Selected Political Writings

Selected Political Writings
Author: Stuart Hall
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2017-02-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0822372940

Selected Political Writings gathers Stuart Hall's best-known and most important essays that directly engage with political issues. Written between 1957 and 2011 and appearing in publications such as New Left Review and Marxism Today, these twenty essays span the whole of Hall's career, from his early involvement with the New Left, to his critique of Thatcherism, to his later focus on neoliberalism. Whether addressing economic decline and class struggle, the Cuban Missile Crisis, or the politics of empire, Hall's singular commentary and theorizations make this volume essential for anyone interested in the politics of the last sixty years.

Selected Political Writings

Selected Political Writings
Author: Niccolò Machiavelli
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780872202474

Here are The Prince and the most important Discourses, newly translated into spare, vivid English by one of the most gifted historians of his generation. Why a new translation? "Machiavelli was never the dull, worthy, pedantic author who appears in the pages of other translations", says David Wootton in his Introduction. "In the pages that follow I have done my best to let him speak in his own voice." (And indeed, Wootton's Machiavelli literally does so when the occasion demands: Renderings of that most problematic of words, virtù, are in each instance followed by the Italian). Notes, a map, and an altogether remarkable Introduction, no less authoritative for being grippingly readable, help make this edition an ideal first encounter with Machiavelli for any student of history and political theory.

Selected Political Writings

Selected Political Writings
Author: Montesquieu
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780872200906

Rev. ed. of: The political theory of Montesquieu. 1977.

The Political Writings

The Political Writings
Author: Alfarabi
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2016-05-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1501700316

Alfarabi was among the first to explore the tensions between the philosophy of classical Greece and that of Islam, as well as of religion generally. His writings, extraordinary in their breadth and deep learning, have had a profound impact on Islamic and Jewish philosophy.This volume presents four of Alfarabi's most important texts, making his political thought available to classicists, medievalists, and scholars of religion and Byzantine and Middle Eastern studies. In a clear prose translation by Charles E. Butterworth, these treatises provide a valuable introduction to the teachings of Alfarabi and to the development of Islamic political philosophy. All of these texts are based on new Arabic editions. Two of the texts—Book of Religion and Harmonization of the Two Opinions of the Two Sages: Plato the Divine and Aristotle—appear in English for the first time. The translations of the other two works—Selected Aphorisms and chapter five of the Enumeration of the Sciences—differ markedly from those previously known to English-language readers.Butterworth situates each essay in its historical, literary, and philosophical context. His notes help the reader follow Alfarabi's text and identify persons, places, and events. English-Arabic and Arabic-English glossaries of terms further assist the reader.

Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

Gandhi: Selected Political Writings
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780872203303

Based on the complete edition of his works, this new volume presents Gandhi’s most important political writings arranged around the two central themes of his political teachings: satyagraha (the power of non-violence) and swaraj (freedom). Dennis Dalton’s general Introduction and headnotes highlight the life of Gandhi, set the readings in historical context, and provide insight into the conceptual framework of Gandhi’s political theory. Included are bibliography, glossary, and index.

Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings

Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings
Author: Johann Gottfried Herder
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2004-03-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1603840036

Historians of ideas, and students of nationalism in particular, have traced the origins of much of our current vocabulary and ways of thinking about the nation back to Johann Gottfried Herder. This volume provides a clear, readable, and reliable translation of Auch eine Philosophie der Geschichte zur Bildung der Menschheit, supplemented by some of Herder's other important writings on politics and history. The editors' insightful Introduction traces the role of Herder's thought in the evolution of nationalism and highlights its influence on fields such as history, anthropology, and politics. The volume is designed to give English-speaking readers more ready access to the thinker whom Isaiah Berlin called the father of the related notions of nationalism, historicism, and Volksgeist.

After The Open Society

After The Open Society
Author: Karl Popper
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1135627118

In this long-awaited volume, Jeremy Shearmur and Piers Norris Turner bring to light Popper's most important unpublished and uncollected writings from the time of The Open Society until his death in 1994. After The Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings reveals the development of Popper's political and philosophical thought during and after the Second World War, from his early socialism through to the radical humanitarianism of The Open Society. The papers in this collection, many of which are available here for the first time, demonstrate the clarity and pertinence of Popper's thinking on such topics as religion, history, Plato and Aristotle, while revealing a lifetime of unwavering political commitment. After The Open Society illuminates the thought of one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers and is essential reading for anyone interested in the recent course of philosophy, politics, history and society.

Constant: Political Writings

Constant: Political Writings
Author: Benjamin Constant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1988-11-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521316323

This 1988 book is an English translation of the major political works of Benjamin Constant.

The Political Writings of St. Augustine

The Political Writings of St. Augustine
Author: Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1996-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780895267047

Here in one concise volume is St. Augustine's brilliant analysis of where faith and politics meet - casting a penetrating light on Roman civilization, the coming Middle Ages, ecclesiastical politics, and some of the most powerful ideas in the Western tradition, including Augustine's famous "just war theory" and his timeless ideas of how men should live in society.