La élite del poder

C. Wright Mills explica que las élites de poder constituyen la minoría que toma las decisiones sobre los asuntos de mayor trascendencia para un país. Asimismo, examina críticamente la relación de los grandes grupos de poder en Estados Unidos con la sociedad de masas y ...

Hull House

el valor de un centro social

En 1892, una joven Jane Addams, imparte dos conferencias en el marco de un Seminario de verano organizado por reformistas sociales y líderes del movimiento de los establecimientos estadounidenses. En ellas deseaba resaltar la relevancia social —el sentido y el valor— que podía haber tenido ...

Los verdes somos los nuevos rojos

una mirada desde el interior de un movimiento social acosado

En una época en la que parece que todo el mundo se está volviendo verde, la mayoría de las personas no son conscientes de que el FBI está utilizando los recursos destinados a acabar con el terrorismo para perseguir a activistas por el medio ambiente ...

Marinaleda, la utopía de un pueblo

Un pueblo donde las casas las fabrican los propios vecinos, donde una hipoteca cuesta quince euros al mes y donde se practica deporte en un polideportivo decorado con un enorme mural del Che Guevara. Un pueblo donde se pasea por la avenida de la Libertad ...

Oligarquía y sumisión

Oligarquía y Sumisión mantiene la tesis de que la democracia representativa y liberal ha muerto. Ha sido sustituida por la democracia de partidos, de inequívoco perfil socialdemócrata, en la que el ciudadano pierde protagonismo político, se observa una tan acelerada como aguda personalización del poder ...

De España, ni hablar: alarmas separatistas y unión plural

(Revista Claves de Razón Práctica, Nº 230, año 2013)

SUMARIO: POLÍTICA · La primera experiencia federal española. J. Varela Suanzes-Carpegna. · ¿Es un capricho el deseo de secesión?. Jorge Mínguez · Secesionismo académico de salón. M.T. Giménez Barbat / E. Robredo · Las bibliotecas públicas vascas y el independentismo. Pedro J. Chacón Delgado · El 'Affaire' de los papeles ...

Crisis of authority

politics, trust, and truth-telling in Freud an Foucault

Contemporary social and political theory has reached an impasse about a problem that had once seemed straightforward: how can individuals make ethical judgments about power and politics? Crisis of Authority analyzes the practices that bind authority, trust and truthfulness in contemporary theory and politics. Drawing ...

God's instruments

political conduct in the England of Oliver Cromwell

The Puritan Revolution escaped the control of its creators. The parliamentarians who went to war with Charles I in 1642 did not want or expect the fundamental changes that would follow seven years later: the trial and execution of the king, the abolition of the ...

Eminent victorians on american democracy

the view from Albion

Eminent Victorians on American Democracy surveys a wide range of British opinion on the United States in the nineteenth century. It highlights the views of John Stuart Mill, Walter Bagehot, Sir Henry Maine, and James Bryce, who wrote extensively on American government and society. America ...

Causation

a very short introduction

Causation is the most fundamental connection in the universe. Without it, there would be no science or technology. There would be no moral responsibility either, as none of our thoughts would be connected with our actions and none of our actions with any consequences. Nor ...

Reading HLA Hart's

the concept of Law

More than 50 years after it was first published, The Concept of Law remains the most important work of legal philosophy in the English-speaking world. In this volume, written for both students and specialists, 13 leading scholars look afresh at Hart's great book. Unique ...

Out of the cold

the Cold War and its legacy

Featuring first hand accounts by international politicians and diplomats along with analyses by leading scholars, this unique collection of essays provides insights from multiple perspectives to foster better understanding of international relations during and after the Cold War. Experts from both sides of the "iron ...

Vulnerability

reflections on a new ethical foundation for Law and politics

Martha Albertson Fineman's earlier work developed a theory of inevitable and derivative dependencies as a way of problematizing the core assumptions underlying the 'autonomous' subject of liberal law and politics in the context of US equality discourse. Her 'vulnerability thesis' represents the evolution of ...

Adam Smith

The Scottish philosopher Adam Smith (1723-1790) was as a pioneer of political economy. In fact, his economic thought became the foundation of classical economics and his key work, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, is considered to be the ...

The Complete works of Rosa Luxemburg

Vol.1: Economic writings, 1

This first volume of Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings I, will contain some of Luxemburg's most important writings on the globalization of capital, wage labor, imperialism and pre-capitalist economic formations, most of which have never before appeared in English. In addition ...

An introduction to the history of the principal kingdoms and states of Europe

Samuel Pufendorf was a pivotal figure in the early German Enlightenment and, along with Grotius, the great renewer of natural law theory. His version of voluntarist natural law theory had a major influence both on the European continent and in the English speaking world, particularly ...

Karl Marx

Karl Marx es una biografía magistral que explora no sólo la figura humana del personaje, sino también los tiempos revolucionarios que le tocó vivir. Entre su nacimiento en 1818 y su muerte sesenta y cinco años más tarde, Karl Marx se convirtió en uno de ...

Modern politics

Back in print for the first time in 30 years, this volume provides a brilliant and accessible summation of the ideas of left Marxist giant C. L. R. James. Originally delivered in 1960 as a series of lectures in his native Trinidad, James’s wide-ranging ...

Lectures on the history of moral and political philosophy

G. A. Cohen was one of the leading political philosophers of recent times. He first came to wide attention in 1978 with the prize-winning book Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence. In subsequent decades his published writings largely turned away from the history ...

¿Qué es la Ilustración?

Publicado en 1784, “¿Qué es la Ilustración?” es uno de los textos fundamentales para comprender el llamado “Siglo de las Luces”, así como la corriente intelectual que habría de convertirse en uno de los pilares del mundo moderno. En él Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) hizo frente ...