History Theory category: 16752 books
Language and State
A Theory of the Progress of Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2015
Is the state formed because of a natural course, the making of a social contract, initial conquest, the self-defense of the community or the formation of a class society? This book eloquently argues that the state is not simply formed in one way. It contends that the state is formed because of language....
Economies of Desire at the Victorian Fin de Siècle
Libidinal Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
This volume marks the first sustained study to interrogate how and why issues of sexuality, desire, and economic processes intersect in the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siècle. At the end of the nineteenth-century, the move towards new models of economic thought marked the transition...
Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context
From Consumerism to Celebrity Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Exploring Enlightenment attitudes toward things and their relation to human subjects, this collection offers a geographically wide-ranging perspective on what the eighteenth century looked like beyond British or British-colonial borders. To highlight trends, fashions, and cultural imports of truly...
Making Rights Claims
A Practice of Democratic Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
While the 1960s marked a rights revolution in the United States, the subsequent decades have witnessed a rights revolution around the globe, a revolution that for many is a sign of the advancement of democracy. But is the act of rights claiming a form of political contestation that advances democracy?...
by Christopher Rowland
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
In recent decades, reception history has become an increasingly important and controversial topic of discussion in biblical studies. Rather than attempting to recover the original meaning of biblical texts, reception history focuses on exploring the history of interpretation. In doing so it locates...
by Alexander Kaufman
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
This is a new interpretation and analysis of John Rawls's leading theory of distributive justice, which also considers the responding egalitarian theories of scholars such as Richard Arneson, G. A. Cohen, Ronald Dworkin, Martha Nussbaum, John Roemer, and Amartya Sen. Rawls's theory, Kaufman argues,...
by Frank Lovett
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
In all societies, past and present, many persons and groups have been subject to domination. Properly understood, domination is a great evil, the suffering of which ought to be minimized so far as possible. Surprisingly, however, political and social theorists have failed to provide a detailed analysis...
Democratizing Deliberation
A Political Theory Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Democratizing Deliberation brings together recent and cutting-edge political theory scholarship on deliberative democracy. Edited by Kettering Foundation program officer Derek Barker, Noëlle McAfee, associate professor of philosophy at Emory University and associate editor of the Kettering Review,...
Globalization and Sovereignty
Rethinking Legality, Legitimacy, and Constitutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Sovereignty and the sovereign state are often seen as anachronisms; Globalization and Sovereignty challenges this view. Jean L. Cohen analyzes the new sovereignty regime emergent since the 1990s evidenced by the discourses and practice of human rights, humanitarian intervention, transformative occupation,...
The Reject
Community, Politics, and Religion after the Subject
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
This book proposes a theory of the reject, a more adequate figure than the subject for thinking friendship, love, community, democracy, the postsecular, and the posthuman.
Through close readings of Nancy, Deleuze, Derrida, Cixous, Clement, Bataille, Balibar, Ranciere, and Badiou, Goh shows...
Kant’s Political Theory
Interpretations and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Past interpreters of Kant’s thought seldom viewed his writings on politics as having much importance, especially in comparison with his writings on ethics, which (along with his major works, such as the Critique of Pure Reason) received the lion’s share of attention. But in recent years a new...
The Moral Person of the State
Pufendorf, Sovereignty and Composite Polities
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
This is the first detailed study in any language of the single most influential theory of the modern state: Samuel von Pufendorf's account of the state as a 'moral person'. Ben Holland reconstructs the theological and political contexts in and for which Pufendorf conceived of the state as being a...
by Richard Flathman
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In Toward a Liberalism, Richard Flathman shows why and how political theory can contribute to the quality of moral and political practice without violating, as empiricist- and idealist-based theories tend to do, liberal commitments to individuality and plurality. Exploring the tense but inevitable...
Political Theory between Philosophy and Rhetoric
Politics as Transcendence and Contingency
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
This book explores the significance of rhetoric from the perspective of its complex relationship with philosophy. It demonstrates how this relationship gives expression to a basic tension at the core of politics: that between the contingency of its happening and the transcendence toward which it strives.
The...