Hobbes and the Epic Tradition of Political Theory
Author: Sheldon S. Wolin
Publisher: [Los Angeles] : William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13:
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Fugitive Democracy
Author: Sheldon S. Wolin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2018-11-13
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 0691183279
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn 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.
Thomas Hobbes and Political Theory
Author: Mary G. Dietz
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe eight essays in this volume celebrated the 400th birthday of the English political thinker - Thomas Hobbes.
Founders, Classics, Canons
Author: Peter Baehr
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 453
ISBN-13: 1351519336
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFounders, 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.
Vocations of Political Theory
Author: Jason A. Frank
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780816635375
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContent 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.
Popular Cinema as Political Theory
Author: J. Nelson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-12-05
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1137373865
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Research Handbook on the History of Political Thought
Author: Cary J. Nederman
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2024-06-05
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 1800373805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Reappraising Political Theory
Author: Terence Ball
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 0198279957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten 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.
POLITICAL THEORY
Author: SUSHILA RAMASWAMY
Publisher: PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
Published: 2010-10-01
Total Pages: 582
ISBN-13: 8120350480
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPolitical theory and political philosophy are generally used inter-changeably, though sometimes a distinction is made between the two. This book on political theory deals with the study of political instructions alongwith the theories of State, Law, Liberty and Equality. In its second edition, the book continues to analyse the key concepts like Authority, Power, Sovereignty, Political obligation, Civil disobedience, Citizenship, Rights, Democracy and Justice. The non-western ideas, including Indian and Chinese, are incorporated to underline cultural plurality and shared values in an enterprise that tries to set universal standards. The book is designed for the undergraduate and postgraduate students of Political Science. The book will be equally beneficial for the students appearing for the civil services examinations.
Theory of State : Plato to Marx
Author: N. D. Arora
Publisher: K.K. Publications
Published: 2022-01-22
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTheory of State Theory of State is a study of the concept of state, as viewed by various philosophers, from Plato to Marx. Indeed, there is no dearth of literature on this subject by competent scholars. This study only supplements the vast and voluminous body of writings, but with a difference. The usual tendency among the scholars has been to assess a political philosopher only from the present-day relevance. Such an approach, though important as it may be in its own right, belies a proper and unbiased estimate of the philosopher. The study aims to remove the pitfalls of a polemic account. It purports to evaluate a philosopher in the objective conditions of his own times. That is why, the philosophers, included in the study, speak for themselves. An attempt has, thus, been made to establish linkage in the thought-process of the various philosophers so as to present a coherent account.
