Politics category: 19839 books
Biopolitics of Security
A Political Analytic of Finitude
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Taking its inspiration from Michel Foucault, this volume of essays integrates the analysis of security into the study of modern political and cultural theory.
Explaining how both politics and security are differently problematised by changing accounts of time, the work shows how, during the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
There is a mounting body of evidence pointing towards rising levels of public dissatisfaction with the formal political process. Depoliticization refers to a more discrete range of contemporary strategies that add to this growing trend towards anti-politics by either removing or displacing the potential...
Allegories of America
Narratives, Metaphysics, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Allegories of America offers a bold idea of what, in terms of political theory, it means to be American. Beginning with the question What do we want from a theory of politics? Dolan explores the metaphysics of American-ness and stops along the way to reflect on John Winthrop, the Constitution, 1950s...
Pax Gandhiana
The Political Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Notwithstanding his contributions to religion, nonviolence, civil rights, and civil disobedience, among other areas, Gandhi's most significant contribution is that as a political philosopher. While he is not often treated as such, Gandhi was, as Anthony J. Parel argues, a political philosopher sui...
Beyond the Internet
Unplugging the Protest Movement Wave
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
The western economic and financial crisis began with the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 and led the European Union countries into recession. After this, governments started to implement austerity measures, such as cuts in public spending, including public subsidies and jobs, and rising prices....
Machiavelli's Legacy
"The Prince" After Five Hundred Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince is one of the most celebrated and notorious books in the history of Western political thought. It continues to influence discussions of war and peace, the nature of politics, and the relation of private ethics to public duties. Ostensibly a sixteenth-century manual...
by Markku Peltonen
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Rhetoric, Politics and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England provides an account of the political thought and culture of Elizabethan and early Stuart England. It examines the centrality of humanist rhetoric in the pre-revolutionary educational system and its vital contribution to the political culture...
The Limits of Politics
Making the Case for Literature in Political Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
As political units grow it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain a shared sense of humanity and to recognize people as individuals rather than anonymous beings. To overcome our most pressing political issues we need to develop a moral imagination so that we may renew our sense of connectedness...
The Politics of Rationality
Reason through Occidental History
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
What are reason and rationality? How significant are recent postmodernist and neuroscientific challenges to these longheld notions? Should we abandon a belief in reason and an adherence to rationality? Or can reason and rationality be reformulated and reframed? And what does politics have to do with...
On the Boundaries
When International Relations, Comparative Politics, and Foreign Policy Meet
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
On the Boundaries focuses on the connections between international relations, comparative politics, and foreign policy. To many observers, international relations and comparative politics have recently lost focus. Both fields continually move away from foreign policy concerns. In this provocative...
Dealing with the Legacy of Authoritarianism
The “Politics of the Past” in Southern European Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
In recent years the agenda of how to ‘deal with the past’ has become a central dimension of the quality of contemporary democracies. Many years after the process of authoritarian breakdown, consolidated democracies revisit the past either symbolically or to punish the elites associated with the...
by Graeme Gill
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This book studies the way in which the top leadership in the Soviet Union changed over time from 1917 until the collapse of the country in 1991. Its principal focus is the tension between individual leadership and collective rule, and it charts how this played out over the life of the regime. The...
by Maureen Whitebrook
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Identity, Narrative and Politics argues that political theory has barely begun to develop a notion of narrative identity; instead the book explores the sophisticated ideas which emerge from novels as alternative expressions of political understanding. This title uses a broad international selection...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Fourteen specialists of Central and Eastern European politics explore memory policies and politics by examining how and why contested memories are constantly reactivated in the former Soviet bloc. The book explores how new social and political actors can challenge the traditional narratives about the past produced by state bodies.