History Theory category: 16752 books
Just War Reconsidered
Strategy, Ethics, and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
In the seminal Just and Unjust Wars, Michael Walzer famously considered the ethics of modern warfare, examining the moral issues that arise before, during, and after conflict. However, Walzer and subsequent scholars have often limited their analyses of the ethics of combat to soldiers on the ground...
A Cultural History of Causality
Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
This pioneering work is the first to trace how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. Focusing on the act of murder, as documented vividly by more than a hundred novels including Crime and Punishment,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Theorists interested in learning more about any given interpretive approach are often required to navigate a dizzying array of sources, with no clear sense of where to begin. The prose of many primary sources is often steeped in dense and technical argot that novices find intimidating or even impenetrable....
Wayward Contracts
The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Why did the language of contract become the dominant metaphor for the relationship between subject and sovereign in mid-seventeenth-century England? In Wayward Contracts, Victoria Kahn takes issue with the usual explanation for the emergence of contract theory in terms of the origins of liberalism,...
Eliot's Objective Correlative
Tradition or Individual Talent? Contributions to the History of a Topos
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Eliot’s dictum about the objective correlative has often been quoted but rarely analysed. This book traces the maxim to some of its sources and places it in a contemporary context. Eliot agreed with Locke about the necessity of sensory input, but for a poet to be able to create poetry, the input...
by Smita A. Rahman
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
In recent years, there has been an increased attention to temporality in political theory, and such attention is sorely needed. For too long political theory, with the exception of occasional phenomenological forays, has remained grounded in a particular experience of time as linear and sequential....
That Broader Definition of Liberty
The Theory and Practice of the New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Stipelman offers a comprehensive theory of the New Deal, covering both the ends it hoped to achieve and the means it used to achieve them. It draws upon a mixture of history, American political development, and political theory, and hopes to both fill a critical gap in scholarship and provide a theoretical framework for contemporary progressive political actors.
Immanuel Kant's Ideas on Knowledge
A Concept of Scientific Rationality
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: 2,0, University of Flensburg (International Institute for Management), course: European Ideas, language: English, abstract: If one explores the concept of scientific rationality as...
Authority Figures
Rhetoric and Experience in John Locke's Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
In Authority Figures, Torrey Shanks uncovers the essential but largely unappreciated place of rhetoric in John Locke’s political and philosophical thought. Locke’s well-known hostility to rhetoric has obscured an important debt to figural and inventive language. Here, Shanks traces the close ties...
Critical Theory in International Relations and Security Studies
Interviews and Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
This book provides an assessment of the legacy, challenges and future directions of Critical Theory in the fields of International Relations and Security Studies.
This book provides ‘first-hand’ interviews with some of the pioneers of Critical Theory in the fields of International Relations...
Political Theory and Social Science
Cutting Against the Grain
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
This work is devoted to a critical analytical examination of the history, character, and conduct of contemporary academic political theory and to a reconsideration of significant elements of this field of inquiry from the perspective of the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
A Global Political Morality
Human Rights, Democracy, and Constitutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
In A Global Political Morality, Michael J. Perry addresses several related questions in human rights theory, political theory and constitutional theory. He begins by explaining what the term 'human right' means and then elaborates and defends the morality of human rights, which is the first truly...
Why theory?
Cultural critique in film and television
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Edward Tomarken's previous book, Filmspeak, was a study of literary theory in relation to contemporary mainstream films. Some of the abstruse ideas of early literary theorists (1950–70) had in fact permeated our thinking to such an extent that both films and theories enriched and shed light upon...
Conceptions of Chinese Democracy
Reading Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Ching-kuo
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Conceptions of Chinese Democracy provides a coherent and critical introduction to the democratic thought of three fathers of modern Taiwan—Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Ching-kuo—in a way that is accessible and grounded in broader traditions of political theory.
David J. Lorenzo’s...