Reconstructing The Classics

Author : Edward Bryan Portis
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing the Classics written by Edward Bryan Portis and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2007-06-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To truly understand the substance and value of any great philosopher’s work, students must examine political theory against the backdrop of history, the surrounding literature, and the individual theorist’s views on human nature and rational motivation. In this third edition of his classic text, Edward Portis provides students with the framework they need to fully appreciate the original texts they are reading and apply the concepts they are learning. Fully updated since the previous edition almost a decade ago, Portis expands his coverage to include a complete chapter on Max Weber. Further, Portis strengthens his lucid introductions to the greatest theorists of Western political thought, proving them indispensable guides for both the politically engaged citizen and the practicing social scientist. He also provides suggestions, updated for this edition, for further reading in political theory.

Author : Edward Bryan Portis
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 : 1544359780
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing the Classics written by Edward Bryan Portis and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2007-06-07 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To truly understand the substance and value of any great philosopher’s work, students must examine political theory against the backdrop of history, the surrounding literature, and the individual theorist’s views on human nature and rational motivation. In this third edition of his classic text, Edward Portis provides students with the framework they need to fully appreciate the original texts they are reading and apply the concepts they are learning. Fully updated since the previous edition almost a decade ago, Portis expands his coverage to include a complete chapter on Max Weber. Further, Portis strengthens his lucid introductions to the greatest theorists of Western political thought, proving them indispensable guides for both the politically engaged citizen and the practicing social scientist. He also provides suggestions, updated for this edition, for further reading in political theory.

Author : Edward Bryan Portis
Publisher : Chatham House Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing the Classics written by Edward Bryan Portis and published by Chatham House Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work asserts the necessity of studying the works of seminal thinkers of the past in order to comprehend and articulate the fundamental theoretical assumptions that underlie all political behaviour. The author explains that what the classic thinkers offer to practicing political scientists and students alike are conceptual options, alternatives to one another and to the unstated conventional wisdom of our cultural context, tools for the clarification of one's own thought and observations of contemporary phenomena.

Author : Karl-J. Hölkeskamp
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691140383
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing the Roman Republic written by Karl-J. Hölkeskamp and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-11 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, scholars have argued that the Roman Republic's political culture was essentially democratic in nature, stressing the central role of the 'sovereign' people and their assemblies. Karl-J. Hölkeskamp challenges this view in Reconstructing the Roman Republic, warning that this scholarly trend threatens to become the new orthodoxy, and defending the position that the republic was in fact a uniquely Roman, dominantly oligarchic and aristocratic political form. Hölkeskamp offers a comprehensive, in-depth survey of the modern debate surrounding the Roman Republic. He looks at the ongoing controversy first triggered in the 1980s when the 'oligarchic orthodoxy' was called into question by the idea that the republic's political culture was a form of Greek-style democracy, and he considers the important theoretical and methodological advances of the 1960s and 1970s that prepared the ground for this debate. Hölkeskamp renews and refines the 'elitist' view, showing how the republic was a unique kind of premodern city-state political culture shaped by a specific variant of a political class. He covers a host of fascinating topics, including the Roman value system; the senatorial aristocracy; competition in war and politics within this aristocracy; and the symbolic language of public rituals and ceremonies, monuments, architecture, and urban topography. Certain to inspire continued debate, Reconstructing the Roman Republic offers fresh approaches to the study of the republic while attesting to the field's enduring vitality.

Author : Charles Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674246632
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Democracy written by Charles Taylor and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An urgent manifesto for the reconstruction of democratic belonging in our troubled times.” —Davide Panagia Across the world, democracies are suffering from a disconnect between the people and political elites. In communities where jobs and industry are scarce, many feel the government is incapable of understanding their needs or addressing their problems. The resulting frustration has fueled the success of destabilizing demagogues. To reverse this pattern and restore responsible government, we need to reinvigorate democracy at the local level. But what does that mean? Drawing on examples of successful community building in cities large and small, from a shrinking village in rural Austria to a neglected section of San Diego, Reconstructing Democracy makes a powerful case for re-engaging citizens. It highlights innovative grassroots projects and shows how local activists can form alliances and discover their own power to solve problems.

Author : Edward Bryan Portis
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791445921
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Theory and Partisan Politics written by Edward Bryan Portis and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-05-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political theorists typically define political action in terms of rational potential rather than conflict, and for this reason neglect the partisan nature of political experience. This volume redresses this neglect, focusing on the interrelated questions of whether the task of political theory is to find some means of containing partisan politics and whether political theory is itself separate from partisan politics.

Author : Douglas G. Baird
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674073568
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Contracts written by Douglas G. Baird and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas Baird takes stock of the current state of contract doctrine and in the process reinvigorates the classic framework of Anglo-American contract law, showing that Oliver Wendell Holmes’s set of principles, properly understood, continue to provide the best guide to contracts for a new generation of students, practitioners, and judges.

Author : Ted Hopf
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199858489
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing the Cold War written by Ted Hopf and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title explores how the early years of the Cold War were marked by contradictions and conflict. It looks at how the turn from Stalin's discourse of danger to the discourse of difference under his successors explains the abrupt changes in relations with Eastern Europe, China, the decolonizing world, and the West.

Author : Kelly L. Wrenhaven
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0715638025
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing the Slave written by Kelly L. Wrenhaven and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the importance of slavery to Greek society has long been recognised, most studies have primarily drawn upon representations of slaves as sources of evidence for the historical institution, while there has been little consideration of what the representations can tell us about how the Greeks perceived slaves and why. Although historical reality clearly played a part in the way slaves were represented, Reconstructing the Slave stresses that this was not the primary purpose of these images, which reveal more about how slave-owners perceived or wanted to perceive slaves than the reality of slavery. Through an examination of lexical, visual and literary representations of slaves, the book considers how the image of the slave was used to justify, reinforce and naturalize slavery in ancient Greece.

Author : Pamela Brandwein
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822323167
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Reconstruction written by Pamela Brandwein and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the contest to construct history, focusing on competing versions of Reconstruction history supported by different factions after the Civil War. The author analyzes how the ultimately dominant version of the history won credence and how that in