History Theory category: 16752 books
Pathologies of Reason
On the Legacy of Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Axel Honneth has been instrumental in advancing the work of the Frankfurt School of critical theorists, rebuilding their effort to combine radical social and political analysis with rigorous philosophical inquiry. These eleven essays published over the past five years reclaim the relevant themes of...
Classical Social Contract Theory
The Classical Social Contract Theories of Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau Compared
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2009
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: 80%= good, University of Kerala (Department of Political Science), course: Political Theory- Liberal Tradition, language: English, abstract: This essay compares the classical social contract...
Politics and Vision
Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought - Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Politics and Vision is a landmark work by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. This is a significantly expanded edition of one of the greatest works of modern political theory. Sheldon Wolin's Politics and Vision inspired and instructed two generations of political theorists after its...
Reclaiming Marx's 'Capital'
A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
This book seeks to reclaim Capital from the myth of internal inconsistency, a myth that serves to justify the censorship of Marx's critique of political economy and present-day research based upon it. Andrew Kliman shows that the alleged inconsistencies are actually caused by misinterpretation. By...
Objective Economics
How Ayn Rand's Philosophy Changes Everything about Economics
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Every price is set by someone; this is where economics begins. Building on that fundamental idea and on Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism, Objective Economics transforms economics. The thesis of this book is that Ayn Rand’s concept of “objective” is the indispensible base of valid economic...
by Aaron Wildavsky
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Aaron Wildavsky, along with Mary Douglas, identified what they called grid-group theory. Wildavsky began calling this "cultural theory," and applied it to an astounding array of subjects. The essays in this volume exemplify the theory's potential contributions to three seemingly disparate,...
Toward the Visualization of History
The Past as Image
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2008
Over the past 50 years, the influence of visuals has impacted society with greater frequency. No subject is immune from the power of visual culture, and this fact becomes especially pronounced with regards to history and historical discourse. Where once the study of the past was books and printed...
Theatre/Theory/Theatre
The Major Critical Texts from Aristotle and Zeami to Soyinka and Havel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
From Aristotle's Poetics to Vaclav Havel, the debate about the nature and function of theatre has been marked by controversy. Daniel Gerould's landmark work, Theatre/Theory/Theatre, collects history's most influential Eastern and Western dramatic theorists – poets, playwrights, directors and philosophers...
by Frances W Kaye
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Amer-European settlement of the Great Plains transformed bountiful Native soil into pasture and cropland, distorting the prairie ecosystem as it was understood and used by the peoples who originally populated the land. Settlers justified this transformation with the unexamined premise of deficiency,...
by David F. Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
In *The Political Theory of * “The Federalist,” David F. Epstein offers a guide to the fundamental principles of American government as they were understood by the framers of the Constitution. Epstein here demonstrates the remarkable depth and clarity of The Federalist’s argument, reveals its...
by Keally McBride
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Most of us think of punishment as an ugly display of power. But punishment also tells us something about the ideals and aspirations of a people and their government. How a state punishes reveals whether or not it is confident in its own legitimacy and sovereignty. Punishment and Political Order examines...
Dirichlet
A Mathematical Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2018
This is the first extensive biography of the influential German mathematician, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805 – 1859). Dirichlet made major contributions to number theory in addition to clarifying concepts such as the representation of functions as series, the theory of convergence, and...
Empire in Question
Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Featuring essays written by the influential historian Antoinette Burton since the mid-1990s, Empire in Question traces the development of a particular, contentious strand of modern British history, the “new imperial history,” through the eyes of a scholar who helped to shape the field. In her...
Teaching U.S. History
Dialogues Among Social Studies Teachers and Historians
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
Teaching U.S. History offers an innovative approach to social studies teaching by connecting historians to real-world social studies classrooms and social studies teachers. In an unusual, even unprecedented, dialogue between scholars and practitioners, this book weds historical theory and practice...