Political category: 85882 books
George Buchanan
Political Thought in Early Modern Britain and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
George Buchanan (1506-82) was the most distinguished Scottish humanist of the sixteenth century with an unparalleled contemporary reputation as a Latin poet, playwright, historian and political theorist. However, while his contemporary importance as the scourge of Mary Queen of Scots and advocate...
The Origin of the Political
Hannah Arendt or Simone Weil?
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
In this book Roberto Esposito explores the conceptual trajectories of two of the twentieth century’s most vital thinkers of the political: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil. Taking Homer’s Iliad—that “great prism through which every gesture has the possibility of becoming public, precisely by...
Marx's Inferno
The Political Theory of Capital
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Marx’s Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx’s Capital and inaugurates a completely new reading of a seminal classic. Rather than simply a critique of classical political economy, William Roberts argues that Capital was primarily a careful engagement with the motives and aims of...
The Unpolitical
On the Radical Critique of Political Reason
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Massimo Cacciari is one of the leading public intellectuals in today's Italy, both as an outstanding philosopher and political thinker and as now three times (and currently) the mayor of Venice. This collection of essays on political topics provides the best introduction in English to his thought...
Political Theologies in the Holy Land
Israeli Messianism and its Critics
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
This book examines the role of messianism in Zionist ideology, from the birth of the Zionist movement through to the present. Is shows how messianism is not just a religious or philosophical term but a very tangible political practice and theology which has shaped Israeli identity.
The author...
by Andrew Schaap
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Since the end of the Cold War, the concept of reconciliation has emerged as a central term of political discourse within societies divided by a history of political violence. Reconciliation has been promoted as a way of reckoning with the legacy of past wrongs while opening the way for community in...
Tocqueville between Two Worlds
The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Alexis de Tocqueville may be the most influential political thinker in American history. He also led an unusually active and ambitious career in French politics. In this magisterial book, one of America's most important contemporary theorists draws on decades of research and thought to present the...
by David Miller
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2003
This book introduces readers to the concepts of political philosophy. It starts by explaining why the subject is important and how it tackles basic ethical questions such as 'how should we live together in society?' It looks at political authority, the reasons why we need politics at all, the limitations...
Reading Political Philosophy
Machiavelli to Mill
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
This clear and thorough introduction provides students with the skills necessary to understand the main thinkers, texts and arguments of political philosophy and thought. Each chapter comprises a brief overview of a major political thinker, followed by an introduction to one or more of their most...
Paul Wellstone
The Life of a Passionate Progressive
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
"Paul Wellstone, we miss you. Few politicians, especially these days, are as willing to stand up and speak the truth as Wellstone was. In this era of flaccid rhetoric and pre-approved sound bites, he had the rare ability to ignite a fire in his audiences. Bill Lofy's excellent biography rekindles...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
With 150 accessible articles written by more than 130 leading experts, this essential reference provides authoritative introductions to some of the most important and talked-about topics in American history and politics, from the founding to today. Abridged from the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia...
Party Reform
The Causes, Challenges, and Consequences of Organizational Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Party Reform is a new comparative study of the politics of party organization. The book provides a novel perspective in party scholarship and develops the concept of 'reform' as distinct from evolutionary and incremental processes of party change. As an outcome, reform is captured in deliberate and...
Maximino Avila Camacho and the One-Party State
The Taming of Caudillismo and Caciquismo in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Maximino Avila Camacho and the One-Party State: The Taming of Caudillismo and Caciquismo in Post-Revolutionary Mexico is a political biography of General Maximino Avila Camacho (1891D1945), one of the most powerful regional politicians in Mexico from 1935 to 1945. He was a member of an officially...
Moral Minority
The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
In 1973, nearly a decade before the height of the Moral Majority, a group of progressive activists assembled in a Chicago YMCA to strategize about how to move the nation in a more evangelical direction through political action. When they emerged, the Washington Post predicted that the new evangelical...