Political category: 85882 books
The Sikh Separatist Insurgency in India
Political Leadership and Ethnonationalist Movements
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
The "Punjab crisis," a two-decade long armed insurgency that emerged as a violent ethnonationalist movement in the 1980s and gradually transformed into a secessionist struggle, resulted in an estimated 25,000 casualties in Punjab. This ethnonationalist movement, on one hand, ended the perceived...
French Political Travel Writing in the Interwar Years
Radical Departures
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
This book studies travel writing produced by French authors between the two World Wars following visits to authoritarian regimes in Europe and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). It sheds new light on the phenomenon of French political travel in this period by considering the well-documented...
Political Uses of Utopia
New Marxist, Anarchist, and Radical Democratic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Utopia has long been banished from political theory, framed as an impossible—and possibly dangerous—political ideal, a flawed social blueprint, or a thought experiment without any practical import. Even the "realistic utopias" of liberal theory strike many as wishful thinking. Can politics...
by Paul Cartledge
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
Ancient Greece was a place of tremendous political experiment and innovation, and it was here too that the first serious political thinkers emerged. Using carefully selected case-studies, in this book Professor Cartledge investigates the dynamic interaction between ancient Greek political thought...
The Art of Power
Machiavelli, Nietzsche, and the Making of Aesthetic Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2006
The Art of Power is a challenge to traditional political theory. Diego A. von Vacano examines the work of Machiavelli, arguing that he establishes a new, aesthetic perspective on political life. He then proceeds to carry out the most extensive analysis to date of an important relationship in political...
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...
The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Two "Discourses" and the "Social Contract"
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Individualist and communitarian. Anarchist and totalitarian. Classicist and romanticist. Progressive and reactionary. Since the eighteenth century, Jean-Jacques Rousseau has been said to be all of these things. Few philosophers have been the subject of as much or as intense debate, yet almost everyone...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Captures the 17th-19th century origins and developments ofpolitical economy by editing original texts and illuminatingtheir relevance for today's political debate
Political economy from the 17th century to the present can be captured in two narratives originating with Locke and Rousseau. Those...
by Tamsin Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Political theorists have long been frustrated by Nietzsche's work. Although he develops profound critiques of morality, culture, and religion, it is very difficult to spell out the precise political implications of his insights. He himself never did so in any systematic way. In this book, Tamsin Shaw...
Becoming Political
Spinoza’s Vital Republicanism and the Democratic Power of Judgment
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
In this pathbreaking work, Christopher Skeaff argues that a profoundly democratic conception of judgment is at the heart of Spinoza’s thought. Bridging Continental and Anglo-American scholarship, critical theory, and Spinoza studies, Becoming Political offers a historically sensitive, meticulous,...
The Political Problem of Religious Pluralism
And Why Philosophers Can't Solve It
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
In contemporary political philosophy, there is much debate over how to maintain a public order in pluralistic democracies in which citizens hold radically different religious views. The Political Problem of Religious Pluralism deals with this theoretically and practically difficult issue by examining...
The Strategy of Campaigning
Lessons from Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
The Strategy of Campaigning explores the political careers of Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin, two of the most galvanizing and often controversial political figures of our time. Both men overcame defeat early in their political careers and rose to the highest elected offices in their respective countries.
The...
Women's Political Discourse
A 21st-Century Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2005
Although the United States ranks sixtieth internationally in women's political leadership, in 2004, a record nine women held governorships, sixty women served as House members with an additional three women elected as delegates from Washington, D.C., Guam, and the Virgin Islands, and fourteen women...
by Paul A. Djupe, Christopher P. Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Djupe and Gilbert investigate the political influence of church and how membership in organized religious bodies shapes the political life of members. Djupe and Gilbert's goal in this inquiry is to re-center scholarly attention on the voluntary association as an essential element of American civic...