Politics Of Meaning Meaning Of Politics

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The 2016 U.S. presidential election revealed a nation deeply divided and in flux. This volume provides urgently needed insights into American politics and culture during this period of uncertainty. The contributions answer the election’s key mysteries, such as how contemporary Christian evangelicals identified in the unrepentant candidate Trump a hero to their cause, and how working class and economically struggling Americans saw in the rich and ostentatious candidate a champion of their plight. The chapters explain how irrationality is creeping into political participation, and demonstrate how media developments enabled a phenomenon like “fake news” to influence the election. At this polarized and contentious moment, this volume satisfies the urgent need for works that carefully analyze the forces and tensions tearing at the American social fabric. Simultaneously intellectual and accessible, this volume is designed to illuminate the 2016 U.S. presidential election and its aftermath for academics and students of politics alike.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Jason L. Mast
Publisher : Springer
Release : 2018-11-12
File : 296 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783319959450


Reading Political Philosophy

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This clear and thorough introduction provides students with the skills necessary to understand the main thinkers, texts and arguments of political philosophy and thought. Each chapter comprises a brief overview of a major political thinker, followed by an introduction to one or more of their most influential works and an introduction to key secondary readings. Key features include: * exercises * reading notes * guides for further reading The book introduces and assesses: Machiavelli's Prince; Hobbes' Leviathan; Locke's Second Treatise on Government; Rousseau's Social Contract; Marx and Engels' German Ideology (Part 1); Mill's On Liberty and The Subjection of Women. Reading Political Philosophy requires no previous knowledge of philosophy or politics and is ideal for newcomers to political philosophy and political thought.

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : Derek Matravers
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2014-05-01
File : 396 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781134692378


Handbook Of Political Anthropology

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This Handbook engages the reader in the major debates, approaches, methodologies, and explanatory frames within political anthropology. Examining the shifting borders of a moving field of enquiry, it illustrates disciplinary paradigm shifts, the role of humans in political structures, ethnographies of the political, and global processes. Reflecting the variety of directions that surround political anthropology today, this volume will be essential reading to understanding the interactions of humans within political frames in a globalising world.

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Genre : Reference
Author : Harald Wydra
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Release : 2018-11-30
File : 508 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781783479016


Churchill And Hitler

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This collection of essays examines the development of Churchill and Hitler as strategic leaders and analyses in particular the impact of their formative years on their leadership styles, operational codes', views on civilmilitary relations, and approaches to the conduct of war at strategic, operational and tactical levels. Ultimately, victory depended on the calculated use of all the means of national power military, political, psychological and economic to achieve the national end. These essays demonstrate it was Churchill who best understood that calculation.

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Genre : History
Author : David Jablonsky
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2014-01-14
File : 336 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781135202583


Politics And Teleology In Kant

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This volume critically examines and elucidates the complex relationship between politics and teleology in Kant's philosophical system. Examining this relationship is of key philosophical importance since Kant develops his political philosophy in the context of a teleological conception of the purposiveness of both nature and human history. Kant's approach poses the dual task of reconciling his normative political theory with both his priori moral philosophy and his teleological philosophy of nature and human history. The fourteen essays in this volume, by leading scholars in the field, explore the relationship between teleology and politics from multiple perspectives. Together, the essays explore Kant's normative political theory and legal philosophy, his cosmopolitanism and views on international relations, his theory of history, his theory of natural teleology, and the broader relationship between morality, history, nature and politics in Kant's works. This important new volume will be of interest to a wide audience, including Kant scholars, scholars and students working on topics in moral and political philosophy, the philosophy of history, political theory and political science, legal scholars and international relations theorists, as well as those interested broadly in the history of ideas.

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : Tatiana Patrone
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Release : 2014-04-15
File : 286 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781783160679


Walter Benjamin S Philosophy

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This collection explores, in Adorno's description, `philosophy directed against philosophy'. The essays cover all aspects of Benjamin's writings, from his early work in the philosophy of art and language, through to the concept of history. The experience of time and the destruction of false continuity are identified as the key themes in Benjamin's understanding of history.

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : Andrew Benjamin
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2013-09-05
File : 314 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781134679140


Arendt On The Political

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Shows how Hannah Arendt opened up new ways of thinking about politics and a new approach to interpreting political history.

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : David Arndt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2019-10-24
File : 293 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781108498319


Economics As A Political Muse

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This book looks afresh, from a philosophical perspective, on the role economic theory plays in present-day ecological policy. It starts from fundamental questions concerning the nature of the problem of sustainability, of politics, and of economic science. It confronts the results of this investigation with the theoretical work of two prominent present-day economists. This book is written at a high academic level. It will be of interest to environmentalists, environmental economists, and for policy people charged with ecological problems.

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : M.K. Deblonde
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release : 2013-04-17
File : 225 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789401597678


The Politics Of Northern Ireland

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In this book, one of the leading authorities on contemporary Northern Ireland politics provides an original, sophisticated and innovative examination of the post-Belfast agreement political landscape. Written in a fluid, witty and accessible style, this book explores: how the Belfast Agreement has changed the politics of Northern Ireland whether the peace process is still valid the problems caused by the language of politics in Northern Ireland the conditions necessary to secure political stability the inability of unionists and republicans to share the same political discourse the insights that political theory can offer to Northern Irish politics the future of key political parties and institutions.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Arthur Aughey
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2005-01-27
File : 216 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781134336531


Max Weber Critical Assessments 2

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Genre : Sociologists
Author : Peter Hamilton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release : 1991
File : 470 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0415062071