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Twentieth century political theory: a reader/ edited by Stephen Eric Bronner

Contributor(s): Bronner, Stephen EricMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New York: Routledge, 2006Edition: 2nd edDescription: xiv, 487 p. ; 26 cmISBN: 0415948991Subject(s): Political science -- Philosophy | Politische Theorie | Politische PhilosophieDDC classification: 320.01

Contents:

Introduction PART I: TOWARD A THEORY OF DEMOCRACY 1.THE LIBERAL IDEA Jurgen Habermas, The Public Sphere Benedetto Croce, Liberty and Revolution John Rawls, Justice as Fairness: Political Not Metaphysical 2.COMMUNITARIANISM AND CULTURE John Dewey, The Search for the Great Community Hannah Arendt, The Public and the Private Realm Michael Sandel, The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital 3.THE CONSERVATIVE DISPOSITION Michael Oakeshott, On Being Conservative Carl Schmitt, Defining the Political Leo Strauss, What is Liberal Education? Norman Podhoretz, The Adversary Culture and the New Class 4.ANARCHISM AND FREEDOM Augustin Souchy, A Life for Freedom Martin Buber, In the Midst of Crisis Robert Paul Wolff, Beyond the Legitimate State PART II: GRAND NARRATIVES 5. NATIONALISM AND BEYOND Maurice Barres, Scenes and Doctrines of Nationalism Theodor Herzl, The Jewish Question Frantz Fanon, Concerning Violence Martha C. Nussbaum, Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism 6. DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM Eduard Bernstein, The Socialist Conception of Democracy Rosa Luxemburg, Democracy and Dictatorship Carlo Rosselli, Liberal Socialism Henry M. Pachter, Aphorisms on Socialism 7. COMMUNISM AND REVOLUTION V.I. Lenin, What is to Be Done? Antonio Gramsci, The Revolution Against Capital Josef Stalin, The Dictatorship of the Proletariat Che Guevara, Building New Men 8. THE FASCIST WORLDVIEW Benito Mussolini, Fundamental Ideas Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, What the Falange Wants Adolf Hitler, Nation and Race Andrew Macdonald, Excerpts from The Turner Diaries 9. RELIGION AND POLITICS Max Weber, On the Tension Between Religion and Politics Mohandas K. Gandhi, The Doctrine of the Sword Ayatollah Khomeini, Islam and Revolution: Introduction PART III: RADICAL VOICES 10. CRITICAL THEORY Max Horkheimer, The State of Contemporary Social Philosophy and the Tasks of an Institute for Social Research Frederick Pollock, State Capitalism: Its Possibilities and Limitations Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry Reconsidered Herbert Marcuse, Liberation from the Affluent Society 11. THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE W.E.B.DuBois, Of Our Spiritual Strivings Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail Malcolm X, The Ballot or the Bullet Cornel West, Nihilism in Black America 12. GENDERED EXPERIENCES Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex Carole Pateman, The End of the Story? Catharine MacKinnon, Difference and Dominance: On Sex Discrimination Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools 13. POSTMODERN PERSPECTIVES Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition Judith Butler, Contingent Foundations Edward W. Said, Orientalism PART IV: CHARTING THE FUTURE Francis Fukuyama, The End of History? Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations? Stephen Eric Bronner, The End of History Revisited SOURCES NOTES ON AUTHORS

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Introduction
PART I: TOWARD A THEORY OF DEMOCRACY
1.THE LIBERAL IDEA
Jurgen Habermas, The Public Sphere
Benedetto Croce, Liberty and Revolution
John Rawls, Justice as Fairness: Political Not Metaphysical
2.COMMUNITARIANISM AND CULTURE
John Dewey, The Search for the Great Community
Hannah Arendt, The Public and the Private Realm
Michael Sandel, The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered
Self
Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social
Capital
3.THE CONSERVATIVE DISPOSITION
Michael Oakeshott, On Being Conservative
Carl Schmitt, Defining the Political
Leo Strauss, What is Liberal Education?
Norman Podhoretz, The Adversary Culture and the New Class
4.ANARCHISM AND FREEDOM
Augustin Souchy, A Life for Freedom
Martin Buber, In the Midst of Crisis
Robert Paul Wolff, Beyond the Legitimate State
PART II: GRAND NARRATIVES
5. NATIONALISM AND BEYOND
Maurice Barres, Scenes and Doctrines of Nationalism
Theodor Herzl, The Jewish Question
Frantz Fanon, Concerning Violence
Martha C. Nussbaum, Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism
6. DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM
Eduard Bernstein, The Socialist Conception of Democracy
Rosa Luxemburg, Democracy and Dictatorship
Carlo Rosselli, Liberal Socialism
Henry M. Pachter, Aphorisms on Socialism
7. COMMUNISM AND REVOLUTION
V.I. Lenin, What is to Be Done?
Antonio Gramsci, The Revolution Against Capital
Josef Stalin, The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Che Guevara, Building New Men
8. THE FASCIST WORLDVIEW
Benito Mussolini, Fundamental Ideas
Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, What the Falange Wants
Adolf Hitler, Nation and Race
Andrew Macdonald, Excerpts from The Turner Diaries
9. RELIGION AND POLITICS
Max Weber, On the Tension Between Religion and Politics
Mohandas K. Gandhi, The Doctrine of the Sword
Ayatollah Khomeini, Islam and Revolution: Introduction
PART III: RADICAL VOICES
10. CRITICAL THEORY
Max Horkheimer, The State of Contemporary Social Philosophy
and the Tasks of an Institute for Social Research
Frederick Pollock, State Capitalism: Its Possibilities and
Limitations
Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry Reconsidered
Herbert Marcuse, Liberation from the Affluent Society
11. THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE
W.E.B.DuBois, Of Our Spiritual Strivings
Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
Malcolm X, The Ballot or the Bullet
Cornel West, Nihilism in Black America
12. GENDERED EXPERIENCES
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
Carole Pateman, The End of the Story?
Catharine MacKinnon, Difference and Dominance: On Sex
Discrimination
Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools
13. POSTMODERN PERSPECTIVES
Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition
Judith Butler, Contingent Foundations
Edward W. Said, Orientalism
PART IV: CHARTING THE FUTURE
Francis Fukuyama, The End of History?
Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations?
Stephen Eric Bronner, The End of History Revisited
SOURCES
NOTES ON AUTHORS

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