Political Science category: 78432 books
Losing Our Way
An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
From longtime New York Times columnist Bob Herbert comes a wrenching portrayal of ordinary Americans struggling for survival in a nation that has lost its way
In his eighteen years as an opinion columnist for The New York Times, Herbert championed the working poor and the middle class. After...
by Heinrich Meier
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2006
This book, by one of the most prominent interpreters of Leo Strauss's thought, was the first to address the problem that Leo Strauss himself said was the theme of his studies: the theologico-political problem or the confrontation with the theological and the political alternative to philosophy as...
by Paul Cartledge
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
Ancient Greece was a place of tremendous political experiment and innovation, and it was here too that the first serious political thinkers emerged. Using carefully selected case-studies, in this book Professor Cartledge investigates the dynamic interaction between ancient Greek political thought...
The Myth of the Strong Leader
Political Leadership in the Modern Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
From one of the world's preeminent political historians, a magisterial study of political leadership around the world from the advent of parliamentary democracy to the age of Obama.
All too frequently, leadership is reduced to a simple dichotomy: the strong versus the weak. Yet, there are myriad...
by Paul Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This study examines Marx’s disputes with, and attacks upon, those anarchist theoreticians he encountered at various stages of his career. Marx’s attacks on Stirner, Proudhon and Bakunin are shown to be of vital importance to his career as a theorist and revolutionist. The formative influences...
The Art of Power
Machiavelli, Nietzsche, and the Making of Aesthetic Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2006
The Art of Power is a challenge to traditional political theory. Diego A. von Vacano examines the work of Machiavelli, arguing that he establishes a new, aesthetic perspective on political life. He then proceeds to carry out the most extensive analysis to date of an important relationship in political...
The Jewish Political Tradition
Volume I: Authority
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This book launches a landmark four-volume collaborative work exploring the political thought of the Jewish people from biblical times to the present. Each volume includes a selection of texts-from the Bible and Talmud, midrashic literature, legal responsa, treatises, and pamphlets-annotated for modern...
Political Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
Authors and Arguments
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
This book demonstrates the rich diversity and depth of political philosophy in the twentieth century. Catherine H. Zuckert has compiled a collection of essays recounting the lives of political theorists, connecting each biography with the theorist's life work and explaining the significance of the...
The Virtuous Citizen
Patriotism in a Multicultural Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
What does it mean to be a citizen in a multicultural society? And what role must patriotism play in defining our relationship with our country and fellow citizens? In The Virtuous Citizen Tim Soutphommasane answers these questions with a critical defence of liberal nationalism. Considering a range...
The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics
Western International Theory, 1760–2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
John Hobson claims that throughout its history most international theory has been embedded within various forms of Eurocentrism. Rather than producing value-free and universalist theories of inter-state relations, international theory instead provides provincial analyses that celebrate and defend...
Free Speech and the State
An Unprincipled Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
This book addresses the question: “What should be the appropriate limits to free speech?” The author claims that it is the state, rather than abstract principles, that must provide the answer. The book defends a version of Hobbesian absolutism and rejects the dominant liberal idea that there is...
State, Space, World
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
One of the most influential Marxist theorists of the twentieth century, Henri Lefebvre pioneered the study of the modern state in an age of accelerating global economic integration and fragmentation. Shortly after the 1974 publication of his landmark book The Production of Space, Henri Lefebvre embarked...
AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING POLITICAL JUSTICE
AND ITS INFLUENCE ON GENERAL VIRTUE AND HAPPINESS
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2015
"In 1793, William Godwin, the first philosopher of anarchism, published An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice. This three-volume work gives evidence of being strongly influenced by the ideas of the French Revolution and argues that the rational being, the human, must be given complete freedom...
Reforming Ideas in Britain
Politics and Language in the Shadow of the French Revolution, 1789–1815
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Between 1789 and 1815, Britain faced a surge of challenges brought about by the French Revolution. Growing tensions with France, then the outbreak of war, exacerbated domestic political controversy, giving rise to new forms of political protest, to which the government responded with ever-increasing...