History Theory category: 16752 books
Economic Thought
A Brief History
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
In this concise yet comprehensive history, Heinz D. Kurz traces the long arc of economic thought from its emergence in ancient Greece to its systematic presentation among the classical thinkers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to the influential work of scholars such as Paul Samuelson...
Political Game Theory
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2007
Political Game Theory is a self-contained introduction to game theory and its applications to political science. The book presents choice theory, social choice theory, static and dynamic games of complete information, static and dynamic games of incomplete information, repeated games, bargaining theory,...
‘True Democracy’ as a Prelude to Communism
The Marx of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2017
This book constitutes a critical intervention in the theoretical discussion over the political relationship between democracy and communism. Shedding light on the philosophical origins of the democracy debate, it draws a clear demarcation line between liberalism and republicanism, arguing that after...
by Joseph Mali
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
In this highly original study Joseph Mali explores how four attentive and inventive readers of Giambattista Vico's New Science (1744) – the French historian Jules Michelet (1798–1874), the Irish writer James Joyce (1882–1941), the German literary scholar Erich Auerbach (1892–1957) and the...
After the End of History
The Curious Fate of American Materialism
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
"Robert E. Lane is one of the most prominent and distinguished critics of both the human impact of market economies and economic theory, arguing from much research that happiness is more likely to flow from companionship, enjoyment of work, contribution to society, and the opportunity to develop...
Building Imaginary Worlds
The Theory and History of Subcreation
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Mark J.P. Wolf’s study of imaginary worlds theorizes world-building within and across media, including literature, comics, film, radio, television, board games, video games, the Internet, and more. Building Imaginary Worlds departs from prior approaches to imaginary worlds that focused mainly on...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
The relationship between theory and practice, between norms indicated in a text and their extra-textual application, is one of the most fascinating issues in the history and theory of science. Yet this aspect has often been taken for granted and never explored in depth. The essays contained in this...
Egil, the Viking Poet
New Approaches to 'Egil's Saga'
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Egil, the Viking Poet focuses on one of the best-known Icelandic sagas, that of the extraordinary hero Egil Skallagrimsson. Descended from a lineage of trolls, shape-shifters, and warriors, Egil’s transformation from a precocious and murderous child into a raider, mercenary, litigant, landholder,...
Reading Beyond the Code
Literature and Relevance Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
This book explores the value for literary studies of the model of communication known as relevance theory. Drawing on a wide range of examples—lyric poems by Yeats, Herrick, Heaney, Dickinson, and Mary Oliver, novels by Cervantes, Flaubert, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton—nine of the ten essays...
The Spiritual Technology of Ancient Egypt
Sacred Science and the Mystery of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2007
How ancient Egyptians understood quantum theory
• Investigates the history of how modern religion and the Age of Science were inspired by the sacred science of the ancients
• Examines how quantum theory explains that the cosmos arises from consciousness
• Reveals the unanimity...
Music Theory through Musical Theatre
Putting It Together
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Music Theory through Musical Theatre takes a new and powerful approach to music theory. Written specifically for students in music theatre programs, it offers music theory by way of musical theatre. Not a traditional music theory text, Music Theory through Musical Theatre tackles the theoretical foundations...
Stasis
Civil War as a Political Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
We can no longer speak of a state of war in any traditional sense, yet there is currently no viable theory to account for the manifold internal conflicts, or civil wars, that increasingly afflict the world's populations. Meant as a first step toward such a theory, Giorgio Agamben's latest book looks...
by Donald T. Critchlow
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
The Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties, popular democracy, centralized government, and a strong executive office. Yet the country's national politics have historically included all those features. In American Political History: A Very Short...
Perilous Futures
On Carl Schmitt's Late Writings
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Since his death, the writings of Carl Schmitt (1888–1985) have been debated, cited, and adopted by political and legal thinkers on both the left and right with increasing frequency, though not without controversy given Schmitt’s unwavering support for National Socialism before and during World...