Political Science category: 78432 books
by Espen Hammer
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Interest in Theodor W. Adorno continues to grow in the English-speaking world as the significance of his contribution to philosophy, social and cultural theory, as well as aesthetics is increasingly recognized. Espen Hammer’s lucid book is the first to properly analyze the political implications...
by John Morley, Thomas B. Macaulay
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Machiavelli was an italian philosopher, humanist and writer, considered as the founder of the modern political science. The term Machiavellianism comes from his work describing personalities characterized by a duplicitous interpersonal style, a cynical disregard for morality and a focus on self-interest and personal gain.
Socrates and Alcibiades
Plato's Drama of Political Ambition and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
In the classical world, political ambition posed an intractable problem. Ancient Greek democracies fostered in their most promising youths a tension-ridden combination of the desire for personal glory and deep-seated public-spiritedness in hopes of producing brilliant and capable statesmen. But as...
The Shadow of Unfairness
A Plebeian Theory of Liberal Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
In this sequel to his prize-winning book, The Eyes of the People, Jeffrey Edward Green draws on philosophy, history, social science, and literature to ask what democracy can mean in a world where it is understood that socioeconomic status to some degree will always determine opportunities for civic...
On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations
A Philosophical Companion
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Adam Smith was a philosopher before he ever wrote about economics, yet until now there has never been a philosophical commentary on the Wealth of Nations. Samuel Fleischacker suggests that Smith's vastly influential treatise on economics can be better understood if placed in the light of his epistemology,...
Becoming Political
Spinoza’s Vital Republicanism and the Democratic Power of Judgment
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
In this pathbreaking work, Christopher Skeaff argues that a profoundly democratic conception of judgment is at the heart of Spinoza’s thought. Bridging Continental and Anglo-American scholarship, critical theory, and Spinoza studies, Becoming Political offers a historically sensitive, meticulous,...
Until Death Do Us Part
My Struggle to Reclaim Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Ingrid Betancourt, a senator and a presidential candidate in Colombia, grew up among diplomats, literati, and artists who congregated at her parents' elegant home in Paris, France. Her father served as Colombia's ambassador to UNESCO and her mother, a political activist, continued her work on behalf...
What Happened to the Republican Party?
And What It Means for American Presidential Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
As the 2016 election campaign attests, the Grand Old Party—once moderate and even magnanimous—has fallen into a prison of its own making when it comes to presidential politics. After the debacle of the George W. Bush presidency and the rout of the Romney candidacy, Republicans said they must broaden...
Modern Political Economics
Making Sense of the Post-2008 World
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Once in a while the world astonishes itself. Anxious incredulity replaces intellectual torpor and a puzzled public strains its antennae in every possible direction, desperately seeking explanations for the causes and nature of what just hit it. 2008 was such a moment. Not only did the financial system...
Adela Sloss-Vento
Writer, Political Activist, and Civil Rights Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
This work probes into the socio-political and cultural setting in South Texas (1915-1992) via data found in the private archival collection of Adela Sloss-Vento; it focuses on her role as an activist, writer and civil/human rights pioneer. It is only through this archive that documentation becomes...
Lincoln
Political Writings and Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Abraham Lincoln occupies a unique place in the American pantheon. Symbol, sage, myth and martyr, he is an American icon – Honest Abe and The Great Emancipator, a Janus-faced demigod sculpted in marble. But this is the post-assassination Lincoln. During his lifetime Lincoln elicited very different...
Women's Political Discourse
A 21st-Century Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2005
Although the United States ranks sixtieth internationally in women's political leadership, in 2004, a record nine women held governorships, sixty women served as House members with an additional three women elected as delegates from Washington, D.C., Guam, and the Virgin Islands, and fourteen women...
The American Political Pattern
Stability and Change, 1932-2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Politicians are polarized. Public opinion is volatile. Government is gridlocked. Or so journalists and pundits constantly report. But where are we, really, in modern American politics, and how did we get there? Those are the questions that Byron E. Shafer aims to answer in The American Political Pattern....
The Political Thought of Sayyid Qutb
The Theory of Jahiliyyah
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
This new book takes a literary approach in its study of Sayyid Qutb, one of the most significant political thinkers for contemporary Islamists and who has greatly influenced the likes of Osama Bin Laden. Executed by the Egyptian state in 1966, his books continue to be read and his theory of jahiliyya...