Книга Feminists Read Habermas. Gendering the Subject of Discourse

This important new collection considers Jurgen Habermas's discourse theory from a variety of feminist vantage points. Feminist scholars have been drawn to Habermas's work because it reflects a tradition of emancipatory political thinking rooted in the Enlightenment and engages with the normative aims of emancipatory social movements. The essays in Feminists Read Habermas analyze various aspects of Habermas's work, ranging from his moral theory to political issues of identity and participation. The contributors share a conviction about the potential significance of Habermas's work for feminist reflections on power, norms and subjectivity.

Книга о политической и моральной философии А. Токвиля

The nineteenth-century French statesman and political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville described himself as a ‘liberal of a new kind’. This book is a significant contribution to a better understanding of liberalism and of the distinctive character of Tocqueville’s liberalism in particular. The main focus of the book is the nature of Tocqueville’s liberalism.
The author argues that Tocqueville seeks to reconcile the Christian and the citizen in the context of modernity and explores the question of how Tocqueville’s work synthesizes religion and politics.

Книга Ричарда Беллами - Либерализм и плюрализм. К политике компромисса

Pluralism permeates modern societies, dividing the loyalties of their members. Richard Bellamy suggests standard liberal theory cannot resolve the resulting clashes of ideals, interests and identities. Its attempts to construct a consensus by either trading, trimming or segregation, all fail. Trading suggests we can reach mutually advantageous bargains; trimming that we can avoid contentious issues; segregation that different groups try and live as separately as possible. Each of these responses, this book argues, seeks to circumvent the tensions arising out of pluralism, and promotes unjust or unstable settlements.

Книга Аренда Лейпхарта - Patterns of Democracy

"I welcome the opportunity to publish an updated edition of Patterns of Democracy, originally published in 1999, because it gives me an opportunity to test whether my main fi ndings and conclusions continue to be valid—especially my fi nding that the great variety of formal and informal rules and institutions that we fi nd in democracies can be reduced to a clear two-dimensional pattern on the basis of the contrast between majoritarian and consensus forms of government, and my conclusion that consensus democracies (measured on the fi rst of these dimensions) have a superior record with regard to effective policy-making and the quality of democracy compared with majoritarian democracies".

Книга Адриана Бирда - Язык политики

When the British Prime Minister Harold Wilson said ‘A week is a long time in politics’, he was referring to the fact that political success and failure were never far apart, and that a week could make all the difference either way. His words are equally relevant, though, to the sheer volume of material that is produced each week on political issues. To read, watch and listen to all the political output that the media produce each week would be impossible; we have to read selectively if we are to cope.This book, although titled The Language of Politics, is not claiming to be anything more than an introduction to some of the areas students might wish to research if they are interested in politics. Its data have been selected to illustrate certain broad principles, rather than to allow highly detailed analysis of specific political issues. With so many words produced by politicians and commentators, students rarely experience difficulty finding good contemporary data. What they do sometimes find difficult is knowing what to do with the data, and it is here that this book should help.

Книга Юлии Кристевой - Revolt She Said

Thirty years after the May movement it seemed timely for us to draw out the consequences of this "liberation-revolt" and to ask the author of Les Nouvelles Maladies de l'ame (1993, texts from 1979, tr. New Maladies of the Soul) why "the questioning of laws, norms and values is the crucial moment in the psychic life of individuals, as it is for societies." A writer and psychoanalyst, born in 1941 in Bulgaria, Julia Kristeva came to France at Christmas, .1965, where she discovered a shaken France that had just come out of the Algerian war and was retracting to a proud but anxious Gaullism. A privileged witness of events, at the age of 27 and within Tel Quel magazine5, she discovered the effervescence of the avant-gardes, she got close to the CGT trade union and the Communist Party, listened at the grass roots, admired the poet-president Mao. Over the years she rejected "hard-core" feminism, decrypted Jacques Lacan6, worked with Roland Barthes and Claude Levi-Strauss, read Louis Althusser

Книга Роберта Файна - Political Investigations. Hegel, Marx and Arendt