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by Eric Lee Goodfield
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
For over one hundred and fifty years G.W.F. Hegel’s ghost has haunted theoretical understanding and practice. His opponents first, and later his defenders, have equally defined their programs against and with his. In this way Hegel’s political thought has both situated and displaced modern...
Image Politics in the Middle East
The Role of the Visual in Political Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Politics in the Middle East is now 'seen' and the image is playing a central part in processes of political struggle. This is the first book in the literature to engage directly with these changing ways of communicating politics in the region - and particularly with the politics of the image, its...
by Dr. Jamal Sanad Al-Suwaidi
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
The Mirage is an expression of His Excellency Dr. Jamal Sanad Al-Suwaidi’s perspective that the struggle in which many Arab and Muslim countries are currently engaged against extremist groups and organizations is not limited to the realm of military and security operations; it is also an extended war...
Essays on Neuroscience and Political Theory
Thinking the Body Politic
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The past 20 years have seen increasingly bold claims emanating from the field of neuroscience. Advances in medical imaging, brain modelling, and interdisciplinary cognitive science have forced us to reconsider the nature of social, cultural, and political activities. This collection of essays is the...
Civil Disobedience
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Traditional democratic structures in the Western world are coming under increasing pressure. A combination of political corruption, voter apathy and attacks on the rights of the citizen are being driven by authoritarian tendencies not seen for generations. In turn, this is being stoked by an artificial...
Transforming Violent Political Movements
Rebels today, what tomorrow?
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
This book explores the factors that influence violent rebellious political organisations to transform into other entities, such as political parties, criminal organisations and terrorist organisations.
From the end of the Second World War until 1990, many events in the world centred on the...
by William Godwin
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
William Godwin (3 March 1756 7 April 1836) was a British journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism, and the first modern proponent of anarchism. Godwin is most famous for two books that he published within the space of a year: An Enquiry...
Hobbes and America
Exploring the Constitutional Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1977
This path-breaking study seriously shakes the credibility of the prevalent interpretations of American government and politics. It exposes the real American constitutional morality, one embodied in a code adhered to by those in political life.
Frank Coleman makes a persuasive case that the...
Freedom and Political Order
Traditional American Thought and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Freedom and Political Order explores the traditional meaning of freedom in the American experience and its relation to other characteristically American values and institutions. Such an exploration necessarily touches upon relevant historical experience, but it extends beyond a history of freedom...
The Lesson of Carl Schmitt
Four Chapters on the Distinction between Political Theology and Political Philosophy, Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Heinrich Meier’s work on Carl Schmitt has dramatically reoriented the international debate about Schmitt and his significance for twentieth-century political thought. In The Lesson of Carl Schmitt, Meier identifies the core of Schmitt’s thought as political theology—that is, political theorizing...
by Michael H. McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
At the end of the Second World War when the horror of the holocaust became known, Hannah Arendt committed herself to a work of remembrance and reflection. Intellectual integrity demanded that we comprehend and articulate the genesis and meaning of totalitarian terror. What earlier spiritual and moral...
by Irving Louis Horowitz
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
When initially published in 1972, Foundations of Political Sociology was acknowledged to be the first unified study of the field. It still provides a cross-fertilization of knowledge concerning the interrelation of social class and political power. Taking into account new specializations in social...
by Noëlle McAfee
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
Political philosopher Noëlle McAfee proposes a powerful new political theory for our post-9/11 world, in which an old pathology-the repetition compulsion-has manifested itself in a seemingly endless war on terror. McAfee argues that the quintessentially human desire to participate in a world with...
Young People and Politics
Political Engagement in the Anglo-American Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
This book examines young people’s political engagement in the Anglo-American democracies.
It is often alleged that young people are disengaged from politics on a number of levels. The commonly held view is that young people don’t vote, they do not trust politicians and have low levels of...