History Theory category: 16752 books
by Stephen Eric Bronner
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Of Critical Theory and its Theorists is an intelligent , accessible overview of the entire Critical Theory Tradition, written by one of the leading experts on the subject. Filled with original insights and valuable historical narratives, Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists covers the work of major...
Terrorism and Communism
A Contribution to the Natural History of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
First published in English in 1920, this work is a reissue of Karl Kautsky's seminal work dealing with the origins and history of the forces at work in revolutionary epochs, which offers pathbreaking insights on the development of civilisation.
The opening chapters, dealing with eigthteenth...
The King's Two Bodies
A Study in Medieval Political Theology
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Originally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has permitted the post mortem continuity of monarch and monarchy, as epitomized by the statement, "The king...
Reordering the World
Essays on Liberalism and Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Reordering the World is a penetrating account of the complexity and contradictions found in liberal visions of empire. Focusing mainly on nineteenth-century Britain—at the time the largest empire in history and a key incubator of liberal political thought—Duncan Bell sheds new light on some of...
by Dr. David M. Berry
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume offers an original analysis of the role of the digital in today's society. It rearticulates critical theory by engaging it with the challenges of the digital revolution to show how the digital is changing the ways in which we lead our politics,...
Memory and Complicity
Migrations of Holocaust Remembrance
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Since World War II, French and Francophone literature and film have repeatedly sought not to singularize the Holocaust as the paradigm of historical trauma but rather to connect its memory with other memories of violence, namely that of colonialism. These works produced what Debarati Sanyal calls...
The Situationist International in Britain
Modernism, Surrealism, and the Avant-Garde
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This book tells, for the first time, the story of the Situationist International’s influence and afterlives in Britain, where its radical ideas have been rapturously welcomed and fiercely resisted. The Situationist International presented itself as the culmination of the twentieth century avant-garde...
Framing Democracy
A Behavioral Approach to Democratic Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
The past thirty years have seen a surge of empirical research into political decision making and the influence of framing effects--the phenomenon that occurs when different but equivalent presentations of a decision problem elicit different judgments or preferences. During the same period, political...
by Quentin Skinner
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
This extended essay by one of the world's leading historians seeks, in its first part, to excavate and to vindicate, the neo-Roman theory of free citizens and free states as it developed in early modern Britain. This analysis leads on to a powerful defence of the nature, purposes and goals of intellectual...
Politics Recovered
Realist Thought in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Is political theory political enough? Or does a tendency toward abstraction, idealization, moralism, and utopianism leave contemporary political theory out of touch with real politics as it actually takes place, and hence unable to speak meaningfully to or about our world? Realist political thought,...
John Rawls and the History of Political Thought
The Rousseauvian and Hegelian Heritage of Justice as Fairness
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
In this book, Jeffrey Bercuson presents the immense, and yet for the most part unrecognized, influences of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on John Rawls, the most important political philosopher of the 20th century. While the well-documented influence of Immanuel Kant on Rawls...
The Scandal of Reason
A Critical Theory of Political Judgment
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Theories of justice are haunted by a paradox: the more ambitious the theory of justice, the less applicable and useful the model is to political practice; yet the more politically realistic the theory, the weaker its moral ambition, rendering it unsound and equally useless. Brokering a resolution...
Becoming Heinrich Schenker
Music Theory and Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Much controversy surrounds Schenker's mature theory and its attempt to explain musical pitch motion. Becoming Heinrich Schenker brings a new perspective to Schenker's theoretical work, showing that ideas characteristic of his mature theory, although in many respects fundamentally different, developed...
by Michael Spitzer
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
"The scholarship of Michael Spitzer's new book is impressive and thorough. The writing is impeccable and the coverage extensive. The book treats the history of the use of metaphor in the field of classical music. It also covers a substantial part of the philosophical literature. The book treats...