This is a comprehensive guide to the complexities of social theory today. Over 30 chapters, written by an international team of contributors, demonstrate clearly the practical applications of social theory in helping students to make sense of the modern world.
This is a comprehensive guide to the complexities of social theory today. Over 30 chapters, written by an international team of contributors, demonstr...
Bob Dylan is one of the most significant figures in popular culture. In this book, the authors provide a multi-faceted analysis of his political art. They address Dylan's career as a whole, dealing with such themes as alienation, protest, non-conformity, the American Dream, modernity and postmodernism and pivotal moments of Dylan's career such as the 'Judas accusation at the 1966 Manchester Free Trade Hall concert and Dylan s comments on the need to aid American farmers at Live Aid, 1985. Dylan s songs are analysed for their political meaning and for the songs in contemporary American...
Bob Dylan is one of the most significant figures in popular culture. In this book, the authors provide a multi-faceted analysis of his political ar...
Gary Browning Raia Prokhovnik Maria Dimova-Cookson
A lively and engaging collection which explains the various strands of political theory, identifies key futures trends and explores the foundations of contemporary debate. Features interviews with pre-eminent theorists, including Quentin Skinner, Carole Pateman and Alex Honneth.
A lively and engaging collection which explains the various strands of political theory, identifies key futures trends and explores the foundations of...
Hegel and Plato are united as political theorists by the convergence of their philosophical aspirations. But their political writings manifest the general disparities involved in their particular ways of seeking to fulfil these aspirations. Professor Browning compares the political thought of Plato and Hegel.
Hegel and Plato are united as political theorists by the convergence of their philosophical aspirations. But their political writings manifest the gen...
Hegel and Plato are united as political theorists by the convergence of their philosophical aspirations. But their political writings manifest the general disparities involved in their particular ways of seeking to fulfil these aspirations. Professor Browning compares the political thought of Plato and Hegel.
Hegel and Plato are united as political theorists by the convergence of their philosophical aspirations. But their political writings manifest the gen...
How are we to understand past political thinkers? Is it a matter simply of reading their texts again and again? Do we have to relate past texts of political thought to the contexts in which ideas were composed and in which the aims of past thinkers were formulated? Or should past political theories be deconstructed so as to uncover not what their authors maintain, but what the texts reveal? In this book, theories of interpreting past political thinkers are examined and the interpretive methods of a range of theories are reviewed, including those of Hegel, Marx, Oakeshott, Collingwood,...
How are we to understand past political thinkers? Is it a matter simply of reading their texts again and again? Do we have to relate past texts of pol...
How are we to understand past political thinkers? Is it a matter simply of reading their texts again and again? Do we have to relate past texts of political thought to the contexts in which ideas were composed and in which the aims of past thinkers were formulated? Or should past political theories be deconstructed so as to uncover not what their authors maintain, but what the texts reveal? In this book, theories of interpreting past political thinkers are examined and the interpretive methods of a range of theories are reviewed, including those of Hegel, Marx, Oakeshott, Collingwood,...
How are we to understand past political thinkers? Is it a matter simply of reading their texts again and again? Do we have to relate past texts of pol...
