Cultural Reader

Georges Sorel (1847–1922) remains one of the most unsettling intellectual figures of the early 20th century. While many of his contemporarie...

Walter Benjamin was not only a philosopher of history and memory ; he was also one of the twentieth century’s most subtle thinkers on aesth...

Adam Przeworski, one of the most influential political scientists, addresses a fundamental paradox of democracy in his book Democracy and th...

Is modern society truly more politically polarized, or is it just an illusion fueled by sensationalist media and social networks? Daniel Del...

Everyone involved in or following politics is familiar with the term "spin." According to researcher Stanley Fish, this tactic wit...

With the challenges facing democracy in the 21st century, deliberative democracy emerges as a theory that seeks to enhance democratic proces...

Charles-Louis de Secondat, better known as Montesquieu, was an 18th-century French thinker whose influence on modern democracies was decisiv...

Immanuel Kant is not typically categorized among the primary thinkers of the social contract theory, yet his ideas have profoundly influence...

What Binds Us Together as a Society? Is it fear, nature, or reason that connects and holds us together? This profound question lies at the c...

Carl Schmitt, a controversial and highly influential political theorist in the 20th century, made a significant impact on the discussion sur...

According to Benedict Anderson in  Imagined Communities , the "nation" has four essential characteristics: It is " introduced...

Imagined Communities is an important and influential book by Benedict Anderson, an international relations researcher published in 1983. In ...

  background: All approaches in political science actually try to describe what society deserves even though it is a field related to philos...

Tocqueville regarded the United states a country in which liberalism and political equality were dominant. Sovereignty of the...

De Tocqueville grew up in a time when the nation was ideologically split between loyaltists of the monarchy and anti-monarchists....

There are two main stands leading to the Gramscian idea of hegemony: 1. The third international concerning the strategy of Bolshevik...

The article ‘The Demand for International Regimes’ by Robert Heohane  tries to improve our understanding of international order trough ...