Книга Петера Слотердайка - Ярость и время

While ancient civilizations worshipped strong, active emotions, modern societies have favored more peaceful attitudes, especially within the democratic process. We have largely forgotten the struggle to make use of thymos, the part of the soul that, following Plato, contains spirit, pride, and indignation. Rather, Christianity and psychoanalysis have promoted mutual understanding to overcome conflict. Through unique examples, Peter Sloterdijk, the preeminent posthumanist, argues exactly the opposite, showing how the history of Western civilization can be read as a suppression and return of rage.
By way of reinterpreting the Iliad, Alexandre Dumas's Count of Monte Cristo, and recent Islamic political riots in Paris, Sloterdijk proves the fallacy that rage is an emotion capable of control. Global terrorism and economic frustrations have rendered strong emotions visibly resurgent, and the consequences of violent outbursts will determine international relations for decades to come. To better respond to rage and its complexity, Sloterdijk daringly breaks with entrenched dogma and contructs a new theory for confronting conflict. His approach acknowledges and respects the proper place of rage and channels it into productive political struggle.

Словарь ключевых понятий постколониальных исследований

Since the publication of Post-Colonial Studies nearly ten years ago the subject has expanded and diversified both in its impact and significance, in fields as varied as globalization, environmentalism, transnationalism, the sacred, and even economics, through the significance of the spread of neo-liberalism. The controversies in the field, particularly, circulating around the term ‘post-colonial/postcolonial’ itself continue unabated, but the relevance of neo-imperialism and the issues emerging from the engagements of post-colonized societies in a ‘glocal’ age have demonstrated the usefulness of post-colonial analysis.

Книга Бертрана Рассела - Власть. Новый социальный анализ

Even if it falls short of a general theory of human behaviour - as nearly all books on similar themes do—Power still makes
fascinating reading. Readers of Hume or Gibbon will delight is a similar irony, which the author occasionally uses against himself. The very occasional digressions into political philosophy proper are always enlightening. For instance Russell believes that the doctrine of the Rights of Man is philosophically indefensible. But the doctrine was historically useful and helped to win many of our current freedoms. A utilitarian can restate it in the following terms: ‘The general happiness is increased if a certain sphere is defined in which each individual is free to act as he chooses without the interference of any external authority’. This is not the last word, but at least it takes the discussion further.

Сборник - Демократия и плюрализм. Политическая мысль У. Конноли

William E. Connolly’s political theory forms a distinct and influential contribution tocontemporary debates about the nature and prospects of democratic fe in the twenty-first century. His original conceptualisations of luralism, naturalism, the politics of the body, religion, secularism and his aring incorporation of contemporary neurobiology into political theory and nalysis, have opened new paths for intellectual enquiry. Connolly has rought an American tradition of pragmatist political thinking into fruitful conversation with the best of contemporary continental European philosophy and given to both a new energy and focus.

Книга Ника Дайера-Уитерфорда - Киберпролетариат

Crisis and conflict open up opportunities for liberation. In the early twenty-first century, these moments are marked by struggles enacted over and across the boundaries of the virtual, the digital, the actual and the real. Digital cultures and politics connect people even as they simultaneously place them under surveillance and allow their lives to be mined for advertising. This series aims to intervene in such cultural and political conjunctures. It will feature critical explorations of the new terrains and practices of resistance, producing critical and informed explorations of the possibilities for revolt and liberation. Emerging research on digital cultures and politics investigates the effects of the widespread digitisation of increasing numbers of cultural objects, the new channels of communication swirling around us and the changing means of producing, remixing and distributing digital objects.
This research tends to oscillate between agendas of hope, that make remarkable claims for increased participation, and agendas of fear, that assume expanded repression and commodification. To avoid the opposites of hope and fear, the books in this series aggregate around the idea of the barricade. As sources of enclosure as well as defences for liberated space, barricades are erected where struggles are fierce and the stakes are high. They are necessarily partisan divides, different politicisations and deployments of a common surface. In this sense, new media objects, their networked circuits and settings, as well as their material, informational, and biological carriers all act as digital barricades.

Книга Donald P. Green and Ian Shapiro - Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory A Critique of Applications in Political Science

Since the publication of Kenneth Arrow's Social Choice and Individual Values in 1951 there has been an explosion of rational choice scholarship in political science, but there exists in it a curious disjunction that provides both the occasion and motivation for this book. On the one hand, great strides have been made in the theoretical elaboration of rational actor models. Formidable analytical challenges have attracted a number of first-class minds; rational choice theories have grown in complexity and sophistication as a result. On the other hand, successful empirical applications of rational choice models have been few and far between. Most of the early rational choice work was either not empirical at all, or it was crude and impressionistic. What is surprising is how little things have changed in this regard since the 1950s. When we began this study our goal was to understand and account for this relative dearth of sound empirical work. Early on we discovered that in the highly charged debates about the merits of rational choice theory protagonists tend to speak past one another. Practitioners operate within the confines of an esoteric technical vocabulary that is seldom understood by anyone else. Critics tend to ignore or heap scorn on the rational choice approach without understanding it fully. They dismiss its assumptions or scientific aspirations, or they get it wrong in elementary ways. Not surprisingly, practitioners generally ignore them.

Книга Стивена Велча - Теория политической культуры

According to one political science textbook, political culture belongs to a ‘rare category’ of concepts ‘over which social scientists are in accord’, and ‘despite considerable focus on it for a number of years by scholars of different persuasions there is overall agreement on its precise meaning and, more importantly, on its complex relationship to concepts of state and society’. Conversely, it has been suggested that ‘many now view [political culture] as little more than a footnote in the history of political research’. Then there is the much-quoted observation of Max Kaase that defining political culture resembles an ‘attempt to nail a pudding to the wall’. These views suggest that a theory of political culture, the project of this book, is not needed, desired, or even possible.