History Theory category: 16752 books
by Dr. William Outhwaite
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Critical Theory and Contemporary Europe introduces the major contributions critical theorists made to the study of Europe, from the interwar years to the present time.
The work begins with theorists such as Adorno who addressed Nazism and the Holocaust, then moves on to discuss the postwar...
Critical Theory in Critical Times
Transforming the Global Political and Economic Order
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
We live in critical times. We face a global crisis in economics and finance, a global ecological crisis, and a constant barrage of international disputes. Perhaps most dishearteningly, there seems to be little faith in our ability to address such difficult problems. However, there is also a more positive...
William E. Connolly
Democracy, Pluralism and Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2007
William E. Connolly’s writings have pushed the leading edge of political theory, first in North America and then in Europe as well, for more than two decades now. This book draws on his numerous influential books and articles to provide a coherent and comprehensive overview of his significant contribution...
Constructivism and International Relations
Alexander Wendt and his Critics
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2005
This new book unites in one volume some of the most prominent critiques of Alexander Wendt's constructivist theory of international relations and includes the first comprehensive reply by Wendt.
Partly reprints of benchmark articles, partly new original critiques, the critical chapters are...
by Sebastian Erckel
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2009
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: 80%=good, University of Kerala (Department of Political Science), course: Comparative Politics, language: English, abstract: Ever since the early beginnings of human civilization there has...
Strange Bedfellows
Interest Group Coalitions, Diverse Partners, and Influence in American Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
How do advocates for the poor gain influence in American policymaking? Strange Bedfellows argues that groups representing low-income populations compensate for a lack of resources by collaborating with diverse partners in their lobbying efforts. This study develops a theory of coalition influence...
Political Thought of Hume and his Contemporaries
Enlightenment Projects Vol. 1
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Intended for scholars in the fields of political theory, and the history of political thought, this two-volume examines David Hume's Political Thought (1711-1776) and that of his contemporaries, including Smith, Blackstone, Burke and Robertson. This book is unified by its temporal focus on the middle...
Poetic Machinations
Allegory, Surrealism, and Postmodern Poetic Form
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The shape, lineation, and prosody of postmodern poems are extravagantly inventive, imbuing both form and content with meaning. Through a survey of American poetry and poetics from the end of World War II to the present, Michael Golston traces the proliferation of these experiments to a growing fascination...
by Bonnie Honig
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Sophocles' Antigone is a touchstone in democratic, feminist and legal theory, and possibly the most commented upon play in the history of philosophy and political theory. Bonnie Honig's rereading of it therefore involves intervening in a host of literatures and unsettling many of their governing assumptions....
Debating the 'Post' Condition in India
Critical Vernaculars, Unauthorized Modernities, Post-Colonial Contentions
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
How was the post-modernist project contested, subverted and assimilated in India? This book offers a personal account and an intellectual history of its reception and response. Tracing independent India’s engagement with Western critical theory, Paranjape outlines both its past and ‘post’. The...
by Michael L. Klein
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Departing from the traditional German school of music theorists, Michael Klein injects a unique French critical theory perspective into the framework of music and meaning. Using primarily Lacanian notions of the symptom, that unnamable jouissance located in the unconscious, and the registers of subjectivity...
by Joan Wallach Scott
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
In The Fantasy of Feminist History, Joan Wallach Scott argues that feminist perspectives on history are enriched by psychoanalytic concepts, particularly fantasy. Tracing the evolution of her thinking about gender over the course of her career, the pioneering historian explains how her search for...
The State
Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
The State represents the epitome of Franz Oppenheimer's thinking. It integrates political and historical philosophy on the one hand, with economic philosophy on the other. Oppenheimer believed the future progress of nations would be in the direction of liberal socialism. He foresaw a society free...
Allegories of America
Narratives, Metaphysics, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Allegories of America offers a bold idea of what, in terms of political theory, it means to be American. Beginning with the question What do we want from a theory of politics? Dolan explores the metaphysics of American-ness and stops along the way to reflect on John Winthrop, the Constitution, 1950s...