History Theory category: 16752 books
Power and Politics in Poststructuralist Thought
New Theories of the Political
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
This book explores the impact of poststructuralism on contemporary political theory by focussing on problems and issues central to politics today.
Drawing on the theoretical concerns brought to light by the ‘poststructuralist’ thinkers Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, Deleuze and Max Stirner,...
Windows and Doors
A Poet Reads Literary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Windows and Doors is a poetry handbook that places poststructuralist and postmodern ways of thinking alongside formalist modes, making explicit points of overlap and tension that are usually tacit. Each of Natasha Sajé’s nine essays addresses a topic of central concern to readers and writers of...
Realizing Freedom
Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
What is freedom? How is freedom related to justice, law, property, peace, and prosperity? Tom Palmer has spent a lifetime-as a scholar, teacher, journalist, and activist-asking and answering these questions. Since its publication in 2009, Realizing Freedom has been the recipient of wide acclaim, both...
Politics and the Concept of the Political
The Political Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
A recent trend in contemporary western political theory is to criticize it for implicitly trying to "conquer," "displace" or "moralize" politics. James Wiley’s book takes the "next step," from criticizing contemporary political theory, to showing what a more...
Democracy's Spectacle
Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
"What is the hangman but a servant of law? And what is that law but an expression of public opinion? And if public opinion be brutal and thou a component part thereof, art thou not the hangman's accomplice?" Writing in 1842, Lydia Maria Child articulates a crisis in the relationship of democracy...
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....
Building a National Literature
The Case of Germany, 1830–1870
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Building a National Literature boldly takes issue with traditional literary criticism for its failure to explain how literature as a body is created and shaped by institutional forces. Peter Uwe Hohendahl approaches literary history by focusing on the material and ideological structures that determine...
Marxism & Scientific Socialism
From Engels to Althusser
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2008
Engels declared at Marx’s funeral in Highgate Cemetery that "just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history". Scientific socialism was the term Engels used to describe Marx's socio-economic philosophy and many...
Europe's Indians
Producing Racial Difference, 1500–1900
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Europe’s Indians forces a rethinking of key assumptions regarding difference—particularly racial difference—and its centrality to contemporary social and political theory. Tracing shifts in European representations of two different colonial spaces, the New World and India, from the late fifteenth...
The Majority Finds Its Past
Placing Women in History
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
Lauded for its contribution to the theory and conceptualization of the field of women's history and for its sensitivity to the differences of class, ethnicity, race, and culture among women, The Majority Finds Its Past became a classic volume in women's history following its publication in 1979. This...
Freud's 'Outstanding' Colleague/Jung's 'Twin Brother'
The suppressed psychoanalytic and political significance of Otto Gross
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Otto Gross was the first analyst to link his work with radical politics, connecting inner, personal transformation with outer, collective change. Since his death in 1920 his work has been suppressed, despite his seminal influence on the developing analytic discipline and on the fields of sociology,...
by Ian Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
In this book Ian Shapiro develops and extends arguments that have established him as one of today's leading democratic theorists. Shapiro is hardheaded about the realities of politics and power, and the difficulties of fighting injustice and oppression. Yet he makes a compelling case that democracy's...
Mapping Berlin
Representations of Space in the Weimar Feuilleton
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
This book was the winner of the 2013 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in German Studies.
The Weimar period (1919–1933) generated an immense wealth of writings that recorded impressions of daily life in the German capital of Berlin. Literary journalism, in particular, experienced a surge...
by John Urry
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
First published in 1973, this is a reissue of John Urry's important and influential study of the theory of revolution.
Part 1 offers a detailed discussion of the concept of the reference group, tracing its development from the symbolic interactionist tradition and then showing how it came to...