History Theory category: 16752 books
by Jeremy Waldron
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Political theorists focus on the nature of justice, liberty, and equality while ignoring the institutions through which these ideals are achieved. Political scientists keep institutions in view but deploy a meager set of value-conceptions in analyzing them. A more political political theory is needed to address this gap, Jeremy Waldron argues.
by Ian Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
What should we expect from democracy, and how likely is it that democracies will live up to those expectations? In The State of Democratic Theory, Ian Shapiro offers a critical assessment of contemporary answers to these questions, lays out his distinctive alternative, and explores its implications...
Innovating Democracy
Democratic Theory and Practice After the Deliberative Turn
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2008
In recent years democratic theory has taken a deliberative turn. Instead of merely casting the occasional ballot, deliberative democrats want citizens to reason together. They embrace 'talk as a decision procedure'. But of course thousands or millions of people cannot realistically talk to one another...
Contesting History
Narratives of Public History
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Contesting History is an authoritative guide to the positive and negative applications of the past in the public arena and what this signifies for the meaning of history more widely. Using a global, non-Western model, Jeremy Black examines the employment of history by the state, the media, the national...
What Causes War?
An Introduction to Theories of International Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, this classic text presents a comprehensive survey of the many alternative theories that attempt to explain the causes of interstate war. For each theory, Greg Cashman examines the arguments and counterarguments, considers the empirical evidence and...
by Oscar Luis Rigiroli
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
This book is a thorough description of the foundations of political economy created by Marx, its philosophical foundations, its objectives, its methodology, and the development of his ideas starting from the theory of the value.
It discusses the role that Marx gives to capitalism in the full...
Politics, Social Theory, Utopia and the World-System
Arguments in Political Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
It is common to hear that we live in unique, turbulent and crisis-ridden times and this turbulence, transformation and crisis are said to be deeply significant - perhaps threatening - for the human sciences. Responding to such claims, this book provides an accessible engagement with pressing contemporary...
The Complexity of Self Government
Politics from the Bottom Up
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The Complexity of Self Government represents a revolutionary approach to political science. Bottom-up theory turns political and social analysis upside down by focusing analytic attention not on vacuous abstractions but on the individual men and women who either consciously or inadvertently create...
Free Trade Reimagined
The World Division of Labor and the Method of Economics
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
Free Trade Reimagined begins with a sustained criticism of the heart of the emerging world economy, the theory and practice of free trade. Roberto Mangabeira Unger does not, however, defend protectionism against free trade. Instead, he attacks and revises the terms on which the traditional debate...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
In Feminist Interpretations of John Rawls, Ruth Abbey collects eight essays responding to the work of John Rawls from a feminist perspective. An impressive introduction by the editor provides a chronological overview of English-language feminist engagements with Rawls from his Theory of Justice onward....
Darwin in Atlantic Cultures
Evolutionary Visions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
This collection is an interdisciplinary edited volume that examines the circulation of Darwinian ideas in the Atlantic space as they impacted systems of Western thought and culture. Specifically, the book explores the influence of the principle tenets of Darwinism -- such as the theory of evolution,...
by Agnes Heller
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
The first full presentation of a fundamental aspect of Marx, the concept of need
What are needs? While the edifices of economic theory are built upon various mechanisms designed to satisfy “human needs,” not many economists have addressed the idea of need itself. Heller’s highly original...
Studies in Historical Improvisation
From Cantare super Librum to Partimenti
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
In recent years, scholars and musicians have become increasingly interested in the revival of musical improvisation as it was known in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. This historically informed practice is now supplanting the late Romantic view of improvised music as a rhapsodic endeavour—a...
The New Pluralism
William Connolly and the Contemporary Global Condition
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2008
William Connolly, one of the best-known and most important political theorists writing today, is a principal architect of the “new pluralism.” In this volume, leading thinkers in contemporary political theory and international relations provide a comprehensive investigation of the new pluralism,...