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Author : Karl-Dieter Opp,Peter Voss,Christiane Gern
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472105752
Explains the extraordinary collapse of Communist East Germany
Author : Mehran Kamrava
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108485951
From rebellion to revolution -- Social movements and revolution -- Revolutionary states -- Revolutionary polities.
Author : Francis G. Hutchins
Publisher : [Delhi] : Manohar Book Service
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015042026495
Author : Jason Del Gandio,AK Thompson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438467290
From the events of May 1968 to the Arab Spring and Occupy, we have seen social movements develop spontaneously around the globe propelling thousands and, at times, millions of people into the streets to demand an end to oppression. "In order to make sense of such events, the authors draw on George Katsiaficas's conception of the 'eros effect,' which picks up and takes off from concepts developed by Herbert Marcuse. This effect describes moments in which the instinctual human need for justice and freedom undergoes a massive spontaneous awakening. Drawing on Marcuse, the concept foregrounds the instinctual foundation of the desire for freedom, in which a biologically-based pleasure drive—eros—is given free play." — from the Foreword by Peter Marcuse However, even as the eros effect provides a valuable framework for understanding spontaneous global uprisings, Katsiaficas has acknowledged that the concept has remained underdeveloped. Spontaneous Combustion provides an introduction to the eros effect along with a series of elaborations, applications, and critical rejoinders concerning its implications. A truly interdisciplinary venture, the book features contributions from cutting-edge scholars and activists on the frontlines of today's struggles.
Author : Georg Northoff
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780262038072
An argument for a Copernican revolution in our consideration of mental features—a shift in which the world-brain problem supersedes the mind-body problem. Philosophers have long debated the mind-body problem—whether to attribute such mental features as consciousness to mind or to body. Meanwhile, neuroscientists search for empirical answers, seeking neural correlates for consciousness, self, and free will. In this book, Georg Northoff does not propose new solutions to the mind-body problem; instead, he questions the problem itself, arguing that it is an empirically, ontologically, and conceptually implausible way to address the existence and reality of mental features. We are better off, he contends, by addressing consciousness and other mental features in terms of the relationship between world and brain; philosophers should consider the world-brain problem rather than the mind-body problem. This calls for a Copernican shift in vantage point—from within the mind or brain to beyond the brain—in our consideration of mental features. Northoff, a neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and philosopher, explains that empirical evidence suggests that the brain's spontaneous activity and its spatiotemporal structure are central to aligning and integrating the brain within the world. This spatiotemporal structure allows the brain to extend beyond itself into body and world, creating the “world-brain relation” that is central to mental features. Northoff makes his argument in empirical, ontological, and epistemic-methodological terms. He discusses current models of the brain and applies these models to recent data on neuronal features underlying consciousness and proposes the world-brain relation as the ontological predisposition for consciousness.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1902593340
Every now and then, things explode. Riots, uprisings, revolutions, new and bizarre social groups spring up seemingly from nowhere. Our standard histories tend to treat these as oddities, if treated at all, or as misguided responses to hard times, limited by lack of responsible leadership. Here's a People's History to puncture that balloon. From the Cynics & Spartacus through the Levelers, Diggers & Ranters to the Revolution of the Carnation, the San Francisco Diggers, Red Guard of Shenwulian, Brethren of the Free Spirit, Guevara, the Provos & the Metropolitan Indians. Nearly 100 episodes of revolt and utopia which popped up without a plan or a leader from the ancient Greeks to the present. Fremion lives in Paris where he participated in the May '68 orgasm.
Author : Mehran Kamrava
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134615896
This book is a welcome new edition, which completely updates and revises the very popular first edition, Politics and Society in the Third World. Mehran Kamrava has brought the book in line with the major changes in global politics, and the politics and social issues of the developing world. The book examines key issues such as democratisation: civil society organisations and NGOs, 'political society', state collapse, democratic bargains and transition, consolidation and problems of legitimacy, elections, multi-party politics; industrial development; dependency theory and globalisation; the roles of the IMF and the World Bank, the GATT and other multinational institutions; urbanisation; social change; the increasing influence of western values, capital and institutions; urbanisation; social change; the increasing influence of western values, capital and institutions; political culture: its role and impact in newly democratic developing countries; revolution; and gives more examples from Africa, East Asia and rural societies.
Author : Eric Sonnenschein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0986115967
The second novel in a two part dystopian epic--part satire, part action, part fantasy--about a political crisis in America sometime in the future. As Quark, Dr. Nicholas and Pindar wend their way through the O-zone to save Quark's hothat son, from torture and death, Mulro leads millions of pilgrims in a march to The Hall of Phenomena, the glittering temple of The Synchronized Society. Meanwhile, the President and the Council plot to destroy the Mulro Nation, the multimillion-person movement gathered around Mulro, which they fear will overthrow the status quo and establish a new order based on freedom and community. As a mysterious cult leaves their remote European village headed for The Synchronized Society on a religious mission to save the world with a miraculous artifact, a rebel force shadows John Grimme's army. Hundreds of millions of cringing souls watch The Second Coming on transmission panels in their dark rooms. Annette Sands and her Network are succeeding, yet teetering on the brink of disaster as pilgrims, government forces and rebel fighters head toward an apocalyptic showdown. Will this be a massacre of greater magnitude than Crooked Foot or the start of a Spontaneous Revolution?
Author : Bruce H. Lipton,Steve Bhaerman
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781401926311
We’ve all heard stories of people who’ve experienced seemingly miraculous recoveries from illness, but can the same thing happen for our world? According to pioneering biologist Bruce H. Lipton, it’s not only possible, it’s already occurring. In Spontaneous Evolution, this world-renowned expert in the emerging science of epigenetics reveals how our changing understanding of biology will help us navigate this turbulent period in our planet’s history and how each of us can participate in this global shift. In collaboration with political philosopher Steve Bhaerman, Dr. Lipton invites readers to reconsider: •the "unquestionable" pillars of biology, including random evolution, survival of the fittest, and the role of DNA; •the relationship between mind and matter; •how our beliefs about nature and human nature shape our politics, culture, and individual lives; and •how each of us can become planetary "stem cells" supporting the health and growth of our world.By questioning the old beliefs that got us to where we are today and keep us stuck in the status quo, we can trigger the spontaneous evolution of our species that will usher in a brighter future. .
Author : Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 731 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004354937
The February Revolution, Petrograd, 1917 is the most comprehensive book on the epic uprising that toppled the tsarist monarchy and ushered in the next stage of the Russian Revolution.
Author : Eric Sonnenschein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0986115932
The first novel in a two part dystopian epic, part satire, part action, part fantasy, about a political crisis in America sometime in the future.
Author : Sharon Erickson Nepstad
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199778201
In the spring of 1989, Chinese workers and students captured global attention as they occupied Tiananmen Square, demanded political change, and were tragically suppressed by the Chinese army. Months later, East German civilians rose up nonviolently, brought down the Berlin Wall, and dismantled their regime. Although both movements used tactics of civil resistance, their outcomes were different. Why? In Nonviolent Revolutions, Sharon Erickson Nepstad examines these and other uprisings in Panama, Chile, Kenya, and the Philippines. Taking a comparative approach that includes both successful and failed cases of nonviolent resistance, Nepstad analyzes the effects of movements' strategies along with the counter-strategies regimes developed to retain power. She shows that a significant influence on revolutionary outcomes is security force defections, and explores the reasons why soldiers defect or remain loyal and the conditions that increase the likelihood of mutiny. She then examines the impact of international sanctions, finding that they can at times harm movements by generating new allies for authoritarian leaders or by shifting the locus of power from local civil resisters to international actors. Nonviolent Revolutions offers essential insights into the challenges that civil resisters face and elucidates why some of these movements failed. With a recent surge of popular uprisings across the Middle East, this book provides a valuable new understanding of the dynamics and potency of civil resistance and nonviolent revolt.
Author : George F. E. Rudé
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0802132723
Tells of the causes, the history, and the legacy of the French Revolution from a two-hundred year perspective.
Author : Michael Löwy
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1931859191
The ideas of Marx's early writings come alive in this important examination of their lasting relevance.
Author : Hannah Arendt
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781101870303
Hannah Arendt was born in Germany in 1906 and lived in America from 1941 until her death in 1975. Thus her life spanned the tumultuous years of the twentieth century, as did her thought. She did not consider herself a philosopher, though she studied and maintained close relationships with two great philosophers—Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger—throughout their lives. She was a thinker, in search not of metaphysical truth but of the meaning of appearances and events. She was a questioner rather than an answerer, and she wrote what she thought, principally to encourage others to think for themselves. Fearless of the consequences of thinking, Arendt found courage woven in each and every strand of human freedom. In 1951 she published The Origins of Totalitarianism, in 1958 The Human Condition, in 1961 Between Past and Future, in 1963 On Revolution and Eichmann in Jerusalem, in 1968 Men in Dark Times, in 1970 On Violence, in 1972 Crises of the Republic, and in 1978, posthumously, The Life of the Mind. Starting at the turn of the twenty-first century, Schocken Books has published a series of collections of Arendt’s unpublished and uncollected writings, of which Thinking Without a Banister is the fifth volume. The title refers to Arendt’s description of her experience of thinking, an activity she indulged without any of the traditional religious, moral, political, or philosophic pillars of support. The book’s contents are varied: the essays, lectures, reviews, interviews, speeches, and editorials, taken together, manifest the relentless activity of her mind as well as her character, acquainting the reader with the person Arendt was, and who has hardly yet been appreciated or understood. (Edited and with an introduction by Jerome Kohn)