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Author : Judith Best
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Mainstream of Western Political Thought written by Judith Best and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maurice William Cranston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Western Political Philosophers written by Maurice William Cranston and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short studies of leading figures including Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Burke, Hegel, Marx and Mill.
Author : Jeffrey Abramson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674053478
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Minerva’s Owl written by Jeffrey Abramson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-30 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informal in tone yet serious in content, this book serves as a lively and accessible guide for readers discovering the tradition of political thought that dates back to Socrates and Plato. Because the arguments of the great philosophers are nearly eternal, even those long schooled on politics will find that this book calls on recurring questions about morality and power, justice and war, the risk of democracy, the necessity for evil, the perils of tolerance, and the meaning of happiness. Jeffrey Abramson argues politics with the classic writers and draws the reader into a spirited conversation with contemporary examples that illustrate the enduring nature of political dilemmas. As the discussions deepen, the voices of Abramson’s own teachers, and of the students he has taught, enter into the mix, and the book becomes a tribute not just to the great philosophers but also to the special bond between teacher and student. As Hegel famously noted, referring to the Roman goddess Minerva, her owl brought back wisdom only at dusk, when it was too late to shine light on actual politics. Abramson reminds us that there are real political problems to confront, and in a book filled with grace and passion, he captures just how exciting serious learning can be.
Author : Catherine H. Zuckert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139502972
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book Political Philosophy in the Twentieth Century written by Catherine H. Zuckert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-29 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the rich diversity and depth of political philosophy in the twentieth century. Catherine H. Zuckert has compiled a collection of essays recounting the lives of political theorists, connecting each biography with the theorist's life work and explaining the significance of the contribution to modern political thought. The essays are organized to highlight the major political alternatives and approaches. Beginning with essays on John Dewey, Carl Schmitt and Antonio Gramsci, representing the three main political alternatives - liberal, fascist and communist - at mid-century, the book proceeds to consider the lives and works of émigrés such as Hannah Arendt, Eric Voegelin, and Leo Strauss, who brought a continental perspective to the United States after World War II. The second half of the collection contains essays on recent defenders of liberalism, such as Friedrich Hayek, Isaiah Berlin and John Rawls and liberalism's many critics, including Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas and Alasdair MacIntyre.
Author : Ellen Meiksins Wood
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781684286
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)
Download or read book Liberty and Property written by Ellen Meiksins Wood and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The formation of the modern state, the rise of capitalism, the Renaissance and Reformation, the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment have all been attributed to the "early modern" period. Nearly everything about its history remains controversial, but one thing is certain: it left a rich and provocative legacy of political ideas unmatched in Western history. The concepts of liberty, equality, property, human rights and revolution born in those turbulent centuries continue to shape, and to limit, political discourse today. Assessing the work and background of figures such as Machiavelli, Luther, Calvin, Spinoza, the Levellers, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, Ellen Wood vividly explores the ideas of the canonical thinkers, not as philosophical abstractions but as passionately engaged responses to the social conflicts of their day.
Author : Donald Tannenbaum
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9781417699308
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Inventors of Ideas: Introduction to Western Political Philosophy written by Donald Tannenbaum and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2003-03-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise yet comprehensive introduction to the Western political thought from the Ancient Greeks to the 21st century, INVENTORS OF IDEAS connects major thinkers' political and societal views to a larger understanding of current politics. Covering the traditional canon of writers while also reflecting a concern or emphasis upon the role of gender and science in western political thought, the book gives students practical and historical foundations with which to look at contemporary social and political issues.
Author : Paul Brink
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Charting the Path Not Taken written by Paul Brink and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the fate of theories of strong pluralism to be notable chiefly by their absence from the mainstream of modern Western political thought. Whether because of the concern to achieve a strong basis of unity amid warring religious factions, or, more strongly, to make a political declaration of faith in the autonomy of human reason, moderns have sought to develop rights-based theories of political rule upon whatever non-religious bases that people might be found to hold in common. And so from Hobbes to Hegel, from Bodin to Bentham, students of the mainstream of Western political theory learn that a healthy public life is one wherein people depend upon the things they have in common, rather than their differences. This paper explores the early development of this “common-basis” strategy, focusing on the 100-year period prior to Thomas Hobbes (approximately 1550-1650). It considers the strategies developed in this period that attempted to “filter out” certain complicating social phenomena or institutions - especially religion, but also the family, ethnicity and culture more broadly - in favor of a focus on the singular relationship between the individual and the state. As non-state social phenomena were diminished insofar as rights were concerned, differences between persons also faded from significance. The result was a modern politics of rights that systematically diminished vital features of political and social life, perhaps at the cost of the very resources we most need as we contemplate the great political challenges around us. The paper concludes with a consideration of the possibilities for a re-reading of the tradition, including a search for solutions from countries where the Protestant Reformation was “incomplete,” and where approaches other than the “common-basis” strategy were pursued in order to find ways that groups who disagreed on a great deal could live together peaceably. This results of such an exploration, the paper suggests, will have relevance, first, to those societies presently experiencing great conflicts, including violent conflicts, concerning religion and other differences, but second, to modern liberal democracies that experience great difficulty navigating the contemporary politics of difference.
Author : Donald G. Tannenbaum
Publisher : Bedford/st Martins
ISBN 13 : 9780312119423
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (194 download)
Download or read book Inventors of Ideas written by Donald G. Tannenbaum and published by Bedford/st Martins. This book was released on 1998 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inventors of Ideas provides a concise chronological introduction to the thought of a broad range of major western political theorists showing how their insights are relevant to the understanding of contemporary politics.
Author : Donald G. Tannenbaum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333727232
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Inventors of Ideas written by Donald G. Tannenbaum and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook provides a concise chronological introduction to the thought of a broad range of major western political theorists showing how their insights are relevant to the understanding of contemporary politics. Clearly and accessibly written, the book pays particular attention to the roles of gender, religion and science and the tension between them.
Author : Andrew Bailey
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1554814227
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)
Download or read book The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought: From Machiavelli to Nietzsche written by Andrew Bailey and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains many of the most important texts in western political and social thought from the sixteenth to the end of the nineteenth century. A number of key works, including Machiavelli’s The Prince, Locke’s Second Treatise, and Rousseau’s The Social Contract, are included in their entirety. Alongside these central readings are a diverse range of texts from authors such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Sojourner Truth, and Henry David Thoreau. The editors have made every effort to include translations that are both readable and reliable. Each selection has been painstakingly annotated, and each figure is given a substantial introduction highlighting his or her major contributions within the tradition. The result is a ground-breaking anthology with unparalleled pedagogical benefits.
Author : Tongdong Bai
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780320787
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book China written by Tongdong Bai and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China is a rising economic and political power. But what is the message of this rise? Tongdong Bai addresses this increasingly pressing question by examining the rich history of political theories and practices from China's past, and showing how it impacts upon the present. Chinese political traditions are often viewed negatively as 'authoritarian' (in contrast with 'Western' democratic traditions), but the historical reality is much more complex and there is a need to understand the political values shaping China's rise. Going beyond this, Bai argues that the debates between China's two main political theories - Confucianism and Legalism - anticipate themes in modern political thought and hence offer valuable resources for thinking about contemporary political problems. Part of Zed's World Political Theories series, this groundbreaking work offers a remarkable insight into the political history and thought of a nation that is becoming increasingly powerful on the world stage.
Author : Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (871 download)
Download or read book Western Political Thought written by Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. S. McClelland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134812108
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book A History of Western Political Thought written by J. S. McClelland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-15 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Western Political Thought is an energetic and lucid account of the most important political thinkers and the enduring themes of the last two and a half millennia. Written with students of the history of political thought in mind, the book: * traces the development of political thought from Ancient Greece to the late twentieth century * focuses on individual thinkers and texts * includes 40 biographies of key political thinkers * offers original views of theorists and highlights those which may have been unjustly neglected * develops the wider themes of political thought and the relations between thinkers over time.
Author : Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788170740308
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Western Political Thought: from Plato to Marx written by Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles W. Mills
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501764306
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Racial Contract written by Charles W. Mills and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged "contract" has shaped a system of global European domination: how it brings into existence "whites" and "non-whites," full persons and sub-persons, how it influences white moral theory and moral psychology; and how this system is imposed on non-whites through ideological conditioning and violence. The Racial Contract argues that the society we live in is a continuing white supremacist state. As this 25th anniversary edition—featuring a foreword by Tommy Shelbie and a new preface by the author—makes clear, the still-urgent The Racial Contract continues to inspire, provoke, and influence thinking about the intersection of the racist underpinnings of political philosophy.
Author : D. Heater
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230376355
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book World Citizenship and Government written by D. Heater and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-06-21 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stoics, Dante, the philosophers of the Enlightenment, H.G. Wells, world federalists, would-be reformers of the United Nations, and many others have all thought, albeit in very different ways, in cosmopolitan or world terms. This book traces the history of western political thinking about world citizenship and the world state. It analyses the manifold forms in which the basic concept of a world polity has been expounded and shows that, despite objections to the very notion and its failure to be implemented, it still remains a potent ideal.
Author : David Miller
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191577863
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction written by David Miller and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003-06-26 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces readers to the concepts of political philosophy. It starts by explaining why the subject is important and how it tackles basic ethical questions such as 'how should we live together in society?' It looks at political authority, the reasons why we need politics at all, the limitations of politics, and whether there are areas of life that shouldn't be governed by politics. It explores the connections between political authority and justice, a constant theme in political philosophy, and the ways in which social justice can be used to regulate rather than destroy a market economy. David Miller discusses why nations are the natural units of government and whether the rise of multiculturalism and transnational co-operation will change this: will we ever see the formation of a world government? ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
