Turning Operations: Feminism, Arendt, Politics
ISBN: 9780415932448 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through the re-interpretation of influential thinkers such as Arendt, Weil, Beauvoir and Habermas, Mary G. Dietz weds the concerns of demcratic thought with that of feminist political theory, demonstrating how important feminist theory has become to democratic thinking more generally. Bringing together fifteen years of commentary on critical debates, Turning Operations begins with problems central to feminism and ends with a series of reflections on the "the politics of politics," inviting the reader to think more expansively about the expressly public nature of political life.
Through the re-interpretation of influential thinkers such as Arendt, Weil, Beauvoir and Habermas, Mary G. Dietz weds the concerns of demcratic though...
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Turning Operations: Feminism, Arendt, Politics
ISBN: 9780415932455 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can we critique political theory when all we have to use are its own conceptual tools? As Hannah Arendt observed, it can only be done through leaps, inversions and the turning of concepts upside-down. But this twisting operation must be done in order to turn those who philosophize back to the hard work of real life change.
How can we critique political theory when all we have to use are its own conceptual tools? As Hannah Arendt observed, it can only be done through leap...
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229,49 zł |
Capitalism's Eye: Cultural Spaces of the Commodity
ISBN: 9780415933407 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Capitalism's Eye is an extremely ambitious cultural history of how people experienced commodities in the era of industrial expansion. Writing against the dominant argument that the 'society of the spectacle' emerged fully formed in the mid-nineteenth century, Kevin Hetherington explains that the emergence of a culture of mass consumption dominated by visual experience was a much slower process, not truly ascendant until after the First World War. Looking at the department stores, home life, and the great exhibitions around the turn of the last century, Capitalism's Eye promises to transform...
Capitalism's Eye is an extremely ambitious cultural history of how people experienced commodities in the era of industrial expansion. Writing against ...
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Capitalism's Eye: Cultural Spaces of the Commodity
ISBN: 9780415933414 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Capitalism's Eye is an extremely ambitious cultural history of how people experienced commodities in the era of industrial expansion. Writing against the dominant argument that the 'society of the spectacle' emerged fully formed in the mid-nineteenth century, Kevin Hetherington explains that the emergence of a culture of mass consumption dominated by visual experience was a much slower process, not truly ascendant until after the First World War. Looking at the department stores, home life, and the great exhibitions around the turn of the last century, Capitalism's Eye promises to transform...
Capitalism's Eye is an extremely ambitious cultural history of how people experienced commodities in the era of industrial expansion. Writing against ...
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Beyond the Global Culture War
ISBN: 9780415953122 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Beyond the Global Culture War" presents a cross-cultural critique of global liberalism and argues for a broad-based challenge that can meet it on its own scale. Adam Webb is one of our most exciting and original young scholars, and this book is certain to generate many new debates. This timely volume probes many of the key challenges we face in the new millennium. This is essential reading for all students of politics and globalization.
"Beyond the Global Culture War" presents a cross-cultural critique of global liberalism and argues for a broad-based challenge that can meet it on its...
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Beyond the Global Culture War
ISBN: 9780415953139 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beyond the Global Culture War presents a cross-cultural critique of global liberalism and argues for a broad-based challenge that can meet it on its own scale. Adam Webb is one of our most exciting and original young scholars, and this book is certain to generate many new debates. This timely volume probes many of the key challenges we face in the new millennium. This is essential reading for all students of politics and globalization.
Beyond the Global Culture War presents a cross-cultural critique of global liberalism and argues for a broad-based challenge that can meet it on its o...
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281,66 zł |
Linking Activism: Ecology, Social Justice, and Education for Social Change
ISBN: 9780415974592 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This revealing book explores the work of thirty activists in their attempts to address social justice issues related to their environmental advocacy (an activist practice hereby coined 'linking activism'). It questions reductionist orientations of self and agency by making visible activists' multiple sites of commitment and agency towards, for instance, environmental protection, gender equality, anti-racism and / or First Nations rights. The book maps some of the terrain of linking activist practice. Specifically, the need for broad and complex conceptualizations of self and agency is taken...
This revealing book explores the work of thirty activists in their attempts to address social justice issues related to their environmental advocacy (...
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Dead Right
ISBN: 9780465098255 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Forbes columnist discusses the ideological breakdown of the Republican Party, its failure to diminish the deficit or the size of government in twelve years of control, and outlines a plan for renewal through a return to basic issues.Part reportage, part manifesto, Dead Right leads readers on a witty and opinionated tour through the chaos of post-Reagan conservatism. It explains why the "Religious Right" is a phony menace ... why President Reagan failed to eliminate even one major spending program ... why the 1992 Republican convention, originally conceived as a cunning ploy,...
A Forbes columnist discusses the ideological breakdown of the Republican Party, its failure to diminish the deficit or the size of government in twelv...
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86,90 zł |
Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution
ISBN: 9780520082649 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Arif Dirlik's latest offering is a revisionist perspective on Chinese radicalism in the twentieth century. He argues that the history of anarchism is indispensable to understanding crucial themes in Chinese radicalism. And anarchism is particularly significant now as a source of democratic ideals within the history of the socialist movement in China. Dirlik draws on the most recent scholarship and on materials available only in the last decade to compile the first comprehensive history of his subject available in a Western language. He emphasizes the anarchist contribution to...
Arif Dirlik's latest offering is a revisionist perspective on Chinese radicalism in the twentieth century. He argues that the history of anarchism is ...
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Locke: Two Treatises of Government
ISBN: 9780521069038 / Angielski / Twarda / 548 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1960, this analysis of all of Locke's publications quickly became established as the standard edition of the Treatises as well as a work of political theory in its own right.
Originally published in 1960, this analysis of all of Locke's publications quickly became established as the standard edition of the Treatises as well...
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Bakunin: Statism and Anarchy
ISBN: 9780521369732 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Statism and Anarchy is a complete English translation of the last work by the great Russian anarchist Michael Bakunin. It was written in 1873, in the aftermath of the rise of the German Empire and the clash between Bakunin and Karl Marx in the first International. Bakunin assesses the strength of a European state system dominated by Bismarck. Then, in the most remarkable part of the book, he assails the Marxist alternative, predicting that a "dictatorship of the proletariat" will in fact be a dictatorship over the proletariat, and will produce a new class of socialist rulers. Instead, he...
Statism and Anarchy is a complete English translation of the last work by the great Russian anarchist Michael Bakunin. It was written in 1873, in the ...
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The Practice of Liberal Pluralism
ISBN: 9780521549639 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. William Galston defends a theory, liberal pluralism, based on three core concepts--value pluralism, political pluralism, and expressive liberty--and explores the implications of this theory for politics. Liberal pluralism helps clarify some of the complexities of real-world political action and points toward a distinctive conception of public philosophy and public policy.
William Galston defends a theory, liberal pluralism, based on three core concepts--value pluralism, political pluralism, and expressive liberty--and e...
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Identity, Ideology and Conflict: The Structuration of Politics in Northern Ireland
ISBN: 9780521550529 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ideologies and identities are central to politics, but usually this centrality is obscured. This book focuses on what it terms "the politics of identity." Drawing on both social theory and psychological theory, it develops a novel approach that highlights the unconscious rules that are drawn on, and fought over, by political actors and citizens as they construct their identities, and relationships with others. Unionism in Northern Ireland, past and present, is analyzed in detail to illustrate the strengths of this new approach.
Ideologies and identities are central to politics, but usually this centrality is obscured. This book focuses on what it terms "the politics of identi...
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451,11 zł |
Partisan Families: The Social Logic of Bounded Partisanship in Germany and Britain
ISBN: 9780521874403 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. People decide about political parties by taking into account the preferences, values, expectations, and perceptions of their family, friends, colleagues, and neighbors. As most persons live with others, members of their households influence each other's political decisions. How and what they think about politics and what they do are the outcomes of social processes. Analyzing data from extensive German and British household surveys, this book shows that wives and husbands influence each other; young adults influence their parents, especially their mothers. Wives and mothers sit at the center...
People decide about political parties by taking into account the preferences, values, expectations, and perceptions of their family, friends, colleagu...
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The War For America: Morality, Ideology, and the Big Lies of American Politics
ISBN: 9780595324422 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The War for America" is a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the conflict between the liberal left and the conservative right. It's the perfect book for anyone who's interested in the future of American politics and concerned about the growing power of the conservative movement. Praise for "The War for America" Finally, from outside the beltway, a primer to help the rest of America cut through the punditry and pettifoggery. Michael W. Perri
President, Lincoln Crow Strategic Communications A compelling overview of the most important trends of the future. Pascal R. Baudry ... "The War for America" is a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the conflict between the liberal left and the conservative right. It's the perfec...
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Civil Disobedience in Cameroon
ISBN: 9780595358588 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Book, "Civil Disobedience in Cameroon," written by Justice Aloysius Nelson Taku Mbu, reveal the effect of the cumulative events from 1961 to 1990, precipitated by the enlargement of the presidential powers without corresponding safeguards for the protection of freedom under Cameroons advanced democracy.
He analyzed the high tide of unitarism, where poverty and inequality dominates to create a class for the poor and the rich by giving favors and encouraging blackmail, mismanagement, falsity, deception and manipulative electioneering. The majority culture further thought that they could... This Book, "Civil Disobedience in Cameroon," written by Justice Aloysius Nelson Taku Mbu, reveal the effect of the cumulative events from 1961 to 1990...
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Killing Goliath: Waging War Against the New World Order
ISBN: 9780595370504 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Killing Goliath" shouts with fervor about the detrimental and desperate state of humankind in the new Millennium. As tyranny and terror seek to spread fear throughout the entire globe, the need for bold courageous people from all walks of life to stand for righteousness is far beyond imperative in order for true freedom to be realized by all men, women and children. Slavery in all of its despicable forms holds mankind in its grip while glaring menacingly upon those who desire the God given dreams of life, freedom, good health and a place to raise their children. The climax of... "Killing Goliath" shouts with fervor about the detrimental and desperate state of humankind in the new Millennium. As tyranny and terror seek to... |
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Disarming the Culture War: How the Silent Majority Can Break the Stalemate
ISBN: 9780595379323 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The two most recent presidential elections exposed a deep and expanding polarization of the American public. Unfortunately, the two major political parties aren't helping to resolve this conflict. In fact, they created the conflict and are perpetuating it. There is no serious debate within the political parties on the four moral issues that are the basis of this Culture War. They have been transformed into articles of faith. Committed Democrats will be for abortion, gun control, separation of church and state and gay marriage. Their Republican counterparts will be against all of them....
The two most recent presidential elections exposed a deep and expanding polarization of the American public. Unfortunately, the two major political pa...
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73,68 zł |
Bridges Burning: America's Challenge of the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780595384310 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Tao of Politics Anthology
ISBN: 9780595384730 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Tao of Politics Anthology" brings together in one volume all of Ed Bremson's books on politics: the humorous Tao of George W. Bush, the analytical Tao of Red States and Blue States, the philosophical Tao of Politics, and a new work, published here for the first time, the patriotic "Tao of America." In "The Tao of Politics Anthology" you will find much to either agree with or disagree with, and you should certainly find yourself being stimulated.
While there is plenty in this book to think about and discuss, the discussion continues online at the daily blog written by Mr. Bremson, The... "The Tao of Politics Anthology" brings together in one volume all of Ed Bremson's books on politics: the humorous Tao of George W. Bush, the analytica...
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82,37 zł |