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Political Mobilisation and Democracy in India
States of Emergency
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2007
This book addresses the paradox of political mobilization and the failings of governance in India, with reference to the conflict between secularism and Hindu nationalism, authoritarianism and democracy.
It demonstrates how the Internal Emergency of 1975 led to increased support of groups such...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This is the third volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. Since its revival in the 1970s political philosophy has been a vibrant field in philosophy, one that intersects with jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political science departments, and just war theory. OSPP...
by Jean Hampton
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
In this sophisticated yet accessible text, Hampton neatly synthesizes the classical tradition, the giants of the modern period, the dominant topics of the 20th century, as well as the new questions and concerns that are just beginning to rewrite contemporary political philosophy. }Political philosophy,...
Indigeneity and Political Theory
Sovereignty and the Limits of the Political
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2008
Indigeneity and Political Theory engages some of the profound challenges to
traditions of modern political theory that have been posed over the past two
decades. Karena Shaw is especially concerned with practices of sovereignty
as they are embedded in and shape Indigenous politics,...
Patriotism
Philosophical and Political Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Economic and cultural globalization and the worldwide threat of terrorism have contributed to the resurgence of patriotic loyalty in many parts of the world and made the issues it raises highly topical. This collection of new essays by philosophers and political theorists engages with a wide range...
Political Obligation
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Political obligation is concerned with the clash between the individual’s claim to self-governance and the right of the state to claim obedience. It is a central and ancient problem in political philosophy.
In this authoritative introduction, Dudley Knowles frames the problem of obligation...
The Spectre of Race
How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
How racism and discrimination have been central to democracies from the classical period to today
As right-wing nationalism and authoritarian populism gain momentum across the world, liberals, and even some conservatives, worry that democratic principles are under threat. In The Spectre of...
Mexican Political Biographies, 1935-2009
Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
This fourth edition of Roderic Camp's highly respected Mexican Political Biographies is an updated comprehensive biographical directory of leading state and national politicians in Mexico, covering the years 1935–2009. The original edition, published in 1976, was the first and only comprehensive...
by Harald Wydra
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
This path-breaking book argues that practices of the sacred are constitutive of modern secular politics. Following a tradition of enquiry in anthropology and political theory, it examines how limit situations shape the political imagination and collective identity. As an experiential and cultural...
Political Communication and Leadership
Mimetisation, Hugo Chavez and the Construction of Power and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
The long-lasting hegemonic rule of President Hugo Chávez not only involved significant rearrangements in the control of political power in Venezuela but also shifts in the way its citizens constructed, connected and interacted with politics. In this book, Elena Block explores the political communication...
Sophistry and Political Philosophy
Protagoras' Challenge to Socrates
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
One of the central challenges to contemporary political philosophy is the apparent impossibility of arriving at any commonly agreed upon “truths.” As Nietzsche observed in his Will to Power, the currents of relativism that have come to characterize modern thought can be said to have been born...
Flattery and the History of Political Thought
That Glib and Oily Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Flattery is an often overlooked political phenomenon, even though it has interested thinkers from classical Athens to eighteenth-century America. Drawing a distinction between moralistic and strategic flattery, this book offers new interpretations of a range of texts from the history of political...
by Andrea Becker, Maren Reyelt
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2004
Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: 1 - (A-), University of Wyoming (Department of Political Science), course: Recent Political Thought, language: English, abstract: 'Man is born free and, and everywhere he is in chains....
Civil Society and Political Reform in Lebanon and Libya
Transition and constraint
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Lebanon and Libya have undergone critical political events in recent years. However, demands for reform from civic institutions during these transitions have not led to concrete political decisions.
Civil Society and Political Reform in Lebanon and Libya reveals the deeply-entrenched historical...