History Theory category: 16752 books
Democracy, Dialectics, and Difference
Hegel, Marx, and 21st Century Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
It has been nearly two centuries since Marx famously turned Hegel on his head in order to repurpose dialectics as a revolutionary way of thinking about the internal contradictions of our social relations. Despite critiques from post-structuralists, post-colonialists, and others, there has been a resurgence...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
This book is a comprehensive guide to theories of International Relations (IR). Given the limitations of a paradigm-based approach, it sheds light on eighteen theories and new theoretical perspectives in IR by examining the work of key reference theorists. The chapters are all written to a common...
by James Tully
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
These two ambitious volumes from one of the world's most celebrated political philosophers present a new kind of political and legal theory that James Tully calls a public philosophy, and a complementary new way of thinking about active citizenship, called civic freedom. Professor Tully takes the...
Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt
Geographies of the Nomos
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
The writings of Carl Schmitt are now indissociable from both an historical period and a contemporary moment. He will forever be remembered for his association with the National Socialists of 1930s Germany, and as the figure whose writings on sovereignty, politics, and the law provided justification...
The Crisis of Democratic Theory
Scientific Naturalism and the Problem of Value
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Widely acclaimed for its originality and penetration, this award-winning study of American thought in the twentieth century examines the ways in which the spread of pragmatism and scientific naturalism affected developments in philosophy, social science, and law, and traces the effects of these developments on traditional assumptions of democratic theory.
Prisoners of Reason
Game Theory and Neoliberal Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Is capitalism inherently predatory? Must there be winners and losers? Is public interest outdated and free-riding rational? Is consumer choice the same as self-determination? Must bargainers abandon the no-harm principle? Prisoners of Reason recalls that classical liberal capitalism exalted the no-harm...
North American Critical Theory After Postmodernism
Contemporary Dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
In a series of interviews this book explores the formative experiences of a generation of critical theorists whose work originated in the midst of what has been called 'the postmodern turn,' including discussions of their views on the evolution of critical theory over the past 30 years and their assessment of contemporary politics.
Utopian Politics
Citizenship and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
In the context of global problems such as the economic downturn, escalating inequality, terrorism, resource depletion and climate change, cynicism prevails in contemporary politics, which need not be the case. Utopian Politics confronts a world intensely aware of the problems that we face and sadly...
The Enlightenment of Sympathy
Justice and the Moral Sentiments in the Eighteenth Century and Today
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
The Enlightenment of Sympathy reclaims the sentimentalist theory of reflective autonomy as a resource for enriching social science, normative theory, and political practice today. The sentimentalist description of the reflective process is more empirically accurate than the competing rationalist description,...
Race and the Politics of the Exception
Equality, Sovereignty, and American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
The traditional assumption today about race is that it is not political; that it has no political content and is a matter of individual beliefs and attitudes. In Race and the Politics of the Exception, Utz McKnight argues that race is in fact political and defines how it functions as a politics in...
Anarchy Alive!
Anti-Authoritarian Politics From Practice to Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2007
Anarchist politics are at the heart of today’s most vibrant and radical social movements. From squatted social centres and community gardens to acts of sabotage and raucous summit blockades, anarchist groups and networks are spreading an ethos of direct action, non-hierarchical organizing and self-liberation...
Nationalism and the International Labor Movement
The Idea of the Nation in Socialist and Anarchist Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 1998
The resurgence of nationalism accompanying the decline of Communism has been taken to indicate the failure of socialist theory to grasp the nature of this phenomenon. Against both those who argue that the radical tradition has ignored and underestimated nationalism and those who accuse it of economic...
Empire of Conspiracy
The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Why, Timothy Melley asks, have paranoia and conspiracy theory become such prominent features of postwar American culture? In Empire of Conspiracy, Melley explores the recent growth of anxieties about thought-control, assassination, political indoctrination, stalking, surveillance, and corporate and...
Polarity, Balance of Power and International Relations Theory
Post-Cold War and the 19th Century Compared
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
This book discusses the rise of polarity as a key concept in International Relations Theory. Since the end of the Cold War, until at least the end of 2010, there has been a wide consensus shared by American academics, political commentators and policy makers: the world was unipolar and would remain...