History Theory category: 16752 books
Absolute Music
The History of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
What is music, and why does it move us? From Pythagoras to the present, writers have struggled to isolate the essence of "pure" or "absolute" music in ways that also account for its profound effect. In Absolute Music: The History of an Idea, Mark Evan Bonds traces the history of...
Rational Ritual
Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why does repetition characterize anthems and ritual speech? Why were circular forms favored for public festivals during the French Revolution? This book answers...
The New Science of Politics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
"Thirty-five years ago few could have predicted that The New Science of Politics would be a best-seller by political theory standards. Compressed within the Draconian economy of the six Walgreen lectures is a complete theory of man, society, and history, presented at the most profound and intellectual...
The Political Theory of Judith N. Shklar
Exile from Exile
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Judith Shklar called for a radical shift in political theory, toward a view of the history of ideas through the lens of exile. Hess takes this lens and applies it to Shklar's own life and theoretical work.
The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence, 1954–1978
Dialogues on Hegel, Marx, and Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
This book presents for the first time the correspondence during the years 1954 to 1978 between the Marxist-Humanist and feminist philosopher Raya Dunayevskaya (1910-87) and two other noted thinkers, the Hegelian Marxist philosopher and social theorist Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) and the psychologist...
The Invention of International Relations Theory
Realism, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the 1954 Conference on Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
The 1954 Conference on Theory, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, featured a who's who of scholars and practitioners debating the foundations of international relations theory. Assembling his own team of experts, all of whom have struggled with this legacy, Nicolas Guilhot revisits a seminal...
Embracing Democracy
Hermann Broch, Politics and Exile, 1918 to 1951
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Hermann Broch wrote two of the most significant novels of German modernism, The Sleepwalkers and The Death of Virgil, which established his importance to German literature. His writings on democracy, mass delusion and internationalism are more obscure. Embracing Democracy examines the central political,...
by Sunil Manghani
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Taking the fall of the Berlin Wall as a key marker in recent history – a period in which increasingly we find ourselves watching ‘instant history’ unfold live on air – the book presents a new critical concept of image critique: a double procedure of both a critique of images and the use of...
by Rory C. Dicker
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
The complete, authoritative, and up to date history of American feminism
Updated and expanded, the second edition of A History of U.S. Feminisms is an introductory text that will be used as supplementary material for first-year women's studies students or as a brush-up text for more advanced...
On the Side of the Angels
An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
Political parties are the defining institutions of representative democracy and the darlings of political science. Their governing and electoral functions are among the chief concerns of the field. Yet most political theorists--including democratic theorists--ignore or disparage parties as grubby...
by Nicholas Popper
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Imprisoned in the Tower of London after the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, Sir Walter Ralegh spent seven years producing his massive *History of the World. *Created with the aid of a library of more than five hundred books that he was allowed to keep in his quarters, this incredible work of English...
The Struggle for Democracy
Paradoxes of Progress and the Politics of Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Revolutionaries, counter-revolutionaries, and reformers the world over appeal to democracy to justify their actions. But when political factions compete over the right to act in "the people's" name, who is to decide? Although the problem is as old as the great revolutions of the seventeenth...
Nature, Action and the Future
Political Thought and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Climate change is one of the great challenges of modern politics. In this volume, leading political theorists and historians investigate how the history of political ideas can help us make sense of it. The contributors add a historical perspective to contemporary debates in political theory. They...
The Vested Interests and the Common Man & An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation
From the Author of The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning in America & Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
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