Civil Society & Political Theory

Reducere. The theory and practice of civil disobedience has once again taken on import, given recent events. Considering widespread dissatisfaction with norm...

Reducere. John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was a British philosopher, political economist, civil servant, and Member of Parliament. An influential liberal thinke...

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. DescriptionThis study of politics and the role of the state in the Arab world is aimed at students of Middle East politics, political theory and po...

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 ...

Reducere. "Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours." --- John Locke Two Treatises of Governm...

DescriptionWhat sort of entitlements should citizens have in a just society? In this book, Rutger Claassen sets out a theory of what he terms 'navi...

Reducere. As one of the early Enlightenment philosophers in England, John Locke sought to bring reason and critical intelligence to the discussion of the ori...

Bringing together an international team of contributors, this volume draws on international political theory and intellectual history to rethink th...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charles De Secondat MontesquieuTranslator: Thomas NugentThis treatise on political theory, originally published anonymously...

Reducere. By analytically decoupling war and violence, this book explores the causes and dynamics of violence in civil war. Against the prevailing view that ...

Reducere. Conventional wisdom dictates that Ukraine's political crises can be traced to the linguistic differences and divided political loyalties that have ...

Reducere. This treatise on political theory, originally published anonymously in 1748, has become one of the most influential works of political science ever...

With an Introduction by Dr Richard Serjeantson, Trinity College, Cambridge Since its first publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan has been ...

Reducere. DescriptionTwo Treatises of Government (or Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, The False Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, a...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the years between the American Revolution and the U.S. Civil War, as legal and cultural understandings of citizenship became more rac...

Cicero's The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible government written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic in a dialog...

Lise Vogel revisits classical Marxian texts, tracking analyses of "the woman question" in socialist theory and drawing on central theoretical categ...

More than forty years have passed since Congress, in response to the Civil Rights Movement, enacted sweeping antidiscrimination laws in the Civil R...

DescriptionMartin Luther King, Jr., is one of America's most revered figures, yet despite his mythic stature, the significance of his political tho...

During the French Wars of Religion, the nature and identity of politics was the subject of passionate debate and controversy. The word 'politique',...

Reducere. In the first half of the twentieth century, both czarist Russia and its successor, the Soviet Union, were confronted with the problem of conducting...

Prejudice is a subject that has aroused great interest in human and social sciences, because it refers to environments and problems - such as the r...

Politics in the Twentieth Century was dominated by a single question: how much of our collective life should be determined by the state, and what s...