Political science and theory

Alway identifies and assesses new models of emancipatory politics in the Frankfurt Schools Critical Theory.

In recent years, feminist and queer theory have effectively disavowed both the human and revolutionary politics.

Images of killer robots are the stuff of science fiction but also, increasingly, of scientific fact on the battlefield.

These prominent filmmakers, “two of our most provocative and radical voices,” discuss American historical events that have been forgotten—or hidden (Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation).

How did a top American diplomat's contrarian views on U.

Leo Strauss s lifelong intellectual mission was to recover classical rationalism , a pursuit that has made him a controversial figure to this day.

Hayek has been one of the key liberal thinkers of the twentieth century.

Christianity is often assumed to be pro-capitalist and socially conservative in short, necessarily aligned with the political Right.

What does it mean to live dangerously?

Built upon a series of critical encounters with major figures in classical and present-day social and political thought, this volume offers not only a challenging critique of major traditions of social and political analysis, but unique insights into the ideas which Giddens has developed over the past two decades.

Until recently, "e;continental"e; philosophy has been tied either to the German tradition of phenomenology or to French post-structuralist concerns with the conditions of language and textuality.

'Globalization' is a word that is currently much in use.

In 1944 Horkheimer and Adorno warned that industrial society turns reason into rationalization, and Polanyi warned of the dangers of the self-regulating market, but today, argues Stiegler, this regression of reason has led to societies dominated by unreason, stupidity and madness.

In this pathbreaking book, Pierre Charbonnier opens up a new intellectual terrain: an environmental history of political ideas.

This is a book about what we consider normal.

This book is a highly original and provocative contribution to democratic theory.

In this major new work, Thompson develops an original account of ideology and relates it to the analysis of culture and mass communication in modern Societies.

Over the last fifty years, indigenous politics has become an increasingly important field of study.

Over the last several years, the debate about publics seems to have newly emerged.

In Imperialism and Global Political Economy Alex Callinicos intervenes in one of the main political and intellectual debates of the day.

Explores the multiple ways in which different conceptions of time and history have been used to understand politics since late antiquity.

For statesmen, friendship is the lingua franca of politics.

What is the relationship between the principles of social justice and global justice?

In this age of nearly unprecedented partisan rancor, you'd be forgiven for thinking we could all do with a smaller daily dose of politics.

Now available in English for the first time, Dictatorship is Carl Schmitt s most scholarly book and arguably a paradigm for his entire work.

What do we know about war crimes and justice?

This wide-ranging and accessible book provides a thorough overview of the key debates in gender and political theory.

'The capacity to affect and to be affected'.

The eminent political activist examines the principles and strategies of imperial violence and propaganda from American colonization to the modern day.

It was not until 1961 that Foucault published his first major book, History of Madness.

This book examines when and how public bureaucracies work for disadvantaged citizens through a comparative study of primary education in rural India.

"e;At the hands of a minor talent, profiles are often flat, two-dimensional outlines of a thinker s intellectual physiognomy.

The political history of the twentieth century can be viewed as the history of democracy s struggle against its external enemies: fascism and communism.

This volume develops a novel approach to state theory.

Those who advocate ideas about "e;postmodernity"e; and "e;post-industrialism"e; offer radical critiques of existing social and political institutions.

This text provides a clear and systematic introduction to the development of social and political theory in modern Italy.

For courses in Experimental Methods and in Research Methods in Political Science and Sociology

 

An informative and unintimidating look at the basics of research in the social and behavioural sciences

Exploring Research makes research methods accessible for students – describing how to collect and analyse data, and providing thorough instruction on how to prepare and write a research proposal and manuscript.

Jean-Fran ois Lyotard was one of the most influential European thinkers in recent decades.

This third and final volume of the series of writings by Antonio Negri examines how Spinoza s thought constitutes a radical break with past ideas and an essential tool for envisaging a form of politics beyond capitalism.

The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of nature.

It is only a decade ago that the eighteenth-century distinction between civil society and the state seemed old-fashioned, an object of cynicism, even of outright hostility.

“Chomsky’s gritty, politically charged essays redefine the nature and practice of democracy in an increasingly unsteady world climate” (Foreword Reviews).

George Bush leaves the White House in January 2009 and the United States goes back to normal , right?

Max Weber (1864-1920) is recognized throughout the world as the most important classic thinker in the social sciences there is simply no one in the history of the social sciences who has been more influential.

An enlightening examination of the ways our capitalist system depends on three corrupt principles: greed, hatred and ignorance.