Political and Social Essays

Political and Social Essays
Author: Paul Ricœur
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1975
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

This collection of essays on political and social themes spans a decade and a half of the work of one of France's leading philosophers. The overriding concern running throughout all these essays is the question of what it means to be human in a world dominated by huge bureaucracies, oppressive governments, and multi-national corporations. --

Essays Reflecting the Art of Political and Social Analysis

Essays Reflecting the Art of Political and Social Analysis
Author: Lawrence Davidson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2018-08-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 331998005X

In 2011, Lawrence Davidson founded his website, tothepointanalyses.com, as a home for his brief essays on contemporary issues touching on US domestic and foreign policy. Over the last few years, Davidson's analytic reflections on contemporary politics have garnered over six million views. Now, for the first time, these essays are collected together to form a coherent, punchy look at American Politics in 2018. Contextualized by a new prologue and new conclusion, as well as updated with new material throughout, these essays provide a cogent demonstration of the power of analytical thinking to create clear and understandable descriptions of issues that impact us all, but are most often obfuscated by propaganda, lying by omission, or other forms of distortion. For those who encounter this work, it is hoped that they will come away with a clearer, if not happier, idea of what sort of world we are all living in.

Nation, Civil Society and Social Movements

Nation, Civil Society and Social Movements
Author: T K Oommen
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2004-03-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780761998280

This book is a collection of 12 essays on three interrelated themes of Nation, Civil Society and Social Movements organized in three parts each having four chapters.

American Ideals, and Other Essays, Social and Political

American Ideals, and Other Essays, Social and Political
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1897
Genre: History
ISBN:

Few names are more widely known than that of Theodore Roosevelt, so that in one sense any introduction is superfluous. But in this sense he is known chiefly as the "Rough Rider" of the Santiago campaign; whereas those who read this book will see that his experience as a volunteer officer in the war with Spain is only one incident in a life which has been singularly varied in thought and accomplishment and useful in many fields. In 1900 when American Ideals was originally published, Theodore Roosevelt was the governor of New York.

Social Injustice

Social Injustice
Author: V. Bufacchi
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2011-11-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0230358446

The idea of social injustice is pivotal to much contemporary moral and political philosophy. Starting from a comprehensive and engaging account of the idea of social injustice, this book covers a whole range of issues, including distributive justice, exploitation, torture, moral motivations, democratic theory, voting behaviour and market socialism.

Colonial America

Colonial America
Author: Stanley N. Katz
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Total Pages: 628
Release: 1983
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780075544128

As an anthology of readings by top scholars in the field of Early American History, Colonial America: Essays in Politics and Social Development provides students with an insightful and critical view of the Colonial period. The Fifth Edition is heavily revised to reflect shifting emphasis on the continentalist approach to early American history. With seventeen new essays, including essays on the New France and Spanish borderlands, this reader continues to be a best-selling text in the Colonial America course.

The Political and Social Theory of Max Weber

The Political and Social Theory of Max Weber
Author: Wolfgang J. Mommsen
Publisher: Polity
Total Pages: 250
Release: 1993-01-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780745611327

Wolfgang J. Mommsen is one of the foremost Weberian scholars writing today. In this volume, a sequel to his monumental study Max Weber and German Politics , he provides succinct and incisive statements on current developments in the analysis of Weber's work. The book concentrates upon Weber's engagement with political issues and their influence over his more theoretical concepts. Mommsen offers a critical analysis of Weber's notion of democracy and provides a thorough assessment of Weber's views of socialism against the backcloth of German Social Democracy.

Women, Militarism, and War

Women, Militarism, and War
Author: Jean Bethke Elshtain
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1990
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780847674701

This valuable collection examines closely the construction of male and female identity around the theme of collective violence. Why did such violence get "moralized" for men in the case of warfare-but not for women? Women, Militarism and War presents alternatives to both "business as usual" thinking and excessively utopian or naive feminist accounts. Contributors: Jane Bethke Elshtain, Sheila Tobias, Amy Swerdlow, Carol Cohn, Mary C. Segers, Linda K. Kerber, D'Ann Campbell, Kathleen Jones, Joyce Berkman, Cynthia Enloe, Janet Radcliffe Richards and Sara Ruddick

Equaliberty

Equaliberty
Author: Étienne Balibar
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2014-02-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0822377225

First published in French in 2010, Equaliberty brings together essays by Étienne Balibar, one of the preeminent political theorists of our time. The book is organized around equaliberty, a term coined by Balibar to connote the tension between the two ideals of modern democracy: equality (social rights and political representation) and liberty (the freedom citizens have to contest the social contract). He finds the tension between these different kinds of rights to be ingrained in the constitution of the modern nation-state and the contemporary welfare state. At the same time, he seeks to keep rights discourse open, eschewing natural entitlements in favor of a deterritorialized citizenship that could be expanded and invented anew in the age of globalization. Deeply engaged with other thinkers, including Arendt, Rancière, and Laclau, he posits a theory of the polity based on social relations. In Equaliberty Balibar brings both the continental and analytic philosophical traditions to bear on the conflicted relations between humanity and citizenship.

Justice and the Social Contract

Justice and the Social Contract
Author: Samuel Freeman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2009-04-24
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199725063

Samuel Freeman was a student of the influential philosopher John Rawls, he has edited numerous books dedicated to Rawls' work and is arguably Rawls' foremost interpreter. This volume collects new and previously published articles by Freeman on Rawls. Among other things, Freeman places Rawls within historical context in the social contract tradition, and thoughtfully addresses criticisms of this position. Not only is Freeman a leading authority on Rawls, but he is an excellent thinker in his own right, and these articles will be useful to a wide range of scholars interested in Rawls and the expanse of his influence.