A clear, even-handed introduction to the ideas of Karl Marx and the tradition built on them. Eight levels cover Marx's life and times, historical materialism, class and ideology…
Women in New Zealand voted in a national election in 1893. Women in Switzerland waited until 1971. Between and beyond those dates runs a long argument about what equality betwee…
Why should anyone obey a law simply because a government made it? That question has produced some odd companions in political thought: a Russian prince who watched animals coope…
What nations, states and nationalism are, the scholarly debate over whether nations are ancient or modern, the history of the nation-state from Westphalia to decolonization, the…
What liberalism is and how it grew out of the wars of religion, the social contract theories of Hobbes and Locke, John Stuart Mill on liberty and free speech, constitutionalism …
A basic introduction to critical theory and the Frankfurt School. Eight levels cover what Horkheimer meant by critical theory and the founding of the Institute for Social Resear…