Political Science category: 78432 books
In Marx's Shadow
Knowledge, Power, and Intellectuals in Eastern Europe and Russia
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Despite its key role in the intellectual shaping of state socialism, Communist ideas are often dismissed as mere propaganda or as a rhetorical exercise aimed at advancing socialist intellectuals on their way to power. By drawing attention to unknown and unexplored areas, trends and ways of thinking...
Governance in the New Global Disorder
Politics for a Post-Sovereign Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
When we talk about globalization, we tend to focus on its social and economic benefits. In Governance in the New Global Disorder, the political philosopher Daniel Innerarity considers its unsettling and largely unacknowledged consequences. The "opening" of different societies to new ideas,...
The Political Thought of Joseph Stalin
A Study in Twentieth Century Revolutionary Patriotism
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the political thought of Joseph Stalin. Making full use of the documentation that has recently become available, including Stalin's private library with his handwritten margin notes, the book provides many insights on Stalin, and also on western and Russian...
by David Marr
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Panic (noun). A sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety, often causing wildly unthinking behaviour.
Australians see themselves as a relaxed and tolerant bunch. But scratch the surface and you'll uncover an extraordinary level of fear.
Cronulla. Henson. Hanson. Wik. Haneef. The boats.
Panic...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In 2002 a fifteen-year-old Canadian citizen was captured in Afghanistan for allegedly killing an American soldier. A badly wounded Omar Khadr was transferred to the US Bagram Air Force base and then Guantánamo Bay detention camp. He would remain there without trial until October 2010, when a military...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
9/11 and its aftermath demonstrate the urgent need for political scientists and historians to unravel the tangled relationship of secular ideologies and organized religions to political fanaticism.
This major new volume uses a series of case studies by world experts to further our understanding...
The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Two "Discourses" and the "Social Contract"
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Individualist and communitarian. Anarchist and totalitarian. Classicist and romanticist. Progressive and reactionary. Since the eighteenth century, Jean-Jacques Rousseau has been said to be all of these things. Few philosophers have been the subject of as much or as intense debate, yet almost everyone...
Our Daily Bread
Wages, Workers, and the Political Economy of the American West
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
A wage is more than a simple fee in exchange for labor, argues Geoff Mann. Beyond being a quantitative reflection of productivity or bargaining power, a wage is a political arena in which working people's identity, culture, and politics are negotiated and developed. In Our Daily Bread, Mann examines...
The Limits of Political Theory
Oakeshott's Philosophy of Civil Association
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
This book examines Oakeshott’s political philosophy within the context of his more general conception of philosophical understanding. The book stresses the underlying continuity of his major writings on the subject and takes seriously the implications of understanding the world in terms of modality....
The Disclosure of Politics
Struggles Over the Semantics of Secularization
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Postmodern political critiques speak of the death of ideology, the end of history, and the postsecular return of religious attitudes, yet radical conservative theorists such as Mark Lilla argue religion and politics are inextricably intertwined. Returning much-needed uncertainty to debates over the...
by Amanda Sives
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Since the achievement of adult suffrage in 1944, Jamaican democracy has remained resilient. Fifteen general elections have been held; the results have been accepted by the contending parties and the democratic process has survived. Within the wider Latin American and Caribbean region, Jamaica has...
by Tamsin Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Political theorists have long been frustrated by Nietzsche's work. Although he develops profound critiques of morality, culture, and religion, it is very difficult to spell out the precise political implications of his insights. He himself never did so in any systematic way. In this book, Tamsin Shaw...
by Paul Nesbitt-Larking
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Politics, Society, and the Media is the first comprehensive political sociology of the media to be published in Canada. Paul Nesbitt-Larking draws upon a range of disciplines, including cultural and media studies, political economy, social theory, and political science to provide an analysis of the...
by Niccolo Machiavelli
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Originally published in 1532, nearly five years after the author’s death, “The Prince” is a pioneering work of modern political philosophy for which Niccolo Machiavelli is best remembered. Intended to be a treatise on ruling for princes, “The Prince” is one of the world’s first and most...