History Theory category: 16752 books
Liberal Democracy as the End of History
Fukuyama and Postmodern Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Francis Fukuyama claims that liberal democracy is the end of history. This book provides a theoretical re-examination of this claim through postmodernist ideas.
The book argues that postmodern ideas provide a valuable critique to Fukuyama’s thesis, and poses the questions: can we talk about...
by Keith C. Barton, Linda S. Levstik
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2004
In Teaching History for the Common Good, Barton and Levstik present a clear overview of competing ideas among educators, historians, politicians, and the public about the nature and purpose of teaching history, and they evaluate these debates in light of current research on students' historical thinking....
by Samir Amin
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
This book focuses on a central concept that “Theory is History”, as the theory of capitalism can only be formulated on the basis of an analysis of its history. In contrast, bourgeois thinking replaces the analysis of historical capitalism with an abstract theory without any links to reality. “Economics”,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
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How do we arrange our collective affairs? Why do we live together in the ways we do? How ought we to live together? All humans think about the world they live in, its history and future, and the ideals...
Primes of the Form x2+ny2
Fermat, Class Field Theory, and Complex Multiplication
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
An exciting approach to the history and mathematics of number theory
“. . . the author’s style is totally lucid and very easy to read . . .the result is indeed a wonderful story.” —Mathematical Reviews
Written in a unique and accessible style for readers of varied mathematical...
by Kojin Karatani
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Kojin Karatani wrote the essays in History and Repetition during a time of radical historical change, triggered by the collapse of the Cold War and the death of the Showa emperor in 1989. Reading Karl Marx in an original way, Karatani developed a theory of history based on the repetitive cycle of...
History and Its Limits
Human, Animal, Violence
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Dominick LaCapra's History and Its Limits articulates the relations among intellectual history, cultural history, and critical theory, examining the recent rise of "Practice Theory" and probing the limitations of prevalent forms of humanism. LaCapra focuses on the problem of understanding extreme...
The Rise and Fall of Democracy in Early America, 1630–1789
The Legacy for Contemporary Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 1991
The Rise and Fall of Democracy in Early America describes and explores the emergence of a directly democratic political culture in America, the Federalists' theoretical campaign against that culture, and the legacy of the struggle over democracy for politics today. The Rise and Fall of Democracy in...
by David M. Timmerman, Edward Schiappa
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
This book contributes to the history of classical rhetoric by focusing on how key terms helped to conceptualize and organize the study and teaching of oratory. David Timmerman and Edward Schiappa demonstrate that the intellectual and political history of Greek rhetorical theory can be enhanced by...
History Matters
Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Written for everyone interested in women's and gender history, History Matters reaffirms the importance to feminist theory and activism of long-term historical perspectives. Judith M. Bennett, who has been commenting on developments in women's and gender history since the 1980s, argues that the achievement...
Nomadic Theory
The Portable Rosi Braidotti
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Rosi Braidotti's nomadic theory outlines a sustainable modern subjectivity as one in flux, never opposed to a dominant hierarchy yet intrinsically other, always in the process of becoming, and perpetually engaged in dynamic power relations both creative and restrictive. Nomadic theory offers an original...
State and Commonwealth
The Theory of the State in Early Modern England, 1549–1640
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
In the history of political thought, the emergence of the modern state in early modern England has usually been treated as the development of an increasingly centralizing and expansive national sovereignty. Recent work in political and social history, however, has shown that the state—at court,...
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...
The Heroic Age
The Creation of Quantum Mechanics, 1925-1940
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Quantum theory is one of the great achievements of twentieth century physics. Born at the very beginning of the century, it attained a definitive form by 1932, yet continued to evolve throughout the century. Its applications remain fully a part of modern life. It should thus come as no surprise that...