History Theory category: 16752 books
Popular Cinema as Political Theory
Idealism and Realism in Epics, Noirs, and Satires
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
The book presents cinematic case studies in political realism versus political idealism, demonstrating methods of viewing popular cinema as political theory. The book appreciates political myth-making in popular genres as especially practical and accessible theorizing about politics.
On the People's Terms
A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
According to republican theory, we are free persons to the extent that we are protected and secured in the same fundamental choices, on the same public basis, as one another. But there is no public protection or security without a coercive state. Does this mean that any freedom we enjoy is a superficial...
Shakespeare's Folly
Philosophy, Humanism, Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
This study contends that folly is of fundamental importance to the implicit philosophical vision of Shakespeare’s drama. The discourse of folly’s wordplay, jubilant ironies, and vertiginous paradoxes furnish Shakespeare with a way of understanding that lays bare the hypocrisies and absurdities...
Edgework
Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Edgework brings together seven of Wendy Brown's most provocative recent essays in political and cultural theory. They range from explorations of politics post-9/11 to critical reflections on the academic norms governing feminist studies and political theory. Edgework is also concerned with the intellectual...
Spaceships and Politics
The Political Theory of Rod Serling
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Spaceships and Politics: The Political Theory of Rod Serling examines the political themes in The Twilight Zone. In this unique show, Rod Serling used fantasy and the supernatural to explore political ideas such as capital punishment, the individual and the state, war, conformity, the state of nature,...
Politics and Letters
Interviews with New Left Review
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Raymond Williams made a central contribution to the intellectual culture of the Left in the English-speaking world. He was also one of the key figures in the foundation of cultural studies in Britain, which turned critical skills honed on textual analysis to the examination of structures and forms...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2016
This book explores, discusses, and assesses the actual and potential sense of subjectivation in a variety of contexts. In particular, it reflects the genealogies, connections, variations, and practical implications of various theories of subjectivity and subjection while providing an up-to-date and...
Ideas in Action
Political Tradition in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Imagine a world in which means and ends, theory and practice, ideals, values, and interests, are torturously disassociated and yet manifestly linked. That is the world of the 20th century as Stephen Eric Bronner vividly portrays it in his important new work. Now imagine a world in which new traditions...
by Thomas Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Aspects of Enlightenment is an attempt to reconfigure the terrain of contemporary social theory. Critical of sociologistic approaches in that discipline and of vague concepts such as modernity and postmodernity, the book argues that the proper subject matter of social theory is enlightenment itself....
An Introduction to Australian Public Policy
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
An Introduction to Australian Public Policy: Theory and Practice is the first book to comprehensively address both the theoretical and practical aspects of policy making in Australia. Written in an accessible style, this text is designed to introduce students to the real world challenges and skills...
Fixing Democracy
Why Constitutional Change Often Fails to Enhance Democracy in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
The study of institutions, a core concept in comparative politics, has produced many rich and influential theories on the economic and political effects of institutions, yet it has been less successful at theorizing their origins. In Fixing Democracy, Javier Corrales develops a theory of institutional...
by Michael Brett
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Africa is a huge continent, as large as the more habitable areas of Europe and Asia put together. It has a history immensely long, yet the study of that history as an academic discipline in its own right is little more than fifty years old. Since then the subject has grown enormously, but the question...
Authoritarianism
Three Inquiries in Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
Across the Euro-Atlantic world, political leaders have been mobilizing their bases with nativism, racism, xenophobia, and paeans to “traditional values,” in brazen bids for electoral support. How are we to understand this move to the mainstream of political policies and platforms that lurked only...
Confucian Democracy in East Asia
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
This book explores a mode of democracy that is culturally relevant and socially practicable in the contemporary pluralistic context of historically Confucian East Asian societies, by critically engaging with the two most dominant theories of Confucian democracy - Confucian communitarianism and meritocratic...