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The Jewish Political Tradition
Volume I: Authority
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This book launches a landmark four-volume collaborative work exploring the political thought of the Jewish people from biblical times to the present. Each volume includes a selection of texts-from the Bible and Talmud, midrashic literature, legal responsa, treatises, and pamphlets-annotated for modern...
by Thomas Hobbes
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
This carefully crafted ebook: “The Collected Political Works: Leviathan + De Cive (On the Citizen) + The Elements of Law + Behemoth, or The Long Parliament ” contains 4 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Collected...
Political Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
Authors and Arguments
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
This book demonstrates the rich diversity and depth of political philosophy in the twentieth century. Catherine H. Zuckert has compiled a collection of essays recounting the lives of political theorists, connecting each biography with the theorist's life work and explaining the significance of the...
AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING POLITICAL JUSTICE
AND ITS INFLUENCE ON GENERAL VIRTUE AND HAPPINESS
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2015
"In 1793, William Godwin, the first philosopher of anarchism, published An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice. This three-volume work gives evidence of being strongly influenced by the ideas of the French Revolution and argues that the rational being, the human, must be given complete freedom...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
9/11 and its aftermath demonstrate the urgent need for political scientists and historians to unravel the tangled relationship of secular ideologies and organized religions to political fanaticism.
This major new volume uses a series of case studies by world experts to further our understanding...
The Disclosure of Politics
Struggles Over the Semantics of Secularization
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Postmodern political critiques speak of the death of ideology, the end of history, and the postsecular return of religious attitudes, yet radical conservative theorists such as Mark Lilla argue religion and politics are inextricably intertwined. Returning much-needed uncertainty to debates over the...
by Amanda Sives
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Since the achievement of adult suffrage in 1944, Jamaican democracy has remained resilient. Fifteen general elections have been held; the results have been accepted by the contending parties and the democratic process has survived. Within the wider Latin American and Caribbean region, Jamaica has...
by Espen Hammer
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Interest in Theodor W. Adorno continues to grow in the English-speaking world as the significance of his contribution to philosophy, social and cultural theory, as well as aesthetics is increasingly recognized. Espen Hammer’s lucid book is the first to properly analyze the political implications...
by Lisa V. Binckes, Charles J. Cavenee, Carol A. Gould
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Approaches to Political Thought raises three important questions concerning traditional political thought: (1) Why study the political writings and ideas of Plato, Machiavelli, and other long-dead writers? (2) Who among the writers, and which of their works, are worth studying? (3) How should they...
Questioning Authority
Political Resistance and the Ethic of Natural Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The West is currently witnessing the slow destruction of the classical liberal tradition. The casualties are reason, the willingness to question political or religious authority, and the validity of natural science. Replacing these are a crippling intellectual relativism, political apathy, and a grave...
Until Death Do Us Part
My Struggle to Reclaim Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Ingrid Betancourt, a senator and a presidential candidate in Colombia, grew up among diplomats, literati, and artists who congregated at her parents' elegant home in Paris, France. Her father served as Colombia's ambassador to UNESCO and her mother, a political activist, continued her work on behalf...
by Phil Parvin, Clare Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
Written by Phil Parvin and Clare Chambers, who are current political philosophy lecturers and leading researchers, Political Philosophy - The Essentials is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident in,...
Barack Obama's America
How New Conceptions of Race, Family, and Religion Ended the Reagan Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
"White's Barack Obama's America eloquently captures both the important nuances of the current political scene and its long-term consequences."
---Richard Wirthlin, former pollster for Ronald Reagan
"This delightfully written and accessible book is the best available account of...
The American Political Pattern
Stability and Change, 1932-2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Politicians are polarized. Public opinion is volatile. Government is gridlocked. Or so journalists and pundits constantly report. But where are we, really, in modern American politics, and how did we get there? Those are the questions that Byron E. Shafer aims to answer in The American Political Pattern....