Amid a devastating economic crisis, two tragic events coming from the outside the wave of immigration and Islamic terrorism have radically changed the profile and significance of the space we call Europe.
Following the collapse of communism and the decline of Marxism, some commentators have claimed that we have reached the 'end of history' and that the distinction between Left and Right can be forgotten.
The author sets before the reader a lifelike picture of the deities of classical times as they were conceived and worshipped by the ancients themselves, and thereby to awaken in the minds of young students a desire to become more intimately acquainted with the noble productions of classical antiquity.
Este 'opúsculo' (como o próprio Maquiavel o chamou) escrito por um cortesão italiano da época renascentista, endereçado 'ao magnífico Lorenzo de Medici' (na época, o Duque de Urbino, em Florença), e publicado somente após a sua morte, acabou por ser reconhecido pela posteridade como um dos tratados políticos mais fundamentais elaborados pelo pensamento humano, e que teve um papel crucial na construção do conceito de Estado como o conhecemos na modernidade.
The core of what we refer to as the project of modernity is the idea that human beings have the power to bring the world under their control, and hence it is based on a kinetic utopia : the movement of the world as a whole reflects the implementation of our plans for it.
Most scholars link the origin of politics to the formation of human societies, but in this innovative work, Tilo Schabert takes it even further back: to our very births.
Less than a century old, the concept of totalitarianism is one of the most controversial in political theory, with some proposing to abandon it altogether.
Selon Luhmann, de nombreuse tentatives, contradictoires entre elles, ont été faites pour ramener le phénomène du pouvoir à un concept théoriquement et empiriquement fécond.
A new world based on fairness, participation, accountability is closer than you thinkif you learn to think like a commoner The biggest "e;tragedy of the commons"e; is the misconception that commons are failures-relics from another era rendered unnecessary by the Market and State.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau is one of the most controversial philosophers of the eighteenth century, and his groundbreaking work still provokes heated debate in contemporary political theory.
Utopia, by Sir Thomas More, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.
Frantz Fanon was a French psychiatrist turned Algerian revolutionary of Martinican origin, and one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the postwar period.
What do the invention of anaesthetics in the middle of the nineteenth century, the Nazis' use of cocaine, and the development of Prozac have in common?
