History Theory category: 16752 books
Stability without Statehood
Lessons from Europe's History before the Sovereign State
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
This book reinterprets the EU using classical and early modern republican political theory. Bypassing the nation-state, it presents a new theory of the creation, change and demise of organizations in world politics. It also argues that the state is a problematic solution to 'state-failure' and explores alternative republican commonwealths.
The Civil Service in Poland
Theory and Experience
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
The book analyzes the theoretical and practical aspects of civil service in Polish public administration and discusses it in a European context. While civil service is explored from a comparative, historical and systemic perspective, the study takes a close look at the history of Polish civil service...
Postenvironmentalism
A Material Semiotic Perspective on Living Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
This book presents a vibrant study of the rise, decline, and transformation of environmental thinking. The author’s analysis moves from the proclaimed death of environmentalism toward the emerging theory and practices of postenvironmentalism in its manifold interpretations. Building upon current...
Deleuze and World Politics
Alter-Globalizations and Nomad Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
The central argument of this book is that the univocal ontology and corresponding immanent metaphysics of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) can provide a theoretical perspective capable of accounting for the complex nature of world politics.
Drawing on a wide variety of Deleuze’s...
Minorities of Europeanization
The New Others of European Social Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
What are the societal effects of Europeanization? How successful is the EU’s project to create an overarching European identity representative of all its citizens, transcending national boundaries, and including those previously excluded as national minorities? This study addresses these questions...
by Francis A. O'Connell
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The theory of democratic pluralism has long provided the dominant ideal and description of politics in industrial societies with competing party systems. The purpose of this classic collection, including some of the leading theorists of the late 1960s, is to subject this theory to systematic scrutiny....
by Brooks Adams
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2016
Civilization, I apprehend, is nearly synonymous with order. However much we may differ touching such matters as the distribution of property, the domestic relations, the law of inheritance and the like, most of us, I should suppose, would agree that without order civilization, as we understand it,...
A Virtue for Courageous Minds
Moderation in French Political Thought, 1748-1830
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2012
Political moderation is the touchstone of democracy, which could not function without compromise and bargaining, yet it is one of the most understudied concepts in political theory. How can we explain this striking paradox? Why do we often underestimate the virtue of moderation? Seeking to answer...
Working with Affect in Feminist Readings
Disturbing Differences
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Affect has become something of a buzzword in cultural and feminist theory during the past decade. References to affect, emotions and intensities abound, their implications in terms of research practices have often remained less manifest. Working with Affect in Feminist Readings: Disturbing Differences...
Planet Utopia
Utopia, Dystopia, and Globalisation
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
The key figure of the capitalist utopia is the individual who is ultimately free. The capitalist’s ideal society is designed to protect this freedom. However, within Planet Utopia: Utopia, Dystopia, Globalisation, Featherstone argues that capitalist utopian vision, which is most clearly expressed...
The Winnowing Fan
Verse-Essays in Creative Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
This path-breaking book explores different ways in which writing about poetry can deepen and extend our critical engagement by deploying creatively the manifold resources of poetic language and form. Through a series of verse-essays, reflective monologues, and inventive variations on topics in literary...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
As rapid economic development brings increasing uncertainty in East Asia, interest in a new version of republicanism, termed iscalled neo-Roman republicanism, is growing across the region. Conceptualized as liberty as non-domination, this new form of republicanism has inspired not only Western but...
Security and Terror
American Culture and the Long History of Colonial Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
When in 1492 Christopher Columbus set out for Asia but instead happened upon the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola, his error inaugurated a specifically colonial modernity. This is, Security and Terror contends, the colonial modernity within which we still live. And its enduring features are especially...
Early Postmodernism
Foundational Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In the decade that followed 1972, the journal boundary 2 consistently published many of the most distinguished and most influential statements of an emerging literary postmodernism. Recognizing postmodernism as a dominant force in culture, particularly in the literary and narrative imagination, the...