BOOK By John Morrow, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. The third edition of this highly-regarded core textbook offers an accessible and impressively comprehensive account of Western Political Thought over the last two millennia. Structured in four main parts, the chapters are organised around a wide range of key themes, covering everything from Absolute Government and Revolutionary Political...
BOOK By Michael Head, Routledge-Cavendish, 2008. Interest in the best-known Soviet legal scholar, Evgeny Pashukanis, today remains widespread. But how and why did Pashukanis emerge as the preeminent Soviet jurist from 1924 to 1930, come under only minor criticism from 1930 to 1936, and then be denounced and executed in 1937 as a ‘Trotskyite saboteur’?...
BOOK By Sanjaya Wilson, Neptune Publications, 2018. The shock waves of 2008 financial and economic crisis have globally led to relapse and decay of the living conditions of the peoples of the world. Economic life of the major capitalist States is increasingly based on competing national interests leading towards trade war. Serious commentators of the...
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BOOK By John Morrow, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
The third edition of this highly-regarded core textbook offers an accessible and impressively comprehensive account of Western Political Thought over the last two millennia. Structured in four main parts, the chapters are organised around a wide range of key themes, covering everything from Absolute Government and Revolutionary Political Thought to Politics and Freedom and Theories of Civil Disobedience. This new edition concludes with an Epilogue that considers the challenges posed to the history of Western political thought by the perspectives...
BOOK By Michael Head, Routledge-Cavendish, 2008.
Interest in the best-known Soviet legal scholar, Evgeny Pashukanis, today remains widespread. But how and why did Pashukanis emerge as the preeminent Soviet jurist from 1924 to 1930, come under only minor criticism from 1930 to 1936, and then be denounced and executed in 1937 as a ‘Trotskyite saboteur’? And why have many Western scholars generally praised the quality and originality of Pashukanis’ work, yet also drawn the conclusion that his fate illustrates the intrinsic impossibility of the entire communist project? Answering these questions...
BOOK By Sanjaya Wilson, Neptune Publications, 2018.
The shock waves of 2008 financial and economic crisis have globally led to relapse and decay of the living conditions of the peoples of the world. Economic life of the major capitalist States is increasingly based on competing national interests leading towards trade war. Serious commentators of the international scene express fears of a nuclear war. Determined to save the market economy by all means, States resorted to social counter-revolution of austerity and formation of authoritarian rule, in breach of liberal democratic values and human...