Rowman Littlefield Publishers imprint: 5577 books
The Existentialists
Critical Essays on Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2004
This volume brings together for the first time some of the most helpful and insightful essays on the four most influential and discussed philosophers in the history of existentialism: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre. The contributors write on such topics as Kierkegaard's knight of faith...
Heidegger
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
This concise and accessible textbook examines German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s entire body of work through the lens of his first and best-known book, Being and Time. An influential, twentieth-century scholar, Heidegger is often studied by opposing his early and later works. This insightful,...
Theories of Democracy
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2000
Theories of Democracy builds on Robert Dahl's observation that there is no single theory of democracy; only theories. Beyond the broad commitment to rule by the majority, democracy involves a set of contentious debates concerning the proper function and scope of power, equality, freedom, justice,...
Understanding Inequality
The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals...
Magic and Mysticism
An Introduction to Western Esoteric Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Magic and Mysticism: An Introduction to Western Esoteric Traditions is a concise overview, from antiquity to the present, of all the major Western religious esoteric movements. Topics covered include alchemy, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Rosicrucianism, Theosophy and many more. Magic and Mysticism is...
by Andrew Arato
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2000
Spurred by recent governmental transitions from dictatorships to democratic institutions, this highly original work argues that negotiated civil society-oriented transitions have an affinity for a distinctive method of constitution making_one that accomplishes the radical change of institutions through...
Debating Human Rights in China
A Conceptual and Political History
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
Tracing the concept of human rights in Chinese political discourse since the late Qing dynasty, this comprehensive history convincingly demonstrates that—contrary to conventional wisdom—there has been a vibrant debate on human rights throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on little-known sources,...
Thought Reform and China's Dangerous Classes
Reeducation, Resistance, and the People
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Thought reform is arguably China’s most controversial social policy. If reeducation’s critics and defenders agree on little else, they share the conviction that ideological remolding is inseparable from its Mao-era roots. This is the first major English-language study to explore one of the most...
Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference
Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxi_me Sexe has been studied extensively since its appearance in 1949. Through the years, certain passages have taken on prestige; others are seen as unimportant to understanding Beauvoir's argument. In Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference, Sara HeinSmaa rediscovers...
Manhood and Politics
A Feminist Reading in Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 1998
'Is politics gendered? Wendy Brown things so, and argues for this point with elegance, imagination and pungent phrases. Brown's book is challenging, provocative and...original; it does force us to question the degree to which gender controls our politics.'-THE REVIEW OF POLITICS
The United States and China
A History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Combining original research with contemporary scholarship, The United States and China re-examines over two centuries of interaction between the United States and China in a changing world. It explains the foundations and character of their political, economic, military, social, and cultural relations,...
Making the Foreign Serve China
Managing Foreigners in the People's Republic
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2003
This book provides the first detailed analysis of a crucial and distinctive element of Chinese foreign policy. Anne-Marie Brady follows the development of the Chinese Communist Party's 'foreign affairs' system since 1921, focusing on waishi, the external policies intended to influence and control...
Jewish Responses to Persecution
1944–1946
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
With its unique combination of primary sources and historical narrative*, Jewish Responses to Persecution: 1944–1946,* provides an important new perspective on Holocaust history. Covering the final year of Nazi destruction and the immediate postwar years, it traces the increasingly urgent Jewish...
The United States and Cuba
From Closest Enemies to Distant Friends
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
This timely book takes the historic restoration of diplomatic ties between Cuba and the United States in 2015 as the point of departure for a Cuban perspective on future relations. Tracing the history of the long and contentious relationship, Francisco López Segrera analyzes the pre-revolutionary...