History Theory category: 16752 books
by Anne Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
One of the most hotly-contested debates in contemporary democracy revolves around issues of political presence, and whether the fair representation of disadvantaged groups requires their presence in elected assemblies. Representation as currently understood derives its legitimacy from a politics of...
by Johannes Lenhard
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: 1.3, University of London (Department of Politics and International Relations), language: English, abstract: War or Peace? The answer to this question is very ambiguous in classical theory;...
by Michael A. Neblo
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Deliberative democrats seek to link political choices more closely to the deliberations of common citizens, rather than consigning them to speak only in the desiccated language of checks on a ballot. Sober thinkers from Plato to today, however, have argued that if we want to make good decisions we...
Moral Spectatorship
Technologies of Voice and Affect in Postwar Representations of the Child
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Why were theories of affect, intersubjectivity, and object relations bypassed in favor of a Lacanian linguistically oriented psychoanalysis in feminist film theory in the 1980s and 1990s? In Moral Spectatorship, Lisa Cartwright rethinks the politics of spectatorship in film studies. Returning to impasses...
Vodou in the Haitian Experience
A Black Atlantic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
One glaring lacuna in studies of Haitian Vodou is the scarcity of works exploring the connection between the religion and its main roots, traditional Yoruba religion. Discussions of Vodou very often seem to present the religion in vacuo, as a sui generis phenomenon that arose in Saint-Domingue and...
by Michael Nedderman
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
America’s Primal Prayer will be controversial in the political and culture wars if the 36% of Christians who currently don’t vote (a huge number) learn that:(1) the Founders dedicated the nation to Jesus Christ by “confessing [him] before men” (Matthew 10:32-33 quoted below) when they...
Race and Racism in International Relations
Confronting the Global Colour Line
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
International Relations, as a discipline, does not grant race and racism explanatory agency in its conventional analyses, despite such issues being integral to the birth of the discipline. Race and Racism in International Relations seeks to remedy this oversight by acting as a catalyst for remembering,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
During the past two decades there has been increasing dissatisfaction with established political categories, on the grounds that they no longer fit many of the facts of contemporary life, or adequately express many contemporary political ideals. Political Theory in Transition explores the principal...
Injustice
Political Theory for the Real World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
This book challenges the conventional approach to problems of injustice in global normative theory. It offers a radical alternative designed to transform our thinking about what kind of problem injustice is and to show how political theorists might do better in understanding and addressing it. Michael...
The End of Eden
Agrarian Spaces and the Rise of the California Social Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
The story of the Joad family’s journey from their ravaged farm in dustbowl Oklahoma to the storied paradise of California helped inform a nation about the brutality, poverty, and vicious competition among fellow immigrants desperate for work. But Steinbeck is only one successor to a rich and esteemed...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
Postcolonialism and Political Theory explores the intersection between the political and the postcolonial through an engagement with, critique of, and challenge to some of the prevalent, restrictive tenets and frameworks of Western political and social thought. It is a response to the call by postcolonial...
The Bloomsbury Introduction to Adaptation Studies
Adapting the Canon in Film, TV, Novels and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
From David Lean's big screen Great Expectations to AlejandroAmenábar's reinvention of The Turn of the Screw as The Others, adaptations of literary classics are a constant feature of popular culture today. The Bloomsbury Introduction to Adaptation Studies helps students master the history, theory...
Karl Mannheim and the Crisis of Liberalism
The Secret of These New Times
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
To reflect on Karl Mannheim is to address fundamental issues of political enlightenment Mannheim's driving determination "was to learn as a sociologist by close observation the secret (even if it is infernal) of these new times." Mannheim's aim was "to carry liberal values forward."...
Mercury's Wings
Exploring Modes of Communication in the Ancient World
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Mercury's Wings: Exploring Modes of Communication in the Ancient World is the first-ever volume of essays devoted to ancient communications. Comparable previous work has been mainly confined to articles on aspects of communication in the Roman empire. This set of 18 essays with an introduction by...