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Political Theory on Death and Dying
Author: Erin A. DolgoyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100045178X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Political Theory on Death and Dying provides a comprehensive, encyclopedic review that compiles and curates the latest scholarship, research, and debates on the political and social implications of death and dying. Adopting an easy-to-follow chronological and multi-disciplinary approach on 45 canonical figures and thinkers, leading scholars from a diverse range of fields, including political science, philosophy, and English, discuss each thinker’s ethical and philosophical accounts on mortality and death. Each chapter focuses on a single established figure in political philosophy, as well as religious and literary thinkers, covering classical to contemporary thought on death. Through this approach, the chapters are designed to stand alone, allowing the reader to study every entry in isolation and with greater depth, as well as trace how thinkers are influenced by their predecessors. A key contribution to the field, Political Theory on Death and Dying provides an excellent overview for students and researchers who study philosophy of death, the history of political thought, and political philosophy.
Political Science
Author: William J. CrottyPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810109230
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In this volume, the study of legislatures has traditionally been a central preoccupation of political scientists. Legislatures provide good laboratories for testing theories and methodologies of significance in the discipline and, more broadly, for contributing to an understanding of how representative government works.
Political Theory for Mortals
Author: John E. SeeryPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501718312
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Despite an abundance of violence occurring in political contexts, no liberal political theorist since Thomas Hobbes has talked directly and coherently about death. John E. Seery does. He contends that liberalism desperately needs a theoretical framework in which to discuss pressing matters of human mortality. Among the contemporary political issues that cry out for theoretical articulation, Seery suggests, are abortion politics, ethnic cleansing, suicide assistance, national reparations, environmental degradation, and capital punishment. Seery offers a new conception of social contract theory as a framework for confronting death issues. He urges us to look to an older tradition of descent into an underworld, wherein classic theorists consulted poetically with the dead and acquired from them political insight and direction.In this lively book, Seery excavates the infernal tradition by rereading the politics of death in Platonism, early Christianity, and contemporary feminism. Building on those traditions, he proposes a new, constructive image of death that can serve democratic theory productively. Reconsidered from the "land of the shades," social contractarian theory is sufficiently altered that, for example, a pro-life Christian and a pro-choice secularist might be able to strike common ground upon which to discuss abortion politics.
Death and Dying
Author: Larry A. BugenPublisher:
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Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Reappraising Political Theory
Author: Terence BallPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198279531
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Ball begins by setting out his liberating view of the way we should approach 'classic' texts. He offers new readings - and reappraisals - of key authors and classic works in political theory, arguing that the importance of the great texts lies in their repeated reinterpretation in the light of problems that arise for present-day readers.
What Should Political Theory Be Now?
Author: John S. NelsonPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438414404
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Confronted with the alienation of political theory from the practice of politics, prominent theorists respond in this book to the growing question: What should political theory be now? New and original contributions by such thinkers as Charles Anderson, John Gunnell, Terence Ball, Paul Kress, Ira Strauber, and William Connolly analyze the current malaise in the field and offer remedies for it. Each contribution is at once an argument about what is to be done in political theory and an exemplar of how to do it. Spurred by the Shambaugh Conference on Political Theory, this cross-disciplinary effort addresses two major issues: What is the proper stance for theorizing about politics? What are the priority projects for current political theory? The contributions encompass many of the major themes concerning political theorists today, including criticism as a project for current political theory, dangers in the latter-day disengagement of political theory from politics, theorists' perplexity within and about history, issues of reason, and the relationships among science, theory, and politics. The viewpoints presented are diverse, yet the contributors to this volume are typical of political theorists generally. Almost all share inklings of actual or incipient disasters reaching from politics into theory and vice versa.
Emergence of the State
Author: Raj Kumar PruthiPublisher: Discovery Publishing House
ISBN: 9788171419982
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Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Why did state originate? How did it evolve? What were its aims, nature, function and its relation with the society? In this book attempt has been to seen answers to the above questions. Contents: The State, The Origins of the State, Nature and Functions of the State, The Evolution of the Statem, Types of the State, Individuals, Groups and Society, State and Society, The Study of Politics, Classical Greek View of the State, The Crisis of Political Theory, History and Sources of the Science of Polity.
Social Theory, The State And Modern Society
Author: Marinetto, MichaelPublisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN: 0335214258
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
In recent years there has been a proliferation of approaches which have redefined our understanding of political power and the state. These contemporary state theories have philosophical and theoretical antecedents that can be traced to post-classical social and political thought: their influences can be traced to feminism, structuralism and poststructuralism, cultural theory, network analysis and globalisation theory. The classical theories of Marx, Weber and Durkheim are altogether less important in contemporary state theory. In Social Theory, the State and Modern Society, Mike Marinetto considers the philosophical and theoretical heritage of modern state theory and then critiques the theories that have evolved from this legacy. Topics covered include: The poststructural state Governance and the decentred state The gendered state The cultural turn in state theory The state in a global context The past, present and future of state theory Social Theory, the State and Modern Society is key reading for students of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy. It is also of interest to researchers and academics with an interest in state theory.
Philosophy, Science and Ideology in Political Thought
Author: D. MorricePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230378226
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This book examines the nature and relationship of philosophy, science and ideology as modes of political thought. Through a survey of various important conceptions, the problem of ideology is identified as moral relativism. The inability of various inadequate contemporary accounts of political science and political philosophy to provide a solution to the problem of ideology is established. It is argued that the solution to the problem of ideology is provided only by rational political philosophy, founded on a conception of objective human nature.
The Nature of Political Theory
Author: Andrew VincentPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191533831
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
In his controversial new book, Andrew Vincent sets out to analyse and challenge the established nostrums of contemporary political theory. The nature of Political Theory offers three major contributions to current scholarship. It offers, first, a comprehensive, synoptic, and comparative analysis of the major conceptions of political theory, predominantly during the twentieth century. This analysis incorporates systematic critiques of both Anglo-American and continental contributions. The 'nature' of theory is seen as intrinsically pluralistic and internally divided. Secondly, the idea of foundationalism is employed in the book to bring some coherence to this internally complex and fragmented practice. The book consequently focuses on the various foundational concerns embedded within conceptions of political theory. Thirdly, the book argues for an adjustment to the way we think about the discipline. Political theory is reconceived as a theoretically-based, indeterminate subject, which should be more attuned to practice and history. Andrew Vincent makes a case for a more ecumenical and tolerant approach to the discipline, suggesting that there are different, but equally legitimate, answers to the question, 'what is political theory?'. Acceptance of this view would involve a supplementation of the standard substantive approaches to contemporary political theory. The Nature of Political Theory offers a unique and idiosyncratic perspective on our current understanding of political theory, making it an indispensable resource for all scholars and students of the discipline.
