Dieses Buch befasst sich mit dem Begriff der Solidarität und untersucht, wie politische Akteure – insbesondere politische Parteien in Deutschland – den Begriff der Solidarität in ihren programmatischen Dokumenten verwenden.
This book offers a bold reinterpretation of Michel Foucault’s late work, reconstructing him as an ethical philosopher whose account of antiquity provides crucial resources for understanding contemporary forms of power.
This book offers a bold reinterpretation of Michel Foucault’s late work, reconstructing him as an ethical philosopher whose account of antiquity provides crucial resources for understanding contemporary forms of power.
Dieses Buch befasst sich mit dem Begriff der Solidarität und untersucht, wie politische Akteure – insbesondere politische Parteien in Deutschland – den Begriff der Solidarität in ihren programmatischen Dokumenten verwenden.
This book examines dominant discourses of globalisation and history education in schools and their impact on democracy, equality, social justice, and human rights.
This book examines dominant discourses of globalisation and history education in schools and their impact on democracy, equality, social justice, and human rights.
When social reformers blame the current ills of Western culture on the loss of community, they often evoke an ideal past in which societies were characterized by shared values, respect for tradition, commitment to the common good, and similar attributes.
From the caveman selecting the right stick to the Babylonian priest who predicted an eclipse and claimed credit for it, the weaponization of knowledge is as old as human civilization.
Peter Iver Kaufman explores how various Christian leaders throughout history have used forms of "e;political theology"e; to merge the romance of conquest and empire with hopes for political and religious redemption.
Russell Hanson discovers in the history of democratic rhetoric in the United States a series of essential contests"e; over the meaning of democracy that have occurred in periods of political and socio-economic change.
Stephen Salkever shows that reading Aristotle is a starting point for discussing contemporary political problems in new ways that avoid the opposition between liberal individualism and republican communitarianism, between the politics of rights and the politics of virtues.
Fred Greenstein, an acknowledged authority in this field, lays out conceptual and methodological standards for carrying out personality-and politics inquiries, ranging from psychological case studies of single actors, through multi-case analyses of types of political actors, to aggregative analyses of the impact of individuals and types of individuals on political systems and processes.
Writing from a country shattered by two World Wars and by Nazi barbarism, Friedrich Meinecke, Germany's foremost historian of this century, was deeply troubled by the problem of reconciling power and justice in international affairs.
This edited anthology critically engages with the intersection of feminism, politics, and popular culture, with an emphasis on how shifts in cultural discourse have shaped the perception, understanding, and practice of feminist thought in contemporary society.
This book develops a pluralistic political theory that reinterprets John Rawls’s proviso as a framework of justification capable of sustaining legitimacy amid deep reasonable pluralism and the rise of artificial intelligence.
"e;The picture of Hume clinging timidly to a raft of custom and artifice, because, poor skeptic, he has no alternative, is wrong,"e; writes John Stewart.
The interpreter of Marx's writings faces the task of reconciling, on the one hand, Marx's frequent explicit condemnations and criticisms of morality and, on the other, the obvious way in which his world-view reflects substantive moral judgments.
«El pensamiento en acción» recoge una selección esencial de textos de Francisco Giner de los Ríos, donde se funden pensamiento filosófico y compromiso vital.
Aristotle noted that "e;equality"e; is the plea not of those who are satisfied but of those who seek change, and the word has long been invoked in the name of social reform.
The threat to the survival of humankind posed by nuclear weapons has been a frightening and essential focus of public debate for the last four decades and must continue to be so if we are to avoid destroying ourselves and the natural world around us.
Graham Walker boldly recasts the debate over issues like constitutional interpretation and judicial review, and challenges contemporary thinking not only about specifically constitutional questions but also about liberalism, law, justice, and rights.
Widely recognized as one of the most original and profound philosophers that the medieval Islamic world produced, Alfarabi (870-950) wrote many works of political philosophy addressing the issues that dominated Greek political thought as well as new questions raised by the advent of revealed religion.
This edited anthology critically engages with the intersection of feminism, politics, and popular culture, with an emphasis on how shifts in cultural discourse have shaped the perception, understanding, and practice of feminist thought in contemporary society.
Reconstructing how Marxism responded to the transformations in society, politics, the economy and culture in the 20th century, Trajectories of Neo-Marxism begins with studies of the key figures in the 1920s - Bloch, Lukacs, Korsch and Gramsci - who began developing revisions of Marxism that responded to World War I, the revolutionary upheavals that emerged or followed the war in Russia and various European countries, and the subsequent rise of fascism.
Reconstructing how Marxism responded to the transformations in society, politics, the economy and culture in the 20th century, Trajectories of Neo-Marxism begins with studies of the key figures in the 1920s - Bloch, Lukacs, Korsch and Gramsci - who began developing revisions of Marxism that responded to World War I, the revolutionary upheavals that emerged or followed the war in Russia and various European countries, and the subsequent rise of fascism.
Based upon a close reading of the foundational works of Georg Simmel, Max Weber and the Frankfurt School as well as underexplored other works, Karner critically maps the conceptual approaches and theoretical insights of the German language sociological tradition onto various twenty-first-century social and political issues.
Based upon a close reading of the foundational works of Georg Simmel, Max Weber and the Frankfurt School as well as underexplored other works, Karner critically maps the conceptual approaches and theoretical insights of the German language sociological tradition onto various twenty-first-century social and political issues.
Pluralism and Progress in Economics analyzes the dynamics of growth research by introducing the concept of research routines - meso-level patterns of communal practice functionally coordinated by symbolic representations.
Pluralism and Progress in Economics analyzes the dynamics of growth research by introducing the concept of research routines - meso-level patterns of communal practice functionally coordinated by symbolic representations.
Wokeism and, before it, Political Correctness are attempts to replace traditional privilege with a new privileged class of special interest groups that have supposedly been discriminated against.
Power and Powerlessness: The Liberalism of Fear in the Twenty-First Century examines whether the liberalism of fear - the negative and cautionary vein of liberal thinking, most famously articulated by Judith Shklar, which urges us to prioritize the avoidance of public cruelty - can effectively orient our political thinking in the twenty first century.
Integrating queer theory into visual international relations scholarship, The International Politics of Sex examines the ways in which sex, sexual shame, and stigma play into international power games.
Offering the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of what Christian nationalism in America is and isn't, and how it became the political religion of Donald Trump's MAGA movement, the chapters in this book describe the way Christian nationalism has embedded itself in American politics.
