Author: Eitan Y. Alimi File Type: pdf Although episodes of resistance and contention in authoritarian and authoritarian-like regimes constitute the majority of mass political movements worldwide, the theories and models of popular contention have been developed on liberal-democratic assumptions. Prompted by the recent revolutionary waves in the Middle East and North Africa, Popular Contention, Regime, and Transition offers a deeper understanding of the complex and indeterminate linkages between popular protest, regime type, and transitions in democratic and authoritarian regimes alike. Through a diverse array of case studies from countries around the world, this volume places the Arab Spring uprisings in comparative perspective, demonstrating the similarities and parallels between contentious events in democratic and authoritarian-like regimes. Leading scholars in the fields of political science, sociologoy, and international studies discuss topics such as the set of initial conditions involved in the protest, prospects of contention, and forms of protest, as well as the role of historical legacies, regime responses, the military, social polarization, and external factors in the divergent outcomes of protest. By situating the study of contention in authoritarian and semi-authoritarian regimes in comparative perspective, Popular Contention, Regime, and Transition generates powerful insights into the impetus, dynamics, and consequences of contention in all contexts. **

Author: Ralph Ross File Type: pdf *Thomas Hobbes in His Time * was first published in 1975. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Thomas Hobbes, the seventeenth-century English philosopher, is the subject of lively discussion among philosophers, historians, and political theorists today. Both as a participant in a revolutionary commonwealth and as a student of the science of human nature, Hobbes has achieved a new relevance to contemporary society. As the editors of this volume point out, moralists are apt to place him in the twentieth century, and historians are apt to portray him as an antique. The aim of these essays is to get an accurate account of how radical Hobbes was in his own revolutionary century. The essays are the fruit of years of cooperative study, going back to John Deweys calling attention to Hobbes interest in transforming the courts of common law into courts of equity. The recent discovery of more manuscripts and the publication of better editions of his writings have stimulated an extensive reinterpretation of Hobbes ideas and goals. Even in his own time, Hobbes was subject to attacks from many sides. Although scholars now generally reject the stereotype of Hobbism which grew during four centuries of revolutionary developments, new stereotypes to describe his philosophy have emerged. By assessing Hobbes in terms of his own day, the book will serve to counteract much contemporary misunderstanding. The essays cover four aspects of Hobbes thought his political theory, his views on religion, his moral philosophy, and his theory of motion and philosophical method. With the exception of John Deweys The Motivation of Hobbess Political Philosophy, all the essays were written especially for this book. The other essays and authors are The Anglican Theory of Salvation in Hobbes by Paul Johnson, San Bernardino State College Some Puzzles in Hobbes by Ralph Ross, Scripps College, The Claremont Colleges The Piety of Hobbes by Herbert W. Schneider, emeritus professor of Columbia University and Claremont Graduate School, The Claremont Colleges The Generation of the Public Person by Theodore Waldman, Harvey Mudd College, The Claremont Colleges and The Philosophia Prima of Thomas Hobbes by Craig Walton, University of Nevada. **

Author: Miklós Szentkuthy File Type: epub Marginalia on Casanova, the first volume of the St. Orpheus Breviary, is Miklos Szentkuthys synthesis of 2,000 years of European culture. St. Orpheus is Szentkuthys Virgil, an omniscient, poet who guides us not through hell, but through all of recorded history, myth, religion, and literature, albeit reimagined as St. Orpheus metamorphosizes himself into kings, popes, saints, tyrants, and artists. At once pagan and Christian, Greek and Hebrew, Asian and European, St. Orpheus is a mosaic of history and mankind in one supra-person and veil, an endless series of masks and personae, humanity in its protean, futural shape, an always changing function of discourse, text, myth, & mentalite. Through St. Orpheus method, disparate moments of history become synchronic, are juggled to reveal, paradoxically, their mutual difference and essential similarity. Orpheus wandering in the infernal regions, says Szentkuthy, is the perennial symbol of the mind lost amid the enigmas of reality. The aim of the work is, on the one hand, to represent the reality of history with the utmost possible precision, and on the other, to show, through the mutations of the European spirit, all the uncertainties of contemplative man, the transiency of emotions and the sterility of philosophical systems. Marginalia on Casanova relives the despiritualization of the main protagonists sensual adventures, though it is less his sex life & more his intellectual mission, the sole determinant of his being, which is the focus of this mesmeric book. Through his own glittering associations and broadly spanning array of metaphors, Szentkuthy analyses and views the 18th century and its notion of homogeneity from the vantage point of the 20th century, with the full armor of someone who was, perhaps, one of the last Hungarian Europeans. While a commentary on Casanovas memoirs, it is also Szentkuthys very own philosophy of love. Passion, playfulness, irony, and a whole gamut of protean metamorphoses are what characterize Marginalia on Casanova, a work in which readers will experience both profundity and a taking to wing of essay-writing that is intellectually radiant and which is as sensual and provocative as a gondola ride with Casanova.**

Author: Rhoads Murphey File Type: pdf A study of the Ottoman military machine and its successes in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East in a period when they were feared by western European states and the focus of much military concern. The book is intended for undergraduate courses in early modern history, Ottoman history, history of the Middle East and North Africa, and for military historians. **