International origins of social and political theory

• Other Authors: Lawson, George, active 2017 (Editor), Barkawi, Tarak (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017.
• Series: Political power and social theory ; v. 32.
• Subjects: Sociology.; Social Science > Sociology / Social Theory.; Social theory.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781787142664; 9781787147249
• ISSN: 0198-8719 ;
• DOI: 10.1108/S0198-8719201732
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (230) pages.

This special issue is animated by the necessary entanglement of theory and history, the cortical relationship between theory and practice, and the transboundary (i.e. international) relations that help to constitute systems of thought and practice. We make three core arguments: first, all theory is...

Table of Contents:

• Prelims
• The international origins of social and political theory
• The imperial origins of social and political thought
• The international origins of hannah arendt's historical method
• What kind of theory is the labor theory of value? Marx as genealogist in zur kritik
• "These days of shoah" : history, habitus, and realpolitik in Jewish Palestine, 1942-1943
• Late-Victorian worlds : Alfred Marshall on competition, character, and anglo-saxon civilization
• Epistemic ruptures : history, practice, and the anticolonial imagination
• Empire and violence : continuity in the age of revolution
• Superfluous injury and unnecessary suffering : national liberation and the laws of war
• The sovereign society : historical rupture and the emergence of the "domestic" in 17th century Europe and East Asia
• About the editors
• Index.