The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes: Meaning and Failure of a Political Symbol, Paperback - Carl Schmitt

One of the most significant political philosophers of the twentieth century, Carl Schmitt is a deeply controversial figure who has been labeled bot...

DescriptionA cornerstone of modern western philosophy, addressing the role of man in government, society and religion In 1651, Hobbes published his...

In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues that liberalism's basis in individual rights canno...

DescriptionHow climate change will affect our political theory--for better and worse Despite the science and the summits, leading capitalist states...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Thomas HobbesIllustration(s): illustrationsNumber of pages: 627Publication date: 1994Dimensions: 14...

Reducere. Political Theology II is Carl Schmitt's last book. Part polemic, part self-vindication for his involvement in the National Socialist German Workers...

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

DescriptionWritten in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic, Political Theology develops the dist...

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

Leviathan is both a magnificent literary achievement and the greatest work of political philosophy in the English language. Permanently challenging...

Through a re-examination of the political thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen, this book offers a reflection on the nature of modern...

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A collection of essays analyzing the seventeenth-century British political theorist Thomas Hobbes from a feminist perspective.Publisher: Pennsylvan...

Reducere. Thomas Hobbes argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Influenced by the English Civil War, Hobbes wrote that chaos or civil...

Reducere. Whether one thinks that -religion- continues to fade or has made a comeback in the contemporary world, there is a common notion that -religion- wen...

Reducere. DescriptionWritten during the English Civil War (1642-1651), Leviathan argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Hobbes wrote...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Leo StraussNumber of pages: 190Publication date: 1996Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 10Cover type: Pap...

Offers a theory and methodology of performance analysis as an alternative to traditional play-analysis. This title deals with the poetic structure ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): H. H. KleinmanNumber of pages: 168Collection: Perspectives in CriticismPublication date: 2022Di...

Carl Schmitt's magnum opus, Constitutional Theory, was originally published in 1928 and has been in print in German ever since. This volume makes S...

Reducere. When does physics depart the realm of testable hypothesis and come to resemble theology? Peter Woit argues that string theory isn't just going in t...

Reducere. Szasz argues that the word schizophrenia does not stand for a genuine disease, that psychiatry has invented the concept as a sacred symbol to justi...

Reducere. For many years scholars have sought to explain why the European states that emerged in the period before the French Revolution developed along such...

An Unsparing Analysis of the Legal Principles and Constitutional Developments of the Third Reich This classic study is widely considered one of the...

This book serves as an introduction to distress risk and corporate failure modelling techniques. The book's comprehensive review and use of real-li...

The influential work of speculative biology-and a key document in posthumanist studies-now available in a new, accurate English translation.

Publisher: Monthly Review Press, U.S.Author(s): Istvan MeszarosNumber of pages: 512Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 146 x 223 x 38Cover type: Hard...

Reducere. This book describes the impact of the American Civil War on the development of central state authority in the late nineteenth century. The author c...

Defy the Immediate is an energizing and inspiring look at life lessons ... the role perseverance plays in determining failure and success, seen thr...

Different languages organize their vocabularies in a myriad of ways. This book is an engaging, reader-friendly celebration of global linguistic div...

An in-depth look at how to account for the human complexities at the heart of today's financial systemOur economy may have recovered from the Great...

Reducere. As one of the premier historical thinkers of his generation, J rn R sen has made enormous contributions to the methods and theoretical framework of...

The third volume in a series of comic cartoons starring the Calvin and Hobbes pair.Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Bill WattersonNumb...

Designed as a quick yet thorough introduction to one of the most vibrant areas of research in modern linguistics today this volume reveals the beau...

First published in 1983. Amilcar Cabral was one of Africa's leading revolutionary figures, who was the first truly important political thinker to h...

Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law provides a nuanced assessment of Thomas Hobbes's place in the natural law tradition as a formulator of natural la...

Reducere. When Captain John Rumford, USMC, stands up for the dead Marines of Iwo Jima against the forces of political correctness that have invaded his belov...

Reducere. From 1985 to 1995, the syndicated comic strip Calvin and Hobbes followed the antics of a precocious six-year-old boy and his sardonic stuffed tiger...

In the field of philosophy, the common view of philosophy as an essentially Western discipline persists even today, while non-Western philosophy te...

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Examines the Common Core State Standards from the initiative's promising beginnings to its disappointing outcomes. Situating the standards in the l...