History Theory category: 16752 books
by Shannon L. Mariotti, Kennan Ferguson, George Shulman
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Herman Melville is widely considered to be one of America's greatest authors, and countless literary theorists and critics have studied his life and work. However, political theorists have tended to avoid Melville, turning rather to such contemporaries as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau...
Misreading Shakespeare
Modern Playwrights and the Quest for Originality
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
A dynamic new study in literary and dramatic influence, Misreading Shakespeare defines and explores the relation between two modern playsEdward Bonds Lear and Tom Stoppards Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Deadand Shakespeares King Lear and Hamlet. While some see the modern plays as derivative, others...
Marx's Inferno
The Political Theory of Capital
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Marx’s Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx’s Capital and inaugurates a completely new reading of a seminal classic. Rather than simply a critique of classical political economy, William Roberts argues that Capital was primarily a careful engagement with the motives and aims of...
by Heinz Duthel
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Frankfurt School
Notable theorists
Max Horkheimer Theodor Adorno Herbert Marcuse Heinz Duthel Walter Benjamin Erich Fromm Friedrich Pollock Leo Löwenthal Jürgen Habermas
Reason and Revolution Dialectic of Enlightenment Minima...
Classics of International Relations
Essays in Criticism and Appreciation
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Classics of International Relations introduces, contextualises and assesses 24 of the most important works on international relations of the last 100 years. Providing an indispensable guide for all students of IR theory, from advanced undergraduates to academic specialists, it asks why are these works...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
John Gray is one of today’s most brilliant, bestselling and controversial political thinkers. This new collection examines him from a variety of stimulating angles.
This new volume, comprising original contributions from a number of distinguished political theorists, in addition to a reply...
Praxis and Method (RLE: Gramsci)
A Sociological Dialogue with Lukacs, Gramsci and the Early Frankfurt School
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
This sociological critique of the ‘philosophy of praxis’ looks at the importance of the concept in the social theory of leading influential Western Marxists such as Lukács, Gramsci, Korsch, Horkheimer, Marcuse and Adorno in the inter-war period. It offers a detailed critique of Marx and Hegel,...
Utilitarianism and Malthus' Virtue Ethics
Respectable, Virtuous and Happy
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
The die-hard image of Malthus the ogre has not completely disappeared yet. And yet, Malthus showed no less concern than Adam Smith for the labouring poor. In order to make full sense of such expression of concern and to appraise their relevance in Malthus’s work, we need to know what moral philosophy,...
John Paul Stevens and the Constitution
The Search for Balance
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990
A good pragmatist's constitutional theory is inseparable from the legal disputes out of which it arises. John Paul Stevens's theory, that of deciding individual cases well instead of applying constitutional principles in the abstract to cases by category, thus lends itself to being studied in its...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
This volume explores current interventions into the digital labour theory of value, proposing theoretical and empirical work that contributes to our understanding of Marx's labour theory of value, proposes how labour and value are transformed under conditions of virtuality, and employ the theory in order to shed light on specific practices.
Theories of Political Protest and Social Movements
A Multidisciplinary Introduction, Critique, and Synthesis
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2009
Political protest and social movements are ubiquitous phenomena. This book focuses on the current theoretical approaches that aim at explaining them: the theory of collective action, the resource mobilization perspective, political opportunity structure theory, the identity approach, the framing perspective,...
by David Held
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
This volume offers an incisive overview of central issues and controversies in political thought and analysis. It includes major discussions of the idea of the modern state, contemporary theories of the state, problems of power and legitimation, new forms of democratic ideal, citizenship and social...
Policy and Political Theory in Trade Practice
Multinational Corporations and Global Governments
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
The book seeks to untangle the complexities of how America and the West work within emerging markets, addressing the political and diplomatic implications of investment alongside emerging theory within IPE and its implications for the USA.
Democratic Statecraft
Political Realism and Popular Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
The theory of statecraft explores practical politics through the strategies and manoeuvres of privileged agents, whereas the theory of democracy dwells among abstract and lofty ideals. Can these two ways of thinking somehow be reconciled and combined? Or is statecraft destined to remain the preserve...