History Theory category: 16752 books
The Poor Bugger's Tool
Irish Modernism, Queer Labor, and Postcolonial History
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
With the weakening moral authority of the Catholic Church, the boom ushered in by the Celtic Tiger, and the slow but steady diminishment of the Troubles in the North, Ireland has finally stepped out from the shadows of colonial oppression onto the world stage as a major cosmopolitan country.Taking...
Rules for a globalised world
Ideas from hayekian thoughts on cultural evolution and epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2008
Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: 1,5, Mont Pelèrin Society (Mont Pelèrin Society), course: Biannual Essay Contest of the Mont Pelèrin Society, 18 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Hayek emphasises...
Heterogeneity of Being
On Octavio Paz’s Poetics of Similitude
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
One hundred years after his birth, Nobel laureate Octavio Paz is considered one of the most important thinkers of Mexican identity, one of the most influential Mexican poets, and one of the main representatives of a national cosmopolitanism. Most readings of his work, whether critical or laudatory,...
Samuel Richardson and the theory of tragedy
Clarissa's caesuras
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Samuel Richardson and the theory of tragedy is a bold new interpretation of one of the greatest European novels, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa. It argues that this text needs to be rethought as a dangerous exploration of the ethics of tragedy, on the scale of the great arguments of post-Romantic tragic...
Prospect Theory and Foreign Policy Analysis in the Asia Pacific
Rational Leaders and Risky Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Why does North Korea behave erratically in pursuing its nuclear weapons program? Why did the United States prefer bilateral alliances to multilateral ones in Asia after World War II? Why did China become "nice"—no more military coercion—in dealing with the pro-independence Taiwan President...
Power and International Relations
A Conceptual Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the concept of power has not always been central to international relations theory. During the 1920s and 30s, power was often ignored or vilified by international relations scholars—especially in America. Power and International Relations explores how this changed...
by Richard Howson
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Postmarxism is often depicted as a point of intersection for a set of inter-disciplinary theories that are in themselves complex and dense.
Bringing the postmarxist theory of Ernesto Laclau into the field of political sociology through a close reading and analysis of postmarxism and its relationship...
The Voegelinian Revolution
A Biographical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Over the past half-century, Eric Voegelin has produced a demanding body of writing on the philosophy of history and the history of political theory since antiquity. This is the first full-scale treatment of his inquiry into the reality of man's political existence. It includes close readings of the...
by Kody W. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Has Hobbesian moral and political theory been fundamentally misinterpreted by most of his readers? Since the criticism of John Bramhall, Hobbes has generally been regarded as advancing a moral and political theory that is antithetical to classical natural law theory. Kody Cooper challenges this traditional...
Class Struggle
A Political and Philosophical History
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Available for the first time in English, this book examines and reinterprets class struggle within Marx and Engels’ thought. As Losurdo argues, class struggle is often misunderstood as exclusively the struggle of the poor against the rich, of the humble against the powerful. It is an interpretation...
Revolutionary Studies
Theory, History, People
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
With characteristic clarity and insight, historian and activist Paul Le Blanc offers a sweeping survey of the key contributions of Marxist theory, exploring its relevance to twentieth-century revolutionary movements and figures.
Paul Le Blanc Has written on and participated in the US labor, radical and civil rights movements, and is author of numerous books.
Hegel, Marx, and the Necessity and Freedom Dialectic
Marxist-Humanism and Critical Theory in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
This book provides close readings of primary texts to analyze the linkage between G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophy and Karl Marx’s critical social theory of necessity and freedom. This is important for three reasons: first, to understand the significance of the changing relationships of work, society,...
MICHAEL BAKUNIN
A Biographical Sketch
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
James Guillaume, Bakunin’s friend and comrade-in-arms, edited the last five volumes of the six-volume French edition of his collected works. Guillaume’s biographical sketch of Bakunin, originally appeared in his introduction to Volume II of that edition.
This is a primary source not only...
Demopolis
Democracy before Liberalism in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
What did democracy mean before liberalism? What are the consequences for our lives today? Combining history with political theory, this book restores the core meaning of democracy as collective and limited self-government by citizens. That, rather than majority tyranny, is what democracy meant in...