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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
Since delivering his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Barack Obama has been hailed as the clear savior of not only the Democratic party, but of the integrity of American politics. Despite the fact that he burst onto the national scene seemingly overnight, his name recognition...
Studs Terkel
Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Studs Terkel was an American icon who had no use for America’s cult of celebrity. He was a leftist who valued human beings over political dogma. In scores of books and thousands of radio and television broadcasts, Studs paid attention – and respect – to “ordinary” human beings of all classes...
Coercion
The Power to Hurt in International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
From the rising significance of non-state actors to the increasing influence of regional powers, the nature and conduct of international politics has arguably changed dramatically since the height of the Cold War. Yet much of the literature on deterrence and compellence continues to draw (whether...
The Politics of Police Reform
Society against the State in Post-Soviet Countries
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
There is a Russian saying that "police mirror society." The gist of this is that every society is policed to the extent that it allows itself to be policed. Centralized in control but decentralized in their reach, the police are remarkably similar in structure, chain of command, and their relationships...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
This title was first published in 2000: The International Library of Politics and Comparative Government brings together in one series, the most significant journal articles to appear in the field of comparative politics in the last twenty-five years. It makes accessible to teachers, researchers and...
The Origins of Neoliberalism
Modeling the Economy from Jesus to Foucault
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2016
Dotan Leshem recasts the history of the West from an economic perspective, bringing politics, philosophy, and the economy closer together and revealing the significant role of Christian theology in shaping economic and political thought. He begins with early Christian treatment of economic knowledge...
Baudelaire Contra Benjamin
A Critique of Politicized Aesthetics and Cultural Marxism
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
This book offers the first sustained argument against the philosophy of Walter Benjamin and his readings of Charles Baudelaire. More broadly, it is also a critique of politicized aesthetics and cultural Marxism, of which Benjamin is a pioneering and emblematic figure. Cristaudo and Beibei argue that...
International Political Theory after Hobbes
Analysis, Interpretation and Orientation
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
The idea of international political theory after Hobbes is a timely and lively focus through which to raise key questions about international politics, and to set up dialogues between historical political theory and contemporary theories of international relations about the legacy of Hobbes in international...
Medieval America
Cultural Influences of Christianity in the Law and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
Well into the twenty-first century, the United States remains one of the most highly religious industrial democracies on earth. Recent Gallup surveys suggest that 76 percent of Americans believe that the Bible is divinely inspired or the direct word of God. In Medieval America, Andrew M Koch and Paul...
Civil Disobedience and the Politics of Identity
When We Should Not Get Along
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Civil Disobedience and the Politics of Identity is an attempt to provide criteria for when it is both morally necessary and politically expedient to break with civic harmony social cohesion in the name of a higher social justice.
by Elizabeth F. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
In every democratic polity there exist individuals and groups who hold some but not all of the essential elements of citizenship. Scholars who study citizenship routinely grasp for shared concepts and language that identify forms of membership held by migrants, children, the disabled, and other groups...
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...
Crisis of Authority
Politics, Trust, and Truth-Telling in Freud and Foucault
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Contemporary social and political theory has reached an impasse about a problem that had once seemed straightforward: how can individuals make ethical judgments about power and politics? Crisis of Authority analyzes the practices that bind authority, trust and truthfulness in contemporary theory and...
Bourdieu's Politics
Problems and Possiblities
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
In the last decade of his career, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu became involved in a series of high-profile political interventions, defending the cause of striking students and workers, speaking out in the name of illegal immigrants, the homeless and the unemployed, challenging the incursion...