Category: Political Theory

By Bruno Bosteels

By James S. Fishkin

Worldwide, democratic reforms have introduced energy to the folks, yet less than stipulations the place the folks have little chance to consider the facility that they workout. during this publication, James Fishkin combines a brand new thought of democracy with real perform and indicates how an idea that harks again to historical Athens can be utilized to restore our smooth democracies. while the folks converse outlines deliberative democracy initiatives carried out by way of the writer with a variety of collaborators within the US, China, Britain, Denmark, Australia, Italy, Bulgaria, Northern eire, and within the complete ecu Union. those tasks have led to the large growth of wind strength in Texas, the construction of sewage therapy vegetation in China, and larger mutual realizing among Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland.

Reviews:

"James Fishkin is a magnificent individual...Fishkin has performed what (to my wisdom) no different democratic theorist has tried, particularly, to layout his personal democratic institution--the deliberative ballot (DP)...The [accompanying DVD] bargains an integral perception into how a DP works and may play an invaluable pedagogical functionality: it's going to brighten up discussions on democratic recommendations within the seminar room and likewise enlighten these many critics of Fishkin who sincerely do not realize or enjoy the designs dynamics." --Perspectives on Politics

"After a long time of perfecting the paintings of deliberative polling from his position as director of the guts for Deliberative Democracy at Stanford collage, Fishkin deals clean facts of the promise the version holds for democracy... marvelous study; strongly recommended." --CHOICE

"It is a superb, infrequent mixture of deep political idea and cautious consciousness to the sensible demanding situations to creating democracy work." --Sidney Milkis, collage of Virginia Professor of Politics

"Intriguing...a portrait of public opinion that's extra considerate than top-of-the-head responses to pollster questions." --Walter Shapiro, PoliticsDaily.com

"James Fishkin has spearheaded an bold venture to marry the trendy technology of opinion polling with the best of democratic discussion...When the folk converse is the newest formal enunciation of this new method. It's now not Fishkin's first booklet at the subject however it is the main theoretically bold and entire to date." --Lynn M. Sanders, affiliate Professor of Politics, college of Virginia

"When the folks communicate is either a heartfelt plea for a much more deliberative notion of political democracy and a rigorous research of what now represent virtually twenty years of information accrued during engaging in what Fishkin phrases "deliberative polls" worldwide. Fishkin is sort of actually certain in combining the skills of a world-class political theorist with these of an both first-class social scientist...asking certainly radical questions on our political order and, whilst, suggesting what will be both radical changes." --Sanford Levinson, Chair in legislations and Professor of presidency, college of Texas at Austin, and writer of Our Undemocratic structure

"Since James Fishkin designed deliberative opinion polls nearly twenty years in the past, they've been carried out round the world...This specific kind of deliberative polling, reconceptualized such a lot lately in while the folk communicate, is probably going the simplest institutional mechanism identified thus far for bringing to existence the right of deliberative democracy." --Albena Azmanova, Director of application in foreign Political economic climate and Political method and verbal exchange, Brussels tuition of foreign reports, collage of Kent

"The Deliberative Polls of James Fishkin signify this present day the most effective of makes an attempt to pattern what a thought of public opinion may be on problems with political importance."--Jane Mansbridge, Professor of Political management and Democratic Values, John F. Kennedy university of presidency, Harvard college

"James Fishkin is the unquestioned king of deliberative polls (DPs), a tool whose achieve is now very striking indeed... Fishkin writes accessibly and with elegance... Arguments are persuasively crafted... Inspiring." --Sociology

By Iris Marion Young, Jacob T. Levy

Colonialism and Its Legacy brings jointly essays by way of prime students in either the fields of political concept and the historical past of political considered eu colonialism and its legacies, and postcolonial social and political concept. The essays discover the ways that ecu colonial tasks based and formed a lot of contemporary political idea, how ideas from political philosophy affected and have been learned in colonial and imperial perform, and the way we will comprehend the highbrow and social global left at the back of by means of a half-millennium of eu empires. the amount levels from the start of modernity to the current day, analyzing colonialism and colonial legacies in India, Africa, Latin the United States, and North the US.

By Gabriel Egan

Marxist cultural idea underlies a lot instructing and examine in college departments of literature and has performed a very important position within the improvement of contemporary theoretical paintings. Feminism, New Historicism, cultural materialism, postcolonial conception, and queer idea all draw upon principles approximately cultural construction which might be traced to Marx, and considerably every one additionally has a distinct relation with Renaissance literary reports. This ebook explores the earlier and carrying on with effect of Marx's principles in paintings on Shakespeare. Marx's rules approximately cultural creation and its relation to monetary construction are basically defined, including the traditional terminology and ideas corresponding to base/superstructure, ideology, commodity fetishism, alienation, and reification. The effect of Marx's principles at the concept and perform of Shakespeare feedback and function is traced from the Victorian age to the current day. the continued value of those principles is illustrated through new Marxist readings of King Lear, Hamlet, The service provider of Venice, Timon of Athens, The Comedy of error, All's good that Ends good, and The Winter's story.

By Ian Buchanan, Adrian Parr

With twelve new essays, this quantity applies the pragmatic philosophy of Deleuze to present affairs concerning army task within the center East, refugees, terrorism, details and conversation, and the country. themes comprise political idea and philosophy, cultural reports, sociology, foreign experiences, and heart japanese studies.

By A. N. McLaren

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In Europe, an remarkable variety of lady rulers got here to energy through the interval while spiritual reformation remodeled early sleek society and tradition. The twist of fate caused males, in England and somewhere else, to discuss and contest authority kin in strongly gendered phrases. during this significant contribution to principles in Context Anne McLaren explores the implications for English political tradition whilst, with the accession of Elizabeth I, Protestant imperial kingship got here to be invested within the individual of a queen. She appears at how Elizabeth controlled to rule, within the face of substantial resistance, and demonstrates how competition to lady rule used to be articulated and enacted via parliament, through preachers, by means of councillors and through favourites. Dr McLaren argues that in Elizabeth's reign males have been in a position to settle for the guideline of a lady partially via inventing a definition of 'citizen', one who made it an completely male id, and he or she emphasises the cultural and political continuities among Elizabeth's reign and the outbreak of the English civil wars within the 17th century. a piece of cultural heritage trained through political inspiration, Political tradition within the Reign of Elizabeth I makes an important contribution to Tudor historiography and provides a resounding reinterpretation of the political dynamics of the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

Review
"A. N. McLaren's research of political tradition within the first a part of the reign of Elizabeth is a considerate and punctiliously researched learn that offers with the connections among ideology and politics, on how recommendations of hierarchy, patriarchy, and commonwealth replaced within the reign of Elizabeth I. The examine for the examine and the research are either good. Readers may still persevere, besides the fact that, as Political tradition within the Reign of Elizabeth I asks students to consider the connections among ideology and politics in new and critical ways." Renaissance Quarterly

By Warren Breckman

Marxism's cave in within the 20th century profoundly altered the fashion and substance of Western eu radical concept. to construct a better kind of democratic conception and motion, famous theorists moved to reject revolution, abandon type for extra fragmented versions of social motion, and bring up the political over the social. Acknowledging the constructedness of society and politics, they selected the "symbolic" as an idea robust adequate to reinvent leftist suggestion outdoor a Marxist framework. Following Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Adventures of the Dialectic, which reassessed philosophical Marxism at mid century, Warren Breckman seriously revisits those exciting experiments within the aftermath of Marxism.

The post-Marxist concept of the symbolic is dynamic and intricate, uncannily echoing the early German Romantics, who first complex a latest perception of symbolism and the symbolic. Hegel and Marx denounced the Romantics for his or her otherworldly and nebulous posture, but post-Marxist thinkers favored the wealthy power of the ambiguities and paradoxes the Romantics first well-known. Mapping varied rules of the symbolic between modern thinkers, Breckman strains a desirable mirrored image of Romantic subject matters and resonances, and he explores intensive the hassle to reconcile an intensive and democratic political time table with a politics that doesn't privilege materialist understandings of the social. attractive with the paintings of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Cornelius Castoriadis, Claude Lefort, Marcel Gauchet, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, and Slavoj Žižek, Breckman uniquely situates those vital theorists inside of 200 years of ecu idea and extends their profound relevance to today's political activism.

By Jan-Werner Mülller

This publication is the 1st significant account of political proposal in twentieth-century Europe, either West and East, to seem because the finish of the chilly warfare. Skillfully mixing highbrow, political, and cultural historical past, Jan-Werner Müller elucidates the guidelines that formed the interval of ideological extremes prior to 1945 and the liberalization of West eu politics after the second one international warfare. He additionally bargains shiny photographs of well-known in addition to unjustly forgotten political thinkers and the pursuits and associations they inspired.

Müller will pay specific recognition to principles complicated to justify fascism and the way they relate to the unique type of liberal democracy that used to be created in postwar Western Europe. He additionally explains the impression of the Sixties and neoliberalism, finishing with a severe overview of today's self-consciously post-ideological age.

Review
" [An] notable survey of 20th-century ecu political thought.”—Tony Barber, monetary Times
(Tony Barber monetary instances 2011-08-20)

'This is a pathbreaking learn within the highbrow background of Europe in our time. Analysing rules that had political effect, Jan-Werner Mülller illuminates a unending debate approximately real and fake democracy.' - Timothy Garton Ash
(Timothy Garton Ash)

'The such a lot leading edge elements of this admirably thorough and accomplished publication take care of the now not so liberal roots of the liberal political associations and practices that got here to fruition in post-war Europe. What moves me is the balanced remedy of advancements in Western and japanese Europe.' - Jürgen Habermas
(J�rgen Habermas)

'Ideology is where the place conception and perform, philosophy and historical past, meet. comprehend this "in-between" and also you are good in your strategy to knowing the inner most dynamics that form glossy political lifestyles. during this illuminating research Jan-Werner Müller is helping us see the adventure of twentieth-century Europe, East and West, in a clean mild via exhibiting how its attribute ideologies built, functioned, and tailored to the area they created. via targeting "political concept that issues politically" Müller takes us past the easy tales we now have inherited approximately revolution and response, post-war reconstruction, the chilly warfare, the Sixties, and lots more and plenty else. by way of the tip he places us in a far better place to appreciate the forces at paintings in modern ecu politics and the unusual charm of the "anti-political" ideology that governs our time.' - Mark Lilla, writer of The Reckless brain: Intellectuals in Politics
(Mark Lilla)

'The nice success of Jan Werner Müller's Contesting Democracy is to steer us adequately around the immense unruly manifestos of eu political principles, from the appalling doctrines that helped generate the totalitarian regimes and international wars to the uneasy decency of our personal period, with no sacrificing the reader's experience of urgency and signifiance.' - Charles S. Maier
(Charles Maier)

'Jan-Werner Müller’s Contesting Democracy is the main philosophically refined and topically entire learn of political principles in 20th- century Europe but on hand. It shows a masterful command of basic texts, archival assets, and myriad secondary literatures. Müller assembles for political theorists, highbrow historians and social scientists formerly disparate items of intellectual-political existence from the final, such a lot incomprehensible century on that perpetually at a loss for words and infinitely complicated continent. by means of so expertly conveying the whole importance of communism, fascism, liberalism, social democracy and Christian democracy, Müller makes the eu 20th century even more fathomable from a historic, ethical and political point of view than any prior paintings, in any language.' - John P. McCormick, writer of Machiavellian Democracy
(John P. McCormick)

“…… [A] wonderful examine of the influence of mass democracy on ecu political cultures.”—David Marquand, the hot Statesman
(David Marquand the recent Statesman 2011-08-22)

“…..[An] very good book…..Müller offers an insightful and complete assessment of the advance of political principles in 20th-century Europe that takes in Fascism, Communism, social democracy, liberalism, and masses else.—Jeremy Jennings, point of view Magazine
(Jeremy Jennings point of view journal 2011-09-13)

“Muller’s profound and stimulating ebook has a lot to provide, either to experts and for others.”—Roger Morgan, instances larger Education
(Roger Morgan instances larger schooling 2011-10-06)

“There is not any bankruptcy of the 20 th century’s eu political proposal that isn't luminously analysed during this beautifully written, lucidly argued and immensely attractive book.”—Vladimir Tismaneanu, overseas Affairs
(Vladimir Tismaneanu overseas Affairs 2012-01-01)

"Jan-Werner Muller has written an exceptional e-book which for the 1st time supplies us a competent synthesis of twentieth-century eu political thought." eu assessment of History
(European assessment of heritage 2012-08-27)

"The originality of Contesting Democracy stems in sturdy half from the range of its topic, its good thought-out constitution, and, final yet now not least, its vigorous anecdotes and remarkable charges. Müller writes elegantly and has an exceptional eye for vital principles and missed authors." A. Craiutu, Springer.
(A. Craiutu Springer 2012-07-31)

The guy Who suggestion He was once Napoleon is outfitted round a extraordinary old occasion and an off-hand problem. the development? In December 1840, approximately two decades after his loss of life, the continues to be of Napoleon have been lower back to Paris for burial—and the following day, the director of a Paris health facility for the insane admitted fourteen males who claimed to be Napoleon. The problem, in the meantime, is the declare by means of nice French psychiatrist Jean-Étienne-Dominique Esquirol (1772–1840) that he might recount the heritage of France via asylum registries.

From these parts, Laure Murat embarks on an exploration of the remarkable courting among background and insanity. She uncovers numerous tales of sufferers whose delusions appear to be rooted within the historic or political traumas in their time, just like the watchmaker who believed he lived with a brand new head, his unique having been got rid of on the guillotine. within the bothered wake of the Revolution, in the meantime, French physicians clinically determined a couple of psychological health problems tied to present occasions, from “revolutionary neuroses” and “democratic disease” to the “ambitious monomania” of the recovery. How, Murat asks, do heritage and psychiatry, the country and the person psyche, interface?

A attention-grabbing background of psychiatry—but of a totally new sort—The guy Who concept He used to be Napoleon deals the 1st sustained research of the intertwined discourses of insanity, psychiatry, historical past, and political idea.

By Stanley Pierson

The cave in of Marxism as a compelling ideology and political strength is without doubt one of the most vital advancements within the heritage of twentieth-century Europe. This e-book seeks to appreciate the failure of Marxism through viewing it up shut, within the stories of 3 very important Marxist intellectuals—the Belgian Henri De guy, the German Max Horkheimer, and the Pole Leszek Kolakowski—each of whom embraced Marxism early in existence and later decisively rejected it. the writer makes a speciality of the approaches during which those 3 figures misplaced their religion in Marxism, thereby supplying the framework for a extra common account of contemporary ideological disenchantment.

An introductory bankruptcy surveys an previous level of that disenchantment through analyzing the allure of Nietzsche and his idea of the superman to Marxist intellectuals in all of the significant eu socialist events, focusing rather on those that have misplaced self belief within the redemptive old position of the proletariat. In learning the ideological trajectory of De guy, Horkheimer, and Kolakowski, the writer identifies the typical dilemmas they confronted of their efforts to develop the Marxist reason. these dilemmas arose largely out of the conflict among their bourgeois moral sensibilities and the materialistic and deterministic outlook of orthodox Marxism. This conflict offers a connecting hyperlink among the 3 generations of Marxist intellectuals handled within the study.

The writer additionally discusses the aftermath of those 3 models of ideological disenchantment—the makes an attempt of every of those intellectuals to reconstruct a view of the area following the dissolution of his Marxist religion. The ebook concludes by way of putting Marxism in a large historic context, and increases questions about its place—and that of the utopian mind's eye in general—within Western civilization.

Reviews:

"Pierson presents an intelligible contribution to highbrow background, putting the careers of his matters within the political and ideoological currents in their times."—History: reports of recent Books

"Thoughtful, thorough, and provocative, this e-book joins a growing to be physique of scholarship that examines highbrow political engagement thrugh Marxism as a sort of religion up to a look for knowledge."—Choice

From the interior Flap:

The cave in of Marxism as a compelling ideology and political strength is among the most vital advancements within the background of twentieth-century Europe. This e-book seeks to appreciate the failure of Marxism via viewing it up shut, within the studies of 3 vital Marxist intellectuals—the Belgian Henri De guy, the German Max Horkheimer, and the Pole Leszek Kolakowski—each of whom embraced Marxism early in lifestyles and later decisively rejected it. the writer specializes in the techniques by which those 3 figures misplaced their religion in Marxism, thereby offering the framework for a extra common account of recent ideological disenchantment.

An introductory bankruptcy surveys an previous level of that disenchantment through interpreting the allure of Nietzsche and his inspiration of the superman to Marxist intellectuals in all the significant ecu socialist hobbies, focusing rather on those that have misplaced self assurance within the redemptive old function of the proletariat. In learning the ideological trajectory of De guy, Horkheimer, and Kolakowski, the writer identifies the typical dilemmas they confronted of their efforts to boost the Marxist reason. these dilemmas arose largely out of the conflict among their bourgeois moral sensibilities and the materialistic and deterministic outlook of orthodox Marxism. This conflict presents a connecting hyperlink among the 3 generations of Marxist intellectuals handled within the study.

The writer additionally discusses the aftermath of those 3 models of ideological disenchantment—the makes an attempt of every of those intellectuals to reconstruct a view of the realm following the dissolution of his Marxist religion. The e-book concludes via putting Marxism in a vast old context, and increases questions on its place—and that of the utopian mind's eye in general—within Western civilization.