History Theory category: 16752 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
The theory of secularisation became a virtually unchallenged truth of twentieth-century social science. First sketched out by Enlightenment philosophers, then transformed into an irreversible global process by nineteenth-century thinkers, the theory was given substance by the precipitate drop in religious...
by Colin Farrelly
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2003
`This text provides an up to date account of how things currently stand in political philosophy, and will provide an excellent introduction for students from any background. It gives a lucid and careful account of the central controversies and sites of disagreement in political theory over the last...
by Otto von Gierke
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
This book deals with the life and doctrines of an almost forgotten German scholar whose political doctrine deserves in the writer’s opinion a prominent place in the history of political science. Consideration is also given to the great importance of the juristic writings of this author for the history of legal systematism.
by Lisa Wegener
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, University of Applied Sciences Bremen, course: Democracy: Theory and Practice, 6 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The fascination that springs from the first democratic...
The Philosophical Roots of Anti-Capitalism
Essays on History, Culture, and Dialectical Thought
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Alfred Sohn-Rethel located the origin of philosophical abstraction in the "false conciousness" brought about by the new money economy of Greek Antiquity. In the Enlightenment the conceptual barrier Kant put between phenomenal reality and the "thing-in-itself" expressed, in Sohn-Rethel’s...
The Government of No One
The Theory and Practice of Anarchism
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2019
A magisterial study of the history and theory of one of the most controversial political movements
Anarchism routinely gets a bad press. It's usually seen as meaning chaos and disorder -- or even nothing at all. And yet, from Occupy Wall Street to Pussy Riot, Noam Chomsky to David Graeber,...
Local Government in Australia
History, Theory and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
This book offers a general introduction to and analysis of the history, theory and public policy of Australian local government systems. Conceived in an international comparative context and primarily from within the discipline of political studies, it also incorporates elements of economics and public...
Reading as Democracy in Crisis
Interpretation, Theory, History
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2019
Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History explores the dialectic between historical conditions and the reading strategies that arise from them. Chapters covering Plato and Derrida; G.W.F. Hegel; Karl Marx; Ludwig Wittgenstein; Robert Penn Warren; Louise Rosenblatt; Theodor Adorno,...
Attention Equals Life
The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Poetry has long been thought of as a genre devoted to grand subjects, timeless themes, and sublime beauty. Why, then, have contemporary poets turned with such intensity to documenting and capturing the everyday and mundane? Drawing on insights about the nature of everyday life from philosophy, history,...
Critical Theory and Film
Rethinking Ideology Through Film Noir
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Critical Theory and Film brings together critical theory and film to enhance the critical potential of both.
The book focuses on the Frankfurt School, most notably the works of Adorno and Horkheimer, as well as associated thinkers.
It seeks to demonstrate that cinema can help critical theory...
Subjects of modernity
Time-space, disciplines, margins
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
This book thinks through modernity and its representations by exploring critical considerations of time and space. Drawing on anthropology, history and social theory, it investigates the oppositions and enchantments, the contradictions and contentions, and the identities and ambivalences spawned under...
A new theory of value
The Canadian economics of H.A. Innis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
Continuing problems in the Canadian economy have been the occasion of a partisan debate between nationalists and continentalists, both of whom claim the staples thesis to be the premise of their proposed solutions. As one of the principal progenitors of that premise Harold Innis contributed much to...
The Portable Greek Historians
The Essence of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 1977
Essential passages from the works of four "fathers of history"-Herodotus's History, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Xenophon's Anabasis, and Polybius's Histories.
by F. A. Hayek
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
The Pure Theory of Capital, F. A. Hayek’s long-overlooked, little-understood volume, was his most detailed work in economic theory. Originally published in 1941 when fashionable economic thought had shifted to John Maynard Keynes, Hayek’s manifesto of capital theory is now available again for...