The concept of potential plays a prominent role in the thinking of parents, educators and planners. This book aims to demythologize the concept of potential. It shows the roots of potential in genuine aspects of human nature, and offers an interpretation of policy-making in education.
The concept of potential plays a prominent role in the thinking of parents, educators and planners. This book aims to demythologize the concept of pot...
Ambiguity, vagueness and metaphor are pervasive features of language, deserving of systematic study in their own right. This book offers a consecutive study of these features from a philosphical point of view, providing analyses of each and treating their relations to one another.
Ambiguity, vagueness and metaphor are pervasive features of language, deserving of systematic study in their own right. This book offers a consecutive...
This title comprises 14 of Scheffler's most recent essays - all of which challenge contemporary notions of education and rationality. While defending the ideal of rationality, he insists that rationality not be identified with a mental faculty but taken rather as the capactity to grasp principles and purposes.
This title comprises 14 of Scheffler's most recent essays - all of which challenge contemporary notions of education and rationality. While defending ...
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon is one of the most important French social theoreticians of the 19th century. George Woodcock's book, first published in 1956, was the first full-scale biography of Proudhon in the English language.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon is one of the most important French social theoreticians of the 19th century. George Woodcock's book, first published in 1956, ...
This text traces the development of Christian democracy in France from its origins in the 1830s to the present day, discussing its theories and its importance in French history and politics, with particular reference to the Fourth Republic (1946-58).
This text traces the development of Christian democracy in France from its origins in the 1830s to the present day, discussing its theories and its im...
Hobhouse's theories and commentaries upon social development are an important milestone in the history of sociological thought. This book explores these theories and commentaries.
Hobhouse's theories and commentaries upon social development are an important milestone in the history of sociological thought. This book explores the...
This title brings together key articles from 'Achilles Heel', the path-breaking and influential magazine of men's sexual politics. It also includes an important introduction by the editor, setting the magazine in its intellectual and historical context.
This title brings together key articles from 'Achilles Heel', the path-breaking and influential magazine of men's sexual politics. It also includes an...
This essay, first published in 1980, analyses the relationship between intellectuals' social locations and their political orientations. Dr Brym provides a critical discussion of the various sociological views of intellectuals and specifies some of the social conditions which encourage intellectuals to follow various directions on the political compass. He also demonstrates that intellectuals are neither socially rootless nor tied to one particular class or group within society, concluding that it is only by an analysis of intellectuals' mobility patterns that we can hope to arrive at an...
This essay, first published in 1980, analyses the relationship between intellectuals' social locations and their political orientations. Dr Brym pr...
First published in 1987, this book comprises a critical evaluation of Marxist, Gramscian and pluralist theories of social development; the application of these theories, chiefly to Third World countries: hence consideration of the problems of 'specificity', general theory and social change.
First published in 1987, this book comprises a critical evaluation of Marxist, Gramscian and pluralist theories of social development; the application...
First published in 1920, Paul Miliukov's book concerns the international nature of Bolshevism, both in terms of its ideologically internationalist doctrine of World Revolution and in terms of the attempts to spread Bolshevism in the period immediately preceding and following the First World War and the Russian revolution of October 1917.
First published in 1920, Paul Miliukov's book concerns the international nature of Bolshevism, both in terms of its ideologically internationalist doc...
