Ideologies Doctrines

By Nicholas Greenwood Onuf

ISBN-10: 0872496260

ISBN-13: 9780872496262

Onuf is familiar with all of diplomacy to be a question of principles and rule in international habit and attracts at the paintings of such assorted figures as Kenneth Arrow, J.L. Austin, Max Black, Michael Foucault, Anthony Giddens, Jurgen Habermas, Lawrence Kohlberg, Harold Lasswell, Talcott Parsons, Jean Piaget, J.G.A. Pocock, John Roemer, John Scarle and Sheldon Wolin to bare a constant trend of different types of ideas, rule and comparable social phenomena.

By Roger A. Salerno

ISBN-10: 0275977242

ISBN-13: 9780275977245

Very important principles that contributed to shaping 20th-century thought—ideas which proceed to carry nice value for someone drawn to the social world—are made obtainable during this illuminating quantity. Readers can be stimulated to delve into the deeper pool of information to be had on significant social theorists and their groundbreaking ideas.A mix of biographical and old rules, this e-book used to be written to introduce social idea to a wide viewers. It appears on the intersection among the theorist as a social actor and as a mirrored image of his or her time. The volume's breadth makes it a great tool for these drawn to sociology and its many luminaries.

By Leszek Kolakowski, P. S. Falla

ISBN-10: 0198245475

ISBN-13: 9780198245476

From thinker Leszek Kolakowski, one of many giants of twentieth-century highbrow background, comes this hugely infuential research of Marxism. Written in exile, this 'prophetic paintings' offers, in accordance with the Library of Congress, 'the so much lucid and accomplished historical past of the origins, constitution, and posthumous improvement of the approach of concept that had the best impression at the 20th century'. Kolakowski lines the highbrow foundations of Marxist concept from Plotonius via Lenin, Lukacs, Sartre and Mao. He finds Marxism to be 'the maximum delusion of our century ...an concept that started in Promethean humanism and culminated within the titanic tyranny of Stalinism'. In a super coda, he examines the cave in of overseas Communism in mild of the final tumultuous many years. major Currents of Marxism is still the vital publication in its box.

By David Morse (auth.)

ISBN-10: 0230378064

ISBN-13: 9780230378063

ISBN-10: 1349388726

ISBN-13: 9781349388721

By Brian O'Connor

ISBN-10: 0226616711

ISBN-13: 9780226616711

Starting with the booklet of Kant’s Critique of natural cause and lengthening via to Hegel’s demise, the interval often called German Idealism signaled the top of an epoch of rationalism, empiricism, and enlightenment—and the start of a brand new “critical” interval of philosophy. the main accomplished anthology of this very important culture up to now, German Idealism brings jointly an expansive collection of readings from the tradition’s significant figures like Kant, Hegel, Fichte, and Schelling.Arranged thematically into sections on subject matters reminiscent of the relationships among self and information, freedom and morality, legislation and nation, and nature and technological know-how, to call a couple of, German Idealism discloses some of the contrasts that helped to tell apart all the tradition’s key thinkers. each one expertly translated textual content comes with a piece of writing advent to lead readers via the various difficulties the texts particularly care for, in addition to their old context.The so much obtainable and expansive creation to German Idealism ever, this anthology might be hailed through teachers and students because the such a lot accountable advisor to the culture for years yet to come. (20060920)

By J.P. Sommerville

ISBN-10: 0582320062

ISBN-13: 9780582320062

This recognized booklet reasserts the critical value of political and non secular ideology within the origins of the English Civil conflict. contemporary historiography has targeting its social and fiscal factors: Sommerville reminds us what the folks of the time notion they have been combating approximately. reading the most political theories in c.17th England - the Divine correct of Kings, govt by means of consent, and the traditional structure - he considers their impression on genuine occasions. He attracts on significant political thinkers like Hobbes and Locke, but additionally on lesser yet extra consultant figures, to discover what used to be new in those principles and what used to be in basic terms the typical forex of the age. This significant re-creation accommodates all of the most recent pondering at the topic.

By Cindy Milstein

ISBN-10: 1306022584

ISBN-13: 9781306022583

ISBN-10: 1604865024

ISBN-13: 9781604865028

ISBN-10: 1604867728

ISBN-13: 9781604867725

ISBN-10: 1604867795

ISBN-13: 9781604867794

ISBN-10: 1604867817

ISBN-13: 9781604867817

By Kyle Longley, Jeremy Mayer, Michael Schaller, John W. Sloan

ISBN-10: 0765615908

ISBN-13: 9780765615909

Even if he left place of work approximately two decades in the past, Ronald Reagan is still a powerful image for the conservative circulation. The Bush management usually invokes his legacy because it formulates and promotes its financial, household, and overseas regulations. His identify is watchword for campus conservatives who regard him in a manner that borders on hero worship. Conservative media pundits frequently equate the time period ''Reagan-esque'' with own honor, financial rectitude, and unqualified luck in facing overseas threats. yet how a lot of the Reagan legacy is predicated on truth, how a lot on idealized fantasy? And what are the explanations - political and another way - at the back of the mythmaking? ''Deconstructing Reagan'' is an engaging examine of the interaction of politics and reminiscence bearing on our 40th president. whereas giving credits the place credits is due, the authors scrutinize key elements of the Reagan legacy and the conservative mythology that surrounds it.

By Benjamin Franks

ISBN-10: 1904859402

ISBN-13: 9781904859406

Targeting the class-struggle culture inside of anarchism, as represented by means of present nationwide federations in Britain, Benjamin Franks identifies the most ideas that distinguish those hobbies from competing Leninist, liberal, and social democratic groupings. From those key features, Franks then constructs an “ideal style” of anarchism—a targeted anarchist ethic—against which he assesses the idea and perform of up to date political teams. With this lens, the complete anarchist circulate is judged, making comparisons among differing colleges of idea and parallel theoretical frameworks comparable to Autonomist Marxism and the Situationist overseas.

By Philip Morgan

ISBN-10: 0203269667

ISBN-13: 9780203269664

ISBN-10: 0203448227

ISBN-13: 9780203448229

ISBN-10: 0415169429

ISBN-13: 9780415169424

Fascism in Europe, 1919-1945 surveys the phenomenon that is nonetheless the item of curiosity and debate over fifty years after its defeat within the moment global struggle. It introduces the hot scholarship and carrying on with debates at the nature of fascism in addition to the customarily contentious contributions by means of international historians and political scientists. From the pre-First global conflict highbrow origins of Fascism to its dying in 1945, this publication examines: * the 2 'waves' of fascism - within the quick post-war interval and within the overdue Nineteen Twenties and early Nineteen Thirties* no matter if the ecu concern created by way of the Treaty of Versailles allowed fascism to take root* why fascism got here to strength in Italy and Germany, yet no longer at any place else in Europe* fascism's personal declare to be a global and internationalist flow* the assumption of 'totalitarianism' because the most valuable and applicable manner of studying the fascist regimes.