2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2007. — 253 p. Plato Aristotle Cicero St Augustine of Hippo St Thomas Aquinas Nicolò Machiavelli Sir Thomas More Thomas Hobbes James Harrington John Locke Montesquieu David Hume Jean-Jacques Rousseau Immanuel Kant Edmund Burke Tom Paine Johann Gottfried Herder Mary Wollstonecraft William Godwin G.W.F. Hegel Jeremy Bentham 'Publius' and The Federalist...
London: Verso, 2007. — 418 p. Perry Anderson, eminent historian of the New Left, assesses the competing claims of rival intellectual groupings from the far right, the liberal centre and the Marxist left. The focus ofSpectrumis the range of contemporary ideas that runs from conservative to liberal to radical conceptions of state and society, rarely considered in the same optic....
Batoche Books Limited, 2001. — 125 p. The Preliminary Age. The Use of Conflict Nation-Making Nation-Making. The Age of Discussion Verifiable Progress Politically Considered.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007. In 1967, the burgeoning discontent of many political scientists culminated in the establishment of the Caucus for a New Political Science. The Caucus included political scientists of many diverse...
New York: Fordham University Press. 2010. 300 p. ISBN: 978-0-8232-3075-4; ISBN: 978-0-8232-3076-1 (pbk.). Hannah Arendt is one of the most important political theorists of the twentieth century. In her works, she grappled with the dark events of that century, probing the nature of power, authority, and evil, and seeking to confront totalitarian horrors on their own terms. This...
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 067444261X; ISBN13: 978-0674442610 In addition to revising our view of the interwar period and the building of European democracies, this book cuts against the grain of most current theorizing in political science by explicitly discussing when and how ideas influence political behavior. Even though German and...
Batoche Books Limited, 2001. — 229 p. Rise and Conditions of the Philosophical Theory of the State Sociological Compared with Philosophical Theory. The Paradox of Political Obligation: Self-government. The Problem of Political Obligation More Radically Treated. The Conception of a “Real” Will. The Conception of Liberty, as Illustrated by the Foregoing Suggestions. Psychological...
Edinburgh University Press Ltd., 2011. — 193 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7486-3902-1. In an interview broadcast on West German television in 1964, Hannah Arendt, by then a famous political thinker, insisted that she did not regard herself as a ‘philosopher’ and had no desire to be seen as such: her concern was with politics. She was not even happy with the suggestion that what she did was...
Little Brown & Co, 1983. — 266 p. Ostensibly the tale of his 1980 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic High is William F. Buckley's extended meditation on the pleasures of sailing and good company. Not surprisingly, as much thought seems to have gone into stocking the wine cellar as to charting out the route. Kon-Tiki, this is not, but nor is it meant to be. Instead, it...
Harvest Book, 1995. — 294 p. Threading its way through some of the most significant events in modern american history and grappling with issues raised by the FDR legacy, William F. Buckley’s first novel without Blackford Oakes is “a moral thriller, a story of human frailty, testing, and redemption of the spirit” (Baltimore Sun) that “aspires to genuine greatness”
Basic Books, 2009. — 304 p. National Review has always published letters from readers. In 1965 the magazine decided that certain letters merited different treatment, and William F. Buckley, the editor, began a column called “Notes & Asides” in which he personally replied to the most notable and outrageous correspondence. Culled from four decades of the column, Cancel Your Own...
Basic Books , 2008. — 498 p. In Happy Days Were Here Again, William F. Buckley Jr. offers a collection of his finest essays from the latter part of his long career. Sometimes celebrating, sometimes assailing, Buckley takes on opponents ranging from Mikhail Gorbachev to Carl Sagan to Leonard Bernstein; reflects on the academic scene, the Gulf War, and the idea of sin; and offers...
Prima Lifestyle, 2000. — 544 p. William F. Buckley Jr. has long been admired for his remarkable gifts as a writer, debater, and orator. The man who helped ignite the modern conservative movement has for the past fifty years played a significant role in the great social debates that have shaped our country and indeed the world. In the course of his long career, he has given...
Basic Books , 2008. — 304 p. In The Regan I Knew, the late William F. Buckley Jr. offers a reminiscence of thirty years of friendship with the man who brought the American conservative movement out of the political wilderness and into the White House. Ronald Reagan and Buckley were political allies and close friends throughout Reagan’s political career. They went on vacations...
Princeton University Press, 2009. — 215 p. This book examines the causes and consequences of a major transformation in both domestic and international politics: the shift from dynastically legitimated monarchical sovereignty to popularly legitimated national sovereignty. It analyzes the impact of Enlightenment discourse on politics in eighteenth-century Europe and the United...
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company Inc., 1934. — 584 p. This book is a review of dominant political ideas, as set forth in theoretical writings and active social movements, during the period from about the middle of the nineteenth century to the present day. Although chapters and sections are for the most part arranged topically rather than chronologically, some attempt is...
Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. — 363 p. In this history of European political thought, the author strikes a balance between trying to understand the philosophical cogency of ancient arguments and elucidating why the ancient Greeks and Romans thought the way they did about politics. Ancient Athenian democracy Socrates Plato Aristotle Cicero's Rome and Cicero's Republic St. Augustine
Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. — 302 p. This volume continues the story of European political theorising by focusing on medieval and Renaissance thinkers. It includes extensive discussion of the practices that underpinned medieval political theories and which continued to play crucial roles in the eventual development of early-modern political institutions and debates. The author...
Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 2000. — xi, 363 p. — ISBN: 0-631-21821-1; 0-631-21822-X. Janet Coleman's two-volume history of European political theorizing, from the ancient Greeks to the Renaissance is the introduction that many have been waiting for. In this volume, Coleman discusses the acknowledged great works of Greek, Roman, and early Christian writers to show how the...
University of Missouri, 1999. — 488 p. This important new work is a major analysis of the foundation of Eric Voegelin's political science. Barry Cooper maintains that the writings Voegelin undertook in the 1940s provide the groundwork for the brilliant book that is one of his best known, The New Science of Politics. At the time of that book's publication, however, few were...
Avon Books, 1962. — 410 p. — ISBN: 0-380-01235-9. This carefully selected compilation of the significant writings of the great political philosophers, scientists, and thinkers will be an invaluable guide to the general reader as well as to the serious student of history, political science, and government. Such essential forces as Revolution, Romanticism, Marxism, Anarchy,...
Oxford University Press, Inc., 1991. — 413 p. Biology Acknowledged Invoking the Darwinian Imperative Beyond the Darwinian Imperative The Sovereignty of Culture Laying the Foundation In the Wake of Boas Does Sex Tell Us Anything? Decoupling Behavior from Nature Decoupling Intelligence from Race Why Did Culture Triumph? Remembering Darwin Biology Redivivus, The Case of the Origin...
New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1940. — 272 p. This book is the fruit of long and anxious study, first of Marx's theoretical philosophy, second of Lenin's impetuously practical application of it, third of the gradually developing results of the revolutionary experiment set going under Lenin's guidance.
Routledge: Taylor&Francis, 2004. — 166 p. — (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought). Pareto and Political Theory offers a much-needed reappraisal of Vilfredo Pareto's often ignored or misunderstood contribution to the theory and philosophy of politics. Joseph V. Femia disputes the depiction of Pareto as a proto-fascist and locates him in a clear tradition of...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 239 p. Note on the contributors page jonathan floyd and marc stears The challenge of contextualism Rescuing political theory from the tyranny of history paul kelly From historical contextualism, to mentalism, to behaviourism jonathan floyd Contingency and judgement in history of political philosophy: a phenomenological approach bruce haddock...
Berkeley; Los Angeles: University of California press, 1949, — 64 p. The Soviet regime is more than any other political system connected with a political ideology which it uses as an intellectual instrument for its justification ; and no other regime needs more urgently a justification than the totalitarian dictatorship of Bolshevism. Its ideology is the social philosophy of...
Oxford University Press, Inc., 1986. — 557 p. The philosophy of the Via Media The radical theory of knowledge Culture, understanding and history The ethics of racial benevolence From philosophy to politics From socialism to social democracy Social democratics politics From liberalism to progressivism Progressive politics The prospect of justice
2nd Edition — Oxford University Press, 2012. — 384 p. History of Political Theory: An Introduction is an engaging introduction to the main figures in the history of Western Political Theory and their most important works. Volume I traces the development of political theory "from the beginning" in ancient Greece through the Reformation. Main subjects examined include the...
2nd Edition — Oxford University Press, 2013. — 512 p. History of Political Theory: An Introduction not only explores the great works of Western political theory but demonstrates their continuing relevance. Volume II traces the origin and development of liberal political theory, and so the foundations for contemporary views. The work provides a readable, scholarly introduction...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 277 p. Political Obligations provides a full defense of a theory of political obligation based on the principle of fairness (or fair play), which is widely viewed as the strongest theory of obligation currently available. The work responds to the most important objections to the principle of fairness, and extends a theory based on fairness into...
Arlington House, 1974. — 652 p. The Leftist Mind Identity and Diversity Equality and Liberty Democracy and Liberalism Right and Left Leftism In History The Historic Origins of Leftism Nascent America The French Revolution From Democracy to Romantic Socialism From Romantic to Scientific and International Socialism From Socialism to Communism From Marxism to Fascist Nationalism...
Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1951. — 525 p. Psychopathology and Politics. Politics, Who Gets What, When, How. Democratic Character. This collection of works includes the following works by Harold Lasswell: Psychopathology and Politics; Politics: who gets what, when, how; Democratic character. The Free Press has reprinted in one volume two of Lasswell's books,...
Second edition — Haymarket Books, 2016. — 352 p. In the new edition of this definitive work on the history of the revolutionary socialist current in the United States that came to be identified as "American Trotskyism," Paul Le Blanc offers fresh reflections on this history for scholars and activists in the twenty-first century. Includes a preface written especially for the new...
3rd revised edition, ed. Theodore D. Woolsey — Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1883. — 621 зю Conntents Introduction to the third edition Introductory Definitions of Liberty The Meaning of Civil Liberty Ancient and Modern Liberty Anglican Liberty, National Independence. — Personal Liberty Bail. — Penal Trial High Treason Communion. — Locomation, Emigration, Liberty of...
Hoover Institution Press, 2013. — 135 p. Providing an often-overlooked historical perspective, Gordon Lloyd and David Davenport show how the New Deal of the 1930s established the framework for today’s U.S. domestic policy and the ongoing debate between progressives and conservatives. They examine the pivotal issues of the dispute, laying out the progressive-conservative...
Oxford University Press, 2008. - 349 p. In this book some of the world's leading academic experts on American-European relations provide the most up to date presentations of the topic available today. The Iraq War represented a most serious challenge to American-European relations. Some of the contributors argue that NATO, the key of the Atlantic relationship, has been harmed...
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 0393068331; ISBN13: 978-0393068337 Shaking up the content and method by which generations of students had studied Western philosophy, Martin Heidegger sought to ennoble man’s existence in relation to death. Yet in a time of crisis, he sought personal advancement, becoming the most prominent German intellectual to join...
Hermann Luchterhand Verlag GmbH, Neuwied und Berlin, 1970 - 365 p. Marcuse entwirft einen lückenlosen Zusammenhang von Manipulation und Konformismus, der das in sich widerspruchsvolle kapitalistische Gesellschaftssystem stabilisiert und nur noch Randgruppen, Außenseiter, Unterprivilegierte und Intellektuelle zu subversivem Bewusstsein kommen lässt. Ihr Protest bleibt unwirksam,...
1848. 68 p. Ridento Castigat Mores Tratado político comissionado pela Liga dos Comunistas e escrito pelos teóricos fundadores do socialismo científico Karl Marx e Friedrich Engels que expressa o programa e propósitos da Liga.
New York: The Macmilan Company, 1935. — 614 p. Recent Tendencies in Political Thought By Charles E. Merriam , University of Chicago The Outstanding Social Forces of the Period Leading Groups that Developed Systems of Political Rationalization The Intellectual Equipment of Contemporary Political Theorists Methods of Political Inquiry Actual Progress in Political Speculation Some...
Batoche Books, 2001. — 187 p. The Kantian Theory The Reactionary Theory of Divine Right. The Patrimonial Theory The Sovereignty of Reason. Popular and State Sovereignty. Popular and State Sovereignty (Continued) The Austinian Theory Sovereignty and the American Union Federalism and the Continental Theory.
43 p. The subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in general terms, but which profoundly...
Batoche Books Litimited, 2001. — 219 p. (originally 1861). To what extent Forms of Government are a Matter of Choice The Criterion of a Good Form of Government. That the ideally best Form of Government is Representative Government. Under what Social Conditions Representative Government is Inapplicable. Of the Proper Functions of Representative Bodies.. Of the Infirmities and...
Praha: Panorama, 1981. – 448 s. Dialectics of the formation of socialist consciousness. In Czech. Dialektika formování socialistického vědomí podává celkový obraz a rozbor složité dialektiky podstaty a vzájemných vztahů hlavních složek duchovního života naší současné společnosti, zkoumá zákonitost rustů úlohy a fungování subjektivního faktoru, základní formy a metody utváření...
Mondiale" Press, Cairo, 1958. - 72 p. Nasser Abdel Gamal, Philosophy of Revolution book 1 (in English) Mondial Press, Cairo, 1958. - 72 p. Nasser lays out the principles of the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 "The struggle of any nation in its successive generations is a structure that rises one stone upon another. And as each stone lies solidly on another, so do the events of the...
Yale University Press, 2015. — 440 p. The concluding volume of Francis Oakley's authoritative trilogy moves on to engage the political thinkers of the later Middle Ages, Renaissance, Age of Reformation and religious wars, and the era that produced the Divine Right Theory of Kingship. Oakley's ground-breaking study probes the continuities and discontinuities between medieval and...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 247 p. The Search for American Political Development is the first full-scale assessment of American political development (“APD”) as a field of inquiry in political science. The book surveys its foundations in the origins of the discipline, evaluates the current state of its institutional and cultural investigations, and addresses the...
Cambridge University Press and Woodrow Wilson Center 2002 — 392 p. This volume traces from the ancient world to the present the determining features of what might count as a collective idea of Europe as a political and cultural domain. The objective is to identify the concerns and convictions, the shifting discursive practices and the different languages, political, cultural,...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 298 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-88657-4 John Pocock is arguably the most original and imaginative historian of ideas of modern times. Over the past half century he has created an audience for his work which is truly global, and he has marked the way in which the history of political thought is studied as deeply and personally as any...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 324 p. — ISBN10: 140393214X; ISBN13: 978-1403932143 This is the first book in English to explore the relationship between Stalin's ideas and methods, and the practices advocated by Machiavelli and those associated with 'Machiavellian' politics. It advances the concept of 'revolutionary Machiavellism' as a way of understanding a particular...
Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1995. 224 p. ISBN10: 0195088263; ISBN13: 978-0195088267. Since the 1960s, German scholars have developed distinctive methods for writing the history of political, social, and philosophical concepts. Applied to France as well as Germany, their work has set new standards for the historical study of political and social language,...
Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities; The Magnes Press; The Hebrew University, 1984. — 432 p. The concept of totalitarian democracy gained widespread currency among students of modern history largely after the publication of Jacob L. Talmon’s first book and his analysis there. In this colloquium, dedicated to his memory, the organizers decided to investigate...
3rd edition. — Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 759 p. Basic politics concepts and terms with their origins and meanings throghout political and social development.
Yale University Press, 2003. — 302 p. When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? Ian Shapiro explores this most enduring of political dilemmas in this innovative and engaging book. Building on his highly popular Yale courses, Professor Shapiro evaluates the main contending accounts of the sources of political legitimacy. Starting with theorists...
Facts On File, Inc, 2001. — 353 p. — ISBN10: 1783559020. — ISBN: 0816043515. A resource for students or general readers who want to know more about the major ideas, philosophies and concepts, both past and present, that have influenced and shaped civilization. With particular emphasis on the 20th century, the encyclopaedia contains over 400 fully cross-referenced entries that...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 344 p. — ISBN-10: 0230252079; ISBN-13: 978-0230252073 — (Modernism and...). What is totalitarianism? In what ways was it modern? Modernism and Totalitarianism argues that conventional theories of totalitarianism are too focused on the state and fail to take note of its ideological trajectory. The book analyses this trajectory, shared by...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 280 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-00004-9 The political make-up of the contemporary world changes with such rapidity that few attempts have been made to consider with adequate care, the nature and value of the concept of sovereignty. What exactly is meant when one speaks about the acquisition, preservation, infringement or loss of...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 244 p. — ISBN: 0-521-83156-3 States and Citizens offers a coherent survey of perceptions of the state, its history, its theoretical underpinnings, and its prospects in the contemporary world. The coverage of the Western European experience is thorough and wide-ranging, with the greatest post-colonial democratic state, India, as an...
Kraków: AFM, 2013. — 390 s. — ISBN 978-83-7571-222-3. Książka jest pierwszą na gruncie nauki polskiej publikacją tak szeroko traktującą o stosunkach przedstawicieli polskiej myśli wobec Ukrainy i Ukraińców. Autorka wybrała arcytrudną ścieżkę, zdecydowała bowiem skoncentrować się na tak wielu i tak różnorodnych doktrynach i środowiskach wyłącznie z jednego punktu widzenia, przez...
Critical transnational feminist practice. State University of New York Press, Albany, 2010. 250 p. Language: English. - Introduction: Theorizing Transnational Feminist Praxis Part I. Decolonizing Transnational Feminisms - Cartographies of Knowledge and Power: Transnational Feminism as Radical Praxis - Disavowed Legacies and Honorable Thievery: The Work of the Transnational in...
London: Routledge, 2008. — 192 p. — (Routledge Critical Thinkers). — ISBN10: 0415425867; ISBN13: 978-0415425865. Hannah Arendt's work offers a powerful critical engagement with the cultural and philosophical crises of mid-twentieth-century Europe. Her idea of the banality of evil, made famous after her report on the trial of the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, remains...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. — 328 p. — ISBN10: 0195051033; ISBN13: 978-0195051032 In this highly original study, Szporluk examines the relationship between the two dominant ideologies of the 19th century--communism and nationalism--and their enduring legacy in the 20th century. Szporluk argues that both Karl Marx's theory of communism and Friedrich List's theory of...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 352 p. Europe Undivided explores how the leverage of an enlarging EU has facilitated a convergence toward liberal democracy among credible future members of the EU in Central and Eastern Europe. It reveals how variations in domestic competition put democratizing states on different political trajectories after 1989, and illuminates the changing...
Routledge, 2002. — 384 p. — ISBN13: 978-0700717491. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the political thought of Joseph Stalin. Making full use of the documentation that has recently become available, including Stalin's private library with his handwritten margin notes, the book provides many insights on Stalin, and also on western and Russian Marxist intellectual...
Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 1405154950; ISBN13: 978-1405154956. Thoroughly revised and updated, this third edition provides a comprehensive account of the major political ideologies of the past two centuries. Provides an expanded and thoroughly updated account of the major political ideologies of the past two centuries, including liberalism,...
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1914. — 454 p. Ik writing about the relations between Progressive, Labor, and Socialist parties, I believe I have given fully as much space to pointing out the very great services they are destined to render as in showing their limitations. But these movements are exceedingly popular. The public is accustomed to hear their claims expressed with...
London: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd., 1938. — 730 p. Fascism Foundations of Fascism Chronic crisis The age of violence Fascist prototypes Fascism arrives The end of reform Italy German national socialism National socialism (continued) The spread of fascism Fascist trends in the United States The future physiognomy of American fascism Communism The zig-zag character of the...
Anadolu University, 2013. — 257 p. Içindekiler Önsöz Antik Yunan: Yurttasi ve iktidar Iktidarin Evrenselliğinden Parçalanmil Iktidara: Roma ve Orta Çağ Sorgulanan Dinsel Iktidar ve Prens 16. Yüzyil Devlet Düflüncesi 17. Yüzyil Ingiliz Devrimleri: Modern Devletin Biçimlenisli Aydinlanma ve Akilin Iktidar Siyasal Dengeden Halkin Egemenliğine Fransiz Devrimi: Ulus-Devlet Sözlük
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