Offering a fascinating biography of a foundational theory, Amadae reveals not only how the ideological battles of the Cold War shaped ideas but also how those ideas may today be undermining the very notion of individual liberty they were created to defend.
The Clash of Economic Ideas interweaves the economic history of the last hundred years with the history of economic doctrines to understand how contrasting economic ideas have originated and developed over time to take their present forms. It traces the connections running from …
In this book Stanley Aronowitz asks "What is left of the Left?" How is it that conservativism staged such a remarkable recovery after being discounted in the turbulent 1960s? Aronowitz provides an analysis of the historical left, arguing that today's Left must envision not merel…
Om Heinrich Himmlers (1900-1945) rolle i Det tredje Rige, hans ambitioner, udviklingen af SS, terroren, holocaust og begivenhederne i de besatte områder samt om den mere private side af Himmler
The Jewish political tradition. Vol. 1: authority
This text launches a four-volume collaborative work exploring the political thought of the Jewish peole from biblical times to the present. This volume addresses the basic question of who ought to rule a community.
This study argues that the Western concern with achieving happiness should be understood in terms of its relationship to the political ideologies that have emerged since the Enlightenment. Each chapter examines the place that happiness occupies in the construction of ideologies …
We're edging towards a new kind of global fascism driven by aggression and strident nationalism. In this book the authors confront five would-be dictators
New perspectives on anarchism
The study of anarchism as a philosophical, political, and social movement has burgeoned both in the academy and in the global activist community in recent years. Taking advantage of this boom in anarchist scholarship, Nathan J. Jun and Shane Wahl have compiled twenty-six cutting…
Shocks, from natural disasters to military catastrophes, have long been exploited by the state to impose privatization, cuts and rampant free markets. This book argues that the left can use such moments of chaos to achieve emancipation. Graham Jones illustrates how everyone can …
Warning that the Trump presidency presages America's decline, a political commentator recounts his extraordinary journey from longtime Republican to vehement Trump opponent
The history of the supernatural in Nazi Germany, exploring the occult ideas, esoteric sciences, and pagan religions touted by the Third Reich in the service of power