History Theory category: 16752 books
Theory and Politics / Theorie und Politik
Festschrift zum 70. Geburstag für Carl Joachim Friedrich
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Affect, Psychoanalysis, and American Poetry
This Feeling of Exaltation
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Poetry has often been defined by its closure, its condensation of meaning and value into discrete, self-referential textual objects. Affect, Psychoanalysis and American Poetry challenges the dominant metaphor of poetic containers by turning to recent poetic texts that represent the contagious and...
Politics and Rhetoric
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Rhetoric is the art of speech and persuasion, the study of argument and, in Classical times, an essential component in the education of the citizen. For rhetoricians, politics is a skill to be performed and not merely observed. Yet in modern democracies we often suspect political speech of malign...
House of Lords Reform: A History
Volume 4. 19712014: The Exclusion of Hereditary Peers Book 1: 19712001 Book 2: 20022014
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Peter Raina’s magnificent history of Lords reform has already brought into the public domain a mass of original documents and thrown light on the debates they fuelled. In Volume 4 he brings his study up to the present age.
The Thatcher and Blair governments were both determined to shake up the system,...
The Unsustainable Presidency
Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
The Unsustainable Presidency develops a structural theory of the office by challenging and redefining the twin imperatives upon which the modern chief executive was constructed and by applying the theory to the three most recent presidents: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.
Poetics
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Aristotle's 'Poetics' is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory.
Beyond the Founders
New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
In pursuit of a more sophisticated and inclusive American history, the contributors to Beyond the Founders propose new directions for the study of the political history of the republic before the Civil War. In ways formal and informal, symbolic and tactile, this political world encompassed blacks,...
Locke and the Legislative Point of View
Toleration, Contested Principles, and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Determining which moral principles should guide political action is a vexing question in political theory. This is especially true when faced with the "toleration paradox": believing that something is morally wrong but also believing that it is wrong to suppress it. In this book, Alex Tuckness...
The Scope of Tolerance
Studies on the Costs of Free Expression and Freedom of the Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2005
One of the dangers in any political system is that the principles that underlie and characterize it may, through their application, bring about its destruction. Liberal democracy is no exception. Moreover, because democracy is relatively a young phenomenon, it lacks experience in dealing with pitfalls...
by Amy Gutmann, Dennis F. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
The most widely debated conception of democracy in recent years is deliberative democracy--the idea that citizens or their representatives owe each other mutually acceptable reasons for the laws they enact. Two prominent voices in the ongoing discussion are Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson. In Why...
by Petr Beckmann
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
The history of pi, says the author, though a small part of the history of mathematics, is nevertheless a mirror of the history of man. Petr Beckmann holds up this mirror, giving the background of the times when pi made progress -- and also when it did not, because science was being stifled by militarism or religious fanaticism.
Europe and the Eastern Other
Comparative Perspectives on Politics, Religion and Culture before the Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
This book critically evaluates and supports the argument for adopting an inter-cultural or comparative approach in western political theory. The analysis of encounters between Europeans and their eastern others before the European Enlightenment illustrates that adopting an inter-cultural perspective...
Politics and the Environment
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Politics and the Environment has established itself as one of the most comprehensive textbooks in this area. This new edition has been completely revised and updated whilst retaining the features and the theory-to-practice focus which made the first two editions so successful.
This text is...
Deliberative Systems
Deliberative Democracy at the Large Scale
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
'Deliberative democracy' is often dismissed as a set of small-scale, academic experiments. This volume seeks to demonstrate how the deliberative ideal can work as a theory of democracy on a larger scale. It provides a new way of thinking about democratic engagement across the spectrum of political...