Politics

Books:

Adorno. Dialectic of Enlightenment (2002, in German 1947);

Althusser. For Marx / Pour Marx (2006, in French 1965a);

     -     Reading Capital (2016, in French 1965b);

     -     “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Towards an Investigation),” in Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (2001);

Arendt. Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics, Civil Disobedience, On Violence, Thoughts on Politics and Revolution (1972);

Arrighi. Essays on the Political Economy of Africa (1973);

    -     Geometry of Imperialism (1978);

     -     Dynamics of Global Crisis (1982);

     -     Transforming the Revolution: Social Movements and the World System (1990);

     -     The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times (1994);

Balandier. Political Anthropology (1972, in French 1967);

Balibar. We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship (2004, in French 2001);

     -     Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy (2016, in French 2010);

Identity And Difference: John Locke And The Invention Of Consciousness (2013, in French 1998);

Bauman. Globalisation: The Human Consequences (1998);

     -     In Search of Politics (1999);

Beck. World at Risk (2009);

Bell. The New American Right (1955); 

     -     Communitarianism and its Critics (1993);

Bottomore. Political Sociology (1979);

Bourdieu. Counterfire: Against the Tyranny of the Market (2003, in French 1998);

Cardoso. Charting a New Course: The Politics of Globalization and Social Transformation  (2001).

Collins P. Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism (2004);

Dahrendorf. The New Liberty (1974); 

     -     The Crisis of Democracy (1975); 

     -     Society and Democracy in Germany (1967, in German 1965); 

     -     Life chances: Approaches to Social and Political Theory (1979, in German 1979); 

     -     Reflections on the Revolution in Europe (2017, in German 1990);

Dewey. Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education (1916);

Du Bois. Black Reconstruction in America (1935);

Ehrenreich. This Land Is Their Land: Reports From a Divided Nation (2008);

Elias. On the Process of Civilisation (Volume 3) (The Collected Works of Norbert Elias) (2012);

Elster. Political Psychology (1993);

     -     Deliberative Democracy (1998);

Engels. The Principles of Communism (2019, in German 1847);

     -     The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (2010, in German 1884);

     -     Anti-Dühring (2020, in German 1878);

Foucault. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1977, in French 1975);

Galbraith. The Anatomy of Power (1983);

Gellner. Contemporary Thought and Politics (1974);

Giddens. Beyond Left and Right: The Future of Radical Politics (1994);

     -     The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy (1998);

Goldman. What I Believe (1908);

     -     Anarchism and Other Essays (1910);

Grinin.  The Evolution of Statehood: From Early States to Global Society  (2011);

Habermas. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1989, in German 1962);

     -     Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy (2015, in German 1992);

     -     The Postnational Constellation: Political Essays (2015, in German 1998);

     -     The New Conservatism: Cultural Criticism and the Historian's Debate (2015);

Hall. On Ideology (1978);

     -     Policing the Crisis (1978);

Huntington. American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony (1981);

     -     The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century (1991);

     -     The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996);

Janowitz. Political Conflict (1970);

Klein N. No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need (2017);

Kropotkin. Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896);

     -     The State: Its Historic Role (1897);

Lenski. Power and Privilege (1966); 

     -     Ecological-Evolutionary Theory (2006);

Lijphart. Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms & Performance in Thirty-six Countries (1999);

Linz. Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes (2000);

Lipset. Political Man (1960);

     -     Political Philosophy: Theories, Thinkers and Concepts (2001);

Luhmann. Political Theory in the Welfare State (1990, in German 1981);

Mann. The Sources of Social Power, 4 Vols. (1986-2012);

Mannheim. Ideology and Utopia (1936, in German 1929);

     -     Conservatism (2007, in German 1984);

Marx. The German Ideology (in German 1845a);

     -     The Communist Manifesto (in German 1948); 

     -     Class Struggles in France (in German 1850);

     -     The XVIII Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (in German 1852);

Michels. Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchial Tendencies of Modern Democracy (2016, in Italian 1911);

     -     First Lectures in Political Sociology (1949, in Italian 1927);

Miliband. Marxism and Politics (1977);

     -     Capitalist Democracy in Britain (1982);

     -     Class Power and State Power (1983);

Mills. The Power Elite (1956);

Moore. Social Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World (1966);

Mosca. The Ruling Class (2018, in Italian 1896, 1923);

Mouffe. Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics (1985); 

     -     Dimensions of Radical Democracy: Pluralism, Citizenship, Community (1992);

     -     The Return of the Political (1993);

     -     The Challenge of Carl Schmitt (1999);  

     -     The Democratic Paradox (2000);

     -     On the Political (2005);

Nash. The Cultural Politics of Human Rights: Comparing the US and UK (2009);

     -     New Critical Writings in Political Sociology (2009);

     -     Contemporary Political Sociology: Globalization, Politics, Power (2010);

     -     The Political Sociology of Human Rights (2015);

Nisbet. The History of the Idea of Progress (1980);

     -     Conservatism: Dream and Reality (1986); 

Oppenheimer. The State (2018, in German 1907);

Ortega y Gasset. Invertebrate Spain (1974, in Spanish 1921);

     -     The Revolt of the Masses (1994, in Spanish 1929);

Pareto. The Rise and Fall of Elites: An Application of Theoretical Sociology (1991, in Italian 1900);

     -     Manual of Political Economy: A Critical and Variorum Edition (2020, in Italian 1906);

Parsons. Politics and Social Structure (1969);

Polanyi. The Great Transformation (1944);

Poulantzas. Political Power and Social Classes (1978, in French 1968); 

     -     Fascism and Dictatorship: The Third International and the Problem of Fascism (2019, in French 1970);

     -     The Crisis of the Dictatorships: Portugal, Greece, Spain (1976, in French 1975); 

     -     State, Power, Socialism (2014, in French 1978);

Roemer. Political Competition (2009);

Schumpeter. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1942);

Skocpol. States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China (1979);

     -     Bringing the State Back In (1985); 

Sorokin. Social and Cultural Dynamics, 4 vols. (1937-1941);

Spencer. The Man Versus the State (1884);

Spengler. The Decline of the West (2021, in German 1918, 1922);

Therborn. What Does the Ruling Class do When it Rules?: State Apparatuses and State Power under Feudalism, Capitalism and Socialism (1978);

     -     The Ideology of Power and the Power of Ideology (1980);

Tilly. The Politics of Collective Violence (2003);

     -     Economic and Political Contention in Comparative Perspective (2005);

     -     Contentious Politics (2006);

Tocqueville. Democracy in America (2021, in French 1835, 1840);

     -     The Old Regime and the French Revolution (2014, in French 1856); 

Walby. Theorizing Patriarchy (1990);

Weber Max. Weber: Political Writings (2005);

     -     Economy and Society: A New Translation (2019, in German 1922);

Wolf. Europe and the People Without History (1982);

     -     Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis (1999);

     -     Pathways of Power: Building an Anthropology of the Modern World (2001).

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