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by Michael Hofmann
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2007
Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Politics - Political Systems - General and Comparisons, grade: 9 (out of 10), Vilnius University, 17 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Political Parties play a crucial role in modern democracies as they form and articulate the political...
Terrorist Histories
Individuals and Political Violence since the 19th Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This book addresses provides a series of in-depth portraits of men and women who have been labelled ‘terrorists’, from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
Bridging historical methodologies and theoretical approaches to terrorism studies, it seeks to contribute to the developing historicising...
The Weight of All Flesh
On the Subject-Matter of Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Eric Santner offers a radically new interpretation of Marx's labor theory of value as one concerned with the afterlife of political theology in secular modernity. What Marx characterized as the dual character of the labor embodied in the commodity, he argues, is the doctrine of the King's Two Bodies...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
This collection examines the intersections between the personal and the political in travel writing, and the dialectic between mobility and stasis, through an analysis of specific cases across geographical and historical boundaries. The authors explore the various ways in which travel texts represent...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Widely hailed as one of the most significant works in modern political philosophy, John Rawls's Political Liberalism (1993) defended a powerful vision of society that respects reasonable ways of life, both religious and secular. These core values have never been more critical as anxiety grows over...
Hannah Arendt's Theory of Political Action
Daimonic Disclosure of the ‘Who'
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017
This book presents an account of Hannah Arendt’s performative and non-sovereign theory of freedom and political action, with special focus on action’s disclosure of the unique ‘who’ of each agent. It aims to illuminate Arendt’s critique of sovereign rule, totalitarianism, and world-alienation,...
Deconstructing Zionism
A Critique of Political Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
This volume in the Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy series provides a political and philosophical critique of Zionism.
While other nationalisms seem to have adapted to twenty-first century realities and shifting notions of state and nation, Zionism has largely remained tethered...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought provides a guide to understanding the central texts and problems in ancient Greek political thought, from Homer through the Stoics and Epicureans. Composed of essays specially commissioned for this volume and written by leading scholars of...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The current context of developed societies is characterised by a number of phenomena, the most significant of which are processes of economic globalisation, information technologies, increasing multiculturalism and the emergence of cases of national pluralism which require full political accommodation...
The Withholding Power
An Essay on Political Theology
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
The first English translation of his work, The Withholding Power, offers a fascinating introduction to the thought of Italian philosopher Massimo Cacciari. Cacciari is a notoriously complex thinker but this title offers a starting point for entering into the very heart of his thinking. The Witholding...
Rethinking Liberalism for the 21st Century
The Skeptical Radicalism of Judith Shklar
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Rethinking Liberalism for the 21st Century offers an indispensable reexamination of the life, work, and interventions of a prominent liberal political theorist of the 20th century: Judith Shklar.
Drawing on published and unpublished sources including Shklar’s correspondence, lecture notes,...
Politicized Physics in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
Essays on Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, and Spinoza
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
In the origins of Western philosophical thought, doctrines of physics intertwined with the debate between political philosophers. It is for this reason that Plato devoted his dialogues Theatetus and Parmenides to investigating and meeting the arguments of his principal philosophical adversaries. The...
by Steven M. DeLue, Timothy M. Dale
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This comprehensive overview of the Western tradition of political thought approaches concepts with the aim of helping readers develop their own political thinking and critical thinking skills. This text is uniquely organized around the theme of civil society — what is the nature of a civil society?...
Spinoza's Authority Volume II
Resistance and Power in the Political Treatises
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Spinoza's political thought has been subject to a significant revival of interest in recent years. As a response to difficult times, students and scholars have returned to this founding figure of modern philosophy as a means to help reinterpret and rethink the political present. Spinoza's Authority...