A History of Western Political Thought

Reducere. In this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood rewrites the history of political theory. She traces the development of the Western tradition from...

Reducere. A Concise History of Western Civilization: From Prehistoric to Early Modern Times: Third EditionBy: Gary ForsytheThis volume is designed to serve a...

In this, her third edition of the highly successful Feminist Political Theory, Valerie Bryson provides both a wide-ranging history of Western femin...

John Locke (1632-1704) one of the greatest English philosophers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, argued in his masterpiece, An...

Reducere. The formation of the modern state, the rise of capitalism, the Renaissance and Reformation, the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment ...

The individual volumes of Sir Anthony Kenny's acclaimed History of Western Philosophy have been hailed as "wonderfulauthoritativehugely rewarding" ...

The individual volumes of Sir Anthony Kenny's acclaimed History of Western Philosophy have been hailed as "wonderfulauthoritativehugely rewarding" ...

Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the primary way the world is divided and controlle...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mohammad IqbalIntroduction by: Javed MajeedThe Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (1930) is Muhammad Iqbal's majo...

DescriptionAmong the most influential writings in the history of Western political thought, John Locke's Two Treatises of Government and A Letter C...

DescriptionHow David Hume and Adam Smith forged a new way of thinking about the modern stateWhat is the modern state? Conspicuously undertheorized ...

Capitalism has never been a subject for economists alone. Philosophers, politicians, poets and social scientists have debated the cultural, moral, ...

Contributor(s): Author: AugustineEditor: R. W. DysonThis is the first new rendition for a generation of The City of God, the first major intellectu...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

DescriptionA thoroughly updated and substantially expanded edition of an acclaimed anthologyThis is a thoroughly updated and substantially expanded...

Reducere. The relationship between Calvinist political theory and John Locke's Two Treatises on Civil Government has been debated for some time, and the cons...

Reducere. Islam and the Psychology of the Muslim is a jewel from the early 20th century, written before the disaster of modern, politically correct thought c...

Reducere. Occidental Eschatology, originally Jacob Taubes's doctoral thesis and the one book he published in his lifetime, seeks to renegotiate the historica...

Reducere. Did you know that the classical Greek philosophers were the earliest people to believe that the earth was a sphere? Among them was Aristotle, the p...

Reducere. John Friedmann addresses a central question of Western political theory: how, and to what extent, history can be guided by reason. In this comprehe...

Reducere. Thucydides' classic work is a foundational text in the history of Western political thought. His narrative of the great war between Athens and Spar...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Giorgio AgambenTranslator: Nicholas HeronWe can no longer speak of a state of war in any traditional sense, yet there is cu...

DescriptionReforming Modernity is a sweeping intellectual history and philosophical reflection built around the work of the Morocco-based philosoph...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Noenoe K. SilvaForeword by: Ngugi Wa Thiong'oIn The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen Noenoe K. Silva reconstructs the indigeno...

Antisemitism, as hatred of Jews and Judaism, has been a central problem of Western civilization for millennia, and its history continues to invite ...

Reducere. Is there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of annihilation and single-minded military victory? Is warfare on a path to ever greater dest...

DescriptionEusebius's groundbreaking History of the Church, remains the single most important source for the history of the first three centuries o...

Reducere. This book on Universal Ideology is the second in a trilogy on History, Ideology and Revolution. The first book, in 5 volumes, traces the history of...

Reducere. The Impossible Indian offers a rare, fresh view of Gandhi as a hard-hitting political thinker willing to countenance the greatest violence in pursu...

Reducere. Ancient Greece first coined the concept of "democracy, " yet almost every major ancient Greek thinker-from Plato and Aristotle onwards- was ambival...

Reducere. The late French anthropologist Pierre Clastres describes in novelistic detail his encounter with a now vanished Paraguayan tribe.Pierre Clastres (1...

Reducere. In The Way of Demons, Simon Bastian presents the Yin aspect of Taoist practice and theory, which can be called its Shadow side. Demons as a term or...

Reducere. In The Way of Demons, Simon Bastian presents the Yin aspect of Taoist practice and theory, which can be called its Shadow side. Demons as a term or...

Sources of Japanese Tradition is a best-selling classic, unrivaled for its wide selection of source readings on history, society, politics, educati...

The concept of an ordered human society, both religious and secular, as an expression of a divinely ordered universe was central to medieval though...

"The most clear and engaging history of the deadly, historic partnership between Western powers and political Islam."--Salon.comDevil's Game is the...

Reducere. The culmination of a lifetime's scholarly work, this pioneering study by Sister Prudence Allen traces the concept of woman in relation to man in We...