Disenchanted Realists, Second Edition

Raymond Seidelman

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Political Theory: Contemporary Issues
• When it first appeared three decades ago, Raymond Seidelman's provocative study of the history of political science both attracted a great deal of att... Lees meer

What Should Political Theory Be Now?

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Political Theory: Contemporary Issues
• Confronted with the alienation of political theory from the practice of politics, prominent theorists respond in this book to the growing question: Wh... Lees meer

Discourse on Disenchantm

Gilbert G Germain

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Political Theory: Contemporary Issues
• This book is the first full-length study of the ongoing debate over the status of our "disenchanted" world-a world stripped of mysterious and supernat... Lees meer

Person and Polis

Stephen Frederick Schneck

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Political Theory: Contemporary Issues
• Martin Heidegger cited him as "the most potent philosophical power ... in all of contemporary philosophy." Ortega y Gasset called him "the first man o... Lees meer

Critical Theory, Public Policy, and Planning Practice

John Forester

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• Too often attacked as hopelessly abstract, contemporary critical social theory can help us to understand both public policy and its analysis. In this ... Lees meer

Theorizing Nationalism

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Political Theory: Contemporary Issues
• Presents some of the best work by political theorists on themes concerning citizenship, national identity, and the philosophical meaning of political ... Lees meer

Theorizing Citizenship

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Political Theory: Contemporary Issues
• This is an anthology of essays on citizenship by such well-known theorists as Habermas, Walzer, Flathman, Iris Marion Young, MacIntyre, Ignatieff, and... Lees meer

Recent Marxian Theory

John F Sitton

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Political Theory: Contemporary Issues
• Brings together prominent recent analyses within the Marxist tradition that bear on class formation and social conflict in contemporary capitalism and... Lees meer

Creative Individualism

Peter Lindsay Jr

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Political Theory: Contemporary Issues
• Constructs a cohesive picture of political theorist C. B. Macpherson's democratic vision, arguing that Macpherson's central message regarding the econ... Lees meer

Politics and Truth

Theresa Man Ling Lee

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Political Theory: Contemporary Issues
• Considers the contested concept of truth in contemporary politics in light of the postmodernist challenge to Enlightenment ideals and examines the tre... Lees meer

Reconstructing Political Pluralism

Avigail I Eisenberg

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• A reappraisal of the pluralist tradition that explores the accounts offered by James, Dewey, Figgis, Cole, Laski, Follett, and Dahl and extracts from ... Lees meer

Socrates and the Political Community

Mary P Nichols

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Political Theory: Contemporary Issues
• This book takes a fresh look at Socrates as he appeared to three ancient writers: Aristophanes, who attacked him for his theoretical studies; Plato, w... Lees meer

Natl Service/Citizenship

Eric B Gorham

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Political Theory: Contemporary Issues
• This book analyzes the issues surrounding civilian national service policy from a fresh and original perspective. The author connects national service... Lees meer

Marx and Engels

August H Nimtz Jr

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Political Theory: Contemporary Issues
• According to Nimtz, no two people contributed more to the struggle for democracy in the nineteenth century than Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Presen... Lees meer

Tradition, Interpretation, and Science

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Political Theory: Contemporary Issues
• This book reassesses the academic field of political theory and brings into sharp relief its problems and opportunities. Here for the first time, dive... Lees meer

Hermeneutics, Citizenship, and the Public Sphere

Roberto Alejandro

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• This book sheds new light on the question of democratic politics by proposing a hermeneutic conception of citizenship and the public sphere. At the sa... Lees meer

Disenchanted Realists

Raymond Seidelman

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Political Theory: Contemporary Issues
• Disenchanted Realists discusses the assumptions, hopes, and understandings of prominent liberal reformers--Woodrow Wilson, Lester Frank Ward, Charles ... Lees meer

Disenchanted Realists, Second Edition

Raymond Seidelman

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Political Theory: Contemporary Issues
• Raymond Seidelman (1951-2007) was Professor of Political Science at Sarah Lawrence College and the coeditor (with Bruce Miroff and Todd Swanstrom) of ... Lees meer

Marx and Engels

August H Nimtz Jr

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Political Theory: Contemporary Issues
• According to Nimtz, no two people contributed more to the struggle for democracy in the nineteenth century than Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Presen... Lees meer

The Crisis of Liberal Democracy

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Political Theory: Contemporary Issues
• The Crisis of Liberal Democracy is the first book devoted exclusively to Leo Strauss, one of the most influential and controversial political thinkers... Lees meer

Democratic Theories and the Constitution

Martin Edelman

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Political Theory: Contemporary Issues
• Although the government of the United States is traditionally viewed as a democracy, there is considerable disagreement about what democracy means and... Lees meer

Putting Choice Before Democracy

Emily Hauptmann

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Political Theory: Contemporary Issues
• Shows how rational choice theory's critique and justification of democracy fails in its project to recast democratic theory. In this critique of ratio... Lees meer

The Political Consequences of Thinking

Jennifer Ring

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Political Theory: Contemporary Issues
• Applies the perspectives of gender and ethnicity in a feminist analysis of the Eichmann controversy and offers a wholly new interpretation of Arendt's... Lees meer

Democracy and Possessive Individualism

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Political Theory: Contemporary Issues
• C. B. Macpherson was one of the leading political theorists in North America and perhaps the most influential voice on the left for a view of liberal ... Lees meer