Politics And History
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Author | : Howard Zinn |
Publisher | : eBookIt.com |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 2012-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1456609904 |
This book presents a series of case studies and thought-provoking essays arguing for a radical approach to history and providing a revisionist interpretation of the historian's role. In a new introduction, the author responds to critics of his original work and comments further on the radicalization of history.
Author | : Andrew Beattie |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781845455330 |
The ensuing debates and disagreements over the recent past, examined by the author, open up a window into the wider development of German memory, identity, and politics after the end of the Cold War."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Anne Orford |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2021-08-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108480942 |
Explores the ideological, political, and economic stakes of struggles over international law's history and its relation to empire and capitalism.
Author | : Alekse? I. Miller |
Publisher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 615522515X |
Thirteen essays by scholars from seven countries discuss the political use and abuse of history in the recent decades with particular focus on Central and Eastern Europe (Hungary, Poland, Estonia, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia as case studies), but also includes articles on Germany, Japan and Turkey, which provide a much needed comparative dimension. The main focus is on new conditions of political utilization of history in post-communist context, which is characterized by lack of censorship and political pluralism. The phenomenon of history politics became extremely visible in Central and Eastern Europe in the past decade, and remains central for political agenda in many countries of the regions. Each essay is a case study contributing to the knowledge about collective memory and political use of history, offering a new theoretical twist. The studies look at actors (from political parties to individual historians), institutions (museums, Institutes of National remembrance, special political commissions), methods, political rationale and motivations behind this phenomenon.
Author | : Wendy Brown |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2018-06-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 069118805X |
What happens to left and liberal political orientations when faith in progress is broken, when both the sovereign individual and sovereign states seem tenuous, when desire seems as likely to seek punishment as freedom, when all political conviction is revealed as contingent and subjective? Politics Out of History is animated by the question of how we navigate the contemporary political landscape when the traditional compass points of modernity have all but disappeared. Wendy Brown diagnoses a range of contemporary political tendencies--from moralistic high-handedness to low-lying political despair in politics, from the difficulty of formulating political alternatives to reproaches against theory in intellectual life--as the consequence of this disorientation. Politics Out of History also presents a provocative argument for a new approach to thinking about history--one that forsakes the idea that history has a purpose and treats it instead as a way of illuminating openings in the present by, for example, identifying the haunting and constraining effects of past injustices unresolved. Brown also argues for a revitalized relationship between intellectual and political life, one that cultivates the autonomy of each while promoting their interlocutory potential. This book will be essential reading for all who find the trajectories of contemporary liberal democracies bewildering and are willing to engage readings of a range of thinkers--Freud, Marx, Nietzsche, Spinoza, Benjamin, Derrida--to rethink democratic possibility in our time.
Author | : Joan Wallach Scott |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780231118576 |
An interrogation of the uses of gender as a tool for cultural and historical analysis. The revised edition reassesses the book's fundamental topic: the category of gender. In arguing that gender no longer serves to destabilize our understanding of sexual difference, the new preface and new chapter open a critical dialogue with the original book. From publisher description.
Author | : Raymond Aron |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1412845157 |
Author | : Jackie DiSalvo |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2015-08-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317381386 |
First published in 1998, this book formed part of an ongoing effort to restore politics and history to the centre of Blake studies. It adopts a three pronged approach when presenting its essays, seeking to promote a return to the political Blake; to deepen the understanding of some of the conversations articulated in Blake’s art by introducing new, historical material or new interpretations of texts; and to highlight differing perspectives on Blake’s politics among historically focused critics. The collection contains essays with varying methodological assumptions and differing positions on questions central to historicist Blake scholarship.
Author | : Raymond Geuss |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2001-06-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521000437 |
The distinguished political philosopher Raymond Geuss examines critically the central topics in Western political thought. In a series of analytic chapters he discusses the state, authority, violence and coercion, the concept of legitmacy, liberalism, toleration, freedom, democracy, and human rights. He argues that the liberal democratic state committed to the defense of human rights is in fact a confused conjunction of disparate elements. This is a profound and concise essay on the basic structure of contemporary politics, written throughout in voice that is skeptical, engaged, and clear.
Author | : Clive Gifford |
Publisher | : Quick Histories |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2021-07-06 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 071126032X |
A Quick History of Politics takes us from pharaohs to fair votes, packed with facts and jokes about the many faces of politics through time.