Frost highlight common themes among the distinctive critical projects that comprise the new materialisms. The continuities they discern include a posthumanist conception of matter as lively or exhibiting agency, and a reengagement with both the material realities of everyday life and broader geopolitical and socioeconomic structures. Coole and Frost argue that contemporary economic, environmental, geopolitical, and technological developments demand new accounts of nature, agency, and social and political relationships; modes of inquiry that privilege consciousness and subjectivity are not adequate to the task. New materialist philosophies are needed to do justice to the complexities of twenty-first-century biopolitics and political economy, because they raise fundamental questions about the place of embodied humans in a material world and the ways that we produce, reproduce, and consume our material environment.

Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- materialism [philosophical movement] --- ontology [metaphysics] --- Metaphysics --- Materialism. --- Ontology. --- Agent (Philosophy) --- Materialism --- Matérialisme --- Ontologie --- Agent (Philosophie) --- Political aspects. --- Aspect politique --- Agent (Philosophy). --- Matérialisme --- Metafysica --- Politieke filosofie. Sociale filosofie --- ontologie --- materialisme [filosofische stroming] --- 694 --- Esthetica en filosofie --- Ontology --- Political aspects --- Materialism - Political aspects