Author : Sheldon S. Wolin
Publisher : [Los Angeles] : William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 29,73 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Political science
ISBN :
Author : Sheldon S. Wolin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 33,12 MB
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0691183279
An authoritative collection of the most important writings of an influential political thinker Sheldon Wolin was one of the most influential and original political thinkers of the past fifty years. In Fugitive Democracy, the breathtaking range of Wolin’s scholarship, political commitment, and critical acumen are on full display in this authoritative and accessible collection of essays. This book brings together his most important writings, from classic essays to his late radical essays on American democracy such as "Fugitive Democracy," in which he offers a controversial reinterpretation of democracy as an episodic phenomenon distinct from the routinized political management that passes for democracy today. Wolin critically engages a diverse range of political theorists, and grapples with topics such as power, modernization, the sixties, revolutionary politics, and inequality, all the while showcasing enduring commitment to writing civic-minded theoretical commentary on the most pressing political issues of the day. Fugitive Democracy offers enduring insights into many of today’s most pressing political predicaments, and introduces a whole new generation of readers to this provocative figure in contemporary political thought.
Author : Mary G. Dietz
Publisher :
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 21,22 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
The eight essays in this volume celebrated the 400th birthday of the English political thinker - Thomas Hobbes.
Author : Peter Baehr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 29,12 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351519336
Founders, classics, and canons have been vitally important in helping to frame sociology's identity. Within the academy today, a number of positions?feminist, postmodernist, postcolonial?question the status of "tradition."In Founders, Classics, Canons, Peter Baehr defends the continuing importance of sociology's classics and traditions in a university education. Baehr offers arguments against interpreting, defending, and attacking sociology's great texts and authors in terms of founders and canons. He demonstrates why, in logical and historical terms, discourses and traditions cannot actually be "founded" and why the term "founder" has little explanatory content. Equally, he takes issue with the notion of "canon" and argues that the analogy between the theological canon and sociological classic texts, though seductive, is mistaken.Although he questions the uses to which the concepts of founder, classic, and canon have been put, Baehr is not dismissive. On the contrary, he seeks to understand the value and meaning these concepts have for the people who employ them in the cultural battle to affirm or attack the liberal university tradition.
Author : Cary J. Nederman
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 30,54 MB
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1800373805
This insightful Handbook reviews the key frameworks guiding political scientists and historians of political thought. Comprehensive in scope, it covers historical methodology, traditions, epochs, and classic authors and texts, spanning from ancient Greece until the nineteenth century.
Author : Mónica Brito Vieira
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,76 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9004181741
This book offers a powerful, comprehensive and compelling rereading of Hobbes's theory of representation, by reinstating it in a wider pattern of Hobbes s theorizing about human thought and action in relation to images, roles and fictions of various types.
Author : Quentin Skinner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 18,36 MB
Release : 1996-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0521554365
An outstanding new interpretation of Hobbes, one of the most difficult and challenging of political philosophers.
Author : Terence Ball
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 18,54 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198279957
Written in a lively and accessible style, the book will provoke debate among students and scholars alike. Throughout, Terence Ball shows just how exciting and important political theory can be.
Author : Jason A. Frank
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 32,91 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780816635375
Content Description pt. 1. Invoking political theory. Political theory : from vocation to invocation / Sheldon S. Wolin -- pt. 2. Theorizing loss. Specters and angels at the end of history / Wendy Brown -- The politics of nostalgia and theories of loss / J. Peter Euben -- pt. 3. Thinking in time. Can theorists make time for belief? / Russell Arben Fox -- The history of political thought as a vocation : a pragmatist defense / David Paul Mandell -- pt. 4. The politics of ordinary life. Political theory for losers / Thomas L. Dumm -- Feminism's flight from the ordinary / Linda M.B. Zerilli -- pt. 5. Political knowledge. Conceptions of science in political theory : a tale of cloaks and daggers / Mark B. Brown -- Political theory as a provocation : an ethos of political theory / Lon Troyer -- Gramsci, organic intellectuals, and cultural studies : lessons for political theorists? / Shane Gunster -- pt. 6. Practicing political theory. Reading the body : hobbes, body politics, and the task of political theory / Samantha Frost -- Work, shame, and the chain gang : the new civic education / Jill Locke -- The nobility of democracy / William E. Connolly.
Author : J. Nelson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 29,67 MB
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137373865
The book presents cinematic case studies in political realism versus political idealism, demonstrating methods of viewing popular cinema as political theory. The book appreciates political myth-making in popular genres as especially practical and accessible theorizing about politics.
