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  • Alienation and Emancipation in the Work of Karl Marx

    by George C. Comninel ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book considers Karl Marx’s ideas in relation to the social and political context in which he lived and wrote. It emphasizes both the continuity of his commitment to the cause of full human emancipation, and the role of his critique of political economy in conceiving history to be the history of class struggles. The book follows his developing ideas from before he encountered political economy ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

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  • Nationalism

    Theory, Ideology, History

    by Anthony D. Smith ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    For the last two centuries, nationalism has been a central feature of society and politics. Few ideologies can match its power and resonance, and no other political movement and symbolic language has such worldwide appeal and resilience. But nationalism is also a form of public culture and political religion, which draws on much older cultural and symbolic forms.Seeking to do justice to these ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Marx

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Andrew Collier ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    An accessible and jargon-free introduction breathing new life into the achievements of Karl MarxAlthough one of the most influential thinkers of the last millennium, Karl Marx was relatively unheralded during most of his lifetime. Famous for predicting the inevitable demise of capitalism, it was only after his death that his immortal clarion call reached a wide audience: "Workers of the world ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Enlightenment's Wake

    Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age

    by John Gray ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    John Gray is the bestselling author of such books as Straw Dogs and Al Qaeda and What it Means to be Modern whichbrought a mainstream readership to a man who was already one of the UK's most well respected thinkers and political theorists.Gray wrote Enlightenment’s Wake in 1995 – six years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and six years before the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Marx's Inferno

    The Political Theory of Capital

    by William Clare Roberts ...
    Marx’s Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx’s Capital and inaugurates a completely new reading of a seminal classic. Rather than simply a critique of classical political economy, William Roberts argues that Capital was primarily a careful engagement with the motives and aims of the workers’ movement. Understood in this light, Capital emerges as a profound work of political theory. ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Importance of Being Civil

    The Struggle for Political Decency

    by John A. Hall ...
    Civility is desirable and possible, but can this fragile ideal be guaranteed? The Importance of Being Civil offers the most comprehensive look at the nature and advantages of civility, throughout history and in our world today. Esteemed sociologist John Hall expands our understanding of civility as related to larger social forces--including revolution, imperialism, capitalism, nationalism, and war ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies

    Edited by Michael Freeden, Lyman Tower Sargent, Marc Stears ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This is the first comprehensive volume to offer a state of the art investigation both of the nature of political ideologies and of their main manifestations. The diversity of ideology studies is represented by a mixture of the range of theories that illuminate the field, combined with an appreciation of the changing complexity of concrete ideologies and the emergence of new ones. Ideologies, ... Read more

    $49.59 CAD

  • Politics and Sociology in the Thought of Max Weber

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    This book provides an interpretation of one of the key aspects of Max Weber’s work: the relationship between his political and sociological writings. Weber’s sociological studies have often been treated as if they were completely separate from his political attitudes and interests, and in general his political writings have remained less well-known than his sociological work.The book contains ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital

    by Vivek Chibber ...
    Postcolonial theory has become enormously influential as a framework for understanding the Global South. It is also a school of thought popular because of its rejection of the supposedly universalizing categories of the Enlightenment. In this devastating critique, mounted on behalf of the radical Enlightenment tradition, Vivek Chibber offers the most comprehensive response yet to postcolonial ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Democracy Against Capitalism

    Renewing Historical Materialism

    by Ellen Meiksins Wood ...
    Historian and political thinker Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that theories of “postmodern” fragmentation, “difference,” and con-tingency can barely accommodate the idea of capitalism, let alone subject it to critique. In this book she sets out to renew the critical program of historical materialism by redefining its basic concepts and its theory of history in original and imaginative ways, using ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Nations and Nationalism in a Global Era

    by Anthony Smith ...
    In a world of transnational economics and mass communications, ethnic conflict and nationalism have recently re-emerged as major political forces. Is this due to the advance of modernity? Will a global culture supersede nationalism? In fact, the revolution of modernity has revitalized ethnic memories and communities, as people look for stability and meaning in an age of unprecedented change and ... Read more

    $37.25 CAD

  • Francis Fukuyama

    and the end of history

    by Howard Williams, E Gwynn Matthews, David Sullivan, E. Gwynn Matthews ...
    Series Book 1 - Political Philosophy Now
    Fukuyama's concept of the End of History has been one of the most widely debated theories of international politics since the end of the Cold War. This book discusses Fukuyama's claim that liberal democracy alone is able to satisfy the human aspiration for freedom and dignity, and explores the way in which his thinking is part of a philosophical tradition which includes Kant, Hegel and Marx. Two ... Read more

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