Zbirka: Politične vede in teorije
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Analysis of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities(2017) FULLER, MARTIN,MOORE, RYANAmerican author, journalist, and activist Jane Jacobs was born in 1916 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She moved to New York City in 1934, where she became a journalist, writing for magazines including Architectural Forum and Fortune.Vezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth(2017) QUINN, RILEYFrantz Fanon’s 1961 masterpiece is both a powerful analysis of the psychological effects of colonization and a rallying cry for violent uprising and independence.Vezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations(2017) ORR, JAMESMost likely written between 170 and 180, Meditations is a remarkable work, a unique insight into one of the most conscientious and able Roman emperors, Marcus Aurelius, who ruled at the apex of the empire’s power.Vezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers(2017) QUINN, RILEYKennedy sought to understand the social, economic, and military forces that shape great powers. While earlier scholars of international history had written about ‘great men’ and their achievements, Kennedy focused on the interdependence of military mightVezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of John Lewis Gaddis's We Now Know(2017) GILFILLAN, SCOTTWhat really happened when the world’s two greatest superpowers went head to head during the Cold War? We Now Know is a major reappraisal of the struggle for political and ideological supremacy between the United States and the Soviet Union from 1945 to thVezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs & Steel(2017) QUINN, RILEYWinner of the 1998 Pulitzer, Guns, Germs, and Steel attempts to answer why human history unfolded differently on different continents.Vezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Roland Barthes's Mythologies(2017) GOMEZ, JOHN E.Advertisements for soap. The image of a film star. We accept these common objects as a normal part of our life. But each also carries hidden messages that none of us even suspect - as Barthes demonstrated in his unique analysis of the signs that generateVezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Edward Said's Orientalism(2017) QUINN, RILEYAdvertisements for soap. The image of a lm star. We accept these common objects as a normal part of our life. But each also carries hidden messages that none of us even suspect – as Barthes demonstrated in his unique analysis of the signs that generate meVezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order(2017) QUINN, RILEYIn his highly influential 1996 book, Huntington offers a vision of a post-Cold War world in which conflict takes place not between competing ideologies but between cultures.Vezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice(2017) DIONIGI, FILIPPO,KLEIDOSTY, JEREMYRawls’ 1971 text links the idea of social justice to a basic sense of fairness that recognizes human rights and freedoms.Vezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions(2017) HEDESAN, JO,TENDLER, JOSEPHMore than a classic work on the history and philosophy of science, Kuhn’s 1962 book is considered by many to be one of the greatest works of the 20th century. Kuhn helped change the way everyone looks at science.Vezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Judith Butler's Gender Trouble(2017) SMITH-LAING, TIMButler's 1990 work shook the foundations of feminist theory and changed the conversation about gender. While many thinkers already accepted that "gender" was a category constructed by society defined by one's genitalia, Butler went further and argued thatVezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Karl Marx's Capital(2017) MACAT TEAMA critical analysis of Karl Marx’s Capital. Controversial and passionately debated to this day, it is nonetheless a fine example of the creative combination of a philosophical method (the dialectic) with historical and economic information to produce a neVezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Robert D. Putnam's Bowling Alone(2017) MORROW, ELIZABETHIn one of the most frequently cited social science publications of the last half-century, Robert D. Putnam draws heavily on the critical thinking skill of interpretation to demonstrate that Americans are interacting less and creating less “social capital”Vezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Max Weber's Politics as a Vocation(2017) MCCLEAN, TOM‘Politics as a Vocation’ examines what makes good political leaders and explores the effects of political action on modern societies. On one level, it summarizes the political scholarship of one of the founding fathers of social science. On another, it reVezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's Can the Subaltern Speak?(2017) RIACH, GRAHAMA critical analysis of Spivak's classic 1988 postcolonial studies essay, in which she argues that the poorest and most marginalized in society (the subalterns) have no platform or voice to affect policy debates or demand a fairer share of society’s goods.Vezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Aristotle's Metaphysics(2017) CELKYTE, ASISTEHow many books can claim to be so influential as to inspire the development of a whole school of thought? Metaphysics did exactly that, laying the foundations for a new branch of philosophy concerned with the cause and nature of being.Vezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of John Stuart Mill's On Liberty(2017) CAMPI, ASHLEIGH,SCORGIE-PORTER, LINDSAYOne of the most significant works of political philosophy, John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty (1859) defines and defends individual liberty, a cornerstone of classical liberal thinking.Vezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality(2017) BERRY, DONWritten in 1887, when Nietzsche was at the height of his powers as a philosopher and writer, On the Genealogy of Morality criticizes the idea that there is just one acceptable moral code.Vezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams(2017) JENKINS, WILLIAMThere is arguably no more famous book about the arts of interpretation and analysis than Sigmund Freud’s 1899 Interpretation of Dreams. Though Freud’s theories have often been criticized, he remains the undisputed master of interpretation – with his critiVezava: Mehka11,59 €
