History Theory category: 16752 books
Democracy and Goodness
A Historicist Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Citizens, political leaders, and scholars invoke the term 'democracy' to describe present-day states without grasping its roots or prospects in theory or practice. This book clarifies the political discourse about democracy by identifying that its primary focus is human activity, not consent. It points...
The Biopolitics of Embryos and Alphabets
A Reproductive History of the Nonhuman
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Biopolitics and posthumanism have been passé theories in the academy for a while now, standing on the unfashionable side of the fault line between biology and liberal thought. These days, if people invoke them, they do so a bit apologetically. But, as Ruth Miller argues, we should not be so quick...
Foucault/Derrida Fifty Years Later
The Futures of Genealogy, Deconstruction, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Early in their careers, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida argued over madness, reason, and history in an exchange that profoundly influenced continental philosophy and critical theory. In this collection, Amy Allen, Geoffrey Bennington, Lynne Huffer, Colin Koopman, Pierre Macherey, Michael Naas,...
Political Recruitment across Two Centuries
Mexico, 1884-1991
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
During more than twenty years of field research, Roderic Ai Camp built a monumental database of biographical information on more than 3,000 leading national figures in Mexico. In this major contribution to Mexican political history, he draws on that database to present a definitive account of the paths...
by Michael Ernest Sweet
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2007
Scientific Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: none, Concordia University Montreal, 23 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This paper examines the idea of world citizenship and if it is both possible and...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
This book focuses on the idea of a modus vivendi as a way of governing political life and addressing problems characterized by pluralism or deep-rooted diversity. The individual essays illustrate both the merits and the limitations of a political theory of modus vivendi; how it might be interpreted...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
This collection addresses concepts and theories of change, contexts and functions of reform discourses, and fields of change in educational research. It examines a wide variety of issues such as girls’ education in France, educational neuroscience, the professionalization in Child Protection, and...
by Avery Kolers
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Accounts of solidarity typically defend it in teleological or loyalty terms, justifying it by invoking its goal of promoting justice or its expression of support for a shared community. Such solidarity seems to be a moral option rather than an obligation. In contrast, A Moral Theory of Solidarity...
Future Freedoms
Intergenerational Justice, Democratic Theory, and Ancient Greek Tragedy and Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
What do present generations owe the future? In Future Freedoms, Elizabeth Markovits asks readers to consider the fact that while democracy holds out the promise of freedom and autonomy, citizens are always bound by the decisions made by previous generations. Motivated by the contemporary political...
After Queer Theory
The Limits of Sexual Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Is queer theory dead? Through its increasing entanglement with capitalism, James Penney, controversially argues that queer theory has run its course. However, the 'end of queer' should not signal the death of liberatory sexual politics; rather, it presents the occasion to rethink the relation between...
The Prose Literature of the Gaelic Revival, 1881–1921
Ideology and Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 1994
The Gaelic Revival has long fascinated scholars of political history, nationalism, literature, and theater history, yet studies of the period have neglected a significant dimension of Ireland's evolution into nationhood: the cultural crusades mounted by those who believed in the centrality of the...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The U.S. Army Human Dimension Concept, published in May of 2014, presents the challenge of optimizing human performance in an increasingly complex and urbanizing world where Soldier interactions...
Black Intellectual Thought in Education
The Missing Traditions of Anna Julia Cooper, Carter G. Woodson, and Alain LeRoy Locke
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Black Intellectual Thought in Education celebrates the exceptional academic contributions of African-American education scholars Anna Julia Cooper, Carter G. Woodson, and Alain Leroy Locke to the causes of social science, education, and democracy in America. By focusing on the lives and projects of...
Global Citizenship and the Legacy of Empire
Marketing Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This book investigates the parallels between mainstream development discourse and colonial discourse as theorized in the work of Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak and Edward Said. Aiming to repoliticize post-colonial theory by applying its understandings to contemporary political discourses, author April...