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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Walden Civil Disobedience
Book SynopsisHenry David Thoreau’s account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts—part social experiment, part spiritual quest—is an enduringly influential American classic.In 1845, Thoreau began building a cabin at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. The inspiring and lyrical book that resulted is both a record of the two years Thoreau spent in withdrawal from society and a declaration of personal independence. By virtue of its casual, offhandedly brilliant wisdom and the easy splendor of its nature writing, Thoreau’s account of his immersion in solitude has become a signpost for the modern mind in an increasingly bewildering world. Also included in this edition is Thoreau’s famous essay, “Civil Disobedience,” inspired by his anti-war and anti-slavery sentiments, which has influenced nonviolent resistance movements around the world ever since.
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John Wiley & Sons Caudillos
Book SynopsisIn this volume, the editor presents conflicting interpretations of Spanish American caudillos in essays written by an international group of historians, anthropologists, sociologists, journalists and caudillos themselves.
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Florida and the 2016 Election of Donald J. Trump
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Ohio State University Press Party Discipline and Parliamentary Government
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Wayne State University Press An Introduction to Political Philosophy Ten Essays by Leo Strauss Ten Essays by Leo Strauss Revised Culture of Jewish Modernity
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Wayne State University Press Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography Kritik German Literary Theory Cultural Studies Kritik German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series
Book SynopsisWalter Benjamin is considered one of the most significant writers and theorists in 20th-century Western culture. The author of this work shows that Benjamin's engagement with the political cannot be understood in terms of unified concepts, but rather should be understood from his language.Trade ReviewGerhard Richter's study is so effective that it exceeds its own intentions and opens up an illumination of language in our times as well as in Benjamin's. - Michigan Germanic Studies ""As the first full-scale study of Benjamin's practice of autobiography in any language, Gerhard Richter's admirable work performs a major scholarly service."" - Peter Fenves, Northwestern University ""This text is magisterial.... [It] renews one's amazement at the power and beauty of Benjamin's thinking. I rate this work very highly."" - James Rolleston, Duke University ""... a remarkable achievement."" - Michael Jennings, Princeton University
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New York University Press Power Readings in Social Political Theory 2
Book SynopsisWhat is power? Is it, as Betrand Russell suggested, the production of intended effects, or is it the capacity to produce them? And which effects count? Or is Max Weber's definition of power as the probability that an actor in a social relationship will be in a position to carry out his own will despite resistance more accurate. What are the outcomes of power and who holds it? These are some of the fundamental questions answered in this colection of classic views of power. Steven Luke's lucid and accessible introduction on the nature of power leads to pieces by Bertrand Russell, Max Weber, Robert Dahl, Hannah Arendt, Jurgen Habermas, Talcott Parsons, Nicos Polantzas, Alvin I. Goldman, Georg Simmel, J. K. Galbraith, Michel Foucault, Gerhard Lenski and Raymond Aron. The book thus provides students of politics and sociology with all the most important readings in a key area of political theory.
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers The Soviet Mind Russian Culture Under Communism
Book SynopsisIsaiah Berlin''s response to the Soviet Union was central to his identity, both personally and intellectually. Born a Russian subject in Riga in 1909, he spoke Russian as a child and witnessed both revolutions in St. Petersburg in 1917, emigrating to the West in 1921. He first returned to Russia in 1945, when he met the writers Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak. These formative encounters helped shape his later work, especially his defense of political freedom and his studies of pre-Soviet Russian thinkers. Never before collected, Berlin''s writings about the USSR include his accounts of his famous meetings with Russian writers shortly after the Second World War; the celebrated 1945 Foreign Office memorandum on the state of the arts under Stalin; his account of Stalin''s manipulative ''artificial dialectic''; portraits of Osip Mandelshtam and Boris Pasternak; his survey of Soviet Russian culture written after a visit in 1956; a postscript stimulated by the events of 1989; and more. This collection includes essays that have never been published before, as well as works that are not widely known because they were published under pseudonyms to protect relatives living in Russia. The contents of this book were discussed at a seminar in Oxford in 2003, held under the auspices of the Brookings Institution. Berlin''s editor, Henry Hardy, had prepared the essays for collective publication and here recounts their history. In his foreword, Brookings president Strobe Talbott, an expert on the Soviet Union, relates the essays to Berlin''s other work. The Soviet Mind will assume its rightful place among Berlin''s works and will prove invaluable for policymakers, students, and those interested in Russian politics, past, present and future.
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. The Bulgarian Communist Party from Blagoev to Zhivkov Histories of Ruling Communist Parties Hoover Institution Press Publication
Book SynopsisProvides a history of Bulgarian comunism from the days of Dimitur Blagoev, a member of the first Marxist group in Russia and a founder of Bulgarian communism, to Todor Zhivkov, the head of the BCP from 1954 until its near demise in 1989.
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Hoover Institution Press Do the Right Thing Hoover Press Publication The Peoples Economist Speaks Hoover Institution Press Publication
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Fixing the System A History of Populism Ancient and Modern
Book SynopsisPopulism is distinguished from other political movements by its insistence on two things conspicuously missing from modern systems of political economy: genuine democracy based on local citizen assemblies, and the widespread distribution among the population of privately-owned economic capital. This book offers an historical account of populism.Trade Review"Fixing the System is, as it were, a rare new book, one in which a serious political theorist does startlingly original and important thinking about populism, democracy, and our present American society. Tracing the history of populism through two and a half centuries, Kuzminski eviscerates the allegedly democratic American system as collective authoritarianism and presents populism rooted in decentralized economic justice as an approximately egalitarian democratic alternative. Expect, if you read Kuzminski, to be shaken up where it most matters: in your mind."- Ronnie Dugger, founding editor of The Texas Observer and co-founder of the Alliance for Democracy."Kuzminski (philosophy, Hartwick College) laments the substitution of representative democracy and capitalist economics, amounting to plutocracy, for a genuinely democratic system of direct popular rule by citizens who "do not differ significantly in wealth and power."...Kuzminski's rhetoric is shrill, his political and economic judgments unsupported by factual evidence, and his prose repetitive and filled with typos. Summing Up: Not recommended." - D. Schaefer, CHOICE, January 2009 -- Negative"This gracefully written, broadly researched study is a work of many aspects. It is part history and part philosophy and also has a psychological dimension....More important: Fixing the System is sound intellectual history, a serious contribution to the study of American economic and political thought. Kuzminski is an intellectual, a thinker, and all the populist writers, from Phaleas via Aristotle through Harrington, Jefferson, Kellogg et al., have been intellectuals, thinkers. They presented their ideas in books and essays and in letters. They did not institute their ideas or make notable efforts to institute them. Kuzminski's notable contribution is not in the presentation of practical measure to achieve political and economic equality but to present an ideal system for that achievement...This is a serious study by a deeply thoughtful observer of present-day politics and economics and a student of the complexities of these activities through the centuries...It should be read by anyone interested in the human past and the human present." -New York History, Spring 2008"Focusing primarily on populism in the West, Kuzminski traces populism's origins back to the days of Greek city states such as Athens. He also offers a withering critique of the state of most Western democracies, which he views as corporate oligarchies that perpetuate themselves by means of plebiscites that only provide passive popular acquiescence to the chosen policies of an elite. And he writes that no system can be called democratic unless citizens are owners of property and have a direct, active involvement in the formation of the policies of their government. Populists claim that ‘property for all' means the widespread personal ownership of private capital sufficient to establish the relative economic independence of citizens. When none are rich enough to dominate others, and none are poor enough to be dominated, the public rather than the private interest is likely to be served."David Isenberg, The Journal of Peace ResearchTable of ContentsChapter One: The Insight of Phaleas; Chapter Two: Kinship Precedents; Chapter Three: European Populism; Chapter Four: American Populism; Appendix: Jefferson's Ward Republics; Bibliography.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Edmund Burke Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers v 6
Book SynopsisDennis O'Keeffe is Visiting Professor of Sociology at the University of Buckingham, UK.Trade Review"An invigorating account that repeatedly places Burke in a context that is relevant for the present day. Written in an accessible style, O'Keeffe's book offers a reading that is at once academic and infused with a powerful moral strain." --Jeremy Black "The volumes in this timely series comprise the most comprehensive body of material on conservative and libertarian thought yet published in a single project devoted to the subject. The series will prove an indispensable tool not only for those concerned with the history of political thought but also for those who confront the challenging task of constructing a viable contemporary conservative identity. Professor Meadowcroft had a difficult editorial task, to which he has responded with a judicious choice of thinkers and topics." Noel O'Sullivan, Professor of Political Philosophy, the University of Hull, UK. "In this eminently readable, intellectually stimulating and compact volume Professor Dennis O'Keeffe does an excellent job of introducing us to Edmund Burke, his life and family, the essence of his most notable works, his parliamentary career and manifesto writing and how apparent contradictions in his own life and philosophy are reconciled in his intellectual and political development." -Rodney Atkinson, Fellow at the University of Buckingham"O'Keeffe is at his best in ‘extrapolating' Burke into more recent times...That is what makes it such a joy to read." -John Clarke, Quadrant"Never in the field of Burkean studies has so much been said in so few words. O'Keeffe displays an enviable sense of structure, which enables him to combine in a small space a comprehensive exegesis of Burke's thought with a sweeping overview of secondary sources - and still have enough left over to show how Burke's ideas apply to today's world." -Alex Boot, The Salisbury Review"For students and scholars, O'Keeffe presents the life and ideas of conservative British thinker Edmund Burke (1729-1797) within historical context. He explains Burke's philosophical contributions to conservative thinking, the reception by his contemporaries, and implications for politics and policy today. Discussion includes his ideas about empire, Ireland and England, relations with North American settlements, India, property, the de-sanctification of humanity, and his opposition to the French Revolution, as well as his many writings, including Reflections on the Revolution in France." -Eithne O'Leyne, BOOK NEWS, Inc.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Edmund Burke: The Contradictions of Benevolence; Chapter 2. Genial Olympian: Burke and his Opinions; Chapter 3. Great Acclaim, Some Derision and Much Controversy. How Burke was Received; Chapter 4. Under Burkean Eyes: Burke and Our Present Blessings and Woes.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Questionnaire Design Interviewing and Attitude Measurement
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Power Politics
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) States and Markets
Trade Review‘In this book [Susan Strange] once again shows that her reputation for careful analysis and fresh insights is well deserved... a refreshing look at a much studied subject and should be read by every student of international political economy.' International Relations Theory. * Blurb from reviewer *‘Students, and many of their teachers, will like the book because it gives a vigorous introduction to both the subject matter of IPE and the holistic cast of mind necessary for understanding it. One cannot read the book without having one's horizons broadened... it should occupy an opening slot on reading lists for IPE courses.' International Affairs. * Blurb from reviewer *Table of ContentsI: The study of international political economy • The conflict of values and theories • Power in the world economy • II: Structures of power in the world economy • The security structure • The production structure • The financial structure • The knowledge structure • III: Secondary power structures • Transport systems: sea and air • Trade • Energy • Welfare • IV: Pick-your-own or suit yourself • Questions and answers
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Global Social Movements
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Making of Social Policy in Britain From the Poor Law to New Labour
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) HOBBESS LEVIATHAN A READERS GUIDE BY BAGBY LAURIE M JOHNSONAUTHORPAPERBACK
Book SynopsisThomas Hobbes' most enduring work, "Leviathan", is a key text in the study of political philosophy. Explaining the philosophical background against which the text was written, this book guides the reader to a clear understanding of the text as a whole, and then, explores the reception and influence of this classic philosophical work.Table of Contents1. Context and Introduction; 2. Overview of Themes; 3. Reading the Text:; 4. Reception and Influence; 5. Notes for Future Reading.
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Vanderbilt University Press The Political Centrist
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Vanderbilt University Press How Failed Attempts to Amend the Constitution Mobilize Political Change
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Vanderbilt University Press How Failed Attempts to Amend the Constitution Mobilize Political Change
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Vanderbilt University Press In Pursuit of Peace in Israel and Palestine
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AEI Press Toward a More Perfect Union Writings of Herbert J Storing
Book SynopsisThis book contains major writings by five of America's most distinguished political scientists and political theorists.
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Judgment Imagination and Politics
Book SynopsisJudgment, Imagination, and Politics brings together for the first time leading essays on the nature of judgment. Drawing from themes in Kant''s Critique of Judgment and Hannah Arendt''s discussion of judgment from Lectures on Kant''s Political Philosophy, these essays deal with: the role of imagination in judgment; judgment as a distinct human faculty; the nature of judgment in law and politics; and the many puzzles that arise from the ''enlarged mentality,'' the capacity to consider the perspectives of others that aren''t in Kant treated as essential to judgment.Trade ReviewBeiner and Nedelsky have put togther a fine volume that is a must-read for anyone interested in the problem of judgment. We make judgments every day in law, culture, and politics. And yet, in late modern plural societies it is harder than ever to account for those judgments. Why are they not mere expressions of the institutional power held by judges, critics, or statesmen? Taking Kant and Arendt as their points of departure, the essays in this timely and valuable volume answer that question by exploring the conditions and aspirations of judgment in late modernity. -- Bonnie Honig, Northwestern UniversityThis lively volume offers much to readers interested in Arendt and the faculty of judgment. * CHOICE *A valuable scholarly resource: this volume collects, for the first time, the most important essays on judgment written in the last half century. With a clear, thorough, and very helpful introduction by Ronald Beiner and Jennifer Nedelsky. -- Samuel Fleischacker, University of Illinois, ChicagoThis collection on Arendt's work is to be welcomed as a a scholarly and pedagogical tool. Beiner and Nedelsky have collected many probing essays that might otherwise be overlooked. And having all of these essays together allows one to easily see the sweep of issues that is entailed by Arendt's thoughts on judgment. * Philosophy in Review *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Part 2 The Problem of Judgment in Recent Moral and Political Philosophy Chapter 3 The Crisis in Culture: Its Social and Its Political Significance Chapter 4 Aesthetic Problems of Modern Philosophy Chapter 5 Moral Judgment Chapter 6 The Public Use of Reason Part 7 Autour de Hannah Arendt: Debates in Contemporary Political Theory Concerning the Arendtian Theme of Judging Chapter 8 Rereading Hannah Arendt's Kant Lectures Chapter 9 Judgment, Diversity, and Relational Autonomy Chapter 10 The Judgment of Arendt Chapter 11 Judging Human Action: Arendt's Appropriation of Kant Chapter 12 Hannah Arendt on Judgment: The Unwritten Doctrine of Reason Chapter 13 Judgment and the Moral Foundations of Politics in Hannah Arendt's Thought Chapter 14 Asymmetrical Reciprocity: On Moral Respect, Wonder, and Enlarged Thought Chapter 15 Embodied Diversity and the Challenges to Law Chapter 16 When Actor and Spectator Meet in the Courtroom: Reflections on Hannah Arendt's Concept of Judgment Chapter 17 Hannah Arendt: Modernity, Alienation, and Critique
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. Critique of Other Socialisms Vol 4 Karl Marxs
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought
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Ediciones Universal Fuera del Juego Premio Julian del Casal 1968Edicion Conmemorativa 19681998 Coleccion Clasicos Cubanos
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Springer The political economy of the educational process 2 Studies in Public Choice
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Springer Politicians Legislation and the Economy An Inquiry into the InterestGroup Theory of Government 3 Rochester Studies in Managerial Economics and Policy
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Springer Congressman Constituents and Contributors Determinants of Roll Call Voting in the House of Representatives Studies in Public Choice
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Springer Political Equilibrium A Delicate Balance 4 Studies in Public Choice
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Springer Political Economy Recent Views 2 Recent Economic Thought
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Springer The Development of American Federalism
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University Press of the Pacific Siberia and the Exile System Volume Two
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Resistance Books The Long March of the Trotskyists Contributions
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New Century Books The Kennedy Khrushchev Letters Top Secret New Century
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ECPR Press System and Process in International Politics ECPR Press Classics
Book SynopsisKaplan's life-long interest in finding an objective basis for moral judgments had its scholarly origins in an appendix of this classical book, which incorporated his understanding of philosophy and, in particular, the philosophy of science.
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ECPR Press Democracy ECPR Classics
Book SynopsisThis thesis, and these themes, are in one way timeless; and the book may justly be regarded as a classic exposition of the political equality characterisation of democracy.
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ECPR Press People States Fear An Agenda for International Security Studies in the PostCold War Era ECPR Press Classics
Book SynopsisThis widely acclaimed book examines how states and societies pursue freedom from threat in an environment in which competitive relations are inescapable across the political, economic, military, societal and environmental landscapes.
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ECPR Press Deliberation Behind Closed Doors Transparency and Lobbying in the European Union Ecpr Press Monographs
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive analysis and test of the theory of publicity's civilising effect.
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Lulu Press Sound The Alarm A Warning to the British Nations 6 The AK Chesterton Trust Reprint Series
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Pavement Books Spaces in Migration Postcards of a Revolution
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The A. K. Chesterton Trust The New Unhappy Lords An exposure of power politics
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Red and Black Publishers NonLeninist Marxism Writings on the Workers Councils
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