The Chains of Continuity Or the Flies of a Summer
Title | The Chains of Continuity Or the Flies of a Summer PDF eBook |
Author | John H. Goodrich |
Publisher | |
Pages | 718 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
A Companion to Michael Oakeshott
Title | A Companion to Michael Oakeshott PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Franco |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0271054077 |
"A collection of critical essays by leading scholars on British political philosopher Michael Oakeshott. Essays cover all aspects of Oakeshott's thought, from his theory of knowledge and philosophies of history, religion, art, and education to his reflections on morality, politics, and law"--Provided by publisher.
The Persistence of Violence
Title | The Persistence of Violence PDF eBook |
Author | Toby Miller |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2020-07-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1978817517 |
Why is Colombia so violent? Beyond even the horrors of the conflict between the guerrilla, the paramilitary, and the government, the history of the nation is scarred by acts of violence. It has also been marked by resistance to that history--by moments of hope.The Persistence of Violence transcends the obvious places as sources and indices of this story, delving into the complex and conflicted world of popular culture, from football to television to tourism to the environment.
History of English Literature
Title | History of English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Hippolyte Taine |
Publisher | |
Pages | 468 |
Release | 1877 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN |
Liberalism and Empire
Title | Liberalism and Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Uday Singh Mehta |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2018-06-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 022651918X |
We take liberalism to be a set of ideas committed to political rights and self-determination, yet it also served to justify an empire built on political domination. Uday Mehta argues that imperialism, far from contradicting liberal tenets, in fact stemmed from liberal assumptions about reason and historical progress. Confronted with unfamiliar cultures such as India, British liberals could only see them as backward or infantile. In this, liberals manifested a narrow conception of human experience and ways of being in the world. Ironically, it is in the conservative Edmund Burke—a severe critic of Britain's arrogant, paternalistic colonial expansion—that Mehta finds an alternative and more capacious liberal vision. Shedding light on a fundamental tension in liberal theory, Liberalism and Empire reaches beyond post-colonial studies to revise our conception of the grand liberal tradition and the conception of experience with which it is associated.
Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
Title | Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke PDF eBook |
Author | Edmund Burke |
Publisher | |
Pages | 466 |
Release | 1893 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
Green Political Thought
Title | Green Political Thought PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Dobson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 247 |
Release | 2012-10-02 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1134597134 |
Andrew Dobson's highly acclaimed introduction to green political thought is now available in a new edition. It has been fully revised and updated to take into account the areas that have grown in importance since the last edition was published. The third edition includes: * a comparison of ecologism with other principal modern ideologies, such as liberalism, conservatism, fascism, socialism, feminism and anarchism * an assessment of the relationship between green thinking and democracy, justice and citizenship * an exploration of 'sustainable development' addressing the fundamental question of 'what to sustain?' * real environmental problems and how green thinking relates to them.