Category: History Theory

By Stefan Lange

ISBN-10: 3322805107

ISBN-13: 9783322805102

ISBN-10: 3531141252

ISBN-13: 9783531141251

Eine ideengeschichtliche Aufarbeitung von Niklas Luhmanns Gesamtwerk im Hinblick auf seine Essenz als politische Theorie galt lange Zeit als unerledigte Aufgabe der Politikwissenschaft. In diesem Buch wird erstmals eine Theorierekonstruktion vorgelegt, die alle politikrelevanten Schriften Luhmanns von 1964 bis 2000 in ihrem Zusammenhang erschließt. Die examine von Luhmanns Theorie der Politik erfolgt unter der Sonde zweier Begriffe, die zur Charakterisierung von Staatsgesellschaften von besonderem Interesse sind: politische Steuerung und politische Legitimität. Unter diesem thematischen Fokus wird die Möglichkeit einer wechselseitigen Verschränkung von Luhmanns universalistischer Systemtheorie mit einer normativ motivierten Zeitdiagnostik überprüft. Hiermit verquickt der Verfasser die those, dass sich Luhmanns Beitrag zur politischen Theorie auf eine "Abklärung der Staatsgesellschaft" im Sinne einer kritischen Zeitdiagnose des demokratischen Wohlfahrtsstaates und der ihn tragenden Gestaltungsutopien verdichten lässt.

By Charles Homer Haskins

ISBN-10: 0801490154

ISBN-13: 9780801490156

The starting place and nature of the earliest universities are the themes of this recognized and witty set of lectures by means of the fellow whom eminent students have known as "without exaggeration . . . the soul of the renascence of medieval experiences within the United States." nice because the ameliorations are among the earliest universities and people of at the present time, the very fact is still, says Professor Haskins, the "the college of the 20 th century is the lineal descendant of medieval Paris and Bologna." In demonstrating this truth, he brings to existence the associations, guide, professors, and scholars of the center a long time.

By Professor Joshua Derman

ISBN-10: 1107025885

ISBN-13: 9781107025882

Max Weber is commonly considered as one of many foundational thinkers of the 20th century. yet how did this reclusive German pupil be capable of depart such an indelible mark on glossy political and social idea? Max Weber in Politics and Social inspiration is the 1st entire account of Weber's wide-ranging influence on either German and American intellectuals. Drawing on a variety of assets, Joshua Derman illuminates what Weber intended to contemporaries within the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany and analyzes why they reached for his thoughts to articulate such commonly divergent understandings of contemporary lifestyles. It additionally money owed for the adjustments that Weber's recommendations underwent by the hands of émigré and American students, and in doing so, elucidates one of many significant highbrow routine of the mid-twentieth century: the transatlantic migration of German concept.

By Bernard Porter

ISBN-10: 1784534463

ISBN-13: 9781784534462

The British Empire was once an astonishingly advanced and sundry phenomenon, to not be diminished to any of the straightforward generalisations or theories which are frequently taken to characterise it. a technique of illustrating this, and so conveying many of the refined ‘flavour’ of the item itself, is to descend from the over-arching to the actual, and describe and talk about elements of it intimately. This ebook, by means of the well known imperial historian Bernard Porter, levels between quite a lot of the occasions and personalities that shaped―or have been formed by―British imperialism, or through its decline within the post-war years. those comprise chapters on technology, medicines, battles, proconsuls, a wierd collection of ‘imperialists’ together with Kipling, woman Hester Stanhope and TE Lawrence, structure, tune, the function of MI6 and the recognition of the Empire on the grounds that its dying. jointly the chapters tell, clarify, impress, and infrequently amuse; yet principally they show the kaleidoscopic style and ambivalence of Britain’s imperial background.

By James E. Dougherty

ISBN-10: 0397472366

ISBN-13: 9780397472369

ISBN-10: 0397472374

ISBN-13: 9780397472376

By Alexis de Tocqueville

By Charles Tilly

ISBN-10: 0394349415

ISBN-13: 9780394349411

From Mobilization to Revolution completely examines the methods humans act jointly in pursuit of universal pursuits. all through, the e-book current and applies a number of political strategy versions for the research of collective motion. historic and modern stories from all over the world illustrate the recurrent subject matter of the interaction among titanic structural alterations - state-making, enlargement of capitalism, urbanization, industrialization, and electoral politics - and the collective motion of normal humans, from demonstrations and brawls to moves and revolutions. Dr Tilly compares the competing highbrow traditions of Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Mill, and regularly clarifies the dialogue with schematic diagrams of the arguments. moreover, he bargains functional guidance for brand new learn and complicated examine geared toward senior and graduate scholars of political sociology, social hobbies, collective habit, and political advancements.

By Ken Butigan

ISBN-10: 079145777X

ISBN-13: 9780791457771

ISBN-10: 0791457788

ISBN-13: 9780791457788

ISBN-10: 1417506695

ISBN-13: 9781417506699

An account of the way the Nevada wasteland Experience-the nonviolent protest opposed to nuclear checking out that has been ongoing because the 1980s-has created a distinct non secular perform combining non secular ritual and political motion.

By Richard M. Weaver

"In what has develop into a vintage paintings, Richard M. Weaver unsparingly diagnoses the ills of our age and gives a pragmatic treatment. He asserts that the realm is intelligible, and that guy is unfastened. The catastrophes of our age are the product no longer of necessity yet of unintelligent selection. A therapy, he submits, is feasible. It lies within the correct use of man's cause, within the renewed popularity of an absolute truth, and in the popularity that ideas--like actions--have consequences."--Page four of cover.  Read more...

By James W. Chesebro

ISBN-10: 0817306749

ISBN-13: 9780817306748

Focuses feedback upon the writings of Kenneth Burke."This is a strong booklet. . . . We owe a debt of gratitude to James Chesebro. He and some others have visible to it that Kenneth Burke's precise inspiration received a whole and reasonable listening to from a brand new new release of students. the reason is, Chesebro has performed what many others have did not do. He has handled Burke's paintings now not as a closed approach yet as one of those source that needs to be formed anew for each problem or question."This quantity is the results of an open demand papers. Forty-three have been submitted and regarded through a variety committee that incorporated Bernard Brock, James Klumpp, Dale Bertelson and Timothy Thompson. . . . Chesebro geared up the amount into 4 events [that] characterize the ways that Burke's approach may perhaps proceed to behave as a fructifying impression in modern thought."—Burke publication reports, Kenneth Burke Society e-newsletter