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Scaffolding of Sovereignty
Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept
Av Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Stefanos Geroulanos m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
452 kr
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What is sovereignty? Often taken for granted or seen as the ideology of European states vying for supremacy and conquest, the concept of sovereignty remains underexamined both in the history of its practices and in its aesthetic and intellectual underpinnings. Using global intellectual history as a …
Complications
Communism and the Dilemmas of Democracy
Inbunden, 2007
951 kr
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"Complications: Communism and the Dilemmas of Democracy" ties together the central concerns of the work of Claude Lefort over the past half-century. A pivotal figure in French thought, Lefort studied under Maurice Merleau-Ponty, cofounded with Cornelius Castoriadis the influential journal …
Primacy of the Political
A History of Political Thought from the Greeks to the French and American Revolutions
Av Dick Howard
Inbunden, 2010
1381 kr
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The conflict between politics and antipolitics has replayed throughout Western history and philosophical thought. From the beginning, Plato's quest for absolute certainty led him to denounce democracy, an anti-political position challenged by Aristotle. In his wide-ranging narrative, Dick Howard …
Primacy of the Political
A History of Political Thought from the Greeks to the French and American Revolutions
Av Dick Howard
Häftad, 2010
694 kr
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The conflict between politics and antipolitics has replayed throughout Western history and philosophical thought. From the beginning, Plato's quest for absolute certainty led him to denounce democracy, an anti-political position challenged by Aristotle. In his wide-ranging narrative, Dick Howard …
Constitution Making Under Occupation
The Politics of Imposed Revolution in Iraq
Av Andrew Arato
Inbunden, 2009
1202 kr
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The attempt in 2004 to draft an interim constitution in Iraq and the effort to enact a permanent one in 2005 were unintended outcomes of the American occupation, which first sought to impose a constitution by its agents. This two-stage constitution-making paradigm, implemented in a wholly unplanned …
Adventures of the Symbolic
Post-Marxism and Radical Democracy
Inbunden, 2013
1295 kr
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Marxism's collapse in the twentieth century profoundly altered the style and substance of Western European radical thought. To build a more robust form of democratic theory and action, prominent theorists moved to reject revolution, abandon class for more fragmented models of social action, and …
Adventures of the Symbolic
Post-Marxism and Radical Democracy
Häftad, 2015
663 kr
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Marxism's collapse in the twentieth century profoundly altered the style and substance of Western European radical thought. To build a more robust form of democratic theory and action, prominent theorists moved to reject revolution, abandon class for more fragmented models of social action, and …
Truth of Power
Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House
Häftad, 2008
317 kr
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In 1994 Benjamin R. Barber was invited by President Clinton to participate in a seminar on the future of democratic ideas and ideals. Following their meeting, Barber became an informal consultant to the Clinton White House, working with a president who proved to be an astonishing listener open to a …
Political Theology
Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
Av Paul Kahn
Inbunden, 2011
1037 kr
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In this strikingly original work, Paul W. Kahn rethinks the meaning of political theology. In a text innovative in both form and substance, he describes an American political theology as a secular inquiry into ultimate meanings sustaining our faith in the popular sovereign. Kahn works out his view …
Political Theology
Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
Av Paul Kahn
Häftad, 2012
265 kr
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In this strikingly original work, Paul W. Kahn rethinks the meaning of political theology. In a text innovative in both form and substance, he describes an American political theology as a secular inquiry into ultimate meanings sustaining our faith in the popular sovereign. Kahn works out his view …
Socialism Unbound
Principles, Practices, and Prospects
Inbunden, 2011
1295 kr
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Published more than twenty years ago, Stephen Eric Bronner's bold defense of socialism remains a seminal text for our time. Treating socialism as an ethic, reinterpreting its core categories, and critically confronting its early foundations, Bronner's work offers a reinvigorated "class ideal" and a …
Socialism Unbound
Principles, Practices, and Prospects
Häftad, 2011
333 kr
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Published more than twenty years ago, Stephen Eric Bronner's bold defense of socialism remains a seminal text for our time. Treating socialism as an ethic, reinterpreting its core categories, and critically confronting its early foundations, Bronner's work offers a reinvigorated "class ideal" and a …
Plebeian Experience
A Discontinuous History of Political Freedom
Inbunden, 2013
1209 kr
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How do people excluded from political life achieve political agency? Through a series of historical events that have been mostly overlooked by political theorists, Martin Breaugh identifies fleeting yet decisive instances of emancipation in which people took it upon themselves to become political …
Plebeian Experience
A Discontinuous History of Political Freedom
Häftad, 2016
308 kr
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How do people excluded from political life achieve political agency? Through a series of historical events that have been mostly overlooked by political theorists, Martin Breaugh identifies fleeting yet decisive instances of emancipation in which people took it upon themselves to become political …
States of War
Enlightenment Origins of the Political
Av David Bates
Inbunden, 2011
1209 kr
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We fear that the growing threat of violent attack has upset the balance between existential concepts of political power, which emphasize security, and traditional notions of constitutional limits meant to protect civil liberties. We worry that constitutional states cannot, during a time of war, …
States of War
Enlightenment Origins of the Political
Av David Bates
Häftad, 2011
663 kr
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We fear that the growing threat of violent attack has upset the balance between existential concepts of political power, which emphasize security, and traditional notions of constitutional limits meant to protect civil liberties. We worry that constitutional states cannot, during a time of war, …
Sovereignty
The Origin and Future of a Political and Legal Concept
Av Dieter Grimm
Inbunden, 2015
1537 kr
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Dieter Grimm's accessible introduction to the concept of sovereignty ties the evolution of the idea to historical events, from the religious conflicts of sixteenth-century Europe to today's trends in globalization and transnational institutions. Grimm wonders whether recent political changes have …
Sovereignty
The Origin and Future of a Political and Legal Concept
Av Dieter Grimm
Häftad, 2015
247 kr
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Dieter Grimm's accessible introduction to the concept of sovereignty ties the evolution of the idea to historical events, from the religious conflicts of sixteenth-century Europe to today's trends in globalization and transnational institutions. Grimm wonders whether recent political changes have …
Scaffolding of Sovereignty
Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept
Av Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Stefanos Geroulanos m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1552 kr
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What is sovereignty? Often taken for granted or seen as the ideology of European states vying for supremacy and conquest, the concept of sovereignty remains underexamined both in the history of its practices and in its aesthetic and intellectual underpinnings. Using global intellectual history as a …
What Is a Nation? and Other Political Writings
Av Ernest Renan, M. F. N. Giglioli
Inbunden, 2018
522 kr
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Ernest Renan was one of the leading lights of the Parisian intellectual scene in the second half of the nineteenth century. A philologist, historian, and biblical scholar, he was a prominent voice of French liberalism and secularism. Today most familiar in the English-speaking world for his 1882 …
State of Nature, Stages of Society
Enlightenment Conjectural History and Modern Social Discourse
Inbunden, 2016
694 kr
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Frank Palmeri sees the conjectural histories of Rousseau, Hume, Herder, and other Enlightenment philosophers as a template for the development of the social sciences in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Without documents or memorials, these thinkers, he argues, employed conjecture to …
Archaeology of the Political
Regimes of Power from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
Av Elías Palti
Inbunden, 2017
1037 kr
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In the past few decades, much political-philosophical reflection has been dedicated to the realm of "the political." Many of the key figures in contemporary political theory-Jacques Ranciere, Alain Badiou, Reinhart Koselleck, Giorgio Agamben, Ernesto Laclau, and Slavoj Zizek, among others-have …
An Archaeology of the Political
Regimes of Power from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
Av Elías Palti
Häftad, 2020
265 kr
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In the past few decades, much political-philosophical reflection has been dedicated to the realm of "the political." Many of the key figures in contemporary political theory—Jacques Rancière, Alain Badiou, Reinhart Koselleck, Giorgio Agamben, Ernesto Laclau, and Slavoj iek, among others—have …
Life and Money
The Genealogy of the Liberal Economy and the Displacement of Politics
Inbunden, 2017
1230 kr
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Life and Money uncovers the contentious history of the boundary between economy and politics in liberalism. Avoiding the established categories of state and market, Ute Tellmann focuses instead on the shifting historical ontologies of liberal economy. Bringing economics into conversation with …
Primacy of the Political
A History of Political Thought from the Greeks to the French and American Revolutions
Av Dick Howard
E-bok, 2010
518 kr
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The conflict between politics and antipolitics has replayed throughout Western history and philosophical thought. From the beginning, Plato''s quest for absolute certainty led him to denounce democracy, an anti-political position challenged by Aristotle. In his wide-ranging narrative, Dick Howard …
Constitution Making Under Occupation
The Politics of Imposed Revolution in Iraq
Av Andrew Arato
E-bok, 2009
975 kr
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The attempt in 2004 to draft an interim constitution in Iraq and the effort to enact a permanent one in 2005 were unintended outcomes of the American occupation, which first sought to impose a constitution by its agents. This two-stage constitution-making paradigm, implemented in a wholly unplanned …
After Evil
A Politics of Human Rights
E-bok, 2011
530 kr
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Mainstream human rights discourse speaks of such evils as the Holocaust, slavery, or apartheid in ways that put them solidly in the past. Its elaborate techniques of "transitional" justice encourage future generations to move forward, but the false assumption of closure enables those who are guilty …
Political Theology
Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
Av Paul Kahn
E-bok, 2011
424 kr
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In this strikingly original work, Paul W. Kahn rethinks the meaning of political theology. In a text innovative in both form and substance, he describes an American political theology as a secular inquiry into ultimate meanings sustaining our faith in the popular sovereign.Kahn works out his view …
Socialism Unbound
Principles, Practices, and Prospects
E-bok, 2011
503 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Published more than twenty years ago, Stephen Eric Bronner''s bold defense of socialism remains a seminal text for our time. Treating socialism as an ethic, reinterpreting its core categories, and critically confronting its early foundations, Bronner''s work offers a reinvigorated "class ideal" and …
