History Theory category: 16752 books
Critical Theory and Democracy
Civil Society, Dictatorship, and Constitutionalism in Andrew Arato’s Democratic Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
This book focuses on Andrew Arato’s democratic theory and its relevance to contemporary issues such as processes of democratization, civil society, constitution-making, and the modern Executive.
Andrew Arato is -both globally and disciplinarily- a prominent thinker in the fields of democratic...
The modern theories of international relations - old thoughts or innovative ideas? Investigation of Constructivism and Critical Theory by the three Traditions of Martin Wight
old thoughts or innovative ideas? Investigation of Constructivism and Critical Theory by the three Traditions of Martin Wight
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2006
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: 2,0, http://www.uni-jena.de/ (Politikwissenschaft), course: Politische Philosophie der internationalen Beziehungen, 15 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Martin...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Though disability scholarship has been robust in history, philosophy, English, and sociology for decades, political theory and political science more generally have been slow to catch up. This groundbreaking volume presents the first full-length book on political theory approaches to disability issues....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Charting innovative directions in the environmental humanities, this book examines the cultural history of climate change under three broad headings: history, writing and politics. Climate change compels us to rethink many of our traditional means of historical understanding, and demands new ways...
Listen Again
A New History of Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
How do you tell the key of a piece—without looking at a score? How do you know when a musical work ended before an audience applauds or a radio announcer returns on air? Was there, in fact, a ‘breakdown of tonality’ in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? These questions and others are the...
Before Anarchy
Hobbes and his Critics in Modern International Thought
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
How did the 'Hobbesian state of nature' and the 'discourse of anarchy' - separated by three centuries - come to be seen as virtually synonymous? Before Anarchy offers a novel account of Hobbes's interpersonal and international state of nature and rejects two dominant views. In one, international relations...
by Quentin Skinner
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 1978
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 1978
A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century, the decisive period of transition from medieval to modern political theory. The work is intended to be both an introduction to the period for students, and a presentation and justification of a particular...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Game Theory
The Fascinating Math Behind Decision-Making
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Gain some insight into the game of life...
Game Theory means rigorous strategic thinking. It is based on the idea that everyone acts competitively and in his own best interest. With the help of mathematical models, it is possible to anticipate the actions of others in nearly all life's enterprises....
by Carl Schmitt, Christopher Thornhill
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2008
Carl Schmitt’s magnum opus, Constitutional Theory, was originally published in 1928 and has been in print in German ever since. This volume makes Schmitt’s masterpiece of comparative constitutionalism available to English-language readers for the first time. Schmitt is considered by many to be...
The Space In-Between
Essays on Latin American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2002
Silviano Santiago has been a pioneer in the development of concepts crucial to the discourse of contemporary critical and cultural theory, especially postcolonial theory. The notions of “hybridity” and “the space in-between” have been so completely absorbed into current theory that few scholars...
A Geometry of Music
Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
How is the Beatles' "Help!" similar to Stravinsky's "Dance of the Adolescents?" How does Radiohead's "Just" relate to the improvisations of Bill Evans? And how do Chopin's works exploit the non-Euclidean geometry of musical chords? In this groundbreaking work, author...
Dialectics and Contemporary Politics
Critique and Transformation from Hegel through Post-Marxism
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Dialectics and Contemporary Politics recasts dialectical thought for a post-Marxist age in which labour movement politics is just one political option among many. The book is organized thematically around concepts such as immanent critique, ideology, experience, and resistance, and according to figures...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2002
Postmodernism has become the orthodoxy in educational theory. It heralds the end of grand theories like Marxism and liberalism, scorning any notion of a united feminist challenge to patriachy, of united anti-racist struggle, and of united working-class movements against capitalist exploitation and...
Genre Fusion
A New Approach to History, Fiction, and Memory in Contemporary Spain
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Although the boom in historical fiction and historiography about Spain's recent past has found an eager readership, these texts are rarely studied as two halves of the same story. With Genre Fusion: A New Approach to History, Fiction, and Memory in Contemporary Spain, Sara J. Brenneis argues that...