History Theory category: 16752 books
Narrative Global Politics
Theory, History and the Personal in International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This volume harnesses the virtual explosion of narrative writing in contemporary academic international politics. It comprises a prologue, an epilogue, and sixteen chapters that both build upon and diversify the success of the 2011 volume Autobiographical International Relations.
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by Elsie Walker
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory breaks new ground by redirecting the arguments of foundational texts within film theory to film sound tracks. Walker includes sustained analyses of particular films according to a range of theoretical approaches: psychoanalysis, feminism, genre studies,...
Liberty, Conscience, and Toleration
The Political Thought of William Penn
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
In a seventeenth-century English landscape populated with towering political and philosophical figures like Hobbes, Harrington, Cromwell, Milton, and Locke, William Penn remains in many ways a man apart. Yet despite being widely neglected by scholars, he was a sophisticated political thinker who contributed...
Territories of History
Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2008
Sarah H. Beckjord’s Territories of History explores the vigorous but largely unacknowledged spirit of reflection, debate, and experimentation present in foundational Spanish American writing. In historical works by writers such as Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, Bartolomé de Las Casas, and Bernal...
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...
Clausewitz's Puzzle
The Political Theory of War
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
Blending detailed contextual analysis with issues in modern-day international relations this book provides a major new analysis of the theory of Clausewitz and its relevance to contemporary society. This book argues that Clausewitz developed a wide-ranging political theory of war by reflecting on...
Performing Political Theory
Pedagogy in Modern Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
This book examines the performative role of influential thinkers in the history of modern Western political thought. The case studies examine influential political philosophers who saw their writing role ‘performatively’, as an exercise in pedagogy designed to generate a new type of political...
The Invention of Private Life
Literature and Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
The essays in this volume, which lie at the intersection of the study of literature, social theory, and intellectual history, locate serious reflections on modernity's complexities in the vibrant currents of modern Indian literature, particularly in the realms of fiction, poetry, and autobiography....
Power, Authority, Justice, and Rights
Studies in Political Obligations
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Although political scientists and their students tended, prior to the seventies, to approach political theory as the history of political ideas, a rapid growth of interest in political theory as the analysis of political concepts led to the publication of this book. The approach outlined here remains...
by Jan Kercher
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2004
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: 88%, University of British Columbia (Department of Political Science), course: Modern Political Thought: John Rawls and his Critics, language: English, abstract: Liberal toleration...
Vodou in Haitian Memory
The Idea and Representation of Vodou in Haitian Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Throughout Haitian history—from 17th century colonial Saint-Domingue to 21st century postcolonial Haiti—arguably, the Afro-Haitian religion of Vodou has been represented as an “unsettling faith” and a “cultural paradox,” as expressed in various forms and modes of Haitian thought and life...
The Sleeping Sovereign
The Invention of Modern Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Richard Tuck traces the history of the distinction between sovereignty and government and its relevance to the development of democratic thought. Tuck shows that this was a central issue in the political debates of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and provides a new interpretation of the...
by Ulrich Plass
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language and History in Theodor W. Adorno's Notes to Literature explores Adorno’s essays on literature as an independent contribution to his aesthetics with an emphasis on his theory and practice of literary interpretation. Essential to Adorno’s essays is his unorthodox treatment of language...
by John S Dryzek, Bonnie Honig, Anne Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2008
Long recognized as one of the main branches of political science, political theory has in recent years burgeoned in many different directions. Close textual analysis of historical texts sits alongside more analytical work on the nature and normative grounds of political values. Continental and post-modern...