History Theory category: 16752 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This volume of essays draws together recent work on historical music theory of the Renaissance. The collection spans the major themes addressed by Renaissance writers on music and highlights the differing approaches to this body of work by modern scholars, including: historical and theoretical perspectives;...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
This anthology of new essays by an international group of preeminent scholars explores the ground-breaking work of Hayden White, whose thought, beginning with his seminal Metahistory (1973), has revolutionized the way we think about the philosophy of history, historiography, narrative, and the relation...
Aesthetic Theology and Its Enemies
Judaism in Christian Painting, Poetry, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Through most of Western European history, Jews have been a numerically tiny or entirely absent minority, but across that history Europeans have nonetheless worried a great deal about Judaism. Why should that be so? This short but powerfully argued book suggests that Christian anxieties about their...
The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women's Rights and the American Political Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was not only one of the most important leaders of the nineteenth century women’s rights movement but was also the movement’s principal philosopher. Her ideas both drew from and challenged the conventions that so severely...
by Brett Bowden
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
This book explores and explains the reasons why the idea of universal history, a form of teleological history which holds that all peoples are travelling along the same path and destined to end at the same point, persists in political thought. Prominent in Western political thought since the middle...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Current Thought in Musicology covers a variety of topics, ranging from the Middle Ages to the present and touching on all the major disciplines of musicology: music history, theory and composition, music education, and performance. Taken together, the nine papers constitute a broad overview of the direction...
by Lubomir Dolezel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
In this study of the study of the linguistic approach to narrative structures, the author examines the question of point of view in fiction, drawing examples from Czech literature. He applies the methods of structural linguistics and literary studies as developed by the Prague Linguistic School, and...
Postmodern Theory and Progressive Politics
Toward a New Humanism
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
This book explores the origins of the academic culture wars of the late 20th century and examines their lasting influence on the humanities and progressive politics. It puts us in a position to ask this question: what to make now of those furious debates over postmodernism, multiculturalism, relativism,...
Radical Future Pasts
Untimely Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Written by both well-established and rising scholars, Radical Future Pasts seeks to open up new possibilities for theoretical inquiries and engagements with practical political struggles. Unlike conventional "state of the discipline" collections, this volume does not summarize the history...
Crisis and Constitutionalism
Roman Political Thought from the Fall of the Republic to the Age of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Crisis and Constitutionalism argues that the late Roman Republic saw, for the first time in the history of political thought, the development of a normative concept of constitution--the concept of a set of constitutional norms designed to guarantee and achieve certain interests of the individual....
Sovereignty
History and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
This innovative research monograph on sovereignty argues that the historical examination of the concept and the conceptual analysis of sovereignty are interdependent. The book engages with and makes a significant contribution to the literatures on sovereignty from the history of political thought and...
Political theory - Hobbes and Locke
Leviathan or a limited government?
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2009
Essay from the year 2001 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: A, American University of Central Asia, course: Introduction to Political Theory, language: English, abstract: It is interesting that some philosophers write books not to express the beliefs...
Old School Still Matters: Lessons from History to Reform Public Education in America
Lessons from History to Reform Public Education in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Can public schools in America be saved? This book considers theory, current practice, and the common school ideal through a historical lens to arrive at practical suggestions for reforming contemporary public education.
• Presents information on a topic of paramount importance, as almost...
On Modern Poetry
From Theory to Total Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
All
too often, the history of poetry criticism in the 20th Century is told as a
tale of two sides. While 'Lit crit' pored over the author's every line,
'Theory' stood on the shoulder of texts to gaze into the metaphysical mists.
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Drawing
on the key insights of both Lit crit and Theory,...