Politics category: 19839 books
The Politics of Post-Industrial Welfare States
Adapting Post-War Social Policies to New Social Risks
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
This new study assesses the welfare state to ask key questions and draw new conclusions about its place in modern society.
It shows how the welfare states that we have inherited from the early post-war years had one main objective: to protect the income of the male breadwinner. Today, however,...
by Dan Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Dan Lynch . . . uses wit, common sense, and above all, a sturdy BS detector, to roam the political landscape, and expose loonies and their fallacious arguments on the left and right. — Ralph Cipriano, reporter, blogger on bigtrial net, and author ofCourtroom Cowboy and The Hit Man.. The most important...
The Eric Voegelin Reader
Politics, History, Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
By the time Eric Voegelin fled Hitler’s regime and made his way to the United States in 1938, he had already written four books criticizing Nazi racism, establishing what would be the focus of his life’s work: to account for the endemic political violence of the twentieth century. One of the...
The Philosophy and Politics of Aesthetic Experience
German Romanticism and Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
This book develops a philosophy of aesthetic experience through two socially significant philosophical movements: early German Romanticism and early critical theory. In examining the relationship between these two closely intertwined movements, we see that aesthetic experience is not merely a passive...
Deforming American Political Thought
Ethnicity, Facticity, and Genre
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2006
By affirming the relativity of the American historical imagination, political theorist Michael J. Shapiro offers a powerful polemic against ethnocentric interpretations of American culture and politics. Deforming American Political Thought analyzes issues that range from the nature of Thomas Jefferson's...
by Judith Butler
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
A Times Higher Education Book of the Week Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions, analyzing what they signify and how. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, Butler extends her theory of performativity to...
Politics, Law, and Morality
Essays by V.S. Soloviev
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Considered one of Russia’s greatest philosophers, Vladimir Soloviev (18531900) was also a theologian, historian, poet, and social and political critic. His works have emerged to enjoy renewed attention in postSoviet Russia, and his concerns echo in contemporary discussions of politics, law, and...
by Ronald Walters
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
“In The Price of Racial Reconciliation*,* Ronald Walters offers an abundance of riches. This book provides an extraordinarily comprehensive and persuasive set of arguments for reparations, and will be the lens through which meaningful opportunities for reconciliation are viewed in the future. If...
Where Do We Go from Here?
American Democracy and the Renewal of the Radical Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Progressive politics has long been in crisis in the United States. As the radical Left realizes the dire consequences of defining themselves solely by what they are against, this collection challenges leading engaged academics and activists to show how radical politics can lead to a more fruitful...
Spaceships and Politics
The Political Theory of Rod Serling
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Spaceships and Politics: The Political Theory of Rod Serling examines the political themes in The Twilight Zone. In this unique show, Rod Serling used fantasy and the supernatural to explore political ideas such as capital punishment, the individual and the state, war, conformity, the state of nature,...
The B.S. of A.
A Primer in Politics for the Incredibly Disenchanted
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
WE’RE KNEE DEEP— ARE YOU SHOVEL READY?
Politicians who say anything and do nothing . . . People lamenting Constitutional rights they don’t have . . . Protesters equating everyone to Hitler . . . Teeth-gritting partisans! Tax-evading congressmen! Fact-evading Americans! If you’re incredibly...
Modernism at the Barricades
Aesthetics, Politics, Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Stephen Eric Bronner revisits the modernist project's groundbreaking innovations, itsexperimental imagination, and its utopian politics. Reading the artistic and intellectual achievements of the movement's leading figures against larger social, political, and cultural trends, he follows the rise of...
Resistance and the Politics of Truth
Foucault, Deleuze, Badiou
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
`The truth will set you free' is a maxim central to both theories and practices of resistance. Nonetheless, it is a claim that has come under fire from an array of critical perspectives in the second half of the 20th century. Iain MacKenzie analyses two of the most compelling of these perspectives:...
by C. L. R. James
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Back in print for the first time in 30 years, this volume provides a brilliant and accessible summation of the ideas of left Marxist giant C. L. R. James. Originally delivered in 1960 as a series of lectures in his native Trinidad, James’s wide-ranging erudition and enduring relevance are powerfully...