The Theory of Political Culture

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Reducere. In this intellectually wide-ranging book John Roberts develops a labor theory of culture as a model for explaining the dynamics of avant-garde art ...

This book provides a new way of understanding queer culture. The frameworks offered by queer theory-steeped in philosophical, theoretical and polit...

This book describes Trumpism: the strong allegiance to former President Donald Trump that is in evidence among a sizable portion of the US populati...

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Reducere. What happens when a democratic theory professor gets involved with the Democratic Party? In this political memoir, Claire Snyder-Hall shares lesson...

Reducere. In Selected Writings on Race and Difference, editors Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore gather more than twenty essays by Stuart Hall that highlig...

A new, fully-revised and updated edition of the leading introduction to social movements and collective action - covers a broad range of approaches...

Oscar Wilde is remembered as a wit and a dandy, as a gay martyr, and as a brilliant writer, but his philosophical depth and political radicalism ar...

Reducere. Written by Thomas Daniell, with a foreword by Thomas Weaver and an afterword by Peter Cook, An Anatomy of Influence contains a wealth of texts and ...

Although in recent years the entire world has been increasingly concerned with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there are few truly reliable sourc...

Pierre Bourdieu is one of the world's most important social theorists and is also one of the great empirical researchers in contemporary sociology....

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A biography of Thomas Sowell, one of America's most influential conservative thinkers. Thomas Sowell is one of the great social theorists of our ag...

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Understanding US culture through the post-apocalyptic novel This book explores the post-apocalyptic novel in American literature from the 1940s to ...

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Reducere. DescriptionBlack, White, and in Color offers a long-awaited collection of major essays by Hortense Spillers, one of the most influential and inspir...

Reducere. An assessment of the ancient Greek city and its subsequent influence. A masterwork of political theory and comparative politics for the classroom.I...

Reducere. Antifascist and socialist monuments pervaded the landscape of the former German Democratic Republic (1949-89), presenting a distorted vision of the...

Reducere. In Selected Writings on Race and Difference, editors Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore gather more than twenty essays by Stuart Hall that highlig...

This book provides a new way of understanding queer culture. The frameworks offered by queer theory-steeped in philosophical, theoretical and polit...

Long considered "the noblest of the senses, " vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dom...

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From around 900 to 400 BC, the Etruscans were the most innovative, powerful, wealthy, and creative people in Italy. Their archaeological record is ...

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DescriptionLiterary Theory: A Practical Introduction, Third Edition, presents a comprehensive introduction to thefull range of contemporary approac...

Reducere. Bradley C. S. Watson has devoted a significant part of his career to studying the nature of American progressivism as it formed in the twentieth ce...

DescriptionSocial Movements cleverly translates the art of collective action and mobilization by excluded groups to facilitate understanding social...

Throughout history, humanity has borne witness to the political and moral challenges that arise when people place national identity above allegianc...

Reducere. This book presents an impressive synthesis of an important and influential school of thought, derived from Foucault's writings on governmentality, ...

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Reducere. DescriptionRoger Scruton's classic work on conservatism, reissued for a new political moment. Over the past twenty years, Roger Scruton has been de...

Reducere. In this collection of essays J. B. Harley (1932-1991) draws on ideas in art history, literature, philosophy, and the study of visual culture to sub...

Reclaiming the legacy of the Paris Commune for the twenty-first centuryKristin Ross's highly acclaimed work on the thought and culture of the Commu...

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With a newly written preface relating his theology to the current global situation, The Future of Love contains revised versions of eighteen of Joh...

Lok Fung explores the political, linguistic and cultural tensions of being both from Hong Kong and a feminist in her first major bilingual collecti...

Reducere. DescriptionAge of EnlightenmentFrom its beginnings as a loosely definable group of philosophical ideas to the culmination of its revolutionary effe...

Reducere. Game theory--the study of how people make choices while interacting with others--is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science ...

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Reducere. Harold Rosenberg was undoubtedly the most important American art critic of the twentieth century. It was he who first coined the term "Action Paint...

Historian and political thinker Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that theories of "postmodern" fragmentation, "difference, " and con-tingency can barely ...

Contributor(s): Author: Caroline LevineForms offers a powerful new answer to one of the most pressing problems facing literary, critical, and cultu...

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Contributor(s): Author: Audra SimpsonMohawk Interruptus is a bold challenge to dominant thinking in the fields of Native studies and anthropology. ...

Contributor(s): Author: Alexander G. WeheliyeHabeas Viscus focuses attention on the centrality of race to notions of the human. Alexander G. Weheli...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Second Amendment is among the most recognized provisions of the Constitution. It is also perhaps the most misunderstood. Common misc...

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

Ethnography centers on the culture of everyday life. So it is ironic that most scholars who do research on the intimate experiences of ordinary peo...

DescriptionThroughout his life, Niccol Machiavelli was deeply invested in Florentine culture and politics. More than any other priority, his overri...

DescriptionSlavoj Žižek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the "Elvis of cultural theory, " and today's most controve...

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Reducere. Albert Jay Nock, perhaps the most brilliant American essayist of the 20th century, and certainly among its most important libertarian thinkers, set...

Reducere. Plato's "The Republic" is a Socratic dialogue written sometime around 380 BC concerning the definition of justice and the order and character of th...

Reducere. Truth Tellers' Shield is a definitive manual and "how to" guide for anyone who goes up against wrong doing. Written as a practical aid for real and...

DescriptionLong before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis groundbreaking feminist classic dismantles the way we view rape in our culture and replaces it with a genuine understanding and res...

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Contributor(s): Author: Jasbir K. PuarTenth Anniversary Expanded Edition Ten years on, Jasbir K. Puar's pathbreaking Terrorist Assemblages remains ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Laurent PernotTranslator: W. E. HigginsOriginally published as La Rhetorique dans l'Antiquite (2000), this new English edit...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: R. W. ConnellSexual politics--from economic equality to anti-gay violence--is a vast area of debate. This exceptional book ...

The ultimate question is no longer "who am I" or "why am I here." These questions were answered in the earliest civilizations by philosophers and p...

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

Reducere. This extraordinarily wide-ranging work represents a new departure for contemporary literary theory. Author of Beginnings and the controversial Orie...

Explores several classic works of social and political thought, examining how the history of their publication materially affected their meaning an...

Contributor(s): Editor: Catriona Mortimer-SandilandsEditor: Bruce EricksonTreating such issues as animal sex, species politics, environmental justi...

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